Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-03
TO DEFINE POLICY
ON RECONSTRUCTION
STATE WIDE CONGRESS- TO BE
HELD AT TACOMA JANU.
AIRY 81 AND 10.

Every interest in the state of Wash.
ingtOn is invited to send representa-
tives to the reconstruction congress
to be held in Tacoma January and
10, in call issued by Mayor Hanson
of Seattle. The proposed meeting is
the result of an informal conference
at Tacoma last Friday attended by
representatives of commercial, civic,
industrial, social and economic organ
izations from all parts of the state.
coma conference, was authorized to
call the state meeting.
The invitation is sent to all COM
mercial organizations, central labor
organizations, farmers organizations,
good roads associations, land settle
ment associations, federated women's
clubs, social welfare organizations,
and all reconstruction congresses, and
to all mayors of incorporated cities
and all county commissioners, of each
and every city and county of the
state of Washington, and to each and
every state executive and legislative
officer of the state of Washington, and
to each and every state educational
institution, and to all other organiza-
tions interested in civic development
of reconstruction problems.
The formal call reads in part:
''The state of Washington is now
confronted with the serious and i'm
portant problems of reconstruction,
readjustment and state development.
Never in the history of this state have
it's citizens faced such momentous
and critical era as is now presented.
The necessity of Immediately read
justing the nation and ourselves from
war to peace basis presents such
serious problems to us as will require
in their solution the united co-opera-
ton of all our people.
War industries have suddenly
ceased; soldiers and sailors are daily,
in large numbers. being released
from the military forces of the gov
eminent. Private capital and enter
prises will naturally be cautious, ow-
ing to the uncertainty of price levels,
to resume the industries of the past.
We face period when thousands of
our men and women may be unable to
find employment.
The federal government has indi-
Gated that it conceives the solution of
the readjustment problems to be the
inauguration of large government
Improvement program, including the
reclamation and settlement of waste
lands of the nation. 1t is incumbent
upon the state of Washington to take
up and dovetail with the federal plans
a program of state development"
The call is signed by Mayor Han
son, chairman, and Stuart Rice, secre-
tary. and the names of those who at
tended the informal conference are
Endorsed as follows:
Clark v. Savidge, commissioner of
public lands; E. F. Benson, state com.
missioner of agriculture; Vaughn Tan.
ner, attorney-general; B. w. Coiner.
Senator Ralph Metcalf, Senator Wal
49, ~ A~~'Ao AsOPI CUMULATIVE James III.
Davis, o. GsEllis. Mayor C. M: Rid
dell, Mrs. c. P. Balabanoff, E. M. Hay-
den, Torger Peterson, Thomas F.
Murphine, Erven H. Palmer Repre-
sentative E. H. Cute. Senator William
Wray, Frank Terrace, Fred Nelson.
Lucy R. Case, J. j. Wettrick, Col.
Howard A. Hanson. l. Curtiss Parker.
Prof. Stephen l. Miller. R. T. Whit
ing. c. N. Reitze. Fred w. Graham.
G. r. Sumpter, Gordon C. Corbaley,
executive secretary of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce; Carl e. Gro
son, N. B. Coffman, r. r. Somerville.
A. M. Storch, Representative Fred l..
Wolff. Eli Rockey, Representative J.
c. Hubbell, e. M. Gillette, R. X. Tiff
fanny. j. A. Ford, Frank w. Guillbert,
William Bouck. Laura S. Bouck, A. F.
Marsh, James Marshall Methow.