Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-19
is ORGANIZATIONS
PLAN CONFERENCE
ON STATE PAGEANT
Travellers Protective AssO-
citation Invites Civic Or
CARNATIONS to Session.
SUGGESTS THAT CENTRAL
COMMITTEE BE APPOINTED
Chamber of Commerce, Patri-
otto Societies and Business
Organizations Are Invited.

No time is being lost by the leading
the completion of plans for the great
Virginia pageant to BIO staged in
Richmond next spring. All the lead
ing organizations. civic. business. So
cial and political. are united IN the
scheme, and all are striving to pre-
sent In the pageant a reflection OF
the energy of the people of this city
in making the affair most pro-
nounccd success.
With the end IN view of having
nothing left ,undone. and with the
fixed purpose of starting right, and
going into details thoroughly. q
meeting OF representative members
OF all the active organizations I'm the
city will be held at the headquarters
OF Post a. It. z. A. Third and Main
Streets, Tuesday night, December rs,
at o'clock.
Nothing Left Undone.
~ central committee will be formed
at this meeting, to be made up of
the most active publlc-spirited men
and women, and n program Of pro-
cedure will be formulated to be
pushed forward ceaselessly SO that
nothing may be left undone or over
looked. Many OF the leading organi-
cations have already expressed them
selves as ready TO take up their
share OF the work, and others will
follow this example at their next
meetings.
The Travellers Protective Assocla-
tion, however. has been especially en-
thusiastic in its support OF the plan.
1t being in line with scheme sug-
gested four years ago by w. 3. Grid
lin. chairman of the National Press
Committee. whose suggestion was
abandoned because of the war. The
basic idea being the same. members
OF this organization have thrown
themselves whole hcartedly Into the
work and have determined not to con-
tent themselves with passive
approval.
Success II Predicted.
AZ, the monthly meeting jof Post A,
Travellers Protective Association, last
night. Hugh r. Powell. member OF the
pageant committee AMI president OF
the Virginia division Of the Travellers
Association, stated that his committee
were working enthusiastically for the
success of the Virginia pageant. and
that everything. pointed to one OF the
most stupendous and distinctive af-
fairs ever presented the public by the
City of Richmond. He said there was
unanimlty between his committee and
those representing other orEaniza-
tions, and that at the general meet
ing on the night OF Tuesday, Deem
her IS, he expected large and repre-
sentative gathering of the leading
men and women of the city.
1T takes Richmond to do hngs
in the right way" said Mr.. Powell
land it takes :he II. u. A. to push
them along. We have never started
anything yet that we did not carry
through to successful conclusion
and the Virginia pageant will shine
out as the browning effort OF them
all"
w. Il. Cridlin, chairman of the Ma
tional Press Committee of the II. p. a..
who first suggested such n pageant
four years ago. voiced the sentiment
expressed by Mr.. Powell. He said
every one with whom he had con-
ferred about the pageant had eN-
pressed the most earnest and enthusi-