The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-25

The afternoon session will be held at
 the United States department of agri-
 culture, and will be memorial to David Lubin, founder and until his death the American delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. A
 painting of MT. Lubin by Szoldatics will be presented by the Southern Commercial
 congress to the department of agricui-
 ture. The addresses will be delivered by Secretary Joshua w. Alexender, Secretary
 of Commerce; Duncan U. Fletcher, Sen ator James D. Phelan, oscar Straus, for
 mer Secretary of Commerce. The re-
 sponse for the government will be made
 by Secretary Edwin T. Meredith.
 The annual banquet of the congress will
 be held at the New Willard at o'clock
 in the evening. The theme will relate
 to Pan-American affairs. The principal
 address will be made by Bainbridge
 Colby, Secretary of State, who has just
 returned from a tour of Latin America
 The ambassadors and ministers repre-
 senting the 20 countries of South ana
 Central America will be the guests or honors. The response for Latin America
 will be made by Don Beltran Mathieu,
 ambassador of Chile; Tomas A. Le Bre- ton, ambassador of Argentina; Don Feu-
 erico Alfonso Pezet, ambassador of Peru and Augusta Cochrane de Alencar, ani- bassador of Brazil.
 SOU1n . FhODLEIuO On March 8 the morning and afternoon sessions will consider the agricultural, ed ucational and economic problems or the south and the nation. The programme oI March 3 will include Addison Smith of Idaho. whose subject will be "A National Programme on Reclamation" Senator
 Holxe Smith and Senator J. Thomas Heflin on ''Tvhe Cotton Situation;' Harry D. Wilson, commissioner. department or agriculture and immigration of Louisiana.
 Tariff on Southern Farm Products" pr. A. F. Woods, president University Of Maryland "The Place of Education in the Development of the New South '; Congressman William B. Bankhead. The Federal Government in Relation to High way Construction in the South and Ma tiun;" Congressman William D. Upshaw, "Interdependence of the Farmer and the Nation;'' Milo D. Campbell Our United Purpose for American Agriculture;
 Charles S. Barrett, president Farmers Union of America, National Aspects or the South's Agricultural Problems; John Barrett, president administrative coun- cil, "The Pan-American College of Com morce;' M C. Allgood, commissioner or 1 agriculture of Alabama. More Elastic Banking Facilities for the Farmer; M'
 l.. Britain. state superintendent or eau cation of Georgia, "The Educational Pro gramme of Georgia" and Samuel J. Rog- CTS. director of the census, observations , Based on Statistics of the Last Census. Thomas R. Preston, president of the Southern Commercial congress, today an
 nounced that the primary object of the
 Washington convention would be to con | sider the south's relation to the national programme of legislation from non- 1 partisan point of view with the patriotic object of reaching a right solution ana in giving aid to the solution not only of 1 the internal economic problems of the 1 United States, but also the most prac- l tical consideration of the problem of ship ping and finance in the extension oi i America's foreign trade relations Colonel Preston stated that in his judgment many great opportunities have bene overlooked already by the United States since the
 armistice that have resulted in great loss 1 to the country that it will take years of intensive effort to regain