The Washington herald., 1921-02-12
GROWTHOF TRADE
in SOUTH TO FORM
CONVENTION NOTE
Dixie Commerce Heads
To Gather in District
March /.
LASTS THREE DAYS
Distinguished Speakers Due
To Treat Economic
Ills of Nation.
LASTS THREE DAYS

dent-eleCt warren G.. Harding, VIII
deliver the principal address at the
opening session of the Southern
Commercial Congress to be held in
the New Willard Hotel on the
morning of March l. His theme
will be "Today's National Prob
lens" On the program with SEN
ator Willis will be Senator Dun
can U. Fletcher, of Florida, honor
airy president of the Southern Com
mercial Congress, whose theme will
be Problems of American Ship
ping" Honorable Thomas R. Pres
ton, of Chattanooga, Tenn, will
preside and will deliver his annual
address as president of the South
ern Commercial Congress.
Edge to Speak.
A session will be held at the
Willard the afternoon of March !,
the speakers being Senator Walter
E. Edge, who is the author of the
Edge bill under which the business
forces of the United States are or
sganizing for export trade; Senator
Robert L. Owen, who will discuss
the Federal Reserve System in
relation to foreign trade expansion;
Senator Joseph +. Ransdell, who
will discuss waterway transporta-
tion in relation to agricultural
distribution, and Senator Wesley l.
Jones, the author of the Jones act.
The evening session of March l
will be participated in by governors
of States from all parts of the
United States who will be in Wash
ingtOn during inaugural week.
The formal session will be followed
by a reception and ball rendered
-
ficers and members of the Southern
Commercial Congress by the South
ern Society of Washington.
Commerce Of South.
The morning session of March ,
will be given over to a further con-
sideration of the South's part in
American commerce. Admiral w. s.
Benson. chairman of the L. S Ship
ping Board, will speak on The
General Shipping Situation" Mat
thew Hale, president of the South
Atlantic Maritime Corporation, The
South A tlantic States and Foreign
Trade" r. l. Mcclellan, foreign
freight traffic manager, Southern
:. Railway System, Let Us Trade with
Ahe World" DR.. L S. Rowe, director
general of the Pan American Union,
The Possibilities of Closer Finan-
ciaI Cooperation Between the
United States and the Countries OF
Latin America"
The afternoon session of March ?
will be held at the L. S. Department
Of Agriculture and will be memo
rial to David Lubin, founder and
until hfs death the American dele
gate to the International Institute
Of Agriculture, at Rome. Italy. A
painting Of Lubin by SzoIdatics will
be presented by the Southern Com
nercial Congress to the L. S. De-
partment of Agriculture. The ad-
dresses will be delivered by Joshua
w. Alexander, Secretary of Com
merce; Hon. Duncan L. Fletcher,
Senator James D. Phelan and Oscar
Straus, former Secretary of Com
merce. The response for the gov
eminent will be made by Secretary
Edwin T Meredith.
banquet at willard.
The annual banquet of the con-
r-reSs will be held at the New Will
lard at S o'clock the evening of
March >. The theme will relate to
pan American affairs. The prinCi-
nal address will be made by Hon.
cambridge Colby. Secretary OF
state, who has just returned from
q tour Of Latin America. The Am
bassadors and Ministers represent
ing the twenty countries of South
and Central America will be the
guests of honor. The responses for
latin America will be made by
Sonor don BeItran Matthew. Ambas.
sador OF Chile; Tomas A lie Breton
AMBASSADOR Of Argentina; SenOl
dom Federico Alfonso Pezet, Ambas-
sador Of Peru, and Augusta Coch-
rane de AlenCar, Ambassador OF
Brazil.
ON March 3 the morning and aft
ernoon sessions will consider the
agricultural. educational and eco
nomic problems of the South and
the nation. The program of the
tbird will include Hon. Addison
smith. Of Idaho. whose subject will
he "a National Program of ReCla-
r,ation." Senator Hoke Smith and
senator J. Thomas Heflin on The
cotton situation" Harry D. viii,
,on commissioner. department OF
.griculture and immigration. Louis
{s1a Tariff on Southern Fam
products:" Dr. A F. Woods, presi-
5ant. University of Maryland, The
xPIsce of Education in the Develop
GENT of the New South" Represent.
erive william B. Bankhead, The
FEDERAL Government in Relation II
highway Construction in the South
and Nation" Representative Will
lam D. Upshaw, "Interdependence ot
tba Farmer and the Nation Mix
n Campbell, "Our United Purpose
for American Agriculture" Charlie!
Barrett. president, Farmers
Union Of America National AS
nscts of the South's Agriculture
Problems:" John Barrett, president
administrative council The Par
American College of Commerce;
Hon. NJ. c. AllgoOd, commissions
of agriculture of Alabama, Nor
elastic Banking Facilities for thu
Farmer" NJ. L. Britain, State su
-arintendent of education of Geor
ia The Educational Program o,
Georgia" and Hon. Samuel ]. Rog
srs director of the Census. lob
servations Based on Statistics Of thu
Last Census"
Relation to Nation.
Thomas r. Preston. president o.
the Southern Commercial Congress
snnounced that the primary objec
oa- the Washington convention woulS
he To consider the South's relation
70 the national program of legisla
tion from a nonpartisan point o.
yfev with the patriotic object ol
reaching a right solution and il
living aid to the solution not onl!
- the internal economic problems
of the United States, but also th'
most practical consideration OF th'