The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-24
K|WAN|ANS To
CONVENIENT
ATLANTA
Seventh Annual international
Congress Expects to Have
5000 Delegates.
BY international News Service.

ATLANTA, Ga, May "a
Probably the busiest convention
ever entertained in the South, from
the rapid succession of business and
pleasure, will be the seventh an
nual convention Of international
Kiwanis Clubs, to begin in Atlanta
on May % and continue four days.
The only period in which some
thing is not set down on the Of
fetal program is from a. IN. to
$40 a. m. daily.
The business sessions Will start
| every day the first thing after
breakfast and be resumed after
lunch. When they are over there
will be motor tours and Georgia
barbecues and special vaudeville
shows, and every night there VIII
be three dances, from 1880 p. m.
to Q q. m.
Between 5000 and 5000 delegates
and visitors, including an exception.
ally large proportion OF wives ana
daughters Of Kiwanians, are ex-
| pected, the advance reservations
having passed $500 two weeks be-
fore the convention dates. Inter-
national Kiwanis now includes more
than 1000 clubs and nearly 100000
members in the United States and
Canada.
First Memorial Day.
One of the features which is at
tracing nationwide comment FOL
lowing it's announcement will be
the first official observance OF ma
| tional Memorial Day, May 30, in
Atlanta. The southern States OBJ
serve their own Confederate
Memorial Day, April 81, but
through courtesy to the visitors
from all over the country Atlanta
has arranged for a ceremonial on a
! large scale, when tributes will be
paid to the memory of veterans Of
all wars in which the United
States engaged. George H. Ross,
Of Toronto, international president
Of Kiwanis, will deliver an address,
and "The Star Spangled Banner"
and God Save the King" will be
played by the combined bands OF
the convention, which will include
many visiting musical organizations.
Opens May %.
The convention opens officially
on Monday, May %, with addresses
by Gov. Thomas w. Hardwick and
Mayor Walter A. Sims. The visit
ing clubs will engage in a glee
club singing contest. On Tuesday
night the auditorium will be trans
formed into a scene before the
civil war. the calendar being set
back sixty years to give the visit
ors a glimpse of the old South as
contrasted with the new. A log
cabin nearly 100 years old. brought
from a Georgia plantation s negro
quarters. will be transferred sto
the auditorium, to be occupied by
an ante-bellum darI1ey couple, their
hounds and 'possun dogs and sew
will be presented a picture OF
plantation Days" with big
chorus of negro voices heard in
old-fashioned camp-meeting hymns.
Real Georgia Barbecue"
On Wednesday. May 80, the
visitors will be guests at a Georgia
will be served, a famous darkey
cook having been brought from a
hundred miles away to prepare the
feast in the olden style. This will
be followed by a Venetian water
carnival and interpretative dances,
in which prominent Atlanta society
girls will take part. All the
visitors, too, will be taken for a
trip to Stone mountain, where the
million dollar Confederate memorial
IL being carved on the face of the
700-foot granite cliff.
The thousand or more women
visitors will be entertained while
their husbands are attending bust
ness sessions by a woman's com
mittee drawn from the Atlanta
Woman's Club, which recently was
host to the mid-bienniai conven-
ton of the National Federation of
Women's Clubs. The Rotary, Civil
tan, Lions and other civic organi-
cations each have arranged a spe
cial entertainment for one day. and
the Presidents Club, composed of
the heads of seventy-five civic
bodies, will give formal dinner on
the evening Of May rs to the in
ternational officers and other dis.
tinguished guests.