The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-08-27
FIRST WORLD TRADE INSTITUTE.
TO DISCUSS SOUTH'S PROBLEMS

Answers to many questions Of
paramount importance to tn .
South's economic future will be
sought at the Mid-South's first
world Trade Institute to be held
q the University Of Mississippi
September 10-l1th.
Some Of the nations outstand-
ing leaders in world trade, busi-
ness. economics and agriculture
Will participate in the Institute to
which $4,000 Southern leaders in
SIX states have been invited.
sponsored by the Department Of
conferences and Institutes of the
extension Division of the UNIVERSE
", the event Is designed TO- public
participation, and bulletins cover
ing the Institute are being sent by
the University upon request.
Among some of the more i'm
portant questions to be discussed
are these:
/. What Is causing Southern ex-
ports to dwindle overseas and what
can be done about It?
Q. In view Of an increasing in
dustrial potential, what is q work
able and sound economic policy for
the South?
3. What can be done to impress
the average person with the vital
way In which his own economic
security is affected by the ebb and
now of foreign trade?
Presiding over the various ses-
aons of the Institute will be DR..
Give F. Durham, dean of the
School of Commerce and Business
Administration of the University;
H. s. Hecht, chairman of the ex-
aeeut1ve committee Of the Missis-
stppi Shipping Company. New
orleans; Frank r. Ahlgren. editor,
Memphis Commercial Appeal. and
DR. r. w. French, dean, College of
Commerce, Tulane University, New
Orleans.
Among participants in the first
days sessions will be Allan B.
Kline, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. who will
discuss the importance of world
trade to agriculture. Sam Ander-
son, assistant secretary of COM
merce, will discuss world trade in
relation to commerce, and j. P.
Grace. Jr., president of the w. r.
Grace Company Of New York will
tell Of the stake o. U. s. business
In world trade.
Among other outstanding par
Elephants will be: David Rattan.
past-president of the Export Man
ayers Club in New Orleans; Ever
EFT Cook. President Of Cook & Co.,
Inc, Memphis; Oliver Emmerich,
editor Of the McComb Enterprise
Journal at McComb; ]. r. Mcleod,
president of Memphis Information
al Center; e. Ward Faux, senior
vice president of the Merchants
National Bank of Mobile.
Brig. Gen. John R. Hardin.
president Of the Mississippi River
Commission. vicksburg; George
Roper. director of World Trade
Development, International House.
New Orleans; DR.. Lee Bidgood,
now acting president OF the Uni.
versity of Alabama; DR.. Charles
Sayre, manager of the Delta and
Pine Land Company at Scott, and |
Jamison Jones, Vice President of |
the Mississippi Manufacturer As
ISOLATION.
Welcome greetings will be made |
By DR.. J. D. Williams, chancellor |
OF the University.
The idea for q World Trade In
stitute resulted from growing con-
Germ among Southern leaders over
shrinking Southern marketsl
abroad. and from their wish to
clarity . desirable trade policy.
The project was launched 1t a
meeting in Jackson. Miss, on May
. which was attended By some 80
top banking. farm. trade, COM
mofce and agriculture leaders and
poet directors. Fiye committees
were named - work out details
- The program.