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SOUTHERN COHHERCIfII OOMESS MEETS IN STUNTJ, CECRCU
Before Men of National and International Fame, Importance of the Southern States tc
Nation is Demonstrated —President Taft Addresses Delegates.
Atlanta.—Significant in breadth and
contrast of a half century of achieve
ments that cannot be approached in
history, and heralding the dawning of
a new day in Southern comineicial
ism the convention of the Southern
Commercial Ccngiess was held in At
lanta.
The congress marked an epoch in
the progress of the New South and
commanded the interest of the entire
nation. It was undoubtedly the very
largest gathering of great men ever
held in the South, and was attended
by many of the leaders of the nation.
President Taft and former President
Roosevelt both delivered addresses,
and among others who spoke were
Secretary James Wilson of the de
partment of agriculture, George \Yes
tinghouse of Pittsburg, the famous
inventor of the air brake; Charles H.
Sherman, minister to Argentine, for
mer Senator James B. Gordon of Mis
sissippi, Dr. Elmer E. Brown, Wood
row Wilson, governor of New Jer
sey, and hosts of others, including for-
SOME OF THE
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DUNCAN U. FLETCHER.
United States Senator from Florida
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AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON.
Governor of Kentucky.
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EDMOND F. NOEL
Governor of Mississippi.
eign ambassadors, senators, cabinet
members, leaders in all branches of
activities and numerous governors.
The far-reaching’ effect it will have
on the and particularly Atlan
ta and Georgia, can never be told.
While industrial developments anu
agricultural progress and possibilities
‘of the South stood ‘out pre-eminently
throughout the- sessions,, solidification!
of the North and South in the devel
opment of the nation was set forth
as never before.
The program was perhaps the- most
imposing ever brought together in the
history of the nation. It was divided
into eight main divisions.
Welcome and—generaNfitat-ementr
2. External views of the-South. ...
3. The’ solid South of business:
What the Old Mali Was Fraud Of
Cheerful Because He Will Have a
’• “Real Funeral’’ .When He Is
*>'♦ '* Birred. -- •<> * *•>!
“All is vanity, saith the preacher?--’
This sentiment certainly __ was -eon-;
firmed at the Kings county almshouse
j£Ee_other Ajay. 51 nn il ifig*.hgariktTßVttpay.'.
of a large room where the inrr,ate3
congregate and have lively discussions
on almost every conceivable subject,
4. The world as a market for the
South.
5. Making the N'ew South under
stood.
6. A review of the business forces.
7. Section meetings.
8. The South's higher thought.
A unique division of the program
was that entitled “The Solid South of
Business.” In this division one man
spoke for each of the sixteen states
covered by the work of the Southern
Commercial Congress.
On the third day there were four
teen meetings, held simultaneously.
The chairmen of these meetings were
distinguished along these lines. The
section meetings and their chairmen
were: Agriculture, H. O. Holmstead
of the department of agriculture ;
Commerce, Bernard D. Baer, Balti
more, Md.; Finance, Adolph Busch,
secretary of commerce ; Education,
Commissioner E. E. Brown; Forestry,
Henry E. Hartner of Louisiana con
servation commission, Crania, La. :
Good Roads, Director Logan Walter
PEAKERS AT THE CONVENTION
JARED Y. SANDERS.
Governor of Louisiana.
J. J. JUSSERAND
Ambassador From France
j Pegs, office of public roads, Wasn
| ington; Health, Surgeon General
I Walter Wyman, bureau of public
! health and marine; Immigration, T.
I V. Powderly, bureau of immigration
1 and naturalization, Washington, D.
C.; Land Reclamation, Edward Wiser,
New ‘ Orleans; Manufacturers, Harry
Wise, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mines and
Mining, Director James Emeas, Pitts
burg; State Advertisement, Robert
Jamison, Jr., Birmingham, Ala.; Wa
ter Resources, John Finney, -Washing
ton, D. C.
In each section there were speech
es by men equally distinguished. In
the section devoted'to education Pres
ident Carlton B. Gibson of Rochester,
N. Y., spoke on “Technical arid In
dustrial Education for the South ; •
President S. C. Mitchell of the Uni-1
vcrsity of South Carolina, on “Educa- ■
tion for Constructive Leadership,}
State and National,’’ and T. H. Har- 1
ris, state superintendent of public in
struction in Louisiana, on “Taxation
as Related to Education.’’
j In the section devoted to agricul
ture Commissioner E. J. Watson ct
; South Carolina spoke on “The Cereals
of the -South;” Professor Benott of
Paris, Tex is,, nationally known for
his- command of the subject, “Tfie Xa
..tioiiaE.lnip'dfta.pce of Cot-ton,’’- and J.
A Evans of Shreveport, La., oil. “Di
versification i.n .Southern'Agri'eulturA '
These discissions led to a number
of - resolution's on the growth and* de
velopment' of the nation. -The climax
of the congress came in the speech
of PresT3'ehr 'Ta'ft ~ori''“A‘ Greater’ Na
tion Through a Greater South.”
- ftofiagSeghST -fry "th’c'Tpi
iowing. national fharactgrs;,.
C Ambassador Jusserand—“'Cdd-Ei a'nco
was an old a peculiar, hope
ful on his face. . % t ! ■
' •* He Vsfe a:-ke<f so cheer
’£«*, and he replied: “I guess yqu’l}.
•qew, my- name- on that board before
long,” 'He pointed to the bulletit? o{
a r
for a moment, but soon another queti
tion was asked: “Well, why should
that make you particularly cheerful?
to New France.”
Col. Theodore Roosevelt —"The
South’s Obligation in Statesmanshij
and Business Endeavor.”
Secretary James Wilson of the De
partment of Agriculture—“ The Agri
cultural Obligation of the South.”
Col. He Ary Watterson—" The Pro
motive Power of tile Southern Press.’
Mr. William G. McAdoo—"Develop
ing Southern Transportation.”
Mr. Edward Hines, President Na
tional Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoct
ation, Chicago, Jll. —“Perpetuating the
South’s Lumbet’ Wealth.”
Mr. Asa G. Candler —“Southern Pa
triotism in Business Endeavor.”
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher—“Tne
Southern Renaissance.”
Mr. A. M. Harris of X. W. Harris
& Co.—“ The Field for Southern
Bonds.”
Hon. John Barrett, Director Inter
national Bureau of American Repub
lies —“The South’s Obligation in
South America.”
[ Gen. Julian S. Carr, Second Vice
CHARLES H. SHERRILL.
Minister to the Argentine Republic.
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JACOB M. DICKINSON
Secretary of War.
* JAMES WILSON
Secretary of Agriculture.
President Southern Commercial Con
gress—Response to the Address of
Welcome by the Governor of Georgia.
Mr. Clarence J. Owens, commander
in-chief United Sons of Confederate
Veterans.
The following governors were in at
tendance on the Commercial Con
gress:
Gov. J. Y. Sanders of Louisiana.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of Xew Jer
sey.
Gov. Augustus E. Wilson of Ken
tucky.
Gov. Cole L. Biease of South Car
olina. * V
, Gov. Emmett .O'Neal of Alabama.
Gov. E. F. Xcel of Mississippi. ..
Do you think you'll be so much bet-i.gr
off in the next world?” -
“No, it isn't that,” Was : his rejoin
.tier. ...Me-mowed a . little-.closer, tq ’ifls
questioner arid said:, ‘TJI. shojv ihqse
'feHbw.s,*’ and with 'a sweep' his
hsiiS* : fie indicated'’ all "'"the ' initiates
“i.y-.vshqjv thegg .!{U!o>v3»who hjivt,vrich
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got - any relations, "but 1 have got a
paid-up’, insiiyptice. policy, and when
I’m buried they’ii see a real funeral?
111 show ’em. They’ll think I was
somebody once.”—New York Press, i
LIBERALITY
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l J. B. PEACOCK. Present. B. J. WYNNE, Vice-President.
» J. B. THOMPSON. Cashier. R. H. PEACOCK, Asst. Ca»h«. J
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Cochran, Georgia.
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