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Show JOHN' SKELTON WILLIAMS, WIL-LIAMS, who sounded a note of warning in his address ad-dress at the convention of the Southern Commercial con- ' j gress. ! ... -s i; -,- " v - v. "j" 'v.:,', r :r ' J ' 1 :: - . ; i COMPTROLLER SOUNDS BHESH111 John Skelton Williams Addresses Ad-dresses Southern Commercial Com-mercial Congress. NORFOLK, Va., Bee. 11. Problems which tho I'liitecl States faces in its relations re-lations with the warring nations of Europe Eu-rope and which will come into greater prominence with peace were the chief topics of discussion today at the opening open-ing sessions of the convention of the Southern Commercial congress. John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, sounded a warning that this country must prepare to defend itself from aggression and must be ready to lend alter the war for the rehabilitation re-habilitation of Kurope. He declared America's efforts to enforce the laws of nations had earned tho enmity of most of the belligerents. President L A. Aldermau of the University of Virginia predicted that the war would result in a vast development develop-ment in the Held of education. J udge Francis D. Winston of North Carolina offered a resolution which would place the congress on record as believing that "the complete industrial, intellectual and social development of the southern states can be secured only when the negro race becomes a part ot tho citizenship of our sister states, a-ini that we will encourage all movements tending to an equitable distribution of our negro population among the other statea of the union. ' ' |