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“Any wee Age : During wartime it ia important La that we have intelligent considera- ae tion of mutual problems by all seg- L ments of our population, President a Franklin D. Roosevelt said yester- L ‘day in a message to Dr. Frank FP. : Graham, honorary chairman of the *, Mutual Study ant ER NL piel liga Be LAIILE “ a) wis 4a roy ia en Southern Welfare Meet Opens Here Today; Mrs. Danco¥al Te Amnane Sh er oe | ow OPPS Southern Conference for Human | Welfare, which will open a three- ‘day meeting here today. "It is my hope that your confer- ence will present tangible sugges- tions for the full utilization of our resources within the principles of our democratic faith,” the message, released Jsst aight in Nashville, concluded. Mora Than 1,000 Delegates Marating tn sanesidare thea Saiith'’s SSTEU RG 1 CONS ae SOUL part in winning the war for democ- vracy, more than 1,000 delegates from 16 Southern states are ex- pected to arrive in Nashville today’ to particifate in a full program of panel discussions on industrial and agricultural production, youth training, ¢itlzenship and civil lib-' erties, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the j leading national figure among the panel consultants, will participate ‘Monday morning and afternoon in a panel in the War Memorial audi- torium. She Js to arrive today, First Meeting Tonight The first general meeting of tha conference jis scheduled for tonight | at the War Memorial Buliding at Marr McLeod BPoatalaalr whan Mere 6 GUGtH WOE 216s, Mary ceCi£0o Bethune, president of the Bethune- Cock College, and Dr. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina and member of the War Labor Board will address the delegates on “What Are We Fight- jing For?" The public ia invited to atiend. The program for the afternoon: ‘atatts with the meeting of the: Scuthern Council at the conference headquarters at the Noel Hotel at 2:30 o'clock followed by meetings of the panei consultants from 5 to 6| ge o'clock. ~” Tomorrow, the conference will , divide Into four panel groups, ee which wil! meet In the ¥, M. H. A. ju auditorium and War Memorial | | Dauliding ' Panel IT on industrial Producten | meeting in the War Memorial audi- torium has Dr, Graham as chair- man. ' Lilienthal Hits Propaganda ' David EF. Litlenthal, board chair- | cman of thea TVA in so atatament to man of the IVA, nt to this panel said that “destructive ropagands attacks by one gr ainat another under the gu (Cdotinued’ on Page 8, Co ene) / “ ; 5 _ resident Ura speeding up production provoke and incite suspicion of motives... Wholesale attacks upon entire groups for the lack of faith and fair play on the part of the few, ‘brush the facts aside and give free - wey on way wil | rein to those who go thel: a prejudice-as-usual basis.” ‘Enough To Go Around’ Chairman of panel II on agricu!- tural production meeting in the YY. M. H. A. auditorium, is Dr. Arthur Raper, U. 5. Department of Agriculture, of Greensbore, N. C. Milo Perkins, executive director of the Board of Economic War- fare, stressed the great progress in agricultural science by saying in a statement to this panel: “In the days of the Pulgrimas, the fight was to preduce enough to keep body and soul together. .. - The fight in recent years has been to put our abundance to use. For the first time in our history, there has been enough to go around. Science took care of that... - The trouble was, we had not learn-, ed how to distribute what we had learned how to produce,” The problems of civilian and) military training for youth will be discussed in panel III, headed by Dr. Homer T, Rainey, president of the University of Texas and former director of the American Youth Commission. It will meet in the War Memoria!. Mrs. Roose- velit? Judge William H. Hastie, Negfo, civilian side to ‘she Sebre- —1, th oe ington Dic: Be ston, DC: ao be Fuller of the rier im au of the New Republic Maga- zine; and LilNan Smith, editor*of "The South Today,” of Clayton, Ga., are among those on the pancl. Jennings Perry, associate editor ; of The Nashyille Tennessean, fs! chairman of panel IV, meeting | in the Y. M. H. A.. which will dis- cuss citizenship and civil Mberties, No Right to Betray “We know that freedom of speech Includes the right to criticise cur own government,” Francis Biddie, | U. 8. Attorney General, said in a statement to the panel, “but not the right to betray the nation at war We know that freédom of religion is the right to worship God as one sees fit, but not the tight to impose that worship upon. others, We know that freedom from want is the right to live de- cent, healthy lives, but not the Tight to special privilege through the abuse of that which ts earned by the labor of others.” | The public may attend panel dé- | cussions by payment of a fegif-: tration fee of $1 at the registration | #k, War Memorial Bullding. © Two Negro leaders prominent { the war program will s oracca | , tha panel discussions. _- Haatie, 3, Sudge William He taty st ilian aide to the Peng<, oF, inl addres Le ~4 - uveeur” Training: Milite >," a’ I sft 1. Weaver, chief, Negro Employment and Trafning Branch of the War Production Board, will act as a consuitant to the panel on “Industrial Production,” Al the same time it was an- nounced that Miss Elizabeth Christman would represent the De- partment of Labor at the con- ference, and Mrs. C. E. H. Daniels iar come from the Department of jonday morning and Agriculture. Civilian “wed Clippir; frem Lashvills Tennes.ein, Wes ivilia, tT rr re SITE ee ae aed ray Pee a Wie.