The Newark journal., 1902-01-10
ISSUES AN ADDRESS.
State Manager Thomas w. lillian Talks About Worlds
 Fair Matters.

i springs, state manager of the Arkansas exhibit at the St. Louis Worlds Fair. has taken charge of lthe active work of preparing the states exhibit, and has given out the following address
 To the Citizens of Arkansas
 In assuming the duties of the preparatory work of the Arkan- sas exhibit of the Worlds Fair I entertain no fears that the same can be made beth ered;table and profitable to our citizens. i desire to earnestly solicit the hearty cooperation of all our citizens, regardless of rank and station in life, in making the dis l play one that will demonstrate to every visitor at the coming expo sition that We make no vain boast, that we have within onr boundry lines resources that would enable us to more com pleteIy live within ourselves with large export possibilities than any other state III the purchase, if not in the Union.
 No section of the Louisina purchase Is more richly endowed with building material than Ar kansas. Therefore, those to whom this great work has been intrusted contemplate building constructed entirely from Arkan- sas resources, worked cut 1t home by ourown Arkansas arti- sans and mechanics.
 By following this plan we will avoid the rush it ot. Lotus, at the sane time give employment to home labor and, by using the utmost economy with our limited means, together with the libelal assistance of those who have tho material, the Arkansas building can be made second to none in point of interest regardless ofthe fact that some of our sister states are preparing to spend large sums of money in the erec- tion of their state buildings
 The exhibit rom our several counties can be comprehensive hcsides being historic, fully rep- resent the industrial. social, financial, commsssaial, mm.s,ssai education fal, religious and climatic condi- tions, our inestimable weath of mineral and forest lands, agricul- tural advantages in its various branches and our transportation facilities,
 Proper provision will be made for all pe~ishabie products as well as yigilant care taken to protect all those who wish their exhibits returned.
 In reference to the schools. the incontestable progress which the cause of popular education is making i'll Arkansas Is subject 1 for hearty congratulPtion among our citizens and for devout grati- Jude to Heaven. Our public, private and denOminational schools throwing wide their doors to five hundred thousand students one-third of the population of the state-are the true hints of wealth, and from these institutions will come dem- onstrations of the indispensable ness of education to worldly or maternal prosperity.
 Your generous support of these institutions. annually amounting to $l 300, ,000, bears strong testi- mony that the citizenship of this state k alert to the fact that an ignorant people not only is. but must be poor people. Our richness of soil and climate, mine and factory, forest and stream logically belong 10 ourselves and
 children who must learn to use these great resources intelligibly. for let who ever will SOW the seed and reap the harvest, inteli- gence will commune the banquet.
 Our schools contaiu the best of
 Arkan~as-the children the boys
 and girls-then shall we not, with
 your and their assistance, com
 hmed with that of the seven thou
 sand loyal teachers make in St.
 Lou's in 1903 such an educational
 eXhibiG as shall reflect credit up- on the state and-the great cause 1t represents? Respectfully,