The San Francisco call., 1909-12-30
UNITY IS MADE
WATCHWORDOF
BIG EXPOSITION
Nearly Two hundred Prominent
Citizens Respond to Call for
Devoted Workers
Ways and Means Committee to
Include Representatives Of
Pacific Coast States


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position company formed several years
ago for the purpose Of securing to- San
Francisco the first right to hold the
celebration commemorating the open
ing Of the Panama canal. called the
meeting to order. He declared that
plenty Of work would be found for
every menlbersef the committee to do,
and tnat only the active and continuous
cooperation of salI could make the ex-
position the. great success that it
should be.
A. ". Scotts-Jr was introduced 10
explain the purposes of the exposition
as conceived by its originators and to
present in outline 2 few of the plans
and schemes suggested while the pre-
liminary work OF organization was in
progress.
Idea Five Years Old
1T is unnecessary.~ said scott. TO go
into the details OF the history of the
idea was originated five years ago and
pegging away al the plans and prelim-
mary arrangements. despite fire. earth
quake and every other kind of trouble.
The committee has kept on and on
with its work and at last this project
has taken on tangible. form.
The question now before us is. What
we are going to do and how we are
70 get at il and get in the work that
win be required in the next FIVE years.
The first thing that appealed to the
preliminary committee was the enor-
nifty Of the task that is before US
TT was at first planned to have this
committee consist Of $50, but so exten-
sive was the work seen ahead and so
many were the names suggested of
men who should be actively identified
with the planning and carrying out
of this work that the number was
increased. to 200.
Big Organization Needed
THE nominating committee is to be
gratulsted son its success. 1t has
done its work well in making its Sc
lection Of names, and on every side I
have heard only wordsSof praise for
the list. chosen and. expressions of con-
hdence in the ability of. such a com
ipittee to do we'll what will be required
OF #.
Organization. is the first work be-
fore us and we should place the re-
sponsfbilifY OF outlining and perfect
ing this organization in the hands of
strong. capable. committee, whose duty
IT viii be to lay out the work, deter
mine what. committees shall be named,
define the functions and work of these
and decide which OF as
shall be appointed to work upon the
various committees:
Let us name this committee. and
then give It time to outline the organi-
zatfon and pick committee members.
We must nj the square pegs into tho
square holes and the round pegs. into
the round holes in order to have every
detail Of this great work carried out TO
the best advantage.
Five Divisions of Work
IN the meantime. however. it is not
mn 70 the rest. Of us TO sit back and de-
clare that as long as the. organization
is IN the hands Of a committee We have
nothing to do. There. are naturally
I've divisions into which much of the
preliminary work will fall:
we must first work to secure the
official participation of the United
states government, we must then look
TO the participant ton of other states, the
of this state, the partici-
patton OF foreign nations and the par
ficipation OF the counties Of this state.
While this is being done We must give
this exposition, publicity ito let the
whole world know what we are going
to do. $50
Every businessmen. should. at once
write TO every: eastern and foreign
correspondent and TO every one of his
gents. salesmen and representative
outlining this fair and urging them to.
boost for it. Let us get our friends
abroad interested and have them get
IN touch with their own congressional
representatives in this behalf.
Involves City's Future
There has been one idea expressed
which I want 70 nail right now. That
IA. that we or this committee are SIM
nix forming a big organiza tfon to get
o,lf and solicit a big amount of money.
That isn't all we have TO DO. There Is
work here for. every man. 1t is not
child's work and IL is not work for 8
weakling or q gutter. If there is any
man here today who does not intend to
do his part he should get out and make
place for another who will. In this
meeting is san Francisco's hope, and
in this gathering and the unanimous
exaressions of opinion / hear lies San
Frsncisco's future.
ssThe vision Of the exposition is like
Gods own rainbow Of hope and promise.
We can make IL the greatest movement
san Francisco has ever known, but We
must work in unity until that time
when we will again astonish the world
AZ San Francisco's greatness-until the
tine when the world will come and find
this. the western metropolis, the gate
way to the greatest highway OF traffic
the world has ever known"
General Committee Enlarged
r. W Dohrmann followed Scott with
the suggestion that the committee
should be enlarged TO include many
men not connected with its member
shin at the present time, and made the
motion that the chairman name CON-
mittees ofothree to nominate 80 members
of the general committee on WAYS and
means 10 compose a directing commit