The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-22
MARYLAND TO
The FRONT.
PUBLICITY is THE BEST PROMOTER.
Display OF Farm Products to be a
Feature at Exposition.

The people OF Maryland must not
overlook their obligation to the State
in the race for progress which all
the States have entered.
The counties OF Maryland are rich
i'm agriculture. The soil il fertile and
fine crops of fancy and staple pro-
ducts can be raised But this is an
age when something out OF the ordi-
nary must be done to call attention
to natural advantages. You cannot
increase your property values unless
you tell the other fellow what you
have. Statistics show that the great
promoter today is publicity.
Figures compiled by Clarence j.
Owens, Commissioner OF Agriculture
of the Southern Commercial Con-
gress, based on United States Census
Reports, show Maryland farm
lands only increased i'm value 80 per
cent from 1900 to 191O,or from $780,
$4,000 to s163,O23,00O, being the low
est increase Of the sixteen Southern
States. Oklahoma increased 1893 per
cent, Florida 203, Texas 173, South
Carolina 169, Georgia 166 and Ala
bama 116 These States have adver-
tised.
1t is just such assistance The
Greater Baltimore Committee wants
to give the entire State OF Maryland.
This was emphasized by MIR. Edwin
T.. Quarles, Director of the Greater
Baltimore Committee when he re
Gently addressed the Executive Board
of the Maryland State Horticultural
Society at the Hotel Rennert. He
advocated that one day OF the Mary
land Week Exposition be set apart
entirely for a display of products of
the farm lands. Get the farmers
actively interested in such an exhib-
1t and let them realize the import
ance of National publicity that comes
from showing and telling what they
can raise and how they do It." Said
Mr. Quarles The entire States of
A4:f-1: and Georgia have publicity
campaigns going on and raised large
fuI4is to tell the Nation OF their
many and varied advantages. The
Greater Baltimore Committee wants
to help the entire State Of Maryland
along the same line
The Maryland Week Exposition
will be held in the Fifth Regiment
Armory, December 40 and will be
under the auspices OF the Maryland
State Horticultural Society, Cereal e.
Forage Crop Breeders Association,
Maryland Dairymen's Association,
and Maryland Bee Keepers Associa-
ton. 1t is expected to be quite a
large affair and many valuable prem
iums will be given for best exhibits.
The comparative Census report ap-
parently indicates that the good az
ricultural land in Maryland needs to
be known more about In the various
other States Of the Union as well as
i'm some of the foreign countries.
The communityi today must be
awake to its opportunities" said Mr..
Quarles in further discussing the
subject today. Turn on all the cur
rent of your enthusiasm, take ad-
vantage OF every means offered to as
sist you in attracting attention to
your great agricultural resources.
Make yourselves known as among
the most indefatigable and most en-
thusiastic body of organized boosters
anywhere on the map. Enthuse your
newspapers, get the assistance OF the
ladies, induce every property own
Grand by all means get busy at
once.
Every man should believe in to-
day and the work he Is doing, in to-
morrow and the work he hopes to do,
and in the sure reward the future
holds. / believe in courtesy, in
kindness and honest competition and
T believe there il something doing
somewhere for every man ready to
do it." MANDEb SENEh.