Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-27
NOT SPRINGS
 BOOSTS STATE
Advertising City and State Re- sources

Hot Springs, Dec. 26.-The report of the treasurer M. A. Eisele, of the advertising fund of the Business Mems League, is out and is an itemiz- ed statement of the amount expendei the past year through this particular fund In round numbers the amount is $33 ,000. This is not to be confused with about $10,000, annually contri- buted by it's members 10 the Business Mems League for the maintenance of this organization and it's special field of publicity which consists in keeping open house at the league and the lets full of illustrations and valnau 6 information. From this league, Se- cretary Bedding is the directing and impelling force in every effort exer,- ed by the Hot Springs public for more and better publicity
 With the exception of the literature used in the answering of letters of inquiry and supplying the thousands of visitors to the league with inforn a. tion and illustrated literature des- criptive of Hot Springs all advertis= ing is done through the daily news- papers of the country. How efficaci- Ous this has been found to be will be realized when it is known that the inquiries coming direct from the newspaper advertising now being done has averaged A each day since the first insertion November 20. An item of no mean information n 1n,s Hot Springs. during the last three years, has raised over $100,000 in cash for advertising the city alone
 State Products Exhibited.
 To Democrat representative MT. Belding said yesterday; ,<5r tive years past now We have housed and maintained fairly representa- ve col lection Of State products in the leagaIe This We have gathere dthrough the Arkansas State Fair. 1 am sure that no exhibit maintained anywhere has ever been visited by so many inter ested people from other States as this one.
 "When callers come into the leagua someone of my office force, myself or some wis ting member of the league | shows them around We tell all about | the fruit, the rice, the cotton, the corn, the peanuts, in feet, we open many mans eyes for the first time ! in regard to the greatest State in the 1 Union The thing that has hampered [ us the most in this service to the r State is tbe absence of high class li- I terature concerning the State, To the end that we may be of greate' assistance in the upbuilding of the : State we are going to get out 5.0o0 books this winter filled with Arkan- ' gas facts When we have this book in the league ready for distribution 1t is our purpose to hang cards n every hotel and doctors office in the city inviting the visitor to come to the league building for Arkansas in- formation in general We have not made any effort to check our useful ness to Arkansas through league pub licity, but at least one gentleman told us last year that he had bought 1,0o3 acres of rice land through an inter- est arosed by our exhibit. Hot Springs ls in Arkansas and Arkansas should be proud of the fact that nature gave it to her to have within her borders the worlds greatest blessing for all Humanity and We reciprocate in the pride we take in our State, of which am native, her climate, her pro gross, her possibilities and most of all her unsurpassed citizenship