Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-09-13
WANTS TO HELP ENTIRE STATE
The Greater Baltimore Committee
Reaches Out to Aid Counties
Maryland Week Exposition
December 4-9.
Especial to Evening Capital.) }

Baltimore, Md, Sept. II, 1911.
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
in agriculture. The soil is 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 canpot in
crease your property values unless YOU
tell the other fellow what you have.
Statistics show that the great pro-
moter 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 in value 35 per cent
from 1900 to 1910, or from $780,
367, 900 to sl63, 023, 900, being the
lowest increase of the sixteen
Southern states. Oklahoma increased
333 per cent, Florida, 203, Texas,
173, South Carolina, 169, Georgia,
166 and Alabama, II6. These States
have advertised.
1t is just such assistance the
Greater Baltimore Committee wants
to give the entire State of Mary
land.
This was emphasized by Mr. Edwin
l.. Quales, director of the Greater
Baltimore Committee when he recent
ly addressed the executive board of
the Maryland State Horticultural So
ciety at the Hotel Rennert. He ad-
vocated that one day of the Maryland
Week Exposition be set apart entir e.
ly for display of products of the
farm lands. ''Get the farmers ac-
lively interested in such an exhibit
and let them realize the Importance of
national publicity that comes from
showing and telling what they can
raise and how they do it," said Mr..
Quales.
1.-THE entire States of Alabama and
Georgia have publicity campaigns go
ing on and raised large funds 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 Ar
mory December 4-9, and will be
under the auspices of the Maryland
State Horticultural Society, Cereal
and Forage Crop Breeders Associa-
tion, Maryland Dairymen's Associa-
tion and Bee Keepers Association.
1t is expected to be quite a large
affair and many valuable premiums
will be given for best exhibits.
The comparative census report ap-
parently indicates that the good agri-
cultural land in Maryland needs to be
known more about in the various
other states of the Union as we'll as
in some of the foreign countries.
"The community today must be
awake to its opportunities, said
Mr.. Quales in further discussing the
subject. Turn on all the current
of your enthusiasm, take advantage
of every means offered to assist you
in attracting attention to your great
agricultural resources. Make your
selves known as among the most in
defaigable and most enthusiastic body
of organized boosters anywhere on
the map. Enthuse your newspapers.
get the assistance of the ladies, in
duce every property owner-and by
all means get busy at once.
Every man should believe in today
and the work he is doing, in tomorrow
and the work he hopes to do, and in
the sure reward the future holds. !
believe in courtesy, in kindness and
honest competition and l believe
there is something doing somewhere
for every man ready to do it. ="