The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-25
PROPER PLACE FOR REAL Es. TATE MEN TO SHOW THE AD-
 vANTAGEs OF ARKANSAS.
E. M. Cohen Makes Claim Before Ar kansas Real Estate Association at Ashdown for Permanent
 State Exhibit Here.

Wlthln the state, E. M. Cohen, of this city, made an address before the Ar. kansas Real Estate Association at Ashdown last night which is most likely to get results. MT. Cohen pro- posed the idea of central real es- tate exhibit about two years ago, and his idea is becoming recognized as invaluable in the matter of getting Arkansas and her undeyeloped re- source before the attention of the whole country. MT. Cohen contends that Hot Springs Is the place for such an exhibit, and that on Central ave- nue in Hot Springs better results can be secured than any where else
 He said in part;
 "Mr President, Ladies and Gentle men. It is with pleasure l respond to the request to deliver an address regarding my views on what central exhibit station in Arkansas means 10 the fast awakening people Of these United States with reference to cap italists seeking investments and homeseekers looking for homes where the climate and soil are as near per feet as it is possible to find.
 When the subject of a central ex- hibit station was first preached on the formation of the Arkansas Real Estate association, considered, and am still of the same opinion, that there was but one city in the state that was ideally located, and which is absolutely neutral to all parts where an exhibit station would reach peo- pie from the four corners of the globe, that city Is no other than the one from which hail, the Hot Springs of Arkansas, owned and controlled by the United States government and under the direct supervision of the interior department.
 We have visiting population of 150,000 annually, mostly people Cf means who come here as last resort fer the benefit of their health. Govern ment statistics show that in the Army and Navy Hospital, which it maintains that 93 per cent of all the people treated go away either cured or bene- tited. This percentage also holds good as to other visitors. Is not this a record to be proud of? Based on these grounds, were you sick and found relief from your ailment would not this fact if no other cause yon to have kindly feeling for the whole state and its people.
 Hot Springs has 15O,000 annual visitors, made up of all kinds aud classes of people from practically every county and state in the unior :; this being a fact then where could we find a better market to exhibit our wares than by maintaining in this wonderful city a yearly exhibit or central station? Time as a rule hangs heavy oa the hands of our vis- itors, for after taking their treatment and baths they have little else to do except look for sights If we had then an exhibit of our resources where people could easily view them we would reach with literature distrib- uted by them, hundreds of thousands of people, and it would not cost for the distribution of this literature one cent
 "Hot Springs alone distributes through this medium S.000.O00 book lets known as Hot Springs in a nut shell each and every year Seeing is believing and the visitor who sees this exhibit would not alone distribute a descriptive booklet, but would fol- low it up when he returned home by telling what he had actually seen. The vast resources, of what our lands produce, would then be an open book having been viewed and attested to by thousands.
 Arkansas on Wheels was run at an expense of no less than $50,000 and there were distributed something like 10.O0O0O0 pieces of literature, all, however, in haphazard manner, and venture the opinion that not more than 50,000 pieces were read and properly cared for. What would 20 per cent or s10,OOO of this sum ex- pended mean in the upkeep of cen tral exhibit station2
 Gentlemen, I want to tell you it would reach and impress just ten times as many people as did 'Arkan- sas on Wheels l do not want you to think by this comparison am decrying or belittling Arkansas on Wheels. for this is far from my pur-