The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
BOOSTING EXPOSITION
w. r. Townsend Here in Interest of
San Francisco.

w. r. Townsend, representing the
! Panama Exposition, spent a few days
| this week in Topeka, in the interest
of the big show to be held on the Pa
cific coast in 1915. The last Iegisla-
ture appointed a commission to go to
Frisco and select a site for this states
exhibit. The commission has not yet
acted in the matter. 1t will report to
the next legislature for further in
structions. Mr.. Townsend is visiting
the capitals of all the central western
states to talk and confer with friends
who are taking a pride in the success
| of the big Panama exhibition. Kan
SaS is sure to have a building there
and the next legislature will have to
arrange for it.
Calvin B. Brown, the talented news
paper man, who is at the head of the
exploitation department, and who has
worked in Topeka and all through the
west for the fair, has written the fol-
lowing summary of the progress of
events in connection with the expo
sition:
The Panama-Pacific International
exposition, to be held in San Francisco,
February goth to December 4th, 1915.
is for the purpose of celebrating the
completion, by our government, of the
Panama canal, an event in which ev-
cry citizen and every state takes the
when congress selected San Fran
cisco as the place for the holding of
this celebration, it conferred upon the
people of California a responsibility to
which they are fully alive; and as
trustees of the nation they aim to, and
will, build and conduct an exposition
in keeping with the world character
of the event to be celebrated.
THE universal interest in the ex-
position is evidenced by the fact that
. oil n "
accepted the invitation of the presi-
dent of the United States to partici-
pate, a number of acceptanceS far
greater than those received by any
previous exposition so long prior to
the date set for the opening; but no
matter how great the assurance of for
eign participation, the pride of the
American people can only be properly
expressed by the participation of all
the states of the American union.
when the world comes to San
Francisco in 1915, it will be for the
purpose OF comparing the moral, in
tellectual industrial and commercial
advancement of the American states
with each other and with the countries
of Europe and the Orient; and for
this is to be, permanently, an edu-
cational exposition of the most high
ly selective quality at which will be
represented the very sum of human
achievement in all that makes for the
comfort, happiness and betterment of
mankind.
Already thirty states have taken
legislative action looking toward par
t1cipatiOn. OF those, seventeen have
selected sites for their state buildings.
But the authorities of the exposition
have prepared place for every state,
and desire that every state shall par
ticipate to the fullest extent in the adj
vantages which will flow from the
great epitome of the world they are
creating.
Never before has there been so
great an opportunity as this for the
states of the nation to make their re-
sources, opportunities and advantages
known. Here they will view, for COM
pariSon, the products of every land
and every CLINE, and at time untold
trade advantages will be opened to
those who will first see the real mean
ing of the canals recharting of the
commercial map of the world. There
they will display their advantages to
the world eager to learn, and an ex-
pectant Europe will send its immi-
grants to Pacific ports to flow east
ward over the great. but only partial
ly developed western half of our con-
tinent, thus adding vast numbers of
consum ers to the domestic market of
the eastern manufacturing common
wealths; and those state which most
intelligently utilize the opportunity
the exposition offers, will enjoy the
larger benefit.
1t is nrSt CONSIDER GRAFTON that this
great exposition shall bring perma-
manent values to the states of the ma
ton. 1t is desired that each state may
not only view what is best morally, ,
educationally and economically in
the countries of Europe and Asia, but ,
that they shall learn from each 9TH
er, and make this great celebration |
the beginning of a closer fellowship
and a better understanding. 1t is |
highly desirable that the east should |
h. Oh \
that the west should exchange reaIi- |
ties for fiction concerning the east A |
representation o. all the states will |
tend to the elimination of old preju-
dices based on misinformation, and
be the beginning of a new and better
understanding among the states of the
nation"
Father. did mother accept you the first
time you proposed to her?" YES, my
dear, but since then any proposal that I
have ever made she has scornfully re-
jected- "-Detroit Free Press.