The Washington herald., 1912-07-21
ADVANCE PLANsFOR
/ WORLD 'sFA|RHERE
Committee Of Two Hundred for De-
vslopment Of Warrington
Effects Organization.
TO SHOW UNIONS RESOURCES

Members Of the washington develop
ment committee Of two hundred effected
. permanent Organization at a meeting
in the studio Of H. K. Bush Brown. III!
q Street Northwest by electing officer:
and appointing q subcommittee on per
manent exposition at Washington.
Mr.. Bush-Brown was elected chairman
Of the committee Of two hundred. with
Louis p. Shoemaker as, treasurer and
Charles Freeman Johnson as secretary.
Robert Gordon F1nney explained the
bill. Of which he was the author, intro
duced by Congressman Turnbull Of Vir.
ginia, to create commission, consist
lns of the Secretary Of State, the Secre-
tary Of War, and the Secretary OF the
Treasury and four other persons to be
appointed by the President. to investi-
gate and report to Congress the prac-
tioability Of installing and maintaining
at Warrington q permanent exhibit Illus
trative Of the natural. industrial. ano
educational resources of the Union.
Mr.. Finney showed many practical rea-
sons for permanent exposition al
Washington. which would logically de-
velop into q permanent worries fair. and
be participated In by all the countries
Of ths world.
Those ON Committee.
Tho subcommittee, to be known as the
national committee on permanent sxpo-
sition at washington, was appointed as
follows:
H. K Bush-Bfown. Louis p. Shoe
maker, Charles Freeman johnson. DR..
Clarence J. Owens, managing director
Southern Commercial Congress; Thomas
Grant, secretary Washington Chamber
of Commerce.; Robert Gordon Finney,
Walter Mcdonnell. president Washing-
ton Ad Club; Lindsay s. Perkins, spe-
cial examiner United States Pension
Bureau. Baltimore: F. w. Fitzpatrick.
architect. secretary International Asso-
citation of Building Inspectors: Brainerd
H. Warner, Of the Patriotic Legion and
Army of Peace.
1t is proposed to add ono representative
to this committee from each State. Ter
ritory, and insular possession and to Sc
cure the cooperation Of foreign repre-
sentatives.
Already definite steps have been taken
by the Southern Commercial Congress to
secure permanent exhibits in Washing
ton. growing largely out of their COM
ing convention In Mobile, Ala, and the
Pan-American countries have arranged
for permanent space at the headquarters
OF this congress In the Southern Build
ing.
Charles Freeman johnson. secretary.
said:
Permanent Offices have been secured
In the Southern Building. Steps have al
ready been taken to secure the cooper
alton of the Trans-Mississippi CONNER
cial Congress, which embraces all the
States west of The Mississippi River.
THE new Chamber of Commerce OF
the United States has also been invited
to cooperate with US and we are in
correspondence with the management of
the Panama-Pacinc International expo
sition at San Francisco to unite in mu-
tual interests and to secure the trans
fer OF their foreign exhibits here in 1915.
THE movement among the Latin
American republics for such a permanent
exhibit at Washington" said Mr.. John
son. was started a year ago by a letter
sent out by Mr.. Thomas Grant, secretary
Of the Chamber Of Commerce. to sixty
leading commercial organizations of these
countries.
TT is believed" said Mr. johnson.
that this movement, in connection with
the proposed University OF the United
States and the Peoples Educational
Foundation, will become one of the
worlds most potent agencies for univer-
sal peace.
''Senor Don Enrique de la Sierra. Mex
ican consul at Baltimore. is in commu-
nication with his government now, with
regard to the establishment OF a perma-
nent Mexican building at Washington,