The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-25

such train should be run each and every year, as it is one of the best modes of advertising Arkansas ever thought of, but it is only an opening wedge, that must be followed up by something more substantial. By this mean a central exhibit station open every day of the year to be viewed by the thousands that come to our state.
 Tn Hot Springs we have for six consecutive years maintained the Arkansas State Fair without one cent of aid from the state Of Arkansas or it's individual citizens, at the enor- nous cost of over s70,OO0, and this year we have hung up premiums for the best of everything produced in the state to the amount of $15,00O, making a total of sS5,0o0 We have the hearty cooperation of 65 gov ernment demonstrators who are going to bring to the State Fair the best Of everything in the way of agricul- tural exhibits, live stock, minerals and hardwoods, in fact everything produced or manufactured in our great state, and from this exhibit we can collect each year enough of the exhibits to maintain this central ex- hibit station at a minimum expense. These premiums will be distributed far and wide and as have stated before we have few or no farm lands to sell of any appreciable value. Does this then look like selfishness, when am trying to urge on the Arkansas Real Estate association the adyisabi, ity of maintaining a central exhibit station in the city of Hot Springs My answer is NO, emphatically NO, for I am honest in my belief that Hot Springs is the logical point for such an exhibit station l do not believe there is one in this assemblage but what will agree with me that cen tral exhibit station is an absolute necessity whether in Hot Springs or some other city to be selected by tn 5 association.
 YWe are also unanimous in our opinion that advertising Arkansas is the greatest and only medium through which we expect to get people to come to our state. I know beyond t shadow of a doubt that Hot Springs people think so for we are spending annually $50,000 for this purpose. We get people to come to Hot Springs without the cost of one cent to any other city or county in the state and We are desirous of having the whole people of our state profit from this at our expense. It Is a known fact that when the people of any part of state profit the people as a whole share in it.
 Make an estimate of the number of people your railroads bring into the state on it's homeseekers' exeur- sions during the year and you will find from statistics that the railroads bring more people to Hot Springs than all the rest of the state com bined The argument has been made that the city of Little Rock at the state capitol building is the place to maintain such an exhibit station. This may he true but I cannot see it that way.
 ''You could, for example, put the finest exhibit in the world in an out of the way place and if enough peo- pie did not see it, the expense of maintenance would be more than re- suits would justify. I will venture the assertion, which I am positive l can affirm. that not more than 5000 peo- pie year outside the borders of the state of Arkansas go to the depart ment of agriculture to view the ex- hibit of our resources.
 "When they do, yet one has been maintained there for years, how many real estate agents who are the real builders of a commonwealth, ever