The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1912-07-27

the people of the United States, the
headquarters of which are to be In
Washington.
BY the organization OF peoples com
mittees Of fifteen or more In every
county OF each state, local eenters Of
distribution will be maintained with
teachers or advisers cooperating with
local boards of education and colleges
to supplement their work, assisting
In the problem of adjusting people to
the kind Of work for which they have
a natural gift
Vocational training, mechanic arts.
agriculture and self-supporting pur-
suits will be cultivated.
nationwide system Of ethics will
be established as recommended by the
National Educational Council at San
Francisco, beginning In the kindergar-
tens and primary schools, extending
throughout all braches OF education
and out into the business system Of
daily life, to cultivate self-reliance,
honor, respect for law, and national
character.
1t is being promoted by the National
Legal Reform association, whose OBJ
tects have been approved by President
Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, David Starr
Jordan, Mayor Gaynor of New York,
| Governor Woodrow Wilson, Governor
| Eugene Foss of Massachusetts, Cover.
nor Gilchrist OF Florida Governor
Mann OF Virginia, Governor Osborn
of Michigan, Governor McNeal OF Ala
bama, Governor Wilson of Kentucky,
and many prominent persons through
out the country.
The PanamaPacihc international
/ Exposition management has extended
an invitation to this movement to hold
a great peoples convention at their
exposition in San Francisco in 1915,
and similar invitations have been ex-
tended by the local board Of trade
and chamber of commerce to hold the
1912 convention III Washlhgsss s-ftsasa
Charles Freeman Johnson, whip is
organizing this movement as director,
is now In Washington, making ar
rangements for the convention, and
he states that 900 delegates are ex-
pected to attend here in September
next Ell
Mr.. Johnson has submitted also to
the local board In Washington a plan
to increase the influence and activity
of all these bodies. by uniting all local
interests through the Washington De-
velopment Committe of ZOO" to be
selected from the present joint com
mite of fine arts and other bodies,
adding sufficient representatives of
the banking, transportation. hotel and
other commercial and social interests
to make it thoroughly representative
OF all interests.
The Washington Development
Committee of 200" will maintain per-
manent headquarters to conduct an
active, continuous publicity campaign
through the press and special litera-
ture 1t will educate the people Of the
United States to the Importance of
Washington as the capital Of art cul-
ture, finance, and politics, and as the
distributive center of educational lit
erature; it will show the national
character of the far-sighted plans for
the commission and public bodies and
it will proceed directly to secure a
suitable convention hall, to bring
more conventions and visitors to
Washington; to improve roads and
parks to secure important legislation
from congress and encourage educa-
tional movements Of national char.
acter tending to make Washington
known everywhere as "the most beau.
tiful city in the world"-"the conyen.
ton city"