The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-09
Would Demonstrate Hidden
Wealth of the United States
Washington. d. C.. Jan. I

Washington. ID. c.. Jan. TO-
Quietly. but swiftly and wonderfully
well. a Southern city. nestled among
range, has been preparing Il great cX-
particularly to the southern states. the
country's natural resources. and how
they can he developed and used SO as
to make them permanent sources of
wealth. Such Is the national conser-
walton exposition. 1t is to be held in
Knoxville next fall, and it could not
come at a more opDortunc time. The
south is experiencing a period of great
industrial awakening. This year the
bring thousands through it's cities to
the gulf. on their way thence by wa
ter to the Pacific. Its agriculture and
its manufacturing will be quickened
by M commerce which will follow.
ana the exposition comes to crystalline
these influences and perpetuate the
advantages which they create.
Future Prosperity in View.
The purpose of this project is new
in exposition history. Former expo
sit.onS We're designed TO celebrate
Wal had ALREADY been accomplished,
to commemorate past achievement.
Az AIGW Cal'CSlLIDu lOOhS W lllG -lUlule
prosperity OF the land. The old were
as songs of the harvest at the end Of
a good days work, the new the driv-
ing of team atield in the springtinc of
progress.
The knoxville exposition is to be in
no Il local project. 1t is national
in it's scope and purpose. The men
inc women VINO arc planning its en-
hibits and whose support has made
1lrh an nrrnCIfin1 n.ett 1 n~- ~ Re-
OF them prominent government Off
Gals in WaWshington and all authori-
ties in the various lines of conserva-
ton work in which they are engaged.
They constitute the eXposition's adj
yisory board. Clifford Plnchot. presi-
dent of the National Conservation En-
position, is its chairman. It's other
members are Don Carlos Ellis. IN
charge of educational cooperation.
United States forest service. secretary;
DR.. Philander P. Claxton. United
States commissioner of education:
Miss Julia c. Lathrop. chief of the
~children's bureau, United States de-
partment of commerce and labor; DR..
Harvey W. Wiley, director of the our
eau OF foods. sanitation and health. of
Good housekeeping Magazine: Sen
atnr Duncan L. Fletcher. of Florida,
president Southern Commercial con-
gress; Logan w. Page. director emit
ed States office of public roads; Mrs.
Mary II. Abel. editor journal of Home
Economics; Bradford Knapp. i'm
charge farmers cooperative demon
stration work, United States depart
ment of agriculture: Joseph y.
Holmes. director United States burcau
of mines; Representative Joseph l..
Ransdell. of Louisiana. president of
the National Rivers and IIarbors con-
gress: Senator Luke Lea. of Tennes-
see. and Charles S. Barrett, president
of Farmers Educational and Cooper
ative Union.
Six General Classes
Two or more members of this board
have charge of the plans Of exhibits in
each of the six departments into
which the exposition is divided and
which are devoted to the six general
classes into which our natural re-
sources logically fall. namely land,
forests, water. wild animal life. min
erals and man. Under these depart
ments Il wide range of exhibits from
the north and west as we'll as the
south. will illustrate the latest devcl-
opments i'm scientific agriculture. the
the preservation Of tho timber supply.
the regulation of stream flow for
power. navigation. and domestic sup
ply. and the reduction of floods and
droughts. the retention of WATERFRONT
err sites by the government. the i'm
provcmcnt of streams for power de-
vclupmcnt and navigation. the diminu-
tion OF waste in the production and