The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-03-13
The NATIONAL
CONSERVATION
!. EXPOSITION.
KNOXVILLE { Is MAKING GREAT
PREPARATION FOR THE BIG,
I GATHERING TO BE HELD IN.
THAT CITY DURING SEPTEMBER.

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Quietly but swiftly and wonderfully
well. Southern CITY, nestled among
the blue mountains of,the Appalachian
Range, has beenSpreparins q great ex.
position to shows the nation and par
ticularly to the Southern States how
the country's manufacturers can be
developed and used 10 make them per
manent sources ofswealth. Such is TIE
National Conservation Exposition
which Is to be held in: Knoxville, Ten
nessce, during September and OctcDet
Of ls,year. And itcould not come At
a more opportunc time, The South Is
In tho dawn OF a great industrla,
awakening; this year the completion
Of the Panama Canal before the OK
pectcd time will bring thousands Of
people through Southern cities to tbr
gulf OH their way thence by water. jo
the Pacific; its agriculture and 1T
manufacturing which are even now ad.
yancing as never before will be quick.
ened by the commerce which will fol
low, and the Exposition comes to cry.
stallzG this Influence and perpetuate
the advantages which they created.
The time is ripe for the most wide
spread appreciation and application Of
the principles OF conservation. The
natural resources otthe South are IN:
|dcrgoing renewed development, aud
that Development should be directed
along wise lines; SO, that these natural
riches, instead Of being wrurs out o.
The Southland In q few short years o.
Dollhouse prosperity, and the country
left poor aud barren. may! rather bt
made sources Of wealth which viii
bring permanent prosperity to this gen
Grafton and to the generations to come
k,conomIc and scientiIIc treatment Ii
the production and use of the riches
With which nature has endowed man
kind. literally biz not in inexhQustiblf
quantities. arc not opposed to, present
Gay progress but are opposed to Q!
travasant, aud Tasteful exploitation
The Knoxville. Exposition comes tf
teach these principles, to show villa
las been accomplished for9conscrvs
ton to the present. and how greater
advance may BE- made in the future. I
domes, too, at n tino.whon new qucs
t!ons ofgreat mBment arc in the ali
Ii regard to the9tuturejot the conscp.
,tatlon policy oE,6ur, Government. \
The Exposition alsoplaus TO cmphs.
size tho human side Of conservation
,iIld to make thcsDest display whlcl
tire country has ever had concerning
health and nutrition and especially
the welfare OF little2children. And 1T
where Is the work more needed tha!
ii the South. :,
1.-THE child welfare exhibits are beiHG
prepared under. the direct supervision
Of the Chief OF the, Children's Durea;
D.
Of the U. S. Department of Commerc
and Labor. Miss JuliaC. Lathrop, W.T.
lis the member or the EAposition's 40
visory Board representing child we.
fare. Among the other members G
the Board arc Doctor Wiley, represen
ling public health. Charles Barrett an
bradford Knapp representing agricv
ture, and. DR.. PhiIander ?. Claxton, r
S. Commissioner Of Education. TIL
CHER members are equally promIne"
III the fields represented by them. TIL
father Of the American conservation,
movement, Clifford Plnchot, is chail
I1nan OF the Board and leading spirl
III the enterprise. The personnel 0
The Board is OF such caliber as to maxi
| II certain thpt the exhibits in the vari
GUS departments represented by IT
members will be OF exceptionally higl
educational value, H
!
;The past few years have witnessed
| d wonderful and farrcachins propa
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