The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-31
WILSON WILL TOUCH
THE BUTTON MONDAY
National Conservation Expo
sition at Knoxville, Tenn,
Ready for Visitors.
WILL LAST TWO MONTHS
Exhibits Furnished by the
Federal Government and
Southern States.
WILL LAST TWO MONTHS

KNOXVILLE, Aug. 30.-A wireless
message from President Wilson will be
the signal for the opening in this city
on Monday next of the National Con-
servation exposition, tho first in the
history of the country devoted to the
cause of conservation. The message is
expected at 10 q. m. at the wireless
station on the exposition grounds.
Governor Hooper of Tennessee,
Mayor Heiskell Of Knoxville and 7. A.
Wright, president of the exposition, will
participate in the opening ceremonies.
The exposition will continue through
September and October, and while de-
signed primarily to "teach the lesson
Of conservation, is intended also, to
demonstrate tho commercial and indus
trial advance of the south.
The exposition grounds with lakes
and drives embrace more than 100 acres
on which have been erected eleven large
buildings with a total OF 100000 feet
of floor space. The buildings are the
Liberal Arts, the Land, with an audi
torium annex seating 1000 persons, the
Woman Is, the Child Welfare, the East
Tennessee, the All-South, the Mines and
Minerals, the Art, the Livestock, the
Poultry and the Negro.
Extensive Exhibits.
Exhibits have been furnished by the
federal government as we'll as by all OF
the southern states and viii display
many kinds Of natural resources. The
larger southern cities will be represent
ed by Individual exhibits. Conserva"
tion Of human life, health and energy
as we'll as of tho land, water and for
ests will be emphasized.
tfIn its conception, in its aims and
purposes reads the official descrip-
ton, "the National Conservation ex-
position is unique; it is unique in other
respects. Expositions Of the past have
always been held to commemorate and
celebrate something that has been ac-
complished: the National Conservation
exposition, on the other hand, looks to
ward the future. 1t will stand out RS
the sign Of something that is to be
done.
Uncle Sans Display.
"The exhibits Of the United States
will be most complete and all will be
designed to teach these conservation
lessons. In the good roads exhibit, the
forestry, the mines, the land and in
be devoted entirely to the subjects Of
conservation in its different branches,
So, too, the different state exhibits are
designed not only TO show the progress
made in material ways by these states,
but also to bring out the conservation
idea
''There is installed a most complete
health exhibit designed TO show to ex-
position visitors the necessity of con-
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this best can be done. This exhibit
was arranged by experts. 1t treats the
subject of health in many different
ways.
Child Welfare.
''The child welfare exhibit, the first
ever made in the south, is under the
direction of Miss Julia c. Lathrop. head
of the children IS bureau of the United
States department OF labor. The Rus
sell Sage Foundation of New York and
other phianthropic institutions are
deeply interested in this department.
1t will be devoted TO an exposition of
the best and the most advanced meth
ods of conserving the health and the
strength of the growing child.
1.-THE woman IS department has a
large number of exhibits that will
show women in both city and country
how they may conserve their energy
and their health in the performance Of
their daily household duties
Special Days.
A number Of special days devoted to
particular features of the exposition
have been arranged. congress of
farmers and livestock breeders will be
held from September II to September
l6, at which Clifford Pinchot will pre-.
side. There will be discussions by ex-
perts on methods Of crop and livestock
improvement. One day will be set aside
in honor Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, which will 90 into encampment
during the exposition near Lookout
mountain.
A miners field day is scheduled for
September 20, when the federal bureau
of mines will give unique demonstra-
tion OF the causes Of mine explosions
and methods of rescuing lives. The bu-
dust in big steel tube constructed
expressly for that purpose Then will
follow series Of first aid and rescue
contests by picked teams Of miners
from five states,
Vice President Marshall and several
members OF President Wilson s cabinet,
including Secretary Bryan. Secretary
Daniels and Secretary McAdoo are ex-
pected to visit Knoxville while the ex-
position is on. Cardinal Gibbons will
be an exposition guest on October IL
and 13.
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