The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-03-19
And Not Review of the Past
IS the Aim of the Ex-
position.


| WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. ia
Quietly but swiftly and wonderfully
we'll, asouthenn city nestled among
the blue mountains of the Appala-
chan range, has been preparing a
great exposition to show the aatiol
and particularly to the southern
states how the country's natural re-
sources can be developed and used
to make them permanent sources OF
wealth. Such is the National Con
seryation Exposition, which is to be
held in Knoxville, Tenn, during
September and October Of this year.
And it could not come at a more OPP
perfume time. The South is in the
dawn of great industrial awaken
ling; this year the completion of the
Panama canal before the expected
time will bring thousands of people
through southern cities to the gulf
on their way thence by water to the
Pacific; its agriculture and its manu-
featuring which are even now adj
Ivancing as never before will be
quickenel by the commerce which
will follow, and the exposition comes
to crystalize this influence and per-
lpetuate the advantages which they
create. The time is ripe forf the
most Widespread appreciation and
application of the principles of con
,seryation. The natural resources
of the South are undergoing re-
newed development, and that devel-
opment should be directed along
wise lines, so that these natural
riches. instead of being wrung out
of the Southland in few short
years of dollhouse prosperity, and
the country left poor and barren,
may rather be made sources Of
wealth which win bring permanent
prosperity to this generation and to
the generations to come. Economic
and scientific treatment in the pro
duction and use OF the riches with
(which nature has endowed nla1kipd,
Eliberally but not in inexha usttble
quantities. are not opposed TO pres
ient day progress but are opposed to
rextravagant and iwasteful expioita-
!tion. The Knoxville exposition
comes to teach these principles. to
show what has been accomplished
| for conservation to the, PRESENT. and
new. greater advance may be made
in the near future. vt comes, too,
at a time when new questions Of
great moment are in the air, in re-.
gard to the future of the conserva-
ton policy of our government.
The exposition also plans to ems
phasize the human side of conser-
walton and to make the best display
which the country has ever had con-
corning health and nutrition and
especially the welfare OF little chill
dren. And nowhere is the work
more needed than in the South.
The child welfare exhibits are
being prepared under the super
vision of the chief of the Children's
Bureau of the United States Depart
ment OF Commerce and Labor, Miss
Julia G. Lathrop, who is the mem
Der of the exposition's advisory
board representing child welfare.
Among other members of the board
are DR.. Wiley, representing public
health, Charles Barrett and Bradford
Knapp, representing agriculture,
and DR.. Philander p. ,Claxton, United
States commissioner of education.
The other members are equally
prominent in the fields represented b.
them The father of the American
conservation movement, Clifford Pin
chot, is chairman of the board and
a leading spirit in the enterprise.
he personnel of the board is of such
caliber as to make it certain that
lhe eNululIS III lne NdIlOuS uepdl y
ments represented by it's members
will be of exceptionally high educa,
tional value.
The last few years have witnessed
4 wonderful and far-reaching prop
Uganda for the advancement o.
conservation. The propaganda, how
ever, has largely been one of pre-
rcept. The exposition is to teach the
same principles by tangible, visible
examples, and will thereby reach
thousands whom the spoken and
written campaign have failed to i'm
press. The knoxville fair is unique
n exposition history. Former eT
positions were designed to cele-
hrate past achievements. The
Knoxville exposition has as its pur-
pose the permanent enrichment of
the country and it's people. The olo
were material. the new is essential,
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