The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-16

| now advancing as never before VIII
be uuickened by the commerce which
will follow, and the Exposition comes
to crystallize this influence and per-
petuate the advantages which they
created. The time is ripe for the
most widespread appreciation and
application of the principles of con-
servation. The natural resources Of
the south are undergoing renewed
development, and that development
should be directed along wise lines,
so that these natural riches, instead
OF being wrung out of the Southland
in a few short years OF hothouse
prosperity, anr the country left poor
and barren, may rather be made sources
of wealth which will 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 mankind,
literally but not in ineXhaustible
quantities, are not opposed to pres
ent- day progress but are opposed to
extravagant and wasteful eXploita-
ton. The Knoxville Exposition comes
to teach these principles, to show
what has been accomplished for con-
servation to the present, and how
greater advance may be made in the
future. 1t comes, too, at a time
when new questions of great moment
are in the air, in regard to the fu-
ture of the conservation policy of
our government.
The Exposition also plans to en-
phasize the human side Of conser-
vation and to make the best display
which the country has ever had con-
cerning health and nutrition and es-
pecially the welfare of little children.
And nowhere is the work more need
ed than in the south.
The child welfare exhibits are be-
ing prepared under the direct super
vision of the Chief of the Children's
Bureau of the U. S. Department of
Commerce and Labor, Miss Julia c.
Lathrop, who is the member of the
Exposition's Advisory Board repre-
senting child welfare. Among the
other members of the Board are Doc
tor Wiley, representing public health,
Charles Barrett and Bradford Knapp,
agriculture, and DR..
Philander C. Claxton, U. S. Commits
,sioner of Education. The other
members are equally prominent in
the fields represented by them. The
father of the American conservation
Clifford Pinchot, is chair
man of the board and leading spir-
it in the enterprise. The personnel
of the board is of such caliber as
to make it certain that the exhibits
in the various departments repre-
sented by its members will be of ex-
ceptonally high educational value.
The past few years have witnessed
a wonderful and far-reaching prop
aganda for the advancement of con-
servation. The propaganda, however,
has largely been one of precept. The
Exposition is to teach the same prin-
oiples by tangible, visible examples,
and will thereby reach thousands
whom the spoken and written cam
paign have failed to impress. The |
Knoxville Fair is unique in eXposi-
tion history. Former expositions
were designed to celebrate past |
achievements. The Knoxville Expo
sition has as it's purpose the perma-
nent enrichment of the country and
its people. The old were material, the
new is essentially moral; the old
were as songs of the harvest at the
end of a good days work, the new
is as the driving of teams afield in
the springtime Of progress. 1t holds
mammoth possibilities of the advance
ment of the entire south, AMI every
southern community and common
wealth should help to make the pro-
iect the greatest of it's kind ever held
in a southern city.