The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-02
National Conservation EXPOSE
ton, Knoxville, Tenn, 1918,
Planned in Accordance
With History
RESOURCES OF SOUTHLAND
Will illustrate the Ways in Which the
Natural Wealth in Forests, Minerals
and Human Efficiency May Be More
Effectively Utilized.

The National Conservation EXPOSE
ton is planned in accordance with ex-
position history especially to illustrate
the modern idea of forecastlng
prospective development, especially
throughout the Southern States. In
broad way the design is to illustrate
the ways in which the natural wealth
in forests, waters, minerals, and nu
man efficiency are now used and may
be still more effectively utilized in pro-
noting the prosperity and assuring the
perpetuity of the American people.
The Resources In Lands.
. Recognizing the soil made fruitful
by the natural water supply as that
resource on which more than all 9th
ers the generations of men must de-
pend for materials for food and cloth
ing, it is planned to devote large space
to the exhibits of the soil and its prod
ucts, of the best methods OF maintain
ing and increasing production, and OF
progress in improving the grade and
yields of plant and animal products.
Forest Resources.
Our forest resources are second In
importance only to the land itself, be-
cause of the many important indus
tries for which the forest furnishes the
raw material, and of the forests
benefcient influences upon such other
natural riches as waters for irrigation
power and navigation, fish and game
animals, and the land itself. Consid
cradle attention is to be devoted tc
forest exhibits.
It is planned to illustrate the exist
ing forest resources, with their pro
duction and reproduction, their utili
cation. and their influences upon othel
resources.
Water Resources.
Il The water resources Of the countr!
. in general and of the South in parttc
} ular will be displayed with refereD c.
> to the use of water (a) for domestic
supply, (b) for agricultural produo
ton whether applied by natura
means or irrigation), (c) for power
. and (d) for navigation.
: Mineral.
N0~A
, try as whole and especially of Soutt
eastern United States will be exhibite
: as the chief basis for the greatnes
q of this country in manufacturing an
o as a means of maintaining our indus
9 trial supremacy.
> Human Effieiency-HeaIth..
v By far the most important of all OF
n natural resources is man himself.
8 is to render his life more efflcie1
that any form of conservation is adv
u Gated. Those vital forces intimate
!. himself are highest and noblest, ar
- to their Development, conservation ar
+ best use deep thought and great effo
d should be devoted.
The abolition of child labor, partic
T. larly in the Southern States, the
a duction of infant mortality, the cradle
ton of disease, especially tuberculos1
the hook worm and typhoid fever w
be graphically presented.
?, Education.
~ Another most important element
human development is education. T.
school is a crucial problem in t.
commercial upbuilding of the Southe
Id States School hygiene ana sanltatlc
o. domestic economy, vocational tra1nl1
er industrial education for the negro, a.
- rural school advancement shall DE 81
iects for exhibition and shall be p:
or sented in the form of model demo
IS STATIONS and in other ways.
es Domestic Economy.
So important is this subject cons
~ cred as an element in greater hum
lst efficiency that although 1t might pr
T erly be included as a part OF anotf
ter section, it is thought well to dew
,et q separate paragraph to it. HoI
on making is the first and most imports
" step in nation making. The work
- the wife and mother in the establl
ment and maintenance of a comic
W. able home, in the preparing OF pro-
9, foods and by her wisdom and rae
L3, ton of domestic tranquility and maj
7nt ness can contribute at least as MI
De to the prosperity of the nation and
~, efficiency of it's citizens as can
of husband and father by his efforts
all. the outside world.
ed, Good Roads.
- Good roads are necessary requlsi
to DEVELOPMENT. Exhibits will be nj
of good roads in the form of % act
demonstration roads, (2) models sh
m ing materials, manner of construct
~ and the finished work, CD road m
,u' tho a+eria1s and machinery. "a m