The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-19
SUGGESTIONS FOR
 AIDING STATE FAIR
PRESIDENT OF MISSISSIPPI TRAVELLERS TELLS OF AN
 ADVERTISING PLAN.
Also Recites What the Travellers Did In the Matter Of Helping Secure Good Legislation in Mississippi.

that organization can be of material | assistance in raising funds to assist l Governor Hays and others to make | successful an Arkansas building at the Pan-American exposition, was given yesterday by w. IT. Bagwell of Jackson, Miss, president of the Mis- sissippi Travellers Association MT. Bagwell is no stranger to Hot Springs, for he has been coming here
 for the past six summers. This year he is accompanied by his wife and Sheriff Ellis J. Midd eton, also ct Jackson. They are registered at the Majestic.
 "The Mississippi Travellers Asso- ciation,' said Mir Bagwell, have
 been important factors in bettering conditions in that state when travel
 ing men and the general public is concerned When Mississippi under took to place at the Pan-American a suitable state building, We realized
 there was work for us to do, so the first thing we did was to contribute $250 to that fund.
 We have 1900 members ia our or ganization. At the next state fair we will have at least 300 men in line, each carrying prettily de signed flag bearing his name and the name of the house he represents The Pathe camera man will be on
 hand and take moving pictures of our parade. These pictures will be shown in every moving picture thea ter in Mississippi, after which they will be sent to the state building at the Pan-American.
 Each house named on the flags will pay $l0 for that advertisement which is cheap enough, and when ycu consider there will be 1 800 flags in
 line that means there will be s15,000 to be turned over to the Mississippi Pan-American fund. It's just like finding the money. It may be there will be more than 1,500 men in line. each man with flag, but we antici- pate that number, at any rate" The foregoing is not the only
 things the Mississippi Travellers As sociation have accomplished accord in gto their energeuc president, for he stated they had also succeeded in
 the eight years they have been or gani5ed in passing much legislati,n n that was beneficial 70 their interests. For instance, there is a four days free storage act on the statute books of Mississippi. due to their activity.
 Law sregulating sanitation in hotels were the result of their campaign Beginning the first of the present month, on every railroad save one in
 Mississippi uniform mileage has been
 obtained, and the anti-tipping act is
 also one they advocated When the I5i'l for 2-cent mileage was introduced
 in the Mississippi legislature the
 members of the Mississippi Travel ers' Association said MT Bagwell.
 rallied to the support of the railroads.
 circulated petitions, and their assist
 ance was a material force in the de-
 feat of that act.
 What we want in Mississippi is | N'NNti VI tRAh GtA NANt anu UPlltI freight facilities" said Mir. BagweH,
 and not 24cent mileage. and we
 have become such a force in Missis-
 sippi that the railroads now submit
 their schedules to cur association be-
 fore announcing them.'
 This is Sheriff Middleton's first
 visit to Hot Sprilgs and he is de- lighted with the resort He IS also tax collector for his county. Down
 there a sheriff is not permitted to en. joy a second term, but that isn't
 worrying Sheriff Middleton any, fir he has a large stock farm he is in. terested in
 "The boil weevll has come very near putting IFS out of business where cotton is concerned" said the sheriff, and many of us are turning to stock raising pursuits. which we find more profitable in the end. A great deal has been said about poli- ties in Mississippi but | think our states politics vii! compare favor ably with that of any other com monwealth, This is my first visit to Hot Springs and 1 am delighted with the city. The baths are great"
 Among those who concluded their visit at the Majestic yesterday was P. Campbell of Milwaukee, who ar rived here three weeks ago crippled with rheumatism.
 "I am returning home feeling bet. ter than 1 have ever felt in my life" he said, and the hot baths did it. They are wonderful. have been most kindly treated during my stay here, and 1 shall certainly be a good friend to the city.
 WINS DISTINCTION.