The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-09-27
Columbus and I.owndes Coun.
ty VIII be Asked to APP
propriatc Funds.
MEETING HELD THURSDAY
Representatives Address Citi-
zens. Urging Them TO Send
Exhibit 10 San Francisco.

resentative of the Mississippi
Exposition Commission. and Mr..
A. r. Barracks. of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition,
appeared before a special meet
ing of the city council Thursday
afternoon advocating a place
in the sun" for the state at the
Panama Exposition in 1915.
Both gentlemen spoke with
much earnestness, and very lu-
cidly of the need of Mississippi
for an exhibition of its possibil.
tiles to the eye of the world as it
will appear at the exposition.
After an eloquent Introductory
talk by Mr.. Barracks, in which
he made evident the superior ad.
vantages offered by this state to
agriculturist; the excellent edu-
cational and social conditions
which can be made manifest if
the people of the state will only
make public these conditions.
Mr.. James was introduced and in
most straightforward and for
cible language showed that Mis-
sissippi was a light hid under a
bushel. With an unexcelled
climate, an unequaled soil, and
the foundation of a splendid So
cial order, yet it was compara-
lively unknown. He spoke of
/. the visit of the advertising naane
ager of Success Magazine to the
South in 1910 to investigate the
wonderful conditions of progress
shown by statistics in the South;
of the glowing accounts he gave
of this progress, devoting an ar
ticle ID each Southern state
except Mississippi. This was
because the state had failed
from Indifference or other cause
to advertise the immense ad-
vantages it had to offer to pros.
pective immigrants. He stated
that but two counties of the
state which he has visited, and
he has visited all but two or
three, had recognized the need
of the state for further exploita-
ton and had agreed to make
contributions to the funds ne.
cessary.
The plan is to have a Missis-
sippi Building, which has been
contracted for; in this building 10
make exhibition of the varied
agricultural and mineral resour-
ces and products of the state;
to visual iIze agriculture in actual
progress. and the appearance of
the land by 10000 feet of NOV
ing picture film which would be
shown daily at the Exposition,
with competent lecturers to de.
scribe the advantages of each
locality. Each town and county
subscribing would have a place
on this film. Their space on tht
film would be shown and the pc
culiar advantages of that county
or town would be described b,
the lecturer. The picture film
corps is already in the field max
ing the pictures of those local
! tiles already subscribing to tn
cause.
Mr.. James called attention t
the fact that this is no privat
enterprise, but one recommends
and fostered by the state. TIL
last legislature passed bi
J erecting an Exposition Commis
sion to prepare the states repre-
sentatioD al the Exposition an
authorized each county and tow
to make appropriations for tn
a purpose.
II Both gentlemen were yer
n convincing in their presentatio
d of facts and left the matter IL
e the consideration of the council
e They will at the next meetin
d appear before the Board of 81
: pervisors asking that they gil
Lowndes county a place in OF