The log cabin Democrat., 1914-07-30
APPROPRIATIONS FOR ARKANSAS EXHIBIT AT PANAMA-PACtFIC
 EXPOSITION URGED.
PROCLAMATION IS ISSUED
Governor Hays Calls Upon Various Organizations to Assist in Big
 Advertising Plan.

Governor Hays in a proclamation call,
 upon the various county and city gov 1 ernments throughout Arkansas to con slider carefully the matter of appro priatiOns to the $10O.OOO fund to ad vertise Arkansas at the Panama ci
 Tic Exposition at San Francisco nex' year This fund is to be used in erect Ing. equipping and maintaining an Ar kansas building and exhibit. Cover nor Hays calls upon various organiza fions as well as the individual citizer To render patriotic support to the move ment. The governors summary of the state's resources and advantages in brief form is said 10 be one of the best thinGs ever compiled along that line. The proclamation is as follows TO the People of Arkansas:
 "Whoreas. there will be held in the ''ty of San FraDc.scn. California. neyt Y ar the greatest international exposi. ton ever planned, to be known as the panama-Pacific International Exposi. fion and
 Whereas, this exposition will forn- ally celebrate the completion of tho ereat Panama Canal, built at cost of 400,000,000 and largely for the indus trial development of the Southern states, and
 Whereas, foreign nations, as we'll as the various states of the Union. gre preparing to expend millions Of dollars in providing for comprehen. .;e display of their products at the exposition. and
 Whereas. no provision has been made for a proper representation of Arkansas and Arkansas products. thereby threatening to seriously handi- cap our beloved state in it's race to compete in the industrial markets of the world and at the same time sub feet the good name of our state and the enterprises of our citizenship to unfair criticism. with loss of stardins abroad and consequent weakening of confidence and state pride at home. and
 Whereas. through the generous ac- tivity of leading citizens from all parts of the state a visit has been made to the state of California. sits selected for state exhibit at the fair and the good will and cooperation of the officials of the great exposition nledged to Arkansas in the effort Of tre state to provide through popular vpeal fair and nsedfuE representa- ton at San Francisco.
 Therefore. I, Geo. w. Hays, gover- nor of the great state of Arkansas. and in the name of her srIendid rseources. her 'Nrivalled Industrial and her puhIicspirited citizenship. do issue t.is proclamation, setting forth the imperative need of 2 state exhibit a the Panama fGxposi- ton. and calling upon the good people e our state. irrespective of party, creed CT locality, to join hands in the work now before us--'h hat of providing for our state an exhibit unsurpassed by that of any other state or country at the coming worlds fair
 Tn furtherance' of this. let me call attention to some pertinent facts. which need only an allusion to impress upon us their importance to our state and our people:
 At no stage in the worlds history has competition for trade and com merce been more keen than today. The state. like the individual business man, must need meet this competition by advertisement-by letting the world and it's hundreds of millions of peo- pie know what it has to offer. The state or country that fails to do this is 9 marty conspirator against the best interests and the prosperity of it's own people.
 The Southern states. by virtue of their strategic location, will be the greatest beneficiaries of the worlds fair. They will be in the very path of the human tide that will set in toward the exposition, and, by proper advertising at the fair, will be in posi- ton to reap the greatest harvest oi investment and enterprising citizen ship after the great fair closes, and al the crucial point when the lnIluenres at work at the fair will be most ef fectively felt.
 Arkansas lies at the very heart O
 the great Mississippi Valley and In
 key position for unrivaled benefits from the exposition. It has unsur l passed opportunities to offer and ad l vantages to bestow, but the worl'
 must be made acquainted with thes
 things. Through great exhibit a
 the fair, our people can demonstrat to the world such great industrial fact
 as these:
 More miles of navigable river tha
 any other state.
 An average rainfall of 50 inches
 distributed throughout the year. ! That during the past decade Al
 kansas farm lands have increased lS
 rar capt a standard hardly reache