The Tupelo journal., 1917-02-09
IMPORTANT OBJECTS
OF BIG EXPOSITION
EDUCATION OF HOME PEOPLE
AND STIMULATING THEM TO
BETTER EFFORTS.
ADVERTISING STATE WARES
These Are Principal Purposes Of Big
Event in GuIfport. and Hearty
cooperation to Carry Out
Plans Being Manifested.

IN considering the proper location
for the Exposition, the people OF Mis-
slssippi should take into considera-
ton the purposes for which it is to be
held. Aside from the fact that we
are celebrating the completion of an
hundred years OF statehood and that
ioya. cltlzens are proud of the record
MADE, there are two important pur-
poses OF the Exposition.
one is to educate our home people
by giving to them an example that
Will stimulate them to an effort to do
as well or better than the object that
is before them. There is a remarkable
opportunity for effective work along
this line that is being kept strictly in
mind by the management. The loca-
ton on the Gulf Coast is especially at
tractlve to the people OF the state and
Will draw as many or more than any
other point.
Next Is the wonderful possibility Of
showing to the outside world just
what we can offer the man who is
willing to invest his money to aid in
developing our or is seek
ing a home for himself and family.
The COUNTY and state fairs to a GER
tain extent take care of the first rea-
sonabie advance, but the latter will
necessarily fall upon the Exposition
and the communities that cooperate
In making it.
There is a great need for more good
white people to give help in making
our millions of acres of waste lands
produce something that the world
nanAC and innrooSo g. A..
purpose of building and maintaining
roads, churches, schools and other
modern necessities. The conyeniences
cannot be maintained without a citi-
zenship to support them.
There is even a greater demand for
a market for our products that are as
good as can be found anywhere
and would be profitable if a fair
price could be realized by the farm
ers. This market must be created
largely without the state and if Wis
itors from other sections can be
brought here by the thousands and
hundreds of thousands, why should
not they be made to know how good
our stuff is and thus stimulate a de-
mand?
- - 50 Ntth liz aioiAS PSOPC lhol
we have the greatest opportunity.
What porspect have we for showing a
large number at the Exposition? At
present, between January 1st and
April 1st each year. there are within
a hundred and thirty-seven miles
along the Gulf Coast, including Mo-
bile and New Orleans, SOC, 900 visitors.
With a sensible campaign of publicity
that will be fnaugurated, a large per
cent of these visitors can be brought |
to the Mississippi Coast for a few
days. Here they will see what we are
showing in the way of products that
they should use.
On four days each week special
trains bring peop e from Mobile and
New Orleans to any part of the Mis-
sissippi coast for a fare of s1.00 for
the round trip. This rate applies all
through the summer. With perma-
mem exhibits installed in the principal
buildings and kept open to the public, i
these people can be shown at any
they should S them.
The Exposition management will CO.
operate to the fullest extent with both
New Orleans and Mobile in getting
more visitors and a SO to develop the
Mississippi coast to the point where
many times the people will come to
enjoy its advantages as at present. If
these visitors are for only a few days,
the chance is presented to impress
them with our productions and the
necessity of using them.
Other states have done this and
why not Mississippi? We will never
have a market until we create it and
the sooner a start is made in that d.
rection the better. Ten times as many
people from a distance can be shown
an exhibit on the coast as at any other
point in the state. For that reason,
the location for the Centennial Expo
sition and the other events that are to
follow i An ideal onc
From the Far South.