Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — INTERESTS NATION [ARTICLE]

INTERESTS NATION

80UTH»S GREAT EXPOSITION IS ATTRACTING THE ATTENTION OF THE COUNTRY. • ’° y • NOT MERELY A LOCAL AFFAIR National Conservation Exposition In Knoxville, Close to Chattanooga Where G. {V. R. It to Meet, Is a National Exposition—U. S. Government Is Behind Big Project. While the Boyi to Bine are in Chattanooga, in September, to attend the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in that city, at Knoxville, another Tennessee olty, there will be in progress the National Conservation Exposition, one of the biggest things ever held in the South. It is hoped that thousands of visitors to the reunion will take advantage of the low rates of fare offered and the liberal stopover privileges to make the short run from Chattanooga to Knoxville, in order to see this exposition, which is typical of the spirit that Is animating the South of to-day. In order to give some idea of the size and the magnitude of the exposition, and to disabuse the minds of the people who have an idea that the exposition is purely local In character, it is only necessary to cite the following: \ * The Liberal Arts and Machinery Building; the Land and Agricultural Building, a magnificent structure recently completed; the Tennessee Building, devoted to the exploitation of Tennessee and all of that state’s wonderfully rich resources; the Mines and Minerals Building, in which both the United States government and every state of the South will make splendid displays of minerals; the All-South Building, designed to display the manufacturing advance of the South; the Art Building, the Child Welfare Building, the Live Stock Building, the Woman’s Building and the Negro Building. The different exposition departments comprise the Department of Minerals, Department of Waters, Department of Education, Child Welfare Department, Department of Health, Department of Good Roads, Woman’s Department, Department of Music, Department of Forests, Department of Agriculture and Live Stock, Girls’ Canning Department and the Negro Department Each of these departments is in charge of a board of experts. Miss Julia C. Lathrop, head of the Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, is at the head of the Child Welfare exhibit. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, famed for the fight he has made for pure foods, is taking an active Interest in the Health Department. Don Carlos Ellis, of Washington, in charge of the educational co-operation,. United States Forest Bervioe, is in charge of the forestry exhibit