Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — SOUTH IS AWAKE [ARTICLE]

SOUTH IS AWAKE

AND NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION WILL SHOW IT TO THE WORLD. EYE OPENER FOR THE NORTH - ■ " . .. t ; .* : - % Wonderful Advances Along All Lines Made by South In Recent Years to be Strikingly Typified at Big Fair In Knoxville —Exposition is Coincident With G.'A. R. Encampment. In many sections of the North the Idea is still prevalent, erroneous as it is, that the eyes of the Southland are still turned on things and events that long since have passed into history, and not on the future. The National Conservation Exposition that is being held in Knoxville, Tenn., from September 1 to November 1, of the present year, is a magnificent refutation of that belief. And to show just how erroneous that idea is special invitations have been extended and are being extended, to the exposition to every veteran of the Union army and to the other visitors coming to Chattanooga for the G. A. R. encampment to make the short run to the exposition city, where they may see the South* as she is to-day, and not as many of them remember her a half century agone. Students of conditions all over the country agree that as a nation we have been altogether too prodigal in the use of those great natural resources that mother nature in her wisdom saw fit to bestow upon the United States. The question of how best to conserve these great natural resources and not alone the resources but life and health and energy, is one of the paramount questions of the day. So, then, it iB fitting that the first exposition in history desighed to teach the great and timely lessons of the need of conservation should be held in the Southland. The exposition is in itself a living example of the fact that no matter what past conditions may have been, no matter what *the South felt after she was left bleeding and torn at the close of the Civil War, her eyes are now turned toward the front. The exposition in itself is a living example of the fact that the great New South of to-day—great in everything that'goes to make for prosperity—is marching shoulder to Bhoulder with the balance of the country towards better things and a better and greater united country. The National Conservation Exposition that will be visited during the months of September and October by more than 1,(100,000 visitors, a large percentage of them from the North, an exposition with an idea behind it; it will be a “different” exposition in every sense of the word. Eleven large exposition - buildings equal in sise and in architecture to the exposition buildings at other shows of a similar character rear themselves on the grounds. There are also a number of smaller structures and a great Midway. The buildings are filled with a splendid line of exhibits. These comprise government and state and commercial exhibits. The latter show the wonderful progress the Ssouth has made in all lines of commercial and industrial endeavor during the last few years; they sing a peaen of triamph of the New South.