Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-08-04 | Page 16 | "See America First" is Slogan of Congress

I : "See America First Is Slogan of Congress James F. Morgan, Honolulu. Sam F. Dutton, Denver, Colo. Prominent Men of West Are Actively Preparing for Big Gathering Here. PROGBESSIVE business men will he in evidence at the forthcoming forthcom-ing Tran8mississippi congress, which will be held at the Assembly As-sembly hall on Temple Bquare August 27 to 30. From the mass of mail that is coming- in to the office of Secretary E. J. Becker every state west of the Mississippi will be represented in delegations dele-gations numbering from a score to a couple of hundred. From far-off Hon olulu James F. Morgan, a live wire of Hawaii, is now breasting the billows with Salt Lake as his objective point. Gilbert B. Daniels, owner of the Oak laud Enquirer and the Morning Times, also has signified his intention of coming in order to take part in the deliberations of tho congress and otherwise other-wise be a factor in drawing attention to the resources of the 'ast territory west ol the Mississippi in genera and the opportunities of the west proper in particular, ltight now the busiest man of the three is Sam F. Dutton of Denver. In his normal state Mr. Dutton is identified identi-fied in tho public eye as president of the Albany Hotel companv, chairman of the convention bureau of the Den ver chamber of commerce and several other public offices that ouglu to keep an average man busy. "Sam' Dutton, Dut-ton, however, is not an average man and the enthusiastic fashion in which he is stirring up things as chairman of the "See America First'' committee of the congress is as good as a three-ring three-ring circus. He proposes to make this feature the headliner of the congress and with this object in view he is negotiating ne-gotiating 8 number of stunts which in elude a couple of "Seo America First'' special trains, an invasion of lecturers equipped with colored slides and motion mo-tion pictures, a consignment of badges and buttons and a carload of vermil lion pigment with which to fresco Salt Lake a vivid red The array of mis sionarv taleDt he has secured in the cause is already making the good roads, parcels post, currency reform and other committees in charge of the various debates scheduled for the congress con-gress sit up and take emphatic notice. Gilbert B. Daniels, Oakland, Oal.