Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 2 | Wilson Will Touch the Button Monday

II WILSON WILL TOUGH 1 THE BUTTON MONDAY III National Conservation Expo- h; sition at Knoxville, Tenn., I! Ready for "Visitors. I WILL LAST TWO MONTHS I Exhibits Furnished by the Li; Federal Government and ' Southern States. U Hi KNOXVTIIB, Aug. 30. A wireless Ij message from President Wilson Trill be g the signal for the opening in this city Ijl on Afonday next of the National Con- Ii Bervation exposition, tho first in the 111 history of the country devoted to tho j cause of conservation. Tho message is Uj expected at 10 a. m. at tho wirolos3 : station on tho exposition grounds, jj Governor Hooper of Tennessee, (1 raj'or Heiskell of Knoxvillo and T. A. jj Wright, president of the oxposition, -will i I participate in tho opening ceromonies. ) The oxposition wdll continue through September and October, and -while do- I signed primarily to "teach the lesson i ot conservation," is intended also to . demonstrate tho commercial and indus- trial advance of the south. The exposition grounds with lakes M and drives embrace more than 100 acres c on which have been erected eleven largo J buildings with a total of 100,000 feet . 8 of floor space. Tho buildings are the :! Liberal Arts, the Land, with an audi- n torium annex seating 3000 persons, tho 'ft Woman's, tho Child Welfare, tho East .f Tenneesco, tho All-South, tho Klines and I" Minerals, tho Art, tho Livestock, tho Poultry and tho Negro, if Extensive Exhibits. Exhibits have been furnished by the J federal government as well as by all of j I tho southern statos and will display many kinds of natural resources. Tho B larger southern cities will be ropresont- I . ed by individual oxhibits. Conaerva-(j Conaerva-(j tion of human life, health and energy tjj as well as of tho land, water and for- U ests will bo emphasized. Hjlk "In its conception, in its aims and i purposes, " reads the official doBcrip- II lion, "the National Conservation ex-t ex-t position is -unique: it is unique in othor i respects. Expositions of tho past have jj always been held to commemorato and H)( , celebrate something that has been ac- lit complislicd: the National Conservation fi exposition, "on the other hand, looks to- I ward tho future. It will stand out as Jj tho sign of something that is to bo I done. r Uncle Sam's Display. "Tho exhibits .of tho United States J will be" most complete and all will "be J designed to teach those conservation F lessons. In the good roads oxhibit, tho , forcstrj", tho mines, tho laud and in r other oxhibits tho federal displays will bo devoted entirely to the subjects of J conservation in its different branches. j I So, too, tho different stato exhibits are 3 designed not only to show tho progress g made in material ways by theBe states, 1 s but also to bring out tho conservation H 1 idea. 1 "There is installed a most complete ' health exhibit designed to show to ex- , position visitors the necessity of con- fl serving health and to show thorn how this best can be done. This oxhibit was arranged by exports. It treats the subject of health in many different H ' Child Welfare. HL "Tliu child welfare exhibit, tho first i ever made in the south, is under the 1 direction of Miss Julia C. Lathrop, head of tho children's bureau of the United States department of labor. Tho llus , sell Sage Foundation of New York and Hj . other philanthropic institutions aro ; deeply interested in this department. Tt will be devoted to an exposition of the best and the most advanced ineth-: ineth-: ods of conserving tho health and the j strength of the growing child. 1 "Tho woman's department has a ; largo number of exhibits that will i show women In both citj' and country t how they may conserve their energy and their health in the performance of ' their daily housohold duties." Special Days. A number of special days devoted to i particular features of the oxposition have been arranged. A congress of farmers and livestock breeders will be f held from-September 12 to September 16, at which Gifiord Pinchot will pre-1 pre-1 Ride. There will be discussions by ex-i ex-i perts on methods of crop and livestock i 4 improvement. One day will, bo set aside in honor of the Grand Army of the Ke- j public, "which will go into encampment 1 during the exposition near Lookout j mountain. A minors' field day is scheduled for . September 20, when the federal bureau of mines will givo a unique demonstrn- A tion of tho causos of mine explosions i and mothods of rescuing lives. The bu- ' rcau will cause an explosion of coal fl 3 dust in a big steel tube constructed 1 expressly for that purpose. Then will j follow a scries of first aid and rescue Hj j contests by picked teams of minors i from five slates. H Vice President Marshall and several j members of President Wilson's cabinot, $ including Secretary Bryan, Secretary i Daniels and Secretary McAdoo are ex-1)cctod ex-1)cctod to visit Knoxville while the ex- a position is on. Cardinal Gibbons will g bo an exposition guest on October 12 'j and 13.