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Show FRED R REED TALKS OF GREAT EXPOSITION Gem State Commissioner Says War Will Not Injure the Frisco Show Major Fred R, Reed Idal o commls s oner of mm g at on abor and stat sties and cha rman of the Idaho Pana na Pa c fic expos t on commission ar lved In Sa t Lake yesterdaj from San F anclsco and reg stered at the Hotel Utah He has been to the coast In tho Interest of the Idaho expos tion exhibits and while there he took occas on to let the Frisco people know that the intermountaln Btates w 1 be on tl e map when the ex posit on opens He announced h s plans for the o gan zat on of the Intermountaln States Imm grat on league and eclared. that he w try to get that proposed or gan zatlon to make a good show ng at the expos t on as one of ts f rst acts Major Reed w leave today for Boise and w 1 then bej? n wok at once to get all the Intermoun a n states to send de e gates to some centra point probably Salt Lake to organ ze the league of states T e Idaho comm ssloner began the move ment for such an organ zatlon about two months ago but ow ng to the fact that he has been busy with other th ngs and the states have not responded read y noth ng has yet been accomp shed He expects to have the organ zatlon formed w th n a month or two The prlnc pal purpose w 1 be to Increase Imm gratlon into all the tnounta n states by a con certed campaign of pub c ty The expos tlon; at San Francisco will not be njured In the east by the war In Eu ope s the op n on of Major Reed He bases th s on letters tot the expos! on pres dent which were shown to him wh le he Was in San Francisco He says these lette s most of them from partlci patlng foreign countries breathe an optl m st c spirit regarding the effect of the war Major Reed th nks that on the other hand the wars destruction of the Pan American, trade of German and other European countr es wl 1 have the effect of giving th s trade to the TJn ted States and the expo t on ne t year wi he p th s a ong He says that the United S ates ou d take ad antage of the trade s tuat on now and by insurance of the merchant ma ne and through sh p subs dy bu d ud he trade with the South Anaer can repub cs |