is reserved for the last of the feast. (Applause.) But where all is good, and where all is best, as has been the case with the program of this Fourth National Conservation Congress, there can be no choice. And again I am going to remind this audience that this Congress is going to prepare a book containing every bit of the proceedings of this meeting, and it will be one of the best publications of proceedings that has been presented by any congress in the land, and I want to impress upon you, delegates and visitors alike, to leave a dollar for a copy of these proceedings.

While we are waiting for a final word from Governor Hadley, I wil! call upon Mr. Walter H. Page, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, who will present the report of that committee, which I hope will be enthusiastically adopted.

Mr. Page read the resolutions (which will be found in full at the beginning of this volume), and moved their adoption.

The motion was seconded, put and carried.

Mr. JOHN B. HAMMOND (Des Moines, Iowa)-I have a resolution to present. It was referred to the Resolutions Committee, but somehow it was lost in the shuffle.

Mr. PAGE-It was referred to one of the sub-committees, and, presumably, was not accepted by the sub-committee. It was not reported to the full committee.

Chairman WHITE-If there is no objection, it may be presented to this body.

Mr. HAMMOND—

Whereas, The protection of womanhood and childhood is the heart and center of the Conservation of "Vital Resources;" and, whereas, forty states of the Union have prohibited the maintenance of houses of prostitution, the market places of the white slave traffic and the centers for the dissemination of the most dangerous and revolting diseases; and, whereas, the city administrations of many of the larger cities, in defiance of state law, have set apart districts where the crime of prestitution is tolerated and protected;

Therefore, be it resolved that we condemn such policy of segregation by city officials as contrary to sound public policy and indefensible in morals, and recommend the absolute suppression of the social evil in all its phases.

I move the adoption of the resolution, Mr. Chairman.

The motion was seconded, put, and carried.

Chairman WHITE-We will pass to the next order-the presentation of invitations from the cities desiring the next Congress. This is the usual way. These 'nvita' ons are not acted upon, because the Executive Committee will take thre or four months to consider everything and

compare the different cities, looking to the welfare of the next Congress. Mr. Don Carlos Ellis, of Knoxville, Tenn., I believe has something to say.

Mr. ELLIS Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: There is to be held in the city of Knoxville, in September and October of next year, the National Conservation Exposition. Its purpose and nature are precisely parallel with those of this Congress for the promotion of the development, wise use and conservation of all of the natural resources of this Nation. The Exposition is of national scope, but is to have special reference to the Southern States. There are to be buildings set aside for each one of the five divisions of our natural resources-forests, minerals, soils, waters and vital resources. In these buildings are to be shown, by example, as this Congress has shown by precept, the various results accomplished by Conservation by the Federal Government, the State governments and by private individuals, and the possibilities of Conservation in the future.

The Exposition originated in Washington last February, when a number of the leading spirits of Conservation met in that city and there was formed an Advisory Board composed of the gentlemen whose names I desire to read to you:

Gifford Pinchot, President National Conservation Association, Chairman; Don Carlos Ellis, in charge Educational Cooperation, United States Forest Service, Secretary: Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education; Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Chief of the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Commerce and Labor; Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Director of the Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health, of good Hoosekeeping Magazine; W. J. McGee, Soil Water Expert, United States Department of Agriculture; Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, President Southern Commercial Congress; Logan W. Page, Director United States Office of Public Roads.; Bradford Knapp, in charge Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work, United States Department of Agriculture; Jos. A. Holmes, Director United Bureau of Mines; Representative Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana, President National Rivers and Harbors Congress; Senator Lake Lea of Tennessee; Charles S. Barrett, President Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union.

These various members of the Advisory Board are to represent, in the formation of plans for the Exposition, the various departments of Conservation in which they are acknowledged leaders. They have instructed me, as Secretary of this Advisory Board, to read to the delegates the following letters:

September 23, 1912.

To the Delegates of the Fourth National Conservation Congress, Indianapolis, Indiana :

We, the undersigned members of the Advisory Board of the National Conservation Exposition, take this means of laying before you an outline of the plans and purposes of the Exposition and of respectfully recommending the adoption

of the resolutions which will be introduced at this Congress endorsing the National Conservation Exposition.

This Exposition is to be held at Knoxville, Tennessee, in September and October of 1913. It is an outgrowth of the Appalachian Exposition, which has been held at Knoxville for the past two years. Knoxville was chosen as the location of the National Conservation Exposition because the Southern States are in great need of education concerning the proper handling of their great natural wealth; because Knoxville, while in the South, is readily accessible to the entire East; because the State in which it lies is in the transition zone between North and South and has more States bordering upon it than any other State in the Nation, and all the bordering States are southern; because the city is in the center of the region where the National Government is establishing new National Forests and carrying on other lines of work in Conservation to a greater extent than in any other region; and because of the city's preparedness, in being willing to turn over to the National Conservation Exposition Company the excellent buildings and grounds which had been acquired for the Appalachian Exposition Company and to raise sufficient additional capital besides. A bill has been introduced in Congress providing for a government building and exhibit at the Exposition, and the Committee to which it was referred has given assurances of a favorable report for a quarter of a million dollars.

The purpose of the Appalachian Exposition was to aid in the development of the Southern Appalachian Region. The new Exposition is a national, not a local project. Its work is to promote the preservation and development of the different forms of natural wealth of the entire country. Its special field, however, is to be the Southern States. The Exposition comes at a time when these Stats are in the midst of a great awakening. It is to be devoted in an especial manner to assist in this awakening and in directing the course of this awakening toward genuine, permanent progress and highest efficiency. The purposes are parallel with the magnificent undertakings of the National Conservation Congress. The means only are different. To every part of the Nation the Congress is sending its message. The Exposition invites the people of the Nation to view the tangible results and possibilities of Conservation on display. All fields of the Conservation work will be represented, forests, waters, lands, minerals, fish and game, and human efficiency including health, child welfare, education, home economics, good roads, and country life improvement. The Exposition is to be held at a time when special efforts are to be made by such agencies as the southern railroads and the Southern Commercial Congress to direct the tide of passenger traffic through the South. During the same period the city of Mobile, Alabama, is to entertain the Fifth Annual Convention of the Southern Commercial Congress and to hold its celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal, and plans are being made to direct southern travelers of those two months through both Mobile and Knoxville.

Expositions of the past have been commemorative and historical. They have celebrated and glorified past achievements. The field of the new Exposition is the future. It is to tell the progress which we are to make in the coming years, which we are to enjoy ourselves and to hand down to our children. It will be prophetic of the development which is to come and of the permanent enrichment of the country and its people. In the words of the late and beloved Dr. W J McGee, "The change thus wrought in the exposition idea is fundamental; the old exposition looked backward, the new looks forward; the old exposition was solely material, the new is essentially moral; the old was a proud boast of achievement, the new a signpost to progress and an assurance of perpetuity. The expositions of the past were as songs of achievement at the end of a good day's

work, the now may well be as living and tangible promises of a still more glorious tomorrow foreordained by the wise action of today."

GIFFORD PINCHOT, Chairman,

JOSEPH A. HOLMES.

PHILANDER P. CLAXTON.

JULIA C. LATHROP.

CHARLES S. BARRETT.

DUNCAN U. FLETCHER.

HARVEY W. WILEY.

BRADFORD KNAPP.

LUKE LEA.

JOSEPH E. RANSDELL.

MRS. ABEL.

DON CARLOS ELLIS, Secretary.

Mr. Chairman, Knoxville, has empowered me to invite to that city, to the Exposition, the fifth meeting of the National Conservation Congress. The National Conservation Congress belongs to the whole Nation, and the Nation is proud of it. For the past four years, since its birth, it has held its meetings in the North and Northwest. The South needs the Congress, particularly at this time, when it is in a phase of its great industrial awakening, and it earnestly urges that the Congress come within its bounds next year. If it should come South next year, there is certainly no more fitting place for its sessions than in that city which has done so much by its own enegries and industries for Conservation as has Knoxville. It will be centering in Knoxville in that year and at that time all the forces working for Conservation throughout the United States. Knoxville is a smaller city than others in the South where the Congress might be held, but it is a city of between seventy and eighty thousand people. It has five excellent hotels. Two main railroads run through, and it has shown its ability to handle large crowds of people. by the way it has taken care of the Appalachian Exposition for two years, with an average of twelve thousand visitors a day.

The Exposition is moving along parallel lines with the Congress, and it is in a way an offspring of the efforts of this Congress. It has taken up the ideas that have been promulgated by this Congress, and is going to apply them by showing at Knoxville the tangible, visible results of Conservation. The people in that section of country are in great need of instruction along these lines.

The plant already established for this other exposition is valued at between one-half and one million dollars. Already several buildings have been erected, and all this has been turned over to the new Exposition as a foundation.

I have letters with me from the various commercial bodies of the city, and this has been also heartily endorsed by the Governor of the State.

In conclusion, I wish to offer a resolution made by the Advisory Board:

Whereas, It is the sense of the Fourth National Conservation Congress, assembled at Indianapolis, Indiana, October 1 to 4, 1912, that the National Conservation Exposition, to be held at Knoxville, Tennessee, in September and October, 1913, will be a strong factor in the advancement of the Conservation and wise use of the national resources of this Nation, and particularly of the Southern States; and

Whereas, It is, further, the sense of this Congress that education in the care of natural resources is particularly needed in the Southern States, where the resources are of great value and their development in a period of a great awakening, but their Conservation at a low ebb; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the National Conservation Congress hereby signifies its gratification that the National Conservation Exposition is to take place, and its earnest hope that all persons and institutions interested in the Conversation of any of our natural resources will give to the Exposition their cordial support and cooperation.

I move the adoption of this resolution.

Hon. R. M. AUSTIN, Congressman from Tennessee-I wish to second this as a citizen of that progressive city, and I wish to join in the invitation extended by Mr. Ellis, not only to the delegates to this National Conservation Congress, but also to the citizens of this great capital city of Indiana. I hope this invitation will be accepted and this resolution just read will be passed. We will be happy to see you all when you come to sunny Tennessee, away up in the mountains, and this little city of ours of about eighty thousand people, which nestles at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountain. We will show you the richest mineral and timber section in all the Union. There are ten counties in this Congressional District. Five have coal, six iron, six marble, five zine, two copper, and the largest amount of hardwood timber now existing on the American continent. It is an ideal location, not only for a Conservation Exposition, but an ideal place for a meeting of this great and useful organization, the National Conservation Congress of America, and we hope you will all come.

Mr. Chairman, we do not intend to open the doors of the Exposition until we know that Captain White, of Kansas City, answers "Present." (Applause.)

I wish, while I am on my feet, to commend the very excellent report from the Committee on Resolutions submitted by the able editor of "The World's Work," Mr. Page, and to say that so long as I am a representative in Congress I shall, by my influence, do all that I can to carry out the principles set forth in these resolutions. (Applause.)

The motion on Mr. Ellis' resolution was put and carried.