The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . ied from localities where they can be producedmore advantageously. It follows, therefore, that transportation facilities to themarkets of the world are essential to anything more than a most rudimentarydevelopment of any locality, and transportation facilities are an indispen
The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . ied from localities where they can be producedmore advantageously. It follows, therefore, that transportation facilities to themarkets of the world are essential to anything more than a most rudimentarydevelopment of any locality, and transportation facilities are an indispensable fac-tor in all business. We sometimes hear people talk alioui railways and their relations to businessas if they were something separate and apart, and were not themselves businessenterprises. In his bixik, The lndi\-idual and v^ociety, Professor James MarkBaldwin says: Business has to do with the ])roduction of, and distribuliim of, \aluable things—money, utensils—anything for which there is a demand in society, on which societyor some individuals of it set \-alue. * * * To produce such things in responseto the demand and to distrilmte them to those from whom the demand comes is theundertaking of business. *This was the last address delivered by Mr. Finley. late President of the Southern THE LATE WILLIAM WILSON FINLEY Tiin FIRST nxrosrnox or 313 In this. Professor inchidcs llic (lislrihinion of ])r(Klucts, or transi)orta-tion, under the head of 1)nsiness in as full sense as their produetion, and T am satis-fied that, from whatever \-ie\\i)nint we may consider the railways of the Southeast,we will hnd that rail transiX)rtation is an essential part of every husiness enterprisein the section. 1 may even say that it is the most im]>ortant sim^le factor in Int:.-iness, because distribution is essential to the largest and most profitable develo])nicntof every business enterprise. Without transportation the market for any commodityw
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