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 . iressed upon the mind b\- the \^•lrion-^ devicesof the exhibit. The Atlanta .ti-Tuberculosis Society contributes a creditable (k-]rirtnienlto the exhibit; also the Alkuua Surgical Institute in the matter of the triatmentgi\-en deformed children. An interesting jiart of the we
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 . iressed upon the mind b\- the \^•lrion-^ devicesof the exhibit. The Atlanta .ti-Tuberculosis Society contributes a creditable (k-]rirtnienlto the exhibit; also the Alkuua Surgical Institute in the matter of the triatmentgi\-en deformed children. An interesting jiart of the welfaie exhibit is that sent by the city of .Memphis,ll shows a complete little hosjiital and e(|ui])ment for children, according to the freshair idea, and illustrates the work being done by the childrens open ,air hos])ital ofMemphis, maintained through a sjjccial tax le\ied on bachelors. A wealthy bachelorof that cit_\-contributed the fuiKN for the little exhibit sent to the lnx\-ille ex])osi-tion. In the department of common school education a most creditable showing ismade b\- the school children of Knoxville. those of the grammar grades, and those ofthe high .schools, the Knoxville school system deiuonstrating the success of indus-trial education being combined with the acadennc in the general nil. I/hST JixiosiTJox or 123 The school problem, I learned, was almost as complex in Knoxville as it is inAtlanta, in the lack of large enough school Iniildings and adecjuate facilities. Therecent enactment of a S])lendid law for compulsory school attendance has broughtsuddenly to the sclnxil a large element of children wlm might without the law haveneyer had a chance. Besides their inyalual)le aid in making the social side of the exposition a suc-cess, the womans board, of which Mrs. Horace \an Deventer is the efficient presi-dent, has a beautiful exhibit of womans wares and hand-crafts in the womansbuilding. Hyery department commands interest and rellec
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