. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 60 BETTER FRUIT "See America First" Convention Held May, 1912 THE "See America First" convention to be held in Baltimore during May, 1912, is already being much talked about through the press and by the people generally. The plant of the committee in charge, appointed by Mayor Preston, and of which Mr. Henry F. Baker is chairman, is to make the display one of the greatest ever seen. Through this Baltimore move- ment "See America First" is becoming a by-word everywhere. Mary, as she starts off on a fifty-mile automobile trip, cal
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 60 BETTER FRUIT "See America First" Convention Held May, 1912 THE "See America First" convention to be held in Baltimore during May, 1912, is already being much talked about through the press and by the people generally. The plant of the committee in charge, appointed by Mayor Preston, and of which Mr. Henry F. Baker is chairman, is to make the display one of the greatest ever seen. Through this Baltimore move- ment "See America First" is becoming a by-word everywhere. Mary, as she starts off on a fifty-mile automobile trip, calls back: "Good-bye, mamma; I am going to 'See America First.' " It is "See America First" with everybody at all hotels and the slogan is becoming general. President Taft, United States senators, governors and other promi- nent people have already commended the movement, and the governors of many of the states have appointed committees to arrange for the exhibit of their respective states. The display will be largely pictorial and topo- graphical, and both the Baltimore com- mittee, which will have entire charge of the arrangements for the conven- tion, and the Maryland committee, which will arrange for the state exhibit, are expected to get very busy in the near future now that the vaca- tion period is over. Listen to what one of the most talked about United States senators, Hon. Luke Lee of Tennessee, has to say about the movement in a letter to the Greater Baltimore committee: "It gives me great pleasure to indorse most cor- dially the object and purposes of the 'See America First' convention. I feel sure that Tennessee will be much inter- ested in your movement when under- stood here, and I will be glad to do all I can to bring the convention before the people of Tennessee, so that it will be ; "I enclose you a list of delegates I will appoint to repre- sent Virginia at the convention," wrote Governor Mann of Virginia, "
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