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The Exposition Means
Immediate State Development
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OU ARE ASKED to vote November 7 on a constitutional amendment authorizing the city of
Portland to levy within the city a tax of one million dollar« a year for three year« to finance
the proposed 1927 Exposition.
There ia evidence that plana and purposes of the 1927 Exposition are not fully under-
•tood and this message is being published to give a more complete understanding and to gam state­
wide approval of the Exposition plans.
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fl It ihmM fhrwt of all be made plain that the proposed three minion dollar tax to be levied in Port­
land is contingent upon the raising of a fund of one million doD.irs by private subscription — the
men who are pioneering the building of the Exposition showing their own faith in a material way.
fl The one purpose of the Exposition is the development of Oiegon and Oregon resource».
fl Oregou, twice the site of the state of New York and one of the richest sections of the world in
natural resources, has less than a million population instead <f the four or five millions which the
state can easily support and which in turn would contribute to t; e support of the'state.
fl Oregon has fewer people than the city of Los Angeles.
fl Oregon has only eight people to the square tuile.
California has 22 and Washington 20.
fl Oregon is burdened with taxes and the one sure relief to the individual taxpayer h more people to
develop more wealth to share the tax burden.
fl Vast areas of Oregon soil, as fertile as the world contains, are untouched by the plow because the
people of the world do not know of their fertility and opportunity.
fl But these are facts we all know.
fl We are all agreed as to the need of development in Oregon: now let us see what the 1927 Exposi­
tion can mean in bringing about that development;
fl tt ia proponed that the 1927 Exposition »hall bethe central feature of a ten-year development plan
for the nt ate.
fl The first essential of this plan is that the people of the East who can better their own conditions by
coming to Oregon be made to know what Oregon can offer.
flit is planned, if the Exposition measure is approved at the polls, to begin, not later than 1924, a
campaign of advertising which shall cover all the rich states to the east of us. This advertising is
to appeal to farmers, stockmen, orchardists, manufacturers and tourists, telling each of these classes
of the opportunities which Oregon offers them and inviting them to come and see for themselves. All
this advertising will lead up to the 1927 Exposition, but it will lie intended to attract not alone sight­
seers but settlers and investors even before the Exposition.
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fl It is planned also to continue this development programme after the Exposition is ended and until
1934.
fl It is proposed that the Exposition shall strongly feature the products and resources of Oregon, so
that visitors will become interested in the state as a place for them to live and prosper.
fl Each section of the state will be given an opportunity to benefit both by the preliminary adver­
tising and by the Exposition itself.
fl Railways will be asked to sell excursion tickets to the F\ position, which shall give the holder«
without extra cost a trip to other sections of the state which they may desire to visit.
fl Each county in the state will be invited to participate in a carefully worked-out plan to dirset atten­
tion to and create interest in all sections of the state.
fl Those who sponsor the Exposition believe that these plans will insure a speedy and definite devFV
opment of Oregon's vast resource« by bringing together the entire energies of the state and 'by
focusing attention upon the state.
fl The welfare of every man, woman and child in Oregon is directly connected wdth state develop­
ment. Adequate state development means increased prosperity, a better social condition, be Her
markets, more comforts and conveniences, with reduced taxation.
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fl In the present condition of the United States and of the world at large, Oregon's state devclopntcnt
will not come speedily unless well thoUght-out and aggressive plans art put into execution.
fl The 1927 Exposition —- as the concentration point of a ten-year development plan — is a definite,
tangible movement for state-wide progress, and on this basis you can confidently give your approval
to the Exposition measures to be voted on at the polls November 7.
Why the Exposition Has Been Set Forward From 1925 to 1927
Th» change of date froth 1925 to 1927 hat been niadt becuuae it ha» bean found im-
ptuMble to build an adeguate Expotit ion and to co-ordinate all ita feature» in a general
plan for Oregon development in th» little mure than two year» between now and 1925.
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Exposition Committee
George L. Baker, Vice-Chairman Managing Committee
MANAGING COMMITTEE
F. T. Griffith. Chairman
Go ge L baker, V tee-Ch air man
John F. Daly
Gny W Talbot
In» F. Powere
A. H Lea
Vf W. Harrah
F C. Deekabach
William Hanley
Emery Olmatead
THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS PAID FOR
FINANCE COM MTTTFE
Emery Ob infeed, Chairman
David M. Danne
Gny W T alóni
J. A. Crantton
Ira F. Power I
R- E. Smith
John F. Daly
Nathan Street»
FIVE ÍU'NDRED OREGON CITIZENS
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