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By ELMO SCOTT WATEON
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“your oyster,” Mr. and Mrs. American and
America. All you have to do is open it!
No thrill In visiting foreign lands you gay?
And you never geography in school, any-
way? Then a trip “Farthest South” by stepping
down into the hold of the ship which Admiral
Byrd sailed into the Antarctic may not thrill
you. But stepping into the bathy-
gphere in which Dr. Willlam Beebe descended
2,200 feet beneath the waters of the sea, or
into this featherweight aluminum globe in which
Dr. August Plecard ascended 54,000 feet into
the stratosphere? Certainly you cant say “Oh,
everybody goes THERE!"
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&
how about
If A Century of Progress were “Just another
world’s fair,” the foregoing might be representa.
tive of “the whole world” which it offers fut
there Is another “world” which the visitor dis.
covers here—the world of science and inven-
tion, the new world that has been created by
the ingenuity of mankind during his progress
of the past century. And this is the world which
offers the thrills, for unlike expositions of the
past with the customary static rows of still
“exhibits,” A Century of Progress 18 a show in
motion,
Movement . . . action , . , things in the process
of making or being . . . Life! That is the world
that is unfolded before your eyes. One of the
most Important things in making this possible
is the diorama, a small stage with a realistical
ly painted background and three-dimensional
sictors built In perspective In the foreground.
Dioramas have been used for years In museums,
but here machines and chemical reagents take
the place of stuffed animals. Molecules and
fons perform for you, You “see” a radio wave
bringing you your favorite music or the volee
of your favorite comedian. You stand in front
of one case and push a lever or two and under
your hand an earthquake is produced, geysers
spout boiling water and volcanoes belch forth
lava and gas, For a moment you are a god on
Mount Olympus!
You stand before “The Transparent Man” a
model of the human body heroic In size, Your
eye possesses the penetrating power of X-rays
and you see the nervous, respiratory, elrcula-
tory, digestive and muscular systems in action,
You gaze upon a cross-section of a twig (en-
lnrged many times) and you see the cells in it
growing. You are looking at Life!
The history of the human race might be writ.
ten In terms of its means of transportation, So
come down to this Greek theater on the shore
of the lake with its triple stage, including river,
— and deep-sea narbor front, as well as land,
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1. A part of the crowd of children who throng
that five.acre wonderland, the Enchanted Is.
land, every day.
2. Replica of the Golden Temple of Jehol,
seat of worship of the Manchu emperors and the
finest existing example of Chinese Lama archi.
tecture.
3. “Bozo"-—He lives! He breathes! Me rolls!
And he is one of the many devices on The Mid-
way, “the City of a Million Lights,” which pro-
vide the thrills, dizzy turns, flops and spins for
amusement.seekers.
4. Robot, the Mechanical Man, who can do al.
most anything a real man can—after you press
a button to start him!
5. Inside the log walls of Fort Dearborn. From
this little palisaded fortification of a century
and a quarter ago grew a modern city of more
than three million people. :
6. Young America’s dream realized! What boy
hasn't visualized himself actually “running a
real train”? Here it is—something of a minia-
ture, it is true, but “real,” nevertheless.
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Before you pass the pageant of travel—rum-
bling ox-cart, Conestoga wagons, stage-coach,
post-chaise, locomotives and railway cars of
every description, a Yankee clipper ship, Robert
Fulton's steamboat, the first automobiles, the
Wright's first airplane and the giant vehicles
of land and sea and air of today. You see a
whole century of history passing in review be.
fore you. (Did you, by chance, drive your own
car here? Do you know how many parts make
up a modern automobile and what takes place
under the hood to “make it £0"? In one place
you see the whole process of making an auto-
mobile from the time the raw ore is converted
into steel until the shiny new car comes off the
assembly line. Movement , , . action . . + things
In the process of making or being , , , Life!)
The whole world In 424 acres and _ . a hun
dred years In one day! Yes, even more than a
hundred years. Over here is a building from
which “the centuries look down upon youn.” It
Is the Maya Temple, the famed Nunnery at Ux.
mal, Yueatan, relic of a elvilization that was
old, old, old, when Columbus touched the shores
of North America, And two minutes walk from
this building with its fantastically carved walls
and its brilliant colors are the houses in which
we may find ourselves living during the next
few years—steel houses, glass houses, houses of
building material undreamed of during an era
of bricky wood and stone construction, houses
which ah unlike any houses ever before con
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ceived by man. (Some day will & future
American be bora in one of those houses, as a
Brent American was born in that log hut which
stands over
or os 4
areal
there—the replica of
ville, K5.7)
bistory of an American family. It is a revolving
stage. First the Colonial family appears,
their elders,
A screen descends and the family appears
In a house which Is part of a village. a self-
sustaining community, with church. school und
a courthouse. Out of the village leads a boggy
road over which a horseman struggles with a
stagecoach,
The stage revolves to show the family of
1033—city dwellers in an apartment house, with
telephone and radio. Cans on the shelf show the
nature of the food supply. Outside one glimpses
amusement houses, parks, schools and factories,
The boggy road has been replaced by the mo-
tor highway and railroad, while an airplane
soars above,
Just a bit dizzy, Mr. and Mrs. American, from
looking at the whole world compressed inte
this small space and watching the centuries
roll past your eyes? Better give heed then to
Young America’s plea “I want to go over to
the Enchanted Island"—he knows he will find
there the stuff of which childhood's dreams are
made: a magic mountain down which to slide,
a sure-enough falry castle, a miniature railroad
and heroic figures of toys and story book char
acters, How to get there?
Why, take the Sky Ride, of course. What
the Eiffel Tower was to the Paris exposition
and the Ferris Wheel was to the World's Fair
of "G3, the Sky Ride is to A Century of Progress,
They call It “the supreme thrill of A Century
of Progress.” But it is more than just the out-
standing amusement thrill of the big show” of
33. It points the way to a vehicle of transpor.
cars, symbolize not only the progress of the
tury to come as well,
(© by Western Newspaper Usnilen.)
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SALT’S HIGH PLACE
IN WORLD TRADE
Medium of Exchange Long
Before Gold.
buxom wife In the East Indies could
be purchased for a handful of salt ;
many slaves which were brought to
the United States from Afries were
bought and paid for, not with gold,
but salt, reports the Wercoster Salt
Institute In outlining the many inter
esting activities carried on by man
in seeking to satisfy his need for
salt, remarking that the sult stand
ard In the history of commerce an
tedated the gold standard
As a medium of exch =n e salt was
widely used in many ancient eoun
tries. The Mogul conquerors of In
ago regulating the standard of salt
that was used for money. In Asia
and Africa cnkes of salt were fre
quently money. Up
until comparatively recent times salt
was used as a medium of exchange
in the Shan markets in Indo-China
Besides being used as money, salt
employed as
in days gone by was a powerful de
veloper of ecommerce
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Being essen
tial to life, and unavailable to tribes
substance was obtained by evapora
tion, trade routes were early devel
route wa ntained
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bullt to accommodate salt haulers
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ford. From thig humble beginning ns
a resting place for salt traders the
great city of London resulied,
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