Smyrna times., 1904-05-04
THE UNIVERSAL
EXPOSITION
The Achievements of individuals and Ma
tons Faithfully Recorded by This
Encyclopedia of Society.
By FREDERICK j. V. SKIFF, Direct
or of Exhibits, worlds Fair.

famous address at Buffalo in Septem-
ber 1901, President Mckinley de-
scribed the object and the result of
expOsitiOns.
A modern universal exposition is
collection of the wisdom and achieve
ments of the world, for the inspection
of the world for the study of it's ex-
perts, by which they may make COM
PARSONS and deduction and develop |
plans for future Improvements and |
progress. Such a universal exposition |
might well be called an encyclopedia |
of society. 1t constitutes a classified, |
compact, indeXed compendium of the |
achievements and ideas of society in |
all phases of it's activity, extending to |
the most material as we'll as the most |
refined. 1t offers illustrations cover
ing the full field of social performance, |
from the production of the shoes on
our feet and the pavement beneath |
them to a presentation of the rarest
and most delicate creations of the
brains and hands of men in what are
called the fine arts of civilization.
The Universal Exposition in st. Lou
is in 1904 will be such a social ency-
Clopedia i'll the most comprehensive
and accurate sense. 1t will give to the
world in revised and complete details
"a living picture of the artistic and in
dustrial development at which man
kind has arrived and will actually
provide "a new starting point from
which all men may direct future eXer-
TONS" 1t will present for the inspec-
ton of specialists in all lines of indus
trial and social endeavor and for the
public an assembly of the best which
the world has done and has to show in
industry, art and science, and, what
is very important, it will offer these
achievements of society, these trophies
of civilization. in highl.k selected, &C
curately classified array.
The creators of the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton have had the experience of all
previous great expositions by which to
plan and effect its high organization.
The continuous and repeated burden of
the message of experience handed
down by all expositions has been more
perfect, more effective classification
and arrangement of exhibits.
The classification of the st. Louis
Exposition has been prepared to pre-
sent a sequential synopsis of the de-
velopments that have marked mans
progress. On its bases will be as
sembled the most highly organized ex-
position the world has yet seen.
The st. Louis classification is divided
into 16 departments. IA groups and
6O7 classes. These grand departments
in their order will record what man
has accomplished at this time with his
faculties industry and skill and the
natural resources at his command in
the environment in which he has been
placed.
At the head of the Exposition elias
siication has been placed Education
through which man enters social life
Second comes Art showing the cOndi
ton of his culture and development
Liberal Arts and Applied Sciences are
placed third. to indicate the result OF
his education and culture, illustrate hi:
tastes and demonstrate his inventive
genius, scientific attainment and artis
tic expression. These three depart
ments equip him for the battle and
prepare him for the enjoyments of life
The raw material departments, Agri
culture, Horticulture. Mining and For
estry, show how man conserves thu
forces of nature to his uses. The De
partment of Manufactures will show
what he has done with them; the De
partment of Machinery the tools h,
has used The Department Of Trans
pOrtatiOn Will show how he overcome
distances and secures access to al
parts of the world. The Department
Of Electricity will indicate the grea
forces he has discovered and utilized t
convey power and intelligence. And s.
through the several departments t
Anthropology, in which man studio
man; and TO Social Economy. which
will illustrate the development of tn
human race how it has overcome tn
difficulties of civilization and solve'
problems in which society is involved
Last is placed physical culture. i
which man. his intelligence havin
reached the supreme point. is able t
treat himself as an animal, realizin
that his intellectual and moral cOnst
tutiOns require a sound physical bod
to prompt them to the proper perform
ance Of their function.
Education is the keynote of the Tn
versal Exposition Of 1904. Each d.
partment of the worlds labor and d.
velopment will be represented at S
Louis, classified and installed in sue
manner that all engaged or intereste
In such branch of activity may CON
and see, examine, study and go ava
advised. Each of the separate section
Of the Exposition will be an equivaleI
of-or. rather will be 10 actually
comprehensive and most effective o.
lect lesson in-the line of industri
and social achievement and progre'
which its presents.
Cost of Seeing the Worlds Fair.
From any point within 800 miles
st. Louis a person may travel to Il