The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-05-20
THE PANAMA CANAL AND THE
MEASURE OF ITS GREATNESS.


In view of the reports that a dele.
cation Of worlds fair boomers from
San Francisco is in Washington boast
ing that they have raised five million
dollars and DO not want anything from
the government, the Washington, D. c.
Post says editorially:
"There should be world s fair to
commemorate the opening of the Pan
ANA canal, and this fair should be the
greatest the world has ever seen.
"The opening of the Panama canal
is stupendous event in the history
of the world; not that it will immed-
lately change the currents of trade, but
because it signifies the fact that on the
Pacific ocean is to be the civilization
Of the future The East has finally
rolled around to the West, and white
and yellow men meet face to face
across the Pacific.
GIN the past few years-almost
since the beginning of the work on the
canal--importan steps forward have
been taken in the arts, industries and
sciences. The art of flying is one of
the new and spectacular developments
since the last worlds fair was held.
The advancement made in automobile
ing, electrical inventions, etc, is al
mast as sensational. These and a hun
dred other steps in discoveries and in
ventions should be made manifest to
the world. A world s fair will stimu
late invention. uplift humanity, pro-
mote trade and commerce and bring
about that better acquaintance among
men that makes for international peace
Such a fair should be held in one of the
big American cities capable of accom-
uated as to be accessible by land and
sea.
Congress should provide promptly
and literally for the fair that is to
mark such a milestone in human pro-
gress as the cutting of this hemisphere
in twain. There is no time to lose, If
the exposition is to be ready when the
canal is completed. Let there be les
son takn from the japanese, who are
already hard at work on the Tokyo ex-
position of 1917. And let the provis-
ion for the world fair be no niggard-
ly allowance, but rather such a sum
that will insure the creation of the pro-
per setting of the most splendid dis
play of human achievement ever wit
messed. Let the world fair in truth
be gathering Of the nations in holi-
day spirit, celebrating a mighty event,
and by their intermingling promoting
their mutual prosperity
The Post chompioning no particular
city and not even offering a sugges-
tion as to where the Panama exposition
should be located, simply requires that
it should be in one of the big Ameri-
can cities capable of accommodating
and sea.
Such a city is New Orleans, big
enough to accommodate every posi-
bic influx of visitors and readily acces-
sible by railways radiating in every
direction, by the ships that sail all
the seas and oceans of our planet, and
near the seagate of one of the world s
greatest navigable rivers, penetrating,
as it does with its main stream and its
great tributaries, ,twentysix states of
the American Union. There is, there
fore, none of the big cities of the coun-
try more accessible than is New Or
leans, and there is not one so complete
and entirely accessible both by land
and sea.
That part of the Posts proposition
being met as to every demand, the 9th