Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-05-18

very readable article by Fredef-
lex j. V. Skiff; Director in Chief
of Foreign Domestic participation
Panama Pacific lntei national Tx
position, San Francisco, 1918. en-
titled THE Neighborhood Of the
World--IIow the Panama Pacific
international Exposition will Re
present the Best Achievements of
Peace and illustrate the narrow
ing of the world into a united
Community Mr.. Sliff says
| am convinced that the great
st element at San Francisco in
1915 will be the exposition OF
peace, as an institution to which
almost all the infinite details Of
the exhibits may be related. **
But the year 1918, as President
Eutler las pointed out, will be
The centennial of unprecedented
I geaee between the great peoples
of the world, in itself an occa-
SION for a world congress. There
fore, in my vision of the Expos
ton site beside the Golden cate,
j see, as the dominant palace
Of the World $ Peace, an
edifice as beautiful as it's name
and significance. Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie s interest in the build
ing is countd upon with conf
dence. The building will provide
quarters for the peace organlza-
tons of the world who will be
repres at the Exposition. 1t
will stand as the glorious embed :
ment OF the dream Of federated
world. | recall at other eXposl-
tions how the Palace Of hlectri-
city stood as the threshold OF a
new age upon which industrial
life was entering; not far away
were located other exhibits of APP
pllances which electricity h 8
now almost supplanted. SO | can
foresee the Palace Of the World S
Peace lifted above the blue water
Of San Francisco Bay, while be-.
fore it the nayies OF the world
shall maneuver and thunder. And
when the exhibition OF the world !
old game of saa-fighting shall be
finished, the shadow Of Mount
TamalpaiS shall creep down a.
cross the array OF battleshiIs, and
The afternoon sun that turns the
Ocean Of Peace to gold shall flash
newer and better message from
the falrest towers OF the Exposi-
ton city.
Inherently, the Panama-Pacif
Exposition is a celebration Of the
leSsening OF distance i'm one world
instance the overcoming, in fur
Their, of the wrongs Of nature, as
some one has put it. The Panama
Canal will form, in my opinion,
the least of the things to be cele-
brated. Great as is that achivc-
ment in the history of the world I
commerce in the record Of man
bodybuilding across the globe, |
the Exposition must express
hundred avenues of communities
ton more wonderful, more signi-
lleant. The paradox of shortening
a fixed distance by the shorten
ing OF time necessary to bridge it
will prove to be the vital ele-
ment in the 1915 Exposition of
material progress just as the in
stitution OF peace viii dominate
the exposition Of moral advance
Transportation and communica-
ton, the tremendous twin agents
of world acquaintance, are active
figures in the human drama to-
day. They must dominate the Ex-
position of 1915. And back Of,
them and above them, may be
seen to stand a third figure,
combination OF the two, but ethe-
realized and as yet mystical, be-
longing to an era of human pro-
gress hardly foreshadowed. The
pathway of this force we scarcely
know. What will the Exposition
tell us of them2 What will we
learn of the ability of man to talk
around the world unaided by ma {
terial conductors of sound? What {
will be limited to us of the posi- !
bllity of seeing around the world |
while we listen to the messages c
the world sends us2 Who will t
come forward at this congress of !
.he world s wizards to make each
)ne of us an individual wireless $
station for communication with t
he rest of mankind Stranger a
Kings have been dreamed before S
,ther eXposltions. $