Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02
Government
Exhibits.

L
| the plans for the govern
Government ment exhibits at the Pana-
| r-l:h:A. ma-Pacific nDt national
exposi ion. to be heio N
San Francisco In 1915. President WI son
has named q government exhibit board.
composed OF Assistant Secretary AdoIph
C. Mi Ter Of the Interior Department, Dr..
8 W. Stratton head Of the bureau OF
| standards. and DR. Frank Lamson-Sc. ID
| ner of the bureau Of plant industry
James c. Boykin. chief Of the edi, orial di-
Wis on Of the bureau OF education and
one of the most experienced men in the
government service IN work on govern
| ment exhibits for world fairs, has been
| selected as assistant to the members OF
the exhibit board
| Assistant Secre airy Miller. who is chair
man of he board. has worked out IRE
| lim.nary Plans Tor the exhib I. and the
| officials with whom he has talked believe
that the ,, coming exposition in San Fran
| CISCO will have what will be the most
| Original government exhibit which ha,
| ever been brought together at q wo. Id )
| fair, and perhaps the most extensive.
| The last Congress appropriated $5OJ OO'
! for the purpose of insta ling maintain
! ing and returning the var Gus govern
| ment exhibits which will be assemb! led
| and shown at the Panama Pacific fair.
In outlining some of the features Of the
cove nments exhibit at the Panama-Pa-
cific International exposition Chairman
| Miller. who Is a native Californian, ha
| called attention to the natural advan-
| tages of San Francisco for some of the
| most important exhib Is. Many of thes
| natural advantages will not ony make
1t poss BILE for the government to brins
| togethe- an exhibit which will be inter
| esting in every way. but because of them
| 1t will also be possible % econom 70
| greatly in the QXnQn6fu q nf RI
! install and maintain the exhibits In fact.
| for some Of the exhibits 1t will be pos
| sible to provide for them at an exceed
in"ly small extra cost
| The naval exhibit Is one instance in
| which saving will be made because of
| San Franciscos natural advantages. In
| many parts of the country there are
| thousands of people who have never seen
/ fairs held inland 1t has been necess airy
| to construct an imitation battleship on
the water front at the expense of thou
! sands Of dollars. which at the best was
| only poor imitation OF the real thing.
| In San Francisco 1t will be possible to
show visitors through modern dread
| nought which Is not faxed In any re-
spect. and which Is ready to steam out
i of the Golden Gate into the Pacific on
moments notice If 4 were needed for
sea duty. The same applies to the real
/ exhibits Of disappearing guns At come
fairs either large models have had to
be installed at great expense or the
/ guns had to he shipped and put up and
then dismounted and freighted back to
the place where they were borrowed. At
San Francisco the people will be shown
the disappearing guns used In the actual
coast defense on the Pacific, max ng 1t
| possible for all visitors TO study the real
| equipment Of the army In guarding the
| nations coasts.
| And so throughout all parts of the ex-
position In which the government is in
terested the attempt will be to make the
exnib is just as realistic as Is possible.
and to show the visitors the actual work
Ing conditions under which Uncle Sam
carries on the nations business. The
natural advantages at San Francisco
Will benefit many of the other branches
Commerce Interior and Agriculture viii,
profit almost as the Navy and War De
partments Many government exh bits.
of course. will be suitable only for show
ing Indoors. and these will be placed in
the buildings in which other related ex-
| hi its are located.
There has been no provision made at
the San Francisco expos ton for CEN
trail government building. and the like
lihood is that none will be needed under
the present plan. 1t is expected that all
of the bureaus will complete plans for
their exhibits in the next six months.
and that the actual work of preparat on
Will be finished by the end of the summer
Of 1914 and be ready In plenty of time
for the opening Of the exposition in Feb
ruary. 1915.
Few taxpayers in American cities
realize the great advances which have
been made In organized
School health work in their publi>
u: schoo during the past ten
J6Aee' or twelve years. according
to Dr. Ernest Bryant Hoag. director of
schoo. hygiene for the Minnesota board OF
health. DR.. Hoag has just completed
for the United states bureau OIL educa-
ton a study of organized health WORK
in the pubic schools, the report of wnicu
will soon be published. The Minnesota
man asrees with Ur. Leonard +. Ayres,
another school h, siene expert, that tn
I'm .ruvemen. dur,ns recent Yeas N the
healIn supervision OF s.noo. children Is d
ueve. op...ent w..noul parallel N MIS-
tory euuCdIlon.
Only elgnl c..4es in America had an,
or. ai,lAeu heaiL., WOrh whatsoever an
sCnuO.S IN toO0. Sin.e tina. .i.ue more
LndA tUU have Ufka..iAeu d. paII-
| I,-i.s iur nea.tn SUPERVISION vi
Scnooi Children. AS .aIe l.VJ no
AneIican school hau ever nearu Oh a
s.nooi nurse, lor no city III tne EN-
piOS eu one, Oul tOudS uCdl y <AAAACA Id
.ltles "a sLAoUI nuiS~o
pea lnanent parts or t.ieir euu.d.
| ior.es, and nlo.e tHdn HaiA Il n.ai~reA
| cues e4.4p.oS ata.ls oI scnuOi LeiI.is.S.
, Co.Anlen,.no fui.ner On the recent au-
.An.es IN UisauiAed meath Wurk III
s.LvU.s, Lr. t1voo ,sayS:
"A lew Yeas uSo the pubic schools
mace no provision Aof me euuCaS-0n
| Lne DiAl.d. Crippled Ur men.a.i, uS..c.cn.,
Dut Al .>e" Uih c.IJ dAo..e d.. (
| mvfe lnan 1Uv lOf .lAen .a.Iy pe
| c.l.al In--urcn, wlA.e IA a.ioei..en.s d.
rap.o-y nldAiAe tor the ~r.pricu
Calpeu Gnilufen.
the hrst op.n-air scnooi tor luDercu.uus
tCoay such schools may be found In some
thing over forty cities. The Special study
of the mentally deficient child has en-
gagged the attention of publ.c school edu-
Gators for a period of less than three
years. but at present plans are rapidly
making in many progressive towns and
| cities for the careful study OF such chill
dren by the en- pIoyment of exact psyche
logical methods. All these facts indicate
that the physit al care of chi dren is IN
gaging the attention OF the serous-nind
ed schoolmen Yet. while all these facts
are interesting and significant 1t must
| rot be forgotten that no uniform methods
o. health organization in schools have
| been evolved. and that there still exist
| the most widely divergent beliefs and
practices in this respect
Health work in schools needs standard
| izat,on The experiences Of cities already
orcanized in school health matters GU ght