The chronicle=news., 1914-10-07
Bis San DIEGO
FAIR TO OPEN
SHORTLY


Three months from. today the San
Diego exposition VIII be opened to
the world. On this day occurs oc-
cnrs the formal opening OF the Pan
anna canal. whose completion is to be
celebrated by the two eXDOsitions at
San Francisco and San Diego. No
other event has been marked by two
celebrations of this sort. and no
other event has been OF such prime
importance to the country which is
celebrating. The striking feature of
the eXpositions is that they are cele-
brations not alone of something
which is completed and gone on, but
rather of something which is ahead;
they might be considered as herald
ing the mightier growth of the west
through presenting to the world the
opportunities the west offers.
Europe today is plunged in the
greatest war of all time, and in 1915
will not receive the 100000 Ameri-
each year Since those tourists can
not 30 to Europe they are coming.
beyond Il doubt, to the west coast.
and here they will see sights beside
which those of Europe and Asia and
Africa amount to little. No other
country in the world has the ma
iestic harmony of sea and canyons
and mountains and forests and val
leys beneath the clear blue sky of the
American west.
But it is more than scenic tour.
1t is n voyage of discovery for the
men of the east, who know nothing
of the opportunity that 1t awaiting
them on the coast. They know
vaguely that the canal will bring
the west coast much nearer the old
er cities OF the east and across the
Atlantic. They do not realize that
the hinterland of the west coast is
going to he opened up to industry
and commerce for the reason that
the railroads from the coast will car
ry traffic from the east over the
mountains. and from the back coun-
try ont to the coast and back to the
east again.
The great service OF the exposi-
tions will he to bring people through
the west country. 1t will be to show
them. what the west country offers
in the way of agricultural Develop
Ment. That is the prime reason for
the emphasis which the San Diego
exposition is laying upon its agricul-
tural teatures---the most important
agricultural exhibit which has ever
been held. Visitors to the worlds
fairs OF former years saw farming
machinery standing idle in a, great
nall of machinery, and paid little at
tenticn to IT because they could not
understand II fully. At San Diego
they will see this machinery, but 1t
will be at work in tract sOwn to
various grains and grasses. moving
up and down the rows. performing
just the same service II is supposed
tG perform on the great farms of tile
west or such an exhibit they will
have an understanding. They will
look long and they will remain long.
And those visitors to whom the oper-
ations of an so or 100 acre farm can
mean little. will also see the model
intensive farm down the Alameda,
where on five acres of land is grown
as much as on four or five times as
much space under old conditions.
The effort is to show that new ideas
have come about. and that today by
scientific methods the farmer can
support himself and his family cas-
lily. and lay aside considerable sur
plus annually from one of these
small tracts. 1t is a lesson of tre-
lhendous important to the city man
who has had little success and wants
to leave the city, but does not know