The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-23
CALIFORNIA'S EXPOSITION


queer form of sea life, new order
of devil fish or giant crustecea.
Their first cousin, the Whitehead tor
pedo, on an adjoining rack, might
pass in turn for an armored por-
poise. The sailor who explains its
deadly functions also shows how it
is discharged from model subma-
rine and dispenses general informa-
tion concerning fifty and odd models
that cover every type of vessel in
the American Navy. Then in a gil
gantic cyclorama, you may watch the
gradual development of the navy
from the Bon Homme Richard" of
Paul Jones to the latest dreadnought.
In stately procession a century of
ships passes before the eye, and
further information may be gained
in free moving picture theatre--one
of the seventy of the ground--where-
in drills of all arms and naval evo-
lutions are thrown upon the screen.
There are other things, of course,
hundreds of them, all equally inta-
resting. Indeed, one might spend
a whole day with this particular ex-
hibit without beginning to exhaust
its possibilities. Here | can touch
only few high spots.
Tho
ICES this exhibit, is also maintained
in all of the government displays in
other buildings. 1t may be stated
as fact that in all the eighty thou
sand exhibits, few surpass in volume
and none in general interest those
of Uncle Sam. When you see how
thorough Uncle Sam really is, you
are proud to be an American. In the
mining building all roads lead to
the mint, where exposition souvenir
medals are put through all the pro-
cesses of regular coinage from the
rolling of the hot metal into ingots
to the final weighing and counting
by delicate machines.
In the government forestry exhibit
a large model shows how the forest is
are utilized for the best advantage
of the people at large. Looking
down upon it as though from a cap
tive balloon, you see the trails,
roads, meadows and pleasure parks,
fish farms in the exact proportions
that exist in the national reserves,
the number Of people who live in
them, cattle and sheep, 100000
of them in the pasture, the paper
and lumber industries carried on
therein, all set down on an accom-
panying chart to oe taken in at a
glance. A second model shows three
aspects of the same piece of forestry
In the center is virgin forest, on one
side the same tract improperly log
ged; trees cut high above the ground
wasting the stump, slivered stumps
that ruined twenty feet of the butt
log, young trees smashed or broken
completely down by careless telling
brush left scattered around inviting
fire, and all other abuses of CONNER
cial numbering. On the opposite side
the third section displays the same
tract properly logged; trees cut off
level with the ground, logs neatly
piled on sideways, brush heaped up
ready for burning with the first
rains, no smashed trees; a fruitful
object lesson that will have its re-
suits in a more intelligent ballot
when forest legislation is again in
question.
OF equal interest is the display o.
Public Health Service, with it's real
istic models that show you and me
and neighbor Jones in our fields or
houses, the manner in which we give
and take diseases to and from each
other. The typhoid carrier" is
shown at it's deadly work; likewise
the careless housewife who waited
upon her typhoid husband and cook
ed between times, for a dozen board
ers. Needless to state the result.
Models of sanitary and insanitary
schools teach their own particular
lesson; and charts show how the
seepage from sewer slid down
slanting strata Of water bearing gray
ell and gave typhoid to a whole com
munity that used water from a cased
well nearly quarter of mile away.
Then there are the stuffed rats
that carry the fleas, which carry the
germs that give the bubonic plague
and Asiatic cholera and while Won
observe them with horror your glance
travels on to models of rat-proof
houses, docks, ships, mills. You
won't get the plague if Uncle Sam
can help it and forever after You
will help him by casting your vote
against the rat. The mosquito must