Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1915-07-16


worlds great nations at the Pana-
ma Pacific exposition t would be
difficult indeed to select an ex-
hibit. or group of exhibits, as rep
resenting the most noteworthy
contribution to progress within
the last decade, or, in fact. within
the last one hundred years. From
the viewpoint of uniform ad-
vancement in science and indus
try the past ten years is account
ed by high authorities as among
the most remarkable decades in
the history Of the world. Among
the tens of thousands of displays
there are many that are revolu-
tionary, even startling, in their
character, but so varied are the
developments of the present day
that to pronounce one phase of
the worlds activity as more note
worthy than another is task be-
' yOHo human VlSlOus
Yet if one inquiries what strik-
ing epoch does the Exposition
represent, what flaming progress
i does this giant exposition predi-
cate, the best answer is, perhaps,
that it forshadows an era of mar
velous FORMS of intercommunica
| ton and of transportation. Since
i the exposition opened, on Febru-
ary 10th, the first telephone mes
sage across the continent passed
between Mayor Mitchell of New
York and Mayor Rolph of San
Francisco. The conversation was
made possible by many improve.
ments in electrical installation,
one of the Improvements being
the marvellous audion ampli6e,
) which relays telephone messages
; Many electrical experts are of the
opionion that it is only question
Of time, and, possibly, of a yer,
: short time. when men will be able
to utilize the wireless for the lone
distance telephone. The utility
= of the present long distance tele
phone passes the bounds of com
prehension. 1t is one of the i'm
portant discoveries since man ha
been upon tie earth.
I At the time of the great expo
: siticn in St. Louis the aeroplan'
4 was comparatively new to th'
; world, and yet in the brief spac'
E cf ten years the aerial motor ha
u become tremendous agent il
the most fearful conflict eve
i waged. Since the Louisiana Pur
:. !. chase exposition the utility of tn
automobile has been developed
. until its is today tremendou
factor in the industrial life of tn
country. The era of the motor
+ truck is here and it, too, is for
;. midable agent in warfare. Thru
:. out the nation the automobile
becoming a part of the railroad
!. Automobile freight and passen
= ger lines are serving as feeder
- to the railroads. bringing other
- - wise remote country districts int
direct touch with the world
markets. OF such vast irnportanc
is the motor truck industry that
is given recognition by separat
e building at the exposition.
In the domain of education tn
II world has advanced as rapidly
d Children are taught more an
l. more to think and to execute 70
themselves. In art America
e painters are producing wor'
l. which in the opinion of notabl
7, critics, will bear favorable com
par;son with the many mastc.
e pieces of the old world. Blu
i, there is another form Of art whic!
finds distinct expression in the ex
y position. Indeed. several of tn
greatest American and Eurcoea
Y art critics declare that there is re
IS vealed in San Francisco the brit
5 Of new ideal in American arr
ts The revolution exists in the expo
l. sition itself, in the wonderful CO
ordination of its architecture
sculpture and LANDSCAPES and, on
n might also add, in the coordina
# ton Of two other notable fea
lures, that of the night illunina