Arizona republican., 1918-08-12
Combined Exhibit Is Made to Tell People What Aid They Can Render Country During Her Hour of Need


 from beginning to end. It will be housed in the Mineral Building and there will be no charge to the display The joint committee on government exhibits, which acts for the various de- partments in adminstrating the dis plays and is headed as chairman by F. Lamson- Scribner, of the Department Of Agriculture, has contracted for the exhibits to be shown Simultaneously on five circuits of approximately thir- ty-five state fairs and expositions from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
 To Inform tho People
 The government exhibits will have much to detain even the idly curious, but informing the people of govern ment work and of important aid which the public can render the government in the national crisis are the big aims. All exhibits are educational and those ot purely technical interest are rare ly used. Displays are the product of years of experience in exposition methods and every effort is made to visualize subjects in such manner that observers will be informed as well as entertained.
 every item in the exhibits would re- quire many words.
 War Show Will Please
 The War Department display can hardly fail to place Americans more closely in touch with their boys who are making more uneasy the heads that wear the crowns. There are Browning machine guns for infantry use 9nd Lewis machine guns of the aircraft type; mountain cannon that can be pulled to Alpine heights: figures clothed in regulation uniforms. includ- ! ing an aviators flying togs; rifles of the latest model used lover there" and wooden blocks showing penetration of the 'old and new bullets; complete equi"ment of the beloved "doughboy" and trench periscope though which he watches for friskiness on the part of the "tritzies;" gas masks that he dons when the Hun spreads his favor ite poison; the trench helmet that protects him and the hand grenades he hurls; the shovel with which ne digs trench and the pump that takes out the water
 To Tell the Rank
 Then there are models of the various kinds of tents used by the army. na- uonal and regimental colors in silk. storm and post flags, portable field wireless outfit. helioeraph instruments. | lanterns for night signaling. day and night rockets and signal flags.
 And If any American hasn't learned vet to distinguish a sergeant nrlior from brigadier general, he can do so rom boards which carry the insignia Of officers and the chevrons of en- listed men, with the wound and service chevrons authorized for officers and men serving in France.
 In the Navy Exhibit
 The navy display shows more of the tools that are making this world an unsafe place for international burglars. and also some rifles can. tured from German soldiers. The navy shows a depth charge of the kind whose bubbles of ten mean the end Tor the submarine pirate: maya mine and anchor. and big torpedo with it's truck. Projectiles of variou. sizes are accompanied by bombs tha airplanes drop. The clothing dispIa, includes some worn in winter weathe, by the boys aboard our submarines.
 Trumpets, drums, rifles, swords flags and pennants are some of tn, other things shown. But 1t is ex pected that nowhere will the crowds he thicker than around the models O modern battleships. dreadnoghts cruisers. destroyers and other vessel, that will be shown at all the fairs ar, expositions
 Producing Americas Food
 The scope of work of the Deparf ment of Agriculture is 50 wide and th quantity of its exhibit material is $ great that it's displays will vary in diff ferent sections of the country. but i every case they have been selected f . olinch some reason why America agricultural production must he in creased. and again increased. and [ show some of the numerous ways i which ft can be done These exhibit will not be for the farmer alone. The are for him first. but food productio has become the business and concer of everybody in America. and nearl everybody has come to know it.
 The weather bureau will show ho- It Is able to forecast storms. frosts an floods to protect agriculture. commerc and navigation
 The Meat Supply
 The bureau of animal industry wi show how to improve and increase th country's supplies of meat. milk an poultry. how it guards the health , the public and our soldiers and sailo, through it's meat inspection svsten and how to drive out the dnstructiy animal diseases that annually take toll of meat worth many millions , dollars That other great co ordinate branch Of the Department of Agrjcu lure. the bureau of rlant industry wi treat its field in the same ,,1anne with sDecial attention to methods , hettering and stimulating nlant rrt duction and eradicating plant di. eases.
 Broad features of forest sevice wo, are to be presented in popular ar striking for
 Distinctive exhibits of the bureau chemistry illustrate the enforcement the food and drugs act. production al preservation of food products, using tanning materials, production of colo and other chemical industries
 Feeding the Allies
 Samples of the soils that occur the United States. including some loc to the neighborhood of the particul exhibition, together with informant relating to their best use in farmir are among the bureau of soils di plays.
 Agriculture has been called the mo peaceful industry in the world. but is believed that the departments di plays will remove any question as efficient farming being absolutely ( sential as an effective war machine.
 But America must not feed it's alone. It must sustain millions of t citizens and fighting men of our vs iant allies. The food administrati, in it's exhibits, will drive that f; deep. Feature displays will be dc orative panels contributed by repl sentative American illustrators to lustrate twelve points in rece speech by Herbert Hoover, food a administrator.
 The purpose. scope and accomplis