Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-05-24
|bIC EXPOSITION REVEALS WORK OF
 GOVERNMENT
Display Characterizes Amer ica Turning from War to
 Peaceful Pursuits.

Washington, May .23.-"Thc world now turns from the brutalities of killing men to the one thing for which the world was made-the making of men. We fought that we might live, that our ideals might have a free soil in which to grow. And with en- thusiasm and renewed courage we now turn to those enterprises and ef- forts which we recognize as the norm- al life of a civilized people"
 With these words, Franklin h.. Lane, secretary of the department of the interior, Monday started in mo- tion the machinery of the most com- plete exposition of governmental ac- tivities in Washington. The exposi- tion is educational in character and is for the purpose of illustrating the varied activities of the Department of the Interior, the part its techni- cal experts played in war work and it's two most noteworthy plans in re- construcion-the Americanization and the farms-for- soldiers movements.
 Symbol of Democracy.
 Mir. Lane continued: "To mark the dividing line between the days of war and those of peace this exposition has been created. It is more than a pre- sentation of the daily doings of those who work in this department. It is a symbol of a Demorcary's life. The soldier and sailor are to fall to the rear and in their stead are to advance the engineer and the farmer, the chemist and the miner, the inventor and the teacher.
 Ut is true that we proudly display here what this civilian department was enabled to do to aid in the con- duct of the war. We made gases more deadly than any which other nations had produced. We sought and found new gas by which the rigid airship could be made against explosion and flame. We set the American Indian at work to save the starving Belgians. The training of the geologist in Alaska and Montana was put to use in the planning for trenches in France. There was no single bureau of this most peaceful of departments which did not make it's contribution.
 Flag Has 2669 Stars.
 Before our door for now nearly two years has swung our flag of service. Each week it's figures have mounted until now that faded en- blem of loyalty carries 2669 stars. We have not changed it as sun and rain have dimmed the brilliant color of it's youth, for round it's edge there has steadily grown an ever enlarg- ing border of those golden stars of glory which group themselves natur- ally into a golden crown to the last ing honor of the department
 "Yet this exposition is l hope not so much one of proud retrospect as is is one of prouder promise. From one end of this corridor to the other you will at each step see evidence surprising evidence perhaps, that our land is only as yet in the making that our schools are many, but not as many as they should be, that they are good but not as good as they should be, that our children are strong, but not as robust as they should be- that our great national parks are already popular but not SC popular as they should be, that oul lands yieud richly but not so album dantly as they should, that our acres are many but are not held by as many farmers as should call them 'home', that our mines arc many ano prolific but not as safe as they should be, that our people are intelligent quick, purposeful, possibly beyond all other peoples, but that millions arc without the primary tools of life in this day of democracy and indus. trialism, the ability to read or write and this exposition is to reveal alone that these things are, but that theil overcoming constitutes part of the task to which we have set ourselves For the note of our work is hope.
 Art Typifies Times.
 You will find here three works o1 art to which would draw your at. tention. One is a miniature model o1