The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12

case Of some of Billy Sundays tab | ernacles.
 To dlgress a moment. let us con. 1 slider the great Columbian Exposition l in Chicago in 1893. It is held by sta | tisticians who made a study of the 1 subject that this exposition was worth ! in dollars and cents to the city of | Chicago at least one thousand mil l lions of dollars.
 1 The splendid temporary structures | which housed the exhibits there were | placed in one of the suburban parks 1 under the strictest contracts that l they were to be removed when the ] show closed. I have hot the figures | of those buildings, but it amounted to sum which staggers the imagina- l tion. This waste had been deliber- ately figured in advance, and the wantonness of it appears not to have 1 occurred to anybody.
 The same state of facts applied to l the exposition at St. Louis in 1904 where Birmingham had, by common consent, the most unique single ex- hibit. But the far-sighted officials of | the city secured provision in it's contracts with the exposition that l some of the palaces must be design | ed and built for permane ence, and to | become the property of the city as 1 compensation for use of the park. This | gave to St. Louis beautiful and com modious administration building for | it's university and an attractive art gallery for the housing of it's valu- able collections of paintings and sculpture.
 A curious and interesting fact for the people of Birmingham to remem- Der is this: the iron statue of Vulcan which this city set up there and which was cast by MT. McWane in his foundry here. will last as long as | has the memory of the Colossus Of Rhodes. This unique souvenir of the | Louisiana Purchase exposition is l practically indestructible by time or l the elements, and when it is rightly set up upon it's permanent site will stand as reminder of that memo - rable celebration and as the silent prophet of Birmingham future for untold ages to come.e
 Now the design for the Birmingham | exposition is an improvement upon the St. Louis idea in that it makes the | entire plant a permanent fixture and asset which is to be used for a defi- 1 nite, beneficent purpose for as many | generations as Birmingham and the state of. Alabama continue upon the map.
 This article Is to deal exclusively with the exposition. And the writer has been invited by the editor of the Age e-Herald to furnish data on the | proposed colossus of George Wash ington which is to form the central ! feature of the entire plant; and of the permanent uses to which the establishment is to be devoted after the close of the exposition which is 10 last Tor approximately one year. Conditions in United States The ITnitpd Ctathc ava | of imperfect civilization and at s period when the nations are recover Ing from q stupendous upheavsl. pre- senfs the nearest approach to human brotherhood and racial amity which mankind has ever known Here we have half hundred seperate. self governing states united under a fed eraI constitution which grants to all absolutely free intercourse and trade oL ireeaoin' Of free education, a free | ano untramme press, and many other blessings. These states arr peopied by representatives of pra~- ucally every race on the globe, They all dwell together in peace and har- mony. They are usually contented ana prosperous, safe in their persons 1 ana property as rule, and are free 40 40 come ana go as they N please | tnroughout the broad land with only sucn restrictions of law as prevent in lerierence with the rights of otbers
 It is now inconceivabie that anv conflict of interests or of passion l could bring about a serious distur. Dance betwen any two sections of the | repupIic. They all work for inc com. mon good. their interests are iden | tlcal, their aims lofty and patriotir Tn the main, and they know that an, uefect In the laws may be corrected | py peaceful methods, and that an, imperfections discovered in the syr. eell ieseir may be remedied by amend | ment or tho charter of their liberties The purpose then of Peace ny position at Birmingham would he TT communicate the peace which we on 1 Joy 10 all the nations of tho world | ana 10 show them how to sunnlv tbe principles which we have worked out successfully, to the end that every people may be as safe as we arc made, Just laws, and that the nations ma nation dwell. 'iN q. dhe Peace exposition would supply the means of communicatfnr tbis spirit to the nations through renre- sentatives of the various peoples who nave made their homes here ana through tho connection with this ex- position of other representatives of these nations who would only cone here temporarily. S0'e
 Varied Natienaiities
 IL IS estimated that there are about ioo distinct nationalities merged in the people of the United States. If is well known fact that there can be anu often is cooperation without Sthaisamation of races. The Cau- casian or white peoples are constitu- ttOnallX 0nnnSad ivx samation with the negroid or yellow races, and it is to be hoped for the advantage of the latter, as well as the former, that this established line Of demarcation may always be main tained. As President Harding said in his address here:
 Let the white man cultivate his ambition to be the best possible white man. the black man to be the best possible black man." and for the yellow man the same prescription. but that their admixtures could not result in benefits to any of them.
 Thus in the peace exposition there may be the fullest cooperation of the races, but nothing resembling ad- mixture.
 At least four score of distinct peo- pies maintain separate organizations in the United States. Through them the management of the exposition will be able to obtain much valuable cooperation, and, also, important financial support for this undertak- ing which will be dwelt upon more at length in later articles. These or ganizations are generally fraternal ir their character and without any specially harmful predilections, but few of them are extremely clan
 
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