Milford chronicle., 1927-07-22
ATLANTIC CITY EDUCATES
ITS SUMMER VISITORS


Board Walk at Atlantic City. Every
one has seen an exposition and a
fair. They last week, or maybe on
ly a day, but at Atlantic City the
show never stops, and no matter
when you go there you involuntary
stop, look and listen, and behold the
marvels which the big industries
have added to the parade. Atlantic
City is the ideal show place, and the
investment pays in future results.
Fashions, bathing, bridge, poker,
golf, tennis and the flighty-tighty
foibles are an old story. Rolling
chairs are an institution. But the big
industrial demonstration along the
Board Walk is, after all, the thing
that gets under ones skin, and fur
nishes the final argument that makes
all this commotion, stir and activi-
ty worth while, even Independent of
the fun that there is to be had out of
visiting Americas greatest seashore
resort.
Within the space of a mile or two
along the Atlantic City Board Walk
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industrial exposition. 1t is a show
that demonstrates the triumphs of
chemistry and manufacturing. 1t
pays! Whether you use the pallid
paper sticks, known as cigarettes, or
whether you hold them incontempt,
you are none the less amazed at the
marvellous piece-machine that turns
them out by the millions. And you
wonder why anyone ever put up
sign admonishing you to turn out
the lights" when the General Motors
and other great concerns amass
thousands of lights in single dis
play nightly. Industry on parade at
Atlantic City demonstrates its wares
by showing you its Remington, I'm
derwood and Smith typewriters in
sizes big and strong enough for the
use of a Goliah or a Samson. The
General Electric, Westinghouse, the
National City Bank of New York, the
demonstrators of fashions, the MAX
ers of clothes, and the manufactur-
ers of top-notch commodities join
in the great industrial parade. The
pivotal center in these displays is
found at the headquarters of "Am-
ericas Great Chemical Industry"
and the visitor is interested to find
that it is the house of the du Points,
whose names have long been asso-
ciated with explosives. But here
they appear as industrial leaders in
the fields of peace. Americas Great
Chemical Industry" shows off at its
very best in it's triumphs of rain
coats, it's suit cases and trunks,
transparent wrappers for toilet
goods and candy boxes, and with its
variety of plastic pyralin articles.
Duco, dyes, cellulose-and sub
stances and solutions that the mas
ter chemists have been able to pro-
duce because the du Points spend ST.
100000 annually in chemical re-
search, make up a show that is am
azing. There is a kinship of pro-
ducts that runs all the way from
shell rim spectacles to window
shades that can be washed with soap
and water, and fabriokoid that is
taking the place of leather. Then
there is the wonderful rayon which
is rapidly replacing the use of silk.
Along the Board Walk the parade
goes. In it are daughters of Mary
and Martha, and the sons of the
rich and the poor, just as these ex-
tremes in human beings have exist
ed down through all the ages. Those
who have come out of Americas
melting pot all look pretty good, on
foot, in rolling chairs, bathing suits,
knickerS, and short skirts-the long
skirts of yester-year are gone. The
conglomeration of citizens is con-
stantly going up and down, and
show in which industry is on parade,
a la grandei
It has long been a tradition in
American politics that the farmer
is the most important single unit in
the development of sound democracy.
But now it is beginning to appear
that the farmer is also key to
world peace and the development of
good will in international relations.
The League of Nations is now. lay
ing great stress on the education of
agricultural population in the funda-
mentals of the world affairs, and a
recent report to the League on
American philanthropy in eastern
Europe asserts that "the most i'm
portant part of the educational work
of the Near East Relief is in its
agricultural schools and farm de-
monstration centers."
In studying the work of these
American schools for the peasants
of Armenia and Greece, the Leagues
observer states that this education
al program is probably the soundest
possible way of creating in the
minds of any people a recognition
of the international brotherhood of
man. Educating the upper strata in
any country is not enough, this was
the primary cause of the failure of
the Greek and Roman Empires.
American philanthropy, in its work
in Europe and Asia, has recognized
that education is effective only as it
reaches every class of the populat-
ion.
A great majority of the graduates
from the American schools in Ar
menia and Greece go into the agri-
cultural pursuits of theinr countries.
Therefore every child is required to
become familiar with the element
ary processes of producing food and
the necessitie of life. The children
are not trained to become white
collar" men and women. They are
not educated out of their envioron-
ment This is new and sane de-
velopment in education, which will
be watched with keen interest by
students of the international affairs
the world over.