The Washington times., 1932-08-18

: cuRrRr sEIpEs place am going to visit But the
earth is large and they say)
round; vacations are for newspaper men, com
paratively short; and money, you must have heard,
is infrequent &c. for the farther edges of the world
take the travel and scenic pictures with pleasure
hope to get about bit STILL but fear that shall
never with my eyes see Siberian peasants making
If in round-the-world tour touch Siam, shall look
for elephants whe) and cats (cafeau-lait and sooty
PhiIippnes do not think shall co. For all of these
a movie suffices, and if the movie remained native,
would like it better That is to say, want the noise
of the natives and not the nolsemade by commenta
or who thinks himself witty and his wit Indispensable
Beware Of Tinbuctoo
I not very good at expositions either, my fate
being to arrive in most places after the exposition has
closed down philadelphia, Paris and Stockholm
among my MISSES so far) 1t is, therefore, only
guess my part that the gentlemen who prepar-
ing the big show for Chicago will have little to do with
the wonders of the natural world and it would
tainy be my advice to them that if they must have
Igoroes and Kamchatkans they sell space to these
terprising natives not commission, but flat rate
Some people will wander in to whether strange
peoples queer as they to be in the movies;
most of u.s. I suspect, won't whether they
not. Movie patrons be happy to travel to distant
but to have snatch of exotic life, after having
hours of it in the picture houses, can't much.
Virtue in the Past
If l running exposition now l should take
the idea of century of progress quite seriously and
bring to view the thing the movies hardly ever
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strangers more amusing to us than the sIedge of the
Eskimo the jnkrishka of the Japanese the sam
pan the junk The wall-set telephone is greater
novelty than the potters wheel of the Persans. |
would rather see replica of the home of farmer
in Vermont as in 1900 than look at Lapander
with thousand reindeer. Because the old things of
lifetime have passed from sight and are for
gotten whereas the distant things brought to your
eyes every day.
1t would be great fun (and mighty expensive and un
protabe) to do exposition which wouldn't be so sure
OF itself and would call itself not century of progress
but century of change leaving to the visitors about
hundred of them altogether, suppose) to Judge pri-
vately whether all this change progress or not
would hardly know what centenary to celebrate in 1892
the only event think remember for 1882 is the passage
of the Reform Bill in England which you might consider
the final establishment of democracy of Sort STILL
someone who invented machinery must have been born
in that and could combine democracy with science
and celebrate bothor vice versa-n my ideal exposition
No Sides Taken
It ought to be strictly impartial There ought to be
garbage in the streets of New York as Dickens saw it,
with scavenger pigs taking the place of whitewings)
and the opposite WALL the clean streets of our cities
nowadays, with little diagram on graft in municipal
administration and comparison of park space in our
day and in the past. We might have old canal boat
(beddng changed after five passengers had used it, and
modern transcOntinental bus with the balance sheets
of the railroads stuck up between the two exhibits We
might show Abe Lincoln compelled to study by the light
of woodre and the youth of today not compelled to
study at all by electric light We might show the sun
through window and artificial sunlight taking it's
place nearby.
We should have ample space to show how things have
growncities superstitions santatons medical science
avarlce lberaty, cockeyed economic deas-everythng
We really would have to have the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the Bill of Rights and show them with
movies-they exist-of political roting in the United
States and policemen having their fun with agtaors We
might find picture of the poverty of 1892 its drabnes
and hopeessness and set it next to the prosperity of
1882. save the mark, with night club breadline and
the big fun of an election to take minds from other
things
CHILD HURT IN FALL LAUNDRY TRUCK LOOTED
Twoyearold William Redfer Thieves yesterday looted an