The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-06-15

BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON
-1T7 HE gates are thrown open and
through them pour the thousands
Iley surge down broad thorough
fare-"fhe Avenue of Flags" where
M hundreds Of banners Of every col
N or, hung from "modernistica flag
WA STATS OF Kind you've never seen
hM before, stream In the wind that
/ WNNS1 blows from off Luke Michigan And
\ TNNVNN then the buildings and streets and
| lNVhAV avenues and terraces and gardens
MI and courts and lagoons that are
l cav Chicago's Century of Progress
S swallow them up and their places
are taken by other thousands who
fellow close behind
They are off upon a tour of the world-the
whole world spread out before their eyes with
In the space of 424 acres
Which foreign land will you visit first Mr.
and Mrs. American and Young America? Shall
1t be Argentina or Algeria, Mexico or Morocco
Guatemala or Czechoslovakia? From the hushed
solemnity Of the Golden Temple of Jehol, the
Chinese Lama temple where the Manchu EN-
nerors Worshiped Buddha and the other gods two
centuries ago, 1t Is but a step to a lively side
walk cafe In the Montmartre section of Paris
Would you prefer to be amused by dancing girls
Wresters, jugglers and sword fighters In d typ
ica Oriental street. or to watch the nimble
fingers of the handicraft artisans In Belgian
village made up Of transplanted portions Of
Client, Bruges and Malines? The world Is
your oyster Mr. and Mrs. American and Young
America All you have to do Is open 1T!
No thrill In visiting foreign lands, you say7
And you never liked geography In school, any
way? Then trip 'Farthest South by stepping
down into the hold Of the ship which Admiral
byrd sailed into the Antarctic may not thrill
you. But how about stepping into the bathy-
sphere In which Dr. William Beebe descended
200 feet beneath the waters of the sea- or
into this featherWeight aluminium globe In which
DR. August Picard assembled $4,000 feet into
the shakespeare? Certainly you can't say "Oh,
everybody goes THEREv"
IT A Century of Progress were "just another
worlds fair the foregoing might be representa-
tive of the whole world which 1t offers. But
there Is another world" which the visitor dis
covers here-the world of science and nven-
ton, the new world that has been created by
the ingenuity of mankind during his progress
of the past century. And this is the world which
offers the thrills, for unlike expositons Of the
past with the customary static rows of still
exhibits" Century Of Progress is show In
motion.
Movement action things In the process
OF making or being . Life That is the world
that Is unfolded before your eyes, One of the
most important things In making this possible
Is the diorama, small stage with a realistical-
~ painted background and three dimensional
actors built In perspective in the foreground.
Dioramas have been used for years In museums,
but here machines and chemical reagents take
the place Of stuffed animals. Molecules and
Ions perform for you. You "see" a radio wave
bringing you your favorte music the voice
OF your favorite comedian You stand In front
of one case and push lever two and under
your hand an earthquake is produced, geysers
spout boiling water and volcanoes belch forth
lava and gas. For moment you are god on
Mount Olympus
You stand before 1.-THE Transparent Man."
model Of the human body heroic In SIZE Your
eye possesses the penetrating power of x-rays
and you see the nervous, respiratory, circula-
tory, digestive and muscular systems in action.
You gaze upon cross-section of a twlg Ten
larged many times) and you see the cells In 1t
growing You are looking at Lifel
The history of the human race might be writ
ten In terms Of its means Of transportation. So
come down to this Greek theater on the shore
of the lake with Its triple stage including river
canal and deep-sea narbor front, as well as land