The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
conservation
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WORLDS FAIR
INTERESTING TO
LOVER OF OPEN
Indiana Mural Display Is
Deep Mystery to
Legionnaires.
BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS
Times Special Writer

Times Special Writer
You may not find conversation of
natural resources rampant at the
Century Of Progress, especially out
along the midway with its highly
commercialized joints and nudist
hangouts where they make no effort
to conserve anything, but with a
nose trained to follow the trail of
the outdoofs you will have no
difficulty in locating conservancy
projects in every important build
ing.
With group Of Legionnaires and
their wives from widely scattered
points in the United States, I had
the opportunity convention week to
prowl through the government
buildings on the Island and absorb
some of the mass reaction to vari-
Gus things they witnessed
The New York members led the
way to their exhibit and acted the
tpart of host. Giant engagements
of actual photographs taken in
their beautiful state stopped the
whole party for moment.
Represents Mountains
Two dens placed back of the main
exhibit displayed transparencies of
some of the finest of the New
York's scenes and led the party to
the back door cleverly selected to
overlook Lake Michigan through a
dense forest of conifers in which a
clear stream of water bounced and
Sparkled.
This represented very realistic
miniature Adirondack mountain
park. The murmured "ohs" and
"ahs" of the women indicated to
the husbands that they would like
to spend their second honeymoon
somewhere in the Adirondacks.
California was magnificent. No
where, even in Washington, D. c.,
where the boys have a reputation
of spending money on such luxurieS,
will you find better typographical
map. In full relief it portrayed all
of San Francisco and environs I
believe every building, down to the
last doghouse, is carved on that
map. And there is standing room
only in this exhibit.
Smell of Ozarks
Missouri smelled of the Ozarks.
! The huge room in the rear of the
general exhibit is given over to the
outdoors. A large waterfall drops
in a miniature Niagara among the
rough stones, carloads of them
brought in from the headwaters of
the old Gasconade. We voted Mis-
souri, a palm and no one blew as
much as one toot on his razz whistle
when we left the place.
Minnesota with her great open
spaces epitomized and concentrated
into the few allotted square feet of
her exhibit left no one in doubt
about her conservation program.
Tales of the big fish and the camp
fire made it hard to move the group
out to the corridor of the states.
Michigan smelled of the woods.
They moved the living trees into
their space. Graceful deer and fur
animals set off the distant vistaS of
lakelandS. This is how Michigan
draws $300,0O0,O00 in tourist trade
within her borders every year.
See Indiana Building
"Well, Indiana, here is your state,
you lead the way, Big Conserva-
zionist, and do your stuff"
This happy declaration from the
legion helped me push open the
door and lead the crowd into the
beautiful hall housing our claim to
distinction. There they gathered
and a hush fell over them. And
when you hush a group of legion
naires out on q frolic, brother, you
have accomplished something.
We stared at the figures on the
great mural that hung at neck
breaking angle on high, our pam
theon of achievement, the aggregate
gods of our people.
Face Tough Problem
Under bilious green balloon
shaped blobs of color representing
our sacred sycamore, little boys,
suffering from elephantiac feet,
sported in Rileys old swimmin' hole.
We sat on the old park benches as
hard as the problem before us.
People love puzzles and mys-
teries and I saw they were prepar-
ing to enjoy this one. One enter
prising lad from Texas finally made
out a middle aged party leading a
procession around monument that
we mistook for the Soldiers and
Sailors monument on the Circle.
IT think that looks like Collins
leading a gang of anti-pollutionists
down to the river" that is as far as
heard. I slipped around the cor
ner into the cubbyhole at the rear,
contemplated our horticultural ex-
hibit of one Chinese lettuce done
in ONYX a brief moment and went
over to the Planetarium where all
was dark. When it comes to joking
about my adopted state, can't
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