White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-09-21

operators. AS result thousands OF
injuries are avoided in this industry
alone. The U. s. Bureau of Standards
exhibit (Which happened to be IN
charge Of Reed classmate OF my
brother's) showed how the high quality
Of government purchases is insured py
thorough tests of samples Of all ma
terials. If the service Of the Bureau
were extended, and If shoddy, worth
less, and overpriced brands Of produce
offered on the open market could be
tested and rated, the public could be
saved hundreds Of millions per year.
The Department Of Labor had silly
exhibit of model Of worker and his
family riding a little go-devn up q
spiral path, Higher Wages and Shorter
Hours, to the summit, Higher Stan
dard Of Living. At the top the whole
outfit fell down hole in the middle
maybe to represent the Great Crash
We decided that the go-devil must
represent bit Of cosmos, but I thought
1t would have been better to have the
worker pushing the go-devil-he doesn't
have any one to exploit.
The Social Science Building was
dismal failure to me. It should have
been Of particular interest, to me, but
had expected nothing, and I wasn't
disappointed. Social Sciences don't ex-
hibit well in the first place--the ma
terial the economist or student Of poll
tics works with is in the library, In the
U. S. census, in the mills, in the Gary
slums, and so on. But in any case 1t IS
precisely in the field Of social organiza-
ton that there has been no net adj
vance in historic times. It is just this
failure to organize human society on
rational and humane basis that has de-
prived our technical advance of the
Significance it otherwise should have
had
There is little to say about Science
and Electricity. The Science exhibits
are mostly ingenious contraptions IL
Illustrating the application of principles
discovered in the 18th century When
the Babylonians invented the wheel
they made discovery more funda-
lmental than any made in the last two
centuries with the significant exception
of Farraday's work on electromagnetic
induction. Nevertheless, the Science
and Electricity groups were fascinating
i I saw nothing at the Fair that i'm
pressed me as much as the Egyptian
Hall at the Oriental Institute (Univer-
sity of Chicago). Fifty seven centuries
ago they lived, these craftsmen II
|stone and wood and glass and clay
vet what remains of their civilization
makes one wonder if they did not
achieve in the ordering of their Lives
| a grace and dignity that somehow
eludes us in spite of our fine plumbing
Even their everyday utensils are per.
fectly proportioned and faultlessly ex.
ecuted, often they chose the hardes
rock for vases and urrs, bowls ant
platters. All reveal the same fine sens
of proportion and the same meticulou
workmanship. The stoneware usual,
has natural high color and often I
sort of natural design, the pottery the.
decorated with tableaux in the earle,
periods, and onventionalized design
later. But only first hand observation
can convey any idea of the superio
, quality of their work, whether il
, wooden furniture or in cosmetic jar
or in sculpture.
The whole trip was grand success
for me; but the things that stant
, out wildly in my mind are the Orienta