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le x a s C entennial's rocket-ride; but
lln-re Is no novelty in holding a
fair. Always it has been " fa ir”
w eather som ew here in the world,
since Chinese tribesm en began to
congregate at some convenient
crossroads 3,000 years ago, when
trad e really m eant trad e and busi­
ness was on the b a rte r standard.
Ancient G reeks and their Rom an
im itators held periodic fairs g a r­
nished with gam es and som e reli­
WHEN GOD HAS MADE US F R E E
gious trim m ings
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Ui«pUy of Cartwheel M aker a t M anchukuoan F a ir.
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■Ctption committee. an<l m au-
j 'Jit (Silt Unit1'1! State* »•*-
t a the world's bum per c ro p
I, After the Trxa* C en ten n ial
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C t packin* for Jaunt# to
. Ohio, and J o t; .•.:•••• burg.
| Africa.
^4 tr.;t it t: • t.rst v. -rid'»
[’la**, the United State» ha»
i hippy hunt.ng uround f'<r
kopoiition*. P h ilad elp h ia.
I tad San Diego h av e ea c h
St Loui» had one. New
I Sin Fr»nci*co have both
ldate for the.r »«•< n<l. Iihi9.
I criebrtUon* »re (.*•' >rning
1 sort of birthday p a rty
national an niver*a-
• Philadelphia C entennial in
; the world'» a c tiv iU c t
l to the front door of a
| hat one hundred y e a rs in-
The Columbian Expo-
Ifc Chicago in 1893 v.,ia in-
] h A mt Columbu* th a t he
| ace the half of it when he
1 America 400 year» be-
1907 the eflvctiveneaa of
IctlaiiiaUon of this c o u n try
“liyed by the Ja m e sto w n
1 Tercentenary. The young
irit wavering w e stw a rd
tr* recalled In the L ou isian a
(Centennial In St. Loui» In
1 Portland'* (Oregon) cele-
c of the Lewi* and C lark ex-
t* hundredth an n iv ersary in
*«th contributed to the
U1« fair festivities with Die
BP® «Position it Atlanta
! ®* Tennessee C e n te n n ia l
» * 11 Nashv.I!.- in 1897. and
l l M C*T0lm* Intcr*tate and
F®*» «position at Charles-
i f 2 Sei,u« »a* " a t hom e"
| ^ po“tjon in honor of Alaska,
»nd the Pacific coa»t In
C ? *!"* the United State*
I k ' Wor,d* i;,ir habit,
h t l L °ne 81 lhc
| Wj ' "^en the P an am a
f c h j Ï nedL ‘n 19U' 00 0n*
Ifct in * hundr,-d year» for
» simmer down Into a
l sût w thal ,orm “Uty wa»
°CCa,ion
wa»
lin e lmportan‘ exposl-
0 S*n ^ » n c iic o and in
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Aftrr ‘he War
ripened"t*'USia,m for fa lri
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whi' h «P-
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- »avc Its
! Sesquicen-
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hundredth
K " ’ 10 » h S k , everyone
!• « e h 1 everyone
ee
» In ia^"L back the “! follow-
fol)
« i , ? * Sa" Diego ex-
N cei!^ Unced “ -----.
long with
ï ï î ? Uon» ‘nA Arkansas,
[P»st Ü È ^ H le ld , Mass,
well be
for it
gaudy
from
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the an c ie n t fam ily tre e of the tra d i­
tional tra d e fair. This new and
dazzling e ra began In 18S1 with
th a t g ra n d daddy of fa irs In the
m o d ern m an n er, the London C rys­
ta l P a la c e exhibition, officially
opened by Q ueen V ictoria and
P rin c e A lb e rt Since then, m any
crow ned h ead s and p resid en ts have
seized such opportunities to com ­
bine official business with seeing
the sight«.
A fter London sta rte d the w orld's
fa ir fever, It sp re ad through E u­
rope and N orth A m erica with
am azin g ra p id ity , with Isolated
ca ses croppl: ' up all over the world
from M elbourne, A ustralia, to Se­
ville, Spain. W ithin 83 y e a rs P aris
has h ad seven im p o rtan t expositions
and re p o rts an o th er planned for
1937, estab lish in g a world record
for w o rld 's fairs. London follows,
with a sco re of five It is often diffi­
cult to decide w hether a busy in­
d u stria l exposition or a big centen­
nial c e le b ratio n is a w orld's fair.
T h ere a re few set rules for play­
ing the exposition gam e, although
an in te rn a tio n a l a g reem en t on the
su b ject h as been discussed and
stau d in g co m m itte es exist in m ost
E u ro p ean countries. A lm ost any oc­
casion now is considered legitim ate
excuse for a w o rld 's fair. Rio de
J a n e iro stag ed one to ce le b rate the
ce n te n a ry of B razilian Independ­
ence in 1922, A ntw erp to com m em o­
ra te B elgium ’s cen tu ry of inde­
pendence in 1930, and B russels in
honor of the ce n te n ary of Belgian
ra ilro a d s In 1933.
T ra n sp o rta tio n 's Big P a rt
Indeed, the la tte r seem s sym bolic
of the tendency of the 83 y ears of
fa irs —aw ay from the early arts
and c ra fts and tow ard the accom ­
plish m en ts of science, especially in
the se rv ic e of tran sp o rta tio n . In
1851 the only tra n sp o rta tio n exhibit
sen t to the exposition from the
U nited S ta te s was an artificial leg!
But a t the C hicugo C entennial in
1933 34 m odes of tra n sp o rta tio n con­
stitu ted a m ore extensive display
than did the exhibit of any one state
or nation. T h ere Is no wonder, how­
ever, th a t fa irs recognize tra n sp o r­
tation as Im portant, since fa irs are
becom ing b ig g er and b e tte r and
m ore freq u en t largely because of
the e a se w ith which they can be
reach ed .
T he w o rld 's fa ir today, with its
bew ildering m ix tu re of am usem ent,
education and co m m ercialism , is
so m etim es h a rd to distinguish from
its m o re w orkaday relative, the in­
te rn a tio n a l tra d e exposition for a d ­
v ertisin g purposes, such ns the In­
te rn a tio n a l P etro leu m exposition in
T ulsa, Okla. The w orld's fa ir is a
sp o ra d ic celebration, how ever, and
thus differs from tho perennial in­
d u stria l exhibition, like those of the
B ritish In d u strie s fa ir held sim ul­
taneously In London and B irm ing­
h am ev e ry y e a r since 1915, and the
I.clpzlg fa irs w hich have been land­
m a rk s of in te rn a tio n a l tra d e for
700 y e a rs an d a re now considered
the o ld est and la rg e st of the hardy
peren n ials.
E a c h fa ir offers a novelty of some
sort, like London’s original C rystal
P aln ce, C hicago’s cam el ride In
1893 aojj It# sky-ride In 1933, or the
In M edieval Tim es
Shrewd m edieval European m e r­
chants reaped the rew ards of virtue
when they all Journeyed to their
n ea rest religious ce n te r—and set
up booths for a fair during a church
festival. So general was this p ra c ­
tice th at some languages com bined
the word 'f a i r " with th at for
"church serv ice." The hiring of
servants and the settlem ent of m a r­
riage contracts were transactions
no m ore out of place on prim itive
m edieval m idw ays than the ex ­
change of cattle or the sale of
horses. Incidental m errym aking be­
cam e such a substantial factor th at
it soon set up In business for itself,
prim ly differentiated with the term ,
"p leasu re fa ir." One of these, the
St. B artholom ew 's F air, was abol­
ished in London only as late as
1928. England retains trac es of
m any prim itive fairs, such as Goose
F a ir and Onion F air, while develop­
ing the m ore m odern trad e show
to a high degree of specialization,
from the annual exhibition of B rit­
ish product» to an international a u ­
dience with 80 different potential
language m arkets, to the re stric ted |
Antique D ealer*’ F a ir or the E x ­
hibition of Acetylene, Oxy-Acety-
Icne, and Allied Industries.
The old-fashioned fa ir to which
products were brought, sold, and
carted away now is being replaced
by the m odem exhibition which is
sim ply a huge sam ple case, where
potential buyers m ake choices but
not purchases. Such are the fairs
which have m ade traveling buyers
thrive where the vanishing traveling
salesm en once flourished, around
such international com m ercial cen­
ters as Leipzig. Lyons, Basle. P r a ­
ha. and Nizhni Novgorod in Russia.
The great Hindu m ark e t at Hurd-
w ar in India is less advanced.
The w orld's fair, no m a tte r how
frivolous, brings profit to its ex ­
hibitors by w hetting the public’s ap ­
petite for com m odities to be bought
later. One novelty introduced at the
Philadelphia C entennial in 1876
was Dr. A lexander G rah am B ell's
curious m achine called the tele­
phone, which carried voices across
em pty space for some distance but
seem ed to the fair-goers too fan­
tastic to am ount to much.
Expositions have set the style for
everything from jew elry to hotel
facades. The Chicago C olum bian e x ­
position of 1893 was responsible for
an epidem ic of pseudo-G recian
architecture which supplanted the
brownstone front throughout t h e
United States until 1915, when the
Moorish-Spanish buildings of the
San Diego and the San F ran cisco
fairs started a wave of low stra w ­
berry stucco stru ctu res topped with
red-brown tiles. The Eiffel Tower,
at the P aris exposition of 1889,
served as a calling ca rd for the
steel construction which la te r cam e
to stay, in m odern skyscrapers.
Style tides turned again In 1925
when tho P aris Exhibition of Mod­
ern D ecorative and Industrial Arts
popularized diagonal lines and non­
pictorial designs on everything
from kitchen stoves to m irrors,
and again when the P a ris Colonial
exhibition of 1931 created a vogue
for wooden buttons and heavy jew ­
elry copied from colonial natives.
The G iant M onitor
The e a rth 's giants, like the huge
Komodo dragon, seem to be handi­
capped by their g re at size in the
age-old struggle for survival. The
giant m onitor is largely carniver-
ous, feeding on m eat and eggs.
His num bers seem to have d im ­
inished while sm aller lizards m u lti­
plied. The size of the giant b etray s
him to his enem ies, and the m oni­
to r fam ily has a ra th e r foolish d e­
fense when attacked. The m onitor,
zoologists say. is ap t to roll over
on his back and put the toe# of
his hind foot io hi#
I N A fine serm on a p ro m in en t
A m in ister tried to point out to his
congregation th eir high resp o n sib il­
ities, by telling them th a t God m ad e
m en and women free. We a re free,
he said, to p u rsue the highest d esti­
ny. b ecause God m ade us free.
And it seem s to m e th at the w ords
arc like a gust of fresh a ir a d m it­
ted to a stuffy room . They a re like
the sound of beautiful m usic to one
who has long been deafened. F o r
they in ject into the rush and tu r­
m oil of our daily living a som ething
th a t m ak es us stop a m o m en t and
listen and feel and think.
God m ad e m en and wom en free,
but do we keep ourselves free?
T hat is the thought those w ords im ­
pel.
F o r civilization h as forged
shackles into which m an y of us too
willingly place ourselves.
S om ew hat beyond th e control of
m an y of us, of course, a re the
sh ack les of the fight for existence.
B ut m an y m o re of us a re volun­
ta rily en slav ed who can n o t point
to th is necessity . T h ere is, for in
stan ce, no en slav e m en t so hopeless
as the p u rsu it of p leasu re, for which
m an y w om en give up th e ir fre e ­
dom for grow th and satisfac tio n and
happ in ess. And th e re a re the petty
little sh ack les of m o d em life which
prove stro n g enough to rob m any
people of th e ir freedom . T hey a re
such sh ack les as "W h at will people
say?”
"K eep in g up w ith the
Jo n e se s”
"O th ers a re doing—
"T h e things I m u st h a v e .”
W hat a p ity to su b m it to such
sh ackles, to p e rm it o u rselv es to be
held down—w hen G od m ad e us
ree.
C B ell S y n d i c a t e — W .NC S ervice.
BEDTIME STORY
By T H O R N T O N W. BURGESS'
JE R R Y IS F IL L E D WITH
DISTRUST
th a t he did not go n e a r th ese places.
B illy M ink would h av e found a way
to g et all those good things to e a t
S JE R R Y MUSKRAT lay in his w ithout g ettin g into one of the
L * bod, safe in his house, n u rsin g tra p s, b u t J e r r y p re fe rre d to tak e
his S ire tad , he had tim e to do a no chan ces. He sim p ly k ep t aw ay
lot of thinking, and he did do a lot from those p laces. T hose pieces of
of thinking. He thought of how day c a rro t an d apple w ere a te rrib le
afte r day he h ad found all those tem p tatio n , b u t he co n ten ted h im ­
good things to e a t a t e a c h of his self w ith his re g u la r food and tried
favorite ea tin g places, an d how to fo rg e t th a t th e re w ere such
there had not been one single thing th in g s as c a rro ts and apples. And
to m ake him suspicious. In fact, even when he w as h u n tin g for his
there had been ev ery th in g to tak e re g u la r food he w as all th e tim e
suspicion aw ay. He b eg an to u n ­ w atch in g out fo r tra p s. He w as so
d erstan d ju st w hat th a t tra p p e r h ad filled w ith d is tru s t th a t he took no
tried to do, and it seem ed to him joy in anything.
C T . W . B u rc e M — W N U S e rv ice .
th at nothing could possibly h av e
been m ore unfair.
Gondola# Were in Use in
"H e tried to m ak e m e think hn
Sixteenth Century Day#
was m y frie n d .” thought J e r ry .
"H e knew th a t if I had the le a st
G ondolas a re first m entioned in
suspicion th a t he w a sn 't m y friend, an E lev e n th ce n tu ry docum ent, and
I would be w atching for tra p s . So by th e S ix teen th c e n tu ry co m p eti­
he preten d ed th a t he w as m y frien d tion am o n g th e ir ow ners in Venice
and he b ro u g h t all those nice had becom e so fierce th a t the city
things to m e to e a t so th a t I would h ad to s e t up a code of i a ir p ra c ­
tru st him . I did tru s t him , and he tices. In ste a d of being allow ed to
knew i t Then when he w as su re a ttr a c t p a sse n g e rs by th e b rig h t
th at I w ouldn't su sp ect h im of do­ colors on th e ir b o ats th e gondo­
ing such a thing he set th a t aw ful lie rs w ere s u m m a rily o rd e red to
tra p for m e. I'll n ev e r tru s t a n y ­ p ain t ev e ry th in g black, and black
body again! I n ever, n ev e r will! the gondolas h av e re m a in e d to this
It's aw ful to d is tru s t everybody, b u t d ay, o b serv es a w rite r in th e Los
Angeles T im es.
afte r this I'll ju s t h ave to .”
The second fe a tu re of gondolas,
So J e r ry M u sk rat w as filled w ith
th
e
p e c u lia r ra is e d prow of iron,
d istru st. He had been so v ery h ap ­
py th ere in the Sm iling Pool for so h as a double purpose. I t se rv e s to
long th a t now life seem ed h ard ly help b alan c e th e w eight of the gon­
worth while. T here w as no h ap p i­ d olier in th e s te m , aryl it also p re­
ness in it. You see, he felt th a t not ven ts his try in g to p a ss un d er
only could he no longer tru s t those b rid g es too low to le t th e lit­
who seem ed to be his friends, b u t tle cab in of th e v essel p ass.
E v en though V enice is b u ilt on
he was suspicious of ev erything. He
no longer d ared to freely clim b out 117 sm a ll islan d s and even though
of his fav o rite places along the one o rd in a rily th in k s of g etting
bank. He wa3 even suspicious of ab o u t it by w a te r, it is possible to
the Big Rock. The only place w here explore th e city on fo o t It h as
he felt absolutely safe was rig h t in­ about 400 brid g es, and m an y of the
c a n als a re lined w ith stre e ts. The
side his own house.
But of course he couldn’t stay in m ain co m p lain t of the e x p lo re r on
his own house all the tim e, b ecau se foot is th a t he is fo rev er com ing to
ho had to eat. Of course. E v e ry ­ a b lan k w all o r a can al, b u t he is
body has to eat. Then, too. he h ad co m p en sated by the fa c t th a t the
a lot of work y et to do on th a t house shops a re to be found on these
stree ts.
of his to m ak e it re ad y for w in­
ter. This m ean t th a t he h ad to
BUCKS AND KICKS
trav e l around consid erab ly to get
his food and to get the m a te ria l for
his house. But now he n ev e r w ent
ashore w ithout first looking w ith
the g re a te s t ca re for signs of a
trap.
One of the first things he did a fte r
he got through nu rsin g his so re tail
w as to go to each of th e p laces
w here th a t tra p p e r had p u t good
things to eat. He w ent th ere, not
to get those good things, b u t to find
"W h at kin d of a n engine have
out If th ere w ere tra p s th e re as you in y o u r c a r ? ”
th ere h ad been on th e old log. He
'A donkey engine, I guess. I t ’#
found a tra p a t each p lace. A fter
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