FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1936
VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON
PAGE THREE
in a full sized tunnel,
Dean Allen Writes I apparatus
or a complete submarine sawed
I open so that every part can be
It contains three plan­
About Germany I studied.
etariums, one showing the uni­
(Editor’s Note) This is one of
several articles written for this
newspaper by Eric W. Allen,
dean of the University of Ore­
gon school of Journalism who
is now traveling in Europe on
a fellowship granted by the Ob-
erlander Trust of the Karl
Shurz memorial foundation.
By Eric W. Allen
Dean of the University of Oregon
School of Journalism
MUNICH— A kind of educa­
tional institution much resorted
to in Germany, but which the
writer has never seen or heard
of elsewhere—and he has been
around quite a bit, at that— is
what might be called (in an
irreverent mood) a press-the-but-
ton museum. But do not let the
flippant name deceive the read­
er—he must think of a great
building larger and more expen­
sive than the new capitol now
probably beginning ( it is to be
hoped) to go up at Salem.
We saw our first at Dresden.
It was a great white building
in a park almost as big as Gov-
e r n o r
Martin’s
“Candelaria
Heights”. From end to end, from
top to bottom, it was devoted to
the single subject of hygiene.
When one gets through it, one
probably knows almost as much
about how the human body works
as does Dean Dillehunt.
In these museums the signs do
not say “hands off,” or “don’t
touch”; instead they read “press
button here,” or “turn lever slow­
ly to right,” or “put on a clean
mouthpiece and blow in this
tube.” Then when one presses or
twists or blows things begin to
happen. Here the artificial heart
begins to pump blood through its
four ventricles and the lungs
and capillaries, all in the right
order. There you can adjust the
right levers and watch (and hear)
the vocal organs pronounce the
different
vowels
and
conso­
nants. Here one can measure
his own adaptability for with­
standing fatigue, or test the
strength of his grip or the cap­
acity of his lungs. There he
can see how the liver or the
kidneys work. The final exhibit
is the famous transparent man
(semi-opaque) within whom one
organ after another glows with
electric light while at the same
moment the name of the organ
appears on the pedestal.
But the real honeyboy of these
museums we did not see until
we got to Munich. The reader
will think I am lying, but here
goes: The Deutsches Museum was
begun in 1903 and took 26 years
to build and equip. The exhibit
department has a floor space of
nine acres. It has 65.000 exhib­
its. To tfalk through the rooms
carried one 15 kilometers, or
nine and one-tenth miles. It has
341 exhibit rooms and some of
them are very large, containing
such objects as airplanes, loco­
motives, full-size tunnel boring
verse as the Ptolomaic astrono­
mers understood it, one as Coper­
nicus understood it, while the
third is the original of which
Chicago and New York planet­
ariums are copies. It costs one
mark to enter the museum one,
or two marks to go in as often
as one desires. The library (shel­
ves for 1,000,000 volumes), the
lecture halls (largest seats 2,-
000), the administration, and the
large storage and restaurant de­
partments are all in addition to
the above figures.
Today was Sunday and the
nine acres were swarming with
people of all ages. Small boys
(tough on machinery in any
country) were jerking on levers
to send water through turbines,
swinging electric fans on their
pivots to see how half a dozen
kinds of ancient and modern
windmills worked, sending rail­
road trains through tunnels, snap­
ping on Roetgen rays, x-rays,
neon lights in half a dozen dif­
ferent colors, and learning the
laws of perspective, reflection,
triple expansion engines, Diesel
engines, volcanoes, earthquakes,
household illumination, artesian
wells, weather predicting, city
planning, navigation, interview­
ing each other by television and
having a grand time with what is
probably the most expensive and
most educational toy in the
world..
But even the wisest scientist
would find much to learn in this
museum. And the historian would
get a conception of history far
less silly than the -account of how
various generals happened to win
battles. Almost every one of the
innumerable
departments goes
back to how the thing wa3 hand­
led in prehistoric times among
the lake dwellers, the Toltecs,
the primitive Egyptians, or the
Neanderthal men. (Neanderthal
is not far from here). For in­
stance in chemistry, there were
rooms showing in a splendid and
striking way how the old al­
chemist worked trying to make
gold out of baser metals, then
coming down step by step to
■modern times. It was a shock to
the old grad to see a typical col­
lege laboratory such as he work­
ed in when he was young ex­
hibited along with the alchemist’s
cell as something out of date and
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Counting picture galleries as
museums there are 29 museums
in Munich (about the same as
Vienna). Of these, I imagine the
Deutsches Museum appeals about
least to the feminine soul—the
ladies I saw there looked rather
nonplussed and lost and my own
intelligent wife thought about
two miles a fair enough sample
—but the men and boys eat it
up. The fifteen year old boy in
cur party is hopeful of going
through it from room 1 to room
341, without skipping anything.
It will be some time before he
gets to exhibit number 64,999.
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