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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA. ITTAH When you buy a car on credit When you buy a General Motors car on'eredit, you may be sure that fthe purchase plan is as dependable as the car itself. The purchase plan offered by General Motors dealers is another way by which you secure greatest value for every dollar you spend for a General Motors car. . By ELMO SCOTT WATSON The General Motors line is a complete line "a car for every purse and purpose. And under the GMAC Plan, purchase may be arranged according to the circumstances and the historian of the future looks back upon the year 102(5, It la possible that the most significant event connected with that year which marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the winning TIEN 'V American independence will not he the Resqulcentennlal exposition u(. Philadelphia nor any of the numerous local, state and national celebrations with their parades, pngeants, gatlierlngs of patriotic citizens, gpeechnmktng and unveiling of monuments, but the publication of a set of Iiut A strong statement that, perhaps. books look at The Pageant of America, published In commemoration of the sesipilcentennlal of American Independence by ttie Yale University Press, and see If you still think this an overstatement! This article Is not a "book review." It Is the story of a new kind of exploring expedition, of an adventure in American history. It Is a story of a fine piece of patriotic enterprise undertaken by an American university, the story of a brilliant achievement by a group of scholars whose perseverance and devotion to their task matched the bold Imagination which conceived the Idea of their quest, an achievement of which all Americans can be proud. When the North pole and the South pole were finally reached It seemed that the possibilities for exploring hitherto unvtslted spots on the globe were definitely ended. Then man's curiosity turned to the past, to vanished peop es and vanished cultures so that the explorer could return from some distant corner of the earth and exhibit to us stay avid for new thrills, his trophies of an ancient day. During the last few years Egypt, Mongolia, Yucutnn and- - South America have been yielding up their treasures of the distant past, and modern photography and newspaper Illustrations have made the objects of use und art of these ancient peoples as familiar to ttie average Amerlcun as the articles life. of Ills every-daFive years ago the Yale University Press was truck with the Idea that ten generations of Americans who have preceded the present one on this continent have them a great mass of Interesting objects and pictorial records of scenes with which the Amerlcun of today Is totally unfamiliar. What then could he more Interesting to us than to reveal to us our own This is the GMAC Plan, operated by a member of the General Motors family. It combines sound credit practice with very low cost. assured income of individual buyers. Any General Motors dealer will be glad to explain the GMAC Plan. 1 eft-behind antiquities? So the Press set out upon Its exploring expedition" with the sanction nnd under the supervision of the Yale university councils committee on publications. Ralph Ilenry tlabrlel of the history department of that Institution was selected for editor. With him were associated members of the Tale and other faculties. Ilenry Jones Ford nnd Ilnrry Morgan Ayres were made associate editors; Oliver McKee, assistant editor; Charles M. Andrews, Herbert E. Bolton, Irving N. Countryman, William E. Dodd, Dixon Ryan Fox, Allen Johnson, William Bennett Munro, Victor 11. Paltslts, Arthur M. Schteslnger and Nathanlal W. Stephenson, advisory editors, nnd Davis M. Mntteson, Indexer. To their aid was summoned a group of brilliant writers and a staff of historical Investigators and the work began. The object of the expedition" was to discover material of aH sorts which would enable them to present in pictorial form a historical record which any person, even the Immigrant who has not yet learned the tongue of his adopted country, could read and see for himself the onward sweeping march of lean progress In every phase of American life. From the beginning It was realized that Amer loan history goes back much farther than that October day in 1402 when Columbus set foot on the soli of the New world, that the discovery of America wns but an Incident In the discovery of of A -- la nnd that to Illustrate the background American history It was necessary to find pictures which would show the Influence In Europe as fur back as the time of Carpiui nnd Marco lolo. So the earliest dated picture In the Pageant D a page from the Latin mnnuseript of Adam of Bremen, written In the Eleventh century, In whith the first mention of V'nland Is made. This manuscript was located in the Staats Bibllothek at Vienna, Austria. It Is typlcnl of the wide range of research necea-acrThe for the success of the undertaking. libraries of Europe, of Canada nnd of Mexico v ce ransacked for forgotten objects and pictures. T be quest for material took the research workers to every possible source In the 43 states of the Union, to private collections, government collections, historical societies, state libraries, museums, art galleries, learned societies, Institutes, religious nnd educational Institutions, municipal collections and archives and dealers' collections. In every case only authentic pictures were accepted and many of these are reproduced for the first time. An example of this Is the portrait of Focahontas, perhaps the most noted Indian woman In history, which Is one of the Illustrations for this article. The photographic reproduction of TPOCA&OlT&JjS this authentic portrait, made by special arrangement with the present owner, who lives In England, has never been reproduced until It appeared In the Pageant. When even the most exhaustive research disclosed the fact that no authentic picture, portraying an important point In our national history, existed, iiti original drawing was prepared either by Harry A. Ogden or C. V. Jeffreys, both distinguished historical artists. Three of the pictures which accompany this article The Cones- the tide of American toga Wagon, expansion rolled westward, "Pilgrims Learning .to Fertilize With Fish," the earliest example of scientific agriculture and "Threshing Wheat In Colonial Days" all by Mr. Jeffreys, are examples of this special work. Even more striking Is the fact that Mr. Ogden took two and a half, yours to prepare a series of seventeen pages of Illustrations depleting In color approximately 210 examples of the uniforms worn by officers and men in the army und navy through all the wars, as 'well as the uniforms of their opponents. This alone cost more than $0,000, but Represents a fund of historical information which has never before been available to historians and writers. With more than 10,000 authenticated pictures as the basis, publication of The Pageant of America" was then begun in fifteen volumes, each with approximately G.r0 Illustrations and 00,000 words of text. Although the Pageant Is a pictorial history, It Is not a history in pictures alone. Each volume begins with an essay or oiuline In which the historical development to be pictured Is swiftly and graphically described. Each chapter deals with a group of pictures In sequence with hort introductions and short captions under the picture which tie together the plcfUreiT In 'the presentation of the main topic an Illustrated "running story," as It were. In which In keeping with the dignity and Importance of the subject matter Is the craftsmanship which went Into making these books: Special paper, s Instead of printing the pictures from from electrotypes made from halftones and running the presses at half speed In order to Insure an evenness of Impression all contribute to marking an epoch In the art of bookmaking. The fact that history Is more than a record of war and politics was never more strikingly illustrated than It is In "The Pageant of America. Every phase of American activity Is represented. Agriculture, commerce, Industry, religion, education, the fine arts, literature, architecture, the drama and sports all are Included In the scope half-tone- 'wISmI stfS&vr GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION (from Orffthat fkiniirtf) NT' y cj THRESHING WHEAT IN COLONIAL DAYS Drawn for the Pageant of America by C. W. Jeffreys from accounts left by John Bordley of Maryland, one of the pioneers of American agriculture. Thia drawing Illustrate the unique method of threshing grain on the Bordley plantation. operating the of the work and all contribute to a faithful presentation of the origin, struggles and achievements of a great people woven Into a rich tapestry of great deeds. Tlie titles of the volumes Indicate the comprehensive nature of the series and the names of the men and women responsible for the Individual volumes Is sufficient evidence that here Is an authentic Interpretation of America. Volume one, Adventurers in the Wilderness," Is by Clark Wlssler, curator of the division of anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History and a noted writer on the subject of the American Indian ; Constance Lindsay Skinner, historian, novelist and playwright, and William Wood, author and military and naval historian. It deals with the native American before the coming of the white man, the Colonization of America by different European countries down to the time of the conflict for mastery In the New world. Volume two, "The Lure of the Frontier, by Ralph Henry Gabriel, associate professor of history at Yale, tells of the 'westward push of our pioneers until the wilderness ha3 been conquered. Irofe'ssor" Gabriel Is also the author of Volume three, Tollers of Land and Sea which Is the epic of the farmer, the plow following the march of the pioneer. The fisheries Industry Is subordinated to agriculture In this book but, it presents an adequate record of tlie harvesters of the sea. To Malcolm Keir, professor of economics afDart-mout- h college and a noted author on economic subjects, fell the responsibility for volumes four nnd five, The March of Commerce. and The Epic of Industry." The names are and these two volumes no less than the others present a marvelous panorama of Amer- CHEVROLET The titles of theTemaInIng volumes of the series speak for themselves. The American Spirit In Letters, by Stanley Thomas Williams, assistant professor of English at Yale; The American Spirit In Art," by Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., Marquand professor of art and archeology at Princeton university; Charles Rufus Morey of the same Institution, nnd William James HenderThe American son, music critic and author; Spirit In Architecture," by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, architect, author and lecturer; The American Stage, by Montrose Jonas Moses, editor and dramatic critic, and "Annals of American Sport,'1 by Charles Pike Sawyer, newspaper man, critic and author all complete the picture of American life as It has beet, through the centuries and as It Is today. Plan for the purchase of PONTIAC - OAKLAND ' BUICK '' ican life. Volume six, "The Winning of Freedom, by William Wood, has a special interest at this time because It is the record of the forces which brought on the struggle for Independence and of that struggle itself, the sesqulcentennial of which we are celebrating this year. Included In this volume also Is the pictorial record of the War of 1812 and the Mexican wnr and In volume seven, "In Defense of Liberty," Mr. Wood takes up the theme of our military history at the opening of the conflict between the states and carries It down through the World war. In volume eight, "Builders of the Republic, the Pageant turns from wars alarms to political history, which Frederic Austin Ogg, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, surveys from colonial days to the opening of the Civil war. John Spencer Bassett, professor of history at Smith college, then takes up the theme In volume nine, "Makers of a New eNatlwn, and carries It down to the present time. 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