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Show When East Meets' West. :r ' The.East needs an introduction to the Middle k. itolh the East and the Middle West need an introduction to the Far East, . . The New Englander needs to know Salt Lake and the. people of Zion '. need to know the ruritans.v This introduction is going go-ing to be made, formally and informally yon may lake your choice this year, " 'and ; the Lewis "and Clafk exposition at Portland,'jOr., will be the introduced intro-duced This exposition; which ill open "June 1, will be juseful in many ways, trat in no way will it.be more useful .to Americans than Jn. making the far-;' far-;' divided sections of this great '.country. acquainted 'witfi each other. What does the man who lives in Augusta on the Kennebec, " for instance, know " about the man whose home is at Salem on the Willamette? Wil-lamette? Between San Francisco and New York stretch 3000 miles of territory,'and the middle does rot know the end3, nor do the ends have proper acquaintance ac-quaintance with each other. , ; The exposition at Portland will "bring together both ends and the middle and'jhake them mutually acquainted. The East ought to know more about the West than the West knows' about the Eastor Easterners travel in the West more than Westerners travel in the East; but somehow these touring East-t East-t rners do not seem to diffuse their knowledge of the West when they return home. Or perhaps the home-staying home-staying Easterners Tef use to believe, that their " trave"l-wise neighbors tell them of the West, because ome of those tales are tallish, so to speak, and ap- - pear unbelievable to the eye of the conservative Easterner. . . . ' ' On the other hand, the East has gained a mighty misconception; of the West" by placing credence in tales entirely too tail for the proper stature of truth tnd veracity. The "wild and woolly" Wesf is the only West which much of the East wots of. The - amed and tranquil West they refuse to believe in, and thev entertain also, in some-quarters, a notion : that the West is incapable of complete civilization. The exposhion at Portland will;do much toward riving the East a proper attitude of appreciation to-1 to-1 ' wardthe .West; The thousands of Easterners who will take advantage of the reduced railroad rates and attend the exposition, see the Western, country umd-its people, study conditions and take notice of achievements, will return home with minds cleared. of verVmuch "haziness that has beclouded them by reason of the acceptance of fictional caricatures a gospel fact. They will find all through the great in-termountain in-termountain region" and along the Eacifid coast a civilization far advanced splendid cities with sky-fcerapers, sky-fcerapers, church spires, public libraries, universities . of learning, and' telephones! t It is related that a Boston woman who visited St. Louislast year, was amazed to learn that the telephone, was in general use throughout that city. What will be her astonishment to find in Portland ' not only the telephone that taiks, but the telephone that sees? At the1 Lewis and Clark exposition a device de-vice wherebv one! talking through a telephone may ibee the reflected features of the person at the other entf of the line will be exhibited in practical opera-' opera-' ' tion for the first time in public; and strange to state it is the invention of a Portland man. . The East and. the West will become acquainted at Portland. - This will clear up many misconceptions misconcep-tions on each side and will serve the stronger to cement the several sections of our land. . |