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Show i WE SAW THE FAIR (EDITOR'S NOTE) In the last two Issues of the paper have been run a series of notes covering our trip to Chicago and part of the fair. For the benefit ben-efit of those who may have been interested in following these notes, we offer the following account of the balance of the Fair and our trip back to Duchesne. THE FAIR: The Century of Progress has been 'ably-described; by .many-different writers in as many styles. Much can be said however, and still leave the story very much untold.-One of the impressions I got so forcibly was that whoever the visitor might be, whatever his likes or tastes, the Fair delivered the goods. A mathematician could spend days in the wing of the Hall of Science devoted to that study, and see and learn something new all the time. A medical student would never have to leave that section to spend days of interesting study. A student of science could watch and ' study more interesting experiments than the average mind can easily imagine, im-agine, and so on down the line, while plain rubber-necks, like we were, just couldn't begin to absorb the countless exhibits and demonstrations demon-strations open to us. There was the Travel and Transport Tran-sport Bldg. with its immense "breathing dome" suspended on cables rather than resting on supports sup-ports to allow unobstructed floor space, where we saw among other exhibits "one of the Wright Bros.' first planes contrasted to one of the Immense passenger transport ships of today; one of the oldest railroad locomotives ever put into use compared ' with the modern electric- locomotive and the new stream-lined aluminum trains shortly to be in common use. There was the Hall of Religion where a miniture model of the Salt Lake Tabernacle and an ardent ard-ent missionary expounding . the faith and principles of the L. D. , S. Church were receiving a large share of attention. There; was the General Motors Bldg. where a complete automobile automob-ile assembly line had been installed install-ed in accord with the entire ' scheme of the Century of Progress, which was to show, wherever . possible, the progress in methods more than merely finished products. pro-ducts. Here, every process in the building of a car was explained to us by radio while we watched the actual work before us. There was the Federal Bldg. where we saw the modern press, which prints those much talked of "greenbacks", in action and which we could contrast and compare to the original Guttenberg press, now nearly three centuries old. . There was the Midway with its scores of side-shows and fun-houses, fun-houses, where more frivolous whims could be quicply and thoroughly thor-oughly satisfied. There was the Belgian Village where merely stepping . throuh a gate in a stone wall transporting one from a world of modern architecture arch-itecture and color, to the quiet (Continued on Page Six) WE SAW THE FAIR (Continued from page 1) peaceful streets of a quaint old world village. And there was the sky-ride in a rocket-car suspended from cables between two 200 foot towers on opposite sides of the lagoon. We took this ride our last night at the Fair and had presented to us the whole glorious three and one-half miles of tho Lake front which is the Century of Progress. Color! Blues! Greens! Reds! and yellows! Colors on the buildings, colors in the fountains in the Lagon, constantly con-stantly changing and blending, color in the very skies, a gorgeous 'Aurora Borealls spreading over the building housing the Electrical Groups. A thrill long to be remembered, re-membered, this last complete picture from the sky of the Century Cent-ury of " Progress where twenty-two twenty-two million people have been awed and thrilled, have learned and made marry and have walked the estimated 83 miles required to see the Fair. Our trip home was hasty and direct, starting directly from the Chicago stock yards, where we took an interesting ".visitor's tour" .through one of the leading packing TRlanVs, where a hog is butchered, 'dressed and cut into hams and bacohV almost as quickly as the guidebaiv-explain It to you. Highway N 33 wasv our route home, lefltS3nly(for a-short distance. dist-ance. tha& we - mighty go through Des Moinesyand spind V night with the Carl Kohls. IAlays drive from CWcagotoDulthesne with only approximately 100 miles oi unpaved highway until Ve reached reach-ed Heber. Cloudy as te left Chicago, bright and sunny hrough Iowa, Nebraska and Eastewv Wy omlng and a Bnow blizzard through v Western Wyoming and into fytahO |