Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-11 | Page 10 | Sees Maya Exhibit at San Diego Fair

SEES WIAYfl EXHIBIT III Si DIEGO El Utah Is getting splendid advertising through Its exhibits at the California expositions, In tho opinion of Judge J. A. Howell who has just returned from a -visit to the two big fairs. The exhibit ex-hibit In the Utah building at San Diego, Di-ego, he' said, was a particularly Interesting Inter-esting one. While at the San Diego exposition, the judge paid particular attention to the Maya exhibit, which he found of unusually great interest on account of tho great age of the articles which compose It. "The paintings, sculpture and architecture," he said, "are marvelous mar-velous creations and the wonder of all who gaze upon them at the exposition, expo-sition, particularly as they flout the theory that the first evidences of civilization civ-ilization were to be found on tho continents con-tinents of Europe and Asia. When the Maya race passed mto extinction, it left no key to the hieroglyphics and inscriptions carved into the stone that forms the basic part of its architecture, archi-tecture, and the task of interpreting them has been given up by archaelogo-Ists archaelogo-Ists as hopeless. "In all my experience on the coast I did not see anything that interested me more than this exhibit It certainly cer-tainly was unique and represented more from a historical viewpoint than any of the creations designed to depict de-pict a story involving the principle of evolution.