Show HE WORLD 4 24 APA C ekok E S and a ole century in one day ra NIX W x 1 7 71 M ve 4 1 E q R ja Z by ELMO SCOTT WATSON t gates are thrown open and through them pour the thousands they surge down a broad thoroughfare t the ie avenue of flags where hundreds of banners of every color hung from modernistic flag stalls staffs of a kind youve never seen before stream in the wind that blows from off lake michigan and th then en the buildings and streets As and avenues an and t terraces e braces and gardens and courts nit and d lagoons that are Chi cagos A century of progress swallow them up tip and their places are taken by other thousands who follow cl close ose behind they are off upon a tour four of the world the whole world spread out before their eyes within the space of acres which foreign land will you sou visit lilt first mr air and mrs american and young america shall it be argentina or algeria mexico or morocco guatemala or czechoslovakia prom from the alie hushed solemnity of the golden temple of dehol the chinese lama temple whore where the manchu emperors worshiped buddha and the other gods two centuries ago it Is but a step to a lively liely sidewalk cafe in the montmartre section of carls would you prefer to he be amused by dancing girls wrestlers wrest lers jugglers and sword fighters in a typical oriental street or to watch the nimble fingers of the handicraft artisans artl sins in a belgian Itel glan village lalage made up of transplanted portions of abent obent bruges and mallner Mall nei the world Is your jour oyster ouster mr and mrs american and young america all you have to do Is open it 1 I no thrill in visiting foreign lands you say and you never liked geography in school anyway then a trip farthest south by stepping down into the hold of 0 the alp phlp which admiral ayrd palled into the antarctic may not thrill you jou hut but how about stepping into the bathysphere in which dr william beebe descended 2 2200 aw feet beneath the waters of the sea or into this featherweight aluminum globe in which dr august Ilc caril ascended feet feel into the stratosphere certainly you ou cant say oh everybody ever body goes therel mitEl Ti if A century of progress were just another worlds fair the foregoing might be representative of the whole world which it offers hut but there Is another world which the visitor discovers here the world of science and invention the new world that has been created by the ingenuity of mankind during his progress of the past century and this Is the world which offers the he thrills for unlike expositions of tile past with the customary static rows of still exhibits A century centura of progress Is a show in motion movement action things in the process of making or being life I 1 that la Is the world hat Is unfolded before your our eyes cies one of the most important things in making this possible lb Is the diorama a small stage with a realistically painted background and three dimensional actors built in it perspective in the foreground dioramas have been used for years airs in museums but here machines and chemical reagents ole the place of stuffed animals molecules and tons ions perform for you iou you see a radio wave brIt bringing ging you ou your favorite music or the voice of your favorite comedian you stand in front of one case tint and push puah a lever or two and under your hand an earthquake Is ID produced geysers spout boiling water and volcanoes belch forth lava javil and gas for a moment you are a god on mount olympus Olympu sl 1 you stand before the transparent man alan a model of the human body in size sire your eye possesses the penetrating power of X rays and you tae nervous respiratory circulatory digestive and muscular systems in action you gaze upon a cross section of a twig enlarged many times und and you see the cells in it growing you are arc looking at life the A lie history of the human race might be written writa iq terms of its menns of sa so come aown to this areek theater on the shore of the lako lake with its triple stage including river annal and deep sea harbor front ns as well na as land N I 1 7 1 11 pt 1 A part of the crowd of children who throng that five acre wonderland tho the enchanted island every day 2 replica of the golden temple of dehol seat eat of worship of the manchu emperors and the finest existing example of chinese lama architecture tec ture 3 bozo he livest lived he br breath eatheal esl he rollel and he is one of the many devices on the midway the city of a million lights which pro vide the thrills dizzy turns flops and spins for amusement seekers 4 robot the mechanical man who can do almost anything a real man can after you press a button to start himl 5 inside the log walls of fort dearborn from this little palisades ded fortification of a century and a quarter ago grew a modern city of more than three million people 6 young americas dream realized realize dl what boy visualized himself actually running a real train here it Is something of a miniature it Is true but real nevertheless ii before you ou pass the pageant of travel rumbling ox curt conestoga Conc wagons stage stag c coach post clinese locomotives and railway cars of 0 every description a yankee clipper ship robert Ful tons uns the first automo automobiles blies the first birst pir airplane plane and the giant vehicles of land and sea and air of today tod ay iy you see a whole century of history pas passing sling in n review before you sou did you by chance drive your own car here do you sou know how many parts make up a modern automobile and what takes place under the hood to make it goi go in one place you ou see the whole process of making an automobile from the time the raw ore Is converted into steel until the shiny new car comes oft the assembly line movement action things in the process of making or being life 1 I the whole world in acres anil a hundred years in one day I 1 yes even more than a hundred years over here Is a wilding building from which alie 0 centuries look down upon you it Is the maya temple the famed nunnery at ux mal yucatan relic of a civilization that was old old old when hen columbus Colu robua touched the shores of north america and two minutes walk from this building with its fantastically carved caned walls walla and its brilliant colors ore are the houses in aich we may find ourselves living during the next few years steel houses glass houses house of building material of during an era of brick wood und and stone construction houses which are arc unlike any houses ever before con celled by man some day will a future great american be born in one of those houses as a great american was born in that log hut but which stands over there the replica of a famous dwelling place which once stood near hodgen ville ky come to the hall of social sciences and look upon another type of history social history the history of nn an american family it la Is a revolving stage first the colonial family appears the women are spinning weaving wearing drying fruits and meats while the children play at the work of their elders A screen descends and the family appears in a house which Is part of 0 a vi village linge a self sustaining community with church school and a courthouse out of the village leads a boggy road over which a horseman struggles with a stagecoach the stage revolves to show the family of 1033 city dwellers in fit an apartment house with telephone and radio cans on the shelf show the nature of the tha food supply outside one glimpses amusement houses parks schools and factories the boggy road has been replaced by the motor highway and railroad while nn an I 1 soars above just a bit dizzy mr and sirs mrs american from looking nt at the whole world compressed into tills this small space and watching the centuries roll past your eyes better give heed then to young plea 1 I want to go over to the enchanted island he knows lie he will find there the stun stuff of which childhoods dreams are made a magic mountain down which to slide a sure enough fairy castle a miniature railroad and heroic figures of toys and story book characters ilow how to get there why take the sky ride of course what the riffel tower was to the paris exposition and the ferris wheel was to the worlds fair of 03 93 the sky hide Is to A century of progress they call it the supreme thrill of A century of 0 progress hut but it Is more than just the outstanding amusement thrill of the big show chow of 33 it points the way to a vehicle of transportation of the future an aerial ferry which my may make modern suspension bridges obsolete so its cs feet steel towers tho the highest man made structures west of new york boik and its rocket cars symbolize riot not only the progress of the past century mit ut the progress of the next century to come as aa weil eh 0 by western Nes newspaper paper union |