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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. f TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1913.
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Soon there’ll be nothing left of Turkey hut the
wishbone.
Surprises of the Balkan War.
Tile Balkan war has been a continual flashing of
surprises. When the campaign began some seven
months ago, military observers predicted that the
Turkish army, famed for its discipline and valor,
would soon scatter the forces of the little hot-headed
penmsula' States; * diplomatic observers expected that
in the event of prolonged fighting the Powers would
certainly intervene and compel both fcamps to peace;
and it is doubtful that even the Balkan leaders
themselves had any serious hope of sending their
troops victoriously on the road to Constantinople.
But the rush of events has belied all these calcu
lations. The Sultan’s army, far from being the mas
terful machine it was considered, betrayed fatal
■ weaknesses in the very outset. Though led by brave
generals, it lacked the essentials of an efficient army.
It was ill provisioned, it was without moral enthusi
asm, except in occasional instances; it proved to be
moody with a spirit of rebellion that was deepened
by political unrest at the capital. And so, after its
first severe blows from the Balkan forces, this army
fell back to a position of disheartened defence, almost
entirely untempered of its one-time aggressiveness.
The course pursued by the larger Powers has
been singularly different from what might have been
expected. Their efforts to bring about peace in the
earlier stages of the war were unavailing. The Lon
don peace conference, having ended without results,
was followed by a bolder campaign than ever on the
part of the Allies. The Powers persuaded Turkey
Into accepting the cession of Adrianople as a basis
for further negotiations, but the Balkan States, de
ciding that they could win more through arms than
diplomacy, continued their siege of that coveted city
and finally swept over its fortifications.
At this Juncture it was considered certain that
the Powers would step into the arena and force an
end to the conflict. It is a diplomatic tradition In
Europe that only some weak and neutral nation can
be safely entrusted with the control of the Bosporus;
and for that reason they have Insisted upon preserv-
i
lng at least a nominal sway for Turkey at Constan
tinople.
Yet, despite the fact that the Powers, have virtual
ly ordered the Allies to cease their campaign, the
latter are pressing forward more vigorously than
ever; and the larger Powers are somewhat puzzled
as to just how they shall enforce their will, If the
Balkan States keep fighting.
It is not Impossible that Constantinople may yet
fall and thus give rise to the most perplexing prob
lem Europe has known for generations.
England’s Proposal to Germany.
World-wide interest has been aroused by the pro
posal of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Ad
miralty, that both Great Britain and Germany forego
the building of battleships during the year 1914.
Should Germany approve the suggestion, a long stejj
toward international peace would be taken and a
vast deal would be done toward the relief of both
countries from the crushing burdens of militarism.
It Is not improbable that England’s pacific plan
will be given friendly consideration by her great
rival. Germany’s immediate and most urgent con
cern is with its army, rather than its navy. Its
plans in that direction call for vast expenditures and
it is not unlikely that it will welcome .a season of
suspended naval construction in order that it may
devote unrestricted means to the development of its
land forces.
The German government realizes further that
though it shopld continue building war ships stead
ily for the next two years it could not hope to chal
lenge the naval supremacy of England. Certainly,
then, It would have nothing to ose but much to gain
by accepting the British proposition. It is evident,
too, that the masses of the German people are grow
ing restive under a continuous and increasing pres
sure of taxes for a vast armament. Public sentiment
has frequently of late been outspoken in protest
against a policy that diverts money from productive
channels and yokes the country with almost unbear
able expense.
For her own part, England can well afford to
discontinue her naval program io a year, so secure
is her strength in this regard. During the Interim
'both nations would have time for sober reflection
upon the appalling cost of eve: increasing arma
ments and upon the wisdom and economy of peace.
The example of two such great powers laying gside
their rivalry and suspicon for a twelvemonth would
doubtless constrain others to do likewise.
Europe’s Preparation
For the Panama Canal.
An idea of the great interest and energy which
the Panama canal has aroused in Europe may be
gathered from the fact that a German steamship
company has recently launched four nine-thousand-
ton vessels which are to be used for South American
traffic and has also placed orders for the construc
tion of four additional steamers of thq same propor
tions and for the same purpose. Each of the new
ships, will have a speed eff fourteen knots an hour
and accommodation for one hundred and twenty
firstclass passengers and fourteen hundred and fifty
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emigrants. Their owners are quoted as saying that
their service will make it possible for persons in the
United States who wish to reach South America to
go.first to Europe and'thence to Argentina in less
time and at'less expense than they can now go di
rectly from New York.
This is hut. one among many instances of the far-
reaching preparation which the nations of the Old
World are making for the opening of the Panama
canal and the new era of commercial enterprise that
will ensue. Germany is vying with England for
ascendancy in the passenger and cargo trade that
will develop; and all the other leading countries
are astir with activity in the same direction. Ships
are being built, embassies are being sent to : the
South American republics to study the needs and
tastes and to cultivate the good-will of their peoples.
How different is the situation in the United
States, the builder of the canal and the close neigh
bor of these republics! We have slept over the op
portunity at our very doorway, while far distant na
tions are planning to seize it. The canal has cost
us more than four hundred million dollars, but unless
we bestir ourselves, its commercial benefits will be
harvested by foreign interests. The new volumes of
trade will not drift to us unsought. We cannot do
business with South America unless v/e know its pe
culiar trade conditions and demands and unless we
have shipping facilities of our own, instead of hav
ing to depend upon foreign and competing concerns.
There is manifest- danger that in their pride over
having built the canal, < Americans will neglect the
means necessary to utilizing It. When a single Ger
man steamship company builds eight big ships spe
cifically for South American trade and when other
Old World countries are everting themselves in like
manner, it behooves the business interests of the
United States to take note and 1 to do something for
themselves.. /
It takes a clever man to sidetrack a widow who
has made up her mind to annex him, and he must
be hard hearted, too.
Our Government Should
Recognize the Chinese Republic.
The intimation from Washington that the United
States government is soon to recognize the Chinese
republic wins the, country’s hearty approval; may it
soon he confirmed by official announcement!
The republic of China has been established more
than a year. It -has proved its right and its fitness
to survive. It stands unchallenged as the one and
; only responsible; government of a great people; : The
' Manchu dynasty which it supplanted is a thing of
the past, never to be restored. The old throne has
been abdicated, has fallen and has, indeed, vanished
from popular interest. The republic represents the
only , authority with which our own and other na
tions can deal in diplomatic business.
-It would seem, therefore, that on the practical
side alone there is fio reason for further delay in
granting the new republic the recognition to which
it- is entitled. On the contrary sound judgment as
well as true'sentiment impels us to extend a prompt
and cordial greeting to this new power in the great
family of free nations. By refusing to make the
United States a partner in the proposed six-power
loan, under the terms of which China’s interests and
Its very life would have been mortgaged to a group
of foreign’money-lenders, the Wilson administration
has proved its true friendship to the Chinese peo
ple. The next logical step is to recognize the repub
lic itself and thereby cement the honest and hapjjy
relationships which now exist.
In its struggle for freedom and Its endeavor to
establish a responsible government, China has drawn
its chief inspiration and guidance from the history
and the institutions of the United States. It looks
to us tqday as in the past for encouragement and
friendship. Our nation should extend a hand of
fellowship.
Things are not always what their names would
indicate. For instance, the vacuum cleaner is never
used to clean vacuums. \ ,
Senator James Hamilton Lewis.
The election of Hon. James Hamilton Lewis as
United States senator from Illinois is gratifying to
Democrats throughout the nation and peculiarly so
to those of Georgia and of the South where Mr.
j^ewis was reared. After a legislative-deadlock ex
tending oyer many weeks, he has been chosen for
the six-year senatorial term to which he was nom
inated by the Democracy of Illinois with a quarter
of a million votes. ’ •
Thopgh born a Virginian, Senator Lewis is - a
Georgian by all the ties of breeding and early asso
ciation. His parents moved, to Augusta when he
was an infant and, as a boy, he went to Savannah
where he studied law and was admitted to the bar.
Some twenty-seven years ago he determined to try
his fortune in the far west and, having settled in
Seattle, tie rose rapidly to distinction and public
favor. He represented his district in Washington
State in the fifty-fifth Congress. In 1903 he moved
to Chicago where he was elected municipal counsel
and served as vice-mayor. Later he was nominated
Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois and
in divers other ways the popular esteem in which
he is held has been attested. His old friends in
Georgia congratulate him most cordially upon the
latest honor he has earned.
The election of Mr. Lewis brings the total Demo
cratic strength in the senate to; fifty-one votes
against a combined opposition of forty-five—a sub
stantial majority which assures the success of the
administration’s legislative program, if the Demo
crats stand loyally together. The forty-five Repub
lican votes will not be cast solidly against progres
sive measures; for among them are a number of Sen
ators who are frankly insurgent against the old
guard of Standpatters. The Democrats are thus in
effective control of both houses of Congress as well
as the executive department; and what is even more
assuring, progressive Democrats, among whom Sen
ator Lewis Is to be numbered, control the party.
A Batch of Smiles
Little Freddy was preparing to go out calling
with his mother. Suddenly he called to her in a rather
startled voice: “Mamma, is this
bay rum in the brown bottle?”
“Gracious, ho, dear! That’s muci
lage.” . ,.
“Oh," said Freddy, then after a
pause. “Maybe that’s why I can’t
get my hat off.”—Metropolitan Mag
azine.
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Two hunters returning from the Catskills decided to
try some New York City humor upon the agent of a
li+tlo railroad station in the foot
hills.
“When does the 3:49 train get in?”
asked one.
The old man regarded him serious
ly and at length. “Wa’ll,” said- he,
“she generally gets in just a leetle
behind the - engine.”
Later they approached him re
spectfully. “About time that train is due,
uncle?”
“Yes,” said the agent, “she’s about due. There
comes the conductor’s dog.”-—Everybody's Magazine.
isn’t it.
An
Irishman, brought before a justice of the peace
charge of vagrancy, was thus questioned:
“What trade are you?”
‘Shure, now, yer honor, an’ I’m a
sailor.”
“You a seafaring man? I ques
tion whether you were ever at sea in,
your life.”
“Shure, now, an’ doez your honor
thing I came over from Ireland in
a wagin?”
When apprehended and charged with larceny the
man had admitted i s guilt, but at his trial his attor
ney defended him with much bril-
liancy.
“Gentlemen,” said the judge, with
a benevolent smile, “the prisoner
says he is guilty. ’ His counsel says
he is not. You must decide between
them.”
‘ Then, after an effective pause:
“There is one* thing to remember,
The American Spirit.
“While Americans may seem to be self-cen
tered in periods of sunshine, they are invariably
found to be self-sacrificing in times of distress.”
This thoughtful comment of Vice President Mar
shall on the nation-wide sympathy and help that
are going forth to the flood victims of Ohio and In
diana describes an inherent quality of our country’s
people. Americans are known ordinarily for their
alertness in practical affairs, their aggressiveness
in trade, their genius for organizing vast industries
and building great fortunes. They are admired for
their mechanical skill and often reproached for
their so-called materialism. They are sometimes
regarded as a nation of money-makers and money
spenders.
These, after all, however, are but surface traits;
they are the ways of the market place, not the deeper
impulses of heart and home. Whenever the time
and need for self-forgetfulness and help of others
arise, the American spirit . unfailingly rings true.
There is no other country In the world where such
great donations to philanthropic purposes are made
and there is none where hqinan suffering and want
bestir a wider or more generous response.
No sooner had the wires brought the news of
the flood disasters than there.began spontaneously
and throughout the nation, a movement to raise re
lief funds. These subscriptions have not been lim
ited to any one section or to any one class of peo
ple. Thousands of men with the most modest of
incomes have responded as promptly as those of
great wealth; and women and children have joined
in the generous donations.
President Wilson’s apeal that all Americans make
the disasters their common cause has received a
nation-wide response. It is peculiarly gratifying to
note that The Journal’s relief fund is being splen
didly supported by the people of Atlanta and Geor
gia and the South.
The Red Cross in the Flood.
The efficient service of the Red Cross in the
flood-swept district: of Ohio demonstrates the value
of experience and organization in all charitable en
deavors. The trained workers of this society are
meeting a crisis that would be well- ugh insurmount
able by unskilled or haphazard means. They have
arrived promptly on the field and they know just
how to begin the great task before them. '
Through their weli-planned efforts, the relief
funds that are being subscribed the country over
will be so administered as to produce the largest
possible measure of results. There will be a min
imum of waste and of misdirected energy; there
will be a maximum of practical aid to those in need.
How different might the situation be when so
vast a field is to be covered, if the money and the
other donations were applied without foresight or
direction! There would be an overflowing surplus
in some quarters and neglected suffering in others.
Mere generosity, mere charity can never accomplish
what it sets out to do, unless it is guided by wis
dom and by a thorough knowledge <jf the work at
band; at least this is true of such far-reaching needs
as now exist in the flood territory.
It is proportionately true of all such activities
whether they have to do with some great emergency
or with ordinary needs and misfortunes. The pur-'
pose of far-sighted charity is not simply to meet the
problem of an hour and to let future complexities
take care of themselves but fo grapple with the
source of the trou ble and to open a path to the indi
vidual’s permanent welfare.
The Red Cross shows on a large scale the values
of method, system and experience in all kinds of
philanthropy. The fact that it is at the helm of the
relief work for the flood sufferers assures the pub
lic that contributions will be well directed.
J. Pierpont Morgan.
There has passed in the death of Mr. J. Pierpont
Morgan the foremost figure in the world of finance.'
Through a long and vigorous life, he has impressed
his genius upon American history and has .made his
name and his power familiar among all nations. He
strove not so much for the upbuilding of a per,
sonal fortune as* for the accomplishment of great en
terprises, the working-out of great ideas which, how
ever contrary they may have been at times to the
freer tendencies of his age and country, were none
the less the ideas of a true master.
Mr. Morgan will long be admired for his won
drous grasp of affairs, his power of performance, his
personal integrity and for his generous interest in
philanthropy, and art
THE SUPERFLUITIES
By Dr. Frank Crane
Beware of the superfluities! They crowd out the’,
necessities. The more things you have that you ddn’t
want the less you Lave that you do want. The reason
why prosperity so often degrades
life is that there can be no noble,
life without simplicity.
If yo,u want to write, for in
stance, it is better to use a plain
deal table than a mahogany,
carved table studded with dia
monds, because the cheap arti
cle does not detract, your. atten
tion, require your, care, nor in
any wise get in yoiur way.
To own a real pearl necklace
and a guart of diamond rings is
to clog your life. They do noth
ing to yqu but .tickle your vanity,
which is contemptible; while. in
others they provoke jealousy, en--
vy, perhaps robbery and murder.
Why bother with them?
The best kind of lffe, it is uni
versally acknowledged, ts that kind that has tne most
worthy enthusiasms. To get pleasure out of music,
literature, the arts, travel and the intercourse with
superior minds, deepens and enriches your personality.
An over-big house, a retinue Of % servants, several au
tomobiles, horses, dogs, expensive clothes, and a hun
dred wagonloads of bric-a-brac render this best kind
of .life impossible.
It is a common complaint that there are so many
things goir.g on and so many demands mada upon us
in our modern life that w© have no time for self cul
ture. If we would unload our superfluities we would
find time.
Cut out the superfluous “friends” of your social
world. Resign fVom your strife for precedence. Get
your living down to the bare romforts and necessities
and you will, feel as gay and free as a boy when he
first takes eff his shoes and runs barefoot over the
grass in spring.
You need leisure. You need hours in which to
grow and ripen. You cannot hav© this unless you re
duce your program of life to simple terms.
Luxury, extravagance, great possessions, intense
activity in society, are utterly incompatible with gen
uine refinement and richness of character. They spell
Philistinism.
Nobility is impossible in any other than the f“sim-
ple lfe.” And to long for the superfluities is as bad
as to have them.
PANAMA EXPOSITIONS
By Frederic J. Haskin
At the End of the Rainbow
SOME OF LIFE’S HARDSHIFS.
“My cave has been out of repair for several days
and I have been sleeping in a hollow tree,” said the
wild man of the woods. “This accounts for my de
jected appearance. I had to leave my feet outdoors,
as there wasn’t room for the whole of me in the tree,
so I caught a bad cold, and for a day or two I was
feeling like the.day after the circus, but I took some
of the remedies so freely supplied by generous nature.
I ate some slippery elm bark and boiled a lot of buds
and barks and drank the tea, and already I’m on the
highway to recovery. By this time tomorrow I’ll be
ready to whip my weight in cross-eyed catamounts.
That’s the beauty of living in the sylvan solitudes.
A man learns to turn to nature for all he needs and
nature never turns him down.
“Had I caught cold while living in the busy haunts
how different it would have been! My wife would
ha.v© in^sted,on. soaking my feet in hot water, which
is the time honored, remedy of all hous. ,vives. I have
no doubt that reasonably hot water is a good thing,
but women think you don’t get the right results Un
less the water is fairly, sizzling. I used to have to
boil my feet every time I caught a cold, and v/hen
they were cooked until they looked like mock turtles
I had to climb into bed and my wife piled all the
rugs and blankets in the place on me. When I arose
from my couch of suffering next morning I felt like
an old dish towel that had been run through a wring
er three times.
“My wife was an incomparably fine woman and
her bright smile haunts me still, but she simply
couldn’t realize that when a man was sick he wanted
to be let alone. She was bound to fuss around him
and brew unholy decoctions for him and call in the
neighbor women for consultations, and so there was
absolutely no comfort or satisfaction in being sick.
She clung to th e venerable superstition that no med
icine can be effective unless it tastes like a ratifica
tion meeting in Pekin, and the dope she used to com
pound when I was off my feed would make your blood
run cold.
“She was particularly partial to a stew of onions,
flavored with a dash of codliver oil. You don’t know
what affliction is, my friend, until you go up against
that compound. It was her sovereign remedy for a
cold, in conjunction with the scalding footbath and the
mountain of blankets. I used to entreat her, with
tears rolling down my wan cheeks, to pass up the on
ion mixture, but she wouldn’t listen to the proposi
tion. She’d call in th© next door neighbor to help her,
and they managed to get the dose down me. One
would hold my nose with a firm grip and the other
would pry open my mouth with a cold chisel and the
nefarious job was done, i could taste that onion
stuff for six weeks after I swallowed it.
“My wife also had great faith in mustard plasters,
and to be prepared for all emergencies she kept a can
of oldfashioned mustard so strong fhat it smoked
when you took the lid off. No one can make me be
lieve that there is any virtue in mustard plasters.
If a patient must be scorched and blistered, let him
sit on a red hot stove in peace and comfort and read
the sporting department of the evening paper. I was
so afraid of those plasters that when I had an ache
or a pain I’d scuffer in silence as long as I could.
But my wife, whose motives were the best in the
world, though her practices Were abominable, was al
ways on the watch for symptoms, and I couldn’t fool
her long. if i had a crick in the back she’d get wise
ta it with marvelous cunning, and the first thing I
knew she’d be saying, ‘Augustus Adolphus, you come
right into the house this minute and let me put a
mustard plaster on your back!’ (
“I suppose I was an easy mark, but I never could
take a firm stand on such occasions. Rather than see
my wife disappointed and miserable, I’d yield to her
ministrations and she’d build a bonfire in the small
of my back with her blamed old mustard, and ipy ag
onized shrieks could be heard all over the neighbor
hood.
“I' endured this ‘ sort of thing with superhuman
patience for years, but the mustard plaster hai>it
grows on a woman and it became a mania with my
wife. She wanted to plaster me for every trifling ill.
When I could stand it no longer I fled to the fcjrest
primeval.”
i
WALT MASON.
Pointed Paragraphs
At any rate, the blackberry crop is reasonably
safe.
The peach crop is showing an ability to come
back.
Ty Cobb is holding off just as if he had been of
fered an ambassadorship.
Reports from Washington are that the plum
crop also sustained a slight damage.
The college graduate needn’t fear. There will be
work for all in the Georgia peach, orchard.
California will tie host to the world In 1915. For a
whole year its chief object will be to entertain mil
lions of people from everv part of the globe. The oc
casion will be the official open
ing of the Panama canal. The
object will be to inform the
world of the greatness of Cal
ifornia, in particular, ahd of
Pacific America in general.
From the dawn to the twilight
of 1915 the cties of San Fran
cisco and San Diego with their
two expositons will make the
year a red blotch of achieve
ment and entertainment on old
Father Time’s drab calendar.
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San Francisco within its
Golden Gate and San Diego,
nestling in the arch of its cwn
Silver Gate, expect to show the
human race the greatest inter
national two-rlnged circus ever
staged. More than that, they
think their combined efforts
will produce the universal Circus Maximus. So It will
if an outlay of $70,000,000 and 70,000,000 tons of ener
gy and brains count for anything. Their motto now
is “Greatest and Best.” After 1915 they think it will
be: “California; the State That Made Panama Fa
mous.”
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California has been planning to astonish the world
in a signal way since 1909. when the idea of celebrat
ing the Panama achievment in proper form was first
broached definitely by G. A. Davidson, then president
of tne San Diego chamber of commerce. Out of that
thought is growing the Panama-Pacific International
exposition at San Francisco and the Panama-Callfor-
nia exposition at San Diego. Never before has one
state tried to do two such big things at once.
...
President Charles C, Moore and his assistants
hope to create the greatest world's fair In history in
the Panama-Pacific International exposition at San
Francisco. It will open February 20 and close De-.
cember 6, 1915. The area will he 625 acres, about the
same as the Chicago exposition, but with greater floor
space for exhibition purposes. The testimony of offi
cials and exhibitors was that the St. Louis fair of
1904 was spread over altogether too much ground.
The San Francisco fair will cost about $60,000,000.
The citizens of California subscribed $7,000,000: the
state appropriated $5,000,000, and the city of San
Francisco issued bonds for $5,000,000. Several mil
lions of dollars will be raised by the fifty-eight coun
ties of California for theij individual displays. Fully
thirty-five foreign nations will send costly exhibits,
and all the great commercial concerns of the world,
without reference to color or creed, jvlll spend large
sums In the advertisement of their wares.
• • •
Chronologically the story of the San Francisco fair
is: Authorized by act of congress January 31, 1911:
first spadeful of earth on the exposition site turned
by President Taft October 14, 1911; authorized to in
clude in its area the adjoining military reservatioh by
act of congress January 18, 1912; heralded before the
world by presidential proclamation dated February 2,
1912, as a universal exposition to which all nations
were invited to send exhibits and visitors. The actual
construction work on the main buildings will begin
in July of this year and must be finished within one
year. The fleets of all the great nations will assem
ble in Hampton Roads, Va., In January or February,
1916. Their commanders will be received In Washing
ton by President Wilson. The president will return
to Hampton Roads with them and there will review
the greatest international naval display In history.
After which the fleets will proceed to San Francisco
via the Panama canal, and the fair will open Febru
ary 1 20, closing December 4.
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Occasion, sit© and climate ■will combine to help
San Francisco make good its boast that the coming
exposition will be the best ever attempted. Air other
world's fairs have commemorated some historic event
of the past. The Panama-Pacific International expo
sition will be a distinctive adjunct of the opening of
the Panama canal, an event nbt only historic, not
only of national importance, but one of great interna
tional moment and an event of the world. The loca
tion of the fair grounds on the shore of San Francisco
bay, with a frontage of over two miles, facing the
playground of the navies of the world as they do
their part In the exposition program, is an advantage
which no other fair has enjoyed in this country, T^ie
climate will enable the exposition to stay open from
winter to winter, with a temperature averaging 59 de
grees throughout the entire nine and one-half months.
Fully half of that time the weather will be ideal for
the thousands of families who will live in tents in
the nooks around the bay while they visit the fair in
an easy-going fashion.
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Eleven great palaces of exhibits will be built-
fine arts, education, social economy, liberal arts, man
ufactures and varied industries, machinery, transpor
tation, agriculture, live stock, horticulture, mines and
metallurgy. They will form the center of the exposi
tion, and will be connected by a series of courts, the
central one to be 500 by 900 feet. Green vines and
flowers will predominate instead of the ghostly, un
adorned plaster walls so common in previous exposi
tions. The foreign and state exhibits will stretch
along the shore. The Midway of the Golden Gate,
which will be the amusement street, and other attrac
tions of a similar nature, will be on the other side
and will reach almost into town.
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A great feature will be that the fair will be selec
tive 7 and not collective. Quality will be aim, not
quantity. A new departure will be a palace devoted
to social science in which will be shown with great
completeness the progress of the world in the uplift
of humanity.
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Correlative with the exposition will be the first
session of the Congress of Confederated Nations of
the World. It is planned to have only the greatest
men of the world in that body, and they will discuss
the vital problems of all nations. What more appro
priate time than the opening of the watercourse
which will unite the world’s great maritime high
ways? What better place than the city whose enter
prise brings the American people face to face with
the greater problems and opportunities of the Orient
and Latin-America? Over fifty years ago William
H. Seward said: “The problems of the future are to
be solved upon the shores of the Pacific.” These
conferences may prove preliminary steps toward uni
versal peace and a world confederation.
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San Diego’s Panama-California exposition was
born on August 25, 1909, when G. A. Davidson, then
president of the city chamber of commerce, assembled
the directors and told them that San Diego was the
proper place to hold a world’s fair to celebrate the
opening of the' Panama canal.
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The San Diego exposition easily will rank with
the Pan-American, the Lewis and Clark, and the Yu
kon fairs. Enthusiasts claim that it will far surpass
them. Certainly, it will be more unique and will have
a richer ‘ejting. The fair will cause an outlay of
fully 120.000,000. The citizens of San Diego, a city
of less than 75,000 people, raised the sum of $2,000,000
to start the pro^ct. Nearly $6,000,000 is being spent
on a magnificent sea wall. John D. Spreckels is build
ing the San Diego and Arizona railway, a distance of
220 miies, on a new and lower grade. Nearly $5,000,-
000 will be spent in Balboa park, the magnificent do
main of *,400 acres in whose lap the exposition will '
be held. Over eleven miles of docks and 1,000 acres
of reclaimed land for warehouse and factory site® will
be ready to astonish the visitor when the fair opens
on January 1, 1915. The exposition will last a whole
year.