The Panama Pacific International Exposition 1915

MANUFACTURES AND VARIED INDUSTRIES the world, and while it is the first exposition that is really universal in scope, it possesses another new element, that of contemporaneousness, and by compression and systematiza- tion, will be the most improving and enjoyable. Furthermore, in this exposition there is another depart- ure from the old plan of promiscuously collecting exhibits of everything from everywhere. Here every exhibit will be carefully and intelligently selected. This will insure a class of quality that will be readily appreciated alike by manu- facturer and visitor. Eleven great exhibit palaces are designed to house the multiform representations of man’s physical and industrial achievement, to which are added Festival Hall, and the pavilions of the nations and the States. Among these eleven huge buildings, and located immediately to your right as you enter the Central Gate, are the palaces devioted to Manufactures and Varied Industries. The results of toil in manufacture have permanent value. What man has placed above the surface of the earth in ar- ticles of utility constitute one of the most important depart- ments of man’s activity. Naturally we find manufacture occupying a more distinctive place in each succeeding inter- national exposition. And this fact has not been lost sight of in the forceful and carefully wrought plan of the Panama- Pacific International Exposition of 1915. From a national standpoint, a display of the articles and inventions which minister to life’s comfort, effectiveness and happiness, must make not only for the elevation of home and the increase of commerce, but for that enlightened environ- ment in which civic progress and social order prosper. The earth is fast crowding- with people. Reason is re- tarding war. Science is conquering disease. Invention is lightening labor. Statutes are declaring for the safety of the individual in his person, his business and in society. The surface of the soil does not increase, although scientific methods are increasing the output of the acre, so it becomes a great national necessity to make the soil sustain the popu- lation. F 5 ]