The Panama Pacific International Exposition 1915

PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION To do this, manufacture must be invoked, the sowing and reaping machine, for example, must be made. Machinery becomes a branch of manufacture and receives adequate at- tention in expositions, the creation, distribution and applica- tion of power receiving special consideration. In addition to this a new necessity arises, that of showing the article, not only as a finished product, but also in the making. Processes thus become an imperative part of the display in manufac- ture. Method and machine have an intimate connection with increasing the return of agriculture, and their adoption, were found adaptable, is an object of national concern. For not only does a nation profit by a dissemination of its prowess in manufacture, but is receptively benefited by com- parisons. One of the chief advantages to be derived from a univer- sal exposition arises in showing what constitutes the real wealth of nations. The original source of wealth must for- ever lie in the soil. Where this is supplemented by water power, fuel and minerals, in close conjunction, a nation or a people becomes rich and great in proportion to the use of these to increase production. An exposition, therefore, through its assembling of man- ufactured products, and the processes of making them, indi- cates the degree of civilization to which a nation has attained. To show this by adequate representation and by comparison has a direct result in increased trade. To give the world ideas in manufacture by an exhibition of resources and mechanical accomplishments loses none of its beneficence because it has commercial advantage. And not only must a nation, zealous for the world’s good, partici- pate in these great expositions, but it cannot afford to allow its civilization to be hidden from the world; and it is in duty bound, because of its own desire for a favorable balance of trade and the protection of one of its chief departments of industrial life, to see that its manufactures have signal and significant display in every aggregation of man’s achieve- ments. [ 6 ]