Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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broad boulevard connecting Jack- son Park with the neighboring Washington Park. Altogether the Exposition occupied 666 acres and was two years in the making, not including the time required for planning and advertising. On October 23, 1892 the magnifi- cent World’s Fair of Chicago was formally dedicated. It was not com- pleted, however, until May 1, 1893 when President Cleveland touched the button that unfurled the official flags and set the machinery in mo- tion. For six months people from all over the world streamed through the gates of this City Beautiful, drinking in its glories and absorb- ing the rich educational benefits it bestowed. As one entered the grounds, the main buildings appeared like fairy palaces. They were built of a com- position called staff which made them gleam like marble so that peo- ple came to speak of this wonder- land as the “White City.” It was a liberal education in architecture to study those buildings for they rep- resented many different types — classic. Renaissance. Spanish, rus- tic. and modern. The largest of them all. in fact, the biggest expo- sition building ever constructed up to that time was the Manuafcturing and Liberal Arts Building, covering nearly forty acres. Other interesting structures were Machinery Hall and Administration, Agricultural, Electrical, Horticultu- ral, and Fisheries buildings. The exposition had numerous special features. The Midway Plais- ance was one of these, a fascinat- ing avenue of adventure, the home of all the strange sights and sounds of all the world. Here were grouped hundreds of popular amusement features, above them towering the great Ferris Wheel, with its swing- ing couches in which one could be carried 264 feet into the air. One could circle the globe in the space of an afternoon, for here were the streets of Cairo, the Moorish Palace, the Japanese Bazaar, the Irish, Javanese, Eskimo, Samoan villages, and duplicates of many other sights. The Transportation Building with its imposing Golden Doorway furn- ished in its exhibits an inspiring ob- ject lesson on how the world goes a-traveling, beginning with the most primitive vehicles and bringing the lesson by degrees through models of the Viking ship, the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria of Columbus’ fleet, the George Washington coach, and so on, down to the marvelous steamers, battleships, locomotives, and other conveyances of the then modern day. The Forestry Building needed no name over its entrance, for its columns, the unfinished trunks brought from different states and countries, told its story. So attractive was this glamorous exposition that the average daily attendance was 172,712 and it is a fact that on “Chicago Day,” Octo- ber 9th, the anniversary of the burn- ing of the city, the attendance ex- ceeded 00,000. At the close of the Exposition there was a profit of $1,850,000 a practical tribute to the enterprise and splendid manage- ment of those who had its affairs in charge. Forty years have elapsed since the gala opening of the Fair of 20

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and “Thou shalt not not kill” apply only to individuals? From this we see that the churches should play a more active part in the movement for peace, confidence, and friendli- ness among nations. Our fondest hopes rest in the gen- eration of young people who will soon assume the responsibility of governing and of carrying on the • finer traditions. Certain ones from among this group, young people who are having the advantages of a college education and those who have had the opportunity of study- ing the causes and effects of the last war, boldly face this Question of world peace. They realize that if they do not conouer war, war will conquer them. They know that the next war, made more dangerous and horrifying by new inventions will in a much shorter time take a far- greater toll of human life than ever before. They see beyond the glory of fighting for ones’ country to the evils that it brings, death, mutila- tion, hate, hunger, rape, disease, bonded generations, and national I debt. Having studied this question, students are declaring their affilia- tions with world peace movements. In England at Oxford, a meeting was held to debate and vote on the proposition : Resolved : That this house under no circumstance will fight for its king and country. It was carried by a vote of 275-153. To shame and ridicule the pacifists, 275 white feathers were left at the next meeting. But these feathers were distributed among the boys and are now worn as badges of hon- or. Other colleges throughout Eng- land, Wales, and Canada have fol- lowed Oxford’s lead. We even find it in our own staid Boston. Students from two of our Boston colleges have formed organizations which declare they will not fight for their country under any circumstan- ces. Others less radical declare that they will only fight in case of inva- sion. Modern youth desires to live for mankind and the decision as to whether they shall die in more hor- rible warfare than has ever been known or whether they shall live in peace, improving and refining the culture of the world, rests in their hands. Let us hope they choose the path of happiness and peace and that somehow, out of all the chaos and confusion of the present time there will dawn a new and better era — that of world peace. Then and Now By Ervin Langmaid W ITH the coming of 1933, we welcome another World’s Fair which promises to reveal marvels untold. Since we are upon the brink of this new exposition, let us wan- der back to the fair of 1893. On February 25, 1890 Congress had passed a bill awarding the Ex- position to Chicago over the claims of many rivals for the honor and providing liberal financial aid. An ideal site was found in spacious Jackson Park on the shores of Lake Michigan in the southern part of the citv. To this were joined an ad- ditional stretch of beach, giving a water line of fully two miles, and a 19

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1893, during which untold changes have taken place. With the passing of each year something new, some- thing different, is either discovered or invented. We marveled at the novel phonograph, but today we come into contact with any section of the world through the magic me- dium of radio. By a simple turning of the dial we can see and hear our favorite program which is being rendered many miles away. Not only is radio employed for enter- tainment but for the purpose of crime detection and for news broad- casts, which furnish a contact with the outside world. Recently we heard over our radio the fact that Professor Piccard ascended into space for ten miles to bri ng to us and science valuable information concerning the stratosphere. To ac- complish this amazing feat the sci- entist and his coleague hermetically sealed themselves within a hollow steel ball suspended from a gas bag which was their sole agency for elevating power. Though the mod- ern liner recruires only four or five days to cross the ocean, Lindbergh spanned the three thousand miles in approximately thirtv-three hours and the Graf-Zeppelin circumnavi- gated the globe in twenty-one days. It is not, however, for speed alone that the air is used. Transportation by air has now advanced to the stage where it is a speedy, safe, and economical means of conveyance. Between the majority of the larger cities of the United States one may travel on schedule by air. On land as well as by air we have progressed amazingly since 1893. The automobile has replaced the horse and buggy of the gay nineties to such an extent that a horse is an uncommon sight about the streets. Travel by automobile is the sole means of transportation for the greater part of the American peo- ple. It now becomes a question in many discussions in this confused world, whether the automobile is a necessity or a luxury. It is still wiser to cross the ocean in a liner, in spite of our advance in other lines of travel. The ocean- going craft of today is a luxurious floating palace skimming over the depths of the sea, defying its moun- tainous swells and severe storms, to arrive at its European destination in less than five days. So many have been the inventions in the innumerable fields of science for the past forty years that no one man alive could relate each one to you successfully. The three progres- sions on land, sea, and air previous- ly mentioned are a mere microscop- ic resume of the broader fields which they represent. To predict the changes of the next forty years, which we, the coming generation will experience, is at once perceived impossible. There occurs this summer the op- ening of the greatest exposition ever imagined. It will set a new standard for exhibitions of its class, a worthy expression of the energy, enthusi- asm. and resources of the New World. 21