Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1919 — EXHIBITS FROM EVERY CLIME [ARTICLE]

EXHIBITS FROM EVERY CLIME

All Countries t»Be RepresMted at Methodist Centenary. BUILDINGS BEING ERECTEff Art, Msdleal and Educational Exhibits at the Celebration at Columbua to Be Hold Juno 20 to July 13, Will Reveal the Progress of Christianity the World Over —All Nations Will Mingle at Exposition Grounds. «» . I The visitor who comes to the Methodist Centenary celebration at Columbus, June 20 to July 13, will find himself transplanted to a large park of more than 100 sores, which has cost the state of Ohio millions of dollars to develop, with an immense oval in front of which is an amphitheater seating 50,000 people, the Coliseum with a seating capacity •of 8,000, and eight exhibit buildings with a floor space of 200,000 square feet scattered over these exposition grounds. The exhibits will come from every part of the world. Settings built under personal direction of men who have just returned from thecountries represented are now in construction. Later, natives will begin to arrive, bringing 'their strange customs, costumes and industries. A true picture of the lives of these people is the aim of the directors of the Centenary. A miniature Ganges river actually flowing through the India building is the center of queer heathen religious customs. Here will be < found the Hindu temple, Mohammedan mosque and sacred monkey temple, filled with chattering monkeys. Here, too, the sacred pigeons will be fed every day, amid much ceremony, and a fakir on his bed of spikes proves to less stoical observers that his soul is above the trivial sufferings of this world.

An Indian bazaar, overflowing with silks, wrought metals, idols and flower shops, occupies a large part of the India building. Public letter writer, sweetmeat seller, teeth-clean-er, beggars and curio seller mingle with the crowds of sightsfeers. Indian village scenes and an Indian marriage procession, with the bridegroom riding an elephant, are included in the plans of Dr. Lewis E. ILnzell of India, who is in Columbus to direct this building for the Centenary.

In an immense Kaffir kraal, containing five full sized huts and a cattle inclosure, 60 Ethiopians will be found working at various typical industries, as a part of the African exhibit. The desert life of northern Africa, with Bedouin tents and Moorish town, is pictured in another section of the African building. This exhibit is directed by J. T. C. Blackmore of Algeria, who is also directing a reproduction of early Roman civilisation in the same building. Another part of the African building is devoted to Roosevelt and Rainey motion pictures, episodes from the life of Dr. David Livingstone, lion hunts and Kaffir dances, the Uganda railway and African mission scenes. Other sections of Africa are fully represented in the large building which is under the direction of Dr. E. H. Richards of Oberlin. ~ The high gray walls of a Kwang city confront the visitor at the entrance to the Chinese building. At the left is a farm scene; inside the walls are the principal exhibits, including a large Chinese restaurant, open to the public; curio shop, money exchange,' Confucian temple, typical Chinese homes, and a Methodist church such as is found in the Celestial republic.

Art, medical and educational hibits revealing the progress of Chris-' tianity in that country form a part of the plans of Dr. John M. Gowdy of Fuchau, who with Y. C. Yong of the Chinese legation in Washington is directing the building. Devastated France and Belgium are realistically reproduced in the European section, under the direction of Dr. E. M. Tipple, who has recently returned from abroad. The reproduction of a ruined French cathedral which seats 500 people will be used for lectures and’ pictures. Through the shell-shattered walls arg seen the plains of Lombardy and ravaged Belgium: Separate sections dealing with Russia, Scandinavia and the Balkans occupy a large share of the European building. Dr. G. B. Winton, Dr. W. H. Teeter and S. A. Neblett are in charge of South American, Cuban and Mexican sections. A Japanese garden, with wishing bridge, lily pond, pergola and pavilion, is being built for the Japan building by a Japanese expert gardener. A gold mining scene and the famous Hiroshima kindergarten will also be reproduced in this section. Dr. E. R. Bull, formerly of Tokyo, is in charge of the Japan building. Exhibits from Korea under Dr. W. H. Cram of Nashville, Tenn.; from the Philippines- under Dr. Harry Farmer of New York, and from Malaysia under Dr. J. R. Denyes of Pittsburgh, will be held in the same building. i. - • Two large administration buildings

are devoted to scenes and exhibits from every comer at North Amartca. under the direction of Dr* Ralph E. Diffendoffer of New York. Ateekan and Pueblo Indians, mountaineers. New York shopkeepers and California Japs will be found working at their various industries, and living in widely contrasting environments. A typi cal southern plantation scene and a Mexican village will be picturesque features of the building. The purpose of these exhibits is to emphasize the work of the church in the diversified sections of United States and Canada. - • ■ -t A machinery halL containing 40,000 feet, will be filled with photographs, charts, books, and miscellaneous exhibits from al! countries represented in the exposition. —X . _____