THE MUSEUM was to be con-
structed in French Renaissance
style, four stories high, of red
bricks trimmed with stone. Its
most remarkable feature was to
be the distinguished tower. Its
ediface was decorated with the
grotesque images of battling mon-
sters, symbolic of the bones with-
m.
When the building was finished
at last, all the professors happily
scurried around its insides, look-
ing at all the empty space where
they could stack their stones and
bones.
"Huzzah," they shouted again.
However, as years passed, the
university expanded. The museum,
aging rapidly,° was no, longer con-
sidered such a massive, wonderful
structure. The original roof was
found too heavy and was replaced
by a cumbersome, makeshift affair.
Thomas Hayden, a member
of The Daily editorial staff,
came under old RLB's spell
the first day he went inside for
a freshman language course.
And the stacks of stones and
bones kept. piling up. Soon the
university was lacking space again.
The Board of Peers ordered con-
struction of a big, new museum.
THE STONES and bones were
moved out of the tired, old
museum -and replaced by an in-
coming group of language teach-
ers. Its fifty-year-old silence was
shattered by the babbling herd.
With each year, the old museum
withered a bit more. A coat of grey
paint was hastily slapped on its
weary walls. People began to com-
the inescapable drafts.
A few nostalgics remained. They
looked at the scarred edifice, at
the monsters in their never-ending
battle, at the gate of heaven°
placed at the pinnacle .of the
tower, and they shouted "Huzzah"
for the old building. But not quite
as loudly.
Moreand more people began to
think the museum an eyesore.
"Y-e-e-e-ch, what an eyesore,"
they hooted.
Even some of the professors be-
gan to dislike the museum. They
called it-a firetrap and a freezing,
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old barn and a hole and a pile of
erect rubble.
"What a pile," saM one pro-
fessor.
Then, while the old museum
celebrated: its 78th birthday; the
Board of Peers made a startling
announcement-all the babbling
language teachers were to move
out of the structure for it was to
be razed.
"HUZZAH" yelled some,-and very
loudly indeed. "Huzzah, huz-
zah, huzzah."
Others questioned the decision.
Why tear it; down?" they asked.
"It's too -distinguished to tear
down."
"Bah," the Board of Peers re-
torted. '"The whole mess is coming
down."
And so it did. Rattling red dump-
trucks came and steam shovels.
came and men came and fences
went up all around. And the rat-
tling red dumptrucks carried the
old museum away.
The people who felt bad began
to console themselves.
"Well, at least we'll have a
place to plant some decent grass
on campus," they said. The uni-
versity had certainly grown. There
were buildings with huge pillars,
and buildings with red bricks and
even one building which had blue
and yellow windows.
A green, fresh open space with
no buildings at all was needed.
THE VACANT PLOT where the,
old museum had been was
silent, expectant.
Then one day the rattling red
dumptrucks came back and with
them came men and shovels and
trowels and . . cement. The men
knelt down and began to lay out
cement walks.
"We have decided to build a
patio," the Board of Peers an-
nounced. "We are moving for-
ward."
And so today at the big univer-
sity one can see a flat, white slab
of cement. Most of the students
will soon think it has always been
there. No one will tell them about
the old museum, or the plans for
a fresh, grassy expanse.
Except perhaps for an old-timer
who will look and ask, puzzled,
"What happened to the old pile of
erect rubble?
Or the aesthete who will cry,
"Ugly, ugly everywhere,'and not
a blade of grass!"
IF IT COULD be considered to be
existing in a vacuum, the Brus-
sels Fair would be strictly for fun.
A complete ignorance of world af-
fairs is perhaps best for a per-
son attending it.
For, despite; the best efforts of
the planners and of some of the
participants, the Fair is basically
a good place to gawk. The won-
ders- of the world are there, in
every category if one can enjoy
them without looking at the na-
tional labels they bear.
The Fair is first of all, im-
mense. It covers 494 acres north-
east of Brussels, and covers them
beautifully. No space is wasted,
but none is overcrowded. Besides
the actual exhibits most coun-
tries have done some landscap-
ing on part of their space, with
generally refreshing- results.
The land is naturally rolling,
which aids the architects (al-
though it is hard o cn the footsore
visitors). Plenty of benches are
John Weicher, city editor of
The Daily, spent considerable
time at the Fair this summer
during a tour of Europe.
provided, for sitting down; these
are all free - which cannot be
said for any nations' washrooms
except those of the United States.
(Everyoneelse charges four cents:
and has a woman: attendant' at
the door to collect.)
The' official languages of Bel-
gium and the Fair are Flemish
and French. Although most coun-
tries (with, perhaps, the signifi-
cant exception of Russia) also
give descriptions in English and
replace Flemish with its near rel-
ative German, the industrial ex-
hibits do not. Fortunately, these
include very little thatis either
new or interesting to the Ameri-
can visitor, who can concentrate
on the south half of the fair,
where the national 'pavilions are
clustered. Here is where the fun
is.
UNFORTUNATELY, the plan-
ners have apparently failed to
regard the Fair as something oth-
er than a propaganda contest.
They have situated the American
and Russian displays directly op-
posite each other with the much
,smaller Arab Staes bui in
between.
The visitor is therefore almost,
compelled to make a comparison
of the two, thus dragging the
Fair to the level of international,
politics.
Strictly in, the, propaganda line,
the Russians would appear to
have won. Enjoyment, however, is
another matter. The Russians
have been extremely thorough
and extremely unimaginative; the
Americans have shown plenty of
imagination; but have Diissed
much.
Foremost among the absentees
is industry. A short description of
atomic power and a display of the
industrial park at Stanford com-
prise almost the entire extent of
American efforts in this line. No
machinery of any sort rears its
head,
It is possible to argue that ev-
eryone knows the value and ex-
tent of American machinery and
technical skills; perhaps, on a
limited budget, the United States
had to sacrifice something. If so,
it probably chose well, but the ab-
By John Wieleer
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sence of industry, coupled with
the heavy accent on consumer
goods, makes America look "soft"
by comparison with Russia.
Consumer goods dominate the
pavilion, perhaps excessively. The
United States has played fair;
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