ON PINIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 3

ON PINIONS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The map on which Douglas Fairbanks makes his grand tour calls to mind the magnificent relief map in the Ferry Building at San Francisco. Longer than our railway station, it is divided into five or six sections of about 100 ft each, in Iwige glass cases, raised about -Ift from the floor. The location of every road and-railway, every hill and mountain, every stream and every hamlet in the great State of California can be picked out with the help of titles, gaily beribboned tags, and a key, itself a work of art. In the larger cities each block is nearly lin long, so that the more important buildings can be distinguished by their architecture. Douglas’s studio can bo seen in its Hollywood setting, his home at Beverly Hills, if you know whore to look for them. Done in natural colours of green, brown, yellow, white, and blue, this wonderful map gives a detailed impression of the features of the State far superior to that gleaned from travel by train or motor. . It can be compared with the panoramic expanse spread out beneath the aeroplane or zeppelin, such as the ordinary citizen can imperfectly enjoy from tho summit of a commanding eminence. People never tire of gazing at this work. At all hours of the day and evening, transcontinental and bay passengers cluster round it. Even the bird of passage from abroad cannot avoid a thrill of satisfaction, while the home bird is filled with pride to realise that he is a citizen of no mean State. As an instrument for promoting knowledge and genuine patriotism, it is unrivalled. On such worth-while efforts, how might our skilled craftsmen be better engaged than in pushing a broom handle, or even transferring gold from one hole in New Zealand to another in London or New York.—l am, etc., MacGregor Wai.msi.ev. December 12.