nd work out some plan for the betterment
of the conditions of their employees. It opens the way for the
capitalist to meet his workmen in the adoption of measures for
harmonizing the interests of capital and labor and binding
together in mutual interest and good will the men whose work
enriches the State and the employer who directs their labor and
converts its products into wages.

The many photographs exhibited illustrating the line of
betterment evolution and industrial commercial pursuits and
development bring facts relating to these subjects before the
public and lead captains of industry and the employer to
investigate betterment institutions and profit by the experience
of others. They also furnish an idea of the large industries,
progress, and natural resources of the country. Thus the
photographs of the coffee plantations of Brazil thoroughly
illustrated the coffee industry and gave an idea of this great
industry, its commercial value, its growth and development. The
exhibits of New Jersey by means of photographs of industrial
betterment institutions and industrial conditions furnished
plenty of matter for studies and investigations to students of
social economics.

Representatives of large industries, through the medium of
international expositions, study the means of improving the
productions of their factories, either by the use of better raw
material, securing it cheaper by importing it direct from the
producing centers, or by the improvement of their processes by
using modern machinery, and by the study of the social
betterment conditions of the employees of other large industrial
enterprises.

Many of the foreign governmental publications, reports,
photographs, statistics, and graphic charts exhibited showed the
degree of advancement reached in some parts of the country with
relation to these particular subjects, and the splendid
condition and resources of the State or country. Many of these
exhibits were beautifully illustrated, giving information of the
social and economic conditions, as well as the history,
geography, physical resources, etc., of the State or country.
The exhibits of France, Belgium, Germany, and Great Britain were
elaborate and systematically arranged, and furnished a fund of
information in social economic studies and investig