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cultural standard the exhibition will
depict the economic life and exports
of the country. Collections of pho-
tos and graphics will be applied to
show the possibilities for producing
commodities in demand, the techni-
cal standard of the production and
the quality of the goods. Among
other things dioramas will be emp-
loyed to show the Icelandic fishing-
fleet, trawlers and motor-boats, at
work near the coast with Iceland’s
mountains and glaciers in the back-
ground. Furthermore the abundance
of fish in the surrounding sea, the
manufacture and preparation of
products, etc. will be illustrated.
The size of Icelandic fishing is sug-
gested by comparing the annual
catch of fish in Denmark and Nor-
way with that of Iceland (80 lbs,
800 lbs, 4000 Ibs respectively per in-
habitant). — The use of pictures
will serve to illustrate farming, viz.
an Icelandic countryside with a
farm, its large flock of sheep, cattle,
modern dairying and gardening, for
which water from the hot springs
is employed. — The great technical
progress of the last generation will
be shown, viz. the application of the
heat of the earth for the heating of
the capital, which will appear part-
ly as a plan for the future in accor-
dance with the motto of the exhibi-
bition: »The World of To-mor-
row«.
Attention will be called to Ice-
land as a country for tourists, its
contrasted beauty of scenery, the
numerous salmon-streams and the
historic places, among others the old
place of assize, Thingvellir, about
which Lord Dufferin has written
somewhere: »It is worth while tra-
velling about the world to get a
view of Thingvellir.« At the exhi-
bition there will be a daily oppor-
tunity of seeing an Iceland-film,
showing chief branches of the eco-
nomic life of the country, its beau-
tiful scenery as well as Icelandic na-
tional life. On the occasion of the
exhibition some pamphlets in Eng-
lish will be issued, describing Icelan-
dic economic life, history and vari-
ous other things of interest.
The Icelandic day of festival at
the World’s Fair will be on June
17th, the anniversary of the birth of
Jón Sigurðsson, the great Icelandic
statesman and patriot (born 1811),
celebrated every year all over Ice-
land. Iceland’s Day at the exhibi-
tion will be celebrated by broad-
casts and in other ways. Great num-
bers of Icelanders in America are
expected as visitors on the day of
festival. According to American sta-
tistics there are in U.S.A and Cana-
da 7.000 and 19.000 persons respec-
tively, born in Iceland or of Icelan-
dic blood.
The economic life of Iceland was
in 1938, like the two previous years,
marked by comparatively small
profits on cod-fishing, counteracted
to some extent by profitable her-
ring-fishery. Although the catch of
cod rose to ab. 37.000 tons com-
pared to 28.000 tons in 1937, it is