. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . CHAPTER IIISOCIAL PROGRESS THE movement for definite human betterment and an advanced socialorder, with a strengthening of social consciousness and an emphasisof the principles of individual responsibility and the morality ofnations, took form in the Worlds Social Progress Congress which met at theExposition Auditorium from April i to u inclusive. The Chairman of theCommittee on Arra
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . CHAPTER IIISOCIAL PROGRESS THE movement for definite human betterment and an advanced socialorder, with a strengthening of social consciousness and an emphasisof the principles of individual responsibility and the morality ofnations, took form in the Worlds Social Progress Congress which met at theExposition Auditorium from April i to u inclusive. The Chairman of theCommittee on Arrangements was Bishop William M. Bell of Los Angeles,and he presided at almost all the sessions. Leaders in ethical movementstraveled long distances to appear and address the congress, and the addressesultimately made a 400-page book, covering in the most effective manner atremendously wide field of possible reform. The congress was authorized and promoted by the Committee of OneHundred in charge of religious work at the Exposition—a body institutedby the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, with BishopEdwin H. Hughes of San Francisco at its head, working through the follow-ing special com
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