The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-23

good citizenry of every calling through
cut the country will support these officials
in this laudable undertaking. 1t needs
grit, 90 and gumptior just now. 1t is
not long, only about four months, TO
get things together to encompass good
and suitable fair ground and encum-
brances If there is to be a fair, let
it be sure enough one, and make it
out-strip any other fair if practicable
You officers of the county fair have JOB
en- your hands. And you have hot wealth
er too. But little sweating in strenuous
work to have fair to be the pride of
the county will not hurt you. Call to your
aid the chief influences of the surrounding
country, and strive to get them aroused
and interested in the enterprise. Each
single man moving but little in his own
neighborhood for the successful outcome
of the fair, amounts to much when all
are counted together. Let's hear from
you gentlemen, that we may know your
plans.
What we have said above in regard
to the county fair applies as we'll to our
beat one fair. We trust the officers of
our beat fair will arrange matters in good
time so as to avoid unnecessary delays
and confusion along any part of the good
work
Let all our people have something from
field, garden, and pasture and poultry
yard, as we'll as something out of the
house and kitchen pantry to show in the
fall, and have such as can entitle you to
blue ribbon. The displays the more
experienced make at fair helps the in
experienced Thereby good is done. A
fair is an educational institution. We
learn there through the use of our eyes.
The most useful and the most needed and
improved articles catch the eye. The
bystander and the searcher after informa-
ton, "see the good works" of their neigh
bors, and they never forget it. Again,
a fair, beat or county, has the advantage
of engendering hearty and healthy COM
petition between farmers, and the far
mer's wives. We are not caring a straw
about horse-facing at fairs. We like to
have the colt trot under saddle or to Sulky,
to test mettle and speed of the animal
raised at home. Side shows at fairs have
but temporary relaxing effect on those
who attend them; but there is no per-
manent benefit from such. What we claim
as the best for a fair is an exhibition, to
the public, of the best articles you raised
or made at your home and on your farm,
and thus show your neighbors and the boys
what can do good all round permanently.
One educational feature round in good
fairs is the practical demonstr alton of the
possibilities of agriculture, stock raising,
poultry care, gardening, domestic indus
tries and SO on. Every man and woman
having anything raised or manufactured
by him or by her on the farms, that has
reached its tip-top degree of excellence
and producing that article 1or inspection,
in presence of even the unlettered and
ignorant neighbor, teaches that nelghbor
something he cannot dislodge from his
mind when he returns home. The question
will recur often Hwhy can't | raise or
make just as good articles on my own
place ?" This neighbor reads no papers
perhaps Stays at home and learns moth
ing of what is making swift progress
a0out him. But when he visits the fair
and sees the Ycnders from soils and pas
lures no better than his own, he is
awakened to new line of thinking and
consequent acting. Nothing more i'm
pressive and lasting to the mind than
practical lessons-leSsons learned through
the sight Then this nsighbor from the
back Sections takes on new life, and so
much mere and better things are accom-
plished by him, and his life is rendered
more pleasant and comfortable and he
prospers as never before, all because he
saw what the fair had to show.
Then there are the boys, the future
tillers of tie soil. They must need pick
up ideas as they grow, and where better
can they do SO than where are gathered
together the excellent products from the
farms, the pastures, the pantry, the gar
den, the pig pen and SO on. Young as
he may be, the boy will absorb through
seeing and retain lastingly what he has
seen and learned. And it starts him
further on in his chosen work, SO much
the sooner for now knowing things hel
And when the fair is of help to this one
and to that one, it is helping to many
one in different sections of the country;
so there is a general betterment all round.
Our young pastor of the Methodist
church certainly laid down the route of
many a young man who wanders from
the home under the impression of conceit
that he, the said youth, knows more than
his daddy does. His fine talk last Sum
day morning in the pulpit, on the Prodi-
gal, hits the nail squarely on the head
Many of our youths are so easily taken
in when they think to better their purse
and characters when they quit the farm
or village home and drift into cities.
The indulgent parents hates to block his
fond sons aims and desires for supposed
broader fields of works, and gives him a
few hard-earned dollars and lets him
go with fathers blessing and mothers
tears. The boy, unsophisticated in the
ways that are dark, readily finds open
INSCRIPTIONS arms to receive him as he
starts cut on an untried career. As is the