The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-10
FARW PAGE

A gOodly organization OF public
spirited citizens is tremendously
working together to bring about
that event, and great organiza-
ton, borI- OF high public spirit
and an exalted citizenchip, is back
of the movement with all it's we'll
earned prestige. it's years of expert
ence, it's splendid equipment, and
it's unselfish membership.
To resort to legal phraseology,
"the party of the first part is the
Macon Georgia State Fair Associa-
ton, and ''the party Of the second
part" is that grand old organiza-
ton, the Georgia State Agricultural
Society, which has been working
year after year for sixty-fve years
for the kctterment Of agricultural
and industrial conditions in Geor-
gia.
The event is being advertised as
"The Georgia State Fair, conducted
by the MCcon Georgia State Fair
Association, under the au, pices of
the Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety," Macon, October 1920, 1911.
The local association has done
good work since it's first year, 1908.
This is the fourth year of ten-year
(cOntract) term wit the Georgia
State Agricultural Society The To-
cal association contributed to the
capital stock $500; the State So
citety, $500. What did the two
organizations make? Practically,
nothing; they did not start with
purpose other than to render high
services TO agriculture, and thus
to the wLole State.
When you speak of contr. buttons
made to the praisworthy undertaking
by the local Association of the State
Society, you must construe the de-
claratiOn to be one Of courtesy pure
ly; for, in point of fact, the contri-
buttons were individual.
Think Of an organization devoting
sixty-five years of perfectly clean
life to the purpose of advancing
agriculture, to the encouragement of
industrial progress, to deeGs of high
empires along peaceful lines.
The Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety was the avant coureur of devel-
opment, il the broadcast and most
comprehensive sense of the word, in
the every-broadening field of ag-
riculture. Far in advance of Mr..
Hatch, it stood for the great
work which the Experiment Sta
ton in every state and ter
ritory in the Union is to-day doing
Far in advance Of the Morrill, bill of
1862, which called into existence the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS agricultural
colleges, it stood for agricultural edu-
cation. 1t was sponsor to the present
State College Of Agriculture of Ath-
ems, and, in recognition of the fact
and the timely services rendered, the
Society was accorded, in the person of
some of its most active members, rep
reSentation on the Board of Trustees
of the University of Georgia. To be
more accurate: Under an Act of 1878
the charter of the Univer ity was so
changed as to add four additional
trustees to the Board of Trustees,
which four should be elected4by the
Georgia State Agricultural Society.
This act was of force till the Act of
1889, under the provisions of which
the Society lost it's unsought repre-
sentatiOn. | mention the fact to in
stance recognition, on the part of
the State and the University, of a
helpful hand given to the parties
at interest at a crucial moment by
our noble old Society.
Indeed, you can not mention
good movement in the State-pub-
lie in character-that WIS not ex-