The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1911-08-03
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county's display.
When completed, the building will be
placed in such a condition as to render
it an ideal one for the purposes of an
exposition. The fact that each room
will have three walls, will be saving
of expense to the exhibitors as it will
obviate the necessity of constructing
division walls, beside furnishing a
space on which to place decorations.
While of late years many of our peo-
pie have come to look upon the various
state and national expositions which
have been held in all civilized coun-
tries as elaborate functions devised for
their pleasure and amusement, and
have visited them with that idea in
mind rather than with desire to keep
themselves informed upon the world s
progress in the varied industries and
arts of our modern civilization, never
theless moments consideration will
convince the thoughtful reader that
there is more solid and enduring
principle being worked out in these
stupendous undertakings, representing
as they do months and even years of
earnest preparation, than the mere,
ephemeral amusement of an idle crowd
of careless pleasure seekers.
A modern exposition, be its scope
large or small, or it's territorial range
worldwide or limited by the boun-
daries of a state or county, calls for an
active endeavor, as resourceful and in
telligent management, and as keen in
tuition and business acumen to insure
its successful outcome, as does prob.
ably almost any commercial or indus
trial undertaking in the regular aven-
ues of trade. 1t demands the sus-
tanned and alert concentration fol
many months of corps of active so.
licitors and specialists, it involves a
campaign of education. the creation OF
a fixed sentiment in the minds of the
people, the arousing of enthusiasm anc
the supplanting of lukewarm interest
by an earnest zeal which will transform
the laggard into booster and work
er. 1t calls for the exercise Of wise
discretion in covering as widely and
thoroughly as possible the basic OBJ.
jects of its conception; manufacturers,
merchants, prominent citizens, rail
ways and other corporate interests
have to be interviewed, interested and
enthused with the spirit of the oc-
casion, and welded together into a
useful and militant whole. harmonious.
ly working for the common aim, which
Lis the ultimate, triumphant success Of
the enterprise.
+ What power for good, what an edu'
cational value, what practical lessons
must be presented then in an exposi.
tion conceived and carried to a success.
full outcome by such methods as these,
Indeed, when viewed as whole, it
seems almost impossible to exaggerate
the practical, economic utility of such
a concentration of the best that man
has produced in the industries and arts.
In such spirit and with such an OBJ
ject in view the North Dakota Indus
trial Exposition, which will open its
doors at Bismarck September 26th, has
been undertaken. Here the NORTH
Dakota farmer will find, arranged il
attractive series, representative exam
Piles of the agricultural products of his
own state. Side by side with these
testimonies to his own industry he will
have an opportunity of studying the
very latest machinery and labor saving
devices by means of which the wile