Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-10
CAPITOL WILL BE USED
AS FOR STATE FAIR
When the Georgia Corn Show
is Held.

Atlanta, November Sit is seldom
that dignized capitol building is
turned into state fair, but that is
just what is going to happen to the
Georgia capitol building when the ex-
hibitits are spread over its floods and
under tbs dome for the second annual
Georgia Corn Show, December to 6
inclusive.
Nor could the capitol building be de-
voted to better purpose, as Governor
Jos. NJ. Brown himself has stated, thar
the encouragement and uplift of one
of Georgia's most substantial and most
promising agricultural industries-the
growing of corn.
When he gave his consent to the use
of the capitol building for this purpose,
Governor Brown remarked that it
made no difference who was governor.
that there was nothing which he or
the corn club boys of Geogia that
any other man could do to encourage
ought not to be done.
And so the capitol has been turned
over to the 10000 corn club boys of
Georgia wherein to exhibit the prod
ucts of their industry and energy and
to the Girls Canning clubs to display
their talent in building collateral in
dustry that is going to grow in the ag-
gregate into a big Georgia business.
Not only that but the capitol build
ing is also to be the scene of a feast
in which the 10000 or more corn club
boys who will come to Atlanta for the
show will participate-the dinner on
December 4 which will be rendered
them complimentary by the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce.
In the capitol building the corn and
show will be free to every Wis
itor, and they are cordially invited to
come and see what Georgia boys and
girls have done and can do,
officers of the Georgia National
Guard have expressed deep interest
in the movement to organize the visit
ing corn clubs into regiment of boy
scouts, in charge of Captain w. H.
Leahy of the Fifth regiment.
In this work will be laid the found
atoms of military training the inn
portance of which cannot be too
strongly emphasized.
From the boy scouts thus organized
will come the future recruits for the
national guard organizations of the
state more than that it will, it is be-
lieved, tend to the development of ma
tional guard organizations nearer to
the rural districts of the state where
police protection is most needed
With the boy scout idea which is the
military drill in its first stages, carried
by the hundreds of boys who visit At
lanta, to the 10000 all over the state,
in the organizations whose member
ship will within few months, be dou-
bic that number, the important and
fan-reaching influence of such a move
ment cannot be estimated Moreover
oy scout raining means a dissemina-
ton of respest for law and ordC :,
whiih must essentially have a wide
spread moral infiuenne throughout
the state.
A big parade of lorn club boys,
headed by Governor Brown and his
staff, and escorted by the Fifth regi-
ment infantry, will conclude the corn
show progress. In this parade the
boys from each county will carry
banner upon which will be inscribed
TIE county's record in corn production;
and this parade will live in moving
pictures to tell the whole country
what Georgia boys have accomplish
ed