The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-09-27
THE COUNTY SCHOOL FAIR
IT'S IMPORTANCE WAS STRESSED
BY SUPERVISOR LAND.
rmpressed Upon Teachers at the
County Institute Some OF the
BENEFITS to Be Derived.

County Institute Some OF 'he
BENEFITS to Be Derived.
4. .bo Terrell County Teachers
,,stitpte in Dawson last SATURDAY
s+ots snpervisor F. E. Land made a
800 talk in behalf of the Terrell
county School Fair, which will Dc
hold in Dawson on November Stn
1d 9TH next. The county school
toir he said, is full OF edu-
cationaI possibilities. 1t unifes the
educational forces of county
bringing into close cooperation the
sobool the home, the corn club, the
Sn-oeStic life club and other elements
Io-aorned in the child's education.
.obooI fair is stimulated to increas-
ed activities, mental ana Auusli "a a..
He is made to think IN larger unlts
and TO feel the community inter
ests his own. He discovers hlgh pos
sihilities of achievement at ms lmhe-
6iata command, whereas before ne
bad dreamed of successes to be won
in the vague and distant future.
prof Powell. in making an estl~
mate of the Barlow county 1alr' re-
Gently held, says: 1t was eduCd-
tionai in purpose, educational in the
nTocess of making the actual exhlb-
re educational in its brilliant result
perhans not the least important eau
ao+ional result of the movement is
tha+ in the increased yield OF corn per
acre In the boys contest there was
odded to the wealth of the county
three thousand dollars OF hard mon
ev which otherwise would not nave
haen in existence. There was proba-
NV half as much more created by the
Girls, canning clubs, ETC., that would
otherwise have gone to waste II IS
a modest estimate to say that there
Is in Barlow county today S0,OOo vi
solid wealth that would not be there
INIT for this movement. 1t mas also
hrought the school and the home
into closer harmony, has Vitallzeo
The educational possibilities OF the
ordinary activities of the home ana
has awakened the parents to more
lively interest in their children, IN
the school and in education gener-
ally"
The county school fair is a great
factor in the educational awakening
that is on in Georgia. Let me urge
that you begin now preparing lot tnl@
fair.
You will find the public responsive
to a movement of this kind. In the
counties which have held these fairs
there was no difficulty found in rails
ing funds by popular subscription for
prizes and other expenses.
In this successful Barlow county
school fair the parents entered INTO
the spirit of the occasion as eagerly
as the teachers and the pupils. Each
school Wed with the other in the
artistic arrangement of its own ex-
hibit, good fellowship was promoted
and pupils were stimulated to enter
into a broader scope of work.
What Barlow did Terrell can do,
and with it's splendid corps of teach
ers can come one better.
Several schools very enthusiastic
cally pledged themselves to make ex-
hibits, and all of the others promised
10 look into the matter and make
their decision soon. Every school
stands on an equal footing in the
general as we'll as individual exhibit.
The larger schools contest against
each other; then the schools with
two teachers, and last, but not least,
the schools with only one teacher
stand in class to themselves. Each
school that makes a general exhibit,
whether it wins out in the contest or
not will be entitled to free mem
bership in the travelling library
which will be sent out by the libarry
association.