The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-21

When ali IS said and done, it will OF course De
seen that the biggest thing about the North Ia1o
lima State Fair is the people who come 70 II.
That sounds like saying with much ado tha1 one
and one make two, but it is nevertheless a iac'
that will bear a little scrutiny and justify q little
reflection.
It takes folks to make a fair and whatever else
YOU have got besides will not make a tar II the
folks are not there. while if the people are there,
even though in limited numbers, you have con-
siderable of a show, especially II the folks SO
gathered have a faculty Of studying one another
carefully and assimilating all the food for
thought which the contemplation OF any living
person, no matter what his station in life, affords.
So much preliminary to the observation that
thronging the grounds of the Great State Fair
this week will be a finer lot of human beings than
Secretary Pogue has ever succeeded in assembling
there before. If they could be critically in
spected and graded point by point they would
be found to show several grades better than they
did last year and very decidedly better than they
did a decade ago.
Times are better. There is more prosperity in
the land. Prosperity brings culture and refine
r1ent and these in turn involve better notions OF
health and dress and physical wellbeing gener.
ally. North Caroiinians at the Fair this week
will be sounder physically and sounder mentally
for a sound mind is the con1panion-piece Of a
sound b~ody-and better looking, better dressed
and happier than they were last year.
The campaign for education in the State has
been going on apace and education means en-
lightenment, the discovery that happiness is just
around the corner waiting to be welcomed into
the heart and mind. And the campaign for edu-
cation has been broad and deep, as it should be.
Mind, body and soul have been cared for, the
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Evidences of these facts will be seen in the coun.
renances and the bearing of this weeks trooping
thousands.
So the Fair is a great clearing house for the
human values Of the State. It gives an oppor-
tunity Of appraisal and as we have stated,
thoughtful1y formed judgments this year will be
agreeable and full of cheer.
Another feature of the Fair this year that
evokes feelings of satisfaction is the announced
intention of the management to make it a Fair
that will offend the moral sense of none. It is
promised that there will be no unclean shows
and no gambling devices. The management
should be held strictly up to this promise. It
must ever be remembered that it is easier to
promise than it is to execute. We know that the
intention Of the management is to carry out its
promises to the letter, but we-also know that it
is going to be hard for it to do SO. The manage.
ment will need the assistance and the Judgment
of publ:cspirited citizens and we hope that such
assistance and cooperation will not be withheld
In every respect this is to be a Greater State
Fair this year. Greater in exhibits greater in
attractions, greater in buildings, greater in PEG
pie. 1t is an annual event to which Raleigh with
confidence invites the State. Those Of its people
who can come will find a full return for thei,
investment, with a further dividend to be de
clared.
All is in readiness for the big event Of th,
week, and here's wishing a happy time for al
who come to North Cardinals Great State Fair.
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