The farmer and mechanic., 1915-11-02

much narrower channel if they never |
got away from home attracted by just |
this kind of think. l think the fair is |
a good thing, and that the shows are |
highly important in making the rair |
"a success, don't you?"
Now, in my superior high brow
style / had net looked at it from the
boys point of view, but when he
showed it to me / had sense enough
to see that he had the idea.
let that kid lead me around. He
had to get a closer look AT the flying
machine. and he stopped a minute TO
figure out the centrifugal influences
that held the motorcycle on the wall
in the side show. and the gyroscope
top, and it was necessary to hunt up
the iron works whore they are max
| ing shells for the government. We
| sized up the road building, and the
| poultry, and the resistance Of the
| truSSes that support the grand stand
with it's weight Of people, and the
| Haywood county apples, and the
well take the premium list and go
| through it. l showed that boy up
! against a lot OF men worth while for
him to know, Gov. Daughtridge, Of
/ r ocl<y Mount; Mclean, of Lumberton;
| Everett. of Durham: Patrick, Wades-
| boro: Mcmillan, of Wilmington; Fred
| Olds, that compendium OF North
Carolina history and achievement who
| ought to be in every boys library,
| and o string Of them that will keep
him thinking he has been overrun
| with greatness and give a far better
ccncantion Of the personal factor Of
his State.
Educatcs In Hundreds OF Ways.
What it does for that boy this fair
is doing for thousands Of other boys.
nd
Gates in hundreds of ways we do not
realize until the boys and girls take
, UP the subject after they get home.
And it gets the boys and girls who
? are farther along in years than these,
for all ages are the gamers.
| am not trying to tell anything
, about what We saw at the fair My
motive is rather to show that the fail
was g pronounced success, and it was
= the biggest success in It's influence
$ which will be oXerted next year ir
making the fai Of 1916 a bigger
8 success.
v big lesson is to be learned from
S this fair. At it's inception Capt. Par.
c rish appealed TO the newspapers Of the
4 State to take a hand in presenting t,
G the people OF North Carolina the pos
z sibilities Of the fair as an educationa
and publicity factor. Col. Pogue fol
n and the newspaper men responded.
: am Of the opinion that in doing s,
s they have cast bread on the waters
q for it seems to me that Col. Pogue an,
I the new president, whoever he ma,
e be. are going TO plan their campaigl
1t right away to make the next fair
k broader one than this one. and tina
le Trey will try TO reach the point even
lie tually where the State Fair will b
len. Il
II Will have such an income that ever
fair can advertise literally with tn
ir papers and pay them considerabl
c. sums OF money for the service I ar
ly confident that had the fair been favor
e. ec with good weather this year the ir
* come would have been such that til
IS. advertising appropriation for ne,
LII year would have been made muc
G. larger. Unfortunately It can be mad
Sc only as big as income warrants.
have not yet heard what this season
income is But l know that in tt
.st next two or three years the income
ne going to be much larger than eve
an for the fair this year has taken c
ne another color.
is True TO Name.
re 1t is useless to speak of the exhibi
as and try TO refer to them except i'll
general way. for they were too man
o' ana were seen Dy 100 many people
We take time to describe them The ir
rs preston as a whole, and the gener
n result is all that can be cited. Prim
Oh rlly it was an agricultural fair.
we this respect it was true TO name, al
lit. Col. Pogue says the exhibits from t
he counties were in greater number
get far than previously. The work OF t
he girls canning clubs the boys co
no clubs, and things Of that sort cam
a in1 in hniy ir7>Yl nr.to
ess This exhibition of what the childr
is o. North Carolina are doing is wor
to the State all the entire fair CO
ght II is a practical showing of an as.
ing that had not until lately been suspe
err ed. The boys and girls have present
9m. tangible evidence that if the cotf
IAN crop should be absolutely wiped
at North Carolina can turn to somethi
go else and produce unlimited millit
+ a Of value. A pound Of pork is wo