The farmer and mechanic., 1915-11-02
STATE FAIR PRONOUNCED SUCCESS,
THAT OF 1916 WILL BE BETTER YET

several view pointsfi for it brings that
corner OF the State into little closer
touch with the State, and puts VIII
niingtOn and Raleigh a little closer to-
eether. Rowan. Cumberland, Hay
wood, Guilford, the Sandhills country,
| and several sections were on hand, all
| OF them part Of the cOmmonwea}t
| Durham county had a fine exhibit.
| Tt was interesting not only because of
the good collection of farm products.
but also because Of the manufacturing
| the Durham mills undertook at the
| fair The substantial cooperation of
| the big concerns shows how this fair
ranked with the big industries, and
| the value they put on it's work. An
other thing in the Durham county ex-
hihit of note was the educational dis
play. From the primer class to the
completed work Of Trinity College the
display was miniature Of educational
progress. l venture the literary work
shown in the Durham educational
collection was q revelation to a lot
of folks. Books on several lines Of
thought, publications, and an Oddity
III the collection Of the ballads heard
in the county, brought out q new
phase of State life.
The Sand Hills exhibit hung TO the
idea Of diversitication of product. II
had the goods there to prove its case,
ard close along side was the Cum her-
land exhibit. which should have been
right along by the suffrage booth, for
, Cumberland county showed farm
j, scheme operated by a woman, and it
, was extremely good. Variety, abund-
! ance Of product, excellence of indi-
r vidual article all showed what the wo-
{ men can do as well as what Cumber-
land county can do.
| Prime Products Exhibited
Il They caught it coming and going
The agricultural department Of the
State, the educational department, the
T insurance department. in 8 space thai
o should have been much larger to &C
commodate the valuable exhibit, and
= l don't know what all, were there t
show what this old State can do WheI
| it tries. But enough OF the enrnora
:, ton. The point is that the COUNTIES
:, and the departments and the boys ant
:, = girls and the old folks and the womel
= and everybody, had taken intereS
. | enough to gather up their prime pro
;, ducts and bring them together TO shoy
- the State what it can do, and to shOv
other states what can be acCOmpliShe,
;, in North Carolina. [ don't recall TO
- sure whether it was Capt. Parrish o
that other creditable North Carolin
- product, Col. Wade Harris, who
- making the Charlotte Observer an
,, other thoroughly creditable Mort
!, Carolina exhibit who referred to Sec
= retary Daniels as one Of the mos
{. satisfactory North Carolina article
exhibited at the fair.
~ In starting out I said this article wa
., planned to be the view OF newspape
~ man OH the fair. It is legitimat
" therefore to include all the things
- saw there as far as l can recall then
and while / stood trying TO hear whs
a. Mr.. Daniels was saying my newspa pt
y instinct was by force Of ha bit putin
80 him under the inquisitOrial micro
~ scope. A North Carolina exhibit, q
- except the silk lid. and that bunch
10 dicers flashed up there was the fir
~ ~ that has come under my notice in tn
Al State in several years. When | W;
= young like Daniels and Parrish al
~ Craig and Benehan Cameron l use
-. to be partial to a silk hat, and son
-, day may cultivate the habit again
~ I get old and digni1led.
og Gauging Il North Carolina Produc
-, North Carolina exhibit, and
you stop to think, a product that mo
=; ed from q newspaper shop down
Washington to presently find himse
O., in authority in a great department
W q great government that is standing
the danger line which is all that sep
rates it from sharing in q world wi
ITS war AS a newspaper man, col
bloOded as newspaper men are, | c:
ny, | separate Daniels from his surrOun
to irgS and size him up merely as q ia
M tor and not as a man. Il is rig
raj trying time, but that good -natur
Ia looking chap addressing the crowd
III the grand stand at the fair is r
nd talking to me at all. He is talking
the the crowd while l am taking his gau
by at Washington. They have not caue
the him asleep once since the war bro
orn out, when | come to think Of it,
not like TO see a newspaper man ma
ice. good, but that is not the whole thi1
rem AS a newspaper man ] claim 2 sort
rth credit for the craft when one of tn.
ost. does make good. SO far Secre4e
sset Daniels has showed them A. Gle
ect- slate. That knowledge of the Il
ted and the false that comes to the ney
ton UaDer worker has stood thic ,,on