The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-24

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every exhibit at the Fair. Genuine
old-fashioned unadulterated American.
ism furnished the subject for impromptu
speeches made by various former
wcarers Of the blue and gray who oc-
cupied the time Senator Golobie was TO
have filled.
I've fought a bitter fight fifty years
ago to decide whether America should
be all slave or all free" said one
speaker. The time has now come when
our sons and grandsons must fight to
decide whether the people OF the world
shall govern themselves or whether
their lives shall be subject to the whim
OF tyrant
Il want to say to the mothers here
and in all America that many worse
things can happen TO their boys than
their becoming soldiers envy them
the privilege OF fighting on the soil OF
France in defense OF human rights.
l. W. W.s Condemned.
u have heard these hyphenated
Americans these traitors. these paoifiSts
and |. w VS. say we should 20, send
our boys to foreign land. BIN which
is preferable sending them to France
to iigh, or waiting until German
army lands in our country and desc
crates our women and mu,la,es our
children as the Huns have done in Bel
gum and in France'"
The machinery field attracted a grca,
share OF the attention OF rural Fair
visitors this morning High prices for
farm products the need for still more
ioodS,uifS TO supply the warning ma
tlonS OF the world, and the prosperity
enjoyed by the farmers during the last
year, II is predicted, will cause the sale
OF more up-to-datc farm machinery and
implements during the next six months
than IN many years.
In spite OF the drou,h suffered in
various sections OF Oklahoma this year
agricultural exhibits are of remarkable
quality In the Indian buildings are ex-
hibtS from the Shawnee agency Pom
ca school Fort Sill school Riverside
school, klowa agency, Pawnee agency,
Five CIVILIZED Tribes. Sac and Fox
agency Otoe agency and Seger school
and Seger agency
The picturesque names which las,
year added romantic note to the In
dian building such as the Red Moon
agency and the Rainy mountain school
are missing this year
Excellent County Exhibits.
In the agricultural building are many
excellent county exhibits. chief among
which are those of Harmon Oklahoma,
Custer, Creek, and Comanchc. An
American eagle, made of kaf:r and milo,
forms the ccnterpiece Of the Oklahoma
county exhibit II is depicted as fly
ing eyes downward, as though seeking
prey. Around il done in corn is the
motto TO Germany Through tho
Air.
Harmon county has another cleverly-
executed design II, too, is made of
kafir, On one side is a kaiir Uncle
Sam holding huge cornucopia from
which pour the varied products of the
farm. On the other side is a kafir
Kaiser, holding an empty cornucopia.
Between them is the motto This viii
Help Us Win" All through the agricul-
tural exhibits this patriotic note creeps.
even in the decorations many Of which
are formed of red, white and blue farm
products.
AT 9 o'clock this morning judging
was started in the boys clubs, poultry
and farm products departments at 10 |
o'clock in the babies health conference
md county exhibits. and at | 30 o'clock |
his afternoon in the swine and Jersey
iepartments in the livestock section.
Winners in the county exhibits are
Expected to be announced next Thurs
lay Winners in other departments
will be announced from time to time
throughout the week.