The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-07-25
COOPERATION IS
PRIMARY MAXIM
OF STATE FAIR
EXPOSITION is ONE OF FIVE
LARGEST IN THE UNITED
STATES.
EXHIBITS BY GOVERNMENT
Man Must Come to Realize His D.
tendance Upon His FeIlowman
and Ally Himself With the
Great Universal Army.

Each fall for 68 consecutive years
the Michigan State Fair has been held
Starting as an exceedingly small and
unconsequential exposition It has
grown year by year until today the
Michigan State Fair is one of the ivs
largest annual fairs conducted on the
American continent.
Despite the fact that the State OF
Michigan has within its doors thii
great agricultural and Industrial dis
play, combined with the premier fea
lures OF the amusement world, there
are still many Wolverines unaware o.
its mission and who do not realize iti
Importance.
While the State Fair has been n
unlimited aid to the Industrial and az
ricultural life OF Michigan In former
years, this year its scope has beer
greatly widened and 1t will become Q
gigantic war agency. The federal gov
eminent has taken the fair under 1T
consideration and Is sending large so
hibits manned by federal employees.
Cooperation Solution of War.
Solution of the present atroeious
worlds war lies in the cooperation o.
the American public and Co-opsTa
ton has been the fundamental prin
ciple of the Michigan State Fair since
1849. This idea has been an under
lying maxim through the history d
the organization, but II has been es
pecially fundamental since the reini
OF Office were taken over by @. w
Dickinson, Secretary Manager. Ave
years ago. This year the great slogan
OF Cooperation will be In promi
hence more than ever before.
When a man sits down to mea
does he ever consider who provided
Il? Does he even know, in most cases
where the different components of that
meal came from? Did the salt and the
pepper drop as mama from heaven
Did the flax or the cotton which forms
the tablecloth grow upon the home
place? Were the fibers spun into yarr
by his housekeeper and was the clott
woven on the household loom? Die
he rear the animal which supplied the
meat?
Most Independent Are Dependent.
Who delved into the earth for thu
silver, the lead and the clay and who
turned these raw products into knives
forks and dishes?
No thoughtful man can consider
these questions without being tremen
dously impressed with the utter de
tendance of even the most Independent
man upon the cooperation of hundreds
OF thousands of his fellow men. whom
he has never met and never heard of
No matter what HIS vocation may b,
rich man, poor man, beggar mar
thief, doctor, lawyer, merchant chief
mans very existence is contingent
upon the cooperation of thousands o
people and organizations
The Michigan State Fair Is the gath
ering ground where this cooperation
may be established, and an agency fol
preventing men from becoming 9,
thoroughly specialists that they forge
the other fellow. II is there they leari
the great benefits which are know
to be the direct results of helpful CO
operation. At the 1918 Fair, to be held
in Detroit from August 80 to Septem
Der 8. ever patriotic citizen may lear
how he is able to do his share in CO
operating against the Hun.