The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-11
Sup't Boys and Girls Clubs at
Free Fair Kept on Alert.
Exhibitors "Gang" Him for All
Kinds of Information. q
CANNING EXHIBIT A FEATURE
State Clubs Have Given Great
Stimulus to This Work.
Anderson County Girls Form
Winning Team This Year.

The Boys and Girls club exhibit
at the fair has grown so much in three
years that the show this year. with its
5000 exhibitors, is one of the largest
and most interesting on the lot.
Dozens OF girls, and women inter
csted in the girls, who came here as
team leaders, form little mobs and
gang up on Otis +. Hall, superintend-
ent of the show. thru almost each OF
the twenty-four hours in a day.
Women have come with their young
charges from all parts OF the state.
There are a thousand things that
strangers in a strange land want TO
Know. They are going to display their
things at other fairs. Moving of ex-
hibits must be attended to. Rooms,
meals. transportation, freight. express.
approximate expenses. and ten thou
eand other questions that women want
70 ask, Otis T.. Hall must answer at
once. They brook no delay. He must
be master, an expert at all things.
Hall Is all OF those things. He has
the excellent qualities of leadership
coupled with an infinite patience for
making details clear and keeps the
crowd on safe path at all times. He
has just about the hardest, busiest job
on the grounds.
The Boys and Girls clubs are the
outgrowth Of arrangements by which
the government cO-operates with ag-
ericultural schools in establishing
these clubs The idea is purely edu-
cational The idea is to take the coll
lege to the clubs. A staff OF specialists
is maintained. They have their own
particular lines of work. These go
out and teach this work to the chill
dren in their local clubs. Then come
other teachers who teach them differ
ent work.
The exhibit is held in a brand new
building a the middle of the west
side OF the fair grounds. It is one
OF the cleanest and most attractive
places on the grounds. In the build
ing are exhibited specimens of the
various sorts OF work undertaken by
the clubs. There is corn raising. gem
eral gardening. canning. sewing. bread
baking, and several other features. all
a part of the work learned thru the
clubs.
As an example of the high regard
in which the club proposition is held
is the testimony OF woman from out
in Anderson county. At one of the
club demonstrations this woman
learned methods that resulted in q
saving OF over $50. Naturally she is
strong for the work. So are all the
other women who have come here so
that the children's teams might ex-
hibit
The canning work is a feature of
the exhibit They can can anything
in the way OF food that can be gotten
into a can. said Hall. In talking OF
the excellent work the youngsters
have performed. He called to a
group OF womer.
Tell me how many women were
canning corn I'm your district before
the club started" They shook their
heads-none. Two hundred quarts of
corn were put up by the winning team.
One girl canned fifteen quarts, from
start to finish in one hour.
The canning exhibit is really Won
derful But when 1t is realized that
most Of the exhibits have been put up
by youngsters under fifteen years OF
age one stops to think bit.
The winning team is from Ander-
son county. They are: Lou Ada
Blunt. age 10. Of Kincald. who has
record OF 900 quarts OF various articles
canned in two months; Bessie Lowry
IS years old. also of Kincaid, who
placed no estimate on what she had
done: Verle Hickman, also IS years
old. from Bayard, who has a record
Of 900 quarts canned. For winning
in the contest this team gets a free
trip tn Sioux City. Iowa, where they
will place their things on exhibit in
a fair at that place. They expect to
win for Kansas.
The canning exhibit contains speci-
mems OF work done with almost every
variety Of fruit or vegetable. Many
OF the specimens are things that are
not ordinarily canned In homes and
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