The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-14
ATTENDANCE AT
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| pected to attend the fourth day of the
premier free exposition of the west.
The first racing event will be the
2:2S trot for purse OF $1,000. nor
was there any indication that there
would be less speed than on Tuesday,
when the trotting record was broken.
| for new horses from many states were
| entered in the event. The 2:25 pace
for 5000 are also on the program. On
the running card was the one-mile
race for a 5000 purse, from which
| Way Behind. winner Of the Kansas
/ Derby, was barred. The last event
will be six furlongs for a 81 900 pay.
envelope, consolation for horses that
started and did not win first in previ-
GUS events
Geo. NJ. Stone to Lecture.
| 4 feature that will interest hum
dreds of Free Fair visitors is the lee
ture on art and critical analysis of
George M. Stone, the widely known
| Kansas artist, in the Peoples pavilion
at 2 o'clock. A number of the art
works will be brought over from the
Art department and their qualities
| pointed out by Mr.. Stone in his talk.
| The lecture will be free to the public.
| The chief feature of interest tonight,
| aside from the big night show, will be
| the rural dramatics contest to be held
| in the Peoples pavilion at 1880
L a.
contest-the Highland Park rural
| high school, the Dover rural high
school, Seaman rural high school, the
| Dover Federated. church and the
Montgomery county farm bureau. The
plays to be presented tonight will be
| Making Farm Life Interesting" by
| the Montgomery county farm bureau;
| Take Initiation" by the Seaman rural
high school. and a play by the High
| land Park rural high school
| Rural Dramatics Contest.
The rural dramatics contest is a
| new department of the Free Fair this
year and promises to be a very in
| teresting one. 1t is designed to en-
! courage the wider use of entertain
ment of a higher grade by the var
ious organizations active in rural
communities. All participants in the
plays must be bona fide residents of
Kansas, but no restrictions are placed
on the age of the players. The plays
| must be such as may be rendered in
an ordinary hall or school room with
| the minimum requirement as to seem
| cry and stage accessories. No play
may exceed thirty-five minutes in
length.
The organization presenting the best
| one-act play will receive a first prize
| $25, $40 each are offered. In
| judging the plays. the judges will use
| this system: Interpretation of the
spirit of the play. 40 points. ability
and preparation of the players, 40
points and selection of the play best
suited to the purpose, 20 points. The
contest will be free to the public.
| The usual interesting bee demon
| STATIONS by Frank G. -OdeI in the
plaza of Agricultural hall were to be
| given this morning and afternoon to-
gether with the usual concerts by
| MarshalPs band and the radio con-
certs in the radio pavilion afternoon
and evening.
| Chancellor E. H. Lindley of kansas
| university, and DR.. p. P. Womer,
president Of Washburn college, spoke
| at the Kansas Free Fair today over
| the Bell loud speaker.
! There was a Washburn program at
| II o'clock this morning and a Kansas
university program at 4 o'clock this
| afternoon. Musical numbers were
provided by both Institutions for their
respective The girls quar-
tet and the male quartet Of Washburn
| college sang several numbers during
| the Washburn hour. On the univer-
| sity program Dean Butler of the Kan
| sas university school of fine arts and
I. z. Henry each sang several selec-
| tons.
Tonight from $50 to 1870 a con-
| cert will be given over the loud
| speaker.
Friday morning at 1890 the speak
ers will be T. A. McNeal of the Cap
per publications and Charles L. Mitch
ell. In the afternoon Margaret Hill
will speak. There will be music on
both of tomerrow's programs.
| Doctor Wofner Gives Address.
There is no interest of the Ameri-
| can people" said Doctor Womer in
his address this morning, that is so
| deep and far reaching as that of edu-
| cation, because, as Mr.. Wells puts it,
/ our civilization today is a race be-
| tween education and catastrophe
The Larger Purpose of Education.
The larger purpose Of education
/ is social and not merely personal and
| private. It is not meant that our per-
sonal interests are not important, but
simply that our personal interests
should be linked up with larger ideals
| and ends AS one leading educator
puts it, The young people who are
gathered in our various institutions of
learning have been set free from pro-
ductive la Dor for the high privilege of
special training for social service. And
| these young people need to realize that
the only justification for special privi-
lege Of any kind in the worlds
democracy is corresponding devotion
to the common service,
Civilization and Personality,
1.-THE level of civilization, says a
great writer, is determined by the
leverage of personality. If this is true,
it means that the secret of social prog
ress is found in those educational pro-
cesses that enrich the personality.
Can we succeed thru education in
| raising the general level of person
atty? That and nothing less is the
educational challenge of today.
What Education Should Accomplish.
There are three ends especially
that education should accomplish for
us:
"(1) 1t should make US thoughtful
in the truest sense because it is
thoughtful people upon whom the
worlds progress depends
"(2) 1t should deepen our sense of
kinship with others because it is this
sense of~kinship highly and finely de-
veloped that is the true working basis