The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-01-31

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Madison county fair has received a
copy of the resolutions adopted by the
Ohio Fair Managers association at the
recent meeting in Columbus, the copy
being sent here by Hon. Myers \,
Cooper. chairman Of the group and
former governor of Ohio.
The resolutions are given complete
as follows:
To the Ohio Fair Managers Associa-
ton:
Your Committee on Resolutions
begs leave to submit the following for
your consideration:
The Importance and necessity of
maintaining our fairs during the per
cd of economic stress must be appar-
ant to all who are interested in the
progress and development of farm life
in Ohio. The fair is the greatest COM
parative school in our state, contrib
uting to economic and social better
ment for young and old. It being pri-
marily an educational institution, its
economic and moral ideals have APP
pealed to the people and must be
maintained on a high standard to mer-
it their continued confidence and sup
port.
We congratulate the Fair Managers
Of Ohio, who have so successfully pro
noted Ohio's greatest crop, our boys
and girls. Practically fifty thousand
Of Ohio's youth are now participating
IN these annual exhibitions, learning
the value of team work and the bet
ter way Of doing things. This activ-
ity is a substantial contribution to-
ward greater development for our
state.
Every dollar of public money ex-
pended through the medium of the
County Fair in broadening the in
fluence of the fair in its many activi-
ties of benefit to the public will pay
the state abundantly in future divi-
dends.
There can be no compromise OF
principle in the development of this
great institution for the sake Of i'm
mediate financial expediency.
We commend the Fairs of Ohio III
their courageous stand to make them
clean, wholesome and educational, a
great family institution, which today
enjoys the patronage Of two million OF
our citizens and the respect of the en-
tire state.
We commend the Fair Managers IL
their various localities for then
prompt and business-like action il
meeting the present economic stress
by reducing the overhead expense anc
adjusting their budgets, including
premium lists, to harmonic with the
general decline in values. The reduc-
tion in gate receipts was an absolute
necessity in order to make it possible
for those benefited by the fairs to at
L6flu anu l1luS SuSUdlH lile HlSlitutioi
on a sound basis. We commend the
county commissioners of the state fol
their continued interest in the fairs b.
cooperating with the Fair manage
ments, in making appropriations en-
abling the fairs adequately to serve
the various communities Of the state
Nothing is more destructive to th'
development and maintenance of ;
fair than the centering of the activi
ties on a single feature. A well bal
anced fair means something of inter
est for every one and reflects tn
benefit financially at the gate. We
/ therefore, urge all Fair Management
\ to broaden their activities and thu
+ increase interest in the institution.
4 Since such a large portion of tn
/ fair is now devoted to the Junior worl
T we ask the general assembly for tn
necessary appropriation to maintain
the agricultural extension work on
standard which will not demoraliz
and destroy its effectiveness. Sucl
J eurtailments as will cripple the effec
] tiveness of the work already done an