Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-08-02
BADGE TO EACH
FARM MEMBER AT
THE WORLDS FAIR

A distinctive badge will be issued
to each member of farm groups, each
farm boy and girl during Farm Week,
August 1918, at the Worlds Fair of
1910 in New York, according to an
nouncement made today by Fair off,
cias. Those receiving them should
treasure them throughout the seven
days for the badge will admit them to
countless special programs and specl-
al shows now being arranged for the
entertainment of rural America.
"Open House" will be the order OF
the week among the Fairs major ex-
hibitors for those who possess these
badges. They will serve as the means
of entry into the many special con-
tests guessing, pickle guessing,
animal guessing, ETC., where suDstan-
tial prizes, sets of automobile tires
and the like, will reward the respect
i've winners. They must be displayed
by farm Boy Scouts to register for
the drawing Of 500 Scout kit which
will go to some fortunate youngster IN
the course of Farm Week. They will
serve to introduce their wearer to the
super-colossal barn dance which is to
be one of the weeks features. They
will bring many other special privi-
lodges to their owners during the ex-
citing and thrilling period.
Not all the details Of Farm Week
have yet been completed. The invi-
tation to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
to serve as the principal speaker on
the Farm Women's Day program on
Thursday, August Is, brought re-
spouse to the effect Mrs. Roosevelt
had pledged herself elswhere on that
day, and she since has been asked to
address Farm Week folk during the
Farm Boys and Girls Day program
on Saturday, August II.
A response from her as we'll as
from Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace, who has been asked to appear on
the opening day program, Monday,
August IL, is expected shortly.
Other featured participants already
have announced their readiness to do
their part in making Farm Week a
memorable occasion. Such responses
have come from Miss Helen Mullock,
the 2O-year-old Massachusetts, girl
who holds the title of women's nation
al champion woodchoppers; the Simon
brothers, ten in number, whose base
ball comedy act and other doings will
bring gales of laughter from the OBJ
servers, and from the 400 costumed
singers of the Orange County IN. W
Onion Harvest Festival. And Frank
Buck with his trained animals, the
stars of American Jubilee and of 9TH
er of the big shows of the Fairs a.
musement area as well as many from
New York stage, night club and ra-
dio circles all have agreed to present
special performances on one or an
other of the daily Farm Week pro-
grams.
Fair officials who have been as
signed the task OF preparing the barn
dance setting are tackling a brand
new task of outdoor decoration.
Theirs is the job of converting the
wide expanse of the Court of Peace
into something approximating a gi-
gantic barn interior with its tradition
al hav loft and with farm eouipment
and implements placed at stragetic
points about the dance area. At the
moment they are working out the de-
sign in readiness for the quick job
that must be accomplished of actually
producing the designed effect on the
eve of this Farm Week feature.
Reports from all parts of the coun-
try indicate tremendous response
to Farm Week on the part of nation
al Grange groups, Al Clubs, Farm
Bureau Federations, Future Farmers
of America and Rural Boy Scouts and
Girl Scout organizations. The fact
that this is the final season of the
Fair-the last season of what prob
conducted for many years owing to
ably is the last Worlds Fair to be
the troubled world situation-has sup
piled an additional urge for rural A
merica to enjoy the Fairs thrills,
wonders and entertainment during the
week specially assigned to Farm Folk.