Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-07-19
FARMER EVIDENT
IN WORLDS FAIR
ACTIVITIES

siderable citizen, the American farm
er, is responsible for Unprecedented
activity among all elements which go
to make ur the Worlds Fair of 1910
n New York.
The week Of August 1918, inclu-
sive, has been designated as Farm
Week at the Fair. From near and
from far Mr.. American Farmer with
his wife and family is to make the
trip to the magic acres of the great
exposition on Flushing IL. - Mea-
dow. He and they will come as men,
bers of Grange units, Fourth Clubs,
Future Farmers of America, the Jun
ior Farm Bureau and allied or similar
organizations. And the Fair officials
the great industrial and governmental
exhibitors and the Billy Roses, Mike
Todds, Frank Bucks, ct al, of the
Fairs Amusement Area now are pre-
pairing to make that week the most
thrilling, the most entertaining and
the most instructive that Mr.. Ameri-
can Farmer and his family ever will
enjoy.
Already the Fair officials have seen
to 1t that the housing, food and enter
tainment costs of the Farm Week ex
cursions are scaled at minimum rates.
Admission to the Fair has been reduc
ed from Is to so cents. Parking on
the Fair fields has been cut to % cents
for the entire day. A huge restau-
rant-the Five and Ten Cent Restau
rent-which, as its name implies, pro-
vides an extensive menu on which no
item costs more than ten cents, per-
mits the food budget to be kept with
in the most reasonable bounds. So,
also, do the scores of snack bars about
the Fair Grounds where the hot dog
and the hamburger battle for the title
of prize piece de resistance. A half
hundred New York City hotels give
special rates to Fair visitors who wish
to reside in the city during their stay.
And the Mayors Rooming Bureau has
inspected and listed 100000 rooms in
private homes within the five-cent
fare radius at prices at low as rs cents
per day.
And, having thus assured a mini
mum expense for Participants in Farm
Week, the business of making Farm
Week stirring, an exciting, an I'M
forgettable experience for those who
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range or plantation is now the chief
concern of all Worlds Fair agencies.
The first step in this direction was
the assigning of special days during
Farm Week. Monday, August IL, is
designated as Farm Press Day." It
will be followed in turn by Farm
Products Day." Farm Progress Day.,
Farm Woman's Day., Farm fOrgani-
zation Day., Farm Boys and Girls
Day., and Farm Folks Day."
Only the essential and brief for
malities, however, are to mark the
week and speech-making, while not
taboo, will be restricted to those who
have message which Mr.. American
Farmer or his family wish to hear.
This latter is to be the order be-
cause the Fair and it's exhibitors wish
Farm Week patrons to enjoy to the
fullest extent the manifold offerings
of the mighty Fair-the last season
of what now would seem to be the last
Worlds Fair to be conducted for many
years.
William Allen White, celebrated
Kansas editor, who knows the Aneri-
can farmer and his people, suggested
the Fairs approach to Farm Week.
In recent conversation with Harvey
D. Gibson, Chairman of the Board of
the Fair, he said:-
when we folks from the open
spaces set out for Worlds Fair, we
do so with the idea of being thrilled
and entertained as never before In
the first place we want to see the
two-headed calf. That's figurative, of
course. The 'two-headed calf in which
we're interested may be actually
two-headed calf-and l believe you
have one here at the Worlds Fair.
But each person has his own two
headed calf 1t may be your Futura-
ma, your American Jubilee, your para
chute jump, your Aquacade, any one
of your foreign pavilions, your rail-
road show, your talking automobile,
your Lagoon of Nations symphony of
fountain, fire, lights and music, or any
of the countless beautiful, wonderful,
amazing, or laugh-provoking offerings
to be seen here. Whatever our pet
'two-headed calf may be, we want to
see that first.
AFTER we've seen it, our aims are
as varied as the aims of city people.