Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1913 — FAIR HAS HIGH PURPOSE. [ARTICLE]

FAIR HAS HIGH PURPOSE.

Improve Life qf Community. About this time of the year the Kankakee Interstate fair is advertising that it willhoM Its exposition September first to fifth. Amid all this advertising the observer may ask the purpose of such a fair. He "will be answered that a fair has an important purpose. Before all else it is an educational institution of the most successful type. It teaches by object lessons. This method of teaching we believe to be the most successful because it teaches without requiring ;a great deal of effort on the part of him who Is taught. At the fair, let un say, a man sees a new corn shieUer working. To learn from a written description how It works would require much timemuch study; and then one would not be certain that he understood the workings. But when the actual, working machine is before our eyes, we can grasp Its principle and judge of Its practicability Instantly. Thus, the interstate fair teaches the farmers of the newest InnovationsCln labor-saving and crop-increasing machinery. Stimulates Pqogreoa. In another way the J fair aids in Improving agricultural, progress. It arouses the fanner's . ambition. Nothing so stirs a man as-to see others doing a thing well. Where is the tamer who, when he sees his. neighbor producing better corn and raising better stock than be, does not set out to grow corn and raise horses that will surpass those of even hte neighbor? Men try to do what their neighbors do; but thefc try to do it better. At the fair the farmer sees what his neighbors have done in growing good, healthy ears of corn; he sees .their fat swine; he sees what can. be done in the breeding of choice l**e stock A fair plus a farmer eqaalJuggW csopa and bettor live steak., A 7” <