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Show STATES URGED TO HOLD GREAT FAIRS View Is Taken That Sucli Expositions Will Tend to Increase Food Production. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 11. The fact that greater farm production in the future, during peace times, is apparently more essential than during the period of war in the past, because of the hundreds of millions of people in the world that must be fed, decided the American Association Associa-tion of Fairs and Expositions at its annual an-nual convention at Chicago to urgo ea i of its seventy members to stage in l'Hv greater fairs and associations than ever before in thefr history. It is held that those fairs in the United States reach personally one-third of population who actually visit them and there is no greater, avenue of farm production pro-duction propaganda in the country. O. P. Hendershot, secretary of the Idaho State fair, which is a member of the association, has just returned from the meeting. He was elected as one of the three members of the association's governing board as well as a member of the association's committee, authorized, to confer with government officials at Washington with relation to touring the country with a big war exhibit consisting consist-ing of relics of the battlefield. These exhibits are to be placed on display while the various fairs and expositions are in proqress. I The Iewiston livestock show, rapidly developing into one of the biggest of its i kind in the northwest, was admitted by j tho association as a member, Secretary : Hendershot announces. |