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Show NATION'S WAR WORK WILL BE SHOWN IN U. S. EXHIBITS Every Activity of Government Will Be Displayed at State Fair September 28 to October 5. and fought; how valuable timber can be saved for war uses, and the need of retaining re-taining forests to retard soil erosion on slopes. Transportation Exhibit. Distinctive exhibits of the bureau of chemistry illustrate the enforcement of the food and drugs act, production and preservation of food products, use of tanning tan-ning materials, production of colors and other chemical industries. Differences between be-tween true and imitation commercial articles ar-ticles are shown, and light is thrown on adulterated or -misbranded medicinal preparations, including headache "remedies," "reme-dies," "beauty" preparations, asthma, consumption and other alleged "cures." Samples of the soils that occur in the United States, including some local to the neighborhood of the particular exhibition, exhi-bition, together with information relating to their best use in farming, are among the bureau of soils displays. The states relations service shows its work, in cooperation co-operation with the state agricultural colleges, col-leges, in spreading farming information through county agents, home demonstration demonstra-tion agents and boys' and girls' clubs and illustrates food conservation by canning and drying. The bureau of entomology's exhibits of destructive insects and ways of combating combat-ing them are expected to be particularly interesting at this time of need for more food production and conservation. Dike-wise, Dike-wise, the bureau of biological survev's displays of stuffed animals and birds, representing rep-resenting the control or destruction of the predatory species and the conservation conserva-tion of the desirable kinds, take added significance. Demands on the railways, with growing use of motor routes, stress the importance of the good roads construction con-struction and maintenance exhibits of the office of public roads and rural engineering, engi-neering, and war conditions also lend interest in-terest to the bureau of markets' displays of safe methods of shipping grain, distribution dis-tribution of farm products, grain standards stand-ards and cotton standards, and various types of shipping containers. Agriculture has been called the most peaceful industry in the world, but it is believed' that the ' department's displays will remove any question as to efficient farming being absolutely essential in an j effective war machine. Feeding Our Allies. But America must not feed Itself alone. It must sustain millions of the citizens , and fighting men of our vaiiant allies, i The food administration, in its exhibits, i will drive that fact deep. Feature dls- j plays will be decorative panels contributed ! by representative American illustrators to , illustrate twelve points in a recent speech by Herbert Hoover, food administrator. The purpose, scope and accomplishments accomplish-ments of the food administration, the situation with which it is dealing and work being done by .the home conservation conserva-tion department will be shown. Food From the Deeps. The bureau of fisheries of the department depart-ment of commerce has displays to urge the utilization of fishery products now used little or not at all, but that are available to help supply the demand for meat. Samples and posters of whale, shark. gray fish, aableflsh, eulachons, burbots, drums, tilefish, skates and rays represent some of the dining-table strangers to be shown. The fisheries exhibit also will display tan skins of aquatic animals and most people know that leather is valuable now with a demonstration of pearl button but-ton manufacture, one of the industries that Germany dominated before the war. War Efforts in Films. Programs of moving pictures treating many war-time themes will be shown in connection with the. other exhibits. They will screen American soldiers at the fighting fight-ing front and in camp; farmers striving for bigger crops in the country; methods of conserving as well as increasing the food supply; views of beautiful landscapes land-scapes in the national parks; reclamation of arid lands, highway construction and other activities, many of them in direct relation to winning the war. Four-minute Men Join In. At every fair where the combined exhibits ex-hibits will be displayed the four-minute men the volunteer speakers who are fighting disloyal propaganda and urging unstinted pu blic support for every war movement will gather in state conclaves. They will speak the regulation four minutes min-utes between the official motion pictures, pic-tures, and will assist the soldiers and sailors and department representatives in explaining displays. The four-minute men will have headquarters at booths to be maintained by the committee on public information. At a number of the fail's where trackage track-age facilities can be provided in or near the grounds one of the mine rescue cars of the bureau of mines, department of the interior, will be open to the public. Pull crews of five men will be on duty to explain the intricate rescue apparatus. TUB United States government has combined its traveling displays of public work and is to exhibit them so as better to inform the people concerning the work of their government gov-ernment tuward winning the war. The combined display will be a war show I irom beginnipg to end, for every activity 1 of r,ie government now has a bearing, , more or less direct, on the one national aim oi preserving popular rule for the ; world. Thus, not only will there be vital : interest in the exhibits of the war and ! navy departments, but in the displays of I the work of the department of agricul-I agricul-I tu re in stimulating increased production of ood ; the activities of the food administration adminis-tration in encouraging the conservation and equitable distribution of this fundamental funda-mental war munition; the addition of new food sources through the bureau of fisheries fish-eries of the department of commerce; the safeguarding of human life and indirectlv increasing of coal production through the work of mine rescue cars of the bureau of mines, department of the interior; and the spreading of official news through the committee on public information. The combined government exhibits will be shown from September 28 to October o at the Utali state fair. Thev will be housed in the Agricultural building and will occupy many square feet of floor space. JS'o charge will be made for admission, ad-mission, to the government displays. From Coast to Coast. The joint committee on government exhibits, ex-hibits, which acts for the various departments depart-ments in administrating the displays and is headed as chairman by F. Lamson-Scribner Lamson-Scribner of the department of agriculture, agricul-ture, has contracted for the exhibits to be shown simultaneously on five circuits of approximately thirty-five state fairs and expositions from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Organization of five circuits does not mean that any one circuit will be favored or discriminated against in the quantity or quality of displays. The government exhibit material is of such magnitude that no fair has been- able to -offer more space than will be filled. The army and navy exhibits have been made up in rive duplicate du-plicate sets. In fact, practically the only variations of note in the displays will be in those of the department of agriculture, which has planned, in addition to its exhibits ex-hibits of general interest, displays of particular par-ticular importance, for specific regions For instance, where wheat growing Is all absorbing, wheat will be featured, and where the cattle fever tick is sucking blood and destroying meat, special emphasis em-phasis will be placed on the fight to rid American territory of this parasite. Education the Aim. The government exhibits will have much to detain even the idly curious, but informing in-forming the people of government work and of important aid which the public can render in the national crisis are the big alms. AJI exhibits are educational and those ofpurely technical interest are rarely used. Displays are the product of years of experience in exposition methods and every effort is made to visualize subjects sub-jects in such manner that observers will be informed as well as entertained. To list and describe adequately every item in the exhibits would require many words. Features selected here and there, however, may serve to give an idea of the complete show. Bringing the War Home. The war department display can hardly fail to place Americans more closely in touch with their boys who are making more uneasy the heads that wear the crowns. There are Browning machine guns for infantry use and Lewis machine guns of the aircraft type; mountain cannon can-non that can be pulled to Alpine heights; figures clothed in regulation uniforms, including in-cluding an aviator's flying togs; rifles of the latest model used "over there," and wooden blocks showing penetration of the old and new bullets; complete equipment of the beloved "doughboy" and a trench periscope, through which he watches for fripkiness on the part of the "Fritzies"; gas masks that he dons when the Hun spreads his favorite poison; the trench helmet that protects him and the hand grenades he hurls; the shovel with which he digs a trench and the pump that takes out the water. Then there are models of tho various kinds of tents used by the army, national and regimental colors in silk, storm and post flags, a portable field wireless outfit, out-fit, heliograph instruments, lanterns for night signaling, day and night rockets and signal flags. ' And, if any American hasn't learned yet lo distinguish a sergeant major from a brigadier general, he can do so from boards which carry the Insignia of officers of-ficers and the chevrons of enlisted men, with tho wound and service chevrons authorized au-thorized for officers and men , serving in France. In the Navy Exhibit. The navv display shows more of the tools that are making this world an unsafe un-safe place for international burglars, and also some rifles captured from German soldiers." The navy shows a depth charge of the kind whose bubbles often mean the end for some submarine pirate; a naval mine and anchor, and a big torpedo with Its truck. Projectiles of various sizes are accompanied bv bombs that airplanes drop The clothing display includes some worn in winter weather by the boys aboard our submarines. Trumpets, drums, rifles, flags and pennants pen-nants are some of the other things shown. Rut it is expected that nowhere will the crowds bo thicker than around the models of modern battleships. dreadnoughts, -.miners destrovers and other vessels that will be shown at alt the fairs and expositions. exposi-tions. Producing America's Food. The scop of work of the department of agriculture Is so wide ami me quaimu of its exhibit material is so great that its dlsplava will vary in different sections of the dHllltrv. hut. in every case, they have been selected to clinch some reason vliy Mnerican agricultural production must be increased, and again increased, and to show some of the numerous ways in which it can be done. These exhibits will not be for the farmer alone. 1 hey are for him first, but food production has become the business and concern of everybody in America, and nearly even -hodv has come to know it More than that the agricultural exhibits are attractive at-tractive interesting and informing enough to hold the attention of even the novice who cannot tell a solo from a silo. The weather bureau will show how it is able to forecast storms, frosts and floods to protect agriculture, commerce and navigation, and will display its dally weither map showing conditions in the intmediate locality of the exhibition. The bureau of animal industry will show how -to improve and Increaso the country s supplies of meat, milk and poultry, how it guards the health of the public ami our soldiers and sailors through its meat inspection in-spection system, and how to drive out. the destructive animal diseases that annually fike a toll of meat worth many millions of dollars That oilier great co-ordinated branch of the department of agriculture the bureau of plant industry, will treat lis" field in the same manner, with special spe-cial attention to methods of bettering and stimulating plant production and eradicating eradi-cating plant diseases. Broad features of 'forest service work .,, to be presented in popular and striking form. Models urge the burning ot local fuel wood to release coal for eitie and war purposes and relieve transportation, transporta-tion, contrast proper methods of logging with the wasteful ways, and show the proner handling of tree windbreaks for n-rea.sing crop and animal production. Other' forest service displays show how forest fires are prevented or discovered |