The Daily Missourian

PATRIOTIC EXHIBIT ENLARGING
Actual Warfare Operations to Be
Staged at State Fair.

Every day that passes adds some
new feature to the Patriotic Exhibits
that "Uncle Sam" is getting ready to
send to the Missouri State Fair Sept.
22 to 29. Not only is Uncle Sam getting
together the vast display
of
things that will incite all Missourians
to a keener interest in the welfare
of the boys who have gone from Mis-
souri farms and shops and homes.
but England and France are going
to join in sending to Sedalia this fall
the greatest display of war relics and
materials ever gotten together. There
will be guns from the Somme, grim
old veterans of the campaign of that
name. England will send relics from
Flanders and the Ypres. Canadians
will send relics that they have captured or used on the salients they have
attacked and taken.

But more realistic and more vivid
than these speechless yet eloquent relics will be the acres of visualized
warfare, with their No Man's Land
lying between the trenches that will
shelter the dummy soldiers of opposing armies.
Into these trenches will
crawl the "tanks," their machine guns
spitting fire as they brush aside the
yards of barbed wire entanglements.
As they move across No Man's Land
the
aeroplanes
will rise from the
hangars back of the American trenches and drop bombs on the dummy
Teutons.
Back of the Sammies and their
trenches will be the Red Cross units
and
ambulances and hospitals, and
still farther in the rear the war kitchens and ration depots and munition
depots and back of these the heavy
guns and the rest camps of the Sammies.
These scenes will depict war
as it is
and
bring
to Missourians
the
sacrifice
and
devotion
that
prompts Missouri's fighting men and
boys to follow "Black Jack" Pershing
against a foe that is powerful and ingenious.

One of the largest buildings on the
grounds will house the exhibits that
will not be used in the trench warfare
pageant in front of the huge steel
grand stand.