The Green Forest tribune., 1904-01-09

ly to study the exhibits for the purpose of business in every de- partment of commercial and in- dustrial activity.
 Northwest Arkansas cannot aff ord to be on the outside of the arena of that great competition. We have much to show and we should show it. Our rivals will be there making their best efforts at display. Our natural and arti- ficial products should be immed- lately collected and carefully
 labled. There is no time to lose. The fair will be nearer North west Arkansas than any other of it's kind ever held. The visiting crowds will be nearer to us than ever before and it will therefore
 be easier than ever to draw many of them southward to our much- talked-of commonwealth. All
 these considerations combines to
 strengthen the argument in favor l of making special exhibit on a
 comprehensive scale. The work should be promptly supported and carried out with vim and vigor. We must not only be at St. Louis but we must be there with display that will attract attention and compel admiration. A failure to take advantage of this advertising medium will re-
 suit in long and sad regret. Taking advantage of this oppor- tunity will directly and indirectly result in an enormous benefit to oar section. Land will increase in value, capital will seek invest ment and multitude of import ant advantages will thereby be gained. Our financial and in- tellectual interests will receive untold benefits. This proposition needs no further reasoning.
 Now, explicitly, how proceed? We'll, a careful, honest, compe- tent, conscientious committee should immediately be appointed by some proper authority. This committee might make a special effort to collect all things and everything of interest; building stone, agricultural products ap- ples and fruits of all kind, lumber, mineral, etc. Another committee comprised of every citizen of Carroll county should be appoint ed for the same purpose. When the fair is opened all these ex- hibits should be taken to St. Louis and placed on exhibition. After the Fair closes they should be returned to Carroll county, and locally placed on exhibition ill "chamber of commerce" or ganized with building and officers for that purpose. From time to time other products and re- sources of the county should be added to these and vigorous and constant advertising continu- ed. This "Chamber of Com merce" organization could be operated in conjunction with the "Carroll County Fair Associa- tion"~ at Berryville and every possible effort from every avail able source should be made to ex- hibit to the world at large what we are and what we have.
 Suggestion No. 2. Can't the teachers of our county begin now to arrange date upon which they may all go collectively with their exhibits and all their pupils possible to spend ten days in lhrofitable study..and sightseeing. Every director in Carroll county ought to grant to his teacher a two weeks leave of absence on full pay. All districts would be immensely profited by such an act. The mere pittance of S15 or S20 spent for their teachers would be fully returned in value during the remainder of the term.
 Some of my "plans'' may have been already suggested. and efforts made to execute same. Objections may be raised that they are visionary and impracti- cal. To such statements I can only reply that during the last twenty months 1 have travelled twenty thousand miles and have visited nearly every state and important city in the great west and the general plan of exhibit-