Arizona republican., 1908-11-19
EVERYBODY
 SHOULD K|CK. t is the American Way of.
 Getting Up Steam FOR ENGINE OF PROGRESS The Application is Made to the Late Territorial Fair. Nothing Was Perfect and Nothing Was Ever SO Near It.
FOR ENGINE OF PROGRESS

It is the privilege of every American citizen to kick when things don't go to suit him. That is the chief advantage of being an American citizen, for whether the people rule or not, nobody can keep them from kicking. Just now everybody is kicking about the fair. And why shouldn't they, so long as they are good natured about it? That Is the only way to make a better fair. The last fair did not go right and neither did any other fair for that mat ter, and the bigger and better the Ari- Zona fair becomes, the more there will be 10 kick about. So far as can be learned there wasn't a perfect man or woman on the fair grounds during the whole show; not even among the hard est kickerS. But after all it was the biggest and best fair ever held here and mighty few better ones were ever held anywhere, though there have been many larger ones in some of the big states.
 But after all there hasn't been a kick heard that Was spoken in malice nor d charge that intended injustice was done to anybody, by anybody, and that is saving a whole lot, for as big a show as the fourth Arizonaefair proved to be- Every criticism The Republican has heard offered, has been founded on the desire of the critic to see things done better if possible next year, profiting by the experience gained, and has not been an arraignment of anyone's short huR nf opinion as to Judgment or expediency Someone has to be in charge of things on an occasion like that and there were at least hundred of the hardest work ed officials in the various departments, that ever gave up a week or more of their good time to a public enterprise without remuneration, to say nothing about another half a hundred or more who were paid for their subordinate - services and earned every dollar they got. Most of the kicking was done by one department against another, or against some official, merely in the hope of getting some favor for the benefit of his or her department and all of which was laudabie in it's purpose even if irritating for the moment.
 Unfortunately there were limita tions to the powers of everybody, even the commissioners who were forced at al times to cut their garments accord ingi to their cloth, and therefore forced to aeny many requests they would have complied with gladly if they could
 Concerning the labors of this army of workers who did so splendidly, and who are entitled each and everyone to the congratulations of the public, it might be said that The Republican could find fault with something in each of the departments if it wanted to, could suggest something that it be- lieves would be ain improvement and be entirely impersonal in the matter also. but it appreciates their limitations. It is possible some people could find fault with The Republican too. by compar- ing its fair week work with that of the great metropolitan daily papers on si- milar occasions, but it is sincerely hoped they will not, for even The Re publican has it's limitations.
 Some little review of the kicks may be profitable to all, and help in better cooperation and better exhibits next year. A lady standing in the Woman's department said, I'm not going to spend three months on a piece of nee dlework to bring to the fair when the best I can get is a s2 premium" A gent over in the COW sheds said sup pose I do take a premium, it costs me more to bring my stock here than the blue and red ribbons both bring me. They ought to offer prizes that would be an inducement to work for" The men in charge of the county exhibits complained because they had to be di- vided up in the various departments, dairy, honey, products, etc A gentle man with young horse who lives here in the valley says the purses for Ari- zona bred stock are not large enough, $500 to S4O0 is not sufficient induce ment, and it was the breeding of good horses the fair was designed to stimu- late. Another man says it costs $5 or S10 and a days work to bring a hog to the fair and the ribbon is not worth the money. poultryman says q used to show a half dozen or dozen GOODS of chickens and win on most of them, so with s3 prizes I could pick up enough money to pay me for my, trou- ble" And so it goes all the way through Those interested ia any branch of the exhibits whatever it is, feel that they are neglected unless the inducements are financially rennuer- ative possibilities, or unless the de- pertinent they are interested in is giv- en a little precedence of some sort. And then all exhibitors want just a little the best of it on season tickets, all of which by the way is perfectly proper and is alluded to here only to point