Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-05
The Silver Belt has larger paid cir culation than any daily newspaper Tn the world published in city with l2,OOO or less population.
THE VALUE OF A FAIR

That part or Jne year HOW passing ID hh'Ni II far and wide as the fair season. Lest there be any ambiguity in the phrase, it IS we'll to say that the fair season is indebted for its name not to balmy days, crisply cool nights or other at mospheric conditions, but to the custom of hold ing autumnal gatherings for the purpose of be- holding the harvest products from every stretch of countryside during the sason of "the sere and yellow leaf"
 The fair, the county fair, to be exact is an n- stitution that has gradually become inextricably imbedded in the affections of the people. It precedes the November Thanksgiving day as naturally as the preparation of a repast pre- cedes the saying of grace or the body of a ser mon antedates the benediction. To tear it out of the body of tradition which the people have built up would be an act intolerable. At the mere suggestion of such sacrilege, we can see in fancy the ghosts of our departed and venerated forefathers rise up in alarm lest jauntily mod ern effrontery should knock the last leg from under an icon of ye olden time.
 Yes, the county fair, the state fair and even the overgrown worlds fair have come to stay and eventually, assume even greater propor- tions than they have at present. Whatever the Hates of other customs may have been, the fair, though an ancient function makes its appeal even to the painfully modern man with the ram pant dollar sign predominant on his coat-of arms For these fall collections of the fruits of the land typify modern life in its industrial as pect. And, invariably, anything that savours of legitimate industry and thrift is warming in it's effect on the twentieth century human heart.
 From rustic England, through rural New Eng land the fair has come by gradual stages to in wade the west the northwest and the southwest TO Juqge by the interest manifested in Arizona and her nelghboring commonwealths, the fair mas made firm and lasting it's hold on the minds of the people Tn this region. The Fl Paso fair now under way, has no dearth of visitors. The Arizona fair, soon to come, has stirred the in terest of thousands and will accordingly have more than its usual annual quota of natrone All ot which IS as it should be- The guests can not pc too numerous, nor the exhibits too replete with the products of the section in which these lairs occur. For these yearly gatherings serve as Ie" other things could serve to stimulate the interest and industrial ambitions of the people Who attend them and who, peradventure, have the gratincatlon of winning honors for credit aoie display of the work of their minds and hands.
 Aside from its influence on the individual con trlbutor or visitors, the annual fair is a power ful factor forthe upbuilding of the city in which It IS held and for the promulgation of sympathy and cooperation between all the towns from which it draws it's visitors. The fair gives rise to helpful spirit of rivalry between localities having the same commercial interests It ac- quaints the people of the various sections of country with one another and not infreouently helps theF-to unite for the furtherance of better business methods.
 TOT the same reasons, presumably, that man IS democrat or republican because his father was the fair is for the most part, an institution chlef1y agricultural The exhibits of other products than those from the farms are usuallv only incidental and contributory to the vege- table horticultural and live stock displays. This Tact Tn no way disqualiies the assertion that Tar may be proftably and feasiblv held in q region winch does not rely industrialH upon it's agricultural resources. There is no good roa. son. Tor instance, why territorial fair shonld not oe held m Globe, the city of mines If can oe argued, of course, that this city has at nros- ent no ready built exposition grounds sncb ao rnoenlX S affords But, for all that. if the neonlo or Globe decided to have fair in tbar onro of,,o city there would be no shadow of doubt tbat