The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-15
SATISFIED PRIDE.

success is! being everywhere, meas urej favosabiy in comparison not alone with former fairs here, but with others he'd in this section of the South.
 satisfied pride is worth whole lot
 Hot Springs undertook this sixth annual exposition under difficulties. There was time when the shadows hung heavy and when it was doubted If the fair could be maintained by Hot springs alone and unailed.
 Hot springg has answered that sitilafipn.
 The Arkansas State Fair Tn hot Springs Is fixture, just so long as the people of Hot Springs aesire il to be such.
 Diffh eg ies have been overcome, When the association asked the legis- dature to Appropriate q sum Of money to be paid to the counties Of Arkan- sas for premiums on county exhibits, and met rebuff before that legislative haassy haassy. things looked bad.
 When a few big mercantle nous es who sell thousands Of dollars worth Of merchandise in Hot Springs every month refused to make exhibits| 1t our fair.. that incident was hiscouraging.
 When the chief executive of the state ignored an invitation to attend inc opening of the fair and give 1t that statewide recognition that the incident would have established, the fact was observed.
 There were many diseouraging fea- lures in connection with the manage ment of the Sixth Annual Arkansas State Fair.
 But there very also eneouraging features.
 Harry M westcott. a new citizen in Arkansas and in Hot Springs, but already the most distinctive type of unelfish citizenship to which we can point, came on the scene.
 Westcott had pride, and ambition, and knew no such word as fail. He accepted the presidency of the state fair association, not whenl success was crowning its history. but in it's darkest hour. FolTl abca' seven months he has lubored for the public veal as no other man ever labored in this state, and as few have ever laDored in this country.
 Others have worked harl for the success of the fair. bst they incl dentaEy worked for pay they recely- ed. Weateott not alone, does not receive one dollar in remuneration, but if his moaestv could be over come. it is probable that ance at hIs bank book would show that ghls successful state fairl hasl cost him, $2.5OO. Probably more.
 Harry M Westeott Is worth more to Hot Springs and to Arkansas than a legislative appropriation or a gub- equatorial Influence. He example will live iong after hindering inci- dents are forgotten.
 The future of the state fair is be ing discussed No man can say what it will be-but this is assured . Harry M. Westeott is \ sufficien, force in himself to encourage our peone into continued support of the institution. By another year We may have some changed conditions local ly. We may have little more au- fhority to give the president of the arkansas State Fair. We may re- move some of the hinderances that have had to be overcome in this last fair.
 We are proud of the Sixth Annual Arkansas State Fair. We are proud of Harry N. Westcott We are proud because we did something tha. no other city in Arkansas would have undertaken under the circumstances We are proud because at the criti- cal moment In the history of the state fair, when 1t had to be aband- oned or undertaken, 1t was under taken, and moulaed into success.
 Arkansas ia winner through thls stale fair. Garland county always profits largely from the state fair. Hot Springs has it's reward in profit and pride
 It takes time to work changes. it fakes time to remove the scales from the eyes of the people. q takes time to awaken a people into the oppor- tuniiy that lies before them. It takes