Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-08-16
SUGGESTIONS FOR
PANHANDLE FAIR
PEHTINENT IDEAS FOR MAkING
FtIR ATTRACTIVE AND
SrCt t.SStII.

sc.ous ~ low rumbling. Shirriug.
RhIllng sound. and turning. glanced
100 Boo The direction ~ that sound Just
lb time 70 see miniature passenger
train me- 10 sped along - elsyaie1
TRACK. around the balcony Of that
beautiful building What's tina, 2"
asked a Columbia guard who hap
peued 10 be- 40 OLD sohOolmaie. That
s tho santa 20 train on is way
through Kansas and the Panhandle
OF Texas
what Do you mean by the Pan
handle. vas the NEXT question. aud
the answer was Oh. the Panhan-
de o. what we used 10 call the Llano
Estacado Or The staked plains Shen
ae studied geography"
Buf the Panhandle means more to
day. and the same question. will be-
asked by thousands and thousands ~
others lf Ne. a. a Panhandle people.
do our duty for the next two montha
That vas only a toy train at the
Worlds Fair Just twenty years ago.
but 10 set people 20 thinking. The
Panhandle must be- place worth go
INK 10. aud there must be- something
there worth going for or the Santa
Fe company would never have built
q railroad down there and stopped
Three years later ! bought ticket
from TOmca. M To the end Of the
Santa Fe line Having ridden 20 the
limit of my ticket found myself one
bright October morning al Washburn
Texas
Since that time the development
Of the Texas Panhandle has been
almost marvellous No one realizes
or appreciates this more than the
people who have lived here for the
paRt twenty years or more II is %
these loyal mer ard women who have
borne the burdens aud sacrifices ne
cessary In the development Of "A nc =
country that h' Panhandle Stata
Fair viii brlnr most plea re and sa.-
lsfactlon Ia spite OF all the draw
backs drouths. disapoiniments and
deceptlons OF foreign real esta,c
/ firms. there IN not another portion Of
/ the United states can show such all
round symmetrical development VITA
I L.. atfssln s.f IA fII
/ Panhandle of Texas In some one
way or another other portions Of the
country may have over passed uf
but when We consider the adyanc,
ment In our houses. schools. churrl'
90. agriculture. stock raising. town
city and country building commerce"
Irrigation and transportation. il'
Panhandle of Texas has never had .
rival In the same length Of time.
There y not one doubt that b 81
Panhandle state fair viii far eNcee,
IA. first Texas state fair Hut th'
real spirit and character OF a country
can not bee expressed In an exhibit o
peanuts. pumpkins aud fiss. Or anl
other product. A country has char
acter az well as man which Is cN
pressed only In th" life he lives. Her
s where a toy IN motion adds inter
est 20 a fair
what il motion Motion In It's r.
lunl ANALYSIS Il the one universal dis
tinction between life and death {
~ the difference between ACTIVITY go
inactivity. II II the power that doe
things A body OF water not IN mo
tion becomes stagnant Stagna !
means Impure for want Of motion.
body OF water In motion becomes
power for good IN a thousand ways
Motionless mir Is supplying. suifo
eating The same air famed int
motion becomes lifc-giying
These laws OF nature hold true d
human nature as well Man. inactiv
becomes stupid. impure. useless.
burden TO himself and eyerybod
elise. but the active man. communii,
city. country or nation becomes
power for good or evil according a
that power Is utilized.
The intoxicatiou that comes frci
guiding something In motion sell
more automobiles than all the al
gumcnis of the most persuasive AK or
Men and women. too. enjoy the Sc
xation that results from handling a
guiding something that can 20.
At the Dallas state fair last "a
there we're two exhibits that attrac
I'd the attention OF every man. well
and child on he ground Childr,
hung on the railing around them D
the hour and forced their elders
stop and look and learn whether IA,
wanted 10 or not
One was the Dallas and CleburI
lnterurban line These busy lit
cars ran IN and out aud round a.
round from Dallas TO Cleburne az
back again a thousand times a da
No, a word OF explanation. not e''
a placard. but the push and prog. .
OF that portion OF Texas was relied
"a In their ceaselcss activity and .
erybody who attended the Dali
Fair. has a progressive idea OF "a
part OF the country.
The other exhibit was that OF I.
I packing plant. with It's heavily loa
I ed toy freight train on its way fro
Kansas city 10 Galveston In .
I slow. steady pull OF that long =
l train was expressed the tremend II
[ traffic 90 beef and pork and oth