The Green Forest tribune., 1913-09-12
SHOW WINDOW
 IF PROSPERITY"
THAT IS WHAT THE 1918 ARkAN. SAS FAIR IS BEING DE-
 SIGNED TO Bs.
Arkansas Has at Last Awakened to the Importance of the Big State
 Institution.

It has required eight years of steady toll and expense to convince the peo- pie of Arkansas that the Arkansas State Fair is really big state insti- | tuition, promoted and maintained for the benefit of the whole state and not for any particular section.
 In the past year the people of Ark ansas have attended the fall eXposi- tions and have personally approved the fair, but it was not Until the season ot 1913, that Arkansas really awakened to tbe f&ct that their cooperation was needed along other lines than merely as visitors to the state fair; that they must join their interests with the oth- CT exhibitors and make themselves in reality part of this big exposition Of the resources and wealth of Arkansas, as well as spectators.
 In 1912 there was creditable show ing of the different counties of the state and agricultural hall contained many splendid exhibits from the far mers and business people of these counties. The interest shown in these county and state exhibits was given the desired impetus during that fall, and this year nearly every county in the state will be represented either in collective exhibit or by showings from individuals and companies.
 With this cooperation in evidence there can no longer be any doubt as to the annual success and growth of the state fair. The generous people of Hot Springs have paid their money year after year to support the annual exhibit, but the spirit of cooperation has been needed all along to aid them in their well meant efforts to promote and advertise to the world the great ness of Arkansas, her matchless re- sources. her need of further develop ment, and the great wealth of oppor- tunity for settlers, manufacturers and promoters to improve and intensity the output of both commercial and agri- cultural products.
 This year Arkansans are with the fair, heart and soul, and it is a fore, gone conclusion that the exposition ' of Arkansas products ever brought to- gether at any place or at any time
 The counties of the state are ex- pected to completely occupy the big agricultural hall with their exhibits and their competition to win the splen did list of eight prizes offered for the best county exhibits Last year Faulk- her county carried off first honors, but this year there are a score or more of counties which expect to run Faulkner a hard race for premier honors at the fair
 It is this spirit of cooperation and good natured competition to produce and show the best that will make the fair the great institution it should be, and when the farmers of the state fair have brought the fair to this state of perfection, they have at the same time brought the agricultural resources of the state to much higher standard of excellence and profit to the men who till the soil.
 This is the one big purpose of the state fair-to stimulate the people of Arkansas to their best efforts, and in cidentally to increase their profits and earnings in the same degree that they. increase the excellence of the products.
 So the state fair is not selfish in- stitution, promoted and fostered for private gain, but to increase the great. ness of Arkansas through the one great medium that other and more ad- vanced states have adopted to their universal credit.
 The 1913 fair, October 27 to Novem- Der 1 inclusive, is going to be the Show Window of Arkansas Progress and Prosperity" Every exhibit placed there will add to the aggregate of the quantity and the excellence of the qual, ity of Arkansas products, and in the end the farmer and business man, and not the state fair management, will be the gainer.