Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-15
THE OLD ORDER
 CHANCETH, EVENss 2 5 IN NEWEST STATE
Special Correspondence to Review)
 November l3, 1917.


 November 13, 1917.
 As William Allen White of Kansas
 used to say, The old order changeth,"
 and to the newspaper man standing
 in the lobby of the Adams hotel in
 Phoenix last night the words of the famous Kansas editor and author came back with startling distinctness. for the old order does change, in Kansas,
 in Arizona, and everywhere in this old
 world. White had seen the glories of the Copeland hotel in Topeka. They
 vanished before the progress of the Square Dealer. And the glories of the Adams hotel have departed also, just
 as all the fine old glamoT and TO- things of other days have vanished before the cold, gray. hard practical life of what we call modern times.
 State Fair Week in Phoneix, and
 the lobby of the Adams hotel at night looks like R graveyard the onyx pill lars in the lobby look like tombstones that marked the last resting place of all the great men and pretty maidens that held forth there on other nights of other state fairs in a mad whirling throng. The newspapers here adver- tise the fair day by day as being the greatest and biggest ever. The crowds seem to be just as large and the races just as fast and the exhibits doubt lo.. ,,,ora r,,ynorouS opd Oe Suar nual- ity than ever before. But neverthe- less and notwithstanding, if you will talk long enough with an old-timerI and get him to go deeply enough into the matter and tell just how he really thinks and feels about it, you will surely hear him sigh and speak with
 The state fair at Phoenix this year vain regret of the old days.
 is just another milepost along the way marking the decreasing political and economic importance of every state capital in this country. The pri- mary election laws, the anti-pass law, the prohibition law, and dozen other statutes. good, bad and indifferent, have all tended to diminish central power and to give more power and importance to the people and the state at large Less and less do the people of every state in the west and the east turn to their state capital for guidance. Tn all things great and worth while the people begin to think and move and act for themselves.
 And SO it is that the band music | and champagne and the plo.s and the counter-plots that determine the political destiny of the state are heard and known no more in the Adams lob . by. The old-timer sits on the door step of Afternoon Land with his head ! in his hand and thinks respectfully ! of the past. but the young man of the young state holds his head high and looks across the mesquite and the sand toward the mountains and tn nks | and builds Of the future And after all is said and done that is wh"- q state fair is for. All money and time and effort expended to bring exhibits together have to do always with the future. The state fair is to teach people to farm better, to raise better stock, 10 make better use of the soil, and to multiply the resources of their state. and in this regard the present state fair promises to eclipse them all, for surely there has never been snch a varied and wonderful assort- ment of farm machinery, or so many teachers and preachers. and guides and instructors and demonstrators and debaters in the state capital be- fore at one time.
 Unlike most preachers, Phoenix practices what she breaches. When she talks from the text of intensive farming and changing deserts into gardens she can offer Exhibits "A" grim who cares 10 wander down her pleasant valley. The orange groves and cotton fields and alfalfa meadows which surround Phoenix should be an inspiration to every citizen of Arizona who comes here with faith in the fu- ture of his state. The richest corn lands in the most beautiful valley of northern and eastern states where agriculture is supposed to rule su- preme look dull and dowdy, like poor relations at a rich mans feast. com pared to the farm lands around Phoe- nix, and when a man gets up on platform in any state fair booth in this city and declares that little water will turn the desert from gray to green and gold he has a shining ex- ample at his right hand and at his left to bear witness to the truth of every word he utters.
 This simple newspaper man from Bisbee had heard much of the state capi al. of its farming industries, its streets, office buildings and progress generally, but he was hardly prepared 70 find such a handsome and modern city nor such wonderful development In agriculture.
 Imagine, if you can, some wild-eyed curbstone orator trying to sell lot X