Weekly journal-miner., 1917-04-25
ARE STRONG FOR
 FRONTIER DAY CELEBRATION
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PASSES IT ON TO THE BUSINESSMEN TO DECIDE BUT HEARTILY FAVORS HOLDING FIESTA IN JULY
(From Fridays Dsii-.1

Taking their cue from the State de- iense council which met Wednesday
 and yesterday in Phoenix, the cham ! Der of commerce last night voted to continue preparations for Frontier Days this year. and to do all in it's
 power to keep the community life
 moving along in its accustomed
 groove, in spite of the war The celebration will depend on the ap-
 proval of a majority of the business men who annually contribute to it's funds.
 Since a week ago, when the qucs- ton of whether or not to put of the big July 4 celebration on account of
 the war. came up, there has been good deal of discussion. At the
 meeting last night, all this discussion
 was reviewed by a number of speak
 CTS. It seemed the consensus of opinion that the id-Summer fiesta should be held up to the standard of past years and better than ever, if possible. Barring a change in condi- tons, due to the progress of the wal in which the United States is now en- gagged, the celebration will be held, and will be bigger and better than before.
 There is very little cost to the mer- chant that cannot come right back in increased patronage, 1t was said. The
 grounds are there, the equipment on
 hand, the horses all owned by the association. All the money needed will be for advertising (which is an
 eternal benefit) and for prizes, much
 of which will be returned in entrance
 fees by the contestants and over the
 amount of which will be returned in the living expenses of contestants and visitors.
 Prescott is engaged in business"
 averred one speaker, Out that busi- ness does not consist merely in sell
 ing groceries and other goods. This
 city depends for part of its existence
 on its visitors. drawn here during the
 Summers by its uneXcelled climate
 To draw those visitors here and to
 entertain them after they arrive, 1t is
 necessary for us to provide something
 out of the ordinary in the line ot
 amusemcnts. The Frontier Days celebration is it."
 This is no catchpenuy circus. said
 another Frontier Day IS an insti-
 tuition to which the entire State looks
 for a sort of entertainment that 1t
 cannot receive any place else. We
 have the equipment and the horses.
 They will not eat any more during
 the celebration than they do now.
 Most of the contestants are residents Of this city or of ono or more of the nearby counties. By the end of June they will all have finished their work They will demand a little recreation, and ii they cannot get 1t here enter taining our visitors, they will get 1t at Flagstaff or Williams, both of which towns are surely going to put on Wild West sports during Fourth of July week"
 But for cautious counsel of couple of speakers. who did not believe that SO grave a matter should be decided by a small group for the entire busi- ness section. an unqualified endorse mcnt of action would have been talk cn. As it is, the meeting merely de- cided that a poll of the business men would be taken, and that a majority should rule
 Judge Smith, who is attending the meeting of the State defense council in Phoenix this week. agreed to take up just this sort of matters with the members. He reported to President Haworth late yesterday afternoon that the council had strongly urged that this and other normal amuse- ment features be encouraged, not only because they thought it could be we'll but for the uplifting effect a continuance of normal life and pleas ures would have on the morals of the people. The fact the United States IS at war is not to send everybody around in a big cloud of gloom. Care and con servatism in expenditures in all things both large and small, were recom- mcndcd by the defense council, and this recommendation is taken to be directed as much at the Frontier Day as at any other line of business activity in Arizona.
 About Chino Farms.
 Following the decision in the mat ter of Frontier Days, Lloyd Sisler, general manager of the Hassayl'npa Alfalfa Farms Company was intro luccd by President Haworth. It was ljs object, Mir Haworth said, to give ho chamber of commerce an idea of what has been doing on the tract out lear Jerome Junction.
 Mir Sigler began by describing the isordered conditions obtaining when he tract was taken over, and the means adopted to straighten 1t out. Ie told of the class of men who have brought their families and fortunes O Yavapai county and settled on the ract He described them as experi- need producers of the things they rore producing and about to produce.
 Taking up the matter of the model airy farm and milk distributing sys- cm, he outlined practically what was ontained in an interview he gave ths Ourual- Miner this week