Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-09-14
FRIDAY, SEPT. ID, 1917.
THE COUNTY FAIR.

X/H1 is Il 1alr! we can all answer JnaC from
w single viewpoint. 1t means something diff
ferent to practically every one of us. There is no
doubt though, that the feeling of gayety is uni
versaI-even to those who must work like Turks
to make the occasion success
The man or woman with crouch has no bus
mess at county fairs. One must go prepared to
enjoy the blare of band music and the million nos-
es that aren't music. You must be keyed up to
revel in the sight of bright decorations of pretty
girls, of sideshows, pop corn balls and sweating
glasses Of orangade and root beer of sizzling sand
witches and ice cones, of livestock and house.
hold goods, of pattering race horses and sputter-
ing motorcycles and Ford cars, of buzzing grand
stands and yellow dust-clouds Yes, and tired feet
and whimperng babies with heat-rash and smart
alecs here and therefor we haven't reached the
land of perfection yet.
Now let's peel the surface off the situation and
what's inside. This years fair is pretty fine
advertisement for our whole county--the farm
lands and farmers the livestock interests and the
publicspirted people And really, that is the rock
bottom purpose of holding fair-advertising. 1t
is community aim and effort to show the people
how much they amount to, and to show outsiders
that this is mighty good part of the country to
live in--prosperous progressive, and with neigh
borly people. A man looking for place in which
to settle down couldn't reasonably ask for anything
more or better than has been demonstrated at the
County Fair this year
Lessons the Fair Teaches.
Some of the lessons taught by the fair this
year are that we have of the greatest and best
countries right here within the borders of Iron
county, that the shines down upon. (notwith-
standing the fourth of it was not depicted), that
in the matter of livestock and agricultural prod
ucts we do not have to take back seat for any
part of the globe. But the biggest and newest
lesson it teaches is that the term "Escalante Des-
ert" is misnomer, and must as the dry land
farmers themselves insist, be changed to "Esca-
lante Valley" Any one who viewed the splendid
and varied products displayed by Mr.. Southwck
and associates on the committee from the west
ern part of the county, could not with any semb-
lance of reason or justice designate this region,
which comprises large proportion of this county,
as desert, when it produces in profusion almost
every product of temperate zone that is needful
of desirable for the support of human and animal
life.
Courtesy to Visitors.
The people of Parowan have again sustained
their reputation of being courteous to visitors.
They have tried to see that no person within their
gates went hungry, and those little attentions
which go so far to make ones visit among them
pleasurable have not been wanting. Those con-
neceted with the work of the fair have abored
hard and increasingly to make the event a success,
and the exhibitions and various attractions bear
eloquent testimony to the fact that their abors
were not in vain.
In order to further answer the question which
introduces this editorial we take down our hands
reference book--a large leather-bound volume
and turn to page 784. Therein we learn that the
word fair" is derived from the Old French "feire y
the modern French "foire," the Italian "fere,"
the Latin 'fera,' meaning holiday, and that this
is connected with the Latin "festus' meaning
feast.
In the United States there are no fairs of the
kind that have been common in the old world The
term here is applied to variety of exhibitions,
such as church, charity and agricultural exhibit