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Show THE UTAH STATE FAIR. H The lime to write about a state fair is a week H after it is over. H In the first place, this was tho first state fair H over held in Utah. No matter what the inten-. tion, desire and effort of tho management might fl have been in the past and certainly thoy did H work it has, up to this present year of grace, been Salt Lake fair. Tho people over tho state have so recognized it, and their fealty has been tempered by that conviction. H But this year things wore different. I be- M lieve the building of the Coliseum was tho start- m ing point. That expenditure, needed as it cor- fl tainly was, provoked a demand for some activity M that should include tho people of the whole H state in its invitation. I don't know yet whether H tho idea originated witth President McDonald, H or with Secretary Ensign, or whether it was one H of those things that "just como." But tho plan . H for Queens of Counties or of districts was an H inspiration. It seemed to link every part of the H state with tho interests of tho State Fair. It H soemod to arouse a genoral and a widespread H interest. Tho young women selootod as repre- Hi sontative of the beauty and the charm of various H soctions came to Salt Lake clothed not alone in H their very boooming gowns, but in tho far more H important loyalty and interest and attention of H their own home people. And many an exhibit- H drifted to the show, and many a visitor -paid lus - H admission money bocauso of the new interest H H Hint never before paid any attention to the f State Fair of Utah. Hr And those girls woro beautiful. Old Walter Hi Scott said: '"Tvvoro worth ton years of .mortal W life one sight of their array." Ho spoko of the H' armed men of Scotland, marching magniflcant to H. battle. The words express the sentiment T B know our Utah men folt when they stiy those H chosen young women walk with slow and stately H step before tho gathered multitude. And when a H man of sixty years tells you that sight woro H worth jj decade of living, believe mo tho girls H were fine I Hn It wasn't alono the physical perrecnon of H them. I suppose there are a thousand women in H Utah just as handsome But those who came B impressed mo with the idea of porsonal and H mental and moral cleanliness, of physical and H intellectual hoalth. They seemed the high pro- H duct of a parcntago that is solvont and sane. H They published the personal equation of the H state as nothing else imaginable could have H done. And tho dominant sentiment of the Hj throngs was one of profound respect for the Hj young womon quoons and maids of honor alike H No man or woman who saw them but felt prjdo H in Utah, and a closer bond of human fellow- H ship with tho pcoplo of this state. ' lM Then tho potato contests and the farm and H garden competitions especially those engaging M the attention of children and youth helped lm- H monsely. It will help more in future. The of- H forts of tho National Copper bank were well M repaid. The thing will continue, and its in- m fluenco will extend to tho uttermost borders of M Utah. Tho Agricultural College gave immense H assistance along tho same line. H That effort toward engaging tho attention H and arousing tho intorost of every section of all H tho state was successful. It should be easy to H push forward those foaturos horoaftor. H By all moans, tho Coliseum is a good in- H vestment. Tho building meets tho domands. It H has fitting place in the fair of a state. Becauso H of its prosonce tho fair lifts in dignity and in Hi importance. Hs Tho daily papers have so completely "cover- Hj ed" tho fair that no attempt is hero made at Hi roporting. But for tho good of Utah I can not Hf forego montion of tho display mado by the H officers of tho Salt Lake Route a railroad com- H: pnny that is doing much for Utah. No man can Hj have looked at their exhibit and rotainod a be- H liof that Utah is a dosert stato. Tho old earth H nowhere brings bettor or more boautiful pro- H ducts than Mr. Morrill, commissioned thereto by H the company, assembled in tho stato fair of 1913. H Any land which can grow such specimens is a H garden not a wildornoss. H No quostion, tho fair is helping Utah. Now that all tho pooplo fool their share in it, Ilia H bonoflts will vastly increase. It is unfortunato H that Salt Lake county made no exhibit. That is Hi inexcusable, and it never should occur again. H But it was almost tho only flaw on an otherwise H porfoct affair. |