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Show I SHOULD A WRESTLING MATCH I CONSTITUTE A FAIR I The County Fair which was created many years ago as an agricultural in-I. in-I. stttution, we fear would hardly recog-l: recog-l: iJe its modern prototype if it were to gaze upon it today or read the accounts lr of fairs in modem country papers. I: Out of fully fourteen column inches oi rolling matter given in a paper in I' Vten to the description of the approach-: approach-: v.ountv Fair, less than one inch is devo-l"r devo-l"r Ci to a discusssion of the proposed ex-V ex-V "jjlts0f "fortiwts of the farm. Practic-m- -v r H of the balance of the write-up is v' civ-n to a discussion of the sports and ; entertainments. wit)i special emphasis I 'aid on a wrestling match and a prize ' light. The importance of the wrestling match to a modern County Fair is illus-I,.'. illus-I,.'. trated by this opening sentence of the -' article referred to: Mf ''With Ira Dern. Utah's premier man oi the wrestling mat at last matched with u- a man who will make a creditable show- gt ing against the Utah wonder, everything is sbinshape for the biggest fair ever held in this section." . Why call these events fairs? Whv not f f call them sporting carnivals instead, and keep the word "fair" for the use to which is was originally applied? The necessity for amusements and entertainments en-tertainments at country fails is obvious tc anyone who is familiar with the nature na-ture of fairs, but to disregard the real educational element of the institution, and lay all of the stres? and attention on wrestling matches, prize fights and races, rac-es, robs the fair of its intrinsic value as a rural institution. Lets make the fairs in Utah center about the interests of the farm and home." The above from the Utah Farmer is. to the point. While there is no occasion for anything of the kind as far as our Cache County Fair is concerned, yet it is a good thing to call the trend in other localities to the attention" of our Fair officials of-ficials lest in the future .some rich mistake mis-take might be possible. |