A Powerful Lever

Wil! the state presa do what it can tu make ib" state fair a success? II eau do much. No one ageney can do more-, - Detroit Journali The Journal ÍS right. The state press can do much. Aun Arbor can testify to that fact. Last spring the musical p'éoplef Ann Arbor. had i May Festival. The state press weteyery kind and made the fact known. The Detroit press were unanimously mum, never mentioning it, although several columus of infonnation respecting the aftair were sent in hy correspondente liere. The Detroit idea undoubtedly, was, because it was an inland affair, to kill it off, but the state press stood by Ann Arbor, and the Festival was a maghificent success. It gave such Batisiaction that it will be repeated another year, and people will come trom all parts of the state to see and beur it again. Some years ago Detroit organized an Exposition Co., built fine buildings, advertised liberally, and t'or the first year or so treatéd the members of the state press in a fair way in return for the tree mlvertising they did. Then the management began to be mean and pènurioiis, treating the state press- and perhaps the Detroit press- in a contemptible menner. The result was that in a short time the great exposition went to the Wall, and had to close ap business. The Journal bas the right idea,. The press of Michigan is a powerful engine wben h moves. The fact has been demoustrated ïuany a time. lts action in regard to the state fair will depend lar, no. doubt, upon the action of the I fair ofiicials, for if they are treated right, there is no body of people in the world so generous of their wares as the country editors. They give away enough I advertising each year, for religious and charitable affairs, for home and other enterprises, to make a fortune as large as the Vanderbilts, or as the Goulds. They are liberal toa fault, so liberal in fact, that some people have come to undervalue their services. But they soraetimes arise in tlieir might and assert their strength, as in the Detroit Exposition case mentioned above.