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jectionable shows. Few people go to a fair to see the shows, and the few 

 paltry dollars received for the concessions are as nothing compared with 

 the patronage these sliows destroy. 



Gambling of every description should he prohibited. Some of the little 

 ten-dollar innocent looking games that we so often find on the fair grounds 

 take hundreds of dollars from their patrons. If gambling must go, get a 

 straight-out hieronymus and lot it go as such; but I can see no justifica- 

 tion in allowing anything of the kind on the grounds. My views on this 

 subject are so strict that I have not allowed a cane rack, baby rack, or 

 shooting gallery on the Indiana State Fair Grounds the past three years, 

 and even go so far as to not allow the sale of a glass of lemonade to be 

 made with the privilege of drawing for a prize. I believe this policy 

 should be followed out at all of pur fairs. 



Many privileges are sold too cheap, and it should be made the Privi- 

 lege Superintendent's duty to ascertain what a concession is worth in- 

 stead of letting all the ground out at so much per front foot. Usually 

 privilege people have the money in their pockets to pay their privilege in 

 advance, and if fail's will unite and adopt a rule requiring cash in advance 

 and then enforce it, it will not only gain better returns, but will get a 

 better class of concessions and take an immense load off the Superin- 

 tendent of that department. 



I have found that the only way to succeed in getting along with these 

 people is to make all your rulings after giving them careful consideration 

 and then enforce them to the letter. 



On the Privilege Department, more than any other one thing, in our 

 local fairs, depends their success or failure. 



I end my third term as Chairman of this Association with the close 

 of this session, and I wish to thank you all for the honor bestowed upon 

 me and for your uniform courtesy and assistance, and bespeak for my 

 successor that kindly feeling and co-operation you have so generously be- 

 stowed upon me. 



Mr. Nowlin: I think there are a nitmhcr of other things that 

 it might be profitable to discuss in the session. I have exhibited 

 swine for a number of years, and have some ideas from the ex- 

 hibitor's standpoint, as well as from the standpoint of the secretary 

 of a fair. It may be argued that exhibitors have no organization, 

 and there is none in name, but they usually imderstand each other 

 fully, and are going after the money and the circuit that is the 

 best organized will get the best exhibitors. To illustrate: I ex- 

 hibit in my home circuit for a time, and would liave been glad to 

 continue there, but I could not show my stock to advantage. The 



