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of privileges that, while it does not injure the patrons very much, causes 

 the fair managers a great deal of trouble, and that is the exclusives. 

 Whenever a fair manager sells an exclusive privilege he is going to have 

 trouble. Yet there are a few privileges it is almost absolutely necessary 

 to sell to one person. For instance, the score card should be sold as an 

 exclusive privilege. That can be reasonably well protected. Sometimes, 

 however, in the county fairs it is not easy to protect it. Another privilege 

 that can be sold exclusively is the grand stand. Where admission is 

 charged that privilege can be sold and protected. Another privilege is 

 the feed privilege. That will cause a great deal of trouble if sold as an 

 exclusive privilege. In the machinery department we will have hay 

 presses, feed grinders and cutters and various kinds of machinery that 

 use and prepare feeds, and those people are going to sell the feed to the 

 exhibitors, and it is always causing trouble. So, taking it on down the 

 line, the exclusive privileges are always causing dissatisfaction. 



Another thing that always causes trouble on the fair grounds is the 

 selling of intoxicating liquors. Not many fairs in the State, I believe, 

 allow the sale of intoxicating liquors on the grounds. I do not think it is 

 a proper thing to allow on any fair ground. Our fairs should be educa- 

 tional, and we certainly do not want to educate the young people of the 

 land to drink intoxicating liquors. That is one privilege I would abso- 

 lutely rule off all fair grouuds. 



Another thing we all have some trouble with is games. I have been 

 on fair grounds where there would be from one to ten of these little 

 paddle wheels or circle machines. I will say here that if there is any sure 

 thing in gambling those little wheels are sure things. The man who puts 

 his money down might as well hand it to the man running the machine 

 at once and save further trouble. I would far rather have a regular old 

 heironymous game, and have it off on one side wlfere' the people who 

 wanted to play, could go and do it. I do not think that would do as much 

 harm, and they give a great deal more money for the privilege. But I 

 should rule off all games of any sort, absolutely. If I were selling privi- 

 leges for a fair ground I Avould not sell any privileges to proprietors of 

 knife racks, shooting galleries or baby racks. The people who run the 

 dining halls, confectionery stands and things of that kind will give more 

 money for their privileges if these things are ruled out. The people who 

 come there have just so much money to spend, and if the gallery and 

 the knife rack gets it the others do not. 



Shows are the worst things I have had to control on a fair ground. In 

 the first place, they will not pay much for their space; they always say 

 they do not take in much money. Perhaps they do not, but I think that 

 is because they ought not. There is not one show in a hundred that is 

 worth going to see if you are given a ticket free. Occasionally we have 

 a good one, but the good ones are so few and far between that I have 

 determined if I ever again sell privileges that no show will come on the 



