194 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 



It is to the credit of Iowa Fairs that the class of entertainment furnished 

 and amusement offered is clean and we should always keep that in view in 

 contracting our concessions. Our patrons pay for them just as they pay 

 for our free acts and races and are entitled to just as high class goods. No 

 one thing will do a county fair more harm than a lot of disreputable con- 

 cessions on the ground. Our reputation is behind any concession we 

 allow on our grounds. We advertise our free acts and races and our pa- 

 trons may know what we have before coming to the fair but they do not 

 know, save from the reputation of the fair, what will be shown on the 

 midway. 



We call ourselves educational institutions and should not offer to those 

 who come to us for instruction anything which is degrading in its 

 character. 



We invite children and young people in particular to attend our fair 

 and what we offer them should be entertaining but must not be in any way 

 immoral or suggestive of immorality. 



We must keep our concessions so that we may say to our patrons: send 

 your children and young men and young women to our fair; there you will 

 find much to instruct them, much to entertain, but nothing in the way of 

 entertainment or amusement that will not be in every way proper and 

 right. 



There you have the job of the concession superintendent. He must get 

 the money. His directors insist on that. He must get a variety of enter- 

 tainment for our patrons. He cannot sell enough refreshment rights to 

 pay out. His directors will not stand for a carnival company. His fair 

 is not large enough for the big shows. He loses state aid if he permits 

 games of chance. The county attorney of his county says that any game, 

 even of skill, giving cash prizes is a game of chance. He must keep in 

 the good graces of the concessioners. He must get the money. Does he 

 earn his salary? You tell the pop-eyed world he does. 



President Hoffman : The next is the election of officers. Nomina- 

 tions for President are in order. 



Mr. Stanbery: I wish to place Mr. E. S. Estell in nomination for 

 president. Now if there are no further nominations I move that the 

 rules be suspended and the secretary instructed to cast the unanimous 

 vote for Mr. Estell as president for the ensuing year. 



The motion was seconded and prevailed, the secretary cast the 

 unanimous vote for Mr. Estell and he was declared elected as presi- 

 dent for the ensuing year. 



President Hoffman : The next will be nominations for vice presi- 

 dent. 



Mr. L. W. Emery, of Spencer, was nominated and there being no 

 other nomination a motion was made, seconded and carried that the 

 secretary cast the unanimous vote for I\Ir. Emery. The secretary 



