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tracted for. There are some irresponsible people in the business 

 and there are people that will lie to you, but that is up to your own 

 fair committees buying your attractions. You can no doubt draw 

 up a resolution or anything of this association and send it broadcast 

 to the different secretaries, but it is eventually with you whether they 

 live up to them or not. You can't enforce it, no law that says that 

 somebody can't do business in this state. If some of you fair secre- 

 taries have been lied to, have been misled, you can tell your brother 

 secretaries, but don't condemn all people that do business in a square, 

 legitimate way. 



A Member : I should have added while I was up, something along 

 the line of Mr. Bacon. We have been doing business, we have 

 bought attractions and we never have been substituted on but once 

 and they had good reason, that was during the war when transporta- 

 tion fixed things so they could not get there. If you do business 

 with a responsible agency, and there are responsible agencies, you 

 ain't going to have any trouble about the delivery of the goods. I 

 might also add along with my other talk we didn't have any trouble 

 in settlement with the fireworks company. We just showed them 

 that they didn't send according to the program and settled that way, 

 but if we hadn't checked them out we would have been out some- 

 thing. 



President Estell : Any further discussion, gentlemen ? Does any- 

 body wish to bring up any other tmfinished business at this time? 

 If not l^lr. Bacon will take charge of the question box which is quite 

 well filled and it looks quite interesting. 



Mr. Bacon: Gentlemen, when we arranged this program and 

 eliminated the entertainment features we have been having for the 

 past two or three years it was suggested by the joint committee of the 

 State Board of Agriculture and your entertainment committee to try 

 to get something to be educational and beneficial to all you members. 

 We have established what is known as a question box. Some of you 

 men have deposited your questions here. When these questions are 

 read don't be timid about answering them. We want your answer, 

 that is what we. want. Let's get together; anything you don't know 

 and anybody does know let's benefit by his advice. The first ques- 

 tion, "How many of the fairs are there paying their treasurer a sal- 

 ary, either bankers or otherwise? Mr. J. C. Beckner." 



Mr. J. C. Beckner, of Clarinda : I would like to explain that ques- 

 tion. This year it came to the annual election and the Board of Di- 



