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them and go over and eat there and then come back to the fair. I 

 tell you if you accommodate these people that want to go out, I don't 

 believe there is one pass-out check in a hundred that is abused, and 

 for ninety people you accommodate they are all friends of your fair, 

 and if anything happens they want to go out or have to go out and 

 then have to pay you an extra fifty cents these people are not helping 

 you and are not friendly as they should be. The way we do at Alta 

 we have a different colored pass-out check every day ; for instance, 

 we start out Tuesday with a white one, Wednesday with a red one 

 and follow with a blue one and so on the check cannot be abused. 

 A man that will stand outside waiting for a pass-out check to get in 

 is not going to go to the fair at all and somebody has paid fifty cents 

 to go into the fair and that abuse would be very little. And I think 

 that every good fair for the convenience of the people, and especially 

 the common people and things of that kind, ought to go the limit to 

 accommodate them in every way when the abuse will be very small in 

 coming back on these pass-out checks. As a rule nobody is going to 

 go home from the fair when the program is not over and as a rule 

 he gets the biggest part of your program, your attractions and every- 

 thing in the afternoon and at five o'clock the show being over we 

 issue no more pass-out checks after that. Just think for a moment 

 how small the per cent would be of somebody trying to get in. If a 

 man will stand out there an hour trying to get in he will go around 

 some place and crawd under the fence anyway. I think the pass-out 

 check is a benefit for every county fair because it is people from the 

 country and the community where you are doing business you want 

 to accommodate if you possibly can and make it as convenient for 

 them to go in and out; they may want to go to the train to meet 

 some friend or something of that kind, or an engagement, I think we 

 can't go too far for the convenience of the people who attend our 

 fairs. I am talking about the ordinary country fair, the more con- 

 venient you make it for people to attend the fair the better they are 

 going to be satisfied. 



A Member: We have just had fair down there two years. We 

 find our greatest trouble down there is the farmers come in with 

 automobiles and have to go home to do chores, and wdien they go 

 home to do their chores it is all over, they don't come back the second 

 time. I think the only thing to do as Mr. Cameron says, we can't 

 make a mistake in giving a pass-out to go out and do the chores 

 and come back to the fair. I think we will issue them next year, so 

 the farmer who wants to go out to do the chores will come back. 



