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Mr. White: I think I have been secretary seven years down there 

 and we have got $500 two different times. That has been about four 

 or five years ago. 



Mr. Bacon : The next question, "I beheve that the county fairs 

 ought to go into a mutual insurance so that the proposition of the 

 state aid to the county fairs should be deducted and all these fairs 

 that are unfortunate to have wind or more rainy days draw their 

 association insurance to be paid according to the gate receipts show- 

 ing up on the average years. I think a law ought to be passed in 

 the legislature according to that. J. M. Olson, president Humboldt 

 Agricultural Society." 



A Member : I think that should be referred to the resolutions 

 committee. 



A Member : In regard to that, I think it advisable to wait until 

 the insurance companies get this thing figured out. They say it is a 

 loss. We better let them carry it until they get it figured out. 



Mr. Bacon : The next question, "How many fairs are receiving 

 county aid." That question has been answered. , *'Why should death 

 defying stunts be employed by fairs ? Does it increase gate receipts 

 enough to justify expenditures?" 



Mr. Stanbery: We can all answer that question. We are all in- 

 terested in trying to get money in through the gates. It has been my 

 experience nothing gets them quite so fast as something that is death 

 defying. If they thought somebody was going to get killed in an 

 automobile there on a certain day we would not have enough room 

 on our grounds to hold them. That is the God's fact and it is just as 

 unpleasant for me as it is any other fair manager in the state of 

 Iowa to put on an attraction that is hazardous and a dangerous 

 proposition. I shiver all the time while the things happen on the 

 fair ground that I am representing, but as long as they bring the 

 people and increase our gate receipts that is the thing we have got to 

 have. 



A Member : The reason I asked that question the American pub- 

 lic is demanding more thrills. I see the managers of the amusement 

 parks had a convention and they say they have got to get new devices, 

 something more thrilling, more hazardous. All the world is wanting 

 something more thrilling. My idea is why is it necessary to require 

 a man to do something he is liable to get killed to give something 

 spectacular and pay him a great big price to do that, will it increase 

 the gate receipts ? For instance, a man that goes up on an airplane 



