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sentatives from other fairs outside of the state of Iowa and to make 

 them honorary members. I am putting that in as a recommendation, 

 and I am also at this time recommending that you people appoint a 

 committee to again take up the matter of annual dues with this ob- 

 ject in view : The association four years ago gave you a continual 

 membership, and I am recommending at this time and am asking 

 you to take up for discussion this afternoon the matter whereby 

 your membership is only of yearly duration. What I mean by that 

 is, all those who are paying the dues today are entitled to the benefits 

 for this ensuing year. Your membership in the past has been con- 

 tinual, and I am suggesting that your membership shall be annual, 

 and your membership paid at this time is for the ensuing year. I 

 am asking that that be taken up this afternoon as a part of the new 

 business. 



In attending this meeting in Chicago I was impressed with the 

 things that the state organization had for topics, and I couldn't 

 help but feel that it would be a mighty fine venture for somebody 

 to undertake to have either a representation by invitation from them 

 or by request from us if they would provide a plan whereby state 

 organization of this nature could become a member, or if we could 

 get together and get in touch with every state organization in the 

 United States and form an organization of our own. I know it is 

 possible — all things are possible, and I would like to have that come 

 up for discussion. They have a strong organization in Illinois, in 

 Minnesota ; they have one in Nebraska, and I don't know how many 

 more there are in the country. I don't know just how to get in 

 touch with them, and I suppose there are states where they have 

 no state fairs where they have a county fair organization. I am not 

 necessarily putting in a recommendation pertaining to that, but I 

 would like to have it come up for discussion to have a national asso- 

 ciation of county fair organizations. 



The work during the past year has been more than agreeable to 

 me. Those who attended our meeting in Waverly know what kind 

 of an organization we have. I was sorry I couldn't attend, but I was 

 down to Des Moines, and I went back there just preceding the con- 

 clusion of the meeting and I was sick for three weeks, and the only 

 person I saw at that meeting was our friend Stanberry. I was un- 

 der the doctor's care and I couldn't get out but I want to extend an 

 appreciation to all of you people, and especially to those that took 

 particular interest, not in a physical way but in the way of corre- 

 spondence, in the legislation of last winter. It was more than 



