TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 181 



If you people want to ask me with regard to the work of passing 

 the bill, I'll give you whatever information I can. 



I thank you ! 



The Chairman : When I came down here yesterday morning I 

 was admonished by Mr. Lauer to be very careful about calling on 

 a certain fellow for a talk, that he'd talk a long time, but I want to 

 say that if that fellow can beat Quince Lauer, I want to get them 

 together sometime and let them go to it. However, we can forgive 

 him because his heart and soul are in this work and he is full of his 

 subject. 



Gentlemen, you have heard the report of the secretary, what is 

 your pleasure? 



Motion by Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Mericle, that the re- 

 port of the secretary be adopted. Motion unanimously carried. 



The Chairman : There are one or two things I want to bring up 

 at this time that Mr. Lauer mentioned which I don't believe are quite 

 clear to you. One of them is the matter of the county aid. Now, 

 I believe that all of you understand that the bill was amended so 

 that all county fair associations can receive annually $1,000 from 

 their county simply by asking for it through the board of super- 

 visors. You should take advantage of that. I think a great many 

 county fairs have. W'e, up in Webster county, have, and we got our 

 $1,000 from the county, and the board was very willing to grant it to 

 us. All you need to do is to go after it with determination. 



On a request for information, it was found that 16 fairs repre- 

 sented, out of 90 in the state, had procured the county aid from 

 the board of supervisors. 



E. W. Williams (Manchester) : I just want to take a moment. I 

 think I had as hard a time as anybody to get that aid. Last year, 

 our first year, I had quite a time with our board. The original 

 county-aid bill was put through the Thirty-seventh General As- 

 sembly providing for aid one year, and in the Thirty-eighth Gen- 

 eral Assembly was changed to read any year. Now, if you happen 

 to go after your county aid at a time when politics has got anything 

 to do with it, you are going to have a battle. In my experience 

 the question is divided, some are with you and some are against 

 you. I am going to make a suggestion. I am going to get county 

 aid this year, and to get it I labored just three days, and I am telling 

 the truth when I say that on two of the days I didn't get my meals 

 at dinner time. There was one man that held off on me, and I'll say 



