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want it or like it, but some one comes along and says you are off. 

 The thing that aggravates you more than anything else is if you 

 have two men inspecting the fair, and the first one says this is O. K., 

 which is the worst thing on the ground, and the next man comes 

 along and says for you to stop something that we think is all right 

 and that the first man has passed. I think that Mr. Lauer's sug- 

 gestion is absolutely timely and I would be in favor of finding some- 

 thing to go by that is absolutely gold-lettered to the finish. 



Carl Leytze (Sioux City) : We haven't lost a dollar in conces- 

 sion money in two years. We don't allow any games of any kind. 

 The Chairman : Do you allow any shows ? 

 Mr. Leytze : Yes sir, we have carnival companies. 



Mr. Scholfield : We have more trouble with the shows than we 

 do with the games. 



Mr. Williams : I would like to ask Mr. Leytze what he considers 

 games that they wouldn't allow there. 



Mr. Leytze : Any pitch games, or things of that sort. 



The Chairman : How about punch boards ? 



Mr. Leytze : It don't go. 



Mr. Nelson : I would like to ask how they handle a carnival 

 company with no games? 



Mr. Leytze : I don't consider it a game. 



The Chairman : Don't they run games ? 



Mr. Leytze : No sir. 



The Chairman : What company have you had ? 



Mr. Leytze : We have Worthams. They got more money last 

 year than any other carnival company that ever showed on our fair 

 grounds. The men that run the games with the show simply run 

 lunch stands and they pay just the same as other concession people 

 do, and it makes a mighty good proposition and we think it is worth- 

 while. 



Mr. Bacon : There are two evils we have to contend with, con- 

 cessions that personally, as a fair secretary in this state, I would like 

 to see eliminated at a fair, and that is gypsy and negro concessions. 

 I attended two fairs last fall, at one of which, right across from the 

 entrance, was a camp of a hundred or so gypsies, and every woman 

 or child who attended the fair had to go by them. I also attended 

 a beautiful new fair grounds with a beautiful entrance, and across 

 the road in the bushes and brush was a dirty lot of gypsies, with 



