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that they are clean and moral, and after they set up they can put on a 

 clean show if they have to, or they can put on anything else that you 

 will permit. 



Just how a man should handle the entire concession business is a 

 matter of opinion. There are so many things that come up on the spur 

 of the moment that the privilege man is not able to decide without 

 harassing the executive committee, and it is up to him to use his own 

 judgment. All shows must carry state license as a war tax, but on con- 

 cessioners I have my doubts whether that would be the proper thing to do. 

 I do not see where we would benefit by it. The main thing is for the 

 superintendent of concessions to keep out objectionable ones. That is 

 the hardest thing to do, and you have to keep an eye on them con- 

 tinually, because the people w-ho follow these fairs or these home- 

 comings and fall festivals come for the purpose of making money. They 

 come for the purpose of making money and it takes eternal vigilance to 

 hold them down. Mr. Cameron stated how he held them down in his 

 country, but there is a whole lot of difference between an agricultural 

 county and the people that make up the agricultural county and the 

 county that is largely mixed with the mining element. 



Mr. C. H. Barber: In regard to the state license and the committee 

 to report on objectionable concessions: I was going to make a motion 

 that we refer this matter to the executive committee with the request 

 that they consider it and take some steps along that line. This gentleman 

 says Mr. Cameron has a fair in an agricultural county and he has one in 

 a mining community, but the fact that there is not a law made for the agri- 

 cultural county fair and another for a fair that is in some other kind 

 of county. 



Mr. Rigby: I will second the motion. 



The Chairman: It has been moved and seconded that the matter of 

 making some arrangements or some recommendations to this association 

 for a state license for concessioners be referred to the executive com- 

 mittee with the request that they report at some later date. Are there 

 any remarks? 



Mr. Pa'Dst: What do I understand that this state license shall cover? 



The Chairman: That is up to the executive committee. 



Mr. Pabst: If it would bar our local people who are now active 

 boosters of our fair I think it would be an imposition, because you 

 might get it into an organized gang of what you might call concessioners 

 or grafters, and our local people that you know to be all right and don't 

 need watching would have to be licensed like the others. It depends 

 on how broad that question is as to whether or not it would be a 

 detriment. 



The Cliairman: I don't know what kind of report the executive com- 

 mittee will make, Mr. Pabst, but I think at the time they make it it will 

 be up for discussion and the matter could be brought up at that time. 



Mr. J. Q. Lauer: I might just say a few words in explanation with 

 regard to that particular subject. Your home people don't want these 

 so-called gambling devices. The proposition was in the way of protecting 



