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phlet which Mr, Corey sent out and I think there is no need of going 

 over that. In accordance with a motion made during the meeting last 

 year it was recommended that this association apply for membership in 

 the International Association of Fairs and Exhibitions and that our 

 representative be at their meeting provided we could obtain member- 

 ship. I went to Chicago last February and was successful in obtaining 

 membership for this organization in the International Association. The 

 International Association works on matters that are of great interest and 

 great benefit to all fairs. I am sure we will be very well repaid for 

 every cent it cost to belong to the association. 



At several times during the spring and summer we received bulletins 

 from Don B. Moore, secretary of that association, which I had printed 

 in cicular form and mailed to all members of this association. One 

 of these bulletins told of freight classifications. They dealt with a re- 

 duction of passenger fare rates and gave rates for your fare returns. 

 Another thing that came up during the summer was through the news- 

 papers of this state taking the matter up with me and wanting me to 

 advise the members of the association regarding the collection of the 

 tax or license for eating stands and eating houses on fair grounds as 

 required by law. 



The International Association of Fairs and Exhibitions held their 

 meeting at Toronto this year on Thanksgiving week. The main topic 

 of the meeting was the carnival fair clean-up which the Billboard has 

 been pushing for the past few months. There was a great deal of ar- 

 gument and strife started by some fair men present who took excep- 

 tion to certain articles that had been printed and certain statements 

 made, but nevertheless after a great deal of argument the resolution 

 which appeared in the Billboard was adopted. The point that they were 

 actually taken on is that gambling for money with or without protest 

 be prohibited on all fair grounds. They also referred to the '49 Camps 

 or shows where the men dance with hired women, and a number of other 

 things. I believe in the state of Iowa we were a little above these things 

 as we have for a number of years prohibited these things, and the fairs 

 in general have been very clean in the state of Iowa for years. 



President Estel : We have just a few questions we want to have 

 answered. This is one of the questions — "Would it be possible to 

 get the legislature to amend the law providing for state aid to the 

 county fairs so as not to compel them to publish the list of premium 

 awards ?" 



Member: That is my question. Before we got this additional 

 state aid it was not necessary to publish a list of premium awards. 

 Now with this new law it is costing us in the neighborhood of $150 

 to have this list of awards published, and I presume you are all 

 in exactly the same boat. We appreciate state aid but I hate to 

 give seven and a half or ten per cent to the newspapers to pub- 

 lish this in order to get it. 



