PROCEEDINGS IOWA STATE FAIR MANAGERS ASSN. 69 



that time it was one of the things that the committee contended for, 

 the publication of the award so the state might know where the 

 money was going. 



Mr. Hunt: We find it mighty good business to pay the news- 

 papers for publishing this for all the free space we get during the 

 fair. 



Mr. Emery : I agree with the gentleman that it is good business to 

 pay for publication of the premium list. At Spencer I get a lot of 

 publicity from our two newspapers. Possibly some of you gentle- 

 men received the special fair edition of the News Herald, forty-eight 

 pages the week before our fair. It is certainly wonderful publicity 

 and I give each paper the premium list and I think it pays, and I 

 certainly would not want to have any law or rule whereby I could 

 not pay my two papers this money for publishing this premium 

 list. I had a secretary write me two or three years ago and ask 

 me how I worked my newspapers to get this publicity. I say that 

 a good secretary can get all this publicity if he will treat his 

 newspapers right and get them interested in his fair. 



President Estel : Is there any further discussion? If not, we 

 will have the next question read. 



Secretary Wilkinson : Is the time coming when County Fairs will 

 be consolidated into district fairs of four or more counties? 



(Answers of "no," "never," "I hope not.") 



President Estel : The next question ? 



Secretary Wilkinson: After nine years of evening fireworks 

 program, would it pay us to change our evening show? 



(Answers of "No" and "Yes.") 



Secretary Wilkinson : How do you handle stockholders' 

 tickets, I mean what concessions do you make to stockholders ? 



(Answers of "none.") 



Member : How do you handle it ? 



(Answers "They pay.") 



Member: We don't make any concessions to stockholders. The 

 fair don't pay dividends of any kind and the men who put their 

 money in go through the gates and buy tickets. 



Mr. Selby : In Wayne county our president, secretary and treas- 

 urer pay for their tickets, every stockholder buys his ticket and we 

 pay no salary or dividends. 



Member : We followed that same plan this year at our fair and it 

 worked out fine. The president bought his ticket the same as anybody 

 else. 



