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direct than I do to the organization outside. I call our executive board 

 a wheel, and I in that respect differ from the preceding men a little. 

 The hub I call the secretary, the spokes the officers in charge. On ac- 

 count of the secretary of our department there we work and have har- 

 mony in this way: All committees absolutely that we have in our organ- 

 ization the secretary is a part of that committee. No reports come to the 

 secretary second handed. All reports come to him from the head because 

 he is one of the committee. Unless there is just one happens to be the 

 committee — one man on the committee — that is so. On the other hand 

 when you get your board of directors and feel as though the people 

 who have charge of the certain departments — most all of our officers 

 have charge of some certain department, in fact all of them do — now 

 you take the departments of your superintendents. We appoint all of 

 our superintendents early. We have already appointed our superintendents 

 for the following year, and the board of directors places in its secretary 

 a certain power that he goes to work and with this certain superintendent 

 of a certain department they form the plans for that one department. The 

 hogs, the cattle and the sheep, the department of agriculture — anything in 

 that line the secretary goes to work and meets with these different su- 

 perintendents. They are not all confined to our officers, we take them 

 outside. We have a superintendent who has been there ever since the 

 fair has been organized. In that way we get working forces. The de- 

 cision of a superintendent during our fair is final; if there is any con- 

 troversy comes up that any of our superintendents feels as though he 

 should have some assistance he comes to the secretary, and if he in con- 

 nection with the secretary can not settle any dispute it is in our constitu- 

 tion that we shall have a meeting of the executive board. A year ago the 

 only meeting we had was in regard to extending our fair over until Satur- 

 day. This year we had a meeting of the executive board during our fair, 

 there was no complaint that I heard this year. Our superintendents of 

 the different departments we pay them liberally compared to what, as 

 a general thing, has been paid by other fairs. We allow them as a gen- 

 eral thing, one assistant, whom we also pay. Every superintendent we 

 allow one assistant, and in some departments we allow two. We have 

 a lawn exhibit, and in the lawn exhibit we have an exhibit there where- 

 by we have to allow each one of our superintendents three assistants. 

 In our textile department the help that the superintendent has charge 

 of is two assistants. Any time that we allow them any more we allow 

 them additional help. We pay the one assistant. In the floral hall we 

 have one assistant and we pay him. In our horse department we pay one 

 assistant. Previous to this year the man who had charge of this de- 

 partment was the only man that we paid. We figured it this way, that 

 we start with our stockholders and then go to work on down to the 

 board of directors and then to the executive board, and we think it 

 is getting this controlling power down to the minimum, and if you have 

 in your work a system whereby they will come out and work and have 

 the secretary as your hub and have the co-operation which you have to 

 have in a successful fair, large or small, we feel as though the majority 

 of your hardships in a county fair would be overcome. 



