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anything about it. We charge fifty eenls to the gi-aiul stand, and 

 ten cents extra for reserved seats. 



A Delegate: Have you any faiuily tickets? 



Mr. Laucr: \Vc have a season ticliet, season transferable ticket. 

 It makes so many people dishonest to have non-transferable tickets 

 that we have cut them out. We charge ^\.2o for transferable 

 tickets. We have no non-transferable tickets whatever. The trans- 

 ferable tickets are sold at $1.25. Our flow^er hall is large, and has 

 seven thousand sciuare feet of floor space, and we liave never been 

 able — we have had to turn people away. It has always been 

 crowded from the time we tirst built it — seven thousand cul)ic feet 

 of floor space. 



A Delegate: Will your admission be more next year! 



Mr. Laiier: Xo. sir; not if oui- board can prevent it. We are 

 organized for no pecuniary proflt, and we are doing well as it is. 

 I have talked with the majority of our board and they feel that 

 if we went to work and increased the price of admission it would 

 cause dissatisfaction. A person can go into the fair and have 

 flfty cents, and he can see the whole thing. There is no extra 

 cost unless they Avant to indulge in the other pleasures. 



A Delegate : I understood there was a ruling that would go into 

 effect that all fairs charge fifty cents. 



Mr. Lauer : Not that I know of. 



I took a clipping from a Des Moines newspaper the other day, 

 and I think it is applicable to all fairs. Here it is: 



To the person who has had a little experience and a good deal of 

 instruction regarding the matter of success it must come, after all, as 

 an ultimate conclusion that the thing lies largely with himself and 

 his own continued and permanent desire. There is no royal made-to- 

 order road to attainment of most deserving sort. There is no one cut-and- 

 dried formula for the would-be successful. What is one man's joy 

 is another's dissatisfaction. Regarding the things most worth while in 

 the world we have to form our own conclusions and regarding the way 

 of their accomplishment we must also exercise a large measure of in- 

 dividual choice and initiative and consideration. 



In conclusion I would say this year we have placed in our pre- 

 mium books this peom here entitled "Keep a Pullin'." 

 It follows : 



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