NINETEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 163 



The Chairman: This matter will be handled efficiently by the Legis- 

 lative Committee. It is only a matter of amending that portion of the 

 law in which it provides that counties own their own grounds. That is 

 all, just eliminating that one sentence about counties owning their 

 grounds. That can be stricken out and it will provide that all counties 

 may receive $1,000 annually, at the discretion of the board of super- 

 visors. 



Mr. Wilson (Guthrie): It has been my understanding that where you 

 go to the board of supervisors and ask for aid, designating what you 

 want the money used for, if it was to be used for a building, that that 

 was not considered as county aid. I was given to understand that in 

 case we wanted an agricultural building or art hall, if the board of super- 

 visors allowed us $100, $200 or $300, and it was used for that purpose, 

 it wasn't counted in on that $1,000. , 



The Chairman: Yes, it is. The provision in the law is that the 

 money must be used for improvements or paying off debts. The law 

 provides that it must be used for improvements or paying an indebted- 

 ness on the fair. 



Mr. Maxwell (Warren): Is it a fact that you can get your $1,000 by 

 vote of the board of supervisors for one year, and then by a vote of the 

 people you can get additional appropriations of $1,000 each year for ten 

 years ? 



The Chairman: Yes, that is correct. But it is very difficult to get 

 the board to call an election in the first place, and it is hard for them 

 to get it through, even then. Cerro Gordo petitioned the board of super- 

 visors and got their money there, but that doesn't happen very often. 



C. E. Cameron: Wlien this Legislative Committee presents any meas- 

 ure to the legislature, it is the duty of every secretary to boost with their 

 members of the legislature. -Don't forget that! Get the fellows at home 

 to write personal letters to your representative and senator, telling them 

 that you want it and need it. If we have concerted action all over the 

 state of Iowa, they will simply give it to us, that's all there is to it. 



The Chairman: It would help a lot to elect one of your supervisors 

 from your fair board, or get one of the supervisors on your fair board, 

 and a number of you have a member of the legislature on your fair 

 Iioard. 



E. H. Graves (Story): I would like to know why so many fairs in 

 the state shouldn't form a Fair Insurance Association and carry our own 

 insurance, all of us, instead of dividing it up. I happen to be in the 

 insurance business, and I think that the rate on fair buildings is ex- 

 ceedingly high, and I haven't noticed in the last four or five or six years, 

 in all the time I have been connected with the fair association, of any 

 fairs that have lost very many buildings, and I think it is the thing for 

 this association to consider in the meeting a year from now, and if the 

 thing can be reported on, I think we can carry our own insurance a great 

 deal cheaper than we are carrying it at the present time. 



The Chairman: The mutual companies serve practically the same pur- 

 pose. 



