Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-11

When Robert +. Putney accepted
,be office of president Of the state
fair commission he pledged the GOV
erpor ana the people Of New Mexico
bat there should be no deficit after
the fair was over. In order 70 make
GOOD that pledge MIR Putney wrote
an, his check for approximately $40
o00 to cover the shortage in the ac-
counts of this years fair ana yester-
dlv sent ia to Governor Mcdonald
his report. accompanied by the de-
failed statement Of the expert ace
countants who audited the books Of
na commission. The report is sign
CA also by Commissioners Scheurich
ami Belts. the other members of the
fair board.
Al the same time Mr.. Putney sent
N Governor Mcdonald his resigna-
tom as a member of the board. 81
feel that my work is done" he SAID
Yesterday. 81 have been in the state
fair business since last June, ana
now / am going back into the whole
sale grocery business. ] promised
that I would do what could to give
the people Of New Mexico a real state
fair. one that they would be proud
of and / don't think l am throwing
too many bouquets at myself when
saw that with the able assistance OF
Commissioners Scheurich and Belts
and Secretary Wiley, / have kept that
promise
secretary Wiley explained yester-
day that his position with the board
expired automatically with the COM
pletion of the fair work. He was not
an official of the state, hut an en-
ploye of the board, and consequently
it was not necessary that he should
resign in order to sever his connection
with that body
Permanent Buildings Needed.
An interesting feature Of the re-
port Of the commission is the show
ing made that the amount OF the
deficit Ia this years fair represents
almost to the dollar, the amount that
il was necessary TO eXpend on the
grounds at Traction park i'm order 10
give the fair. If there had been
permanent buldings--if the grounds
had already been prepared for the
fair-there would have been no den
ct The urgent, imperative need OF
adequate buildings Of permanent
character is forcibly pointed out I'M
the report
About 5000 of last years bills were
paid off by the commission, but 1t.
was found impossible to take care oil
an the deficit that was inherited from
the 1914 fair. There is still an in-I
debtedness of about $4,000 hanging
oyer the fair commission.
Not i'm Politics.
Mr. Putney issued statement yes
terday in which he put quietus on
any suggestion that he was "a candi-I
date for any office in the gift of the
people Harmony, and not discora
is what he is working for, he de-
cared Politics means discord, ana
he asked his friends to take his WORD
for it that any thought of his beng
q candidate for office was out Of the
question His statement follows
1T might be a matter of informa-
ton to the public to know that the
first intention Of the state fair COM
mission was TO absorb any deficit that
there might have been and let the re-
port of the state fair show as no defi-
cb at all But after thinking the|
matter over thoroughly we came to|
the conclusion that it was not fair TO-
The people of the state, to the people
ot this city or to future managers OF
state fairs. TO allow them to believe
that this fair had been pulled OIL
without any deficit, or to lead them
to believe that the Same could ne
done again, with the probability that
lhey would find that they were totally
unable to equal the record that we