The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-04-27
No Town Has
Carnival Fever
Other Nevada Towns Making War
On Grating Carnival Companies
That Fitch

Fallon is not the only Nevada
town that is seeking a ban against
carnival grafters. Winnemucca,
Elko. Tonopah and others of the
municipalities of this state are
waging war on the in and cutters
who have acquired the habit of TAX
ing our money and giving us nothing
| In return, except noise and tinsel.
These mountebanks seek unde-
served dignity by clubbing them
selves carnival folks" when in
truth they are merely a bunch of
nondescripts.
Ii has come to be the habit of
Fallon's executives To waive the IL
cense charges prescribed by city
ordinances, throw the bars down
and then help whoop 'er up for the
interlopers. This has been done
heretofore at the instance of smooth
talking local citizens who espoused
the cause of the transient grafters
Business men engaged in legiti-
mate callings are compelled to pay
license costs and plenty of 1t and
must support their community by
tax moneys and in other ways and
these men have wondered at times
whether after all is said and done
business virtues bring due reward
1t has also been the custom for
those of the local citizenship who
have boosted carnival concerns, Sc
cured the waving of license
charge and given moral or immoral
aid whichever way you term it dur
ing short stays in our little city. to
recite that ''the folks who gave the
alleged amusement lost money dur
Ing their stay in Fallon; but we
who staged the affair got all the
profit In our one per cent of the
gross" Smart Alecks? Woll rather.
The best answer to such statement
is that the travelling grafters want
to come and abide with us again for
brief season. Sure, they lost
money, any one would know that
The Winnemucca Silver State has
the following to say of carnival COM
panies generally and the Brown
carnival company particularly:
open warfare has been declared
in Fallon against the carnival COM
pany which is billed to land in that
city soon to separate the people and
merchants from good hard coin,
which will be taken out of the city
never to return. The carnival COM
pany under fire is the Brown amuse-
ment company, which has set up
catch-quarter games in Winnemucca
as we'll as Fallon during the last
two years, on both occasions the city
council having difficulty in enforcing
the city license provisions. A repre-
sentative of the carnival company
was in Winnemucca a few days ago
trying to get lodges to take respon-
sibiiity in order to duck paying
proper license to the city So far as
learned he had no success here, but
in spite of this the carnival people
plan on coming here some time in
May, taking a chance they can find
way to beat the city license.
"Elko newspapers registered dis
approval of the carnival outfit last
year, as has also the Tonopah Bo-
nanza in years gone by. II is gen.
orally considered if these outfits
would bring only their merry-go-
rounds and ferris wheels, and other
harmless amusements for kiddies,
no objection would be raised But
they dont-they bring questionable
girl shows and games that If not
unlawful are at least unfair, the
Brown company succeeding in un-
loading last year a lot of rank
bacon as a prize And then to
cap the climax they endeavor in ev-
cry way possible to avoid paying Ii
cense, become indignant and abusive
to city officials who insist upon cor
rect payment. The Silver State GER
tainly hopes no local organization
will assist them and that If they are
allowed TO show here at all that city
officials see that they pay every cent
of license the ordinance provides for
We lost the bulk of this COM
pany's advertising contract last year
for daring to print proceedings as
they occurred at a meeting of the
city council when their representa-
tive became abusive. We presume
this article will result in total loss
of their business. But we can't help
it-we've lost business So often for
standing up for what we believe
right and for tho intaraetc ~ our
readers the novelty has worn off.
II we have to remain quiet in order
to 'get along" we'd rather start
walking now"