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Show GARDEN CLUBS Have you a garden club in your town? If not, you are far behind the times indeed, and it behooves you to gather together all those people who are civic minded enough, who are lovers of beauty and of nature, and to organize a flower garden club. Such an association of public spirited men and women is an asset to any town, and its worth can never be! computed. Such an association will help to make a barren collection of stark and ugly buildings, Which is what the average western town generally is, into a group of homes, embowered by trees, draped vPith vines and glowing with gay flowers. Every child should be given the chance to live and grow in such a gardened town. Men and women may be enthusiastic gardeners without any garden club, it is true, but with whatever hobby you occupy yourself your-self there goes the corresponding urge to meet people of the same stripe, to talk with them and to compare experiences. Garden clubs fill this need, and they also furnish a means for group effort ef-fort along lines of town improvement and beautification, which would be quite impossible for the single individual. It is a simple matter to form a flower garden club. You their support. Your newspaper will be glad to give space to such an effort, and if your mayor won't further the movement he's a mighty peculiar mayor and something drastic should be done must have at least two or three friends or neighbors who are also interested in gardening. Talk the matter over with them and then go to your local newspaper and to your mayor and get to him. There should be an opening meeting-, either in a home or in some centrally located public building, for a starter. Here all the home owners should meet to effect an organization. You will need a president with plenty of vim and vigor, a vice president presi-dent similiarly equipped, a secretary-treasure' and a librarian. After these officers are elected, decide on a set of bylaws and adopt a constitution. Appoint a set of committees to care for membership, programs, flower shows, garden contests and so on. Mrs. Maud Chegwidden in Salt Lake Tribune. |