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The question immediately arises as to how all this work can be 
done. The work might be carried on by committees of about three. 
In looking through the membership list the names of many members 
of note immediately present themselves in connection with each of the 
following suggested committees: 
Geology and Extinct Life. 
Geography and Exploration. 
Committee on Vegetable Life. 
Committee on Animal Life. 
Committee on History and Bibliography. 
Committee on Roads and Trails. 
Committee on Forests and Parks. 
Committee on Law and Legislation. 
Committee. on Club Relations. 
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Permanent Fund. 
In order to achieve the above results, the common place and eternal 
question of finance must first be faced. In this connection the estab- 
lishment of a Permanent Fund is urged, the interest only being usable 
for advance work. To feed this fund life memberships of say $30 
could be authorized. Initiation fees of say $2 could be required and 
assigned to this purpose. When the Treasurer’s yearly balance is con- 
siderable a small fraction could be voted to the Permanent Fund. The 
permanency of such a fund and the seriousness of its purpose would 
tend to invite occasional bequests. The Appalachian Club now has 
a similar irreducible fund of $11,000. 
Property Fund. 
The time is coming, as it has already with other mountaineering 
clubs, when the Mountaineers will want to build shelter huts on some 
of our peaks, or possibly a log bungalow for winter excursions. A 
future need is likely to be a club bungalow as conveniently located in 
the city as possible. The immediate requirement is a club room. 
In order to look forward to something of this sort the starting of a 
Property Fund is suggested by setting aside each year 25 per cent. of 
the net yearly cash balance. 
In conclusion, there can be no more auspicious or convenient sea- 
son than this for the Mountaineers to look forward to broader pleas- 
ures through more complete development and more serious work. This 
is the proper fruit of the strength and the inspiration bestowed upon us 
by the clean fresh breezes from the sea, the pines, the snows; and by 
the power and the grandeur of our “Great White Hills.” Prof. Meany’s 
poem on Mt. Rainier could well be adopted as a personification of 
Destiny’s call to the Mountaineers: 
“Thou King, in ermine robes of crystal snow, 
Lift high thy royal head, serene and proud,” 
“A lurefor some in each swift hurrying crowd, 
Whose hopes are raised and hearts anew are vowed 
To catch like thee, God’s lift and onward throw.” 
