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Perhaps the most important amend- 

 ment is that of Sec. 3 of Article IV, in 

 that it changes the election of the Presi- 

 dent, Vice President and Secretary from 

 the hands of the members present at the 

 aiinnal convention and places it in the 

 hands of ihe whole membership at the an- 

 nual election, and provides for election by 

 a plurality instead of a majority vote. 

 The attendance at the annual convention 

 is seldom greater than one-tenth of the 

 niend)ership, is largely local, and often 

 largt'lv composed of mern'oers voting for 

 tho fist time. To place in the hands of 

 these members the power of electing such 

 important officers as President, Vice- 

 President and Secretary (the Exe-cutive 

 Committee) is manifestly unwise, as it 

 leaves the great body of tlie membership 

 without voice in this iini)(>rtant matter. 

 The change to a plurality vole instead of 

 a majority vote seems desirable, as it 

 means the certainty of an election, while 

 a majority vote would often result in no 

 election. The election is changed to No- 

 vember, that the votes may be counted, 

 results announced, and officers have tin'e 

 to accept and fjualify, and be all in readi- 

 Ufss to take up their duties on the first 

 d;iv of J.inu.irv. 



Sec. 4. as amended, adds the General 

 Manager to the Executive Board, thereby 

 strengthening and broadening the Com- 

 mittee, and at the same time, by making 

 the General Manager a member of the 

 Executive Committee, vacancies in that 

 office could be filled by the Board of Di- 

 rectors as alread}- provided in Article 

 VII 



Sec. 5, as amended, elects the Directors 

 l)y a plurality vote instead of a majority 

 vote. Last year there was only one Di- 

 rector elected, when there were three 

 vacancies to be filled. This change will 

 prevent a repetition of this trouble. It 

 also gives the Directors power to pre- 

 scribe some rule for making nominations. 

 Article V, Sec. 3, as amended, requires 

 the Secretary to turn everything, money, 

 names, addresses, etc , over to the Gen- 

 eral Manager, after the annual conven- 



tion, make a report, and allow the Gen- 

 eral Manager to pay all bills. In other 

 words, it puts the paying of all bills into 

 the hands of the General Manager, in- 

 stead of allowing both the Secretary and 

 General Manager to be paying bills. 



Article VII is merely putting into 

 words a rule that the .\ssociation has been 

 following for some time, but about the 

 correctness of which there has been more 

 or le.ss dispute. 



The amendment to Article IX is to pre- 

 vent the expense and annoyance of being 

 compelled to take a vote upon some per- 

 sonal or unimoirtant matter. If a ma- 

 jority of the members present at the an- 

 nual convention do not approve an 

 amenilnient, there is no use of asking the 

 whole membership to vote upon it. 



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