in the states of Ohio, Arizona, Texas, Missouri, Indiana, New Mexico, Tennessee, and 

 Montana have been contacted by questionaires, the forms will be tabulated and a 

 suiTiinary report prepared. This report will be sent to all of the Districts in those 

 eight stateso It is hoped that by this means Districts will learn of useful and 

 successful educational programs which have worked well, and which might be adapted 

 for their own public contact programs o 



In Montana, the CEA member who will be writing to you soon is Dr. Will Clark, of 

 Eastern Montana College in Billings, We urge each District to recognize the poten- 

 tial value of this survey, and to cooperate by completing the questionaire which will 

 be sento 



MRSo LESLIE CEiyrfELL 



I wish you could all be with us at the State, Ar«a, and National meetings. You 

 would see the procedure and intensity of interest in the Auxiliary by both men and 

 women. They all have a common interest, that of promoting Soil and Water Conserva- 

 tion. 



Many women have asked about membership requirements. Any woman interested in the 

 Soil Conservation Program may become a member of the State and National Auxiliary o 

 There are no membership dues in the National Auxiliary, and the State dues are only 

 one dollar a year. The State Auxiliary pays five dollars a year in dues to the Nat'l. 



The Auxiliary feels that a supervisor- s wife should take an interest and be willing 

 to assume responsibilities in this important work, which would lead her to become 

 a member of the State Auxiliary, One woman may not assume as active a part as an- 

 other, but each one's help is needed at this point of organizational growth. Until we 

 become financially able to carry our part of the program we may be a handicap instead 

 of a help, Mrs, Carl Johnson, Shields Rt., Livingston, Montana.„ is the Secretary- 

 Treasurer of our State Auxiliary. Please send the dues to her, 



HERE AND THERE 



Dick Marks, Extensio n For ester, says box elder trees may open the doors for a new 

 industry. In Lincoln County, New Mexico, "maple syrup" was recently produced from 

 the sap of box elder trees that grow wild up and down the mountain valleys. 



The Pennsylvania Association of SCD in their news letter "Teamwork" offer the 

 following essentials for a good district meetings 



(1) Everybody present. 



(2) Everybody on time, 



(3) Chainnan in charge at all times and sticks strictly to business, 

 (U) Complete accurate minutes, 



(5) Everybody participates, 



(6) Well-organized reports from cooperating agencies, 



(7) Business transacted efficiently, 

 (P.) Meeting lasts l^- hours, 



Jas E. Goddard, Chief Local Flood Relations Branch, T.V.A., says? "Man has devised 

 effective ways of controlling floods so as to reduce the heights and frequencies of 

 floods. Man must now apply coordinated effort to controlling himself so as to obtain 

 the maximum benefits from the land and his investments". 



