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By-L,aws. 



Art. I. Officers shall perform the usual duties of 

 their respective offices. The treasurer shall receive all 

 moneys and pay all bills when properly approved by the 

 Chairman of the Committee incurring the expense, and the 

 President, unless a special Auditing Committee is ap- 

 pointed by the Executive Committee. 



Art. II. The Executive Committee shall have 

 power to elect Standing Committees on Membership, Enter- 

 tainment, Finance, Auditing, and arrange for competition, 

 inspection and award of prizes. One part of their work 

 will be to promote attractive homes by contests offering 

 prizes for the best gardens and lawns, and to formulate 

 rules for carrying on these contests. 



No existing organization can do the work as well as a 

 new organization forrned for the purpose of beautifying 

 the # city unless such organization already has every mem- 

 ber of the city in it. The membership fee should be so 

 low as to exclude no one. Some will give large contribu- 

 tions. 



Persons living in the poorest section of the city and 

 under the worst conditions should be especially urged to 

 join. Results are sure to follow. L,awns will take the 

 place of grassless yards; gardens and flowers the place of 

 unsightly, unsanitary and unproductive back yard dumps. 

 Whole streets will be lined with well kept lawns and well 

 planted homes. Coming in closer contact with the soil 

 and in the open air and sunshine will make the people 

 nobler, better citizens. Whole families will become 

 interested in making the home the prettiest as well as the 

 best place on earth. Children will be occupied in gardens 

 instead of spending their time on the corners of the street. 

 The city of attractive homes, well-kept streets and healthy 

 citizens will rapidly become the city beautiful. 



