Since the last Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America Bulletin 
four numbers of the Bulletin have been issued. These four issues Report 
have been influenced by the answers received to the questionnaire 
sent to each individual member last August. These answers gave 
every evidence that the members were individual. They have been 
reported in detail elsewhere and the excellent advice, admonitions, 
commendations and vituperations they embodied have been given 
every consideration and some employment. 
You will all agree that the Bulletin has improved just as you 
will all admit that there was room for improvement. This improve- 
ment is largely due to the Editorial Board. Whatever may be your 
editor's short-comings, she has proved herself the possessor of one 
quality, the abiHty to choose able assistants. Some of them do not 
spell very well, but this is a defect of brilHant minds and adds to the 
editorial conviction that the Board is the Bulletin. A new member, 
Mrs. T. H. B. McKnight of the Garden Club of Allegheny County, 
has just been enhsted, so a still greater improvement may be 
expected. 
Unfortunately with the increase in interest has come an over- 
whelming increase in cost. This is partly due to the greater size of 
the Bulletin and the increased membership of the Club, but prin- 
cipally to the advance in the price of paper and printing. The expense 
of printing and maihng the four issues of the new series has been 
$2413 .51. Added to this are secretarial expenses and postage, amount- 
ing to $405 . 00, which have not been charged to the Garden Club. 
From this you will see that we cannot publish a magazine of the 
present size, six times a year for much less than $3750.00. 
You will remember, perhaps, that this was to be considered a 
trial year, so the time has now come to decide whether the Bulletin 
in its present form is to go on. It contains much now that purports 
to be of interest to the Club but has no direct bearing upon its business 
activities. The whole plan could be, changed to the printing of an 
eight-page report after each general meeting and an Annual Report 
which would contain Committee Reports and accounts of Member 
Club activities. This would be much less expensive and possibly more 
valuable. There are many magazines in circulation just now and un- 
less our members really want the Bulletin as it now is it is an extrava- 
gance of time and money to continue its pubHcation. The question 
should be decided to-day. 
As a help in this decision it might be said that the cost of extra 
copies for newly added Clubs does not greatly increase the expense 
of an issue. The same is true in the cost of extra copies for non- 
member subscribers. If enough of these at $2.00 or possibly $2.50 
a year could be secured by members it would be a material help. 
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