So far about 40 people have availed themselves of the new opportunity 
for sponsored subscriptions. 500 or 1000 subscriptions could be 
cared for on a paying basis. If the Bulletin is worth anything it 
is interesting to non-members as well as members and although sub- 
scriptions should not be generally and pleadingly solicited a little 
judicious and genteel advertising would help. In this matter of sub- 
scriptions there seems to be a misunderstanding on the part of some 
members who feel that their dues are in payment of their subscription 
to the Bulletin. Instead their dues entitle them to the Bulletin 
as the official Club organ but the Bulletin is only one of the many 
expenses the Club must meet and all dues go to a general expense 
account, not to the editor. 
In case it is decided to continue the publication of the Bulletin, 
certain points should be more definitely understood. First, the 
editor should not be given a free hand. The Bulletin is a Club 
organ and should voice the policies, ideas and intentions of the Club, 
not of the editor. You leave too much to the discretion of your 
servant when you allow her utterances to speak for the Club ; you 
ask too much of your servant when you throw upon her an undivided 
responsibility. I think you do not realize how powerful an organ- 
ization the Garden Club of America has become. If the Bulletin 
is to persist with the present editor in charge, the Executive Com- 
mittee from whom she receives her appointment must issue her 
orders. 
Second, some financial plan must be made. As the Club increases 
its membership and if prices continue to mount the exact sum would 
have to be adjusted to necessities but an approximate amount should 
be stated and the editor instructed to keep within that amount. 
In the smaller matters of detail there are many things to be ar- 
ranged. A good many Bulletins seem to be lost in the mails. With 
so many changing addresses from winter to summer this is a difficult 
matter to adjust. With a mailing list of 3000 each name cannot receive 
individual attention and the issue mailed to a different address each 
time. The present method is to use summer addresses for the May, 
July and September issues, winter addresses for November, January 
and March. A suggestion has been made that enough copies of 
Bulletin be sent to the president of each Member Club for dis- 
tribution to its members. Would this be more satisfactory? Sugges- 
tions will be very welcome, but it has sometimes occurred to a sus- 
picious editor that the unpretentious, second class envelope within 
which the Bulletin hides its light is frequently consigned to the scrap 
basket without a second look. 
During the past year the Bulletin has added some twenty-five 
horticultural and agricultural libraries to its regular mailing Ust, 
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