In October Mrs. Sloan, Chairman of the Slides Committee expects Lantern 
to send to all Presidents a Ust of the slides received and ready for Slides 
publication. 
In his report at the Annual Meeting Dr. Partridge questioned the The English- 
possibility of proving what, if any, advertising value the national man and the 
curse of bill-boards possessed. The following cUpping from a New American 
York evening paper would seem to indicate that the extensive employ- Bill-board 
ment of bill-boards along the right of way is of inestimable value to 
the Pullman Sleeping Car Company. Is this an especially astute form 
of indirect advertising? If the use of highly -colored and overpersuasive 
bill-boards is discouraging travel by day, the automobile trade should 
join our crusade with the least possible delay. 
"All Americans travel by night, probably to avoid the advertise- 
ments that line the railways, saj'^s Henry W. Re\dnson in the Man- 
chester Guardian. One would suffer much to escape the huge boards 
adjuring you to "Eat Gorton's Codfish; no bones!" or "Just try one 
bottle of the Three-in-One Oil," or "Watch him register!" with four 
pictures of a man lighting a cigarette in anticipation, hesitation, 
realization and satisfaction, till the very sight of him makes one sad. 
So Americans and English visitors alike are driven to travel by dark- 
ness, creeping into little coverts set in rows one above the other along 
the length of carriages, and shut off by heavy green curtains. There 
they he stifling for want of air through the long hours of night, heavily 
asleep or listening to the wails and griefs of a mother and baby in the 
stifling berth overhead, until in the dim morning a dark attendant 
comes to shout the name of an approaching city, and it is time to crawl 
up the carriage and wash in the cupboard at the end. To this has 
commercial enterprise reduced a race renowned for sanit3^" 
Arnold Arboretum Notes 
Jamaica Plain, Mass., 
August 6, 192c. 
Dear Mrs. Sloan: 
In writing the other day to Mrs. Brewster, I suggested that a set 
of the colored slides of plants and views made in the Arboretum placed 
in the hands of the Garden Club of America might be made useful 
in increasing the knowledge of plants among the members of your 
affiliated clubs. She tells me that it is to you that I should write on 
this subject. 
My suggestion to her was that the Arboretum present the set of 
sKdes with a brief syllabus of a lecture to explain them to the Garden 
Club oe America if you can arrange for their use by the affihated 
clubs. With the syllabus the Secretary or some member of the Club 
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