Resigna- The President then announced that Mrs. Walter S. Brewster had 
TiON OF submitted her resignation as Editor of the Bulletin; that this news 
Mrs. had been received with concern and deep regret by the Directors 
Brewster and Presidents at their meeting, and that the entire membership 
would agree that with the cessation of Mrs. Brewster's editorial 
activities one of the most valuable and cherished connections of the 
organization would be withdrawn. 
The report of the absent Editor was read by the Secretary as 
follows: 
Bulletin It is to be hoped that the usefulness and influence of the Bulletin 
Report have increased during the past year in some seemly proportion to the 
expense. This has mounted by leaps and bounds, keeping alive in the 
mind of the Editor the old question as to whether so small a publica- 
tion warrants so large an expenditure. 
I am convinced that the Club must have an oi£cial organ but 
might it perhaps be possible to compress into four issues what now 
goes into six? Possibly a cheaper, lighter paper might be used which 
would make it possible to increase the number of pages that a two-cent 
stamp would carry. At present 64 pages is the extreme limit and re- 
ports of Member Clubs, Committees, meetings, etc., are now so volu- 
minous that four times 64 times 450 words is not nearly every- 
thing that we have to say. Certain lists and business details must be 
repeated in each issue so although it might require eighty pages in 
each of four numbers there would still be a material saving in mailing 
expenses and even in printers' bills. Since the condition of the 
Garden Club of America seems to be one of acute, if respectable, 
indigence I offer this advice as one might to a spend-thrift poor 
relation in whose extravagance one recognizes a family weakness. 
After all, as Editor, I am the spender, but being Editor I have learned 
that economies can be made only by some drastic change, not by 
cutting a little here and there. 
The Bulletin report this year must be largely an expression of 
gratitude to the Editorial Board, to the Member Clubs, and to the 
Acting Editor. Not only have the members of the Board made 
thrilHng reading of their Departments but they have helped the 
Editor in every possible way; no request has been refused, no effort 
has been spared, no help been denied. It is a Board to be proud of and 
glory in and to be thanked humbly and heartily. Mrs. Edward Hard- 
ing, of Fanwood, New Jersey, has recently accepted the appointment 
as Editor of "Garden Literature." 
That every Member Club sent in an Annual Report promptly and 
compressed within the required number of words is another thing 
for the Club as a whole to glory in and each report was an evidence 
of the growing usefulness and importance of each unit that goes to the 
making of a useful and important whole. 
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