Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-02-24
NOON-DAy LUNCHEON PROPOSED
 TOGET-TOGETHER CLUB MEMBERS
(By B. F. Fly)

he COmmerClal CluD mas been unusually active since the recent floods, and is now leaving nothing undone to advance the best interests of the City of Yuma, Yuma pro- ject and Yuma county.
 Its new board of directors are determined to make a re- cord this year that will stand as a beacon light for all the future boards to copy after. At tonight's meeting an inn portant matter will be defi- nitely settled and that is as to whether or not the Com mercial Club will give a noon day luncheon at certain stat ed intervals during the pre- sent year.
 This has been discussed in an informal way at several of the recent meetings, but no definite action has yet been taken, it being understood last Friday night that the whole question would be threshed out at tonight's reg ular meeting.
 1t has become almost the universal custom of Commercial Clubs through out the country to hold these noon day luncheon meetings. If any of the directors are at all skeptical about the propriety of holding these weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly monday luncheons, all they have to do is to make inquiry of those towns and cities that make them special features of their commercial organizations.
 That investigation will at once con- vince them that it should be done. l It would be difficult indeed to pick out a real live town or city that IS not working along these lines And there good reason for it. Under the present rule, it is rarely ever the case that any one ever attends meeting of the Board of Directors, save the directors. The average member does hot know what is going on in the club, unless he happens to read some i'm portant action of'the directors as pub lished in the daily papers.
 There are many things that tran spire in the regular meetings that are of special interest to individual mer chants and professional men, such as communications from all parts of the country, which no paper, no matter how many pages it prints, can in jus tice to it's many readers accupy the space to print.
 At these monday luncheons all these matters are brought out within the luncheon hour, and are discussed | from every angle, giving each mem | Der a fair chance to know exactly what is transpiring in the club. And | the beauty about the whole thing is | that it does not take up the time of the business man. He is listening to everything while he eats his monday meal
 It is the logical time to bring war; ring factions together, for when our stomachs are full we are usually at peace with all the world. It will have strong tendency to bring about the | closer and better relations between III our business men, and at the noon day hour we frequently will have the presence of out-Of-tOwn members who an not very well afford to make a rip to the city after night-fall. It is to be most earnestly hoped
 hat the. Board of Directors will give he enw idea fair trial Naturally the idea is that every man pays for his own lunch. There need be no oc- casion for an extra spread" but sim ply take the bill of fare and order just as you do every day when you are required to take your lunch down own. After having been given a fair Lrlal it will be a fixture, either that 1T Yuma will prove that it Is very diff ferent from any other town in America.
 Other matters of considerable i'm portance will be discussed at the meeting of the Board of Directors to night, and for that reason it is expect | ed that every member of the board will be present
 There are signs that Canada would |