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

l (By B. +. f1yJ
 The Commercial Club has 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 nercial 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 Ithreshed out at tonight's reg ular meeting.
 It 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 noon-day 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.
 It would be difficult indeed to pick out 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 not know what is going on in the club, unless he happens to read some inn 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 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 noon-day meal.
 It is the logical time to bring war ring factions together, for when our peace with all the world. It will have a strong tendency to bring about the closer and better relations between all our business men, and at the noon- day hour we frequently will have the presence of out-oftown members who can not very well afford to make a trip to the city after night-fall.
 It is to be most earnestly hoped that the Board of Directors will give the 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 town. After having been given a fair
 
 or 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 hoard