The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-01-17
PRESENT QUARTERS TO BE
RETAIN ED AND N E w
WORK CARRIED ON DUR
ING THE COMING TWELVE
MONTHS.
AMPLE FUNDS ARE PLEDGED
Organization Now Has Sufficient
Monthly Income to Make
It's Efforts Count
for More

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club has been indulging in self
administered doses of "pep"
with the result that it hopes
within the near future to show
up some of it's old-time form.
Several weeks ago members Of
the club began to seriously con-
slider the advisibility of re :
trenching. 1t was proposed that
the club move into smaller and
more inexpensive quarters and
to go into a state of semi-hiber-
nation. The more the members
argued with themselves along
this line the less advisable such
a course appeared and they final
ly argued themselves into adopt
ing a program of expansion in
stead of retrenchment.
Altho the rent on the present
quarters was raised the first of
the year the majority of the club
members looked with disfavor
upon the suggestion that the
rooms be given up. It was the
unanimous opinion that some
such a room is almost a necessity
in the town, as it is about the
only place where public gather
ings can be held, the different
kinds of meetings held there
having long ago passed the 81
variety mark. The rooms are
used as headquarters for the
County Agriculturalist, it is the
workroom of the Red Cross, the
regular meeting place of the Wo-
mans club, the Business Girls
club, it is the meeting place Of
the Marketing Union, the Fruit
growers association, the Cream
cry company, the Produce COM
pany, the Spokane Fruitgrowers'
and in fact it is the meeting place
for almost every local organiza-
tion which requires seating ca
pacity in excess of the accommo-
dations of the ordinary office
rooms. There is hardly a day or
evening that the room is not in
use by some organization, the
activities of which seem essen
tial to the community welfare.
For this reason members of the
club were unwilling to move into
smaller quarters without first
putting forth an effort to retain
the old ones.
The effort was made and sue
ceeded. AS the result of an af-
ternoon's work by E. M. Sly, L..
E. johnson and j. j. Rudkin, the
club now has a monthly income
sufficient not only to enable it to
retain the present quarters but
to carry on it's work in a much
more efficient manner than has
been possible in the past. The
plan adopted by Mr.. Sly and Mr..
Johnson was to ask the business
men for monthly contributions
in excess of their regular dues.
By this method a monthly in
come of more than $1O0 has been
+ pledged.
1t is the intention of the club
to devote this new income to car
rying on new activities, using
it for overhead, or fixed expenses
only when the regular dues prove
inadequate to meet these ex-
penses. The club has during the
past year been greatly handi-
capped in its work by lack of
funds. Much, perhaps, could
have been accomplished toward
getting the Kennewick extension
of the Sunnyside canal had a
campaign been properly conduct
ed. But it takes money to finance
a campaign and the club didn't
have the money. If the govern
ment takes favorable action on
the proposed extension the club
has a big job ahead of it to Sc
cure Snno11y cat4loy,oon% of tho