Weekly journal-miner., 1922-11-22
yAVAPAI CLUB
 IDEALS SHOWN
(From Saturdays Dany1

HuDnC spirited men III the city and county owe it to themselves to be- long to the Yavapai club, it was de- clared yesterday by Neil C. Clark, who has been named to look after memberships for the club. The clubs position and influence in the community were stated somewhat as follows:
 l. The YavapaI club is a sort of informal forum which ideas con- tributing to the progress of the com munity are germinated, often in cas- ual conversations, to bear fruit later in progressive movements sponsored by the chamber of commerce, the newspapers and other agencies.
 2. The club has a function for the community outside the benefits of membership, and the entertainment features of its program, in providing a place where community activities on a large scale may be held.
 3. Most members enjoy, more than the benefits they themselves de- rive from the club, recognizing at the Yavapai an institution where visitors may be welcomed with the assurance that they will be treated with the utmost courtesy and con sideration, and depart favorably i'm pressed with the community.
 4. The Yavapai club is not alone for Prescott; nor is it Yavapai in name only, but thoroughly the coun- tvs club conducted for the county.
 As instances Of these propositions, Clark cited occasions on which the club has been thrown open for large affairs in which it was devoted to the interests either of Prescott or the whole county. Thus, the entertain ment of General. Cummings; the re- ception of the state convention of the Arizona Medical association, which delegates declared to be one of the best conventions ever held :; and the recent entertainment of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce These occasions represent effort di- rected toward the good of the county.
 Further, a large proportion of pro gressive accomplishments in Prescott and the county recently, had their origin in informal conversations oc- curing among representative men of the community at the club.
 q don't want to imply that the club wants credit for this or that particular thing" Clark continued; i; but to point out that many ideas thus originated have since been brought to fruition through other agencies. The club, the chamber of commerce, the newspapers, working together, have brought about such improvements. Probably if one of them had been out of it, we would not now be enjoying these things"
 One of the chief ways in which the club has been of service is in devot- ing the use of its building to the de- velopment and rehearsals of the Smoki. This organization, with its future including plans for a museum and archives and the annual Smoki dance at the Way Out West, was born out of the club, Clark said.
 The notion that the club is ex- elusive was decried.
 We are glad to have any one in the community who is representative and has an interest in Yavapai, no matter what his work is, but what he himself is. It is not our purpose to conduct an exclusive organization. The Yavspai club is to represent Yavapai, and if a member of every business and profession in the county were in, I'm sure he would meet with the approval of the club.'
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