Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-18

With ii in q! tendance, the executive
committee of the Douglas Kiwanis club
lunched yesterday at noon at Hart's
cafe nd outlined program of activit-
les for the year which program in
cludes the Identification of the city
the enlargement of he city park and
Fairgrounds and the immediate build
ing Of the international air port
Ladies night will be observed by the
club during the second week of Feb
1uary A definite date for this cele-
brltion will be announced later. The
event will probably take the form of a
banques and dance which will be at
/ tended by all the Douglas Kiwanians
representatives from other clubs in the
district and the wives or sweethearts
of the members
The committee agreed that the air.
pert progli m should be public ac-
tivi y but that the Kiwanis. club would
support it with the full force Of their
energy and influence The city beau
tification program will be made the
main objective of the Kiwanis for the
year. The program calls for the acquis-
ton of land for city park in the
southwestern rlrt of the city near the
border, the securing of half section
of land now lying idle between the
present Fifteenth street park and the
Sunnyside addition and the planting OF
! palms and other tropical trees in the
residence districts of the city.
The plan of the club will be to can
vass the various residence streets OF
the city and secure pledges from the
property owners similar to those Sc
cured for the bonding of q street for
paving. When this is done on one
street or in one district the trees will
be ordered. The trees will be paid for
by each property owner and the plan
will be to line each street with palm
trees and other greenery.
It was brought out at the luncheon
thai few people realize just what a
wonderful climate this is for palm
trees. There are to be found in this
city p,ilm trees that have lived and
grown here for as much as ten years
and right now, in the middle OF winter
they are as green and thriving as they
could be anywhere on earth. There
are date palms as well as ordinary
palms and all stand the coldest weather
that ever comes to. Douglas without
any trouble and add touch of the
tropics to the touch of desert that the
sand and cactus give.
Discussion was had on q half dozen
proposed objectives some of which will
be brought up for acton at p later
date. Among the subjects proposed
was that of clinic for the treatment
of diseases Of children 1t was noted
that the city hall provides the room
and most of the equipment needed for
such a clinic and that the rule OF such
an organization would be that only the
children of parents unable ito pay Tor
their treatment would be given atten-
ton at such a clinic. 90
This subject brought out much dis
cussion 1t was finally agreed that
there are very few poor people here
who would be in need of the care OF
such an organization that the pllysi-
clans of the city care for most such
cases free of charge in connection with
their regular establishments, that there
is a county hospital where such work
is carried on and that there is city
health department which also coop
crates in this direction.
A proposal to provide a scholarship
fund for deserving boys or girls IN or
der thai they might attend higher
schools was discussed. The prevailing
opinion expressed around the TABLE
was that deserving sboyS who are SO
constituted that higher eduactlon Will
be of benefit to them will find means
to secure this higher education with
out help and will profit the more 1or
their greater effort.
Such a scholarship fund would be
made up out of the treasury for the
underprivileged child and the question
was raised whether or not this would
be The right channel in which to turn
that money. The scholarship tund
! would work on a loan pA1n whereby
the boy OF girl would be loaned enough
money for college expenses and he re-
ouired to pay it back upon securing
employment after finishing the course
The matter of a municipal goll
course was discussed. The question o.
i securing land and building an inter
citv club house on the Bisbee highway
| half WV between the two cities was
brought up and approved. 1t was re-
ported that this question had at one
| time been presented to the Blsoee al
wanians by the Douglas K1Wanlans an
had been turned down abruptly.
A proposal to merge the Warren dis
trict golf club and the Douglas Coun'
try club was made and approved as
GOOD idea although the possibilities o.
such a merger we're not gone into very
deeply. That there is proposal vi
at the present time to construct
municipal golf course in the near ttl'
ture was brought out at the meeting
This was in connection with the plan
to secure more land for the Fifteenth
street park so that baseball grount
with a orandstand. tennis courts 2nd