Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-04-02
Plentywood's Civic Organizations

Plentywoods recently organized Lions club is des-
tined to be a successful service club providing the fire
and enthusiasm now shown does not die the
way of many civic Notwithstanding lack of CO.
peration of its members.
The club should fill a prominent place in the COM
munity by being strictly a service club.
P~lentywood has a Commercial club which has func-
toned for many years. 1t has accomplished many things
for Plentywood and community-in fact, more perhaps
than the club has received just credit for. But the club
went stale. 1t went that way merely through lack of
pulling together and the unwilllngness of its members to
put shoulders TO the wheel and share the burden of COM
munity service.
The past two years the club has been the center of
a storm of criticism, some just and some unjust.
Fury was brought on at an annual meeting more
than a year ago to Junk" the club, because of lack of
cooperation in getting things done. The session wound
up with renewed enthusiasm. The club was to. continue.
Many worthwhile projects for the year were outlined at
the annual meeting. A board of direc. ors was elected
and more than a hundred citizens vowed to take the
bull by the horns" and show results.
The enthusiasm did not live long. A week slipped by
and most Of it was forgotten. The board of directors met
regularly. Programs for community betterment were
discussed. Several programs outlined were successfully
carried t~hrough-merely through conscientious effort of
Individuals The majority of the projects were tabled
and are still tabled.
On the shoulders of less than a dozen men fell the
entire responsibility OF carrying the burden OF a club
some hundred strong. That was asking too much. Dis
content resulted. Occasions when club directors made an
effort to accomplish things for Plentywood, GROWERS &C
cused them of trying to run the whole show" Such
petty criticism has no place in a community like this
one.
If any criticism were to be made, it should have
been against the club as a whole, which during the past
few years has been lax.
Along comes the Lions club. From present indica-
tons it has stimulated the Commercial club and the two,
working hand in hand, should accomplish much for
Plentywood.
The group of men ~signifying that they wanted to be
Lions is a representative body of Plentywood business
concerns, organizations and professional groups.
At the organization meeting they elected a group
of men who have been prominent in business and civic
circles. On their shoulders will not fall the entire
responsibility of carrying on the work of the club. Every
member is pledged to cooperate. That part should work
out well.
Practically all of the present Lions club members
have been at one time or another members of the Com
mercial club and on the board of directors.
More down right hard work with a willingness to
share the burden of the clubs endeavors will have to be
the result, or the organization will be oil to lubricate the
tongues of the critics, and will be doomed to oblivion.
Plentywoods Lions club has a group of men capable
of doing big things for the community they will.
The Commercial club has men capable of doing big
things for the community-if they will.
A year from now the results will be visible.