. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . show you that if youare up against any problem whatever and will wire or write the American CivicAssociation, they will help you out whether you are a member or not. I showedour people in Oil City that we ought to be members, and we are now 8-^ REPOKT OF THE No. 43 1 would like to say a Iew words which, perhaps, may prove helpful to yuufr«.m the practical standpoint. I am interested in city beautifying and city de-Vflupmont, and I would like to give you a few ideas gleaned from a talk given l)yTIenry Turner Bailey, the well known a
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . show you that if youare up against any problem whatever and will wire or write the American CivicAssociation, they will help you out whether you are a member or not. I showedour people in Oil City that we ought to be members, and we are now 8-^ REPOKT OF THE No. 43 1 would like to say a Iew words which, perhaps, may prove helpful to yuufr«.m the practical standpoint. I am interested in city beautifying and city de-Vflupmont, and I would like to give you a few ideas gleaned from a talk given l)yTIenry Turner Bailey, the well known artist and lecturer of Boston, j\Iass., at aluncheon meeting recently in Oil City. He said that we should always rememberin city improvement work that praise will do a lot more than censure. He sug-gested that the nicest embossed stationery should be selected by a horticulturalsociety or a civic improvement club, and that personal letters should be written onthis stationery to the men in the town or city who have done well with their lawns. Tasteful Decoration of Home. Photo, by Geo. Baldwin. and gardens. Tell them that you are pleased that the town contains a citizen whotakes such pride in his home surroundings, and that you want him to know thathe is helping to beautify the town and make it known as a fine place to live , as Mr. Bailey remarked, those letters are never shown to anybody! Of course,they are passed from man to man and the citizen on Cherry Street who did not getone of those letters is going to get one next year—at least he is going to work hardfor one. Here is another suggestion: have an exhibit of photographs of bothbeautiful and ugly_ subjects. Most of our photographs show only beautiful there in your hall among the exhibits of St. Thomas, Out., is a very nicepicture showing what can be done to brighten up a neglected corner of an officebuilding. But what I would like to see is a picture alongside of that one, showingliow the building looked
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