SUGGESTED SUBJECTS FOR THE ANNUAL CONVENTION Old Spanish Trail
NOTE--In the appointment of the Finance Committee It is provided it should "help formulate plana to bo submitted to the national convention for the future administration of this work." The following are subjects in mind. Tilth tho Finance Committee acting, this subject-matter can be submitted to the Advisory Board, then to tho Board of Directors (which should soon be asked to meet), finally those subjects to be incorporated in the Call for the Convention.
Committee reports needed:
On. Amendmentd to the Constitution
On an Annual Budget, this committee to have eastern and western repres ontatives
On Present Finances
Each of these committees will have serious and complex problems to consider. Familiar local customs do not apply to a transcontinent ~ al organisation of this type,
September	Hi®
1 In local community work an administration functioning thru a Board of Directors, with an orderly budget, is attained with reasonable effort, but such an administration is difficult where directors are scattered over such extended territory, and -./hero there is no assurance as to the amount or date of receipt of funds.
Heretofore our whole status has boon formative and uncertain.
Our constitution was purposely uado flexible. The organization itself has been without cohesion. The v/ork was too big for a unified organisation to oono togother quickly. Host OST localities are still without even local roads; they have been working on these and this big trabscontinental project has boon but a dream. Now that the ’>ashing-ton declarations have established the project with a national recognition, and the past throe years have given no experience, we should now try to establish a working national administration that will function thru -either stress or prosperity. The constitution was wisely amended at the Gulfport Convention, January iS?2?, so that no<? tho functioning of directors on state questions is provided for thru Vice-Presidents , state directors and councilors, but some states are not well officered. /' The time is ripe to further strengthen tho constitution, but unless we have a really representayive attendance at tho convention we will S not get a representative Board of Directors.
A meeting"of the 3 of D has been prohibitively expensive. A fair attendance would cost about (it ,000 in railroad expenses, and sono So to TO days total tine for a one day's meeting, and 1300 to .,>500 for hotel and dining expenses.	.
This can be helped by conferring more definite powers ori ohe Advisoy Board of the Headq. city. Headquarters should have the steadying influence of such a board; this board to co-ordinate with i-,he Boarc^ of Directors by mail vote, and by report and reoou-endatlon at a.oard meetings. As tho won. develops mileage can be .axiowoa bn« Directors