Weekly make-up meetings, National Hotel each Wednesday, 6 P.M.

On Friday, August 5, when Lion President, Truman and Lion Glen presented the program with a report on the recent Lions Convention in Chicago, they displayed the loot they picked upin the various hospitality rooms. They must have hired a couple of professional bums to have gathered that much, or they didn't attend any of the meetings they should have.

At any rate, they had among the items some samples of bottle washers and mops, etc. that were labeled as made by the blind centers in various parts of the country. These must have been centers sponsored by the Lions Clubs of those localities.

Since the Burley Club started selling for our center, Live, Inc. some years ago, and the project has spread throughout District 39-W as a yearly project, we have sold brooms, rugs and rubber mats. We have had wonderful results with the people of our town and county but many of the customers still have rugs and mats, that will not wear out, attesting to the quality of the products made by these people who are trying to help themselves.

Now our suggestion is this, could not the directors of Live, inc. make a product trade with some of these other centers and give us something more to offer this year and create further markets for both our center and other centers? We know that it is expensive and difficult for our plant to change their facilities for the manufacture of other products and it must be so with plants in other sections of the country. Why not take this under advisement and get some correspondence going to try to make an exchange? The brooms are being bought from Colorado, why not get them to sell some of our products on an exchange basis?

Lion Del Holland, why not discuss it with Lion Ernie Jellison and the other members of your board and see if it can be done? We know we could sell many different items each year.

Those clubs who are not properly planning and advertising their drives are missing a good bet for a money making project and a chance to help Live, Inc. At least, this is our conclusion from our own experience with this project.

(EF)

As a president takes over the duties of any organization, if he were to offer a prayer, it is fitting to assume that his prayer might be, "Dear Lord, I beseech Thee in all humility, that I might be given Thy Divine Guidance so that I may have strength, courage, wisdom, and initiative to lead, guide, and inspire the members of my organization to that day when I become a past president." Don't smile, that is, not yet unless you are a past president, and if you are a past president, you are entitled to a smile of satisfaction proportionate with the achievements of your administration. you past presidents know much better than anyone the paycheck received for reaching this milestone.

The success of an organization depends upon the positive leadership of the president. His job is a 24 hour a day consideration for his organization. The organization's momentum is his momentum -- its enthusiasm is his enthusiasm -- its happiness is his happiness.

The paycheck for a president is merely the satisfaction gained knowing that his efforts made a brighter way for all members. This kind of a paycheck cannot be put in a cash register for it has no monetary value -- respect and admiration of your fellowman is something money doesn't buy.

hats off to Past President Newell and members of his official family for the extraordinarily fine job done in guiding the Burley Lions Club during the past year -- We Salute You, Sir and Gentlemen of your Official Family!

(DJ)

A very prominent man once said after an important series of meetings, "There is one conviction that stands out - we talked too much and we didn't think enough." In the rush of our everyday world this can be said, not only of business but of decisions of the home and family, of the pursuit of recreation and of any service club. Before a decision is made a cooling off period should ensue and the question asked, "What will the far reaching result be?" How will this decision affect the result today, tomorrow or next year?

Change may be dangerous or even destructive. Changes may be good or bad, but a period of meditation, uninterrupted thinking is necessary to probe the far reaching result of any decision for change. Discussion is necessary for an exchange of ideas, but the pro and con must be balanced in order to arrive at a decision for a course of action.

From somewhere I remember a saying that goes something like this. "If a proper time and place with conditions perfect for launching a project is awaited, nothing will ever be started or accomplished." Thinking can make time, place and course of action fall into a pattern that will make it proper to begin if a plan is set and followed.

Occasionally we hear said of a man, "If I could only take my time and enjoy things like he does! Things always seem to work out for him." That is a man who thinks before he acts and is sure where he is going. Somehow he has sold himself on believing that there was someone before him and there will be someone after he is gone.

With thinking will come research and with research will come wisdom. if it is necessary to drag your feet, do it only when you are not yet convinced the course of action is not the proper one. Slow down and live at peace with yourself.

The following is pirated from the writings of Lester O. Schriver to whom I am greatly indebted for a fine thought.

"Great Spirit that controls man's destiny, help me slow down and think. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a glimpse of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amidst the confusion of this day, the calmness and serenity of the everlasting hills.

Calm the tension of my tired nerves and body with the music of singing streams that live in fond but distant memory. Teach me the magic of slowing down long enough to admire a flower, to listen to a bird, to chat with a friend, to pat the head of a child, or to read a poem or a few lines from a good book.

Remind me each day of the fable of the hare and the tortoise that I may be reminded that the race is not always to the swift -- that there is more to life than increasing its speed and its tempo. Let me look upward into the branches of a towering tree and learn that it grows slowly, deliberately, and according to Divine plan.

Calm my spirit, O Lord, and impel me to send my roots deep into the soil of enduring values that I, too, may grow toward the eternal stars and my immortal destiny."

(RF)

"Grant, O Great Spirit, that I will not criticize a fellow man until I have walked a mile or more in his moccasins."

The Burley Lions Club being a typical Lions Club permits us to refer to it as an example. The Burley Lions Club is a Service Club. Its paramount reason for existence is service to Burley and the surrounding area. The social aspect is way, way back in the background. However, it is impossible to have a group working harmoniously together with a common interest to achieve wholesome results of service without having a tiny bit of social activity.

The job for any Lions Club leaders is to keep its club activities in the proper balance between service and social as stated above. We as individuals are controlled more or less by habit. Our club is made up of individuals so its habits are a reflection of the habits of its individual members. A dangerous practice in any Lions Club is to permit, by habit, the service to be de-emphasized in favor of the social. Precedences are easily acquired by merely doing it once. Precedences are acquired on a basis of habit rather than on a basis of fact. For example, a social activity had been planned and funds accumulated over a period of time were to be used in equal shares by the individuals participating. As an incentive to get more to participate, it was agreed that each would receive his proportionate share of the funds. Naturally, the more participating, the smaller the share of each would be. But in this instance the number who participated received 50% of the individual expense incurred because of the small number taking part. Now this same activity has continued year after year and guess what -- as a precedence of habit, the 50% has continued to prevail even though there has been in increase in the number of participants each year. This has created an increase in the deficit each year. The original plan was all right and would have continued to be all right had the accumulated funds been divided equally among the participants rather than the flat 50% allowed toward each individual expense. Over emphasizing the social aspect can easily happen and in many cases does happen. The results -- Lionism loses its true meaning and intra-club decay takes place.

In order to keep Lionism progressing and in order that a club may be of service to its community and area, it must have funds. Such funds come from fund raising projects, which are the life blood of any Lions Club. The more service a Lions Club wishes to render, the more fund raising projects it must sponsor. Money obtained in this manner is set aside to be used only for service projects.

Every club has a fixed administration expense which is financed by individual expense which is financed by individual membership dues. Some of these expense items are specific in amount while others may vary. For example, when a member pays his dues, a definite amount goes to International, a definite amount goes to the District and a definite amount remains with the local club. A definite amount is used for the cost of regular meals. in addition, each member may pay special assessments which are primarily for social functions. The more social activity, the higher the special assessments.

Now, should a Lions Club find it impossible to balance its books administrative-wise, there is one of two courses to follow--increase the dues or decrease the social functions...Or increase the dues and decrease the social functions--whichever is necessary to bring about financial balance and harmony.

It is a club's responsibility to pay its own way for its right to be in existence. To accomplish this, prudent, wise, and intelligent club leadership must prevail.

(DJ)

Pave your pathway to success with study, sweat, selflessness.

----------John Locke

By the time this issue of the Lioneer reaches you the Club will be two-thirds through its most ambitious project of the year. The 1960 edition of the Cassia County Fair and rodeo program will be printed and practically ready for the Sales Committee. The printing is excellent, the cover has been well designed and it is a program that you will be proud to sell.

At the last Directors Meeting the Board approved the construction of a booth that will be used at the Fair Grounds for selling of the programs. It will be painted in Lions colors and will have signs on it identifying some of the community projects and services that this club is responsible for. it will also be a means of identifying the club on the Fair Grounds - something we haven't had before.

When Lion Waldo Fletcher and his sales committee ask for help in selling this years program - be the first to volunteer - just three nights of it - and it will be all over for this year and the club will have more money to carry on more projects for the community. Before we leave the program subject, we should pat the backs of Lions Hap Reynolds and Jim Henson, and all their committee members. Lion Hap was chairman of the advertising sales committee and Lion Jim was in charge of the publications committee. All these men and you fellow Lions deserve a lot of thanks for your help.

Other committees that will be active during the Fair are the Boys & Girls Committee, who handles the Club's Calf Project, and the Float Committee who places our entry in the annual parade. You will see all these activities during Fair Week. On August 19th, we will induct our first new member of this year. He is Ormand Burch, the Funeral Director at the McCulloch Funeral Home. He is married to Verlil McCulloch and was sponsored by Lion Karl Detton. Show your Lion hospitality by shaking hands with him and invite him to share our good fellowship. He has been assigned to the Community Betterment Committee and is ready to learn to be a good Lion. Help him along.

Elsewhere in this issue you will find the rules and the calculation of Points for the District Contest for this year. Please read these rules as we will be trying to accumulate as many points as possible from September 1st to April 30th. I'm sure the Lioneer Staff will have something to say about these rules. The District Committee did nothing to improve them.

August is an extremely busy month for our club. We know that you will do you part of the work - and enjoy your share of the fun.

It's great to be a Lion in Burley.

(TB)

The following is a reprint of the goals set up for District 39-W together with rules for the District Contest as received by President Truman Bradley from the District Governor's office this week:

GOALS FOR DISTRICT 39-W - 1960-61

A. Advisory Committee Meetings held on schedule in all Zones. (1st in September; 2nd in November; 3rd in March or April; 4th following Dist. Convention in June.)

B. All clubs in good financial condition. (Dues of at least $15.00 per year and clubs operating on the budget system.)

C. Membership increase 10% overall for the District.

D. All memberships and activities reports postmarked by 3rd of each month.

E. All clubs represented at the District and International Convention.

F. Attendance average at club meetings of at least 85%

G. All clubs maintaining a diversified and comprehensive program of activities.

H. All clubs holding Board of Directors meetings regularly, at least monthly.

I. A goal of at least two (2) new clubs in the District.

J. Lions Highway Signs, in good repair, on all main entrances to cities having Lions Clubs.

K. Encourage all clubs to participate in Live, Inc. Drives

L. Encourage inter-club visitations, especially to new and weak clubs.

M. Encourage 100% participation, membership development and retention.

District contest begins September 1, 1960 Ends April 30, 1961. (All clubs within the District are automatically entered in contest.)

Winners will receive awards as follows:

1st. Club having the greatest number of points at close of contest - $40.00

2nd. Club having the second greatest number of points - $30.00

3rd. Club having the third greatest number of points - $20.00

1. Attendance at advisory committee meeting of BOTH president and secretary without substitutions . . . . . 30 points.

2. If only president OR only secretary present at advisory committee meeting without substitutions . . . . . 15 points.

3. Membership and activities report postmarked by 3rd of the following month . . . . . 30 points.

If above reports are postmarked later than 3rd of the following month. . . . SUBTRACT. . . . . 30 points per month.

4. Semi-annual billings of International per capita paid by September 1 and March 1, respectively - 25 points semi-annually.

5. Semi-annual billings of State dues per capita paid by November 1 and May 1, respectively - 25 points semi-annually.

6. New members reported.....25 points
Reinstated members reported.....25 points per member.

7. Members dropped . . SUBTRACT . . 25 points per member.

8. Average per cent of attendance at club meetings. . . . . 1 point each %.

This comes as a great surprise as there have been six rules deleted from the original draft. Deleted are all points for sponsoring a new club, visitations to sister club charter nights, visitations to regular meetings of other clubs and point credit for activities and projects.

Your editors are left with a rather chagrined feeling because we wrote, in a previous issue that we thought the rules were predominantly on the social side. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding because we feel that there is much to be gained from inter-club visitations and we sincerely hope this ruling will not cause a big drop off in visiting, especially in the case of charter nights. We did feel that some credit should be added for efforts to be an asset to the community by sponsoring of projects that were beneficial in any way.

It was not our intention to stir up any feelings whatsoever that the rules of the contest were all wrong. We only made a suggestion that we sincerely felt would improve the contest and Lionism in general in District 39-W. We also feel that was the intentions of our Zone Chairman Fred Allen when he asked for more thinking on Rule 14 as proposed before the rules of the contest were approved.

Definition of a pedestrian: A man whose son is home from college.

Each committee chairman and committee member was chosen to serve by our President because he felt each was particularly fitted and interested in the type of work involved, and would serve the club faithfully. Each should realize the importance of his position.

Committee chairman should plan a meeting as soon as possible, study the information from International, discuss individual ideas, and wet up your committee objectives and goals for the year, then carry them out. For example: the attendance committee should plan for a new high percent of attendance; the membership committee, a satisfactory increase in new members in addition to retaining the current members; the program committee could set a new goal for interesting and diversified programs, and the publicity committee, a more effective public relations program.

The backbone of a Lions Club is - - - COMMITTEE WORK. let's make our committees function.

As your First Vice President, I would like to take this opportunity to offer any assistance possible to the members of the administrative committees. I will also be calling on you for help.

Lion Jack Holland has reported that the curb-marking project has been completed with the exception of 3 or 4 call-backs. Almost 500 house numbers were placed on curbs. Many favorable remarks have been heard on the convenience of having the numbers where they can be seen easily at night as well as by day.

Lion Jack stated the project will be reactivated at a later time to offer others the opportunity to have their curbs marked.

He was ably assisted by Lions Frank Bauman, Clive Holland, Dr. Lamar Nielson, Al Thaxton, Bill Parsons, Verl McBride, Dave Jensen, Bill Matthews, and many others who sold markers and helped get the numbers on the curbs.

(RR)

The markers for the county roads are in Lion Al's paint shop and will be ready for installation in September. In consideration of the effort being expended on the Fair further work on this project will be postponed until then, Lion Chairman Herman Bedke reports.

(RR)

The Burley Lions are soon to have a den. Lion Karl Detton has spearheaded a project to make an all-purpose, movable hut for Lion activities, which may include the incarceration of unruly Lions by the Tailtwister. It might also provide a haven of refuge for visiting Lions who might be seeking refuge from authority. It might also be used as a hunting or fishing lodge. however, it is not for sale or rent as it will be put to use immediately as headquarters for the sale of the Cassia County Fair Book.

It is described as being a structure eight by ten feet and eight feet high sloping to seven at the rear. There will be counters on three sides. The upper portions will swing out and up to form shelters in front of the counters. Shelves and storage lockers are being built in. It will be wired for electricity. Lion Al Thaxton will supervise the painting of it in the Lion colors, purple and gold.

All will agree this is a fine piece of property to acquire. Being portable there will be many occasions on which it can be used. The committee that worked on this deserves a big hand!

(RR)

As the Lioneer goes to press another heifer calf is being purchased to be awarded to an outstanding Cassia County youth for the best calf project during the past year. A Lion committee will judge the entries on the records kept and the results achieved.

This is the fifth or sixth consecutive year Burley Lions have made this award. Lion Fred Allen reports that there is a possibility that the calf purchased this year will be a calf of a calf given as a prize three years ago.

4-H Club members have come to regard this prize as a real incentive to undertake calf raising as a project. The boys who have received the prize calves have continued in the stock raising business. Were all progeny placed in one pen there would be a sizeable herd. Lions can be proud they helped these boys get a start.

(RR)

Ranae Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theron Smith, will carry the colors of the Burley Lions Club as she rides her sorrel quarter horse into the arena at the Cassia County Fair and Rodeo August 25-27. She will be Burley's representative in the competition for the 1961 Fair Queen.

She has ridden since she was a child and has been an apt pupil of her father who taught her the intracies of the figure eight and other performances of good horsemanship. She is 16 years old and a junior at Burley High School. She plans to attend college upon graduation.

The Burley Lions Club gave her fifty dollars to help her obtain her costume for the Fair.

(RR)

Speaking of horsemanship, Lion Herman Bedke will ride with the Sheriff's Posse drill team during the fair. These night riders have been practicing until the wee hours getting ready for this event.

Lion President, Truman Bradley, is also a member of the Cassia County Fair Board and as such will ride in the parade. He is undecided whether to come in on "Old Paint" or ride in a buckboard. Whichever he is sure to cut a fine figure.

(RR)

The champion Burley Lion fisherman was seen casting a plug on his lawn for a new species of land-locked salmon.

The Fair Book is the big project for the Burley Lions. A tremendous amount of effort has been expended to date and more is required. Lion Hap Reynolds and his committee have done an outstanding job in selling advertising and assembling the pages. Lion Lloyd Hollinger's people have printed and assembled all the copy submitted to date. Lion Jim Henson's committee have had the final drafts in the printers hands since the beginning of the week. Lion Newell Nelson has prepared the Lions page. Lion President Truman has also assisted as have others too numerous to mention.

It appears this golden Anniversary Fair Book will be one of the finest yet.

Lion Waldo Fletcher is sales manager for the sale of Fair Books at the Fair. He and his committee will need the help of every Lion to bring this project to a successful conclusion. Save time on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 25, 26, and 27 to give a helping hand and have the time of your life. Let's hear those Lions roar, "BUY A FAIR BOOK!"

(RR)

Look to this day, for it is the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The glory of action, the bliss of growth, the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision; But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

(From the Sanskrit)

LIONS EDUCATION (LIONEER) COMMITTEE publishes the Lioneer.
The members are Lions:

• Ed Fronk, Chairman
• Dave Jensen
• Ray Reid
• Nile Gorringe, artist and printer.