DAVID'S PAGE

In looking at the Guild and what it is and what it does several
very important things become apparent. The machinery of how the
Guild operates as a group was formed over a period of 24 years.
Some of the rules and laws are good, valid and do work. Some
which are and were being used are in the light of 1969-70 not
good, not valid and do not work.

My point in accepting the job of President of the Guild for 69/70
was to be able to help change and put into effect new machinery
which in conjunction with the old would help to give motif and
life to the Guild for, I hope, the next 20 years. We cannot ex-
pect that laws and rules will continue to move the Guild without
constant supervision and changes made when it becomes apparent
that something is not working. 20 years is a long time and we
must motivate the members of the Guild, who are you and me,
that the Guild is a living thing, and to live must think. The
members of the Guild, as a whole, are the body, the executive is
the brain. The body cannot live without the brain and the brain is
helpless without the body and dies. There must be some comm-
unication between the brain and the body. The brain and the body
make a person, a unit, a whole, We, as members, must come to
regard and understand the fact that we are a single unit with all
sections of that unit operating effectively for the common, the
unit good,

With the passage of time, not too long as you will see, some
conditions come to be regarded as tradition. Look at the effect of
suggesting that we drop the Hycroft sale. It has become in five
annual sales as much a tradition as royalty, church and mother.

It means the body is not operating properly and the supply of blood,
interest, is being cut off to the brain, It means death of a unit to
allow this to happen. When the executive, the brain, come to re-
gard themselves as the Guild and the members general as some-
thing of a nuisance then there is developing a condition known
medically as schitzophrenzia.

When members refuse to speak on matters whith they feel important
but simply do not go to meetings, do not think about what could be
done to correct something which is not going right, will not offer