Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

Page Five-A Pep-O-Grams Proposed Amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Paramount Pep Club, Inc. — ( Continued ) member of the Board of Governors, and the chairman of each committee whose records are audited, shall receive a copy of this audit report. (h) The Membership Committee shall receive all applications for membership in the Club. The chairman of this committee shall be responsible for the eligibility of all candidates. and shall propose and read the names of all candidates at the meeting of the C'ub at which the membership is to be considered As their names are read, the candidates shall rise as a means of identification and introduction to Club members. (i) The Pep-O-Grnms Reporters Committee shall solicit and gather news, special articles, features, rhymes, jingles, and verse with the view of supplying ample material for the official publication. The material thus gathered shall be passed to the Editorial Committee for editing and publication. (j) The PuMleity Committee shall have charge of all publicity work of the Club. Its membership shall be composed entirely of persons selected from the advertising and art staffs of the Paramount organization. They shall prepare articles and notices of interest for publication in Pen-O-Grams, for dissemination to Club members through bulletins, and shall have charge of all art and publicity affecting special programs, entertainments, dances, etc. (k) The Rules Committee shall be composed of a chairman and five others, one of whom shall be an attorney and one of whom shall be a stenographer. To this committee shall be referred all questions of interpreting the Constitution or By-laws, and it shall be the privilege of this committee to require such questions to be submitted in writing. This committee may also suggest, submit, or propose amendments to the Constitution or By-laws, but this article does not prevent any member or group of members from submitting amendments in the manner provided by the Constitution. (l) The Thrift Committee is the advisory committee for members who may desire information or advice regarding savings, investments, budgets, personal finance, loans, etc. The committee shall as far as possible be selected from the more mature and experienced members of the Club, and shall actively by campaign or otherwise, assist and encourage members to adopt and engage in sound methods of finance. (m) The Ways and Means Committee shall be composed of the chairman of all standing committees, the Secretary of the Club, and the Vice President who shall serve as permanent chairman. The purpose of this committee shall be to assist the President and his administration in planning and financing Club activities. (n) The Welfare Committee shall be composed of the chief of the Company's Medical Service, who shall be chairman, and two others, one man and one woman, both of whom shall be executives in the Home Office nr shall hold positions comparable thereto or positions of trust. They shall interest themselves in the welfare of members of the Club and shall aid and assist worthy _ distressed members of the Club, their wives widows, and orphans. At least two members of the Committee shall endorse all requests for expenditure. Article VIII. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS Paragraph 2 to be repealed and the following substituted therefor: This committee shall nominate one or more candidates for each vacancy and the committee is authorized to receive recommendations regarding the qualifications of any person for office. Upon the written petition of fifty or more members any person may be nominated for office provided that the petition be filed within two weeks after the nominating committee has been appointed. No petition shall be considered after the nominating committee has filed its report. BY-LAWS Article I. MEETINGS Section 1. Paragraph (c) This article shall not prevent the holding of meetings at any other hour or place when the purpose is to combine business with a social gathering of Club members. Article II. GENERAL ELECTION Paragraph 1 to be repealed and paragraph 2 to become paragraph (C) with the enactment of the following: (a) The general election of officers and governors shall be held on the fourth Tuesday of September at such hour, or hours, as the Board of Governors may designate, but when a holiday or an emergency intervenes the election may be held on any other day after the fifteenth of September which the Board of Governors may name. (b) The names of all candidates shall be printed on the Official Ballot, alphabetically, in the following order: President Vice-President T reasurer Secretary Board of Governors 1. Men 2. Women (c) Same as present paragraph number 2. A FEW WORDS FROM THE CLUB PRESIDENT ON THIS MATTER These proposed amendments to the constitution of the Paramount-Pep Club have been fashioned and offered for your endorsement, approval or rejection with the sole object in mind of strengthening the Club. The Club has grown many hundredfold since the constitution was drawn up; and the mere fact that such sweeping amendments are necessary is paramount proof of the Club’s progress. Here there is being presented to you a straight out-and-out Club issue— a matter put squarely before all members for the sole purpose of acquiring their reaction in swift, certain and unmistakable fashion. Reactions in writing, with views set forth snappilv and pungently, are what is needed for the next general meeting of the Club on August 14th. You have the interim for reflection and personal debate: the decision, one way or the other, should be arrived at swiftly and without equivocation on August 14th. — VINCENT TROTTA.