embers of the Newark
Camera Club, and there quickly followed the birth of the Red Triangle
Camera Club, affiliated with the local Y. M. C. A. Its object was pithily
expressed in its slogan, "A picture of home to every soldier overseas"--at
least to every Newark soldier in service.

While the members of the Camera Club were prompted solely by a desire to
serve, it was not long before there came responses in the form of letters
of gratitude from the soldier boys that heartened them to renewed
activity. The written messages frequently attested that the pictures of
the home folks sent by the Camera Club members were the only ones that had
reached foreign shores.

As a stepping stone to something even greater, we have organized the
Associated Camera Clubs of America, with a view to linking the activities
of camera clubs and societies, the end to be sought being the creating of
greater interest in exhibitions, and interchanges of lantern slides and
prints. The prime object, of course, is to promote and cultivate the
art-sense through the science of photography.

If a camera club does not exist in the community in which the reader
resides, lend your services to the formation of one. The members of the
Associated Camera Clubs of America stand ready to do their utmost to
assist an infant organization on its way to success.

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PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPNY IN MAINE

_By _FRANCIS O. LIBBY

Maine, the State of forest and lakes, does not hold the position in
pictorial photography warranted by her natural beauties. It would not be
unreasonable, considering the advantages of the land and the opportunities
offered by the varying atmospheric conditions, particularly along the
coast, to expect that there would be many pictorialists of high rank in
the State; but it is a lamentable fact that there are not. After all, the
making of pictures with a camera is to a large extent a matter of
education and training--not so much in the way of overcoming the technical
difficulties of the medium, though of course this must be learned too, but
in such vital matters as composition, choice of subject matter, unity,
simplicity, and the like. Then, given the vision, the pictorial
photographer is born.

This preliminary training and the art education of the beginner can best
be obtained in clubs; and in Maine the two centers of photographic
activity are Portland and Bangor, in both of which ci