[Editorial from Mensa Journal, issue #180, October, 1974.]

Why doesn't the garden do something?  Few householders would feel altogether sane if they really wondered why.  We all know about gardens.  You do things to them.  You may want a big one or a small one, well ordered or rambling.  But you know very well that it does what you ask it, within limits.  "Why doesn't Mensa do something?" is a very similar question.  It is another sort of garden.  If people want to help American bright prisoners, solve French industrial problems, run a British holiday cottage, travel the world with very little cost, find an outlet for their writings, meet others like themselves, start seats of learning, or, regrettably, indulge in political infighting, Mensa already provides what they want.  If they want to do a lot of other things they have but to try and interest others in Mensa.  This month Victor Serebriakoff suggests a talent bank.  I would be glad to correspond with, and show video tapes to, anyone who is interested in the development problems of East Africa.  I am trying to put potential donors into really close contact with individual communities that need their cash.  There is room for many more ventures (which I prefer to ideas for ventures) in these pages.  If yours is a more local effort then have a go through the national or local newsletter, most of the editors are generous with space to people that have taken the initiative.  But it is not up to the garden to do anything.