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MEYERSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, 3a NUARY 19, 1918.
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SOMERSET
Miss Ida M. Smith, of Pittsburgh
visited Mrs. Rapp at the Highland
farm over New Year.
Miss Bertha Varner has returned
10 Albright College after visiting sev-
eral days at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Varner.
: Werner, of Berlin, was trans-
‘business jin Somerset.
, Wex ar, of Berlin, was visit-
nds A ‘Somerset yesterday.
al uel “Romesburg, of Black
Fowaship, has brough; an Action of
“Trespass against the Atlantic Coal
Company to recover the sum of
$1200 for damages done to timber of
plaintiff,
Mrs. A. C. Waterman of Pittsburgh
is visiting at the home of her mother,
Mrs. J. M. Louther,
Mrs. Gilbery F. Endsley and chil-
dren have returned home after visit-
ing relatives and friends in Morgan-
town, W. Va,
Mrs. C. A. Sherry of Uniontown,
has returned home aitér visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Wea-
ver.
J. M. Bricker was a recent caller
to Johnstown.
A number of the college students
who passed the holidays at their
homes have returned to their respec-
tive colleges,
Elmer Friedline has returned to
his home in Pittsburgh after spend-
ing several days with his mother,
Mrs. A. B. Friedline.
Mis Rachel Dickson, a profession-
al nurse of Pittsburgh, accompanied
Mrs. E. C. Barron from the West
Penn Hospital to Somerset when she
returned home last week.
Private Russell R. Deaner of the
Camp Lee training cantonment, vis-
ited at Somerset last week, where he
lived while employed in the office of
the Victor Coal Company. :
Mr. and Mrs. A, P. Truxal of
Somerset recentl;
“has returned home af-
ter spending several weeks at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Sar-
gent, of New York.
Andrew Thompson, of Uniontown,
was a recent visitor in Somerset.
Mrs. Chas. M. Fisher is visiting rel-
atives and friends in Iowa.
H. E. Bittner, of Meyersdale was
transacting business in town.
U. S. Werner, of Rockwood, was
transacting business in tow nyester-
terday.
Frank B. Fleck was a business
caller 10 Johnstown Wednesday.
Henry Altmiller has returned
home after spending several days
at Johnstown,
Earl Speicher was visiting friends
in Johnstown yesterday.
Sd. H. Boyts and wife have gohe
to Tampa, Florida where they will
spend the winter.
James Hamer, of the U. 8S. Navy,
is spending a short furlough with
Somerset relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd G. McCrum and
daughter, Miss Myra, have returned
home after visiting several days with
Somerset friends,
J. BE. Ilerr, of Findley, Ohio was a
recent visitor to Somerset.
J. M. Black, of Meyersdale was
transacting business in ‘Somerset re-
cently.
Mrs. Harry Miltenberger of Johns-
town, is visiting relatives and friends
in Somerset. .
Mrs. A. W. Lowry has
home after
with relatives and friends in Wind-
ber.
Mrs. H. W. Baer, of West Main
Street, has returned home from
visit with relatives and friends in
Rockwood.
George Montgomery, of Cresson, is
visiting relatives in Somerset for
several days.
Miss Claro Woolley has returned
home after visiting for several weeks
with relatives in [Pittshurg.
John Mong, of York, is visiting at
the home of Edward Walker, of East
South Street.
Landlord G. G. DelLozier, of Glen-
co, was a Somerset visitor yesterday,
Mrs. Sarah Baer has returned
home after spending several days
with her son, Henry Baer, of West
Main street.
Mrs. Jennie C. Miller will leave for
Frostburg this week where she will
spend the remainder of the winter.
Chief Electrician James Finneran
of the (Consolidation Mining plants |
returned
0
Fall, Santo, were visiting relati o
visiting several weeks |
map ES
ST. PAUL
The reorganization of the Re-
formed Sunday School for 1918 re-
sulted as follows:
Mr, Jacob Sechler was elected Su-
perintendent and H. G. Lepley, as-
sistant; Jerry Maust and Effie Boder
‘were elected Secretaries; H. G. Lep-
lev was elected Chorister and Mrs.
Hampton MicChutock, assistant; Mrs.
L. N. Wilson was elected Superinten-
dent of Cradle Roll; Miss Mary Hay,
Superintendent of the Home Depart-
ment; Mesdames Ida Opel, Mamie
Sechler, Nan Engle, Mary Lepley and
Miss Maud Hay were selected as vis-
itors of the House Department; Mr.
D. Campton wag elected teacher of
the Men’s Bible Class. Rev. L. N.
Wilson organized the youmss men and
boys class of which he was elected
teacher, Mrs. H. G. Lepley was elec-
ted teacher of class No. 13, formerly
taught by Mrs. N. D. Hay. There
were no further changes made in the
selection of teachers, !
Organized class No. 9 met at the
home of Mrs. H, G. Lepley on Wed-
mesday, Jan. 9. ‘Those present were
Mesdames Mamie Sechler, Laura
Sipple, Savanna Sipple, Maud Ben-
der, Cora ISechler and Nan Engle
teacher of the class. The teachers
of the St. Paul schools, Misses Elsie
Sipple and Edna Livengood, also
Thelma, Margaret and Ruth Sipple
were invited guests and partook of
the dinner served.
The Teachers’ Training class met
on Tuesday evening, Jan. 8 and took
the examination on part 1 of the
course, Due to the weather condi-
tions only three of tne five members,
taking the course, were present, The
other two will take 1t later.
Mrs. Sadie Bittinger, from Bittin-
ger, Md., who has been at the home
of her father, Mr. Ross Sechler since
her operation a short time ago is im-
proving ight along. ahd we hope she
ler on Sunday. ¥en. 6.7 Mrs. ‘Oberlin
Engle is sick a; the present w. riting.
We do not know the’ Sxtone of her
illness, : $i
ER
SIMPLE WASH REMOVES RINGS
UNDER EYES.
Meyersdale people will be sur-
prised how quickly pure Lavoptik eye
wash relieves biood shot eyes and
dark rings. One young man who had
eye trouble and very unsightly dark
rings was relieved by ONE WASH
with Lavoptik. His sister also re-
moved a bad eye strain in three
days. A small bottle of Lavoptik is
guaranteed to bemefit EVERY CASE
of weak, strained or inflamed eyes.
Aluminum eye cup FREE. IL. R. Col-
lins, Druggist. adv.
WHY BE TOO LATE?
It is often many months after ad-
vertising starts before an appreciable
effect igefelt,
Arter a cessation of advertising
this same condition must be faced
again,
if it were postively known now
that on January 1, 1919, a company
‘would bbe in shape to sharply increase
its output ¥ would be poor strategy
to defer advertising until January 1,
1919.
The effects of he advertising
would come long after they were
wanted.
BREAD BY SLICE
FOR GOTHAN'S POOR
Washington, Dee. 31.—So that
East Side New York bakers may sell
bread by the slice to the poor, the
United States Food Administration
has changed its ruling prohibiting
bakers selling less than a pound of
bread to consumers. The weight re-
quirements for the loaf have not
been changed.
In New York it was reported to the
commission, it is the practice to
sell bread to the very poor by the
cent and two-cent slice, for these
|
in the Jenner field, has gone to spend |
with his
Massachusetts,
his vacation
‘Worcester,
parents
in | lanighs at
folks in the tenements cannot buy a |
| whole loaf at a time, they are so|Dplying steel cars on
trains and posing as philanthropists.
badly off for money.
“Then why do they say that love |
locksmithe?’—Louisville i
"to the
Courier-Journal,
|'Somerset
operated to make a profit—for the
i steel coaches than it is to fight dam-
ROGKWOOD
Last Sunday morning one of ‘the
largest commiunions was adminis-
tered by the Pastor Dr. Erler in St. | -
Luke’s Ev. Lutheran church. ]
The Sunday School elected the fol-
lowing officers:
Superintendent, Mr. W. M. G. Day;
Assistant Superintendent, Mr. John
Snyder; Treasurer, Mr. E. BE, Dull;
Secretary, Miss Elizabeth Walter;
Librarian, Miss Sarah ‘Wood; Organ-
ist, Miss Julia Snyder.
The ‘‘Young Lutheran’ will this
year be mailed directly to every fam-
ily in the Sunday School.
Services next Sunday as follows:
Sunday School at 9.30 A. M.
Laurel Service at 10 A. M.
Sanner Service at 2.30 P. M.
Luther League at 6.30 P. M.
Evening Service at 7.30 P. M.
Catechetical Instructions on Sat-
urday afternoon at 2 P. M.
One of the most elaborate social
functions of the season was a house
party given recently by Emmett Lee
Ridenour. The hall was very beauti-
fully decorated. The party was given
Read how the Sotialists were ‘‘de-
feated” in the municipal elections
held in several tern states last
November. The ily papers told
you about it but, as usual, they gave
you only a part of the story.
The New York @ity election at-
tracted nationwide attention. ‘Morris
RHillquit was the Sgeialist candidate
for Mayor. Accordi the Mitchell
and Tammany Hall €fowds set out to
assassinate his r ation. The daily
press was turned logge on him, Every
labor hater and profesalonal japbor po-
litician camped on ‘trial. He was
charged with disloyal > and branded
as an agent of the!laiser. Charles
Edward Russell, for Socialist,
who four years previghsty had polled
32,000 votes as the Beialist candi-
date for mayor, was énited to turn
the tide against Hi it. “%
in honor of his guests from East Liv- Agains; the com tion of cor-
erpool, O., Wheeling, W. Va., and |ruptionists, grafter: ‘war, profiteers
Pittsburg, Pa. The evening was|and renegade, Socialis rris Hill-
spent in dancing and playing cards
and a buffet luncheon was served.
Kifertie’s three-piece orchestra of
Connellsville furnished the music.
Guests were present from Johnstown,
Somerselt, Berlin, Meyersdale, ‘Louis-
ville, Wheeling, Ohio and Baltimore,
Md.
H. E. Johnson and Paul Williams
of Punxsutawney spent several days
this week with Rockwood friends.
Mrs. Dorsey Currence spent Sun-
dey in Cumberland.
Mrs. Fred Schmucker of Holsopple
is visiting her mother, Mrs. W. J.
Healy.
Mrs. W. E. Baker of Meyersdale
spent Sunday with. Rockwood réla-
tives.
Beck vy
Miss: Gla
J. oH ig “of Pittsburg spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Helen
Miller,
Profit in Transportation
This railroad out here isn’t run to
carry freight and passengers. It’s
quit received 142,001
elected seven alderme
assemblymen, and
judge. We were “dé
more ‘defeats.’
Since the election #8:
the Mitchell crowd
million dollars in th
Vanderbilt family gi
thousand dollars. y
Dodge of the Copper &
009; T. Coleman du B
der Trus¢ $22,500;
of the Harvester
John D. Rockef
added $15, ce
work.
Hosts of othol
|ered gentry, wh
otes, and we
.elgyen state |
e municipal
.” Give us
tress, contributed do this
slush fund while they charged i
Socialists with “disloyalty” poe fs
dition.”
In the Chicago judicial election
we also met with a ‘“‘defeat.’” The
democrats and republicans nominated
a fusion ticket! You remember the
time, don’t you, when you were told
what deadly enemies these two par-
tes were? Each charged that if you
elected the other, the mation would
g0 te the eternal bow-wows. Sudden-
every coach iy as if by magic, the differences
wouid be a steel coach. Not some disappear; they become a pair of
coaches. All coaches. When wood-| Gold Dust Twins, two souls with but
en cars go into the ditch they splint- a single thought, and they expect you
er up and an appalling number of |4o “fall for it.”
people are killed. Then the wreck-| jyere’s what happened in Chicago.
age takes fire. I travel from ten |, this previous judicial election the
thousand to twenty thousand miles |gocialist candidates received 16,000
every year. I've been doing’ it for|yotes. Tast November, against the
fourteen years. I've seen some rail-| .ompineq opposition of the two old
road wrecks. parties, in spite of a campaign of
I've seen great, strong men hope-|fy15¢hoods by the capitalist press,
lessly pinioned under wreckage With lang nreats and intimidation by the
the flames creeping toward them. |feqeral authorities, the Socialist can-
These men were just as manly as|gigates received 82,000 votes, more
you are. They were just as Strong (han one-third of the total vote cast.
as vou are. They had just as much |anq the papers, in great scare head-
“nerve” as you have. Yet they lines, told of our “defeat.” We re-
bezged piteously to be shot, to be peat, give us more ‘‘defeats.”
knocked in the head—anything % | your daily paper hasn’t told you
put them out of the way before the ino, about all our “defeats.” Read
flames could reach them. I've seen |, following list in addition to New
those men lay there and roast alive. |v, City and then ask your local
I've seen the same thing happen to|_ in
women and babies, too. But that’s |siee] cars just to keep from killing
stockholders. If it were mum to
carry passengers, say,
too awful. 1 don’t want to talk people. How noble of the Pennsyl-
about it. 3 :
ilere’s the point: Steel coaches vania! And yet, fifty times a day on
this ‘same Pennsylvania system you
can See a great locomotive tearing
down the track puMing forty steel
coal cars—and a wooden eaboose
bringing up the rear! Ever see ga
steel caboose? The only car on the
whole train lin which working men
ride is a flimsy wecoden gffair. Why?
Because it’s more profitable to fight
would have prevented all that. But
steel coaches cost a great deal of
money. Much more money than
wooden coaches cost. That reduces
profits. It loweps, dividends. Of
course, steel coaches make travel
uch safer, but the road isn’t run to
give you safe means of transporta-
tion. It’s run to make g profit—=for
the stockholders. = And because most | the damage Suits of two or three em-
railroads consider it more profitable |Ployees or their relatives tham it is
inerefore men, women and child-|to buy steel cabooses.
ren are forced to ride in wooden cars. “Safety first!” Safety for what?
“Safety First” in Transportation A ton of coal or g brakeman?
I said “most railroad” consider That doesn’t mean that the stock-
wooden coaches more profitable. Of! holders are bad men and women.
late several roads have discovered | They don’t want to kill people on
that it’s more profitable to provide their railroads. But they invest their
money for the sake of profits. And
age suits brought by a whole train- most of the men who ride in wooden
load of wounded passengers or rela- | coaches and flimsy cabooses vote for
EX enc wl ne i (By Adolph Germer.)
different cities.
proachiug,
: nuptial ceremonids of the ph
“DEFEATED?
editor why he doesn’t print the news.
New York State.—Two aldermen,
two supervisors and three censtables
in Rochester; coroner in Suffolk
County. a
Pennsylvania—Mayor din Union
City; alderman and burgess in Pit-
carn; city comptroller in McKees-
port; aldermen in Allentown; justice
of the peace ‘and inspector of eiection
in Elk Lick; burgess, school direc-
tor, inspector of election and city
council in Garrett.
Ohig.—Two aldermen and one
school board member in Cleveland;
four aldermen in Toledo; mayor and
two aldermen in Piqua; mayor, city
clerk, city marshall and four out of
six councilmen in Byesville; two ald-
ermen in Hamilton; commissioner in
Sandusky; two aldermen in Montpe-
lier; township trustee and constable
at Springfield; mayor, clerk, mar-
chall, treasurer. assessor and six
councilmen at Jenera.
Indiana.—One alderman in Ham-
mond; two aldermen in Marion; may-
or and two aldermen in Gae City; one
aldernian dm Fort Wayne; one alder-
man in Amderson; mayor, clerk,
treasurer, two aldermen-at-large and
two ward aldermen in Elwood.
The Socialist’ vote increased from
100 per cent to 700 per cent in the
The capitalist papers
and politicians explain it in many
‘| ways, but the truth is, dear reader,
that the people are awgiening in
greater numbers and think for them-
selves. There is apparently some
truth in Lincoln’s statement that
“yom can’t fool al} the people all of
the time.”
But wait. * More elections are ap-
municipal elections in
Watch
twins. Om election day you wil] ‘be
_ called in as guests, bat only to take
part jn the wedding march and nod
your head dn approval of the further
subjugation of the’ masses. The first
steps have been taken by the political
bosses to combine all the capitalist
elements in a supreme effort to pre-
vent the triumph of the workers in
the congressional elections.
‘Where do you stand? What will
your answer be? Wil] you continue
to let the big business interests use
you to coin greater amd greater for-
tunes out of the people under the
guise of patriotism? Will you let
them prejudice you against the Soc-
ialists without reading Socialist 1it-
erature and studying the Socialise
movement? Will you become an ally
to the erowd that coins ‘fortunes out
of your labor and the labor of your
fellow toilers?
The issue is clear. Don’y be de-
ceived. It is Democracy, the rule of
the people, versus autocracy, the rule
of the money power. The Sociakkt
Party is the party of Democracy. Are
you for democracy or against it? If
for democracy, why do you delay
joining the Socialist Party at once
and help to make the world safe for
democracy.
I repeat the issue is clear. Don’t
be deceived.
MEETING OF PARENT-TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION TO BE HELD
JANUARY 18,1918, AT STUDY
HALL: OF HIGH SCHOOL
BUILDING
Program,
Song by Association.
Reading of Minutes. 4
Duet by Mary and Kathryn Bolden.
Report of Annual Meeting by Mrs.
J. IL. Tressler.
Address by Mr. Clarence Moore on
“Thrift” and “War Saving Stamps.”
Duet by Cedric Miller and Idris
Butler.
Song by Association.
Vigitation of Parents and Teachers |
for 30 minutes.
Everybody is cordially invited. |
Members of the Association, be pre-|
pared to pay dues at this meeting.
tives og those killed. So they're sup- | a system which allows a few people;
certain classes of to privately own collectively used !
|railroads. The road is quite natur-|
The Pennsylvania system, particu- | ally operated for the benefit of the
larly, is advertising 2 great ‘safety | owners, That's as it should be, It |
first” campaign, and calling attention | the individual who's at fault,
vast sum ‘it is spemding for It's “the system.
the fi
Robert Boucher
his parents, Mr.
who was visiting
and Mrs. M. BE.
Boucher, returned to Xittsburgh,
Monday, where he is employed in |
ight offices o® the ©...
x
ral Ea
Mrs. J. L. Tressler, Sec. |
Fg
SOOO OOOCOOOOO0000OO0OL
$1.25 PER YEAR.
8 Local and Personal
SALISBURY
| Mrs. Jasper Tressler who has heen
seriously ill at her home in West
| Salisbury for several weeks is at date
of this writing, slightly improved.
Robert Walker and Wm. C. Wag-
| ner were among Salisbury people who
| visited Meyersdale on Saturday.
Many of the American miners of
Mrs. Thomas Weller, who was vis- |
iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. |
James Gordon, Akron, Ohio, for the!
past few months, returned home!
Tuesday evening.
Miss Amelia Clotworthy returned :
| Monday, from a visit with friends in
(Somerset. | this region have procured powder li-
Mr. and Mrs. Edgel Smith, Ran-| | cense, thus saving the operators the
dolph, Pa., visited the former’s fath-| {rouble of weighing their powder ev-
er, A. iG. Smith, Sunday and Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Peiffer who | John Bowser, mea; merchant from
were guests of the latter’s paren | Meversaale was a business visitor to
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Deeter retur ped | Salisbury on Saturday last.
to Cass, West Virginia, Monday. Mrs. Annie Kretchman and Mrs. A.
Benjamin Poorbaugh, Glencoe, Pa., | 1, Lowry accompanied the- former’s
spent Tuesday in Meyersdale. | daughter, Miss Della Kretchman to
Miss Helen. Junk, Chillecothe, O., | Pittsburg on last Tuesday. Miss
is the guest of her friends, Mr. and | Kretchman spent the holidays here
Mrs. James Hostetter. | with her mother.
Hon. and Mrs. 8. A. Kendall, | Milton Bowman of Elk Lick town-
Washington, D. C., attended the fun- | | ship losg a valuable horse cn Monday
eral of W. T. Hoblikzell, Tuesday.
ery day.
{when a team of hor ses went down a
Miss, Frances Livingood retturned steep embankment while 2auling coal
to Homestead, Pa., Sunday where on his farm.
she is teaching school. { Mr. and Mrs. John A. Xvecht of
Misses Regina Reich and Floreneca | West Salisbury
Boyer spent Saturday
entertainel the fo.-
in Cumber- lowing persons at a New Year's din-
land, Maryland. ner; Mrs. Knecht’s parents, Mr. and
Dr. €C. W. Truxali, a practicing | Mrs. Wilbur Derry of town, her
physician in Wayne, Pa., who several | brothers families Mr. and rs. i.3)
months ago enlisted in the Medical (Derry and Mr. and Mrs Rayman
Reserves of the army has teen or-p
Derry of Meyersdale,
dered to report at Camp Meade seis)
|
Mrs. Warren Keller atid two ch'i-
dren of Fast Pittsburg are spending
several weeks with Mrs Keiier's pa -
jents, Mr. and Mrs. IL.ev: Licatiler.
Miss Bessie Miller of Frieden spent
Baltimore, Md., for Jdaiy next Mon
day. Dr. Truxall is the son of Rev.
and Mrs. A. E. Truxall.
Miss Esther Stacer and her nephew |
Richard Grabenstein, returned to! | last week with her sist; Mrs. B 13.
Cumberland, Md., 3londay after a | | Haselbarth.
week’s visit with the formear’s par- Last week John Mort ani family
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sta.oer. | moved from the old Wright property
Miss Jennie Wilmoth is spendirz on Union $ret to the Maust prop-
the week with her son aa¢ Jzughter- | erty on Gay sireet. Mr Mort rocont-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs Bainey Wil- | ly bought thi; property. Mrs Inks
moth, Glen Campbell, Pa. ana family wmwoved from the house
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tressier visitol | now occupied by the Mort fanily io
Telntives and friends in oekwoo.l, lel ‘Anderson house on 2nd street,
, Sunday. L rs. Anni £host moved fran thd
Pr _ William Schultz, Greenville | ou i to ‘the hop A ovate
Pa a shopper, Fridar—— SB tHE ON Ta i FIT TO
i.
soclalisls Pall f0 Support
Of ¥illion Dollar Campaign
(By J. Louis Engdahl.)
Chicago, Ill,
already being carried out for enlist- | with the mational organization. Rep-
ing Sociklists and sympathizers te resentative; will also be secured for
the 100 biggest cities in the United | each city to visit branch meetings
States in the work of raising the |and push the work of circulating the
Million Doli®r 1918 Congressional | campaign lisis.
Campaign Fund, which is also being | “In New York City and elsewhere
called the Socialist Party “ON TO | we are assured of the hearty co-op-
WASHINGTON?” fund. | eration of the Socialist press in the
It was of course only fitting that | Matter of publicity. In New York,
the first effort should be made in New | The Call, the Volkszeitung, the Jew-
York City, the largest city in the na- | iSh Daily Forward, and other publi-
tion, which Totaly distinguished it | cations that are struggling to appear
self by electing seven Socialist alder- [in the face of difficulties imposed
men, eleven members of the New juPon them by the censorship, will
York legislature and ome Socialist |2iVe every aid possible. The Social-
judge. {ist dailies and weeklies in Chicago
Finds Enthusistic Co-Operation. | will also help in every way they can,
Oliver C. Wilson, financial dives. 125 wip The leader in Milwaultee.
tor of the “MILLION DOLLAR Old Party Bosses Stampeded!
FUND,” has just returned from New Re announcement of the “MIL.
York City, where he enlisted local “ION DOLLAR FUND” plans im-
Socialist in the grea; work that has | mediately aroused a latent spirit of
been put in his charge. He found enthusiasm among Socialists every-
enthusiastic co-operation everywhere. | "1ere. It also increased the grow-
Morris Hillquit, recent Socialist | Ing fear of the opposition, driving the
democratic and republican bosses to
candidate for Mayor, agreed to head |
a special commitiee to 1st all prom. | | increased activity in their efforts to
fant Seulalisty and. Canvass Out the | Tse both parties for hans leg-
Jot Sor contributions to help send So. | islative and congressional struggle.
cialists “ON TO WASHINGTON" Am echo. of this fear is found in the
this fall attempt of Chicago’s old party polit-
; ical dictators to abolish the spring
It is expected that many large con- | |aldermanic elections, thus staving
tributions will be secured in this way ofr ap increase in the present size of
and that much of the fund will come i, Socialist group of three aldermen
from this source. ‘nthe Chicago city council.
“Campaign contribution lists are The Associated Press sen; out a
to be sent out to all the Socialist |short announcement of the MILLION
Party branches in New York state,” | DOLLAR CAMPAIGN FUND plans.
said Wilson, “amd in this work we | This aroused considerable editorial
are assured of the co-operation of U. | comment over the mation showing
Solomon, the state secretary, and Ju- | {that the only real fear of the sub-
{ lus Gerber, Socialist secretary for | sidized press and its backers is the
| Manhattan. This work will be fol- | fear of Socialist Party growth and
lowed up with a series of lettars and | power.
| personal visits to the branch organ- |
izations by a representative of the |
| Nationa] Socialist Party office.
| Seek One Hundred Local Committees
Finaneilal Director Wilson has heen
given office space in the National So-
| cialisy Party Headquarters in Chieca-
go and the work of raising the MIL-
“The same plan of a Jocal | ommit- | LION DOLLAR FUND will be pushed
tee, such as is being organized in With feverish activity from now unti]
|New York City, will be worked out |the fall elections.
lin the humdred chief cities of the Send all communications to Oliver
country. The committee in each case cial Director, MIIL.-
ill pave general charge of the work UND, National Office.
iting funds from favorably 803 W. Madison St.,
Socialists and sympathizers
Wilsc
Jam. 11.—®Plans are land will be in direct communication :