Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-17
GOOD IDEAS SENT TO
SLOGAN" COMMITTEE
CONTEST FOR NOTICES WILL
END TONIGHT
Contaqon of Booming Home Products
and Prosperity Spreads to
Fresno, Where Plan
Is Approved

The "slogan contest" of the chamber
of commerce will end this evening, ana
then will come the decision as to tne
best motto to be printed upon lOO,oVu
buttons distributed free for prosperity
Week" 49,.
All Southern California was busy
writing SLOGANS" yesterday, and Sec
retary Virgins office was inundated
with clever ideas from far and woe.
They came from men, women and chli-
dren, they were both long and snort
in poetry and prose, and many were
accompanied by clever and pretty de-
signs in color.
355 words of poetry made the longest
received.
Winfield Hogaboom, the humorist
and rhymster, had the record for the
shortest one until p. m. Mr.. Hoga-
boom's strong words We're:
"HeIp Yourself"
A. Fedish reduced Hogabooms in
point of letters by suggesting SIMPLY
why Not?"
A clever and touching one was that
of C, Neuman of 109 South Broadway,
evidently a proud and fond papa, VINO
submitted a stamp photo of his oeau-
tiful baby, surrounded in the circle
with the words:
Home Bred. Home Fed. 'Nuff sed."
David Elder of Hemet, Call sent
this:
"Ship out-nOt in;
"They need tive DON'T
Today it is expected that thousands
of additional Slogans" will be sub
mitted and Misses Alice Verdon and
Alma Johnson of Secretary Virgins
staff have been detailed expressly to
the work of numbering and filing the
contributions in proper order.
From present indications it will take
the judges of the publicity committee
two or three days to read and weigh
the merits of all the notices submit
ted, but it will be a pleasant and IN
teresting task. The busy men who will
Judge the SLOGANS" are: Arthur w.
Kinney, Hayes Rice, w. G. Hunt, Mar
tin c. Neuner and w. D. Curtis. COM
prising the publicity committee OF
Prosperity Week"
Button Committee Named
To bring more collective good judg-
ment to bear upon the difficult decision
as to which Is the best slogan,
button committee was appointed yes
terday comprising r. w. Bailey, A.
L. Nelson, w. H. Wilson, Carl E. Nc
Stay and Oscar Morgan. These com
mitteemen will give their advice to the
publicity committee, but will have no
vote in the final determination of the
winner.
The factory visiting committee will
hold It's first session on Monday pre-
paratory to the pilgrimage of the pub
lie to the workshops on one day OF
prosperity Week" 1t is aimed to
give out free thousands of pretty SOU
venirs and samples on this occasion.
The music committee, which is di-
rected to provide plentiful melody for
the industrial parade" the public
meetings and other events, was ap-
pointed yesterday as follows; William
Lacy, Len Behymer, w. H. Neis-
wender, F. w. Blanchard and Walter
Raymond.
The contagion of booming for home
products and prosperity" yesterday
spread clear TO Fresno. the metropolis
of the San Joaquin, and Secretary Will
liam Robertson Of the northern cham
Der of commerce addressed Secretary
Virgins as follows:
Regarding Prosperity Week I am
instructed by the president and board
of directors of this chamber of COM
merce to say that they approve of
your enterprise and will do all that lies
in their power to help George C.
Roeding has been appointed a special
committee of one to act In the matter,
which is a good augury for the hearth
ness of the support you will receive"