The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
NATIONALLECTURE
COURSE REPORT
A Report That Is Well Worth
the Attention of Every
body

The Kirkpatrick Walker Seidel lee
turc course held under the auspices
of Local Everett Nod. has been one
of the most satisfactory events ever
attempted by the local movement.
both financially and from the stand
point Of propaganda. The committee
in charge met with many serious diff
ficulties, all Of which were overcome
in a determined way that left no
chance for failure.
Perhaps nothing in the way Of u
lecture was ever so well advertised in
this city. Posters and window cards
were in evidence everywhere. Some
Of the 1000 hand-out cards were sent
through the mails, and the remainder
were handed to the workers while they
were going to and from work. Not a
single one was WASTED.
Movie Houses Assist
The moving picture houses cooper
ated in the most generous manner.
We are indebted to Mr.. Gowan, mana
ger of the Princess, the Star and the
Grand; to Mr.. Mckee of the Orpheum,
Mr.. Hayes of the Hayes, and to Mr.
st. Peter of the Rose. Mr.. Myers, the
photographer, furnished the slides,
free, for use in all these theatres. In
all, these slides were shown at 105
| performances.
Ads and Circular Letters
Press interviews with our three
speakers were published in our two
capitalist dailies, together with their
pictures. Display ads. and liners were
also run daily.
Two thousand and five hundred
| tickets with circular letters and cards
were sent through the mails to North
west Worker subscribers, and to sym
pathizers and party members. The
Northwest Worker gave unlimited
space to the work of creating an in
terest in the course. Advertisements
and banners announcing the coming of
each speaker were carried through
| the streets each week.
Automobile Parades
One of the most effective methods
of advertising yet used was the street
parades. Eight autos, literally COW
cred with large signs, one of them
carrying band, paraded the streets
for several evenings preceding each
lecture. We have to thank some of
the comrades for the use of their cars,
as well as several of the business men
who advertise in our paper, and who
thus showed their appreciation of the
Socialists patronage.
Largest Theater Secured
AS natural result of this sys-
tematic campaign of advertising, we
had the largest crowd ever brought
together by the Socialists of Everett
aside from the period of excitement
preceding elections. The Everett the
alter, the largest and most expensive
building in the city, was secured for
the first two lectures, but was not OBJ
tainable for the third. But we rented
the most commodious hall available.
So much has been said in the col
umns of the Northwest Worker rela-
tive to the merits of the speakers that
it would be superfluous to dwell upon
it in this report. Suffice to say that
all who heard them were more than
satisfied and expressed themselves as
being in hopes that they would all re-
turn sometime in the near future.
Friends and Comrades Cooperate
The committee of eight selected by
the local to take charge of the course
were Sophus Bonnevie, F. G. Crosby,
Hannah Crosby, Peter HUSKY, X. H.
Hodgins, Mary Rayner, j. M. Salter
and Frank Shepard. Everyone CO.
operated most heartily with this COM
mittee. In no instance did anyone re-
fuse to assist or make excuses to avoid
| HelpllS. MOT was Unefe q single IN
harmonious note during the whole of
the work. Offers of assistance came
from the most unexpected sources, all
of which would make story so long
that we editor would rule this article
out.
1t is to be hoped that like spirit
will prevail throughout the Maley-
Goebel Course to be held Sundays,
April 9TH and 18th, at 2 p. M, in the
Forum, 1912 California st. Let us all
hustle tickets and fill the hall to the
doors.
Brief financial report of the Ma
tional Lyceum Course:
Receipts
Sale of tickets and literature to
uaCe S2S2.Sb
Expenditures
Rent of theater and hall ..$111.5O
Advertising and printing ......... 28.40
opCaheIS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OU.UU
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