New Britain herald., 1918-01-01

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 country: andN
 the CongressionaA
 Hillquit, who polleHN
 in the recent Mayora1ey4s
 New York City on a frank1y 4M platform. "
 The we'll mentioned. but poor1y informed, farmers and laboring men of the country who are giving ear to the communistic> program laid down ] by the organizers of the Non-Parti-. san League must not forget that it Was this organization which held the meeting in aSt. Paul at which Senator La Toilette made his notorious speech" says the Security League 5.00O,O0o Members ss ''The Non-Partisan lea gale claims a 1 membership in tho Northwest and Middlewest- of 1s0OO, 900 voters. Their ! dues of $16 agyear would place in their hands $16. 1000: 900. The Non Partisan leagues organizers are spreading throughout the country and declare that they are striving to en- roll 5,000,000 members before next summer. While the Pon- Partisan 1 league has announced no actual con- gressional program as yet, it's objects is clear. It was responsible for the election of Gov. Frazier, of North Da- 1 kota, who welcomed the outawed del l egates of the. Peoples council when they were being debarred by the a nj nf a Fat a 2 ct summer. It seems to us that the menace here involved is self evident" declares the Security league. &3In Wisconsin, where the league will i start it's campaign, the loyal citizens of the state are deeply exercised over the situation They have organized the Wisconsin Loyalty league with 65,- 900 members and are fighting the anti-war element as effectively as pos sible. The Milwaukee Branch of the National Security league of which August H. Vogel a loyal and inf1uen- tial German Am erican, is chairman, and Willet M. Spooner, son of ex-Sen- sator 3Spooner, secretary, is co-operat-7 ing With the Loyalty league. Their principal activity has been the cover ing of the state with speakers who explain the real meanings of the war and the necessity for it's efficient and aggressive prosecution. It has not FFbeen unusual for these spea Sers to be booedS down by the audiences they thave faced. @F , Wisconsin Schools. & 5st ET Only 19 of the 72 countW staperins satendents of schools in Wisconsin re $5plied favorably in the security league's @recent appeal to the educational an- Hhorities of the country to make il1- on the meanings fffthe war s4part of the actual tuition #fin the ssnhool This effort by the Ieague has met with a most enthusiastic response throughout the country, nothing ap-i Proaching it's failure ins Wisconsin having been Experienced in any other state in theS lFnio.
 The National Security Leagues plan
 ofacamp mpaigns4was drawn at a meeting
 held yesterday at the Manhattan club
 this city, at which were present,-S. Stanwood Menl1en, president of the . league; Herbert Barry, secretary; < Henry l.. West, executive secretary;
 Dr. Robert NJ, McElroy, head of the department of history and politics in Proinceton University, educational di-
 rector of the security league under lSeiN C Ol tpSSICt, i)l IuOIIstS J. ffoS-
 ton Jr, chairman of the leagues speakers bureau; Dr. William H
 Hobbs, of the University of Michigan,
 chairman of the Ann Arbor branch of the security league. who is now working with the governn1ent coin
 mittee on public information; and
 Edward Harding, vice chairman of the
 national committee of patriotic and I defense societies, who is a member
 of the security leagues executive com-
 mittee.
 Lessons in German, Dr. Hobbs in conversant with con- ditions in Wisconsin, having been for several years at the University of Wis
 consin at Madison, and having beer.
 active in the fight some years ago to
 prevent the repeal of the state law requiring the teaching of English in
 Grman parochial schools. The Wis
 consin law today permits the con- ducting of classes even in geogra phy
 and arithmetic in German. Widespread editorial support of the security leagues non- partisan iam- Agn to preserve a loyal war-con-
 ass is being given by the leading
 kapers in many parts of the
 where this activity will be ex-
 Hom Wisconsin