The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-09-07
LEGION AUXILIARY
TO CONDUCT DRIVE
FOR NRA MEMBERS
Preliminary Work Indicates
Nearly 100 Per Cent
Will Pledge
HOUSE TO HOUSE DRIVE
Minneapolis Man Tells Employ
ers the Plan is Logical
Though Drastic

''The Big Push" to pledge
Redwood Falls consumers to
support the MIRA battle against
depression will be completed to-
day by the American Legion
Auxiliary workers who are con-
Quoting a house to house CAM
paign.
Preliminary work done by
several Of the committee MEM
bers Wednesday resulted in
many signatures and the pre-
diction that almost 100 per cent
of the housewives will support
the program. Only one turn
down was reported at head
quarters and solicitors said the
response was decidedly enthus-
iastic.
Meanwhile the few remaining firms
who had not signed were consulting
with the local MIRA committee which
is hopeful that the remaining diff
culties will be ironed out this week
so the town can be reported as 100
per cent NRA.
The consumers drive organization
as set up consists of leadership un-
General "Peg" Mansfield and Lieu
tenant General Bernice Baldwin.
The city has been divided into
nine sections, each under the di-
rection of a captain who will be al
loted sufficient lieutenants to cover
an assigned district quickly and thor
oughly. A meeting Of captains was
held in the city hall Tuesday after
noon for assignment Of districts, in
structions and material for the can
vass.
The units as set up comprise the
following: District Number l, Mrs. ].
C. Budik, captain and Mrs. Carrie
Smithers; district number 2, Mrs.
Glenn Hillig, captain, Mrs. Harry
Warner, Mrs. Harry Burdick and
Mrs. Raymond Stegner; district num-
Der 8, Mrs. Mae Hegge, captain; Mrs.
j. A. Baikie, Mrs. T. E. Finn, Mrs.
Julia Glassco, Mrs. o. G.. Austbo;
district number a: Mrs. H. p. Sand
ers, captain; Mrs. Walter Hassen-
stab, Mrs. Rud Stensvad, Mrs. ]. w.
Inglis, Mrs. G. MacDougall, Mrs. A.
P. Falk, Mrs. o. J. Bollum; district
number 5: Mrs. F. B. Forbes, cap
tain; Mrs. Ira R. Rogers, Mrs. C. H.
Whiting, Mrs. Ted Pease, Mrs. Fred
Macs, Miss Norma Stensvad and Mrs.
G. Mansfeldt; district number 6: Mrs.
R. F. Byram, captain; Mrs. E. l..
Gallea, Mrs. L. P. Winter, Mrs. En-
ma Carity, Mrs. Fred Murset and
Mrs. Gus Nelson; district number z:
Mrs. Frank Baldwin; district number
8: Mrs. Chester Baldwin, captain and
Mrs. David Mcleod; district number
9: Mrs. Frances Davis, captain.
''The signing of consumers cards is
entirely voluntary and no coercion
is to be used on the part of workers
to bring this about, but the program
is so worthy of wholehearted support
that it is hoped that 100 per cent CO.
operation and affiliation may be re-
ported when the drive is completed.
Consumers should bear in mind that
in signing the card they are pledging
their support for the measure and
unless they feel that they will carry
out that pledge, it is better not to
sign it." C. A. Lauterbach, NRA
chairman, declared.
To canvass the employers who have
not already signed up, the following
committee has been named: Rud
Stensvad, Bud Malchow, w. R. Win
gate, L. E. Backer, L. H. Brown and
D. w. Buckley. Supplies are lacking
at present to complete this work, but
as soon as they are received this
committee will be assigned to duty.
The committee in charge is confid-
ent that by the end of this week Red
wood Falls will be as nearly 100 per
cent signed up as any community in
the nation.
100 HEAR PRAISE
OF NRA PROGRAM
Representing the NRA program as
a sane and logical although drastic
method of solving common pro-
blem, George Bestrom, SECRETARY Of
the Minneapolis Industrial Commits
sion, addressed 100 or more men at .
meeting at the city hall Thursday
night.
Before and after the meeting,