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Charles Lindbergh — Part 2
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SOLUTION FOR ALL CLUL N
pad ALTON CALIFORNIA
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eived a letter from the Lindbergh For President Club No. 1, of the above address. nb
Last moath you;
MOctober letter comes trom the same organization, from the same address, and from the identically eame commit
~ gee membershi, name of the organization has been changed. It ia now the SOLUTION FOR AMS
CLUB No.1. Dwuring the course of this letter you will learn the reasons for this change of name without chang:
im objectives. . _
We received a considerable number of replies to our first letter, en ing and prompting ts to witl
@his work. The dominant feeling of the many letters was that, as expr by one of the writers, “Your plan i
ay @ ray of bope in an otherwise dark situation.” ‘ tyke
‘Gy A few letters were unfavorable to the movement. We éo not blame these writers, for we think we have no
+» Zaye given ourselves opportunity to make known what we are and stand for, We shall now quote yau one o
A Sate unfavorable letters. It is the only one of its particular kind that we received. Yet we quote it becatse_w:
a that others must have thought likewise. Furthermore, our answer to this letter tarns out to be an ai
‘ygwrer to al) the questions, suggestions and such misunderstandings as were contained in all the letters we re
Weived. We quote the letter, word for word, and in full, as follows: | wee
8 . £ .
~ Your anonymous communication of August 1940 is hardly deserving of serious consideration by any sel
gespecting American citizen who has the interest of bis country honestly at heart. Furthermore, anyone wh
@ets out to revolutionize with or without force the economic system of the country should have courage enong:
° + @p atand upon his feet and declare his intentions without using so honorabie a person as Colone! Liodbergh as.
@ont. Further, an organization of the magnitude you propose which is inviting the support of American voter
Sa at least indicate who are the responsible persons sponsoring the movement, You have an obligation t
"de country to make yourself known.
oe . Yours very truly,
iti 5 Signed.
Fe ~. “This is our answer:
¥£ =. We like your letter. We think it is in large part justified. And where it is not justified, that is due to ti
x that we were still moving to get into a position from which we could make known our aims and objective
4 our letter evidently recognizes nobility of purpose and objectives in our first fetter; yet it also recognis:
Re. w@omething that ia greatly incongruous to that nobility. Jt was that incongruity that justified you in strafir
toy. all the practical loftiness there was in our proceedure. :
- F<: “A wery brief account of the brief history, to date, of this Club will show you bow this temporary imcongn
aren, iy come about. The executive committee waa from the beginning composed of men who are without questic
- ly and selflessly and sympathetically devoted to bring consolation and order into all aspects of baman €
aes fatence. In carrying out their work as a committee they began by doing the nsna) thing in the usual way, name!
sexy 0 make the usual expressions on the usual earnest kind of issues, and on the newly arriving temporary issue
_ and then to “HAIL SOMEBODY” who they thought could lead the American Nation into the better way. The
«.. Pfesented specialized and limited issues and put their hope in personality. They were sure their objectives we
in et they felt insufficient in the execution of their work. Consequently they made known the existen
. ef the Gap to a certain element of persons, and invited their co-operation. Some literature had already been F
“psred and allowed to trickle out, and its results noted. The new element differed very kindly with the ol
#4 “pims and objectives. They knew things would have to be conceived and carried on diferently, and they knew
would be done differently, Yet they used no argument vor pressure to bring about this change. They allow
develop s' ‘step from the old idea to the new idea. Demonstration and experience hogically j
; rst circular letter of the Club went through to bring sbout climax m |
is , All the members of the committee, without one di
. element, are heartily agreed that we are sow really beginning
i o ent objective, and our consistent program. Accordingly, wor
ittee of the Solution for All Club conceive that this Clab has only one SPONSOR, and Gent tt
fe. Out of this Law issue all right principles and afl right . We of
and to guide rate expres and 8 apply, that which fwe shill sense to be
FACT of the RSE, im all things, great and small, and, of courve,
Parieularty, ns far as our present expression ey the Solution for AD
Oaly ESSENCE ie practical | aod that which fe practical is
OR ee eo ong
BORE: ae tt RS
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