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Show Salt Lake Mass Meetings Are Only 11 Days Away ty. Among the things I discovered discov-ered was the fact that about one-third of the members of our county organization have been lost through attrition since the last mass meetings, two years ago. Our losses have been especially espe-cially heavy among older people, who have died, become inactive through extreme age, or migrated migrat-ed to California where old-age assistance is much more liberal than in Utah. Thus, we must bring in at least one third of our numbers in new members, merely to maintain our present strength, which already al-ready has proved for six years that it cannot win statewide elections. elec-tions. So don't confine yourself to getting out only the old faithful faith-ful few on the night of February 1. Go out and bring in many new members, especially the younger people who can learn party loyalty loy-alty by taking an active part in its affairs. Then to top off all your efforts for the occasion, there probably will be a six-inch snowfall on the night of the mass meetings just to test your determination. But remember, a Democratic victory vic-tory next November, and even as far away as 1960, very much depends de-pends upon what you and I do in our local mass meetings just eleven days from now! By Joseph II. Weston We Democrats who live in Salt Lake County ought to be making our personal plans right now for participation in the county-wide mass meetings to be held Tuesday Tues-day night, February 11. For it is in the mass meeting in our own voting district, where our neighbors and friends meet on a common ground that we, as individuals and citizens, have the most to say and the most influence influ-ence we shall ever have in Utah politics. It is our golden opportunity to choose men and women with whom we are personally acquainted ac-quainted and whose political beliefs be-liefs are clear to us, to make our Democratic party philosophy, and to put it into effect in our party organization and in public office. Those who attend these mass meetings, at the very beginning of our political year, usually are few, and can truly be called the faithful. If you have any political idea you want to put across, now is the time to act. Talk to your Democratic friends and neighbors neigh-bors TODAY, and NOW, and make certain they plan to save the night of February 11 and remember, it's only eleven days away for attendance at your neighborhood mass meeting. Then on the night set for these meetings, call these friends again and make certain they actually get their hats on and get out to the meeting. j The hour and the places of the various mass meetings, for both the Democratic and Republican parties will be published, undoubtedly un-doubtedly in the Salt Lake Tribune Trib-une and the Deseret News. Those who attend a mass meeting meet-ing will elect their voting district dis-trict chairman and other community com-munity officers, and will choose a delegate to the county and state conventions. If you have a friend whom you want to see elected to the United States Senate, you can do him more good, right now, in your community mass meeting than at any other time in his campaign. cam-paign. Say, for instance, you want to see "Ted" Moss elected to the U. S. Senate, or maybe "Cal" Rawlings, or "Rick" Lamoreaux or Former Governor Maw. Then by all means, call up your friends and get them to vote with you in the mass meeting for a delegate dele-gate who will later vote in convention con-vention for the man of your choice for the Senate. And this is the most important impor-tant part of all get as many NEW friends as posible, especially especial-ly young people, to go with you to the mass meeting. In order to build a powerful Democratic or-; or-; ganization in Utah, we must i bring in many, many new peo-!ple. peo-!ple. ! During the past several months I have personally talked to most j members of every voting district organization in Salt Lake coun- |
