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Show Friday, February 13, 1959 Page 3 THE UTAH STATESMAN Victory In 1960 S. L. County, Weber, Utah Republicans Plan Events Membership Committees by Madge H. Fairbanks Included in the Master plan are several complementing committees. These committees are essential to the nucleus of officers. To begin with, one must have workers. Where are the workers to come from? They come from, a committee solely devoted to workers. The membership committee. The membership committee must start working long before anyone else. It is the job of the member ship group to sell Republicanism to the First Voters and young voters. To do so he must be completely sold himself. One must be intimately acquainted with the values and exact standards of the Republican party. Hence the importance of the selection of the membership chairman. A man or woman of driving force and true conviction. Where does one find members? Is there any plan or do YRs just talk to their friends qnd so on building membership? That partic LINCOLN DAY mm GOV. CECIL H. UNDERWOOD of West Virginia "A Message of Importance11 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 UNION BUILDING (University of Utah) $6 Per Plate Tickets available at State or County GOP Headquarters or your county committeemen by Janet Schoenhals Salt Lake County is holding its county convention March 27 in the ular technique does help and is a Board room at the Capitol at 7:30. Governor's part of a definite program. Our So those attending will be able to vote, memberships must that membership program looks some- be 15 paid days before the convention. thing like the following: . State Membership Chairman County Membership Chairmen Legislative Districts Voting Districts Vahl .Bodily, county chairman, will be conducting the meeting. He encourages everyones participation and attendance. Ralph Benson, chairman in Utah County, asks that the YRs in his county prepare for county elections. Harold Madsen is helping Mr. Benson with arrangements for the convention which will be held within the next four weeks. The date will be announced. Weber County chairman, Rex Cunningham, announces that his Mrs. Afton Daniels, is resigning her post Her first successor will be named immediately. On Feb. 11, William A. Dawson spoke to Republicans in Tooele County in the Kirk Hotel at Tooele. The Young Republicans were participating at that event The Tooele YRs are also industriously working on membership. vice-chairwom- It works! The state membership committee is made up of every county membership chairman. The county membership committees are made up of the legislative district membership chairmen. The YRs spread out from there to each voting district. In a plan of this type it does not put a big work burden on any one individual. Also it gives opportunity to everyone to DO something. The greatest opportunity it affords is working with senior party members in the districts. Learning Republicanism at the grass roots level is the most realistic approach. As an interesting side note. The National Committee at its recent Des Moines meeting adopted and endorsed an Apprentice type" program for YRs. Where in they learn side by side veteran Republican leaders at all levels of the political blueprint The YR membership program fits the need, with exacting specification. In your coming (State and County) conventions, your membership chairman is a vital office, probably the key office in the whole organization. . 056 WATERFILL AND FRAZIER DISTILLERY COMPANY, IARDSTOWN, KENTUCKY SB 1809 - 1959 Abraham Lincoln Said: Study The Constitution "Let every American, every Lover of Liberty, every Well Wisher to his Posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the Laws of the Country, and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the Patriots of 76 did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws let every American Pledge his Life, his Property, and his Sacred Honor. Let every man remember that to violate the Law is to trample on the blood of his Father, and to tear the Charter of his own and his Children's Liberty . . . Let it be taught in schools and colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short let it become the Political Religion or the Nation, and, in particular, a Reverence for the Constitution." ... We are taught in the Hdly Writ . . "To prove all things: Hold fast that which is good. Fundamental Principles are Eternal!! We stand for our Constitution. ff |