stand by this why the 1913 book is sent, instead of our last one that contains no history. Cleveland lodge proposes Chicago for the next convention. Also that a convention book be gotten out by some one appointed by the Grand Lodge, and that all the receipts go toward establishing a headquarters and office in Chicago, Ill., and none toward entertaining the delegates. WADE SHURTLEFF. THE MAN FROM BLACK BAYOU. We are glad to learn that the convention will be held some time this year, and hope that the membership will profit by it. Old 57 should endeavor to have the stubshovers come to kapinland; but by all means, lad, get the nons lined up. Why not send the member who gets the largest number of nons to join as a delegate? Every member should get some non to join the B. R. C. Go after them, lads, and increase the membership. Pass your journal on to some fellow who should join the clan. Keep after the non and if he don't line up make him move. With one or more good members in an office it is easy for you to line up the nons and join the B. R. C. If you can't get Mr. Non to come clean and line up by persuasion, then job him for all you are worth. I have known of cases where some bull-headed non refused to join, and the lads made life miserable for that fellow. The B. R. C. can be made one of the largest organizations in the country if the clerks will do their duty and be men. Do not expect the Grand Lodge to capture all the nons. There are several around you who should belong, but you, Mr. Clerk, haven't done your part or your local Iwould be 100 per cent strong. When you get organized as you should. Brother Carrigan will add several dimes to your pay check. The B. R. C. could get 10,000 new members before the next issue of the journal if someone in each local will get lively and corner a few nons. Each local can offer a prize to the member who secures the most non-members between now and the Fourth of July. Come on, fellows, and let's celebrate the Fourth in the right way by doubling the membership. I am very glad to hear from you, Tom, and hope old 57 will never miss an issue. There are bunches of stubshovers in 57 who have got me skinned when it comes to handling a pen, and some of you who handle a pencil like a monkey handles a cocoanut should send in a speil each month for The Clerk. Every lodge should give us the dope each month and tell us how they handle the nons. Would like to hear from the attached members who are scattered all over the land. What has become of Travers, Civis, Old Ignorance and the lad from 17? Everyone of the above and all the bunch from New England should give us the dope every month. Geyser City's slogan should be adopted by every lodge. Every member should attend lodge and help their officers. Get busy and make your local strong by capturing all the nons around your roost. Yours fraternally, THE MAN FROM BLACK BAYOU. KANSAS CITY No. 4. From all quarters there comes news each month of the good that is being accomplished by the lodges in the jurisdiction of this organization. The correspondence columns are full of live and interesting news and happenings transpiring in their respective localities. How different it seems when you open The Clerk and find it full of good, ripe correspondence detailing the situation from here, there, everywhere and "elsewhere." And I am most certain the editor appreciates the interest being taken, as well as we brothers here in the "far" West. The convention is now an assured fact, and I hope the representatives at this gathering will go there with the understanding that there is business to be transacted, and lots of it. It is no child's play to sit for days in a convention deliberating on the laws and other important proceedings that must govern this Brotherhood; but, on the other hand, it is of vast importance that the committees be on their guard to see that each and every loophole where our laws will conflict is eliminated from the constitution. I was much pleased to note the appearance of our famous Brother "Walter Wildflowers," and thank him for the compliment he so generously gave us in the February number, as heretofore we have been "roasted"; but we have been under fire so much and often these little "warming ups" never faze us. Both the lodges here are seeking among the membership for good men to represent them in the convention, and we say let the best man go. Where this convention will be held is a mystery to us, 'but no matter where or when it is the duty of every lodge to provide a delegate and see that he goes and attends to the duties for which he is elected and expected to carry out to the letter. AL K. HALL. MECHANICVILLE LODGE No. 12. As we have not been represented in the "Railway Clerk" in some months, we will try and be a little more generous with our lines in the future. Local No. 12 is not at all dead, although they do not give the journal the proper attention. Local No. 12 is going to give their twelfth annual ball at the New Improvement Hall, Mechanicville, N. Y., Friday, April 16th, 1915, and hope, under the great leader we have for chairman, Brother James Brown, we will be as successful as in the past, as Brother Brown has led the Dance Committee for the past several years. Owing to his untiring efforts, he has made it a financial success each year. Local No. 12 is proud to say that from their local the Boston & Maine System Board of Adjustment at their seventh annual meeting, which was held January 10th, 1915, resulted in the elevation of Brother John H. Hunt to general chairman, Boston & Maine System Board of Adjustment. We can say we are hard at work at all times, looking around for the nons and hope to be able to truthfully say we have but a few to give the obligation to and then we can stand up and be counted as 100 per cent strong. As we have a good membership and an A No. 1 set of officers, let us make the year 1915 a banner year for our lodge and the members that formed the habit of staying away make new resolutions to be present at all meetings, ready to put their shoulder to the wheel, give their views at the meetings and success will be certain. CARD No. 11. HOUSTON LODGE No. 28. "We Have Come to Stay." Yes, boys, we have come to stay, and now that we are in the field we are going to take advantage of the columns of this issue, to greet every member of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, and to wish every one a hearty welcome to the BIGGEST little lodge in Texas. It is our desire to have a welcome to every member that comes to our town and you can rest assured that we will do everything to let him know we are there. We have gotten things straightened out so that everything is running very smoothly, but, of course, that is the only way they could be when a lodge is fortunate enough to have the kind of members that Houston No. 28 has. We have not been organized very long, but in the short space of time that we have been together every member has shown that he is for a greater and grander organization, and with that feeling uppermost in our hearts we going to make No. 28 the largest lodge in the state. are At our last meeting we held an election of officers, who are to be installed at the next regular meeting, viz: C. F. Heider, president; E. J. Rodier, vice-president; F. A. Bell, financial secretary-treasurer; E. Woodward, recording secretary; J. H. Rudy, sergeant-at-arms; N. Rodier, chaplain; Cecil Sagu, inner guard. It is our intention to try and make our next meeting one that will be remembered by all, as we realize that in order to meet with success we must get together and the place to get together is in the lodge room. Whenever we go after a "non," it is our intention to help him understand organized labor, and, brothers, whenever we can make him understand the labor movement and the principles of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and get him away from the tendency to classify labor as no more than an offshoot of humanity, he will sit down and consider his material surroundings. That labor made his clothes; labor dug the foundations and built the house in which he lives; labor furnishes him with fuel, light and food; labor builds roads and streets, and that labor looks after his comforts, his desires and his necessities from the time he is born until he is dead and buried. After considering labor in that light, he will admit that the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks does not look like a conspiracy against human welfare. Rather, it looks like organized, lifelong, patient, essential service. When we make him understand that the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks is not a revolutionary organization and that it is our aim to advance slowly, gaining one right and going forward to gain another, he is going to realize that he is a laboring man and his place is in the ranks of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, and when we have him looking at organization in that manner he will not make just a card man, but will make a UNION MAN that any labor organization will be proud of. In conclusion I wish to call your attention to our slogan and to bear in mind that we will be back in these columns again. With best wishes for success from all the boys of Houston No. 28, I am CARD No. 9, WITCH CITY No. 78. As for Hello, E. E., of Geyser City. Never miss an issue? We won't in the future. the past, we must confess guilt. As Benedict Arnold felt qualms of remorse for his part in the betrayal of his country, so do we feel the prick of a guilty conscience when we read your article and realize the small part we have played in speaking a word for the good of the cause through our forum, the Railway Clerk. We can almost see your spiritual finger of accusation pointed at us and may it be productive all over the country of prolific results. Your slogan is a ripper and may your enthusiasm never be less and the ends justify our efforts in following suit. Welcome to the bosom of your earnest well wishers, No. 344. May you all appreciate the true fellowship of our organization and early realize that the B. R. C. is loyally and literally a sincere brotherhood. Come again with the pencil. In relation to the final decision as to the city getting the convention, I am silent. Greatly as we would appreciate it, we New Englanders could not hope to swing the pendulum of opinion in favor of this part of the country so soon after our recent pleasure of entertaining the brothers and in turn being entertained by the honor of their presence. Wherever held, the acquaintances among the representatives of our late Brother Gil lespie will miss his smiling face and pleasant company. A few suggestions worthy of discussion in our forum have come to my attention, one of which I heartily second. The subject will do no harm in discussion and if the wisdom of the majority in convention assembled deem it propitious we may take our places with older brotherhoods. The scheme is simply a demand for a flat increase over a given territory and, though not original, seems to be in keeping with the practice of others, which in many respects we must imitate since they were the pioneers and our desires are in com mon. The report by two Massachusetts lodges of a banquet at the Quincy House, Boston, was noticed in a recent issue. A long fast, a big feed, and then this wire to the Faneuil Hall market by the hotel management: "Hello. Send us up ten truck loads of produce. We have just been visited by a swarm of locusts." She was of the feminine sex, though males predominate about freight houses. Agents may come and agents may go, but it almost seemed that Julia was to go on living forever, until one recent morning her demise was recorded. Though her name did not appear on the payroll, she was a faithful and constant employe. If seniority had counted in her case, she should long since have been chief. She was cheery company for the boys and a sweet singer, and in this capacity principally was a welcome servant under the regime of three agents. But at the last she infringed upon certain rules which gained for her the prejudice of a powerful minority and the judgment of a Solomon. 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