NEW BOOKLET GOES OUT TO PARTY GROUP
New Booklet Goes Out to Party Group Story of Bob's Career Told with Text and Pictures DISTRIBUTION of the new illustrated pamphlet dealing with the life and career of Sen. Robert M. La Follette...
...George W. Norris...
...Portage, chairman of the Young Progressives of Wisconsin...
...It is the story of a great state's contribution to the thinking and the doing of the greatest nation on earth...
...Fairchild said...
...Young men and women want a chance...
...whose appearance is understood to be contingent on adjournment of congress by that date...
...Fobert M. LaFollette...
...The Young Progressives are inviting all candidates for the Progressive guberna*orial convention to appear at the convention and make themselves netter known to the youth movement...
...Arrangements include a wide variety of entertainment, with a buffet banquet and dance scheduled to climax the first day's proceedings...
...Principal talk will be given by Sen...
...Thus, in this 194(1 session of Congress, he is ranked as a top-flight leader in the crucial struggle for farm assistance, for the maintenance of civil liberties, for the preservation of a genuine American foreign policy, and for other objectives equally vital to Wisconsin...
...was begun on a large scale this week...
...lias been invited to greet the convention...
...Fundamental in Bob La Follette's approach to social and economic problems is his conviction that this richest nation on earth cannot relax for a moment until it has answered the vital problem of youth...
...Bob La Follette sees a bright future for all America—opportunity for youth, security for old age, real jobs for the able-bodied, and prosperity for agriculture—if the thinking men and women of America take off their coals and fight for the kind of government which will be responsive to their needs...
...A series of excellent photographs illustrates various phases of the senator's career...
...Program for Youth Session Taking Shape Thompson Will Deliver Keynote Speech at Portage RAPIDLY developing plans for a great gathering of Young Progressives at Portage July 6 and 7 were disclosed this week by Tom Fairchild...
...It is based on official government records...
...The introduction to the booklet says: "This is the story of a young man in action...
...A feature of the two-day gathering will be a series of round table discussions of major state and national problems with authorities in the various fields leading the forums...
...July 6. registration will begin Friday evening, July 5, and continue through Saturday morning...
...veteran Nebraska Independent whose summer home is in Wiscons.n...
...The pamphlet brings together for the first time between two covers the dramatic story of Bob La Fol-lette's life and achievements...
...Phil LaFollette has been invited to serve as toastmaster at the banquet...
...Stoughton and Madison attorney who has been active in the Progressive youth movement, will deliver the keynote address at the convention opening...
...Readers of The Progressive who desire a copy can secure one by writing The Progressive Publishing Co., 302 E. Washington ave., Madison...
...In every session for the past decade or more Bob La Follette has been regarded by friend and foe alike as the "fightin'est" champion of real jobs for the unemployed...
...He means real jobs, too, self-respecting jobs wilh decent wages and adequate security...
...They want a fighting chance to make good...
...Its facts will provide sincere men and women of Wisconsin with the scale on which they will want to weigh the genuineness of the arguments they will head throughout this summer and fall...
...In another and brca:'~>-sense, though, this is the story of Wisconsin...
...This little book is the story of Bob La Follette in action, and through it-all runs the pattern of the great Wisconsin tradition...
...The nresent executive committee and the recently appointed pre-con-vention platform rommittee will also meet the Friday night before the convention formally opens...
...Robert M. La Follette Jr...
...For if anything Is true of the public career of Bob La Follette, Jr., this is true: His work, his speeches, and his votes in the United States Senate are living, breathing expressions of the Wisconsin tradition...
...Youth and vigor and an extraordinary capacity for hard work enable him to fight the battles of Wisconsin and of America on a doxen vital fronts...
...Carl Thompson...
...The feeling of defeatism and hopefulness will not be banished, he knows, until this country comes to grips with the basic economic problems of our time...
...While the convention will not open until 9 a. m. Saturday...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
