CORDELL HULL. CHAIRMAN J. BRUCE KREMER, VICE-CHAIRMAN RICHARD LINTHICUM. DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY
WILBURW MARSH TREASURER SAMUEL E.AMIDOI‘LVICE-CHAIRMAN BURT NEW, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
MRS. EMILY NEWELL BLAIR, VICE-CHAIRMAN
DEMOCRA"I"IC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS
710 BOND BUILDING
WASHINGTON. D. C.
January 2, 1924.
Mrs.Sa.m Wilson,
Lexington, Ky.
My dear Mrs.Wilson:

The pamphlet on Conservation the second subject to be dealt with in '
our series of Monthly Information meetings, is going forward to you today under
separate cover. It should be in your hands immediately. We enclose with this
a suggested press release and suggestions for the form which your club may give
this meeting.

We regret that we have been unable to mail this pamphlet earlier.

Mrs. Banister, its author, had to undergo a tonsil operation and so the writing
was delayed a few days, and then revelations in connection with the Senatorial
investigation of the Teapot Dome Naval Reserve lease required that the conclusion
of the booklet be held up.

We call your attention to the vital necessity of getting publicity in
the newspapers on your meetings held on this subject, as you so well succeeded in
doing on the Civil Service meeting. It is evident that our clubs by studying an
talking of Civil Service and by obtaining such wide publicity on their meetings
have already had some effect. When our pamphlet was issued to you spoi lation of
Civil Service was unabated in the Federal Government. Our pamphlet provoked
vitriolic attacks upon us by the Republican committee —— the attacks were doubly
vicious because of the Republicans' total inability to defend themselves on their
Civil Service record. Within the last few weeks, the administration's attitude
has appeared to change, at least to the extent of a paragraph in the President's
message and the promised re—ins tatanent of the employees of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, whose unwarranted dismissal we told of in our pamphlet. On the other
hand, A. P. Davis, engineer and veteran government employee, has not been offered
restoration to the directorship of the Reclamation Service, from which he was oust—
ed to make room for an Idaho grocer, and the latest assualt upon Civil Service
through the attempted nullification of the Reclassification Act by Republican
politicians is so flagrant that a Congressional investigation is threatened.

Please send us programs and newspaper clippings on your Conservation
meeting, which we hope will be as productive of good results as was the Civil
Service meeting.

Sincerely yours,
Vice Chai men.
P. S. Are we sending you too few of these pamphlets and dodgers?