FINANCIAL STATEMENT, JANUARY, 1918
RECEIPTS.
The financial statement is closed regularly on the last day of each month. Financial Secretaries will please have their reports at headquarters on or before the 30th day of each month.
The following shows all moneys received from December 31, 1918 to January 31, 1918. member should check this statement and note if remittances made are properly credited. mittances received from January 31, 1918 to February 28, 1918, will appear in next report.
1.00 187 66.60
188 17.70 3.60 286
5.00 189 17.50
288
190 134.40 29.55 289
6.69 192 22.70 5.20 290
6.00 194 476.80 15.00 291
7.50 195
5.00 292
196 6.30
293
8.00 197 23.60
294
198 22.80 15.00 295
1.65 200 15.10
3.60 201 46.20
2.25 202. 102.12 15.00 299
204 18.90 5.50 300
7.00 205 36.60
301 56.60
206 44.40
302 17.60
28.50 208 12.00 8.80 303 32.15
2.60 209 17.10
304 20.20
306 90.00
307 23.70
5.10
79.70 21.50 393
10.80 7.40 394
296 57.00
7.50 398
298 9.30
10.80
14.40 399 5.10 400 36.60 2.50 401 12.40 4.50 402 66.70
403
404 4.20
6.28 406
16.70
6.60 773
774
2.50 776
777
877 8.70
77.70 2.50 878 18.50
19.30
879
3.50
3.00
62.00 2.50 880 36.00
Total protested checks made good...
Note. The total receipts with the exception of receipts from special funds, which are applied direct, or from sale of supplies, which are applied to the Supply Fund, or in making good protested checks, which are credited to the General Fund, are divided among the remaining funds as follows: General Fund, 12% per cent.; Journal Fund, 12% per cent.; Organizing Fund, 10 per cent.; Defense Fund, 15 per cent.; Death and Disability Fund, 50 per cent.
Reinstatem't and
Initiation Fees
P. C. Tax,
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Our annual town meeting came today.
And all the voters gathered in the hall-
The males who constitute our little town,
So much like other little towns up here
Among the hills, or elsewhere through the land,
They tell us we Americans are soft,
Unnerved and flabby with luxurious life,
And War's the thing to harden us, of course.
I looked around the room and had to smile.
Down front a Tory sat (we have them still,
And they are loudest in the cry to arms),
And he was soft, I must admit, and fat.
In spite of Plattsburg drill six months ago.
I counted five, among three hundred strong,
Who pay. I know, a federal income tax,
And all of them were soft-and all for War.
The rest the thing's a grizzly joke the rest
Have never had a chance at luxury,
You can't grow soft if you are cutting wood
All day upon the mountain side, in snow
Above your knees, or feeding it against
The snarling, singing. hungry saw; my fat
And warlike Tory friend would be a wreck
If he pitched cord wood for an hour. You can't
Grow soft by milking fourteen cows a day
Nor holding true a plow in broken sod.
Nor filling gravel teams, nor hauling mail
In storm and shine, in sleet and cold, four times
Each day against our winter winds, nor yet,
By rising when the world is dark and chill
To shake the furnace for our Tory friend,
So he may find it warm at breakfast time.
It's true, our workers in the mills are few-
We haven't many soft with linty lungs;
I fancy they need War to harden them
(It's such a pleasant recreation, too);
But we have carpenters with dainty hands.
And station porters stale with wrestling trunks,
And gardeners who've never dug enough,
And other workers at the world's slim wage
Who will be glad to know that luxury
Has made them soft in vicious idleness!
They sat there in this crowded hall-against
The five, the hundreds who by daily toil
And hard economy make both ends meet
And once a week take in a picture show.
If they are soft, the only reason is
That meat now costs so much they're underfed
But do we need a War to alter that?
Perhaps we do but not the sort of War
Our puffed, portentous Tory has in mind!
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