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How the Committee in Charge Was Selected
ST. LOUIS Every improvement league, every civic organization, every luncheon club, every labor organization, every woman's club was invited to name its own representative and to determine what items its members wanted in the bond issue. It was a movement of the people. It was not a City Hall pro- position. The Mayor spoke only on a few occasions and then as a private citizen.
KANSAS CITY iThe c rmittee in c r T ed_ by the Mayor. On the committee were over one hundred leading citizens of Kansas City.
The Before the Campaign Thought ST. LOUIS Before the campaign the thought in the Before the camp minds of the St. Louis leaders was: "We minds of the Ka have in the past failed on all bond issues. "City Planning We failed because the people did not under- people. All th stand. Therefore, let us take all the a definite plan people into our confidence even before we planning progra begin to make plans for a bond issue. Let to the polls ar us let the peoble themselves make up their need to waste a own program. Let us let the people them- on pre-campaign selves decide what items they want in the we want is acti bond issue. Let us get the whole thing get started on "sold" and "sold" to all the people before we need to do i we begin to talk bond issue." point a committ and then start tired of lookin to start the wo
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aign the thought in the nsas City leaders was: is already "Sold" to our at is needed is to present for financing our city .m and our people will go Id vote for it. We don't ny time, money or effort educational work. What cn. Lets quit talking and something definite. All s to have the Mayor to ap- ee, submit the bond issue the dirt flying. We are g at blue-prints. We want rk."
How the People Lined Up
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In St. Louis the leaders of every class, of every section and of every organization were "sold" before the campaign started. Each class, each section and each organi- zation had a hand in framing the bond pro- gram. Each class, each section and each organization had special projects behind which its members lined up and for which they worked. As a result everybody was working te pu0 over his special project. The o ucational work was complete and thorough.
A Kansas City newspaper Nov. 5th said "Many citizens failed to understand the nature and importance of various bond pro- posals. In numerous instances people voted against their own interests. Dis- trics that would have been benefited directly and heavily from certain improve- ments failed to support those identical improvements****Labor leaders sent out letters in opposition to the bonds, **** Misrepresentation and misunderstanding of the proposed improvements were general. A case for the bonds was not made with the individual voter. A longer time for a bond campaign and more persistend effort to explain what is involved will mean suc- cess the next time an improvement program is launched.
