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* i es bays 28a f te $ - 7 SOLUTION FOR ALL CLUB No. ! P. O. BOX 343 PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA Circular Letter No. 2 October, 1940 Gentlemen: - } “ - Last month you received a letter irom thd Lindbergh For President Club No. 1, of the above sai Thi October letter comes from the same organization, fromthe Same-address, and froni the identically same commi tee membership—only the name of the organization has been changed. it is now the SOLUTION POR AL. CLUB No. 1. During the course of this letter you will learn the reasons for this change of name without chang in objectives. . We received a considerable number of replies to our first letter, encouraging and prompting us to proceed wit this work. The dominant feeling of the many letters was that, as expressed by one of the writers, “Your plan | a ray of hope in an otherwise dark situation.” A few letters were unfavorable to the movement. We do not blame these writers, for we think we have n° yet given ourselves opportunity to make known what we are and stand for. We shall now quote you one these unfavorable letters. It is the only one of its particular kind that we received. Yet we quote it because v realize that others must have thought likewise. Furthermore, our answer to this letter turns out to be an a: swer to al] the questions, suggestions and such misunderstandings as were contained in all the letters we r ceived. We quote the letter, word fur word, and in full, as follows: Gentlemen: Your anonymous communication of August 1940 is hardly deserving of serious consideration by any s¢ respecting American citizen who has the interest of his country honestly at heart. Furthermore, anyone wl sets out to revolutionize with or without force the economic system of the country should have courage enon, to stand upon his feet and declare his intentions without using so honorable a person as Colonel Lindbergh as front. Further, an organization of the magnitude you propose which is inviting the support of American vote: should at least indicate who are the responsible persons sponsoring the movement. You have an obligation * the country to make yourself known. Yours very truly, Signed. This is our answer: Dear Sir: We like your letter. We think it is in large part justified. And where it is not justified, that is due to t fact that we were still moving to get into a position from which we could make known our aims and objectiv Your letter evidently recognizes nobility of purpose and objectives in our first letter; yet it also recogni something that is greatly incongruous to that nobility. It was that incongruity that justified you in straf even all the practical loftiness there was in our proceedure. A very brief account of the brief history, to date, of this Club will show you how this temporary incongr ity came about. The executive committee was from the beginning composed of men who are without questi sincerely and se)fiessly and sympathetically devoted to bring consolation and order into all aspects of human istence. In carrying out their work as a committee they began by doing the usual thing in the usual way, nam to make the usual expressions on the usual earnest kind of issues. and on the newly arriving temporary ins and then to “HAIL SOMEBODY” who they thought could lead the American Nation into the better way. Tl presented specialized and limited issues and put their hope in personality. They were sure their objectives w right; yet they felt insufficient in the execution of their work. Consequently they made known the existe of the Club to a certain element of persons, and invited their co-operation. Some literature had already been ¢ pared and allowed to trickle out, and its results noted. The new element differed very kindly with the old aims and objectives. ‘hey knew things would have to be conceived and carried on differently ; and they knev wouk! be done differently. Yet they used no argument nor pressure to bring about this change. They allov things to develop step by step from the old idea to the new idea. Demonstration and experience logically duced the change; and the first circular letter of the Club went through to bring about the climax in dem strating the course to be taken. ah The reault is conclusive. All the members of the committee, without one dissenting voice from both t original and the more recent element, are heartily agreed that we are now really beginning to state to you consistent position, our consistent objective, and our consistent program. Accordingly, worthy friend, we, the ecutive Committee of the Solution for All Club conceive that this Club has only one SPONSOR, and that NAME of this SPONSOR is PRINCIPLE. It is that SUPREMELY PRACTICAL LAW that governs action in all fife. Out of this Law issue all right principles and aljl right programs. We of this Club andert to be guided by, and to guide by, to express and to apply, that which we shall sense to be the SUPREME PRACTICAL FACT of the UNIVERSE, in all things. great and smail, and, of course, particularly in hur life. and still more particularly, as far as our present expression as the Solution for All Club goes, in our | nomic and political life. Only ESSENCE is practical; and that which is practical is compounded of ESSEN : 65 -11449-44