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Contributors to this advertising are complaining, members are complaints. and hr. Colp says the solicitor was to pay half the cost of the" printing and the solicitor says he	wasn't.	The
solicitor was found overpaid his 75y’> commissions, and" Hr. Oolp said the solicitor owed him ar.d Dr. Johnston 'some money, and it is stated the printing was given to that incompetent rcfcdbsc shop because the proprietor owed ,Dr. Johnston money. This solicitor was sent out again and given 75£> after X had recalled him. Ho also was allowed to indorse and convert checks to his own use.
About the time of ny return another man was sent into admittedly noor territory and given 55 l/3,’ and made for himself £100 00 per week/
A' so-called publicity man was rent out and as usual no contract is shown, and none of the protecting influences thrown around him. Important privileges were turned over to him, without' record or restriction so fir a3 known". Ho passed bad ckrecs and left unpaid personal bills, and on my return I recalled him," then he was secretly sent westward. lie' passed a bad check for }?.G0 00 in ban biego and disappeared. Information is now coming of other misuse of money and of credits.
Thei’tj are documents and data of other crude work, but so much detail is not necessary here.
Since January l (the period of my absence) the San Antonio office has had over £8500 00, yet no attempt was made to pay the accounts of the Association for the service and materials used by the office, Ho money was ret atiae to issue these section maps and travel information, for which something over 03500 00 has been collected.
' I myself was in virgin territory in the fast and should have had financial help from Headquarters, and from Texas where three years of work lay behind the office. Instead, I had to produce in the hast all money for those expenses, and for the Y.aekingtor expenses, and'sent money to San Antonio to help this office, and paid £250 00 to the Gunter Hotel to prevent dispossess, and this (:260 00 is still due mo.	I gave Hr."
Colp my personal check in April for £150 00 because he claimed to be in distress, and he has not attempted to repay that.
The organization cannot continuer to exist by such practices. '..*e must show the people, and at once, we are worthy of the trust placed in us, and the first step is to stop this" abuse of their confidence, and to restoro the protective and constitutional provisions to the Headquarters work —and this in spite of the President if he persists in refusing to accept the vwrdlct of his own fellow citizens and workers.
Then ways must be found to continue the constructive policies that placed this Highway on the maps of all the 03T states as a part of the fedoral system of highways, and as an important transcontinental highway; and that brought about the doclar ation of the senators and congressmen that this was a basic highway of the United Abates system and should he promptly completed in the public interest- and that secured the' ii'ajr Department ajmsHmEmnofCE statement that it was of first importance
to the national dofonso and asked fox-' its construction according to the best foderal standards as a military necessity.