Editor's Notes
Betty is back at school and writing asking for her brother "Buster" to come visit.
Wednesday
Oct. 26, 1921
Dear Mother,
It sure was great sitting between you and Dad last Sunday. Are you all tired out from the weekend? I'm still terribly keen about my coat. I'll be very careful of it, of course. Glad bought a new dress. It is brown jersey with white kid Peter Pan collars and cuffs but all one piece. Her coat came from Bedells, but I don't think we saw it. It is a shade of blue, something like mine, very soft, but also has sort of diagonal ridges. It has one of those cap blouse effect backs with embroidery on it, and no fur collar, $35. I have sent the wedding present. I can't believe she is really going to be married yet. I had a nice letter from M. Brandt yesterday and they are still in the middle of repairs. She has invited me to visit her this summer.
Tell Frank the candy was schwell and we liked it a lot. How about his coming up Saturday? It is the big W&J game and the track meet. If he can't come for the Colgate game, this will be the last game and the last thing this year that he would want to come up for. It being his senior year, I am really awfully anxious to have him come up. He can stay with Bob, Raymond or Roger and I can get him a student ticket, all right. Please think seriously of it. I wouldn't be able to entertain him Friday night as I am having a quiz Saturday AM, but he could probably find something to do if he didn't want to wait until Saturday AM.
Tea For Mrs. Rheinhart, our chaperone, at the house is tomorrow afternoon, YWCA recognition service and banquet at night. Thanks for sending the laundry and the pictures.
Dad wanted to see The Orange [The Syracuse newspaper that Betty is a reporter for], so tell him I'm sending it for him to read, not to look at. Don't know if this is a particularly good one.
Love Bet
OUTLAW RADICALS PLAN SOVIET HERE
Create American Labor Alliance to Overthrow Present Form of Government. CLAIM SUPPORT OF UNIONS Propose to "Bore From Within" to Counteract "Reactionary Policies" of Federation.
Scattered remnants of the outlawed Communist Party of America, the Socialist Labor Party, and radical labor and political factions are being welded into a national political organization to be known as the American Labor Alliance, which will aim to establish a Workers Soviet Republic in the United States.
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