Niles Township Improvement Club
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NILES TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT CLUB
The officers are as follows:
- George Landeck, Niles Center, President
- Joseph Hoss, Morton Grove, Vice-President
- Frank Meier, Tessville, Secretary
- John Calef, Niles, Treasurer
The committees are as follows:
Legislative - Geo. Landeck, Chairman, Niles Center, Tel. N. C. 26W; Jos. Hoss, Geo. Hunter, Frank Meier and Arthur Campbell
Public Improvement - Jos. Hoss, Chairman, Morton Grove, Tel. M. G. 5; F. Whittington, Geo. Landeck, Ferdinand Baumann and Alphonse Linster
Forest Preserve - Geo. H. Klehm, Chairman, Niles Center, Tel. N. C. 2; Frank Meier, John L. Calef, Aug. F. Poehlmann and Fred Jettmann
Transportation- Geo. Harrer, Chairman, Morton Grove, Tel. M. G. 34M; John W. Brown, Ferdinand Baumann, Leo Bree and John L. Calef
Entertainment - Leo Bree, Chairman, Tessville, R. F. D. Morton Grove, Tel. N. C. 32R2; Aug. F. Poehlmann, Geo. H. Klehm, F. Whittington and Fred Jettmann
Publicity - John W. Brown, Chairman, Niles Center, Tel. N. C. 15M; Geo. Harrer, Arthur Campbell, Alphonse Linster and Geo. Hunter
The membership numbers from ninety-five to one hundred and organized in 1914; meeting every second Monday in the month, promoting the general interests for the township of Niles. They have been actively engaged and accomplished much good for the citizens within the township. At one of their most important meetings, about five hundred interested citizens were present, to protest against the location of the Du Pont Powder Works in their midst.
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The meeting was called to order by its President, Mr. George Landeck; Mr. Joseph Hoss opened with a lengthy talk, on the dynamite proposition, and demanded that they work together in having this undesirable tenant vacate. He pointed out to them their duties as public officials. George Klehm discussed ways and means and finally was an important factor in dislocating them from their post. George Landeck, Andrew Schmitz, Fred Beisswanger, August Poehlmann, John W. Brown, Frank Meier, Robert Hoffman also were active in the removal of the Du Pont Powder Works.
T. Coleman DuPont, of Delaware, is out with his delegates as a “business man’s candidate” for the Republican presidential nomination. His backers are attempting to organize a "business men’s presidential league” with the avowed object of getting a capable business man into the White House.
Mr. Dupont is a member of a group which has made a great part of its enormous wealth by selling powder to the United States Government at excessive prices, and the Dupont fortunes have been swollen almost beyond imagination by the European munitions trade of late. He may be a capable "business man” and qualified to administer the affairs of the nation strictly from the business man’s point of view, but we do not want a President whose sole qualification is "business ability,” for the Presidency would be as unsatisfactory from the standpoint of American ideals as a military dictator or a theological autocrat.