2/24/30 GD's letter to [
4122]'s husband:
Dear Mr. [...]:
According to our records, your membership in the Association
expired on Sept. 6, 1929. Since you became a member, the
Cayce Hospital at Virginia Beach has been completed and is
in operation, the results obtained by the patients treated
having been most satisfactory.
"The New Tomorrow", the quarterly publication of the
Association, was inaugurated in December, 1929, and will be
published regularly for the benefit of our members, a copy of
which is mailed to each one.
We are just at the beginning of an intensive educational
program, interesting announcements of which will be made
within a short time. Plans are under way for the erection
of a club house at which it will be your privilege to remain,
if at any time you come to Virginia Beach, which we hope all
of our members will do. The past year, though it has not
exceeded our expectations in the progress of the work,
has exceeded them in the rapidity with which it has been
accomplished thus far. The Board has a great many things
which they are working on for the benefit of all the
members and they will be advised of them from time to time.
We are in hopes that your membership has been of great
benefit to you and that you will continue with us in our
work "That We May Make Manifest Our Love For God And Man."
Members already on our roll are, of course, given preference
when readings are desired; in other words, if you should
allow your membership to lapse and then later decide that you
wanted to get a reading, by merely paying the membership dues
would not insure you that the reading would be obtained as
promptly as if you were already listed among our members,
for you would have to take your turn as any other new member.
The amount necessary to cover the renewal of your membership
is $15.00, which constitutes the dues of a Class "A" member,
the class to which you are entitled to belong, having
originally belonged as a Class "B" member. No readings are
included with the payment of this amount, but may be obtained
for the usual fee of $10.00 each.
Because of the great number of appointments ahead for several
months, the membership list has been temporarily closed. As
a result, there are a great many people waiting to become
members, realizing at this time the advantages which they had
not recognized heretofore. We would, therefore, thank you to
send us your check to cover renewal of membership, or advise
us immediately whether or not it is your desire to continue
as a member so that, if not, the opportunity might be given
to someone else. A self-addressed envelope is enclosed for
your use.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Gladys Davis Assistant Secretary
GD:MD
2/27/30 [
4122]'s letter to GD:
Association of National Investigators Virginia Beach,
Virginia
Attention: Miss Gladys Davis
Gentlemen:
According to your records my membership may have expired
on September 6, 1929. February 25 of the following year
is a poor time in which to remind me of when my membership
expired almost six months previous.
In the meantime, I asked for a reading and sent you a check
for it, which you returned with a perfunctory reply that
because of pressure of business no readings could be made
for several months to come.
This does not make me feel like sending you any more money
for the privilege of being a member of your Association if I
cannot get out of the Association the only thing that it has
to offer me.
Please look up your record and if you find that Mr. Casey
is able to give me the life reading that I asked for within
the next three weeks, I will continue to be a member of the
Association so that I may have the benefit of future readings
if I want them. Otherwise, I see no reason for continuing to
help support your Association.
Yours very truly, [...]
3/06/30 EC's letter to [
4122]'s husband:
..., Ga.
Dear Mr. [...]
Replying to yours of the 27th, I am sure we owe you an
apology for not notifying you that your membership had
expired when it did. However, this has been due only to the
rush of what SEEMED to be more important matters, on my part;
for I have had to attend to practically all of the business
and other details of the Association work.
Yes, it is true that we were unable to make the appointment
for a life reading at the time you requested it, and it is
still true that we are not able to make any appointments
for life readings. IF, however, the work of the Association
is of no greater interest to you than from an individual
personal interest, it certainly IS NOT worth your while to
remain a member; neither do I think that the rest of the
members would DESIRE one as a member who has only personal
interests in mind. It is NOT that the membership fee can
POSSIBLY, Mr. [...], EVER be a MONEY proposition for any of
us. When you recognize the fact (which I am sure you CANNOT
unless you were to be in personal contact with the work) that
it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get more than two readings each
day, and when you consider that there is required a staff
of at least three in order to obtain the readings - to say
nothing of the keeping of the records and the running of
the hospital, and the various other undertakings of the
Association - you can readily see that the small membership
fee would not pay anyone even a living wage; not as much as
you would pay the servant in your home. We are TRYING,
Mr. [...], to render a service to humanity. Those that are
banded together for such, are contributing of THEMSELVES much
more than they are able to contribute in worldly means.
If you desire to assist in this work, that's what we are
offering you the opportunity to do. If it is just for the
personal good that you get out of it, DON'T join!
Thank you.
Sincerely, EC:GD
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