Early last August an S. O. S. call was sent out through Minneapolis and over the way to St. Paul. The proud Minneapolis Symphony was in distress. It would go on the rocks unless a new guarantee fund could be promptly raised.
The Junior Association of Commerce undertook to salvage the Symphony. It relayed the S. O. S. ("Save Our Symphony") into schools, office-buildings, homes. Doctors, lawyers, merchants and insurance-men organized committees to ask for anything from $1 up. One A. K. Johnson, truck-farmer, drove 17 miles from Wayzata with his dollar. Bands...
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