The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega . by him in the deliberations of that body, but fewknow how devotedly he has taken up the neglected work of his office since, and reduced orderout of the chaos which existed inits affairs. Especially, has hebeen active and untiring in hislabor on the register. The com-pilation of information for thispurpose is indeed a tiresometask, but patience and persever-ance will tell, and at the presenttime we believe the records ofthe fraternity are in as goodshape as they ever have been,even^ when the number of brothers was ->: ^SSP* much smaller. The following compliment
The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega . by him in the deliberations of that body, but fewknow how devotedly he has taken up the neglected work of his office since, and reduced orderout of the chaos which existed inits affairs. Especially, has hebeen active and untiring in hislabor on the register. The com-pilation of information for thispurpose is indeed a tiresometask, but patience and persever-ance will tell, and at the presenttime we believe the records ofthe fraternity are in as goodshape as they ever have been,even^ when the number of brothers was ->: ^SSP* much smaller. The following complimentaryclippings from prominent advertising journals, each of which wasaccompanied by a half-tone, will show how much Brother Boothstalents are appreciated in his chosen field: We are pleased to present to our readers a half-tone of Walter Booth, who is now the advertising manager of the West-ern Rural. Mr. Booth was born in Pennsylvania in 1870, graduated fromone of its normal schools, and launched on the world as a peda-. 106 H. WALTER BOOTH, W. G. K. A. gogue. Later on he became connected with an engineering partyof the Burlington Railroad, and spent about a year in Nebraska,Colorado and Wyoming. During this time he acquired a taste forengineering life, and took a course in civil engineering in the uni-versities of Minnesota and Michigan. While at college he becameconnected with one of its publications, and so did some specialcorrespondence work on two or three Metropolitan journals. In 1891 he located in St. Paul, with the intention of securinga position on the reportorial staff of one of the daily newspapers,but accepted the first thing which presented itself, which came inthe shape of advertising solicitor for a weekly publication calledThe State. Shortly after he went to Chicago, with the intentionof handling a special list of Northwestern papers, but finally ac-cepted a position in the advertising department of the FarmersVoice. Very soon after he took the advertising
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