First Published: Chenango Union, September 26, 1918.
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Linn A.E. Gale, formerly of this county and later editor of Gale’s Magazine which migrated from Albany to Worcester to Binghamton to New York City and other places, and who is wanted in Albany county for evading the draft, is located in Mexico city. An article written by Gale himself and sent to the Norwich Sun with a request for publication, says:
Mexico City, Sept 10 – Linn A.E. Gale of Albany, N.Y., and New York City, editor and publisher of Gale's Magazine, and well known in the United States for his brilliant journalism and his fiery political career, recently located in this city.
Editor Gale has organized here the “Church of the New Civilization, ” of which he is the head, and gives lectures every Sunday morning and every Wednesday evening. The “Church of the New Civilization” teaches the “New Thought” philosophy and Socialism. Mr. Gale also conducts private classes of instruction in mental science, psychic development and sociology.
Editor Gale became a socialist before leaving the United States. He left New York State last April and spent several months in southern and western states in Socialist propaganda work, then coming to Mexico.
Gale's Magazine is being re-established in this city and will be permanently published here. It will be devoted to New Thought and Socialism. Mr. Gale states: “Gale's Magazine will be international in scope, influence and circulation. It will eventually reach every part of the known world. It will be the great herald of the Coming Age of Cooperation, Brotherhood, and internationalism, when capitalism competition, private profit and war shall end forever. It is fitting that such a magazine, with such a mission should be published in Mexico, a great Republic which is at peace with all the world, and whose undeveloped resources are rich and vast almost beyond the power of imagination to conceive.”
It will be noted that Gale makes no mention of the fact that he is an evader of the draft nor of his other escapades shortly before he disappeared form New York State.
Gale's last appearance in Norwich was during the license campaign last spring when he addressed a public meeting in the interests of the "wets" although it was denied by the "wet" campaign committee that he was employed for that purpose.
Gale began his newspaper career in Norwich. Later he was connected with the Edmeston Local. In 1912 he was in Albany and later was employed on the Albany Times Union. For a time after leaving the Times Union he was editor of a newspaper at Amsterdam. His present address is Calle de Madrid, No. 64, Mexico City, D.F.