Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-13

WILL BE PERFECTED SOON
Plans Have Already Been Made For
Raising Continuing Fund of $4,000
Year-FuII Power Will Be Placed
in the Hands of Board Of Directors
State News.
Special to Times-hepublican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug 13.-The former
students of the Iowa State University
are preparing to make a thorough or
ganization. TO employ a permanent sec
retary, to publish magazine and to
print list of the alumni, and for this
plans have been made for raising a
continuing fund of $4,000 a year. An
association has been formed with a
provisional board of directors to act
until the organization is perfected
which 1t is expected will be some time
in the tall. The officers are engaged
in securing pledges for financial sup
port from those who have graduated
from the State University. AS soon
as sufficient fund has been pledged
the permanent organization will be eff
fected. AT present the board of direc-
tors consists of j. j. Mcconnell, Cedar
Rapids. chairman; Fl. G. Plum, Iowa
City secretary; James G. Berryhill and
w. O. Finkbine, Des Moines; B. IL.
Iowa City; Carl kuehnle,
Denison. The plan of organization is
for the board OF directors to have full
power to direct the course Of the as
sociation, and having the power to in
augurate and prosecute any work for
which it may be able to raise the requi-
site funds, and which, in the judgment
of majority of its members, shall
seem to be in the interest of the asso-
citation and the university" This pow
er to the board is sweeping and under
it the board has decided first on the
following:
ITO employ paid secretary who
shall devote his entire time to the
management of the bureau of informa-
ton and the other work of the board:
Ito cooperate with the university
local alumni in the various communi-
ties of the state and elsewhere.
"To undertake the publication of the
Alumnus, of which the general secre-
tary shall be editor, if it shall receive
a sufficiently encouraging response to
this circular letter.
ITO Operate with the university
in the publication of a reg
ister of the alumni of the university
The "Alumnus" is now published
privately at Iowa City and is the organ
of the former students II the new or
ganization is successful it will be turn
of the new organization is the publish
er of the magazine.
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While there is nothing said in the
circular as to the general purposes of
the new association. the movement is
looked upon with some suspicion A
majority of the members of the board
are among those who in the past few
months made a bitter attack on the
president of the university. Some OF
them also have expressed themselves
as in favor of abolishing the board Of
regents and establishing the education
stitutions. The last number of the
"Alumnus' contained discussion of
the fight between the president and his
and in closing gave this
LAS we interpret the situation as 1t
now stands, it Is the board of regents
on one side and the faculty on the other
the board has declared Its policy to
sustain the president, and the faculty
must perforce conform. Individual con-
viction on the merits of the controversy
will not be changed by the action of the
board, tho individual action may be
thereby. There will be a per-
iod of suspense as to what the future
may hold. and there will be much anx-
iety among the friends of the university
outside of it's immediate pale, for there
are many who do not consider the case
closed =
Men bers of the board Of regents re-
gard the last sentence as virtual
threat that the fight to compel the dis
missal or resignation of President Mac
Lean is to be kept up indefinitely until
the board of regents is compelled to
Weld. One member said on receiving
this circular now being sent out:
The movement appears to be one to
make more trouble for the university.
The board is composed of those who
have done some agitation, and they are
close to others who have been foremost
m the fomenting of trouble. The board
q given authOFlty 10 40 any ti4iIlS. Il HS
alumni are asked to go into sort of
,lind pool--to put up their money and
,llow this board to do what 1t pleases
With the money. and to enter upon any
sind of agitation or action. The fact
hat the leaders in the movement to or
,aniZe the alumni in the state are those
Who have done most to hamper The
work of the board and the university
authorities is at least suspicious. Un-
ess it is shown otherwise. ! shall be-
ieve it is all part of the scheme to
arry on the fight to disrupt and dis
rganize the university force. Far bet
er if the matter should be allowed to
est where it is"
Judge Kline Of the state board of
ontrol is engaged in tabulating the
esults of preliminary investigation
nto the prevalence and cure OF tuber-
ulosis. The first investigation has