The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-13
State Districted and Alumni
Solicitors Named in Hopes
of Raising the Required
$4,000.
FINANCIALLY MAY
DAY WAS SUCCESS
About $4,000 Realized from
Pageant and $4,000 Addi-
tional in Pledges State
ment of Appreciation.

The campaign to free Earlham from
debt by commencement day went sew
eral steps forward when at a meeting
held in the ONCE of President Kelly at
8 o'clock on Saturday morning. the
territory to be canvassed in Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois, was divided into
twenty districts and the ten districts
in which the campaign is to be push
ed during the first two weeks were Sc
lected.
The meeting was called by Morton
G. Pearson, of Indianapolis, chairman
of the campaign committee and it was
attended by men and women who will
form the local teams of canvassers in
the various districts Many of the
twenty men who will give their entire
time to the campaign, being sent from
headquarters here to assist the local
teams, were also present.
Among the districts to be canvassed
Immediately is that known as No. 6,
which includes all of Wayne county,
outside of Richmond Chairman Pear
son is sending letter to sixteen men
and women in this district with the
purpose of bringing them together for
a conference in the Office of President
Kelly at Earlham at o'clock next
Tuesday evening They will then be
met and addressed by some 4of-ths.
campaign leaders and the Anal details
for the campaign in the district will
be arranged. In this group are Pearl
Williams of Centerville: Fred Smith,
DIR. o. N. Huff and Harold Barnes Of
Fountain City; Oliver Frazier, Gulia
Jessup, Clara Manning, Ellen Clark
and Emma Clark of Economy; A. B..
Carter, Frank Underhill and e. Mar
tindale of Greensboro; Aaron Garden
of College Corner; Warner Garden,
Liberty; Delton Lewis, Richmond, and
w. H. Dennis, Hagerstown.
The other nine districts in which the
campaign for $4,000 is to begin imme-
diately are: No. 1, Grant county; No.
II, Howard, Upton and part Of Clin-
ton; No. 8, Hamilton: No. S, Jay, Ran
dolph, Delaware and Blackford: No 8,
Hancock and Rush; No. 9, Marion; No.
Is, Parke, igo and Clay, and No. IS,
Hendricks. Morgan and Putnam.
President kelly's Address.
President Kelly addressed the meet.
ing on Saturday morning and he as
we'll as Chairman Pearson talked
plainly and right from the shoulder
There were many expressions of ap-
proval from those who attended the
| meeting and repeated assurance that
they could be depended upon to do
their part. President Kelly has num-
erous letters from other of the field
workers who could not be present,
each giving definite promise of as
sistance in the various districts. The
men and women who form the local
teams in each district will be aided by
two special men from headquarters.
Working together they are expected to
cover the ground more quickly and
systematically.
| While, as has been explained by
President Kelly, there is no portion OF
the present debt of $4,000 that could
have been avoided, the college authori.
ties felt that some assurance should
be extended that similar debt will
not pile up at once to tax the generos
ity of the institutions friends. With
this in mind the board of trustees
adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is the sentiment
of this board that no building or per
manent improvement obligation shall
be undertaken in the future without
first having provided the funds with
which to fully complete said improve
ment; it being understood that only
emergency matters connected with
college administration may be as
sumed'
/ Success Of May Day.
Everyone at Earlham feels that Fri
day was the most important day il
the history of the college The two
evening performances of "A Midsum
mer Might and "The Masque o
Queens" wer given with the same sue
lcess and under the same happy condi
tions that marked the afternoon pro
gram. While no definite figures car
be had. it is estimated that there
were from 1000 to $500 visitors or
the campus during the afternoon, and
possibly 1000 at night The total re
ceipts from May Day have not beer
tabuiated because Of various outstand
ing accounts, but it seems certai,
that the admission fees and subscrip
tons, to the students May Day fund
will exceed $4,000. It ID hoped thaI
when every account IL closed tha'
there may be $4,000 realized from Ma,
Day. 1t was announced that s., 300 Il
pledges have already been received. u
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