Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
FOR
OCLETHORPE
At WORK
Hundred Workers for $25O,OOO
University Fund Enthusiastic
ally Launch Canvass,


Quite a long while ago somebody
said something about striking while
the iron was hot. and that valuable
advice was adhered to- Saturday
morning in a most impressive man.
ner when the Oglethorpe Committee
of one Hundred got together to plan
the $4,000 campaign.
They struck. and struck hard, and
| they planned to keep on striking.
Take one example from the adj
dress of Captain J. w. English.
Now is the time" Captain Eng
lish said, when the working commit
tee had been named Now is the
time, and to illustrate what this
thing means to Atlanta, even IL you
| take it in a purely commercial way,
| want to call your attention TO
something.
"The present status of the currency
| bill at Washington looks like a df-
vision of four regional banks. That
| being the case, the. contest in every
section will be sharp and fierce FOR
the location of a bank. New Or
leans is sure to press Atlanta hard
| for the Southeastern bank, that will
make of the city in which 1t is To-
Gated a great money center for the
section.
Gentlemen. If we can in the next
| few days turn up couple of hundred
thousand dollars in subscriptions to
! this great cause of education, don't
! ha Will
found effect in favor of the argu-
ment for locating that great regional
| bank here?
| Gentlemen, let's go to work."
Fourteen Committees Chosen.
That was Just one phase of the
question, but it drew prolonged APP
plause from the members of the Com
mittee of One Hundred, who already
We're at work.
Captain English called the commit
tee to order at IL o'clock in the as
sembly room of the Chamber of Com
merce. Ivan E. Allen, from his knowl-
edge of the cause and what had been
done, was asked to conduct the bust
ness of appointing the committees to
serve with the 20 chairmen in the
| fund campaign.
1t was expected only to mention
the names of the chairmen and get
from them suggestions of men they
wished to serve with them. But the
meeting ran clear away from that in
the first ten minutes
| The Chairmen wanted to get to
work. They turned in so many sug
gestions for helpers, and the helpers
assented so heartily, that in less than
| 80 minutes fourteen of the twenty
committees We're complete, and names
were piling up for the other six, to
| be apportioned as soon as possible.
That was the way that Committee
of One Hundred went at it, No chair
man appointed the working commit
tees-the Committee of one Hundred
did it, and it was good job.
| And then Mr.. Allen cut loose a fiery
| little speech. and told the commit
| tees all about what they We're to do
ond how they We're to go at it, and
then he gave out their assignments"
To Double Old Amounts.
| on the table were LOO cards, each
card bearing the name and amount of
| the old subscription made nine years
ago to found another university in
Atlanta plan that fell through by
no fault of Atlanta,
The cards were made up in packets
! of go each, and two packets were
"One hundred and twenty names
| apiece said Mr.. Allen. Now, go
| to it-and make EN- double up. One
! man came to me the other day and
said; I want to get in this thing be-
fore those committees get after me-
Nothing doing in the bargain line
] told him, and asked what he wanted
! to give. I'll tell you he said, I'll
give the same as my old subscription
| You will not | told him; It'll cost
| you just twice that o-day'
And that's the point" Mr. Allen
went on. This town is twice as rich
and its people are twice as rich as
they were when that other subscrip-
| tion was made
And ii might be remarked in pass
| ing that Mr. Allen who gave $12 TO
| the other fund is down for 81 900 in
| this one, so nobody can accuse him
| Of not practicing what he breaches.
| So the committees were loaded and
| primed, and each got a good earful of
! bracing conversation, and the straight
| tip not to confine their efforts TO the
names on the cards.
| Pretty nearly everybody In Atlanta
is coming through on this deal" Mr..
Allen told them, and we aren't max
| ing any restrictions whatever. We
! have now reached the stage where it's
time to stop talking and do some
thing"
! Five Years to Pay
| The terms were easy, the commit
! tees were told. Five years would ne
allowed TO those subscribers VINO
wished it-five payments, year apart
or such shorter terms as might be
desired. And then there was another
rousing talk by Captain English and
another by j. r. Gray, of The Jour
nal and a warm commentator OF the
three Atlanta wspapers-Captain
| English said he never had seen such
| inspiring unanimity on any project
before and he had watched the va
rious projects Of Atlanta since the
! time when his totale arthly posses
! sons consisted OF IA ragged shirt,
pair of jeans trousers and two worn
! brOgan shoes
II didn't take more than an hour
all told. and then the meeting broke
up with a round OF handclapplng and
| a lot OF handshaking, too, and the
committees were instructed to meet
at 1890 o'clock Monday for a spec',I
! luncheon on the second floor OF the