The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-12-17
COM, CLUB TALKS
COMMISSION FORM
CITY GOVERNMENT BY COMMITS
SION is ONE OF THE TOPICS
AT MONTHLY MEETING
PRESIDENT PERSH0 MAKES A TALK
On the Needs of the State College and
Tells What the Legislature Will
Be Asked to Do-Other Business

Last Friday evening was the regu-
lar meeting night for the Commercial
Club, but on account of the p%resenta-
ton of the Messiah at the college the
session was postponed until Tuesday
evening of this week.
The meeting was called to order by
President Hyde about eight-thirty.
The president asked Charles E. Hall,
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee, for a report On the committees
work. Mr.. Hall said that the club had
entertained about -four hundred visit
ors at lunch On All-Brookings County
Day, at a comparatively small cost to
the organization. The club also enter
tanned on Tuesday noon of this week
the visitors from out of the city who
were here to attend tn Legislative
Day program at the college.
Prof. Starring reported that the
Hobo Day pictures are now being rout-
ed over the state. They already have
seventeen engagements and a good
many others are expected to be sched-
uled.
Mr.. Hall made a brief report on the
Hobo Day expenses. The moving pic
lures cost 1887 and they drew 1912 in
this city. 1t is expected that they will
pay for themselves before their tour of
the state is completed. Too much
credit could not be given to Prof.
Starring, said Mr.. Hall, for his work
in handling the difficult task of get
ting them shown around'the state. Mr..
Hall said that the club would be asked
to consider later the question of add
ing five or six hundred feet to the film
to illustrate some departments of the
college that were not in the first set of
pictures and also the question of buy
ing a machine to show them at con-
ventions, stock shows and other
gatherings in the state. The expenses
of Hobo Day, beside the moving pic
lures, were 1912, the football game
alone costing $811, and the receipts
were slightly more than the expendi-
lures.
Chairman Poole of the membership
committee reported that a number of
new members had been taken in dur
ing the month. President Hyde asked
the members to put in some work on
the membership campaign and try t.
bring the list up to 200 by the first of
the year. The number of members in
good standing at the present time is
181.
Prof. Browning reported that the col
lege boys were looking up rates with
a view of taking $50 cadets and a so
piece band to the worlds fair at San
Francisco.
President Perisho addressed the
club OF the needs of the State College.
as they will be presented to the legis-
lature next month. First DR.. Perisho
thanked the club for it's hearty sup
port of the various college activities.
In presenting his report on the needs
of the college he first read what the
faculty had decided the institution
really should nave and followed this
up with a statement of what the re-
gents would recommend that the legis-
lature give. The faculty decided that
there should be an increase in the
maintenance fund, al increase in the
salary fund to provide for needed in
%structors, and some new buildings.
Among the latter are an addition to
the girls dormitory, a dining hall, a
farm implement building, and the COM
pletion of the administration building.
DR.. Perisho explained the institutions
great need Of each particular item
and we feel sure that If he made the
same kind of a talk to the legislature
that body could not help but grant
his requests. The recommendations
of the regents did not vary greatly
from the estimate of the faculty and
showed that the board is sensible of
the colleges needs.
Regent Dwight of Sioux Falls, VINO
vas present explained that the board
recognized the demands of the college
and had tried to do it justice, but of
course, there are six other educational
institutions in the state with similar
needs and demands.
Chairman Cheever Of the campaign
committee made his nnal report and
the balance In the fund wa turned