Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-30
CAMPAIGN OPENS
KARL MATHIE LEADS BIG
DRIVE OF WIS. COLLEGES
ASSOCIATED IN THIS DIST.

Under the direction of Karl Mathie
former superintendent of schools of
Wausau, whose appointment as dis
trict chairman of the Wisconsin Col
leges associated campaign was an
nOunced last week, work of setting up
the campaign organization is being
carried on throughout the district. Mr.
Mathie has opened offices in Room l
of the Hotel Bells, at Wausau, and
has installed his Office force. He is
being assisted by r. l.. Cushing OF
Milwaukee, the district director, who
has but recently returned from fifteen
months overseas.
This section of the state has been
styled district No. 3, and is comprised
of eight counties including Marathon,
Taylor, Clark, Langlade, Lincoln,
Oneida, Price and Villas. Mr.. Mathie
is selecting the various county chair
men and is arranging for a series of
county conferences to be held in each
of the eight counties. These will be
similar to the conference held in Wau-
sau, last week, when the presidents
of the eight colleges affiliated in the
movement were in the city and talked
before a group of representative citi-
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The Wisconsin Colleges associated,
representing On-denominatiOnal and
denOminatiOnal, Catholic and Protest
ant groups, is engaged in a statewide
campaign to acquaint the people of
Wisconsin with the functions, prob
lens and needs of the voluntarily
maintained institutions of the state.
This campaign will eliminate the
Of G <
will be raised to be distributed among
the eight institutions on the basis of
student attendance, and to be used by
them in meeting their respective, i'm
mediate and most pressing needs. The
colleges included are Beloit, North
land, Ripon, Milton, Campion, Carroll,
Marquette and Lawrence.
Leaders of these eight institutions
have forgotten religious differences
and have banded together, to work
hand-in-hand, for advanced education
and training inl leadership which they
recognize as the one solution for the
great social and economic unrest
which permeates the United States to-
day.
This campaign is attracting nation
wide attention. and the advocates of
higher education throughout the
. United States are watching, carefully,
this movement in Wisconsin. Condi-
tiOns arising through the war have
caused the educational institutions of
the country to be in sore straits for
funds. With the war the attendance
at the schools was deminished and
revenue was curtailed. During the
past three years there has been no
construction and no new equipment
provided. With the increased cost of
living there was no funds accessible,
to advance, propOrtiOnately, the sal
aries of the educators. 1t is recog-
nized fact that for years they have
been underpaid. and under present
conditions many of them have been
forced to enter other lines of endeav-
or in order to make living. These
are but a few of the situations the
colleges are facing at present. when
with the men back from war, the en-
rOllment in the institutions throughout
the country is showing an unbeliev-
able increase over any previous year.
Even the heavily endowed institu-
tiOns, which occupy the first ranks
among the colleges of the country, are
being forced to conduct a campaign
for public assistance in order to meet
the present conditions. Harvard Uni
Versity is now making a drive for
$11,OOO.000; Cornell College for $5,-
0O0 900 and Princeton University for
$4,000 900.
IF these great. outstanding institu-
tiOns of learning, with endOwmentS
running into the millions, are forced
to ask for help, what condition must
the smaller colleges be in?" Mr.
Mathie asked. Their plight is even
worse. Wisconsin is famous through
out the world for it's colleges and is
one of the leaders for providing op-
pOrtunities for higher education for
its young people. The residents of the
state are vitality interested in the well
fare of the young men and women,
and | am sure this campaign will be
one of the most successful sever con-
Quoted in the state
Through his position as district
chairman, Mr.. Mathie becomes a men,
ber of the State Executive Committee,
of which J. II. Puelicher, vice-presi-
dent and cashier of the Marshall &
llsley bank. of Milwaukee. is chair
man. He will be intimately asSoci-
ated with Lyman l.. Pierce and c. S.
Ward, the Originators of the intensive