Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-01
Il MiiIion-DoHar Endoq0ment
For the State University
TTHOUGHTFUL citizens throughout the
State and the South will be cordially

TTHOUGHTFUL citizens throughout the
State and the South will be cordially
! interested in the movement recently
! projected at an alumni conference at the Uni
versity of Georgia to raise million dollars
for the endowment of that institution and
to press it's just claims for more liberal
treatment in Legislative appropriations
These ends must be attained if the Uni
versity is to meet the ever-increasing de-
mands upon it's service and play its right
full part in the Commonwealth his life and
upbuilding. How better can they be sought
than under the leadership OF the loyal
alumni of whom there are more than six
thousand?
These men, residing in every county
and representing every field of endeavor,
have a most inspiring opportunity to carry
the Universty's cause to the hearts of the
rank and file. Theirs is the privilege and
obligation of speaking out as sons OF the
institution that has been in very truth a
fostering mother" not to them alone but
as well to the highest interests of their
! State and their people. Once awaken the
public mind to the real meaning and mis-
sion of the University, and there will be no
difficulty in procuring ample funds for its
upkeep and development. Once let loyal
citizenry understand just what this seat of
education and service signifies to Georgia.
just how essential it is in the march of pros
perity and progress, just how rich and mani
tory and office and home, and never again
will it go begging for justice in endowment
and appropriations.
But as matters stand the University is
grievously handicapped in the work which
it is so eager to do and of which there is
urgent need. 1t has been nineteen years
since it received an appropriation for dormi-
tory building, and fourteen years since it
received a dollar of public funds for build
ing of any kind This is unfair to the faith
full 1aborers in the States chief educational
establishments; it is unfair to the youth OF
Georgia and to the future whose builders
and leaders they must be; it is unfair to
every interest and every ideal of the Com
monwealth.
The Journal believes that well conceived
movement to remedy this unhappy and alto
gether unnecessary condition OF affairs will
meet generous response. At time when
the people of Georgia are thinking more
1ntently than ever before upon the material
and human import of education they as
suredly will not stand Indifferent to their
own State University if it's needs and merits
are brought home to them. The alumni of
the University who recently gathered at
Athens and laid the base OF a campaign for
this purpose are entitled to full-hearted CO.
operation, not only from their comrades
throughout the State but from good citi-
zens ALL and particularly from those whose
official capacity, either as members of the
General Assembly or holders of other pub
TIC trusts, gives them special influence and
responsibility.
1t will be a great day for Georgia when
tne cause thus furroWed comes shining to
harvest. Let every loyal heart and hand
help to speed the contamination.