The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-03-03
TRANSATLANTIC WILL
CONDUCT CAMPAIGN
FAMOUS OLD LEXINGTON COL.
LEcE OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH
WILL PUT ON EDUCATION.
AL DRIVE.
IN INTER-CHURCH MOVEMENT
Needs for Ensuing Year and for the
Next Five Years Stated by
Or. crossfield.

Lexington, Ky.-Transylvania Col
lege, famous old institution Of the
Christian Church in Kentucky, first
college In the country west of the AL
leghenles, Is conducting a campaign of
education, so that the people of Ken
lucky and of the Christian Church IN
the State may know something of the
college and its needs. The campaign
is preliminary to the national cam
paign of the Inter Church World Move
ment, which will come later in the
year, and which is designed to make,
possible the increase of salaries Of
college professors, and to place their
living conditions on a proper plane,
besides needed improvements, includ.
ing fire-proof library building.
An organization is being perfected
to conduct the educational campaign,
and DR.. II. II. Crossfield, president of
the college, has made a statement of
the needs of the college for the com
ing year and for the next five years.
These needs have been fixed at $685.
124 for the year. and $2,454,953 for
the next five years, from estimates
which he presented at the Inter
Church World Movement committee
meeting in Atlantic City in January,
and later Mt the st. Louis Conference.
Brady State Director.
Charles A. Brady, of New York City.
one of the best known organizers in
church and war work campaigns in the
east, has come to Lexington and has
taken charge of the work as State Di-
rector.
DIR. CrOsstield has already called at
tention to the pressing needs of Tran
sylvania, including funds sufficient to
Increase the salaries of the professors
80 per cent; fire-proof building for
TRANSFORMERS old and priceless H.
brary; funds to pay off outstanding in
debtedness of the college; a new dor
mitOry for women; new lighting
plant; physics buildings; gymna-
stun and swimming pool for Hamilton
College; a fine arts building at that
college; funds to repair Morrison
Chapel and to provide an athletic field.
The work of Campaign Director
Brady will he done with the aid
executive committee, composedf
Hume Logan, Of Louisville, Chi
w. G. Lawwlll, of Lexingt
chairman; Clarence L. Tate,
ford Rev. Homer w. Carn
Richmond; James r. Bush,
chairman; Joseph w. Porter,
of minute men; ]. r. Vance, treas
Leonard G. Cox, President Il. II. Cross.-
field, Rev. 1. j. Spencer and DIR. ]. Z.
Carrick.
District Chalrmen Named.
District chairmen have been selected
and they have charge OF the organiza-
ton of the counties in their respective
districts as follows:
]. ]. Castleberry, Mayfield; f. S.
Smith, Hopklnsvllle; L. A. Warren,
Hodgenville; II. I. Young, Mt. Yer
non; Carl Agee, Lawrenceburg Edgar
G. Riley, Petersburg, and Donald G.
Ford, Ashland.
The district directors are actively a.
work to secure county chairmen, and
each county will be organized for
thorough campaign among the dlsci-
pies in Kentucky, as well as among
the alumni of Pennsylvania, Hamilton
College and the College of the Bible,
many of whom are now living in, and
are prosperous and useful citizens of,
other states.
TRANSFORMERS forward campaign Is
being made in connection with the In
ter-Church World Movement, and the
college gets thus early into the field so
that the people of the Christian
churches of Kentucky may be better
informed as to the remarkable college
they have at Lexington (Which has ed
ucated more than 90 per cent of its
ministers in Kentucky who have hal
college trainlng), and as to its needs,
before they are asked to contribute to |
the funds to put 1t in position to
keep abreast with the progressive
times educatlOnally.