Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-08-16
STUDENTS WANT TO
HEAR OTHER SIDE
Petition President Coates For
An Address In Opposition To
Two Amendments

tive side of the proposition to
vote two constitutional amend
ments in the state at the coming
election.
Walter k. Sullivan. of Whitley
county, one of the student leaders
is one of the opposition leaders to
the amendments at the Normal,
and IS said to have prepared him
self to discuss the subject. The
students desire to hear him and
have petitioncd President Coates
asking that he be allowed to
speak, in view of the fact tha
several addresses have alrc;
been made in favor of the amend
mcnts i'll the Normal chapel.
Notwithstanding this fact. SEN
timent. as shown by the vote i'll
chapel Saturday. is said to be ov-
crwhelming y against the amend
ments, one of which proposes to
take the election of the State
School Superintendent out of the
hands of the people. and permit
him to be named by the governor
or Il commission named by the
GOVERNOR and the other proposes
to take 10 per cent Of the states
school funl and put it i'll the
hanls of the school department
at Frankfort to administer.
Supt. George Colvin is said to
have been requested to come here
to make an address to the stu
dents in an effort to COunteraCt
the growing opposition to his pet
measures among the men and
women who will soon return to
their homes to conduct their
home schools.
The petition which has been
signed by the students asking
that they be permitted to hear
the other side OF the question:
is as follows:
To the President Of f.. X. S. \. S.
We. the undersigned members
OF the student body of L. X. s. n.
S., seeing through the eyes OF our
imagination, the magnificent ar
ray of 100000 Kentucky school
children. and having their inter
est at heart. having heard the af-
Grmative side of the proposed
amendments to the constitution
discussed. and feeling that, in or
der to vote intelligcntly, we
should hear the negative side dis
cusscd, hereby petition your hon
or to give us the benefit of fur
ther discussion by our fellow
student. Walter X. Sullivan.
Cleo Carlisle. Eva Simth. Mary
Lovelace. Elizabeth Highield,
MAY Smith. Sadie Hurley. Easter
Taylor. Ruth Stout. Haley Wake
field. Anna Laura Atkins, Esther
l.. Gschwind, LucHe T. HARRISON.
Marie Daniels. Bernicc Conlcc.
Rose A. Brennan. Villa Tyrec.
Laura Jones, Arlie Ncsta Shep-
herd. Gladys Lucille Shepherd,
Della Reed Berry, Pauline Davis,
Maudc Blair, Wilma Thomas. vi
ola Thomas. Margaret Hall, Fan
ME Worthington. Oma Lewis.
Gaynelle Richardson. Mrs. w. s.
Zeysing. Bertis Willis, Mrs. \,
NJ. Shelton. Carrie II. Rogers. Al
ice Bell, Aline May. Margaret
Stark. Jewell Matherly. Gladys
Wheatlev. Dorcas Short, Pearl
Moore. Kathleen Jones. Blanche
IIvden. Ruth Warman, Hecln
Wesley. Evelyn Ellison, Amanda
Newell. Flora Sothard. Laura
Foley. Nellie Watins. Clara Sun
derland. Maude f. Wilson. Helen
Huffman. l.. d. Cochran. +. b.
Dawson, Thelma Williams. Rena
Henson. Beatrice Tucker. Dorcas
Williams, Elizabeth North. Ida
Ueltschi. Martha Graham. Mar
garet Johnson, Flossie Bellamy
hike Burns, bessie ellis, Ola b
Hoskins. Belva Short, Eta Bry-
apt. T. f. oIFuch. ]. Birman. T.
Gibbs, Josephine Dettwiller. Lii
liam Lee, Daisy d. Dettwiller
frankie Payne Tabitha Hiatt
Eliza M. Hanson, Myrtle Bryant
Elizabeth Perry. Emma Osborn
Florence Conrad, Anna M. Eckle1
Della M. Douglas, Martha Girls
som, Ida Nj. Andrews, Eugenia
O. Stewart. Mary Wallnigford
Agnes Chandler, II. E. Ellington
Maude Hyden. Sylvia May Myers
Effie Hazelwood, Mary Stephen
son. Ruth DAZZLING, Alec Waller
Wilella Hance, Ethel Stark, Mary
Colston, Leah Ducke, Tillie Dal
ton, Nellie Matherly, Iowa Wal
inford. Margaret l.. Moss. Ger
trude Tussey, Make A. Caudill
Ruth Lane, Sunbeam Ruble
Lola Burkes. Lillian Kromrey
Elizabeth Chadwick. Agatll;