Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1922-10-18
Plans Under Way
For Library Drive
In State


wide campaign for the new Memorial
Library will be launched. The drive
will embrace every town, village and
community in this little State and the
hundred or more teams and commit
tees are ready for the word. From
Wilmington the plans are being
spread broadcast, and for the past
few days the offices of Perry Burgess,
the Director of the Campaign have
been full of activity and hustle in
preparation for the Inauguration of
the Drive on the Goth. Newark has
already shown the way gloriously
and the rest of the State seems to
have caught the real spirit of the
project and from all reports will give
it's full measure for the great Memo
rial to the soldier dead of Delaware.
This campaign, suggested by DR..
Walter Hullihen, president of the
University, and taken up and fostered
by the alumni will be inaugurated at
dinner meeting at the Hotel dupont
on October goth. The drive will close
on October 9th.
On Sunday, October 22d, from the
pulpit or rostrum of every place of
worship in the State, sermons or ref
erences will be made to the cam
paign by the clergy of all creeds, who
have pledged their support to the
movement.
On Saturday afternoon the thou
sands of school children of Whining
ton will assemble in Brandywine Park,
where DR.. Hullihen, Judge George
Gray and other prominent men will
address them. The Boy Scouts will
act as guards for the occasion. In
Georgetown another meeting of citi-
zens will be held and plans are also
being made for big meeting at Do
yer. In other towns and communi-
ties of the State similar meetings are
being planned.
The library building, the designs
for which have not been approved by
the. trustees of the University will
contain tablet containing the names
OF the Delaware men who gave their
lives, an illumined volume giving their
histories, war trophies and the honor
rolls bearing the signatures of every
man, woman and child who gave to
the campaign. These honor rolls will
be distributed to every school. lodge.
factory, civic society and organiza-
ton.
Everett c. Johnson, chairman of the
Alumni Committee which is plotting
the campaign, and Josiah Marvel.
chairman of the Executive Committee
directing the active work of the drive,
are both DESTROYS that every resident
of the State shall be represented in
the memorial
DR.. Walter Hullihen, president of
the University of Delaware has sum-
married. for hasty readers what the
library campaign" is, how the money
will be spent, etc. He says:
"Of the. 100000 sougn, probably
$230,000 will be spent on the building
and grounds; $4,000 on much needed
books and $4,000 will be set aside as
permanent endowment for the library
to prevent its becoming an added ex-
pense to the taxpayers of the State.
"The library will be called the Del
aware Memorial Library and the sup
port of every organization in the
State will be sought to make this the
whole States memorial to the citizens
of Delaware who lost their lives in the
great war.
"a central memorial hall will con-
. tain bronze tablet with the names
:. of Delawareans who died in service.
. GA handsome hand illumined vol
ume will contain one page devoted to
. the life history of each person whose
: name appears on the tablet.
! ga section of the library will be
devoted to books relating to the war
] and our connection with it.
ga section will be devoted to books
of value to the teachers of the public
schools of the State. Arrangements
: will be made to send these books by
/ mail on request to any teacher in
|. the State. The Superintendent OF
|. Public instruction viii be a member
|. of committee which will determine
|. what books shall be placed in this de.
|. partment.
|. "The funds for the expenses of the
/ campaign have already been secured
|. so that every dollar contributed will
+ go to the Library Fund"
+ SOUNDED LIKE ICE WATER"