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MONROE COUNTY MEMORIAL FUND CAMPAIGN OPENS NEXT MONDAYA GREAT MASS MEETING WILL BE HELDlt; ^ ...TUESDAY EVENING ON PUBLICSQUARE4One hundred yearn ago next Mon-j lay, on April 17, 1X22, work was j begun on the first building at IndianaiUniversity on the old campus. That task then begun has resulted, as the years have passed, in a material equipment of which we are nil proud and in a university which ranks second to none in the Middle West. During this period many of our own folks whose names we all know and respect, showed their loyalty and their love for our university by contributions of service and money. Perhaps none of them dreamed in those years gone by how great would be the result of their interest tnd labor. That which they sowed in faith, we and our children are reaping today in oducatonal advantages.Next Monday, just one hundred years later, the Monroe County Memorial Fund Campaign officially darts, and for the first time in a :entury, every man, woman and child has an opportunity to enroll in this great company of the living and the lead who gave in the past that we night profit in the present.Headquarters will be established on !he south side of the public square tomorrow. The Hughes Brothers ?ompany has offered the use of a •'ample portable garage for this purpose. Members of tVn^ Memorial Committee will be in attendance at all times. Monday and Tuesday of next week will be set aside as the time for naking unsolicited contributions and ill who desire to pledge without being lolicited by the committee at their homes are requested to call at the headquarters and fill out pledge blanks during those two days. Information relating to any phase of he memorial project or of the method if pledging and paying will be fur-lished at the headquarters.At seven o’clock next Tuesdayevening there will be a great mas# meeting on the public square at which no pledges will be solicited but when we shall have a chance to give vent to our enthusiasm. With the university and town bands, with the snging• ^ * *of the school children and with several snappy talks we ought to be able to equal the great mass meeting held on the campus on March 1 after which the students set about to oversubscribe the campus quota of $400,000 in the record breaking time of thirty hours. Can the county oversubscribe its quota of $200,000 in thirty hours?Jim Adams, the young college student who was in the thick of the fight overseas and who deserves a place in Indiana’s Hall of Fame for his masterful leadership at the campus meeting, will strike the key* note. Doctor Kellems, who has been conducting remarkable cvangelisticalservices at the Kirkwood Avenufe Christian church, will point the way to a broader field of service for this community through its educational institution. lt;Tho morning following the mass meeting committees of men and women will begin the work of the personal solicitation of every man, woman and child in the community who has hot already pledgdctl It i#not the intention of the committee vie deprive any one of the. privilege of making a contribution to the memorial fund. The committee expresses the hope that every one will answer this question, “Can Iafford not* to' part!memorial dedicated to the memory ofthe men and Women who offered• _ ' . * • •/ **'*. *•.** ■ ; • * lt;•themselves on the altar of their country in order that the world might be a better and safer piece lit which to live? The right 'answer will assure a memorial worthy Of their sacrifice.
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Bloomington Evening World
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 14, 1922
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