of at least one share of stock. This, it is believed, will give that broad interest in the permanent features of the project and liberal management which can only be secured through many alumni being financially as well as fraternally interested. The work of distributing the stock among the alumni has gone rapidly forward; up to the present time the number of shares sold has totaled several hundred. Nearly two thousand dollars in cash has already been paid in and on July 1 of this year one thousand dollars was paid as the first installment of the purchase price of the lot bought several months previous on contract for $4,500. This is a splendid corner lot, situate only two short blocks from the campus, 104 by 136 feet, and only a short block from the center of fraternity activity in Ann Arbor. It is proposed to erect on this lot a large and spacious three-story brick and stone house of colonial design. The plans for the structure have already been prepared by a Detroit architect, and the total cost, including the price of the lot, is to be between $22,000 and $25,000. There will be studies and sleeping apartments to accommodate twenty men, and occupying part of the building will be the Memorial Hall, dedicated to the General Fraternity, and for which the last National Convention generously appropriated the sum of $500. It has been decided to make the campaign for the remainder of the money necessary to the project this coming winter. To start operations we must have $10,000 at least, and it is confidently expected that ground will be broken in the spring of 1908. To insure this early realization of our plans, it will be necessary for many Phi Delta Phis, and especially the alumni of Kent Chapter, to subscribe for the stock of the corporation at an early date, and to boom the project whenever the opportunity affords. There are nearly 10,000 Phis in the country, and if each one would become interested the result can readily be seen. Plans are now being perfected and an active canvass for the amount necessary will soon be under way. We of Kent have firm faith in the loyalty of alumni to the Fraternity and to the parent chapter, and sincerely hope that in these columns a year hence we may extend to you an invitation to be one of the housewarming party that will at the same time dedicate the new home and re-affirm the bonds of affection and friendship. B. S. P. OUTSIDE SUBSCRIPTIONS. To start the ball rolling among alumni of other chapters, the editor of THE BRIEF, being an alumnus of Cooley, hereby subscribes for one share of stock, and will volunteer to act as a promoter and acknowledge remittances in these columns, and forward them to the treasurer of Kent Building Company. After Kent has been provided for, and put on a paying basis, we can incorporate other similar companies for other chapters. IN KANSAS. A member of Green Chapter contributes what is doubtless "the latest" concerning college men who turn farm hands in the West, instead of flunkying down east, to earn a few dollars against the next scholastic year: Up in Saline County at the last election was a young woman running for the office of Superintendent of Schools. She had a hard fight and she knew it. So she took a horse and buggy and went across country electioneering among the farmers as she met them. One day just before noon she drew up. to a wheatfield where twenty college men were working at the harvest. She was the center of interest for the moment and the men gathered around her. "I want all you men to vote for me," she began. "What are you going to do for us?" called out one of the men. "I'll be a good official," she replied. "That ain't enough. Can you cook?" came back from the group. "Yes, I can cook." "Well, we've been living on men's cooking for two weeks out here în harvest, and if you want us to vote for you, cook us a woman's meal." "I'll do it. Where's your cook shack?" she replied, and alighted from her buggy. She prepared a hearty meal for the harvest crew, and was elected by a majority of eighteen, so that meal was not cooked in vain. HAS THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THE BY WARREN TUBBS.1 The problem which is here proposed was not raised directly by the recent difficulties in California now brought to a settlement. No effort was there made to absolutely exclude Japanese subjects from the public schools. However, as we shall see, certain questions there in dispute remain to be considered in this somewhat narrowed field. It is fortunate that we may draw upon the spirit of that controversy to animate this discussion. Furthermore, the race problem in California was not settled by the recent compromise. As one understands how intense is the hatred toward all Oriental peoples on the Pacific coast, it is perhaps not too much to apprehend that the next indication of aversion will be the expulsion of all Japanese from California public schools. This enmity manifestly takes its rise from an economic cause. Native Californians now see, as they have for a generation, on the overcrowded shores of the eastern Pacific, men of another race and civilization impelled outward by an economic law which knows not political boundaries. They believe an industrial competition is threatening which will affect the domination of the Pacific coast. It is, therefore, this motive of self-defense, mingled perhaps with an unreasoned race prejudice, as evidenced in state law and ordinance, which again and again comes in contact with the treaty agreements of the nation. The facts as we here conceive them would immediately introduce an international problem. More than this, because of a singular provision of our national Constitution making treaties of the force of statute law, we would be confronted with a domestic question involving a definition of federal and state rights. This thesis was awarded the first Daniel Thesis Prize of $100 in the contest last spring at the Buffalo Law School. Three of the four graduation prizes were won by Phi Delta Phis. |