Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1920 — URGED TO JOIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION [ARTICLE]

URGED TO JOIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Lafayette, Ind., April 6.—More than 3,000 or approximately a third of the farmer students at Purdue University who did not graduate, have been located during the last few weeks' by cards sent from the university. The great majority of these are in Indiana and are scattered in every county of the state. The task of locating the I men was the first step in a cam- 1 paign fpr a state-wide organization of alumni which has been under- ' taken by the Purdue Union in co-: operation with the general alumni association. In connection with the campaign, more than 400 letters were sent to Purdue alumni and former students; in every county of the state today, outlining plans for the formation of ■ county alumni associations and setting forth what the union and' alumni association will do to help! perfect the organizations. Special; letters also went to leaders in the associations already formed such as Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Gary and elsewhere. All these outlined the general plans of organization which will be earned out in the state during the coming month so that all the local ozonizations may observe “Perdue Day’ May 6, the 51st anniversary of the organization of the university. Efforts will be made to locate the remainder of nearly 10,000 former students as quickly as possible, and as these men who have had a year or more at the university are eligible to membership in the alumni associations an effort will be made to enlist their support. A thorough state-wide organization is the first step in the plan to complete the Purdue Union campaign this year for a half million dollar war memorial building which will serve as a student building.

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. Washington, D. C. April 6. The results of the Michigan presidential primary upset all calcula- ; tions in both parties. The Johnson I victory has put the California senator “on the map” as a formidable contender for the Republican nomination. The blow to the Wood candidacy is admitted by the general’s managers here. Democrats here were not greatly pleased at the popularity of Mr. Hoover in their primaries, though according to some views the small vote polled deprived the contest of much of its significance. —o — Charges that “Prussian” methods are employed at the public health hospital service at Forty-seventh street and Drexel boulevard, Chicago, were made in the house by Representative Madden, who read a letter from H. J. Margolis in which the writer asserted that conditions are “terrible.” —o Brig. Gen. W. W. Harts was un- , der fire before a subcommittee of, the house war investigating committee because of conditions in army prisons around Paris. He was in charge of the Paris district, which included the prison -where “Hardboiled” Smith was in charge. General Harts defended his administration of the district. —o—- — compromise on the pay 'bill which will provide increased pay for the' army as well as the navy is probable as a result of the fight made by Representative Britten of Illinois. —o—- \ Rerpresentative Porter of Pennsylvania, chairman . of the house i committee on foreign affairs, submitted a report to the house from the committee Urging the adoption of the peace resolution and defending its constitutionality. -