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EDITORIALS
IT H E CONVENTION
T HAS become impossible in view of present events and circum-
stances to give any definite or explicit announcements concerning
convention. Plans like prices are "subject to change without notice"
these days, and all we can promise you is that the moment the
Executive Committee decides as to what is best to be done in view
of unforeseen happenings you shall be notified, either individually
or through your chapter. Meanwhile committees are still holding
sessions, and plans are still being made, as you will note in the pages
following. I f it shall seem best to hold but a business session—why,
we shall all gladly save our eagerness and enthusiasm for a future
convention, for in these days of nation-wide anxiety and distress
our country is first, and our fraternity but an impetus to our
patriotism.
WT H E SPECIAL T R A I N
I L L delegates and visitors to convention who live west or in did not see fit to announce a most happy event to the To DRAGMA
the vicinity of Chisago please notify Mrs. Abraham Hen-
nings, 817 S. 6th Ave., Maywood, Illinois, of their plans by June 1st
at the latest. Mrs. Hennings has kindly consented to attend to the
matter of an A O I I Special, providing there are one hundred travelers
leaving Chicago for Lynchburg, or, i f there are less than that number,
to engage special Pullmans on the regular train. She must, however,
know your plans early in order to make reservations. Of course, you
want to go "with the best crowd." Then don't neglect or delay that
letter to Mrs. Hennings, and she in return will notify you as to the
time and place of leaving Chicago for Lynchburg.
T H E CHANGED DATE
f N V I E W of existing war conditions, it has been thought best to
shorten the length of convention. The dates are now June 21st-
23rd. The first date coming on Thursday, and the first business
session being set for Thursday morning, it will be necessary that all
delegates arrive in Lynchburg on Wednesday. The convention will
close, as is announced elsewhere, with a banquet on Saturday evening.
WT H t SEPTEMBER NUMBER
H E N the present Editor comments upon the September num-
ber of T o DRAGMA, she is not presuming upon reelection.
She is simply outlining plans which must perforce be carried out
whoever may be editor. I n view of the fact that the Constitution
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demands the September number to consist of a directory, and of the
added fact that we have grown enormously during the past two years,
there will be no room for September chapter letters, unless To
DRAGMA is endowed during the summer which is unlikely in the
extreme! Therefore, the present Editor is taking the liberty of
announcing that .>ere will be no chapter letters, that a complete
directory will be published, and that the space remaining in that
number will be devoted to convention material and to "material
exclusively Alpha Omicron Pi."
IT H E N E W DIRECTORY
F T H E R E is a thankless and difficult job on earth, it is compiling
a directory, especially so since dreams of the criticisms you
will receive when your work is done hover about your bent form and
ink-stained fingers. Do you, gentle reader, realize whose fault it is
if the name of Mary Smith bears no address, or i f her possession
of a husband is entirely overlooked? I t is hers, because she did not
send the changed address to her chapter secretary, and because she
Editor, the Registrar, or the Grand Secretary. Sometimes, we know
all too well, chapter secretaries are careless. I f Mary Smith is
suspicious, she should address the Registrar, whose duty, poor thing,
is to compile the directory. Then her correct address will follow
her name, and she will be spared the disgust and disappointment
of seeing herself still an accredited spinster! Please, oh, please, do
not blame the Editor and Registrar! Now is the time to send in
those new addresses, to announce those new husbands! Please do not
delay!
DL I F E SUBSCRIPTIONS
OUBTLESS there will be brought up in Convention many
matters quite as important as that of life subscriptions to
To DRAGMA ; but the Editor admits she can see nothing which quite
equals it. I f we are to do national alumna? work—and is not now
the time to do it when every bit of service is so needed?—To
DRAGMA must be self-supporting, and only compulsory life subscrip-
tions can make it so. The present plan is to make the subscription
ten dollars, a very generous price, and to collect this ten dollars
through the chapter treasurers in yearly payments of two and one-
half dollars per member. This sum will be used to defray the
yearly expenses of the magazine, while alumnae life subscriptions at
ten dollars down will be set aside at interest to make a permanent
magazine fund. Please talk over this plan at your chapter meetings,