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MAY, 1930

feelings were mine, but you will have to take them for granted, as I

do.
"As a mother who cannot remember the smart sayings of her own

boys, in their baby days, I shall have to be excused for not going into
details. My memory of the To DRAGMA work is largely of the sessions
.Mary Ellen and I held in our own little living room on South Third Ave-
nue, in Bozeman, Mont., in a struggle to affect a compromise between our
desires and our financial ability, and, as usual, it resulted in our having
what we could, instead of what we wanted. Then there is a memory
of a recurring worry as to whether there would be quite money enough
for the next number—but somehow there always was. I remember the
arrival of bulky envelopes of proof sheets and subscription lists for ad-
ditions and corrections. Those were the days when previous training
in a country newspaper office was a matter for thanksgiving! I re-
member working at a small desk, and at the same time, if not exactly
rocking the cradle, at least keeping an occasional eye on the clock to
see that nap time and play time were kept somewhere near to schedule,
and to prevent too frequent visits to the apple tree that bore its tempting
fruit just out of sight of the living room window.—And this spring the
boy graduates from "prep" school and the business managership of his
school paper! But all the memories are not of work and worry. There
is a warm and loving memory of the friendships, formed, some only by
correspondence, it is true, but friendships, nevertheless, with national
and chapter officers. Even now I think with gratitude and fraternal
affection of some of the chapter business managers, whose promptness
and helpfulness eased the burden of care. The names on the subscrip-
tion list became endowed with personalities, as letters went back and
forth, and welcome remembrances came from hither and yon.

"The work brought with it full compensation in the widening of my
fraternity horizon, and in the happy satisfaction it brought of being an
active participant, though a humble one, in the splendid 'working group'
of the fraternal circle. It is a lasting compensation, too, for the feeling
of understanding interest is still there, and each issue of To DRAGMA
is anticipated with keen pleasure. It has been a great satisfaction to
watch the steady growth and improvement of our magazine, and it
now stands as a splendid testimony of the efficiency of those who came
after my brief terms of office."

Fraternally, as always,

"PEGGY" SCHOPPE

DEAR EDITOR:

" I am afraid I will be unable to give you a very good article about
the life subscription plan. I went to the attic this afternoon and into
my letter files. I expected to find in my To DRAGMA files material for
such an article but, alas, it wasn't there, and I haven't a good memory.

"I do recall this much, however, that when I became business ifUitt*
ager, Mary Ellen Chase, the editor, and I offered life subscriptions at
$10. Later the idea came to me that we might create a fund, the