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- ETTA PHILLIPS MACPHIE

CAROLYN PULLING

principal of which might be used for loans to chapters to build houses
or for loans to needy members, the interest to be used to run the maga-
zine. To get sufficient interest it was necessary to increase the life
subscription to $15. This life subscription was not based on the plan
of any other sorority; in fact, I was not aware that any sorority had
anything of the sort.

"Then the idea of compulsory life subscriptions came into existence.
It had several points to recommend it—the fund would increase rapidly
and benefit the fraternity; the alumna would be glad to have the matter
of subscribing settled for all times; the business manager would not
waste time and money writing for annual subscriptions.

"The Executive Committee was willing that this plan be submitted
at the Syracuse convention, 1919, so the business manager sent letters
to each chapter explaining the plan and saying that it was to be voted
upon in June. The plan was adopted at that convention, and a com-
mittee appointed to elect trustees for the fund and to make rules for its
management. Mrs. Mullan was chairman of that committee, and how
she awed us with her legal knowledge of trust funds and her so-called
Corpus I and Corpus I I ! "

_« Yours fraternally,
DEAR EDITOR:
CAROLYN PULLING

"Since early childhood, the word 'loyalty' always has aroused in me
an attitude of attention. However, once, after I had heeded the appe3'
of certain persons at a certain convention, I found that loyalty ( o r
effect of the intense heat) had played a serious and almost too strenu-
ous game with me, and before I hardly realized it, the first issue under
my editorship was about to appear. It was a great undertaking, for my
predecessor, Mary Ellen Chase, had done a wonderful piece of work
with the magazine and too, the finances were extremely low.