2 THE PHI ALPHA The Call of the Fraternity The Tuttle Hundred By Judge Arthur J. Tuttle Ten brothers have gone over the top for the Tuttle Hundred. Eminent Supreme Archon That is ten have secured twenty or more subscribers to the Endow- To our brothers everywhere: ment Fund of the fraternity. There are sixty-four others, valiant things which they get for the three Everyone in the fraternity is in and true, who are aiming toward the top and in nearly every case dollars, and just as soon as you give they have been getting nearer the goal. The Tuttle Hundred are the favor of the plans to help Sigma Alpha the same things to the members of Epsilon to do bigger and better things S.A.E.'s who have enlisted in behalf of the Endowment Fund and the chapter quiescent then you have than ever before. Our Centralization promised to get at least twenty subscribers to the fund. The entire made it difficult and impossible to Plan was adopted to look after our hundred have not enlisted yet. Twenty-six more are needed to com- collect these annual payments of business in better shape. We have plete the list. There are literally hundreds of S.A.E.'s who could three dollars. wanted to organize the alumni into a I can't believe that any brother who aid in this way and the fund could become in a single day the great closer and more active unit with the does not care enough about Sigma substantial amount it must become in order to carry out the great fraternity; we have wanted to improve Alpha Epsilon to contribute three dol- programme of the fraternity. These Tuttle Hundred men are go- our publications and make the Record lars to the upkeep of the general fra- ing down in our fraternity history for a thousand years to come. The a magazine of credit and send out ternity each year will be worth very record of the Tuttle Hundred men, giving their names and the num- other literature that would interest much to any local organization of ber of subscribers they have obtained, is as follows: the brothers; we have wanted to ac- Sigma Alpha Epsilon. I think it is cumulate a fund with which to build an Over the Top (20 or more) high time that we had a sorting of office for business of the fraternity. Lloyd A. Hammer Arthur H. Kent our membership so that we can find William C. Levere We must have scholarships for our George D. Kimball out which ones of the brothers do care David E. W. Wenstrand Charles H. Richardson students; we must increase the al- enough about Sigma Alpha Epsilon so Flem Hazen, Jr. D. T. James ready wonderful general reputation of Arthur J. Tuttle that they are willing to help to the Paul A. Walker the fraternity. It has not been pos- extent of a few pennies each year. If Going Over the Top (15 to 19) sible to accomplish these big things it were a large sum or an embarrass- Wrenn M. Canfield 18 by dividing up the work and scatter- Lynwood N. Harvey 17 ing sum, I would be opposed to it. I James E. Chapman 18 George Harkins 15 ing it out all over the country, and do not believe in any property test for Frederick L. Bixby 17 leaving it for busy men to do in odd membership in anything that I value. Advancing (10 to 14) hours when they happened to be think- On the other hand, I haven't very much ing about the fraternity. In order to use for members in any organization Leslie S. Bowden 14 Lauren Foreman 11 accomplish this thing it was neces- who simply join and forget all about Franklin B. Thompson 14 P. B. Breneman 10 sary to bring it into the home office it from the time they are initiated un- Ralph A. Schwarz 13 Richard Drake 10 and pay a larger number of people to til the end of their life. I don't see Newman Ebersole 13 Thornton Hardie 10 work at the fraternity business all of that they perform any service except J. D. Turner 12 D. P. Deatrick 10 the time. Now, in order to do this that we have the privilege of listing Graham B. Johnson 11 Fred H. Schroeder 10 bigger, better, necessary thing, it of them in the catalogue and if they course cost a lot of money and a lot accomplish anything worth while we On the Way (5 to 9) more money than we had been spend- share in the glory; but SO far as any Henry C. Mackall 9 Edward Mellus 9 ing. That money had to come from actual service is concerned, we don't Rene P. Banks 8 H. E. Mecredy 8 some place. It seemed difficult and get it from them. While three dollars George W. Kemp 8 Huber Ringgold 8 wrong to place a heavier burden on a year is a small amount, the total re- Luther A. Bennett 7 A. H. Harriss, Jr 7 the young men in college who were sults are worth while. If we can only Vincent C. Baldwin 6 Floyd G. Browne 5 getting their money from their dads. get it without too great expense in To do so seemed particularly wrong collecting it and the way to collect it They're Off (1 to 4) I when ninety per cent of our member- easily is to fix it SO it is worth some- Don R. Almy 4 Albert M. Day 4 ship were out of college, earning some thing; and in order to make it worth J. B. Love, Jr. 4 Grove Stafford 4 money for themselves, and up to date something, we have got to give to the Ralph O. Chick 3 John F. Pruitt 3 had never contributed a single penny members of the chapter national some- Frank J. Julius 3 Hoyt O. Smith 3 to the upkeep of the general fraternity. thing which is not given to the chapter Richard B. Cattell 2 Arthur A Cook 2 Now for the double purpose of keeping quiescent. This is certainly right and Willis B. Dye 2 Courtland Yount 2 up an interest on the part of the just. If you knew how the home office John A. Ayres 1 Glen W. Branan 1 general fraternity, this Chapter Na- was scrimping and working to carry Allen Bridgforth 1 Reginald Coggeshall 1 tional was created with the very small out the centralization plan and do Willard A. Cooke 1 Roy A. Foster 1 dues of three dollars a year; and then these big things for the fraternity H. G. Griswold 1 Harper Kelley 1 in order to make a place for the other without having the expense account G. Buell Pearson 1 O. K. Quivey 1 fellows to reside who are not mem- more than the income, I am sure you A. E. Swanson 1 Horace W. Wilcox 1 bers of the Chapter National they would agree with it in every detail. Roy Wilkinson 1 Leslie D. Williams 1 created the chapter quiescent, which is I have considered the needs of the to be made up of the fellows who do Enlisted fraternity and studied this question not do a single thing in a money way very carefully and I never was more Harry A. Ackerburg T. Gibson Hobbs to support the general fraternity to certain about anything in my life than Stanbery Alderman Clifford F. Pinkham which they belong. Now three dollars I am that the future of Sigma Alpha C. E. Clifton W. M. Sidebotham a year is very small for a full grown Epsilon depends upon fixing it so that Elmer D. Davies R. G. Southworth man to pay to help support a great those who become members of the James G. Frey Gardner H. Townsley organization like Sigma Alpha Epsilon. chapter national enjoy just as many Olin E. Herrett I belong to nearly all of the great rights and privileges in the fraternity fraternal orders, and the dues in prac- Forward as possible and fixing it SO that those tically every one of them is more than who are members of the chapter that. I don't see how the members Join up in the Tuttle Hundred at once. Twenty-six men are quiescent and do not pay anything to of Sigma Alpha Epsilon can hope and the upkeep of the fraternity receive needed at once to complete the one hundred. If you have the spirit expect to belong to the fraternity and nothing except the right to go around show it. If you want to build up the inner structure of the fraternity not pay anything to support it. It looking pretty and wearing their pins here is your chance. Sign the pledge below and start to work: seems to me a most unheard of thing and saying they are members of the to expect these young boys in college fraternity. This may sound unfrater- who are getting their money from nal and uncharitable but I tell you T hereby pledge myself as an S. A. E. to be one of home to bear the whole burden. Why that we have got to be practical shouldn't I contribute a little some- enough in this world to get some bread THE TUTTLE HUNDRED thing for the upkeep of Sigma Alpha and butter to eat and clothes to wear. Epsilon? And three dollars a year is or we are individually failures; and and to secure at least twenty subscriptions to the Endowment Fund of not enough to embarrass anyone. I just so with the fraternity, we must get Sigma Alpha Epsilon. can conceive of a case in which some money enough to pay its expenses or it Signed brother could not pay the three dollars cannot exist and it must spend enough without being embarrassed but we n order to do the things that are worth Address have taken care of that, and if there while or it might better cease to exist. is any brother of that kind the dues The work which is being done by Circular, fraternal tracts, pledges, etc., will be sent from home office can be remitted by the national con- Brother Levere and Brother Chapman on application. vention. at the home office right now is more You have got to figure it out some than I would ask of any slave to do. Mail the above immediately to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Box 254, Evanston, Illinois. way so that these brothers get some- I say that from a standpoint of fra- thing for their three dollars. Now you ternal regard and affection it is my can't do that if you give the brothers duty to lessen their arduous labor just who do not pay the three dollars as much as possible. everything that you give to those who ENDOWMENT THOUGHTS Please do not take offense at any- her. She will appreciate it as much as do pay it. To accomplish this pur- thing I have said. I have visited with The future of Sigma Alpha Epsilon any girl you ever had. pose that the brothers who pay the depends on the success of the Endow- you just as I would if we sat across three dollars and become members of the table from each other. The only ment Fund. It will hold its place as The Endowment Fund is the best the Chapter National get something the great national fraternity if the difference is that then we could watch method ever devised to make S. A. E for it, they are given the right to be Endowment succeeds. Its success will each other's faces and you could do strong and great. What have you done not come from some strange faraway for it? delegates to province conventions, to part of the arguing and if I said any- action of the atmosphere but because national conventions, and to hold office thing which causes a flush to come to in the various organizations of the you individually have done your share. your face I could take it back. I con- You are indebted to your chapter Do it now. fraternity; they are also given the for having enabled you to be an S. A. sider this a very important matter. great right, advantage and privilege E. Pay part of your indebtedness by Even though you do not agree fully Some of the S. A. E.'s who used to of becoming members of the Diome- with me, I urge you to join in with helping it gain an honorable place in boast that Minerva was their best girl dian organization. Now these are the the list of donors to the Endowment us and go along with us. now have a chance to spend $3.00 on Fund.