COUNCIL FUND CLOSE PUT OFF

Appealing "for at least five dollars" from all students financially able to pay it, the officers of the Student Council last night announced that the current budget drive would be extended till Wednesday, October 29.

The later date was set to give contributors more time to "get the money together," it was explained. Reports on the progress of the drive in the Yard and the Houses will appear periodically in the CRIMSON.

The Councillors emphasized the urgency of donations from everyone, whether he made a pledge at registration or not. Heavier demands on Council funds are being made already by charities, scholarship applicants, and war relief groups, according to Treasurer John P. Bunker '42.

The Community Fund, called "one of the many destinations for Council money," is nevertheless an important one, it was stated, and greater emphasis is being placed on it in the individual door-to-door contacts. Lack of enthusiasm in the upper classes was scored, but Bunker pointed out that the disparity in total pledges is partly explained by the fact that the Freshman class is the largest, nearly twice the size of the Senior group.

Upperclassmen as well as Yardlings are receiving appeals from a large squad of solicitors who have been warned against "high-pressure methods"; the idea is to explain instead what the money can accomplish and why it is so vitally needed. Commuters cannot be contacted personally but they will be sent bills. However, if they wish to pay their pledge now they can do so by seeing the secretary at Phillips Brooks House.

Council secretary Loren G. MacKinney '42 reported that a new mailbox has been placed outside the Council office in Phillips Brooks House and urged that undergraduates use it for any ideas or suggestions they may have for the Council or any of its committees.