1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

132 THE SCROLLcould accept. And China gave the commission to the man unknownin London, Paris and New York financial circles. It is related inthe public prints that the money has been going forward as neededby China and it seems likely that Mr. Jackson will be able to meetthe terms of the offer he made China when he sent the message"There's $50,000,000 waiting for the Chinese Republic now and asmany more millions as it requires in the future, if it will havethem." And the arbitrators of the world's affairs, the great bankersof the world, backed by the foreign offices of all the great nations,had their second setting down of the year 1912. While the Balkansmay have to. come in and make terms in the years to come, it will notbe surprising if great sleeping China when she does wake up, willhave resources ample for all her needs and she may for all time escapethe clutches of those who have twice missed their hold on her.A. Wendell Jackson, the new figure in finance, was born in Massachusettsbut may be regarded as a product of California where hisparents settled when he was a lad. Quick to adapt himself to circumstanceshe grasped a college education which came his way bymeans of a scholarship offered by the University of California. Goingin strong for an. education when once started in that line hestudied at Freiburg and Leipsic and was called to a chair by. hisalma mater before he finished his work for his degrees. Full ofthe spirit of the west Mr. Jackson in time became a promoter andafter campaigns in the United States, Russia, Persia and Japan,the field in China appealed to him and it was his connection withaffairs in China which paved the way for the deal which upset theplans of six great nations and the money kings of the world.A. W. Jackson was a member of the class of 1874 at the Universityof California and is an alumnus member of the CaliforniaAlpha of Phi Delta Theta. His son Roland P. Jackson, Columbia,'02, is a member of-the, New York Delta chapter. There are twoother grown sons, one of them a Harvard alumnus. Mrs. Jacksonhas recently been in New York. If the financial world does not calltoo loudly for Brother Jackson, the family will continue to makeits home in Tokio. No doubt China will show her appreciation asshe always does for kindly deeds and A. Wendell Jackson, trainedas he is in engiiieering, may be a great factor in developing thehidden wealth of the reborn nation of China.ORVILLE L. SIMMONS, Purdue, '93,BAIRD'S NEW MANUAL OF FRATERNITIESBAIRD'S MANUAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE FRATERNITIES ; A DescriptiveAnalysis of the Fraternity System in the Colleges of the United States, witha Detailed Account of Each Fraternity. By Wm. Raimond Baird. SeventhEdition. Neir York: The College Fraternity Publishing Company. 1912.Cloth, pp. xiii ~\- 801. Order from the Editor of THE SCROLL; price, $2.50,prepaid.