The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-12
GENERAL ORDERS
 ISSUED BY OWEN
Commander : in . Chief United
 Sons Confederate Veterans
REPORT ON MEMORIAL
Committee of Three to Have Charge of Work for the Woman's Memorial. Southern Press Is Asked
 to Lend Aid.

" G~fd FNihs
 Montgomery. September 11.-(Special) J. General Orders No. F of the commander in chief of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans. Dr. Thomas M Owen of this city, have been Issued. They contain the report of George w. Duncan of Auburn, from the committee on the formation of memorial to the women of the Con federacy The report follows:
 Auburn. Ala. September TO- 1906
 Dr. Thomas NJ. Owen. Commander in
 Chief United Sons of Confederate Yet
 erans, Montgomery. Ala.
 Sir:-Y our special committed appointed May II, 1906, by direction of the eleventh annual reunion convention in New Or leans, April 26, 1906 and to whom was referred. for Investigation and report, cer- tain resolutions by R E. L. Bynum. Commander Army of the Tennessee de- partment, at the said reunion convention, has the honor to report herewith the result of it's delibera tions. For the sake of clearness and fullness the resolutions are herein set out at length as follows.
 Resolved, 1. That the suggestions of the Women's Memorial committee, as to form of the memorial, be adopted.
 70 That the suggestion that the chair man of the Womens Memorial com miSee. having charge of the funds be required to give bond, in such sum as the commander In chief may determine, be adopted and enforced.
 ''S That the work heretofore prose- cuted by General c. Irvine Walker meets our approval, and that he be urged to continue the same We call upon every camp and every commander to give him every assistance and all aid in bring Ing to a successful conclusion the holy work, to which we have solemnly pledged ourselves.
 | Committee of Three. q. That each division commander shall appoint a committee of three from his his division, to have charge of and stim- ulate the work for the Women's me- morlal That these committees shall have power to appoint sub-eommittees. They shall report and be responsible to the general Women's Memorial committee.
 "5 That we request the entire press of the south to join us and aid to the full extent of it's power, the movement for the Womens meroal."
 As further conducive to a better and clearer understanding of the "sugges- tions' of the Women's Memorial con- mittee as to the form of the memorial' it is deemed advisable to set forth in de- tall its recommendations thereon which are as follows:
 After much reflection. l have come to the conclusion that the time has come for us to decide the form our memorial should assume Many suggestions have been made to me from time to time, and | I have considered all of them. Personally, I would prefer a college a hospital or some useful institution emblamatic of wo- mems work. but the fact that such an institution would require large endow- ment. renders this in my judgment, lm- practicable The plan suggested by Gen. C. Irvine Walker, and mentioned in eX- hibit IF filed with his report appears to me as being most attractive, and for my part I recommend that this plan, or some thing similar. be adopted"
 As a necessary part of the report of the committee the following extract from Exhibit "Fs' of the report of General Walker is given, viz.:
 "To reconcile the conflicting interests and wishes, to give each state it's monu- ment and make them all the universal tribute of the entire south, and do this by giving each state the highest and most brilliant design of high art the following plan is suggested. Let the committee ln- vite the artists of the world to compete and submit magnificent and artistic de- signs for a statue or group of statues In bronze, emblematic of the herosm of 
 most appropriate and purchase the model. The amount raised by the combined effort of the south would enable the committee to offer enough, say S25 000, to secure a truly great design. No local or state movement is apt to be able to do this. The cost of such work Is the value of the artistic conception, not the mere bronze casting from the model, which is mechanical. Having secured this great model from it could be made, at a com- paratively trifng cost, sufficient casts in bronze to enable the committee to fur nish at least one to each of the Con- federate states In making such cast ings, any size may be made from the model Life size, if to be placed upon a low pedestal, and heroic size to be placed upon a lofty one Then in each of the Confederate states the committee could place one of these grand and highly ar tistic statues upon a pedastal in the state capital or such other city within it's borders as may be determined There would be no single original cast and copies therefrom but all would be from the same model and all be equal in ar tistic value and originality. There would not be an original in Atlanta and a copy in Montgomery, but both cities would have originals.
 Variety Is (WhatO
 "The variation in the pedestals would make variety sufficient to relieve any of the monotony of similarity. But the