The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-29
Many have asked:

Many have asked
 What Is the Ellen Wilson Memorial, and what does it signify?"
 In word the project is explained by it's legal title: The Ellen Wilson Fund for the Christian Education of Mountain Youth The design is simple: To create. by gifts. small and great, from the American people who desire to honor the memory of this noble woman perma- nent endowment, the income from which shall be used always for the education. in some one of the schools already ex- isting in the southern mountains, of girls and boys who would not otherwise have an opportunity for the larger life and patriotism which Christian educa- tion represents.
 In most attractively written article in current periodical under the head of "The Memorial to Mrs. Woodrow Will son. William T. Ellis says:
 There was something dramatic and heroic in the passing of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. All during her life her thought was of others; and the pillow of her last sleep was made smooth by a special law rushed through Congress to meet her desire for the amelioration of the living conditions of Washington's poor. The imagination delights to dwell upon that scene: A serene woman fronting the mystery, with her old-fashioned religious principles expressing themselves in solci- tude for social service. the close se- clusion which had sacredly enwrapped her domestic life unveiled for the mo- ment. that all the nations sympathy might be enlisted, not for the dying woman or for her dear ones but for the poor who had no helper: the great Amer ican Congress chivalrously responding to the wish of one woman.
 That such high message and mission of womanhood should be perpetuated was at once obvious, All over the land arose simultaneous and spontaneous sugges- tions for a memorial to Mrs. Wilson But the ideal plan. and the practicable one. was suggested by the group of women who best understood her purposes and principles, little company in the south land, workers in the church into which she had been born and in which she had been trained. Their proposal. which has met with the hearty approval of the President and of the other members of Mrs. Wilson's family. is a memorial to be built not of marble or of bronze but of warm and powerful human life.'
 Those at the helm, those who are working for the success of "the Ellen Wilson Memorial'' have set forth in their plan for its execution these thoughts:
 While the statesman of the White House was busy with the cares of his great office his devoted companion was led to think of this splendid and neglected element in the life of the nation.
 With a woman's unerring intuition her heart was enlisted In the uplift of the children of these stranded millions. When she saw her vision she was not disobe- dient to 1t. but threw herself with sacrifi- cial earnestness into it's call.
 It is a far cry from the White House and DuPont circle and the wide Potomac to the black mountains. and the lonely valleys and the limpid streams that rush under dark pines and rhodorendrons.
 The lady of the White House could for get state occasions and social duties while her heart made long pilgrimages to sym pathize with the poor children of the dark valleys and the gloomy outlook.
 She loved them and her heart yearned for their welfare.
 She surrendered her heart to her Master in passion to serve them.
 It was given to her to see the vision of their need, and to taste somewhat of the joy of ministering to it.
 Many boys and girls were having their opportunity for education and many weary teachers were heartened In their lonely life by Mrs. Wilson's generous in- terest in them
 With her heart inspired by this noble task she fell asleep, leaving its compile tion to others who lave needy children.
 It is now proposed that the women of America undertake the ful6llment of Mrs Wilson's dream as memorial to her.
 To that end movement has been launched to establish an, endowment to be known as s'The Ellen Wilson fund for the Christian education of mountain youth.
 The proposal has received the unquali- fled approval of President Wilton and his family, and the Ellen Wilson Memorial