Arizona republican., 1917-02-11
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
 PLANNED IN FORM IF B|G UNIVERSITY

The mountain folk of Cumberland Gap, where Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee touch sides in in the midst of the wild and rugged Appalachians, are going to lead the country this year in honoring the birthday of Lin- coin.
 They are going to lead; for theirs is the right to lead; they are his own people. They will he hosts to the rest of the nation on February 10, Il and l2, when hundred of notable men and women from every state in the Union gather at Lincoln Memorial University, Cumberland Gap, to pay homage to the mouptain boy, railsplitter, country law yer. President and martyr.
 It will probably be the greatest Lin- coin memorial celebration within the generation In the midst of the giant hills that once echoed back the words of Henry Clay, of Calhoun and Andrew Jackson, in bygone political barbecues, noted men from east and west, north and south-governors senators, edu- cators. preachers, leaders in commerce and in science-will gather to take new thought of the great lesson of his life.
 Inspired by Lincoln
 General .. .. Howard, a Vermonter, founded the college. He caught his in- spiration from the lips of Lincoln. Dur ing the civil war, while they were in conference at the White House, the president indicated Cumberland Gap on a map hanging on the wall and spoke in fervent tones of his affection for the mountaineers who made that region their home.
 General Howard never forgot, and when in later campaign he found himself commanding troops in that viz cinity, he had reason to know that Lin coln's judgment was well founded To Raise $1,000 900
 But the future Lincoln University will be far greater and more widely known, for q movement is on foot, sup ported by some of the foremost men of the country, to secure for it an en- | dowment of s1,000,0 900 and make it what Lincoln would have wished to see it; the gateway to learning for every mountain boy and girl the avenue of escape from the doom of ignorance and l stagnation.
 | Notables to Attend
 | Dr. Hill announced that the govern DTS of entucky, Virginia and Tennessee. i the three states where borders meet at ] Cumberland Gap would deliver ad- 1 dresses of welcome to the gathering of notable men and women who are to at
 tend Among the leaders in public life | ! elebration are the following:
 Governor Mccall, of Massachusetts,; 1 Henry Clews. Adolr-. i1ewishon, Hon. ] Max Pam, John F. Liggett, Hon. Mar tin H. Glynn. former governor of New | York; Hon. Bainbridge Colby, Hon. | Marcus NJ. Marks, President of the 1 Borough of Manhattan, Hon. Jacob M. Dickinson. former secretary of war;
 Hon. Leslie M. Shaw. former secretary | of the treasury; Congressman Joseph l Cannon, of Illinois, Senator William | Alden Smith, of Michigan; Hon. Cha ! Towne. formerly Unised States sen- ator from Minnesota: Hon. Lawrence ! Y. Sherman, Senator from Illinois; l Hon. James F. Watson senator from | Indiano; Hon. Robert l.. owen. senator from Oklahoma: Hon. John K. Shields, | senator from Tennessee; Hon. Charles 1 E. Townsend, senator from Michigan;
 Hon. Jacob F. Meeker. congressman
 from Missouri Hon. George F. Foss,
 congressman from Illinois; |. A. Sci
 berling. president of the Goodyear Tire
 & Rubber Co.,. of Akron. O.; A. L. Gar
 ford. of Eiyria, Ohio, and Thomas Pen
 ney. of Buffalo, Grand Master of the
 masons in New York state.
 Among leading eductors who will at
 tend are the presidents of Roanoke
 college. Wesleyan university, George
 town college. Virginia Polytechnic in-
 stitute, University of Kentucky, Uni
 yersity of South Carolina. Carthage
 college and Moore's Hill college.
 Plans have been made to run special
 trains to Cumberland Gap from New
 York and Chicago on Feberuary 10th.