The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-06-05
STATE MEMORIAL TO
\ WORLD WAR VETS
EVERY MisslsslPPiAN SHOULD
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TO SELECT LOCATION LATER

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Half I Million Dollars to Be Spent In
Erection OF Great Building to Per- !;
petuate History Of States
Part in War.
Jackson, Miss. mississippi will em-
bark the last week in June upon a
campaign TO raise half million dol,
lars for the building of State Memo
rial to her sons who served during the
World War.
This state was the first in the Union
to lay plans for thus honoring its sol
diers and sailors.
The drive will begin June rs and
conclude July 5. County quotas have
been worked out, based upon the num-
Der Of men from the counties who en-,
listed in the army or navy.
The states plan for Memorial Hall,
to be built at some point yet to be Sc
lected, was born in this city early this
year, when prominent men from all
sections gathered here and decided a
state memorial would not only pay a
! more appropriate tribute to the states
soldiers, but would also guarantee that
every man who served would be hon.
ored
The county or city memorial plan,
it was felt, not only frequently result
ed in small, inartistic, and Mappropri-
ate memorials, but also in injustice,
! az one town might honor its soldier
sons with memorial, while its neigh
boring city, with just as many heroes,
might leave them without memorial.
Honors All Alike.
The state memorial provides for the
preservation of the name of every Mis-.
eissippi fighter in eternal bronze, and
the name of every war worker and con-
tributor to the memorial fund In
bound volumes.
r. Z. Remington Of Jackson was
elected state chairman at the first
meeting, with B. w Griffith Of Vicks.
burg as vice-chairman, E. l.. Bailey,
.Jackson,s secretary, and J. T. Thomas
of Grenada, treasurer.
follows:
First, Judge J. @. Robins, Tupelo;
| second, Judge d. M. Kimbrough, Ok
ford; third, General S. R. Keesler,
| Greenwood; fourth, A. T. Stovall, Oko.
Iona; fifth, H. M. Quin. Meridian;
sixth, r. L. Simpson, Gulfport; sew.
| enth, T. Brady, Jr.; eighth, J. T. Saw.
/ age, Jackson.
! The selection of county chairman
was made entirely by the district
chairman, in order that the memorial
plan might be free Of any sectional
iftaint. County chairmen have been
chosen for their ability as leaders, and
their response to the call to service
+! has been most enthusiastic.
| H. NJ. K. Smith, of New York. is
campaign manager for the drive. Mr.
! Smith is well-known in Mississippi,
where he served as state campaign
manager in the Red Cross drive, in
| which Mississippi subscribed $780,
| O00 the largest over-subscription re-
corded during the war for any state.
Many Approve Plans.
Approval of the plan for a Memorial
Iah has come from former President
William Howard Taft, member of the
national committee on memorials;
| from Secretary of War Newton D. Ba.
ker, who wrote an enthusiastic letter OF
endorsement: United States Senators
John Sharp Williams and Pat Harri-
son; former United States Senator
| James X. Vardaman; from the four
candidates for governor, and from fra.
ternal and religious organizations all
over the state.
Here, in compact form, is told the
story Of what the memorial will be:
The Mississippi state memorial to be
erected in honor OF the soldiers and
sailors OF the state will be in the form
Of Memorial Hall, a building with
three distinctive features, to be known
as the Court of Honor, the War Mu.
scum and the Reunion Hall.
It will be built after the memorial
fund has been raised by popular sub.
scription, and the city in which u is
to be located will be chosen by the
| votes Of the 80 county chairmen.
The architectural details will be de
termined under the advisement of the
National Memorial Association, OF
which ex-President William H. TAFT is
the honorary chairman.
The Court Of Honor.
The Court Of Honor will contain q
bronze panel OF heroic proportions for
each county Of the state. upon which
will be inscribed the name OF every
man who entered the army or navy
from that county, and his record.
In the Court of Honor there will
also be memorial tablets in honor OF
the Confederate veterans, the Span,
;sh-American war veterans, the Moth,
ers Of Mississippi, and others.
In addition there will be recorded in
permanent form the personnel Of ev,
cry Mississippi war organization, such
as the Red Cross, the Draft Boards,
the Councils for Defense, Liberty Loan
organizations, and all others required
to make . complete record Of those
who added to the war achievements of
our state. Here also will be recorded