New Britain herald., 1919-10-15
Churches Will Cooperate and Governor, in Official Proc lamation, Asks Schools to Have Special Exercises.
DESIRE PERMANENT
 MEMORIAL ERECTED

The Roosevelt Memorial associa- ton will observe next week, .begin- ming October 20 and continuing until October 27, with a campaign for members. The schools will observe one day in the week With appropriate exercises. The churches will also be asked to have fitting services Sunday. October 26. The funds released from the money taken in from member ship applications will go towards es- tablishing permanent memorial in honor of the great patriot. This will probably be the foundation for the purpose of carrying on the work of Amcricanization in which Colonel Roosevelt was so much interested
 The purpose of the organization is explained as fOllOwS:
 The organization work of the Roosevelt Memo orial association has progressed to a point where a definite announcement can now be made. Committees composed of men and women of all creeds and political faiths have been formed in all the states. Their members report the same intense interest in the broad idea of perpetuating Roosevelt's character and Americanisn, as is 4sS Oyster Bay, where people from all sections of the country are coming by the thousand to pay respect to his memory.
 The committee feels that the coun- in it's memorial:
 First: A memorial that shall be imm ediate and that will enable the people to record at once and forci- bly, their determination to uphold and maintain the staunch Amcricanism of Theodore Roosevelt.
 Second: Permanent memorials that will, as nearly as possible. per petuate and correctly interpret his character and Amcricanism to future generations.
 State and Local Workers.
 Connecticut committee-William H. Taft, chairman; Joseph w. Alsop, Morgan G. Bulkeley, Marcus H. Hol- comb. Rev. John c. Murray William IT. Putnam. Herbert Knox Smith, Isaac M. Ullman, George w. Wheeler William r. Whitmore, secretary and treasurer
 New Britain ommittee-Edward H. Prior, chairman; Charles F. Smith, A. J. Sloper, George A. Quigley, Rev. H. w. Maicr, B. r. Gaffney, Dugald McMillan, Stanley II. Holmes, John stone Vance, R. +. Healey, secretary and treasurer.
 Officers of Association.
 Honorary presdentS-William H. Taft, Charles E. Hughes.
 Honorary vice prcsidcnts-Henry Cabot Lodge, John Mitchell. A. J. Hart, Hiram w. Johnson, John T. King.
 President-Wiliam Boyce Thomp- son.
 Vice president-William Loeb, Jr.
 Treasurer-Albert H. Wiggins.
 Secretary--IIarry M. Blair.
 Governors Proclamation.
 Hartford, Oct. Ex-Governor Mar GUS H. Holcomb has written a letter to the teachers in Conn necticut schools directing their attention to the pro- posed observance of the birthday an niversary of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt on October 27.
 The governor says:
 Great Apostle of Amcricanism.
 "Oour government established upon the principles formulated in the dec- laration of independence. has become the greatest and most influential re- public in the world. Some question it's pcrmanency. It would seem that this possibility must have been in the mind of Abraham Lincoln when at Gettysburg ill November 1863, he said 1t was for us to resolve that govern ment of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth To insure this it is neces- sary that our people be positively and aggressively loyal to the United States. yT>1.t vi F,,tt, born as to our foreign born citizens, All should be genuinely Americanzed; and the n1ost promising field to com- mence tho work is with our children, The greatest apostle of A,nerieaniza ton or tho present generation was Theodore Roosevelt. He ia dead but his influence lives; and nothing eould be more appropriate than on October t7 next--=his birthdey-to teach the vital principles of ATneficanization to the children in our schools. 1 s,ig-