Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-06-06
s1ATEMEnOR|AL 70 .
WORLD WAR VETS
EVERY MisslssiPPlAN. SHOULD
BE PROUD OF OUR GALLANT
5oYs' ACHIEVEMENTS.
TO SELECT LOCATION LATER
Hairs Million Dollars TO Be spent In
Erectlon Of Great Building to Per. =
pstuats History OF States
Part In War.

! Jackson. iss-Mississippi will en-
bark the last week In June upon a
campaign to raise half q 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 s. 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 So
lected. waseborn In this city early this
year, when prominent men from all
sections gathered here and decided Q
state memorial would not only pay q
more appropriate tribute to the states
soldiers, but would also guarantee that
every man who served would be hon
orcd.
The county or city memorial plan,
it was felt. not only frequently result
ed In small, insutistic, and inapproprt-
ate memorials, but also In injustice.
a. one town might honor its soldier
sons with . memorial, while its neigh
boring city. with Just as many heroes.
might leavesthsm, without memorial.
tsonors' All Alike.
The states memorial provides for the
preservation of the name of every Mis-
tissippi fighter in eternal bronze, and
the name ioflsvery war worker and con
tributoy to- the memorial fund In
bronze bound volumes.
r. E. Remington Of Jackson was
elected state chairman at the first
meeting, with kB. W. Griffith Of Vicks-
burg ,as vicechairman. E. L. Bailey.
Jackson, secretary. and J. I. Thomas
Of Grenada. treasurer.
District chairmsn were named ~
follows:
First. Judge J. Q. Robins. Tupelo;
second Judge d. M Kimbrough. Ok
ford: third, General s. r. Keesler.
Greenwood; fourth, A. T Stovali, Oko'
Iona; fifth. H. M. Quin, Meridian;
sixth, R. L. Simpson. Gulfport; sew
snth. T. Brady. Jr.; eighth, J. 7. Sav.
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
faint. County chairmen have been
chosen for their ability as leaders, and
their response to the call to service
has been most enthusiastic.
H. M. X. Smith. Of New York, II
campaign manager for the drive. Mr.
Smith IL well-known In Mississippi.
where he served as state campaign
manager in the Red Cross drive, in
which Mississippi subscribed $780,
600, the largest ever-subscription re-
corded during the war for any state.
Many Approve Plans.
Approval of the plan for Memorial
Hall 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 Harrt.
son: former United States Senator
James X. Vardaman; from the four
candidates for governor, and from fra
tsrnal 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 q Memorial Hail. q building with
three distinctive features, to be known
as the Court OF Honor, the War Mu'
scum and the Reunion Hall.
1t will be built after the memorial
| fund has been raised by popular sub
scription, and the city in which n is
to be located will be chosen by the
votes Of the 50 county chairmen.
The architectural details will be de.
tsrmined under the advisement of the
National Memorial Association, OF
which ex-President William H. Taft Ia
the honorary chairman.
The Court Of Honor.
The Court of Honor will contain G
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-Amsrican war veterans, the Moth
ers Of Mississippi, and others.
| In addition there will be recorded ir
permanent form the personnel Of ~
cry Mississippi war organization, sucl
~ the Red Cross, the Draft Boards
the Councils for Defense. Liberty Loar
organisations, and all others required
to make complete record Of those
who added to the war achievements o.