The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
Wonderful Opportunity for
Roswell and Cobb County
WILL GIVE BULLOCK
HOME FOR INSTITUTE
To Ask Roosevelt Memorial Associa-
ton to Establish and Main
tain School for Boys

1t is now probably that Roswell
will be honored and blessed with one
of the greatest schools in the south,
to be known as the Roosevelt Mem
orial Institute, located upon the prop
! erty of the old Bulloch home, the
birth place of Theodore Roosevelt's
mother
Even before these lines are printed
it is hoped that fund sufficient to
purchase the old home will have/been
raised in Cobb county, and the place
\ offered to the National Roosevelt
Memorial Association as a location
of a Memorial Institute. Should this
be accepted, some half million dollars
would be expended in buildings and
equipment, and not only would it be
maintained, but its funds added to,
from year to year, by admirers of Mr..
Roosevelt all over the world.
1t is certain that if properly man
aged, this will materialize, and in a
very short time become one of the
biggest and most famous schools in
/ the whole county. The plan has
the united support of the whole Goer-
gia committee of the National Roose-
welt Memorial Association, and the
plan for the purchase of the home by
the association has already been IA
forably discussed by members of the
national association, so it is believed
that the offer of the home by Cobb
county for such purpose, will decide
the matter in favor of the establish
ment of a memorial institute there.
A committee from Roswell has Sc
cured ten thousand dollars in that
town for the conditional purchase
and offer of the home, and Marietta
was asked to add five thousand dol
| lars to this, the other five thousand
necessary to be contributed from Mil
ton county, and other sources.
There is no doubt that this will be
done at once. The Roswell commit
tee, consisting of S. Y. Stribling, H.
M. Broadwell, H. P. Carpenter, W.
H. Maxwell, J. l. Wright, H. l. Weav-
err, R. G. Broadwell, E. j. Coleman
and C. B. Doris visited Marietta on
Wednesday afternoon, and were en-
thusiastic for the success of the plans.
These gentlemen did not come to
Marietta begging, but with vision of
what this means to Cobb county and
to Georgia. they came to give Ma
rietta a chance to participate in a
work of which future generations
may we'll be proud. Every cent of
this money could, and would have
been raised in Roswell rather than
miss this golden opportunity, but it
is an honor and pleasure that Mari
eta is able and willing to write her
name in the foundation of such a
school as this is to be.
Is there a Georgian who does not
hope it may become the greatest of
them all? 1t is great vision. Would
not your own grandson fifty years
hence feel a touch of pardonable
pride if he should visit this school
when it had grown to teach ten thou
sand boys, and find his own name
your name-in it's honor roll of the
ones who saw this vision in the
year 1919?
Within a very short time after the
arrival of the Roswell committee
Mayor Brumby had called a council
meeting which endorsed the plan with
the following resolution:
City of Marietta, Oct. 20, 1919.
Be it resolved by the Mayor and
Council of the City of Marietta, in
called meeting assembled, That it is
with great pleasure that we learn of
the proposed establishing of the
Roosevelt Memorial School on the old
Bulloch homestead at Roswell in this
county by the public-spirited and phi
lanthropic citizens of not only Ros-
well, Cobb county and the State of
Georgia, but by the citizens of the
entire United States.
We regard this movement as one
entirely worthy of the respect, help
and encouragement of every citizen
of the county at large; and we as a
municipality and as individuals
pledge our help and support in every
way possible in the building of this
laudable memorial school.
First: 1t is BETTING that such me-
mortal should be built in commemo-
ration of the virtues and true wo-
manhood of Miss Bulloch, afterwards
Mrs. Roosevelt, the mother of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, who was born on. this
historic spot, and in further honor
of her integrity, ability and golden
character which enabled her to bring
up a son who was in every way fitted
for the high office of Chief Magistrate
of the United States Of America.
Second: 1t is IN every way befit-
ting that this pro posed school should
stand as a imminent 10 the ALL