Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-06-05
STATE MEMORIAL FOR
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
State and County organizations Fer
fected. Work Will Start On
fine.
What The Memorial Will BE.

and sailors of the State will be IN the
form of Memorial Hall, building
with three distinctive features to be
known as the Court Of Honor, the
War Musuem and the Reunion Hall.
1t will be built after. the Memorial
Fund has been raised by popular
subscription in the city and location
decided upon by the vote of the State
Committee composed of the Chairmen
from the 50 Counties of the State.
The architectural details will be
determined under the advisement of
the National Memorial Association of
which ex-President Wm. H. Taft is
the honorary Chairman.
What The Memorial Will Contain.
The Court of Honor will contain a
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 Vet, rams, the Spanish
American War Veterans, the Mothe1s
of Mississippi and others.
In addition there will be recorded
in permanent form, the personnel of
every Mississippi War Organization
such as the Red Cross, the Draft
Boards, the Councils of Defense, the
Liberty Loan Organizations and all
others required to make a complete
record of those who added to The War
achievements of our State. Here
will also be recorded the name of
every subscriber to the Memorial
Fund.
This Court of Honor will be tie
purely commemorative or memorial
feature of the Memorial Hall.
The War Museum will contain a
collection of the War relics of Missis-
sippi from every war in which she
has taken part in addition to dis
play of the complete equipment of
the American soldiers in the World
War as we'll as those of our Allies and
the conquered foe. Cannon, machine
guns, aircraft, war and regimental
flags, historic war documents, trophies
captured by the soldiers of Mississippi,
portraits of our War Heroes and in
fact everything of historic interest and
value bearing on the war history of
Mississippi.
The War Museum will be the educa-
tional and historic feature of the
Memorial Hall.
The Hall of Reunion. This sec
tion Of the building will be equipped
with every modern accessory in the
way of great stage, lighting effects,
etc, and with seating capacity OF
several thousand people. This is the
practical utility feature of the Mem
orial and fill long felt want in our
State for a building sufficiently spac-
ious to accommodate our great reunion,
conventions and all other public gath
erings.
What The Memorial Will Mean.
A Memorial of this type and of the
architectural beauty and proportions
proposed will constitute tribute to
All of our boys by All of our people
that shall be equal to the worlds
greatest Memorials and its erection
will be an achievement Of which Mis-
sissippi may we'll be proud.
1t will mean a Memorial worthy OF
the name and commensurate with the
great and noble traditions which it is
intended to immortalize.
It will mean temple that shall not
only be commemoration of the serv-
ice and sacrifice of our brave boys
and of our gratitude to God for their
victory but also an ever-ascendlng
prayer for the future peace of the
world for which they gave their all.
It will mean above all that the great
of Mississippi HAS NOT FORGOT
TEN and that in her heart and men,
ory her sons shall'live forever.
No man or woman who is a true
son or daughter of Mississippi can
fail to respond to the appeal of the
Memorial cause nor to realize that 1T
is an honor and privilege to help to
make the erection of our Hall of
Blessed Memories possible.
Let your name be one of those re-
corded in the Court of Honor as one
of those WHO DID NOT FORGET.
Mississippi Memorial Fund Cam
paign June 26th to July 9th, 1919.