Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-10
MEMORIAL SAN
To WAR MOTHER RS
IS LOCAL DREAM
Twenty Million Dollars
Sought as Endowment
Fund for Token of Service
to Cause of America.
BY KoRA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


Have you seen the newest addi-
ton to Albuquerque, out on the
mesa. north of the university? A
great group Of spreading white
buildings, rambling around patios
and placitas, with walks winding in
and out, tall poplars ripping in the
wind, tamerack hedges with their
purple plumes swaying softly In the
wind and over all the melloWlnS
sun of New Mexico.
A dream city yet to be. A city
of the sick. Nothing was ever a
reality until someone visualized 1t
in his Imagination - the dream
came first.
To build memorial to the war
mothers of America; a memorial
of service, not cold pile of gran
lite and polished brass, but great
friendly hospital, a house of mercy
for the eX-service man of America,
the man to whom we owe the pres
ervation of our countrys ideals. A
memorial concentrating also the
greatest service-sacrifice mother
ever made when she gave her sons
to her country in war-this is the
dream of Major J. II. Toulouse of
Albuquerque. Here is the plan, so
replete with possibilities yet so
practicable, so wide in its scope and
so humanitarian in its purpose that
it seems bound to carry itself to
completion by its own momentum
Twenty million dollars is the sum
set to endow this memorial OF serY-
ice. With an income, from this
endowment, of eight hundred thou
sand dollars year, this memorial
can, within two years, have a plant
worth a million and a half and be
ready for use.
Major Toulouse goes east in a few
days on an organization trip. His
first objective will be the organ
ization of O. national board of direc-
tors for the memorial association,
after which a man of national rep
utation will be selected to be re-
sponsible for the money. With the
of the organization an
appeal will be made to all ex-serv-
ice men to pledge themselves for
one dollar year each for five
years. 1t is expected that at least
fifty per cent of the boys will want
to be in on this, which will mean
ten million dollars, Major Tou-
louise realizes that the man selected
TO handle this money must be ma
known, man whose name
will inspire the utmost confidence
mall citizens of the country. Such
A man has already been approa ched
on the subject, a man at the head
Of one of the great banking institu-
lions with resources of S150,000,- |
300.
A woman internationally known
IS considering the proposition of
becoming the first chairman of the |
board and other women of national
prominence have been approached |
iond have all become intensely in
crested in the project.
The plan is make the hospital of |
service to all ex-service men or
heir relatives. 1t will be the great
est institution of its kind in the
world, each state will have its unit
md it's usefulness and scope viii
indeed be national.
Viewing the plan from all angles,
who Is there who will say that it
AN not and may not be done?
Where is there a patriotic citizen
n America who will object to
a memorial to the war
of the nation? True times
ire hard, money is scarce, but the
harder the times, the scarcer the
the Greater the necessity
Nhe idea is rich with possibilities
Is a matter of fact, no man will say
lay to the project. AS the nation
;rasps the idea the nation will
espond. 1t is the greatest idea for
. memorial ever proposed, a me-
norial with a heart, built for serv-
ce commemorative the heroism,
he fortitude and the patriotism of
he most loyal body of American
itizens, the War Mothers Of our
ountry.