Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-01-07
Woodrow Wilson Foundat on

Reno. Nevada, December 81. Ne
vada is ready to begin on January 10
its campaign to honor Woodrow Vii
! son and to raise its share OF fund TO
perpetuate his ideals through the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Prae-
tically every section OF the state has
been organized with committees OF
men and women of prominence, and
beginning on the third Monday OF
January "the opportunity will be given
ior this state to express tangibly its
faith in the liberal ideals and in the
world democracy for which Wood
row has been the chief spokesman
Announcement to this effect came
today from the office OF William
Woodburn, chairman OF the Founda
ton in this state. In part the an
nouncement is as follows:
The national free-will offering to-
ward an endowment OF Sl,00o,O00 or
more to provide, through the Wood
row Wilson Foundation periodic
awards for "meritorious service 70
democracy, public welfare, liberal
thought or peace through justice is
to begin in this state and other states
OF the county on January 10. Prac-
tically every state is ORGANIZED aud
ready for the opening day of sub
scriptions-taking.
Each state has been divided into dis
tricts with men and women appoint
ees accepting the responsibility OF
taking care of the campaign in their
own localities. Hundreds OF friends
of the former administration, friends
Of the broad idealism which Mr., Viii
son bespoke, Democrats, Independent
and Republicans alike, have become
parties to this movement to establish
in America awards somewhat akin to
the Nobel Prizes"
"The opportunity to contribute to
the Foundation comes almost exactly
year after the plan to render tri-
butte to Mr.. Wilson was proposed.
On Christmas eve, 1920, a group OF
women meeting at the home of Mrs.
Charles L. Tiffany, in New Yorv out
lined plan to honor the man who was
two months later to leave the White
House after eight of the most mo-
mentous years of the worlds history.
They did not doubt what would be
the verdict of history with reference
to Mr.. Wilson. Rather it was their
intention to steal march on history,
! to honor an American while he was
still living.
"The plan was discussed with friends
of Mr.. Wilson and was first made pub
lie at a great winters day meeting at
New York hotel. Since that time
the purpose of the Foundation has
been defined in the following terms:
"Created in recognition of the ma
tional and international services OF
| Woodrow Wilson, twice President OF
the United States, who furthered the
cause of human freedom and was in
strumental in pointing out effective
methods for the cooperation OF the
liberal forces of man kind throughout
the world
1.-THE Award or Awards from the
income of the Foundation will be made
from time to time by nationally
constituted committee to the individual
or group that has rendered within a
specified period, meritorious service
to democracy, public welfare liberal
thought or peace through Justice >
''ln this state, and throughout the
country, drive methods will not be
pursued in the campaign. 1t is the
feeling of the organization that such
an appeal will not be necessary and
that the spirit of those who first con-
ceived the plan will be best served by
seeing to it that the work everywhere
takes the form of a. free-will offering
the organization has been developed
| throughout the state on a large scale
merely to make certain that the widest
possible representation will have the
opportunity of becoming founders OF
the endowment.
"To all who subscribe to the founda-
ton certificate is to be given. The
central figure of this is portrait of
Woodrow Wilson.
"At recent meeting of the Ma
tional Committee of the Foundation
held in New York and attended by
representatives from all parts OF the
country final steps for the actual work
of January were taken The Com
mittee on Permanent Organization has
recommended that a Board of Trus-
tees consisting of IS members have
charge of the fund. investing what is