The Adair County news., 1922-04-25
WILL HONOR HEROES
Commonwealth of Kentucky To
Raise Funds For Memorial
Building at Lexington

will be the object of thousands of
men, women and children of the State
during the week Of AL-il 1923 when
they Sc out to raise 100000 for a
memorial building.
Names of the 1866 VINO died will be
placed on the bronze tablets in the
building which will be used daily as
a chapel and union by thousands of
young people from evrey section of
Kentucky attending the State Univer-
Sity at Lexington. Records of Ken
Vatehcitizens and of those in the mill
tary service, will be kept there in ad-
dition to war trophies.
An army Of 10000 school children
will start out Monday, April "a, to
raise one dollar each. The plaU was
endorsed by State Superintendent
George COlvin and the Kentucky Edu-
cStiOnal Association at its annual
meeting in Louisville Superinten-
dents, principals and teachers have
been requested to assume direction of
the school children's soliciting, acting
as treasurer aid either turning in the
funds to the woman County Chairman
or sending them to State Headquar-
terS, 210 Fifth Street, Louisville.
Governor Morrow's proclamation
follows:
Those who have not forgotten the
courage Of the living and the glorious
sacrifice of the dead; those who re-
member the soldiers of the great war
who offered and gave themselves for
US, will during the week Of April o.
- conduct throughout Kentucky a
campaign to raise $500, 900 for the pur-
pose of erecting at the University of
Kentucky a memorial chapel to per-
Petuate the lives and deeds and SER
vices Of the Ameican soldiers of the
great war.
"The University of the Common
wealth is linked with the young man.
hood Of Kentucky, and il is there
fore fitting that on such q spot there
should stand a memorial to the cour-
ageous youth Of our State. No real
monument or other memorial has been
erected In kentucky for this purpose
thus far. ! am, therefore, confident
that this appeal will reach the heart
and the purse Of the patriotic citizens
Of the State. We honor ourselves
when we honor those who died for US.
We make certain that she spirit of
yesterday will live throughout our TO-
merroWs il We honor courage and no
bility and sacrifice.
al, therefore, set aside the week Of
April 1929 as War Memorial Week,
and call upon the men and women of
Kentucky, the sons and daughters Of
the Republic, those who inherit and hold
all for which the dead have died to
lend their hearts and hands to the
success Of this campaign. The living
offered and the dead gave their lives.
We can give out Of that which God
has given to US that the memory Of
their deeds shall abide forever with
US"
James c. Wilson, Of Louisville, who
was one Of the most successful direc-
tors Of Liberty Loan campaigns In
the South, has been appointed State
Chairman for this campaign.
The following poem, dedicating the
Kentucky Memorial Building to the
fallen heroes, winner Of L statewide
contest, was written by Mrs. Eleanor
Duncan Wood, Of MaysviIle:
Dear Motherland, Kentucky, here we
bring
The names of these thy sons who
nobly died.
Who for Thy sake and Freedoms put
aside
Young Love, and Lusty Life, and Call
of Spring,
And strobe down Deaths dark ways
adventuring.
We cannot bring them back; we can
not give
To their young eyes the joy of SUM-
rise, nor
To eager ears that call they hardened
for
The cardinal among the hills of home
They live
But in our heartS-and these are
fugitive.
We shall go down to dust even as
they.
So to Thy Heart, Kentucky, bring we
now
These deathless names. A corOnet for
thy brow
Bestowed, and Beautiful. And thou
shalt pay
Unending honor till Times latest day.
And it shall be throughout the coming
years
Young hearts shall proudly read these
hero-names
And feel within their own the sacred
flames,
"We1l live for what they died fer
spite Of fears"
So faith shall spring once more from
blood and tears.
Keep safe these names; Thy sons who
would not save
Themselves at price of Liberty and
Thee