The New York herald., 1922-01-17
GIFTS AND PRAISES
START WILSON FUND
War Victims Family Sends
500 Check for Faith Kept
With the Dead
WOMEN AID CAMPAIGN
Wilson Hour at Town Hall
Marked by Speeches Laud-
ing Former President.

The campaign Of the woodrow VIII
son Foundation to raise an endowment
fund Of s1.0oo,o00 for the establishment
Of annual awards in the name Of the
ex-President for meritorious or distin-
guished public service opened yesterday
with The observance of Wilson Hour
between 1850 and 1880 at tho Town
Hall.
Praise for Mr.. Wilson and his achieve
ments was voiced by Augustus Thomas.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, James W.
Gerard. Henry Morgenthau and Judge
Martin T. Manton. Throughout all the
addresses ran an expression OF hope
for Mr.. Wilson's speedy return to
health.
Mrs. Montgomery Hare. chairman Of
the foundation for New York, presided.
Hamilton Holt. editor of the Imdcpend.
cnt, read a telegram from Mrs. Jo-
sephus Daniels. chairman OF the South
Carolina committee, announcing the re-
ceipt of a check for $10O with the fol-
lowing message:
From the family OF Frank M.
Thompson, who gave his life in the
world war. in defense of world peace,
IN gratitude to Woodrow Wilson for the
iaith he has kept with the dead"
Tribute by Mrs. Gait.
Future monuments to Mr. Wilson will
not be monuments OF gratitude but rep
resent the apologies of q nation, Mrs
Gait said.
Il am not a Democrat" she said
and 1t is because am outside Mr..
Wilson's party that am here. want
AS such. to declare my confidence in his
sincerity. my admiration OF his integ-
rity, my appreciation of the faith and
the vision thai was his; and my pro-
nations that have been heaped upon
him. Some Americans will say. in time !:
Let us build him a monument
When that time comes Woodrow Will
son will not be here. But it will not be
monument of gratitude It will be the
apology of nation. The time to hearten
the man is while he lives"
Mr.. Gerard said that If the world had
Needed Mr.. Wilson war clouds would not
now be hanging over Europe, nor would
the world be torn with animosties. He
added: Woodrow Wilson made US lead
ers Of the world. and then we fell down.
need him.
Judge Manton, who arrived late, ex-
planned that he was delayed by the flood
of subscriptions to the foundation. In
mis- speech he made a reference to the
case OF Senator Truman Fl. Newberry of
Michigan and declared that the same in
fluences that had worked to defeat the
Treaty OF Versailles worked to permit
Senator Newberry to retain his scat.
Prominent Persons Present..
Among those present at the meeting
were Cleveland II. Dodge. Frank ]. Cobb,
stephen +. Duggan, Mrs. j. Malcolm
Forbes, Edwin T. Gay. Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise and Mrs. Charles Tiffany.
In a statement regarding the objects
Of the foundation, Franklin u. Roose-
Welt, chairman of the national commit
tee and who was Assistant Secretary of
the Navy during Mr.. Wilson's adminis-
tration, said:
."Our main object is to recognize good
work. valuable work, work that has been
of benefit to community or the coun-
try at large, and in this way to stinl-
ulate thought and effort on the part of
others.
Efforts in behalf OF peace are only
one feature of our work. The prize
might go to the Mayor OF a city, the
Governor of "a State, to a President or
Cabinet member, a scientist or an edi-
tor, an author whose book has in
fiuenced the thought of the people for
good, In fact, to any man or group of
men who have had a hard problem to
tackle and have solved 1t to the benefit
OF the people at large"