The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-04-28
WILL HONOR HEROES
Commonwealth Of kentucky To
Raise Funds For Memorial
Building at Lexington

Kentucky n3roes in the World War
| will be the object Of thousands OF
men, women AMI children of the State
during the week of AL II 1919 when
they Sc. out to raise S30O,OOO for
memorial building.
Names Of the 1866 VINO died will be
| placed on the bronze tablets in the
building which will be used daily az
chapel and union by thousands of
young people from evrey section Of
| Kentucky attending the State Univer-
sity at Lexington. Records Of Ken
| tucky's part in the war, work of pri-
vate citizens and Of those in the mill
tary service, will be kept there in ad.
dtlon to war trophies.
An army Of 10000 school children
will start out Monday, April "a, to
raise one dollar each. The plan was
endorsed by State Superintendent
George Colvin and the Kentucky Edu-
cational 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, 30 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 g.
20 conduct throughout Kentucky
campaign to raise 100000 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 American soldiers Of the
great war.
1.-THE University Of the Common
wealth is linked with the young man.
hood Of Kentucky, and II is there
fore fitting that on such 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. I 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 U.S.
We make certain that the spirit Of
yesterday will live throughout our TO-
morrows IL we honor courage and no.
bility and sacrifice.
81, 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
u.s."
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 Il statewide
contest, was written by Mrs. Eleanor
Duncan Wood, of Maysville:
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 sun
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
nost Ioyad and naautifuI And thou