Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-26
Living Memorial To
Woodrow Wilson
Pleasant A. Stovall Is Chairman
Of Georgia Committee

SAVANNAH, Ga, March rs Il
Pleasant A. Stovall, former Envoy to
Switzerland, has accepted the chair
manship of the committee of promi
nent Georgians who are sponsoring
movement to establish national ed
ucational institution in Georgia as a
permanent living memorial to Wood
row Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson College is planned
to be a distinctive institution in that it
will teach those subjects in which
Americas war-president was most in
terested It's student body, to be drawn
from all parts of the United States,
will be selected as far as possible from
young men of 1.-THE Woodrow Wilson
Type" The faculty of the new college
will be recruited from educators of
recognized standing, who are partic
ularly interested in perpetuating Will
sons ideals
The City of Valdosta, in southern
Georgia, has been chosen as the site
for the new institution and two hun
dred acres of land have already been
purchased for the purpose by the tenn
porary board of trustees.
Woodrow Wilson and Pleasant A.
Stovall were boyhood friends.
at is particularly fitting that Geor-
gia should be the first state to erect
such memorial to the martyred Will
SOM, said Pleasant Stovall here today,
"since it was in Georgia that he grew
to manhood and spent the formulative
years of his life. We Southerners
claim him as our greatest citizen and
are determined to see that the torch
which he lighted is kept ablaze."
"The college which we propose to
found will not be Just another college
nor will it belong to the South alone
1t is destined to be the shrine OF Will
sons ideals in America, and from 1t
we hope to produce the kind of young
men that I knew Wilson to be. We
IIldV IOl DC dDlC W ~ OhuSN oiiCtHNi
Woodrow Wilson, but we are going to
do all in our power to educate men
to be as much like him as possible"
"Woodrow Wilson college will be
democratic college. To students who
are able to fulfill the entrance require
ments it will give cultural education
wide enough in its scope to fit them
to be liberal intelligent citizens. 1t will
not be a great business training school |
where students are educated to insure |
them to live COMFORTABLY. It's
chief aim will be to teach it students
to live USEFULLY."
"The teaching faculty will be given
the utmost intellectual freedom in or
der to attract men of the highest type.
The members will be paid adequate
salaries that will insure them freedom
from financial worries SO that their
full energies may be directed to train
ing young men to serve their genera
ton with somewhat the same kind Of
fearless faith that inspired the man
whose name the college will bear"
1T was inevitable that some great
and lasting memorial should be erect
ed to this world leader 1t is partic
ularly gratifying to me that the state
of Georgia should take the initiative
in establishing such memorial. l am
more than honored to be chosen to
serve with other Georgians to help in
making this noble ambition a reality. !
1.-THE monument to be built to
Woodrow Wilson in Georgia will be
no cold thing of carved marble-it |
will be far more valuable. 1t will be
a living, growing memorial, built of
the most precious material on earth
human lives
The financing OF Woodrow Wilson
College is to be done by popular sub
scription from believers in the Will
son ideals living in Georgia and else
where The American Legion in Geor-
gia is actively behind the project, and
the National American Legion, at its
last annual convention, voted unani-
mouslv to raise whatever funds were |
necessary to properly endow and build
the college.
The Democratic national convention
in New York pledged its enthusiastic
endorsement of the undertaking. The
American Federation of Labor has
not only endorsed the college, but has
committed itself to the erection of one
of the most important buildings
a number of influential men thru
out the nation, both Democrats and
Republicans, have been consulted in
the formulation of plans for the me-
mortal. The new college will be entire
ly free from religious or political bias.
Woodrow Wilson College students
will be allowed wide range of choice
in selecting his studies. The preceptor-
ial system, under which small groups |
Of students will be brought into close |
contact with instructors of the highest |
type is to be instituted.
Athletics will receive proper consid-
eratien but, as Wilson said "the side