The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-08
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3 DISTINCT
GR(NJPSAI
WORK
AL. Wish to Perpetuate Name
of War President IN Diff
ferent Ways
BY JOSEPHINE TIGHE

1he eternal triangle mas broken
out in q most unexpected way
with three Woodrow Wilson me-
MORALS trying to function at
once and two out of the three
doing business under one roof,
the Transportation Building.
The daddy of them all, the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation,
which began its existence during
the lifetime Of the late Presi-
dent, raised million dollars, the
interest on which is paid each
year to the person who for
twelve months previous has ac-
complished the most in the inter
est of worldwide peace.
In League Headquarters
District headquarters of the FouEa-
dalton are on the second door OF
the Transportation buloing, N Lne
headquarters OF the League OF Ma
lions. whose Washington office y
presided over by Mrs. Kate Tren-
Three years ago. under. d special
act of Congress. a charter for the
woodrow Wilson Memorial was
granted and the executive offices
OF this particular memorial are on
the seventh floor of the Transpor-
fation building, with r. Moulton
Pettey and A. W. Lowell at the
helm.
The triangle is completed by fhe
Staunton Birthplace Memorial
sp1nsors who have just begun an
intensive drive to collect funds
with which to purchase and endow
woodrow Wilson's birthplace at
Staunton. Confusion worse con-
founded attends a public trying TO
honor the memory of the world s
greatest exponent OF peace.
Mrs. Wilson's Protest
Norman Davis, president of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, said
today. Mrs. woodrow Wilson had
written to the officers Of the Ma.
tional woodrow Wilson Memorial
Association telling them the name
/. they have selected for their organi.
cation IL inadvised.
when inquiries are made OF her
concerning the memorial association
a printed copy Of Mrs. Wilson IL
sent in reply" Mr.. Davis said. He
added he knew little about the in
tent Of the founders of the new
organization or what they had done.
At the Woodrow Wilson
Memorial Association today, Mr..
Lowell showed a letter from Will
liam G. McAdoo, in which was set
forth the fact that Mrs. Wilson
had turned over a letter received
by her from Mr.. Pettey asking
that she lend her name and. en-"
couragement to the proposed men,
orial which is to take the form
of a college or university to be
built In the nearby Virginia hills
and to cost, endowed, $4,000, 900.
Mr.. McAdoo explained that while
he was in full sympathy with the
movement. none of the Wilson
family, including the late Presi'
dent 5 wife ever lent their names
or public approval to any Wood
row Wilson memorial, prefering
that the public be not influenced
by the Wilson family.
Conflict In Drives
Rumors that the Woodrow Viii
son Menorial-the Virginia Hills
one-had been frowned on by the
Foundation Memorial and the
Staunton Birthplace Memorial, were
explaineds today by the announce
ment that the scowls were occa-
stoned by the fact that the birth
place memorial and the Virginia
Hills college memorial were con-
1icting in the time and places for
drives and campaigning.
One Drive Started
The birthplace memorial got away
with its drive in a luncheon given
here in Washington last week. The
Woodrow Wilson Memorabilia Vir-
ginia Hills one, you know-has Sc
lected the week OF December %, the
date of President Wilson's birth. as
the time to start its countrywide
campaign to build the IS .000. 900 col
lege. And the offices of this par
ticular memorial are busily engaged
and also preparing to move into
larger quarters.
It is rumored that a cablegram
has been sent to Mrs. Wilson ask
ing her to designate which end Of
the triangle she favors.
A line up of the organizations
throws light on the situation. The
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, with
headquarters at No. II East Forty
seCOnd street, New York. has for
its board of trustees Norman H.
Davis, president; Tasker H. Bliss,