Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-10-26
The u. D. c. and
the Memorial

vention of the United Daughter
of the Confederacy. AT that con
vention an effort will be mad
to pass a resolution declaring tina
the members of the u. D. c.. o
the Organization as a whole, Wi
not support the sale of Ston
Mountain coins unless the direc
tors of the Stone Mountain asso
citation reinstate Gutzon Borglum
Our authority for the abov
statement is Ernest Camp, edito
of the Walton Tribune and pub
licity director of the Harvest cam
paign to complete Georgia s quota
in the sale of coins
In a personal letter to the editor
of The Times-Recorder Mr.
Camp says in part:
Information has come to me that
an effort will be made at the
forthcoming convention of the
Georgia division Of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, to
be held in few days at Sanders
vile, to have the convention pass
a resolution endorsing the position
taken by Mrs, Grace, president of
the Georgia division, in reference
to the Stone Mountain Confederate
Memorial and the Confederate Me
mortal half-dollar coinage.
Mrs. Grace demanded the recall
and reinstatement of the former
sculptor, Mr. Borglum, virtually as
a condition necessary to obtain
her support of the enterprise. Her
views are set forth at length in the
board of directors of the associa-
ton and she was voted down by a
large majority.
AS a result OF tnis, MRS. Grace
instructed the Georgia division of
the U. D. C. to stop the payment
of their pledges to the Memorial
association, (where chapters had
made pledges), and instructed
them to have nothing to do with
the sale of Confederate Memorial
half-dollars. These are the in
structions which an effort will be
made to have the convention con-
firm and ratify at Sandersville, ac-
cording to my information.
In other words, the United
Daughters of the Confederacy of
Georgia will be asked to go on
record as refusing to support the
memorial and refusing to have any
thing to do with the coinage unless
and until the former sculptor is
recalled and reinstated in charge of
the work. They will be asked to
declare that they are more interest
ed in the personal fortunes of
Borglum than they are in the sue
cess of the monument. They will
be asked to repudiate an act of
Congress bestowing upon the sol
diers of the Confederacy a decora-
ton of valor without a precedent
in American history unless Borg
lum is brought back and crowned
with glory.
1t is inconceivable that the Geor-
gia U. D. C. will adopt such an at
titude. The affairs of the Memo
rial are in charge of a board of
directors composed of about seven
ty-five Georgians in whom our peo-
pie, in MY judment, have every
confidence. Outside of Georgia,
the board is composed of the gov
ernor and one or more prominent
citizens of every Southern State,
and outside of the South the other
sections of the country are repre-
scented by American of national
prominence. The new sculptor Sc
lected by the association, Mr.. Luke
man, has produced wonderful de-
sign which has been received with
enthusiastic praise on every hand,
especially among the command
ing generals of the United Confed-
crate Veterans. His design and
general fitness as sculptor are
strongly endorsed by artists and
coinnoisseurs of art of New York
and Washington, where campaigns
are in progress to sell upwards of
100000 coins.
The sale of the South's allotment
of 100000 coins is in charge of
the governors of the Southern
States, under whose direction the
Harvest campaign is going ahead
in fine shape from Virginia to
Texas. In all particulars the Me-
mortal as an enterprise is on a
solid foundation and is moving
forward tremendously and success
fully towards a future which
seems to me to be filled with the
brightest promise.
1t would be extremely unfortu-
nate at this juneture to have dis
harmony created by the U. D. c.
of our States. AS a Georgian,
am extremely anxious to see this
project carried through to success.