Evening star., 1927-04-17
TEMPLE PLANNED
FORD.C. WAR DEAD
Intensive Campaign Starts
May z to Raise $4,000
to Build Doric Structure.

"They died for us. Their memory
must i've"
Scores of men and women in Wash
fngton are now being organized, with
that sentiment as their keynote, for
an intensive effort during the week OF
May 20 to raise $4,000 from the
people Of Washington through puoic
s1,bscription In order to assure the
construction in West Potomac Park
near the Lincoln Memorial of me-
mortal to the 535 men and women
from the District who gave their lives
in the World War.
Although the details of the cam
paign are yet to be completed. an
nouncement was made yesterday by
those directing its formation that
from every quarter replies are being
received TO requests for assistance,
end indications are that the campaign
will be one of the most popular and
far-reaching ever held in the Capital.
Three division leaders selected by
the executive committee of the Me-
mortal Commission announced yester-
day the appointment of 26 team cap
tains, who already are obtaining mem
berS Of their teams. The list is not
complete. however. and additions to
II will be announced later. Those now
enrolled, by divisions, follow:
Name Division Leaders.
First division-Edward F. Colladay,
division leader: Gist Blair, Oscar Cooli-
gan, William S. Corby, William T.
GaIliher E. c. Graham, Samuel j.
Prescott and John Lewis Smith.
Second division--Rear Admiral Cary
r. Grayson, division leader; Frederick
II. Brooke, William E. Doeller, John
Joy Edson, George Garrett, John Phil
lip Hill. Joseph H. Hines, John Poole,
Gen. Anton Stephan and Myron Whit
ney.
Third division-Newbold Noyes. di-
vition leader; Donald Cassels, Fred
eric Delano, William Freeman, Col.
Leroy Heron, Frank Hight, Samuel
H. Kauffmann, Willmott Lewis. Cleve-
land Perkins, Donald Woodward and
Isaac Cans.
1. At the same time it was announced
that the participation Of women in
the campaign viii be one of it's out
standing features. Mrs. James f..
Curtis, chairman of the executive
committee of the women's committee
of the memorial commission, an
nounced that SO prominent Washing
ton women have been asked to serve
with her on the executive committee
directing women's activities.
+, To Name Women Captains.
Each of 80 women's organizations
has been asked to designate repre-
sentative as captain of a team, in ad-
dition to 80 individual women who
will serve in the same capacity. Mrs
i Hill, wife Of former Representative
Hill Of Maryland. will be chairman Of
: the personnel committee with Miss
Eppes Hawes, daughter Of Senator
Z Hawes Of Missouri, as vice chairman.
AIRS. Wallace Merriam will be in
charge of personnel supplies.
5s The campaign next month is a con-
finuation of the movement begun last
year when Congress created a me-
mortal commission charged with the
erection--through public subscription
sEof an appropriate memorial to the
Capitals war dead. The type of me-
mortal chosen by the commission, and
approved by the Commission of Fine
ARTS, is a Doric temple of white mar.
sble. In the marble ceiling viii be
INSCRIBED the names OF the 535 men
shnd women who died in the service
sand who came from the District of
columbia, while the corner stone of
of the 26, 600 men and women from
the District who were in the service
of the Nation during the war.
Picturesque Setting.
The temple will provide a pictur-
esque setting for concerts by the Capt.
tails military bands, for this is the
practical use TO which 1t will be put.
Standing in a grove of trees near the
4 al &,~l.
toward the rejecting pool, the Tidal
Basin and, in later years, across the
Arlington Memorial Bridge TO the
wooded shores Of Virginia.
:. Last years effort, which was limit
ed to some extent in its appeal, sue
ceeded in raising $50, 600. This years.
campaign viii be directed toward OBJ
tanning the needed balance of the cost
of the memorial-S140 900. The ap-
peal this year VIII emphasize particu-
larly the fact that Washington. al
most alone of large cities throughout
the country, thus far has failed to
provide any permanent memorial to
its dead.
There is a double row of memorial
trees along upper Sixteenth street,
and framed paper bearing the names
of the Districts dead, which hangs
in a corridor Of the District Build
ing, but even these tributes were
made possible only through the work
of veterans themselves. The people
OF Washington thus far have failed
to do anything toward perpetuating
the memory Of their own war dead.
Personnel of Commission.
The personnel Of the Memorial Com
mission created by Congress consists
OF Frank B. Noyes. chairman: Col. Z.
Lester Jones, secretary; John Poole,
treasurer; Charles A. Baker. Mr.. Blair,
Mr.. Colladay, Mr.. Edison, Mrs. William
Corcoran Eustis, Mr.. Cans, John M.
Gleissner, Edward B. Mclean, j. r.
Mcdonald, G. Logan Payne, Julius /.
Peyser and Gen. Stephan. Mr.. Brooke
is the architect of the memorial. and
associated with him are Nathan
Wyeth and Horace w. Peaslee.