Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
TOOTH ANNIVERSARY
OF SCHURz MARKED
Movement Started to EndoW
$16,0O0,O0O Memorial
to Statesman.

The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
many parts of the country yesterday,
served to focus public attention on
movement now under way to endow a
$4,000, 900 foundation to foster cultural
interrelations between the American
and German peoples as memorial to
the great liberal statesman. soldier and
editor beloved and honored equally by
the two nations
Plans are being made here to hold a
national celebration in Washington at
an early date to honor the former alien
who made good" in the land of OPP
portunity and left his mark in great
reforms wrought in the currency of the
Government, the civil service, conSer-
walton of natural resources and even in
the literature and art of his adopted
country President-elect Herbert Hoover
and other high officials of the Govern
lnent and leaders who have made ideal
ism the ruling principle of their lives
would be invited to participate in the
celebration.
The congestion of legislation during
the closing days of Congress prevented
the holding of memorial services yes
terday under a resolution previously in
troduced by Senator Wagner of New
York and Representative Dyer of Mis-
souri,.
Movement to Be Laughed.
Sponsored by such men as Vice Presi-
dent Charles G. Dawes. Charles Nagel
of st. Louis, Jacob Gould Schurman,
Ambassador to Berlin; Paul M. War
burg of New York, Representative Rich
ard Bartholdt of st. Louis and others,
the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation
Dc &lar ,iv,rr Ian fIa
a Nationwide basis. DR.. William F..
Notz, dean of the Georgetown Univer-
sity School of Foreign Service. is the
Washington representative of the foun-
dation in charge of sponsoring the local
celebration plans.
Preliminary plans call for the en-
dowment of such activities. for instance,
as scientific research and publications
pertaining to the history Of the Ger
man-American element, exchange of
students and teachers, special fellow
ships promotion of the teaching of Ger
man and many kindred purposes to be
defined by the board of trustees, whose
business it will be to make up the an
nual budget
An organizing committee has been
formed to plan the endowment cam
paign for the goal of 100000. Local
committees are being organized in the
principal centers of the country.
In many respects Carl SchurZ was
one of the most remarkable men in that
period of intellectual giants before and
after the Civil War. He fled from Ger
many at the conclusion of the German
instruction of l848, going to France
and then to England before making his
way to America. His spectacular and
fruitful career in this country proved
that America was still the land of OPP
portunity, where only the presidency
and vice presidency are out of reach of
naturalized citizens.
Fought in Civil War.
He practiced law in Milwaukee and
soon gained reputation as politician
and lecturer. His brilliancy had been
felt as early as 1858, when he was one
of the speakers in Illinois during the
great Lincoln-Douglass campaign. In
Lincoln's presidential campaign he did
such effective work that he was APP
pointed Minister to Spain. He resigned
the post in five months, however, to
enter the service of the Union Army
at the outbreak of the Civil War
Schurz was commissioned a brigadier
general in 1862 and commanded di-
vision in the corps of Gen. Frank ST.
gel. He took part in the second Bat
tie of Manassas and was made major
general in 1868, He led the 18th
Corps at Charlottesville and partici-
pated in the Battles of Chattanooga and
Gettysburg, where a monument is to
be erected to his memory.
Schurz re-entered public life after
the war. In the United States Senate
he was the most effective speaker in
the Republican party, and before his
service in the upper house he had made
a record in the House of Representa-
tives, being the first German American
to be elected to Congress.
He was the original independent in
politics. In 1870 he entered the liberal
Republican movement in Missouri He
presided over the 1872 convention which
nominated Horace Greeley and support
ed him against Grant.
SchurZ stood for reform in the civil
service and the tariff at times when
reform had few friends, when the Re-
publican party seemed omnipotent.
After visit to Europe. he returned
to support Hayes for the presidency
and fought for honest money against
Allen and imitation. He transferred the
fight he had carried on in the Senate
to the stump. and his efforts had much
to do with Hayes election.
Served in Hayes Cabinet.
Hayes chose him as Secretary of the
Interior, and in that office he carried
out continuously for the first time the
idea Of civil service reform. He did
much to straighten out the affairs of
the Indian Bureau and was the first
official in high position to check the
devastations of forests and call the Ma
TONS attention to the great natural
resources contained in the timberlands.
For these services and his promotion
of agriculture, Schurz earned the name
of father of conservation and the farm
movement.
= His political life ended with the eX-
.piration of his cabinet term. Schurz
then turned his great talents to jour-
nalism, reform and literary work. He
became one of the editors of the New
York Evening Post in 1881 and con-
.tinued to the end of 1888. In 1884 he
took part in the independent move
mcnt which arose against the Republic
can Party and helped to elect Grover
Cleveland as President. Although
Schurz supported Cleveland in both his
campaigns, he opposed the free silver
= He died May Ia, 1906. Six months
later a great memorial service was held
in New York, at which the speakers
were ex-President Cleveland. President
Eliot of Harvard, Joseph H. Choate,
Ambassador to England. and other great
leaders in the reform movement to
which he devoted his life.
Schurz' speeches throughout the
country to German Americans were al
ways full of the ideal of good citizen
ship, and though he was inspired with
the critical spirit of reform, he never
grew to be pessimist.
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Mansion House in Danger.