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Show UTAH WOMEN WlF" ASSI5JMIL Late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to Be Honored in Special Spe-cial Enterprise. EFFECT ORGANIZATION Mrs. James H. Moyle Appointed Ap-pointed Chairman for This State. Mrs. James H. Moyle of Salt I.ako has been appointed chairman for Utah of the "Ellen Wilson Fund for the Christian Education of Mountain Youth," which is intended as a memorial me-morial to the late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Wil-son, the first wife of the president. Mrs. Sol Siecel will assist Mrs. Moyle in the Utah organization to raiso funds in this state for the memorial fund. They will interest a number of club women and endeavor to secure here a creditable sum tor the laudable purpose that, it is intended, will be a tangible tribute to the first Mrs. Wilson Wil-son and her life. The proposed memorial to Mrs. Wilson Wil-son was suggested last year by the Ladies' Home Journal of Philadelphia and was indorsed by the president and moinbers of his family. A group of southern women who were friends of Mrs. Wilson, and who were cognizant of the need for bettor education among the mountaineers of the south, formed the memorial organization, and its activities ac-tivities have now extended all over the United States. Mrs. Thomus R. Marshall, wife of the vice president of the United States, is honorary president of the memorial fund. The honorary vice presidents are Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Lindley M. Garrison, Mrs. Thomas W. Gregory, Mrs. Albert S. Burleson, Mrs. Josephiis Daniels, Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, Mrs. David F. Houston, Mrs. William C. Bedfield and Miss Agnes Wilson. Administrative Board. The administrative board comprises Mrs. W. S. ElkiD, chairman; Mrs. Preston Pres-ton Ajkwright, viv chairman; Mrs. Hoke Smith, Mrs. Boling H. Jones. Mrs. Frank S. Ellis, Mrs. Nefllle Peters Black, Mrs. Harris E. Kirk, Mrs. Robert Rob-ert L. Foreman, Mrs. B. I. Hughes, Mrs. H. B. Wey, Mrs. Alfred E. Buck, Mrs. Thomas H. Latham, Mrs. Archibald Archi-bald Davis, Mrs. Samuel M. Inman, Mrs. Wilmer L. Moore, Mrs. John B. Knox, Mrs. Charles P. Crawford, Mr?. James S. Akers, Mrs. Seaborn Wright, Mrs. Philip Weltner and Mrs. Hugh Bancker. In addition there are the various state committees, made up of prominent promi-nent members of women's organizations. organiza-tions. Writing in the Ladies' Home Journal, William T. Ellis said of the memorial plan: There was something dramatic and heroic in the passing of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. All during her life her thought was of others; and the pillow of her .last sleep was made smooth by a special law rushed through congress to meet her desire for the amelioration of the living conditions of Washington's Washing-ton's poor. Symbolic Imagery. The imagination delights to dwell npon that scene; a serene woman -froutiug the mystery, with her old-fashioned old-fashioned religious principles expressing ex-pressing themselves in solicitude for a social service; the close seclusion se-clusion which had sacredly enwrapped en-wrapped her domestic life unveiled for the moment, that all the nation's na-tion's sympathy might be enlisted, not for the dying woman or for her dear ones but for the poor who had no helper; the gTeat American Amer-ican congress chivalrously responding respond-ing to the wish of one woman. That Buch a high message and mission of womanhood should be perpetuated was at once obvious. All over the land arose simultaneous simultan-eous and spontaneous suggestions for a memorial to Mrs. Wilson. But the ideal plan, and the practicable practi-cable one, was suggested by the group of women who best understood under-stood her purposes and principles, a littlo company in the southland, workers in the church into which he had been born and in which he had been trainod. Living Memorial. Their proposal, which has met with tho heartv approval of the president and of the other members of Mrs. Wilson's family, is a memorial me-morial to be built, not of marble or of bronz-e, but of warm and powerful pow-erful human life. In a word the project in explained by its legal title: '''The Ellen Wilson Wil-son Fund for the Christian Education Educa-tion of Mountain Youth." The design is simple: to create, by gifts, small and great, from the American Ameri-can people who desire to honor the memory of this noble woman, a permanent endowment, the income in-come from which shall bo used always al-ways for the education, in some one of the schools already existing in the southern mountains, of girls and hoys who would not otherwise have an opportunity for the larger life and patriotism which Christian Chris-tian education represent. |