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<p>Report to U.D.C. Committee on Monument at Gettysburg
This Committee has now $32,000 to their credit, all states have met their quota except two.
Each Committee Woman in all fourteen (14) states has done her best. We appreciate very much the help that Mr. and Mrs. Grady Matthews gave Mrs. Haggard in Florida. Mrs. Haggard got her bill through the House and Senate of Florida successfully then it was blocked by the Centennial Commission. Mrs. Thomas is raising Missouri’s quota by public subscription, and has a good part of it now.
I suggested all members of the Committee send me designs for the monument but I only received five or six. I was appointed Chairman of the Design and Sculptor Committee by the President-General in April 1963. She wrote me again in December 1963 asking me to keep both chairmanships. I had written offering to resign because I could not be true to myself and vote for the De Lue design. The enclosed letter is filled with false statements and innuendoes. No member of this Committee has set herself up as a criterion of art or has called herself ordained to make decisions. Neither are we disgruntled. Some have expressed themselves by saying it is a beautiful piece of work but not suitable for the purpose we had in mind – one of holy reverences and remembrance of the passing of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States of America. After the writer of this shameful letter was elected to high office, he began writing letters but I have not heard of his receiving any donations. I have two letters from Miss Franklin when I accepted the chairmanship in January 1962 in which she states she would give $1,000 if a border state did not meet their quota – a second letter saying she would give $2,000 if border states did not meet their quota – this she would give in memory of her father. I am happy to say that all three border states are meeting their quotas obtained by the committee women from each of these states. I understand Judge Beard has a donation of $2,500 and this he wishes to apply to Florida’s quota stating he will be responsible for their quota. I have written Mr. De Lue my personal objections and asked if he will consider drawing another design. My objections, I find are the same as many others – “price too high, no place showing why erected, nothing denoting reverence and rememberance [sic]”. It is good for a trophy of some athletic achievement. Some say it is a disc thrower, or some ornament for a radiator cap of an automobile, or so much like the Rocket Thrower he has erected for the World’s Fair in New York. I prefer a tall shaft.</p>
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