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The Historic Home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Where the Declaration of Independence Was Conceived.
Every dollar you give helps to perpetuate the home of the author of the Declaration of Independence as a National Memorial, and gives a ten-vote credit to any designated candidate.
The Thomas Jefferson Centennial Election is sponsored in Chicago by a committee of outstanding citizens with Hon. William E. Dever as Honorary Chairman in behalf of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The Foundation is an organization of American men and women dedicated to the task of preserving Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia. National Headquarters are located at 115 Broadway, N.Y. The organization is endorsed by the National Information Bureau.
Title has been taken to the estate of 650 acres and the purpose of these elections is to clear the property of debt, and establish it as a National Memorial in time for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the 100th anniversary of Jefferson's death, July 4th, 1926.
Representative young women from Chicago and its environs will be selected to join America's Birthday Party Tour to Europe on the basis of one delegate to each 50,000 vote unit polled in this district. Votes will be counted on the basis of 1 vote for every 10 cents contributed to the Foundation. All money obtained will be deposited direct in the local depository and reported to the Chicago chairman.
If the total of all votes cast in the election aggregates 50,000 ($5,000) the candidate having the greatest number of votes at the close of the election will be declared elected. If all candidates combined poll 100,000, the two highest will be winners. A total of 150,000 votes will give Chicago a representation of three, and so on at the rate of one delegate for each unit of 50,000 votes.
As part of its program to foster education and as a incentive to the candidates to help raise this fund, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation will sponsor a European trip covering seven countries and lasting seven weeks. Winning delegates properly chaperoned will sail on July 24th, returning September 18th. During their travels the members of the party will be guests at official receptions given by the President of France, Premier Mussolini, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, the Ambassador to Great Britain, the Palace of Peace, and other outstanding celebrations specially arranged for them.
All expenses of the trip will be met by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
My Dear Mr. Gibboney:
To do anything else, or anything other than accept your invitation to honorary membership on the Board of Governors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, would be both ungracious and, it seems to me, unpatriotic. I gladly accept, with some regret, of course, that I shall probably have less of the time and opportunity to give the sort of service that would be most helpful. But I cannot too earnestly assure you of my conviction that your organization is performing a useful service in encouraging the preservation of those shrines and monuments of American history, which must always bring inspiration to the American people. I wish you all success in your program of establishing the home of Jefferson as one of the perpetual monuments of patriots and patriotism.
My Dear Mrs. Hotchkiss:
Having learned of the group of devoted Virginians who are assisting in the national movement to purchase Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, I am writing to ask if I may not express to you my very deep and earnest interest in the enterprise both as an American citizen and a Virginian. I feel very deeply concerned that the project should succeed, and I hope that all who love Virginia and adequately appreciate the character of Jefferson are lending a hand to help you in the work. I believe that when it is in the hands of trustees. Monticello will become one of the most resorted to shrines in the country. No other shrine could so adequately represent the aspirations and abiding principles of our people. I wish that my means were as large as my enthusiasm in this matter. If they were, the purchase would be made in short order. There are men in America who have the means and who truly reverence the principles associated with the great name of Jefferson. I trust that they will help you with open-handed generosity.
I felicitate you on the progress already made, and venture to wish you Godspeed in its conclusion.
STUART G. GIBBONEY
President
CHARLES D. MAKEPEACE
TreasurerGOV. E. LEE TRINKLE
Chairman, Committee of State Governors
HENRY ALAN JOHNSTON
SecretaryEDWARD F. ALBEE
National Chairman
SENATOR ROYAL S. COPELAND
Chairman for State of New York
Board of Governors
HON. CALVIN COOLIDGE
EDWARD F. ALBEE
DR. EDWIN A. ALDERMAN
MRS. MINNIGERODE ANDREWS
LADY ASTOR
ALFRED M. BARRETT
GEORGE GORDON BATTLE
JAMES M. BECK
DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
HARRY FLOOD BYRD
MRS. CHAMP CLARK
BAINBRIDGE COLBY
DR. ROYAL S. COPELAND
CHARLES R. CRANE
JOHN W. DAVIS
VICTOR J. DOWLING
JOHN P. EAST
MILTON C. ELLIOTT
JAMES W. GERARD
STUART G. GIBBONEY
MRS. CHARLES DANA GIBSON
MOSES H. GROSSMAN
DR. JAMES WHITNEY HALL
PATRICK CARDINAL HAYES
WILL H. HAYS
CHARLES D. HILLES
EDWARD HINES
MRS. J. ALLISON HODGES
MRS. ROSE GOUVERNEUR HOES
MRS. E. D. HOTCHKISS
HENRY ALAN JOHNSTON
REV. DR. NATHAN KRASS
BRECKINRIDGE LONG
CHARLES D. MAKEPEACE
MARTIN T. MANTON
WILLIAM G. McADOO
ALTON B. PARKER
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THOMAS E. RUSH
JAMES R. SHEFFIELD
RT. REV. ERNEST. M. STIRES, D.D.
ARTHUR S. TOMPKINS
E. LEE TRINKLE
JAMES J. WALKER
FELIX M. WARBURG
MRS. JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS
BRECKINRIDGE LONG, Chairman
HENRY ALAN JOHNSON, Secretary
ALFRED M. BARRETT, Treasurer
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