NAWSA Subject File Wilson, Woodrow THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION Created by public subscription in recognition of the national and international services of Woodrow Wilson, twice President of the United States, who furthered the cause of human freedom and was instrumental in pointing out effective methods for co[o]peration of the liberal forces of mankind throughout the world. The Award or Awards from the income of the Foundation will be made from time to time by a nationally constituted committee to the individual or group that has rendered, within a specified period, meritorious service to democracy, public welfare, liberal thought or peace through justice MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ROOM 706, 101 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON Telephone Main 4747 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIR CTOR April 5, 1922 To the chairmen and the State Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Woodrow Wilson Foundation: I have the honor to submit the following report for the past six and one-half months. The beginning of my active connection with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation was on Sept. 15,1921. On that date I was invited to confer with the informal committee to consider raising $85,000 in Massachusetts for the Foundation. The campaign was then expected to be completed in six or seven weeks. The time was subsequently extended and the money-raising week was set for January 16th to 23rd. The General plan was for Massachusetts as it was gradually worked out was 1. To have a State Executive Committee to Consist of the five officers, - the two Chairmen, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Executive Director; an Advisory Committee or twelve or fifteen members; and a Committee of One Hundred; 2. To organize committees in as many cities and towns as [possible]; 3. To choose as local chairmen men and women of standing in each community; 4. To avoid all controversies; 5. To spend as little money as possible on organization; 6. To emphasise the desire for small gifts from multitudes of people; 7. To proclaim the Foundation to be a free-will offering from those who desire to help perpetuate ex-President Wilson's ideals. As time went on the Advisory Committee and the Committee of One Hundred were combined under the name of the State Committee and so appeared on the stationary and the printed matter. Later it was decided to concentrate effort upon securing local chairmen and not to [under????] to get a definite number for the State Committee. The number of local chairmen secured to date is 117 representing 76 towns and 26 cities. Of these chairmen 73 are men and 39 are women. The Excess in the number of chairmen over the number of cities and towns is due to the appointment in several localition of joint chairmen. (See list appended) Massachusetts contributions to the Foundation thus far amount to more than $32,000. Most of this sum is now in the treasurer's hands. The rest of it is reported by local chairmen to be ready to be sent to him. A small part of it, estimated to about $1,500, has been sent by the [Conors] direct to the [National] Committee. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOHN F. MOORS, State Chairman MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES State Chairman of Women's Committee MRS. LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON Executive Director MRS. JOSEPH ALEXANDER McCORD State Secretary CHARLES JACKSON State Treasurer NATIONAL CHAIRMAN FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CLEVELAND H. DODGE, Chairman HAMILTON HOLT, Executive Director EDWARD S. MORSE, Executive Secretary MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT FRANK I. COBB STEPHEN P. DUGGAN MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES EDWIN F. GAY MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN EDWARD M. HOUSE FREDERICK LYNCH HENRY MORGENTHAU ADOLPH S. OCHS FRANK L. POLK MISS VIRGINIA POTTER MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES MRS. CHARLES E. SIMONSON MRS. CHARLES L. TIFFANY STEPHEN S. WISE MRS. H. OTTO WITTPENN National Headquarters 150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS STATE COMMITTEE DR. C. H. ABBOT MRS. WILLIAM L. ADAM JUDGE GEORGE W. ANDERSON MRS. DONALD ARMSTRONG MRS. GEORGE P. BAKER MR. RAY STANNARD BAKER MR. EDMUND BILLINGS DR. VINCENT Y. BOWDITCH DR. JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS DR. RICHARD C. CABOT MRS. DAVID CHEEVER REV. DR. SAMUEL M. CROTHERS MR. FREDERIC CUNNINGHAM MISS FRANCES G. CURTIS PROF. GARRETT DROPPERS MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM H. DUNBAR PRES-EMER. CHARLES W. ELIOT PROF. SIDNEY B. FAY MISS EUGENIA B. FROTHINGHAM REV. DR. PAUL REVERE FROTHINGHAM PRES. HARRY A. GARFIELD DR. AND MRS. WILFRED T. GRENFELL MR. SOLOMON B. GRIFFIN PROF. CHARLES H. HASKINS MRS. AUGUSTUS HEMENWAY MR. RICHARD B. HOBART MISS ALBERTA M. HOUGHTON MR. J. MURRAY HOWE MR. MARK A. DEWOLFE HOWE MR. WESTON HOWLAND RT. REV. EDWIN H. HUGHES MRS. FRANCIS S. KERSHAW RABBI HARRY LEVI DEAN EDWARD M. LEWIS MRS. JOSEPH ALEXANDER MCCORD MR. JAMES MCGRATH PRES. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN MR. JOHN J. MITCHELL MRS. JOHN F. MOORS PRES. WILLIAM ALLAN NIELSON MR. JOHN M. O'DONOGHUE MR. HUMPHREY O'SULLIVAN MRS. CHARLES PEABODY PROF. BLISS PERRY MAYOR ANDREW J. PETERS MR. FRANKLIN S. POLLAK MAYOR EDWARD W. QUINN REV. E. TALMADGE ROOT PROF. FRANCIS B. SAYRE MISS MABEL STURGIS JUDGE MICHAEL H. SULLIVAN PROF. F. W. TAUSSIG MR. JOHN M. THAYER MRS. JOSEPH G. THORP MRS. CRAWFORD H. TOY MR. FREDERICK W. WEIR MR. FRANCIS C. WOODMAN MRS. SAMUEL B. WOODWARD -3- Contributions have been made in the form of checks, bills, money orders, coins, liberty bonds, and even postage stamps. The expenses of organization have been met by an additional sum of about $4,400 which has been contributed by the two chairmen and a few others at their direct request. The number of contributors by as close an estimate as can be made is 7,000. This figure does not include the donors in Amesbury, Fall River, Lowell, and several other places which have not yet reported. Contributions have come from 162 cities, towns and villages, other than those which have local committees. Many of these gifts were no doubt in response to letters sent from the Boston office, for there is hardly a town or village in the state in which someone has not been thus invited to help the Foundation in one way or an other. Owing to the wide-spread publicity given the Massachusetts Committee by the newspapers, we have received gifts from eighteen other states; namely, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, and Albama, and from five foreign countries - France, Germany, Italy (Taormina), Canada and the Bahama Islands. Except in the case of a few of the earlier of such contributions, the funds so received have been transmitted to the respective state chairmen. Gifts have come from Caucasians, Negroes and Mongolians, and judging from the unfamiliar names on subscription blanks from residents of Massachusetts of the widest range of national origin. -4- Gifts have been sent by various organizations, such as women's clubs, teachers' clubs, Daughters of the Confederacy, the Pan-Albanian Society, Labor Unions, and business associations. At the request of Mrs. Forbes several Boston stores have received gifts from their customers for the Foundation. Contributors have disregarded party lines as is evidenced by gifts frommen of political prominence, like Lieutenant-Governor Alvan T. Fuller, ex-Governor Samuel W. McCall, Mr. Joseph Walker, Judge George W. Anderson, ex-Mayor Andrew J. Peters, Mr. Sherman L. Whipple, Mayor James M. Curley, Mayor Edward W. Quinn, ex-Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, members of the General Court, heads of State Departments and many others in and out of office. Members of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in Massachusetts include college presidents, professors, students, business men, unskilled laborers (both men and women), nurses, teachers, bishops, deans, rabbis, and other clergymen, manufacturers, bankers, officials of chambers of commerce, invalids too ill to write their own checks, parents of dead soldiers, ex-service men, residents in charitable institutions, octogenarians, and whole families. One Maine family contributed ten cents for each of twelve children. More than 1,400 letters have been received at the State office beside uncounted subscriptions without letters. Many of these letters contain warm tributes to Mr. Wilson. A very few were unfriendly, some of these anonymous. All of these letters have been preserved for such disposal as the committee may decide upon. Several thousand circular letters setting forth the purpose of the Foundation have been sent by our Boston office to persons -5- whose names were furnished us by active sympathisers. In addition we have circularized 30,000 ex-service men; 500 ministers in small towns which then had no committees; the members of the General Court; the Federated Jewish Charities list; the Japanese students; contributors to the recent National Democratic campaign; and a list of speakers for the Democratic Party (furnished by Mr. Michael A.O'Leary and Mr. Francis X. Tirrell); the Free Trade League; the Pro-League Independents; and about 350 state and federal officials. Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes has sent independently letters to members of the Boston League of Women Voters; to the principals, and to 20,000 teachers in public schools; and to large numbers of women connected with clubs. She has also sent letters to the local chairmen suggesting methods of work. The Massachusetts campaign for the Foundation really began on the evening of January 9th when Mr. Hamilton Holt made an impressive address to an audience of some 500 people in the Old South Meeting House. Mr. John F. Moore presided. On January 10th a work-conference was held in one of the parlors of the Copley-Plaza Hotel, Boston. All local chairmen and the members of the State Committee were invited and about sixty were able to attend. Mrs. Forbes presided and reported the plans of the National Committee and outlined the methods of conducting the campaign in Massachusetts. Mr. Moore made the opening address and outlined the purpose of the Foundation. Mrs. Johnson and the local chairmen reported what had already been accomplished in organizing Massachusetts. The work-conference was followed by a luncheon in the Swiss room of the Copley-Plaza Hotel at which there were 144 in attendance. Mr. Moore presided at this luncheon. The other speakers were Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes, Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell and -6- Mr. Hamilton Holt. Greetings and expressions of loyalty were sent to Mr. Wilson in a resolution offered by Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham and adopted unanimously by those present. During the twenty-four hours which Mr. Holt spent in and near Boston he made at least five addresses, each adapted especially to the audience before him, one at the Old South Meeting House, one at the Garland School for Home-making, one at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation luncheon, one at the Harvard Woodrow Wilson Club, and the last one at the residence of Mrs. Charles Peabody in Cambridge. The collecting of money began with the Wilson Hour at the Old State House, Boston, - an occasion unique and impressive. Woodrow Wilson Sayre, the two and one-half year old granson of the ex-President, opened the Wilson House by striking twelve strokes upon a great ship's bell, secured for the purpose, decorated with Mr. Wilson's favorite color - orange - and was suspended between the two mantel pieces in the historic old Council Chamber. A battery of cameras photographed Mr. and Mrs. Sayre and their son during this part of the ceremony and these photographs were reprinted in papers in all parts of the country. Mr. Moore presided and in his opening address eloquently described the great deeds and great sacrifices of Mr. Wilson. The other speakers were Mrs. Francis B. Sayre and Mayor Andrew J. Peters. Letters were read from Lieutenant-Governor Alvan T. Fuller and President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot. About $2,400 was contributed during that hour. At the close of the campaign week on Saturday, January 21st, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise spoke brilliantly in behalf of the Foundation before an audience of several hundred in the Old South Meeting House. -7- These were the only public meetings held under the auspices of the State Committee. The advertising of these meetings included, in addition to the announcements generously made by newspapers, church calenders and others pay, one small advertisement in the Boston daily papers for the Hamilton Holt meeting 1,500 post cards, 1,500 "Four-Events" announcements sent by mail, several thousand fliers distributed at the old South meeting House and Ford Hall Forums and at Forums in nearby cities and towns, and several thousand fliers distributed by hand at residences and in office buildings. About December 1, 1921, the general publicity was placed in the hands of Robert F. Duncan of the John Price Jones Corporation He gave approximately half-time until about January 10th. From that date until about February 10th he worked early and late with great devotion and skill. I invite your attention to the exhibit of newspaper clippings furnished by the New England Newspaper Bureau. (See exhibit). It is generally assumed that news bureaus find a small per cent, some say not over 20 per cent, of the amount published. I have pasted together only the Boston article, and upon measuring them find we have had the following publicity: Post, 750 inches; Globe 450 inches; Herald-Traveler 360 inches; American 198 inches; Transcript 180 inches, Monitor 52 inches. We have received clippings from the newspapers of sixty cities and towns beside Boston. A selected list of 97 or more dailies was circularized at least three times. A selected list of 25 or 30 of the most important weeklies was circularized at least two or three times. The Boston Papers were given a story daily. Local chairmen were urged to keep local editors supplied with news of the progress of the Foundation. Communications from Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes, Mr. John Moors, President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot, Dr. Samuel M. Crothers, Professor F. W. Taussig, Professor Bliss Perry, Lieutenant-Governor Alvan T. Fuller, -8- Mr. Joseph Walker, Mr. M. A. de Wolfe Howe, and many others were sent to the papers. Letters from ex-President Wilson, and letters about Mr. Wilson, were published. Pictures of Professor and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre and their children, taken for the Foundation, were published and copied widely over the United States. Members of various committees and chairmen, debutantes, college students and wireless operators active in the service of the Foundation, were photographed to give "local color" and "spice" to oft- repeated stories of the purpose of the Foundation and reprintings of the office address. Mr. Duncan made frequent friendly calls upon the editors of the Boston daily papers. Mrs. Forbes and I interviewed the editors of the Herald, Post, Globe and many editors in other cities and towns. The Boston Post and Globe have been most liberal with space. The printing of the subscription blank in the Post has brought in many donations. Two hundred and fifty papers and magazines in all parts of the State were requested in a letter signed by the join chairmen to print the subscription blank as an aid to local committees. Either by this means or through the publication of general articles, the papers have furnished, gratis, thousands of dollars' worth of publicity to the Foundation. Mr. Duncan made two trips in the interest of organization and publicity, one to Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton and Attleboro,- the other to Worcester and Springfield. His assistant, Mr. Thompson, had previously made two, one to the Fall River region, - the other to Fitchburg, Leominster, Grange, Greenfield and North Adams. During the perfect autumn weather, I had the privilege of accompanying Mrs. Forbes for organization purposes to Hyannis, Falmouth, Wareham, Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, New Bedford and other places. -9- Since then I have been in many other parts of the state making at least one visit to each of forty-five or more cities and towns and reaching many more by telephone, or by personal interviews with the chairman who have come by appointment to the Boston office. Many of these trips were made in Mrs. Forbes' car generously placed at the disposal of the Foundation for such work, - the same car in which Mr. Wilson rode triumphantly through the streets of Boston upon his return from the Peace Conference when he brought the plan for the League of Nations. For three months the office work of the Foundation was carried on in my house. On December 14th it was transferred to Room 706, at 101 Tremont St., Boston, where it was continued a second three months until March 20th. The office having then been rented to the Committee on the Limitation of Armaments, the files and supplies were again moved to my house where they are now being put in order for storage. These files should be carefully preserved for they contain the names of a large number of like-minded people. The Boston office was of great value to our work. There it eas easy for people to find us, and convenient for us to carry on the work and to get assistance of volunteer helpers. The sunsets and the glitter of the winter nights which we saw from those windows after our strenuous days, will always be pleasantly associated in our minds with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. The guest book which was opened at the Old State House during the Wilson Hour was signed by more than 800 visitors to the office between January 16th and March 20th. This gives some idea of the number of people who came in person to make contributions, though many who came failed to sign the book. -10- If it had not been for the forbearance of Mr. Foss, and the good nature of Miss Harriet Curtis and Mr. Richard B. Hobart with whom we shared the office, we might have thought Room 706 was ever- crowded for there were frequently eight or ten people working and a line of others waiting to make contributions. I hope they all remember it with the same pleasure that I do. The State Committee has given no direct financial assistance to the local committees, though subscription blanks, form letters and in a few cases, stationery have been given chairman in order to hasten or facilitate their work. Some of the local chairman have informed us that they found it difficult to arouse enthusiastic support for the Foundation at this time. They believed that two years from now, or when business was in better condition it would be a more appropriate time. Other chairmen notably those in educational centers have received ardent and prompt support. Places like Sheffield, Deerfield, Andover and Hilton which are known for their preparatory schools, speedily oversubscribed their quotas. The college towns have kept up this record - Williamstown, Northampton, South Hadley, Wellesley and Cambridge have completed their quotas, some of them have subscribed many times the alloted amount. Williamstown Quota $115. Subscribed $524. Northampton " 490. " 599. South Hadley " 120. " 162.55 Wellesley " 370. " 655.50 Cambridge " 3450. " 3450. -11- Two counties have completed their quotas, Berkshire and Hampshire. These additional towns have completed theirs: Randolph Quota $70. Subscribed $71.00 Provincetown " 75. " 150. Hyannis (Barnstable) " -- " 157. Richmond " Andover Deerfield Shelburne Worthington Holliston Lexington Wayland and Cochtuate Weston Milton Carver Duxbury Harvard Sheffield The largest amount contributed has come from Boston, about $8,000, and it has the largest quota ($38,000). The State Committee agreed that the quotas should not be sent out until the campaign actually started. Accordingly a circular letter announcing the Wilson Hour and the quota for each county was sent to each local chairman on Jan. 14, 1922. (See circular letter and list of county quotas). Subsequently the chairman asked to have quotas assigned to individual cities and towns. Early in February quotas at the rate of about $25. per million based upon assessed valuation, (as published in the manual for the General Court 1921) of these cities and towns which had at that tie committees working for the Foundation, were send to each chairman. The aggregate of the quotas of the cities and -12- and towns in each county was usually assumed to be the quota for that county though in some cases such amounts were less and in some cases more than those first issued, which were based upon county valuations. The forming of committees in other towns means readjustment of those quotas. All local quotas were based upon the Massachusetts quota of $85,000 which in turn was based upon the $1,800,000 quota for the nation. I regret that we have not been able so far to meet the expectations of the National Committee. I believe that $85,000 could have been raised in Massachusetts if industrial and other conditions had been different. As I have travelled about I have heard of multitudes of people who have been our of work many months who would otherwise have been proud to share in the Foundation. If in the very beginning we had been authorised to adopt "drive" methods and been given a longer time to perfect our organization, we should undoubtedly have more money now to turn over to the National Committee. A "drive" however would not have been accompanied with the fine spirit which has been shown by those willing contributors. I believe gifts wrung from the people could neither give the temporary satisfaction nor have the permanent value which these "free-will" offerings will have. Inspired by devotion to a great man and belief in high ideals, these donors have welcomed this opportunity, as their letters attest, to express their faith and their sympathy which have heretofore been inarticulate and unorganized. Such a tribute must influence this and coming generations and the precise amount of money seems to many of us a relatively minor matter. -13- This report would be incomplete if no mention were made of the devoted service rendered by the volunteer and the paid assistants in the campaign. Mrs. Edith E. Huse, office assistant for the State Committee, has been employed from the beginning of the work and has been an invaluable help. I can not praise too highly her business ability nor her friendly, intelligent devotion to the Foundation. No task has been too monotonous or too exacting for her to undertake with good spirit. During the campaign she constantly disregarded closing hours in order to finish pressing work, and she has invariably refused to take additional compensation for such overtime work. Miss Helen Caffney, employed by the Boston Committee, and working in the same office, has shown similar devotion and skill and willingness to co-operate. This fine attitude toward the work has made the spirit of the office uniformly pleasant. Among the unpaid workers I wish to make special mention of Mrs. Joseph Alexander McCord who has devoted weeks of her time to the clerical work in the office. In addition, she took a large share of the responsibility for the luncheon at the Copley-Plaza Hotel which was a signal success, and she assisted on the public meetings by securing the Meeting House, the music and the ushers. Mrs. Rebecca Rubin, previously a stranger to us all, came to the office to offer her services. She also gave weeks of time, and besides proving herself an expert stenographer, she made valuable suggestions about the work and furnished lists of important people from whom gifts might be expected. -14- Mrs. George Ditty and Mrs. Southland rendered similar service. Miss Alice Dabney, Miss Ellen Dabney, Mrs. Charles E. Johnston, Miss Mary F. Webster, Miss Ester Engel, Mr. D. J. Driscoll, Miss Helen MacDonald, Miss Alice Moore, Miss Bessie H. Johnson, Mrs. Edward S. Gilmore, Mrs. Edith J. Kelley, Mrs. France Kelly, Miss Mary Morrison and Mrs. Jessie Wilson and many others spent hours even days, writing cards for the files, addressing postcards and envelopes and filling out receipts. The State Committee is much indebted to the Boston League of Women Voters for the use of its neostyle. Mrs. Huse has been allowed to use the machine at almost any time - days, nights or Sundays - and much expense has been saved thereby. During the busiest part of the campaign Mrs. Forbes, Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Sayre occasionally shared the thrilling work of opening the mail. The volume of mail was very large and attending to it took a great deal of time on the part of the office force. The Treasurer, Mr. Charles Jackson, with fine co-operative spirit devoted hours of solid time to looking after the multitudes of gifts which came daily. A form "thank you" letter signed by the joint chairmen was printed and the following postscript was added: "You have been good enough to contribute to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Will you give us further help by distributing among your friends the enclosed subscription blanks?" This letter was mailed to each subscriber with three subscription blanks and a receipt enclosed, thus each donor was asked to get others to contribute after the manner of the endless chain. Many gifts were accompanied with letters for fervent admiration for Mr. Wilson which merited and got individually-framed replies. -15- Mrs. Forbes knew everything about the office all the time. I am confident she devised methods for carrying on the work while she slept for she brought new and important suggestions and fresh inspiration with each visit. It would be a pleasure, if it were practicable, to mention the work of individual chairmen and the methods which they found successful. The list of towns and cities which have completed their quotes is eloquent testimony of the efficiency of their chairmen. The large cities have been much handicapped by the magnitude of their work and the difficulty in finding people who could give the requisite time. It is quite probably that, despite my best efforts, I have failed to record work that has been done by various members of the committee and others. This reports is made from memory with such help as was obtainable from the files. In spite of our attempt to reach every admirer of Mr. Wilson, I expect to hear from years to complaints from people who were not individually asked to make contributions. People are so unused to "driveless" campaigns that they do not take seriously announcements made in the papers and elsewhere that no personal canvass is to be made for gifts. It is easy to procrastinate in cases of general invitation to subscribe. I am confident that we have not reached more than the outer fringe of a multitude of those who would be glad to have a share in the Foundation. In closing, I wish to record the great personal please I have had in serving with your committee. My already existing responsbiilities were so great that I hesitated to undertake the executive -16- directorship, but I am glad that I did. Besides the pleasure of working with you, I am proud to have had an active share in helping to establish the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Respectfully submitted, Grace A. Johnson Executive Director. 75 Geneva - Plaque commemorative Wilson et le Palais des Nations [image] Haven't we been lucky to come to Switzerland when we had not affected to. My hands are stiff with cold. It is nasty weather and dense fog so we couldn't see the lake but I am much impressed with the beauty and interest of the city. We went into all the parts of the League of Nations building that we were allowed to. Love H. J. W. Jan 30 '26 GJG Edition Jaeger, Geneve. Mrs. L. J. Johnson 90 Raymond St Cambridge Massachusetts U. S. A. CITIZEN'S FAREWELL MEETING in honor of PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY Symphony Hall, Friday Evening, December 17, at 8.15 p.m. Subject: - THE WORLD TODAY AND TOMORROW Speakers PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY Mr. Edward A. Filene Dr. Richard C. Cabot Hon. Andrew J. Peters, President of Boston Chamber of Commerce will preside Reserved seats - $2.00, $1.00 and $0.50 on sale at Symphony Hall. Free admission tickets for Second Balcony obtainable at 40 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston _____ Auspices of WORLD PEACE FOUNDATION and LEAGUE OF NATIONS NON-PARTISAN ASSOCIATION 95 [*125 _____ 750*] THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ROOM 65, EQUITABLE BUILDING, 67 MILKS ST., BOSTON TELEPHONE FORT HILL 1977 JOHN F. MOORE, State Chairman CHARLES JACKSON, State Treasurer MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES, State Chairman of Women's Committee MRS. LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON, Executive Director _____ NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CLEVELAND H. DODGE, Chairman MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT FRANK I. COBB STEPHEN P. DUGGAN MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES EDWIN F. GAY MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN EDWARD M. HOUSE FREDERICK PYNCH HENRY MORGENTHAU ADOLPH S. OCHS FRANK L. POLK MISS VIRGINIA POTTER MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES MRS. CHARLES E. SIMONSON MRS. CHARLES L. TIFFANY MRS. H. OTTO WITTPENN _____ FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Chairman National Committee HAMILTON HOLT Executive Director EDWARD S. MORSE Executive Secretary WILLIAM H. SHORT Director of State Organization _____ National Headquarters 150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK CITY October 30, 1921. My dear You have doubtless read notices in the newspapers of the plan to establish in the Unite States a Woodrow Wilson Foundation which will be comparable to the Nobel Prize of Europe. The purpose of the American Foundation is twofold: to honor our ex-President by naming the Foundation for him; and to help carry forward, through the generations to come, the ideals of democracy, justice and international peace for which he has stood. From January 16th to 23rd, 1922, the opportunity will be given to all who wish to contribute, and as an important step in preparing for "contribution week," we are asking men and women from different parts of the State to come on our Massachusetts Committee of One Hundred. I earnestly hope that you will be one of the One Hundred? Membership in this committee will not entail burdens of any kind; we want the influence of your name and this outward expression of your sym- pathy with the establishment of the Foundation. Massachusetts has always done her full share in noble enterprises, and she will certainly not fail i this campaign, which in no sense will be a "drive." Mrs. Forbes and Mrs. Johnson have already sounded out various communities with gratifying results. We believe that our list of Massachusetts contributors will be a long one. The brunt of the work will fall on the executive officers and on local chairmen all over the State, but we want the co-operation and en- couragement of those who are in sympathy with the plan, even if they cannot give time and strength to carry it forward. The fund for the Foundation - a million dollars - is to be raised chiefly by one dollar contributions from men and women living in every part of the United States. There are thousands of persons who will deem it a privilege to subscribe. Please reply to be at the above address by November 10th. Trusting that you will let me add your name to our Committee, I am Yours sincerely, Chairman. THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION Created by public subscription in recognition of the national and international services of Woodrow Wilson, twice President of the United States, who furthered the cause of human freedom and was instrumental in pointing our effective methods for the cooperation of the liberal forces of mankind throughout the world. The Award or Awards for the income of the Foundation will be made from time to time by a nationally constitute committee to the individual or group that has rendered, within a specified period, meritorious service to democracy, public welfare, liberal thought or peace through justice. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOHN. F. MOORS, State Chairman MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES State Chairwoman of the Women's Committee MRS. LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON Executive Director MRS. JOSEPH ALEXANDER MCCORD State Secretary CHARLES JACKSON State Treasurer NATIONAL CHAIRMAN FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CLEVELAND H. DODGE, Chairman HAMILTON HOLT Executive Director EDWARD S. MORSE Executive Secretary MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT FRANK I. COBB STEPHEN P. DUGGAN MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES EDWIN F. GAY MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN EDWARD M. HOUSE FREDERICK LYNCH HENRY MORGENTHAU ADOLPH S. OCHS FRANK L. POLK MISS VIRGINIA POTTER MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES MRS. CHARLES E. SIMONSON MRS. CHARLES L. TIFFANY STEPHEN S. WISE MRS. H. OTTO WITTPENN National Headquarters 150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS STATE COMMITTEE DR. C. H. ABBOT JUDGE GEORGE W. ANDERSON MRS. DONALD ARMSTRONG MRS. GEORGE P. MAKER MR. RAY STANNDARD BAKER MR. EDMUND BILLINGS DR. VINCENT Y. BOWDITCH MR. JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS DR. RICHARD C. CABOT MRS. DAVID CHEEVER REV. DR. SAMUEL M. CROTHERS MR. FREDERIC CUNNINGHAM MISS GRANCES G. CURTIS PROF. GARRETT DROPPERS PRES.-EMER. CHARLES W. ELIOT MISS EUGENIA B. FROTHINGHAM PRES. HARRY A. GARFIELD DR. AND MRS. WILFRED T. GRENFELL MR. SOLOMON B. GRIFFIN PROF. CHARLES H. HASKINS MRS. AUGUSTUS HEMENWAY MR. RICHARD HOBART MISS ALBERTA M. HOUGHTON MR. MARK A. DEWOLFE HOWE MR. WESTON HOWLAND RT. REV. EDWIN H. HUGHES MRS. FRANCIS H. KERSHAW RABBI HARRY LEVI DEAN EDWARD M. LEWIS MRS. JOSEPH ALEXANDER MCCORD MR. JAMES MCGRATH PRES. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN MR. JOHN J. MITCHELL MRS. JOHN F. MOORS PRES. WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON MRS. CHARLES PEABODY PROF. BLISS PERRY MAYOR ANDREW J. PETERS MR. FRANKLIN S. POLLAK MAYOR EDWARD W. QUINN REV. E. TALMADGE ROOT PROF. FRANCIS B. SAYRE MISS MABEL STURGIS MR. MICHAEL H. SULLIVAN PROF. F. W. TAUSSIG MR. JOHN M. THAYER MRS. JOSEPH G. THORP MRS. CRAWFORD H. TOY MRS. SAMUEL B. WOODWARD MR. FRANCIS C. WOODMAN MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ROOM 65, EQUITABLE BUILDING, 67 MILK ST., BOSTON TELEPHONE FORT HILL 1977 July 25, 1922 My dear Chairman: I am about to send to New York the money collected for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in Massachusetts. If you have any contributions on hand will you please send them to me at once and whether you have or not please mail the enclosed envelope so that I may be sure that my letter has been received. Very truly yours, CHARLES JACKSON Treasurer A great statesman has lived among us. The measure of his service can not yet be made for his contributions to humanity will influence generations to come, and the judgment of these coming generations will, I believe, rival ours in appreciation. It was my privilege to meet President Wilson on his return from Paris when he brought the Covenant of the League of Nations as his offering on the altar of humanity. I was thrilled to hear hundred of thousands of my countrymen, seeking his vision of world peace, burst into paeans of gratitude to this man who, as our arbiter, had persuaded the diplomats of the exhausted, war-torn nations to lay the foundations for a new way, a sane way, of settling international difficulties. President Wilson's detractors - great men always have them, perhaps in proportion to their greatness - will soon be gone and as soon forgotten. But President Wilson's memory and his influence will survive and grow for he lived to establish the beginnings of a better order in the world. [*Grace A. Johnson.*] (Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson) 90 Raymond St., Cambridge. [*President WIlson died Feb. 3, 1924 at 11.15am Feb. 2/24*] THE LATE JESSIE WOODROW SAYRE, in whose memory a scholarship foundation is being established to send students to Geneva for the study of international co-operation. (Purdy Photograph) Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.