TO HONOR STATE’S DAUGHTERS

Progress Of Plan To Erect Monument To Confederate Women.

VETERANS STARTED MOVEMENT

Mrs. Odenheimer Corrects Impression that U.D.C. Are Seeking To Glorify Themselves.

The plan to erect a monument to the Maryland women of the Confederacy by the Maryland Division, Confederate Veterans, and the Army and Navy Society of the Confederate States In Maryland received the hearty cooperation of the women of the Maryland Division, United Daughters of the Confederaey, last spring, when It was proposed. A Joint committee was appointed and during the summer plans have been forming for active work this fall. The local Daughters of the Confederacy will hold a meeting the first of October to decide on their part in raising funds for the monument.

Telling of the monument yesterday Mrs. Frank G. Odenheimer, president of the Maryland Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, said the monument is to be erected by the Confederate Veterans and that only the co-operation of the Daughters is asked.

Daughters Asked To Help.

“The President-General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. Virginia Faulkner MeSherry, has sent out letters recently to the presidents of the State Divisions,” Mrs. Oden-helmer explained, “urging that they present to the chapters the importance of responding to the appeal made to them by Gen. C, Irvine Walker, of North Carolina, general chairman of the monuments to Confederate women, that they work with the veterans In this, the greatest movement ever inaugurated for the honor of the womanhood of the South.”

Many of the Maryland Daughters have not fallen in line with the plan of co-operating with the veterans.

“They do not seem to understand,” Mrs. Odenheimer sald, “why they should co-operate. Some of them resent doing so, claiming that it is helping erect a monument to themselves. The Veterans are erecting these monuments not to the present generation but to the women of the Confederacy. The youngest of these are now very old women, and the vast majority have fallen asleep, weary with their sorrows and the burdens which they bore for their beloved land.

“It seems to me most fitting that those who are left and the descendants of those who have gone should join hands with the veterans in raisIng these memorials. The honor of this work la due to the veterans. They are erecting the monuments, the women only giving what aid they can.”

Design Not Selected.

The design for the Maryland monument has not yet been selected. Ruckstuhl, the artist who designed the Baltimore Confederate monument, has Just completed a design for the South Carolina monument, for which $20,000 has been raised.

Major Samuel H. Lyons, 101 East Preston street, is treasurer of the fund for the Maryland monument.