UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL Library of the University of !North Carolina Endowed b}' the Dialectic and Philan- thropic Societies (lp6- fl^^^o Q>H^' Z 00033926459 m ^^mx:^-> ■mi;m Mm This BOOK may be kept out TWO WEEKS ONLY, and is subject to a fine of FIVE CENTS a day thereafter. It was taken out on the day indicated below: UNVEILING OF MONUMENT Erected in Capitol Square, Raleigh TO CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK Born November 1, 1859 Governor of North Carolina 1901-5 Died April 12, 1912 Addresses of Presentation in City Auditorium Unveiling and Acceptance on Capitol Square THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1924 Ayeock Memorial Committee George C. Royall, Chairman B. R. Lacy, Treasurer Nathan O'Berry, Chairman Finance Committee J. Y. Joyner, Chairman Unveiling Committee Wm. R. Allen* R. D. W. Connor P. M. Pearsall* Albert Anderson D. Y. Cooper* F. D. Winston T. AV. Bickett* Joseplius Daniels E. C. Brooks E. C. Duncan* * Deceased. Quotations from Aycock Appearing on Monument I. //( Semicircular Portion Back of Monument : — • CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK 1859-1912 II. Ead Inscription, Front of Monument, Under Tablet Represent- ing Education: — "The equal right of every child born on earth to have the opljortunity to burgeon out all there is within him.'" III. West Inscription, Front of Monument, Under Tablet Represent- ing North Car'olina: — "I would have all our people believe in their power to accom- plish as much as can be done anywhere on earth by any people.'' IV. West Inscription Back of Monument: — AN IDEAL FOR NORTH CAROLINA "I would have all our people to believe in the possibilities of North Carolina : in the strength of her men, the purity of her women, and their power to accomplish as much as can be done anywhere on earth by any people. "I would have them to become dissatisfied with small things : to be anxious for higher and better things ; to yearn after real greatness : to seek after knowledge ; to do the right thing in order that they may be what they ought. "I would have the strong to bear the burdens of the weak and to lift up the weak and make them strong, teaching men every- where that real strength consists not in serving ourselves, but in doing for others." V. East Inscription Back of Monument: — IDEALS OF PUBLIC SERVICE "Equal ! That is the word ! On that word I plant myself and my party — the equal right of every child born on earth to have the opportunity to burgeon out all there is within him." . . . "No man is so high that the law shall not be enforced against him. and no man is so low that it shall not reach down to him to lift him up if may be and set him on his feet again and bid him godspeed to better things." "There is but one way to serve the people well, and that is to do the right thing, trusting them as they may ever be trusted, to approve the things which count for the betterment of the State." PROGRAM OF EXERCISES Dr. Edwi^'^ a. Alderman, Presidixg 12 M. — -City Auditorium: Prayer — Reverend Richard Tilman Vann, D.D., Ra- leigli. An Appreciation of Cliaries Aycock — Dr. Edwin Ander- son Alderman. Historical Address — The Honorable Josephus Daniels. 1 r. M. — xludience follow State College Band to Capitol Square, where unveiling will occur immediately. 1 :10 p. M. — Unveiling of Monument, under Direction of Pre- siding Officer, Presenting it to the People of the State — Unveiling by Master Charles Brantley Aycock, Goldsboro, jST. C., and Master Charles Aycock Poe, Raleigh. 1:15 P.M. — Acceptance of Statue on Behalf of State— His Ex- cellency, Cameron Morrison, Governor of iSTorth Caro- lina. 1 ;30 p. M. — Benediction — Elder Frederick "W. Keene, Raleigh. HISTORY OF THE AYCOCK MEMORIAL Dr. J. Y. JOYNEE THE suggestion tliat a suitable monument should be erected to the memory of Charles Brant- ley Aycock was made very soon after his sudden death in Bir- mingham, Ala., April 4, 1912, but the World War and its aftermath jirevented the effective further- ing of the idea until three or four years ago. From the first, the Aycock Memorial Committee had three ideas in mind. I. One was that the monument should be a free-will offering by the people he loved and served, and of the boys and girls for whom he gave the gladdest serv- ice of his heroic life, and that no contribution should be re- ceived from the public treasury. About a third of the total amount came in pennies and dimes from countless boys and girls all over North Carolina for whom Aycock had widened the door of educa- tional opportunity, while the re- mainder expresses the love of men and women, sons and daugh- ters of North Carolina, who fol- lowed him in his great campaigns and wished to express their ap- preciation of his life and service. II. The second purpose of the Committee was that the memo- rial should not be the mere statue of a man, a mere repre- sentation of Aycoek's form and features, but that in some beau- tiful and enduring way it should symbolize the ideals and aspira- tions for which Aycock stood, and for which North Carolina stood under his leadership ; that through this memorial Aycock should still live and speak his high message to all succeeding generations of North Carolinians. Through the genius of the artist as expressed in two remarkable historical panels, reinforced by some of Aycoek's own eloquent words, this hope has been real- ized. III. The third hope of the Committee was that the memo- rial should be a genuine and notable contribution to the art treasures of North Carolina and the South. To this end, the Com- mittee secured the services of Gutzon Borglum, undoubtedly one of the world's greatest sculp- tors. Already distinguished for having wrought out some of America's greatest statues, it is felt that his supreme achieve- ment — the Stone Mountain Con- federate Memorial — will rank Avith the Pyramids for majesty and sublimity. Avoiding a tra- ditional smoothness and over- emphasis of detail, Borglum works in the style of his great master, Rodin, achieving effects by bold, rugged, and vigorous outlines, giving his statues an expression of life, force, and virility rather than mere passive elegance. #