The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-19
WASHINGTON MEMORIAL HALL
By Frederic ]. Haskin

aations tor tne establishment VI tae n@-
LlouaI university.
Iuuse WnJ ale presenting the inter-
ssts Of ths George ~ asnins ION 2aelilo-
llaI mali see IA TIE naliOndl capitsai tiss
4usal meeting grOuud Tor the men "a
sclence, Oh iettzrs ana o. AT. III us
acts4les OF the various bureaus tAey
see more results than could come 4LSHl
the researches OF an institution WIN
HundreU million d0ilaF enuO" illSA'
lUn0. As staued ~ one OF Inen' Al
oeII without name OF proper 0omlcile,
without cnarter or ueIinlte Organize
LlOu, there Is TO-DAY n the naIionai
capital q federal institution OF Aho"4-
edge more efficient ana more useful
occupying a higher ana DfoAuer plane
tnan any other educational Institution
"A existence. Its patrons are the
founders and builders OF the natiOh,
It's chanceiIOTs past and present are
such masters as Henry, Bard, Maury'
Powell, NeWcomb and Langley, whose
tame is as broad as civilization; us
regency is the federal, executive leg
Islative ana judIcauve combined; lts
faculty incIuQes nearly ali american
creators OF knowledge; its fellows are
a thousand picked post graduates anu
IT'S preparatory schools comprise the
organized universities and colleges OF
half a hundred commemorative.
That is even more true today than
when it was written a few years ago.
since then the scientific activities OF
me government have doubled, and
never before has it spent so much time
and money in discov ering important
scientific truths and applying them 70
human needs. With the government
repIesenting the greatest organized eT-
/ fort to further the interests or science,
to be found in the whole world, and
with Washington as the home OF the
| Smithsonian institution, the National
/ Geographic society, the Carnegie In
| stitutiOn, the library Of congress, the
| capital is already the center OF science
/ IN the new world.
/ The senate Of the United States has
a standing committee on the univer-
sity of the United States, with a mem
/ bership of nearly a dozen. Senator
/ Guggenheim of Colorado is its chair
man. There was q day when 1t seemed
that this committee would realize the
! purpose for which it was founded. But
| in late years it has served no other
! purpose than to give committee chair
| manship to some senator, carrying with
| it the usual perQuisites Of a commit
tee chairman. 1t has made several re-
/ ports favorable to the establishing OF
! a university but none of them has
been within haiIing distance Of enact
| ment into law.
In 1902 Andrew Carnegie gave s10,-
900, 900 to the creation Of the Carnegie
institution Of Washington. In discuss
ing the gift Mr.. Carnegie said that 1t
was his first thought to fulfill the eX-
pressed wish of Washington by estab-
fishing a great university. He said
that it cost him some effort to push
aside the tempting idea Of a Washing
ton university founded by Andrew Car
negie. He was also careful to state
that his action in establishing the Car
negie institution was not to be con-
strued as In any wise hindeTing the
future foundation Of a national uni
versity.
It is expected that all Of the great
t philanthropists Of the country VIII Us
ready to give literally toward the pro-
posed Washington Memorial Hall Of
! Science. Already many Of them have
r indicated their deep interest in the
{ project by allowing their names to be
used in connection with It. Everybody
! realizes that Washington, besides be-
! ing an ideal convention city from the
! standpoint OF the scientist. is ale,
: strong in it's appeal to the patriot
= Given a great hall where the larges
organizations could meet in comfort
meet elsewhere would 90 there, an,
g besides furnishing a clearing house anC
science capitol, the memorial hal
T. would fill a lOng-felt want as a gen
! eral convention hall.
. The proposal to build a great scienc
: hall viii not be open to the objection
= / urged against the national university
The need Of such a hGH is admitted b.
: | everybody. Not so with the nationa
: / university. Many believe that ever,
educational need Is meC by existing IA
: cilities Of established universities, an
= that to establish a national uniVersit-
: would be to inJure those now in tn
q field. Il is also asserted that such
= university cannot be established eX
: cept by 81 amendment to the constitu
q ton, and that this facI was recognize
L by Jefferson himself: although Chic
a Justice Fuller has dissented from thi
= view by heading the board which h9
q led the fight for the establishment @
Il the university. 1t is said that religio
e would interfere with the establishment
y of the university; that if one religion
g theory was taught the adherents {
r other creeds would be angered, and
n no theology was taught there would 3
e equal criticism, and that the sam
e would be true Of political econom,
/, Whether or not these objections an
70 kindred ones are well taken, the fac
r remains that they have had a potter
lie bearing on the subject and have pre-
lie vented the establishment of the un
Re versity. But the friends of the Wasi
10 ington Memorial Hall Of Science prC
= ject say that no objection of any kin
l. can he urged AGAINST IT,