Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-02
BENEFIT IN MEMORY TELLSOF SEAH0RR0R
Martha S. GeoW Suggests Reco|eCti0ns OF Passenger
Plan for Memorials. Who Was Aboard the Titanic.
SIMPLE TABLET IS HONOR MRS. ESTER HARRIS STORY
Country With Fahess Daughter
ments She Declares to Old Home in England
EDUCATE THE M0UNTAINEERs HUSBAND AMONG DROWNED
Of Lives Msman
Opportunity Spending agement and Haste She
for Grandeu Believes
Martha S. GieIoW Suggests
Plan for Memorials.
SIMPLE TABLET IS HONOR
Country Has Gone Mad Over Monu-
ments, She Declares.
EDUCATE THE M0UNTAINEERs
Urges Giving the Unenlightened an
Opportunity Instead of Spending
Millions for Grandeur.
N the Editor Of TIC Star:

n the Editor Of TIC Star:
America has beyond doubt gone mad
on the monument question. Indeed, the
time has arrived when a simple tablet
speaks more TO the honor of hero than
3 towering shaft. Ii Is we'll to punctuate
great deeds of history with imposing
marble. but when ii comes to marking
every historic spot and erecting a me-
mortal to every one who dies bravely
whether q victim or hero in action.
is cheapening such memorials and MAX
ing the desired effect unavailing and
often ridiculous.
IL such a custom continues the entire
land will be covered with tombstones and
heroes will have no greater reverence
than is now given the buried pets. that
also have many monuments to recall
their deeds and loving ways.
Why should not memorials take on a
more practical and humane form? Why
should not some great rescue station be
established in memory of those who
home or a hospital. where the home
less and stranded can be provided for
until started again on ife's voyage?
Why should not some such rescue
Barton. that in her name the good work
she started can forever be in ready at
tendance on suffering humanity?
Suggests Lincoln Memorial.
And why in the name of humanity
should S2.OOO.OOO be put in marble to
honor man who was considered very
human and who if he could speak q
feel sure. would ask for less grandeur
and more beneficial memorial. Yes. If
Lincoln could speak he would point to
the mountains from whence his ancestry
came and say. Give them chance,
make my memorial a living one of en-
Tghtened citizenship 10 the unenlightened
mountaineers. In uplifting them you
will indeed honor me and mine and be
but giving my mountain people belated
recognition for the part they have played
in the history of the land"
But If not an educational monument for
this man who sought education so earnest
ly and laborously himself. then give HIM
q highway boulevard or something
that will be benefit to mankind and of
use to his country! And now a bill has
just been put before the foreign commit
tee on appropriations asking the United
States to give SI.5Ou.Oo to build a MEM
orial bridge across the Niagara river and
put monuments at Buffalo and Detroit
TO commemorate the treaty of Client and
our hundred years of peace with England.
1t would seem very one-sided memorial
for the nation to give this startling sum
to Detroit and Buffalo without even a
mention of the southern patriots and
southern places that were inseparable fac
tors in the making of this centenary Of
peace.
Could not the centenary of peace be
mere appropriately celebrated with the
ringing of bells and devotional services
OF thanksgiving in both nations? And If
some great structure is necessary to re-
call this era of peace to the nations. why
not let 1t be the proposed highway from
Niagara to New Orleans through historic
passes with branches east and west, Tor
the better development of the nation
And. better than all. why not celebrate
the one hundred years OF peace IN
living monument to Andrew Jackson and
the mountaineers who made that hundred
years OF peace effectual? With chain or
unitarian. industrial schools in the APP
palachians. to give vocational training
and moral uplift to the long neglected
descendants OF our revolutionary heroes,
The nation would indeed have builded the
greatest of all monuments In honor or
peace and good will to mankind.
Highways and bridges are as nothing
compared to such a monument OF con-
structive citizenship. Its beneficial results
would go down through the ages in liv-
ing evidence of the same.
Children Calling for Light.
j large percentage of the nations chill
dren, shut out from her institutions OF
learning and progress by their remote
ness and inaccessibility in our Appala-
chians. are calling for light. Federal aid
has been and is being given to institu-
lions of higher learning, but only the
exceptional few already educated can
hope TO climb upward IN these broader
feds OF learning Then why should not
federal aid be extended to the more vital
work Of a primary foundation for the
thousands cut off from all hope of a
broader course? Give us the Andrew
Jackson highland memorial for the max
ing OF more Jacksons as monument To
our centenary of peace? Let II stand
within the lofty peaks of the Appala-
chians made sacred by the blood OF
heroes in battles won.
Seven millions would be well spent in
the making of men and women out of
the splendid material going TO waste IN
the mountains There Is nowhere else
for the nation to turn for her real simon
pure Americans today except TO the
southern mountains And yet 10000 OF
those splendid highlanders who volun-
available at their nations call for the
lack of the educational qualification.
These undeveloped descendants Of our
heroic ancestors of the best Scotch and
Scotch-Irish and English and French
Huguenot forefathers are the most price
less possessions of the nation today. Is
IL not time for the nation to awaken to
the necessity Of the conservation of this
Anglo-Saxon race and build TO her honor
the indestructible monument OF educa-
tom MARTHA ) G1ELOW.