Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-04-12
THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL.


Ia Dir. PulItzeris sill r. left sz5Oy1 70 have
2 memorial ~ Thomas JeSersgu erected 10 New
YORK ery- But 81 afiied = hope thar other people
NssIld goaH and reise tie fund ~ a. much more
= ieasi. ihzf the memorial might b. more splen-
did and more appropriate for the graf states
mas memory
Nov the people vito hare the fund III charge
are Mayor William ] Gaynor Of New YORK.
chairman Ralph Pulitzer ~ New York Vice ehz5r-
man- and then committee IF Governor Dir af
New York. Governor Plaisted II Maine Goyerrsr
Baldwin u Conneefieuf. Governor Marshall Of IN
diana. Governor Foss u Massachusetts. Governor
Harmon u Ohio. Governor Mann II Virginia
and Governor Woodrow Wilson II New JERSEY
and % that committee for the Thomas Jefer-
son memorial fund al contributions should b.
selt Dollar contributions arr the rule
TIE custom very old to disguish nen who
10 their ifrtimes performed great services for
their country by erecting IL their memories me-
mgrals of one kind or another sometimes taking
the form u statues. sometimes monuments. and
m these modern days groups # STATUES some
times surround the chief memory 70 b. honorsd
And It j. splendid custom. because when a
man serves bis country and passes on beyond. il
= good for the children Of men who remain n
see these things and 10 realize that the man
himself ~ bis life served his country that
he won from gratitude which il Al last forever.
end won for himself name which will remain
when h. has gone back 10 dust
Just now there j. good deal 81 talk about
the kind Of statue that shall BE- raised TO Abra-
ham Lincoln 70 doubt says Goodwin Weekly.
too there VIII he much discussion A. 10 the ma
tire n the memorial 10 be raised 10 Mr. JefTer-
sgn. But 10 matter what IS decided upon those
memorials scattered through the different ~state
hake punctuation points which attract attention.
punctuation points before which men stop. no mat
- what mar ~ their career 10 consider for 4
mpment that someone ii years before - lived
aad ~ died that his j. 10 be- . concern
brent = his eOuntrgmen long as the nation
exists
The Washington memorial in Washington *
SIMPLY shaft bat i IS higher than any 0the.
eff built 10 any other man absolutely plain -
was George Washington without one pretense
except that 10 fs natural proportions It rises
above aii other statues ever erected 10 any other
man And Whist could 81 more appropriate for
George Washington than that
And j seems q u that all architects and all
artists should in their leisure moments b. think
ing - what would be appropriate for some -
the men who have lived and who have passed
awsv. There = no fitting statue set for cal
houn. or Tor lay or for Webster that we knase
u or Tor John Marshall who took the eonsfI.
tuition IT the United States = skeleton and EN-.
beilished ID until Il became < structure thar 4.
hs..if glory ~ the eafth : something 10 which
inferior nations iuru ta for guide and which
i working ont - destiny m our country ana
hetnud mar eauntrY We mention fh04e ran..s
anlf heeanse thcs naturally eoant first rs fa.na
Their err plenty mafs
Every boy heu Is Amerlea ought Is haze
lfnpFt,sfd upau him that BIS own country :.
- srtatfsf fte mess mertilul ibe fressl -
eHftt. end ~ auf g. which thr haf.es 81 lke
afd mn,i naturally faas
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feai tfeftfhluH Is ufan9 eKsm What fhs fsfhaes
dai Heeah fFrr rs fhe sgaahAe n ttat tt H
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