Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-18
|PUblIC|S INVITED
TO CHOOSE THEME
Asked to Aid in Selecting In.
scriptions for Bronze Tab
lets in Hall of Fame
FOR ELEVEN AMERICANS
CHOSEN IN RECOLLECTION
Committeeman Henry Mitchell Nc
Cracker Announces National
Referendum for Purpose.

Henry Mitchell McCracken, committed
| man of the Hall OF Fame of New York,
has announced a national referendum for
| the purpose of choosing the inscriptions
| that shall appear on the bronze tablets
| to the eleven great Americans. who We're
chosen in 1910 for places in the Hall of
Fame. Mr.. McCracken has for twelve
years had charge of the work of choos-
Ing. from the writings or utterances of
those elected to the Hall of Fame, SEN
tence or passage which should most truly
represent the individual.
| For various reasons it has seemed ad-
vsable to him to enlist the aid and coun-
| sci of Americans generally in the work
of choosing these inscriptions, and for
| this reason the referendum plan has
| been decided upon.
Below are given passages from the
| writings or words of the eleven chosen at
| the election of 1910. AS only one in
| scriptfon can appear on each bronze tab
| let, the public is asked to choose the
most appropriate. The list and passages
| from which to choose follows:
List of Heroes.
| For Hall of Fame for Famous Women:
| Harriet Beecher Stowe: 1S11-1S96.
| 1. This horror, this nightmare abomi-
| nation can 1t be in my country. It lies
| like lead on my heart, it shadows my life
| with sorrow; the more SO, that 1 feel as
| for my own brothers, for the south"
.. II would write something that would
| make this whole nation feel what a
cursed thing slavery is AS long as the
baby sleeps with me nights. I cannot do
! much at anything, but 1 will write that
| thing II live
Frances Elizabeth Willard: 1S39-1S9S
1. I'VE wage our peaceful war for God
and home and every land
2. Were l asked to define in a sentence
the thought and purpose of the Womens
Christian Temperance Union, I would
| reply 1t is to make the whole world home
like"
For Famous Men of Foreign Birth:
Roger Williams: 16O7-16S4.
Proclaim true and absolute soul free
dom to all the people of the land impair
TALLY, SO that no person be forced to pray
nor pray otherwise than as his soul be-
| lieveth and consenteth.''
For the Hall of Fame for Famous Men
| of Native Birth:
| Edgar Allan Poe: 1SO9-1S49
| j. IF | could dwell where ISRAELI
| Hath dwelt. and he where 1.
| He might not sing SO wildly we'll
mortal melody,
| While a holder note than this might
swell
From my Tyre within the sky"
2. Like lone albatross
| incumbent on night,
AS she on the air
To keep watch with delight
| On the harmony there
| Oliver Wendell Holiness 1sO9-1e94
II always believed in life rather than
books. / believe the flowers growing at
| this moment send up more fragrance to
heaven than was ever exhaled from all
the essence ever distilled"
James Fennimore Cooper: 17s9-1S51.
!. Everything which can convey to
the human mind distinct and accurate |
impressions of social events or past his |
tory is of use. All that is neces sary is |
that the pictures should be true to nature |
if not absolutely drawn from living sit |
tiers. ;"
.. ITO suppose that the red man is to |
be represented only in the suualid misery |
and in the degraded moral state that |
more or less belongs to his condition is /
taking a very narrow view of authors
privileges. Such criticism would have de-
prived the world of even Homer"
Phillips Brooks: 1S35-1S93
This is what see about God when l
look at Christ. 1t is God that ! see there,
not doctrine about Him: but it is He,
the light of God in the face of Jesus |
Christ"
William Cullen Bryant: 1794-1s7s.
Seek st thou in living ways to linn the /
beauty of the earth and sky?
Before thine inner gaze let all that beau
ty in clear vision lie
Look on it with exceeding love and write |
The words inspired by wonder. and de- /
light"
George Bancroft: 1S0O-1S91.
History interposes with evidence that
tyranny and wrong lead inevitably to de- |
cav: that freedom and right, however
hard may be the struggle. always prove
resistless.'
Andrew Jackson: 1761-1S4J.
Our federal Union. 1t must and shall |
be preserved.
John Lothrop Motley: 1S14-1SII.
II venture to hope that the lovers of |
human progress and the admirers of dis
interested virtue may find ENCOURAGEMENT
in the detailed history of an heroic peo-
pie in it's most eventful period
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