Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-13
URGES CHANGE IN PLAN
FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL
Rev. George Mcpherson Hunter Sug-
gests Better Sailors Homes
in Seaports.
Indicates Ways Whereby Funds
Could Be Made to Benefit
Men Who Roam Seas.

New York. secretary of the American
Seamen's Friend Society, has given out
a statement urging that the proposed
woman's Titanic memorial to be erect
ed in Washington be abandoned in
favor of some form of memorial other
than a marble monument in the CAPT.
tal possibly sailors homes in seaports.
The society, of which Theodore
Roosevelt. Admiral George Dewey, U.
s. n. former Judge Summer 1. kinda
of Washington, former Secretary of
tho Navy George Won L. Meyer, and
other prominent men are honorary
presidents, knows of many other OPP
portunities for memorializing bravery
of the men of the Titanic who gave
up their lives that the women might
be saved first, according to Rev. Mr..
Hunter, who signs his statement as
secretary of the organization.
Views Of Rev. Mr.. Hunter.
His statement is as follows:
Great deeds of sacrifice demand In an
imperative way some memorial. Heart
and mind approve and applaud them.
Naturally, with that keen appreciation
of the heroic and the chivalrousness
which characterize American womanhood
they have led In movement to perpetu-
ate the gallant conduct of the passengers
who gave up their seats to the women;
the engineers, all of whom. persisted at
who laid down their lives that others
suppressed that the movement might have
taken some other form than marble
statue. Instead of being modelled monu-
ment Of beauty and splendid proportions
haps less beautiful to the eye. but more
helpful to the millions of sailors who sail
the sea-
1.-The only memorial Christ erected or
renown that He promised was to a
| woman who broke an alabaster box of
| ointment. and the fragrance of that
, ointment is still filling the world.
Should It Not Be Morep
"A marble statue in Washington, D.
c., will be a fixed local work of art,
visible to the visitors, but it raises the
| larger question: Should the Titanic me-
mortal not be something that would
help the living sailormen. relieve the
| orphans, cheer the widows hearts,
something universal, human. filling the
world with its gracious fragrance?
| 1--WE know some sailors orphans
homes that are struggling hard to father
!
crying need for convalescent home for
seamen. discharged from city hospitals.
cured. but not yet strong enough to face
| the battle Of life
| 1--WE know at least twelve seaports in
the United States where the seamen S
housed and poorly equipped, waiting for
some one to furnish them with good
| quarters, where the socially starved sea-
men of all nationalities may have their
I rvf1@r md
cheer, and the memory of the kindness
shown them would be carried to the ends
| of the earth.
Crave Good Literature.
Sailors hunger for good literature. and
loan libraries could be sent out on the
seven seas to educate the minds, cheer
the hearts. improve the tastes and sat
isfy the intellectual hunger of class
of men who sometimes crave books more
than they desire bread. So that on the
waters where the Titanic heroes persisted
enduring monuments would be raised on
seamen's hearts, and the sacrifice would
not have been in vain.
"Arius, the hereto. taught the sailors
| on the corn ships of Alexandria harbor to
sing his heresy. and they went into every
port in the Mediterranean sea spreading
the heresy by their songs.
What a superb monument to the
Titanic heroes would be erected if the
| Q O00, 900 sailors who visit American shores
annually could be sent around the weird
singing the praises of American hospital
| ity of the great heartedness of the Amer
| ican women who loved and desired to
remember the common heroism of the
common sailor.
| culture Wis tors to Washington will be
shown the statue. and remember WIN
badness the great deed, but the thought
Cannot be downed that the sailor himself
MINT have made the best Titanic me-
mortal