Evening star., 1914-01-28
SETS ASIDE TRACT
TO HONOR WOMEN
Bill by Senator Jones Would
Reserve Capitol to Station
Site for Memorial.

A bill providing that part of the land
lying between the Union station and
the Capitol be called the Parthenon and
that it be set aside as site for me-
MORALS to women and their achieve
ments. was introduced in the Senate to-
day by Senator Jones of Washington.
In the last session of Congress SEN
ator Jones introduced bills designating
the lands lying between the Capitol
and the Union station as the Acropolis
and the Parthenon. The bill introduced
today is for the purpose of separating
the two and providing exclusively for
the Parthenop.
In speaking of the bill Senator Jones
said today that this measure is not
fashionable one and is not introduced at
the request or suggestion of any organi-
zation of any kind. and added:
1T is introduced in the hope and be-
lief that from it may come a fitting
memorial to American womanhood, the
sweetest and best in the world. The
ancient Parthenon was the finest express
sion of Grecian art in architecture and
was erected by Pericles in honor of
Athena. who represented to the Greek all
that was good, noble and inspiring in
woman. 1t was intended to honor wom-
an and her noble and inspiring attributes
Few Memorials to Women.
But few monuments or memorials have
been erected TO our women. A magnifi-
cent memorial Is soon to be erected to
the women of the civil war but 1t will
be placed away down on the reclaimed
flats toward the Potomac river. where it
will be seen only by those who are able
to ride in automobiles or who take the
sight-seein cars. There is Hall of
Fame in the National Capitol building in
which each state can place statues to two
OF its citizens. but only one woman thus
far has been honored with a statue there.
Our women deserve recognition
They have done well their part in the
development of our country and in the
making of it's history They have
shared in all the burdens and priva-
tions of pioneer life. They have borne
with unsurpassed fortitude, courage
and sacrifice the sufferings and hor-
rors OF war and in time of peace their
influence and help have been the main
spring of the nations greatness
1t is time that a suitable memorial
should be provided tc commemorate
the splendid American womanhood of
the past. the present and the future.
How better can we do this than to
may be placed such monuments.
statues and memorials as grateful
people may place there from time to
time! What more appropriate loca-
ton for such park and memorial
site than the territory fronting the
magnificent edifice through which the
people of the nation come to visit their
capitaln
First View of Visitors
This bill seeks to do this 1t sets
aside the territory to be acquired be-
tween c street and the Union station for
an outdoor Parthenons so that the first
view which may greet every man, wom-
an and child as they enter the National
Capital will be memorials and monu-
ments commemorative of the sublime
the nation maintain this beautiful park
arts commission permit the placing
therein of such tributes to womankind
as may be deemed worthy tc teach
US the lessons of sweetness, gentleness.
patience, fortitude and sacrifice which
have characterized and ennobled the
American woman"
The magnificent memorial to the
women of the civil war. to which Sena-
tor Jones referred in his statement. is
the structure to be used as headquarters
of the American National Red Cross 1t
is to be erected or l1th street between
D and E streets, not ON land declaimed in
Potomac Park.