The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-17
BARRE GRANITE SHAFT
As w. S. S. REWARD
Ohio Counties Are Engaged in Spirited
Campaign, the Winner of Which
Will Get Handsome Memo
rial for It's Heroes.


A striking memorial shaft of finest
hammered Barre granite is to be the
motif around which the state of Ohio
will conduct an intensive w. S. S. cam
paign beginning June /, according to ar
rangements completed to-day whereby
the Barre Quarters & Manufacturers
association, through the Ohio war saw
ings committee, will present to the Ohio
county attaining the highest percentage
OF its per capita w. S. s. quota, a digni-
fed monument in honor of that coupty's
hero dead in the world war.
Acceptance of this opportunity to CO.
operate with the government in the sale
OF war savings stamps is another earnest
OF the Barre associations efforts to pro-
claim the merits of Barre granite as the
most desirable stone for public and pri.
vate memorials. The campaign will be
the climax to series Of war drives in
which Ohio has always registered 100
per cent, and the state committee is ex-
erting every effort to make it the most
successful. A well organized publicity
department is already in working order,
and the bulk of the publicity viii center
around the memorial shaft to be award
ed the county with the largest per capita
oyersubscription.
Although detailed plans for the memo
rial have not been completed, the monu-
ment is to take the form of shaft,
which will rise from base six feet
square to an altitude of 80 feet. The
association has appointed committee
consisting of John G. Booth, w. A. Muir
ray, j. X. Pirie, Joseph Calcagni and
Athol Bell to complete the necessary
preparations In the meantime, an elab-
crate publicity program, embracing the
use of 300 Ohio newspapers, many pc
riodicals, colored posters, Autographs
and the mails, will tell the story of the
Barre granite soldiers memorial and the
requirements to be met by the county
which would possess it,
Ohio is credited with leading all states
in the aggregate sale of war savings
stamps. There are SO counties in the
race and the various war loan organiza
tions, having emerged creditably from
several drives, the latest being the Vic
tory loan, consolidated their forces in
united endeavor to make the w. S. S.
a fitting finale.
Among number Of qusrrying centers
anxious to contribute the memorial,
Barre was selected, apparently because
Barre granite, by reason of its beauty,
dignity and capacity for withstanding
the corroding effects of time and the
met both the tests of attrac-
tiveness and durability. A carefully pre-
pared reproduction of the memorial, with
an appropriate background, is being used
in the magazine, newspaper and litho-
graph literature circulated in connection
with the campaign.
The memorial viii find location in
the county seat of the county having
the largest per capita subscription at the
end of the drive. Appropriate exercises
Of unveiling viii accompany the presen-
tation of the shaft to the successful
Ohio has always been salts
fed user of Barre granite and many of
its best known memorials, both public
and private, are wrought out of the ma
tive stone The Quarters & Manufae-
turers' association believes that the pro-
jected shaft will be sufficiently appeal
ing in its design and quality to add ma
terially to the good name which Barre
granite already enjoys in Ohio,