Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-09-12
MADISON URGED TO
HAVE GENEROUS PART
Cemmittee Organizes To Have
This Commnuity Represented
In Memorial To Heroes

The nucleus of an organization
in Madison county to secure a
good sum here toward the Me-
mortal Building at State Uni
versity in honor of the boys who
g..e their lives as supreme
sacrifice in the war, was effected
here in Richmond Thursday
Members of the organ:zation
committee were Messrs. J How
ard Payne, D. H. Starns. Wren
J. Grinstead, and Reuben Pearl
man. All who are interested in
making this splendid testimonial
to the heroes of the war sue
cess will meet Monday, at which
time formal organization will
be effected. Mr.. Pearlman, who
has charge of the publicity work,
in talking with the Daily Reg
rister, told of the movement, its
aims and purposes as follows:
In the European War, .2,726
Kentuckians, both men and wo-
men, gave their lives in the var
ious pursuits of that tragic en-
terprise that humanity might be
free; that autocracy might not
again menace the race and the
world might be a better place in
which to live.
The record of Kentucky's part
in that momentous struggle adds
a new and luminous page to the
history, not only of the Com
monwealth, but of the nation
a page in which the story of her
priceless sacrifice, the courage
of her immortal sons, the patriot
ism OF her daughters, will be a
source of inspiration and pride
throughout all the years to come.
Of that magnificent army OF
men who turned their faces.
when duty called, toward the
battle fronts of Europe, that
200 did not return, is inspiring
testimonial to their historic valor
in defense of the flag and the
principles of free government
for which their forefathers
fought; is additional proof, in
deed that in the Anglo-Saxon
veins of Kentucky's sons and
daughters still courses the blood
of a stock that holds life cheap
when slavery is the price Of
cowardice and dishonor.
On Flanders fields, in the
Forest of Argonne, at Chateau
Thierry, in Belleau Wood, some
of these are sleeping in ground
that shall be forever holy to
Kentucky. Nothing can rob her
of the heritage of their deeds.
Neither time nor change can dim
the records of the lowliest of
these who freely offered and as
freely gave up life for humanity,
for freedom, for peace, for pros
perity, for the happiness and
lasting well being of their fell
lows.
Our government has lost no
opportunity to give them Chris
tian burial when such was posi-
BILE; to keep records of their
deeds; to mark the spots where
they fell and where they rest.
But Kentucky now proposes to
be one of several states of the
Union to give enduring vitality
to her testimonial of pride in
the courage of her fallen by
establishing a new covenant of
faith with her dead sons and
daughters that shall memorialize
them in enduring form and to
useful purpose.
To this end it is proposed
therefore to erect upon the
grounds of the University of
Kentucky, a Memorial Building,
of dimensions sufficiently ample
to house in comfort all the STU
dent activities of the institution
and to establish in the rotunda,
tablets bearing the names of the
entire list of her soldiers who
made the supreme sacrifice, in
the abiding hope that it shall