The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-11
|l.R MEMORIAL NILL
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Committee Starts Work
With That AS It's Only
Fixed Plan.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE perma-
n6ht memorial to be erected by nation
/, Nd popular subscription to the mem
orr 6t Theodore Roosevelt must mot
IS merely q thing Of stone ana
bronze but, hike Theodore Roose-
Welt himself; 1t must be dynamic"
Such Is the aim viewed by the
R00seyeIt Permanent Memorial Ma
tf6nal committee, which has opened
dffices ON the twentyninth floor OF /
Madison avenue.
81 3 statement issued by the COM
lntttee Il was made clear that the
members OF the committee will remain
open minded for many months on the
exact form to be taken by the mem
0fial and promise to give all sugges-
Hons from sources outside the commit
tee the most careful consideration. 1t
Was further explained that the admin
isffaki0n expenses Of the committee
would be borne by separate subscrip-
tons; and that every penny given for
the memorial will be spent for MEM
Drial.,'
C6ntrihutions to the memorial fund
are solicited and viii be promptly ac-
iknoWiedged and deposited with the
treasnfer; Albert H. Wiggin, Of the
Chase National bank.
Committees Statement.
The statement issued by the COM
mittee says in part:
1.-THE Roosevelt Permanent Mem
ORAL National committee consists ex-
ciHSiveiy ofsmen and women who we're
ii one way or another closely associat-
"a with Col. Roosevelt. They knew
hin iii public life and at home; they
knew better than any one else outside
his Immediate family what he loved
and what he hated, what he stood for
md what he stood firmly against;
among them they represent every
phase 81 his extraordinary and many
sided career, II any group therefore
can say what would be the wish of
uheodb lore Roosevelt in regard to ma
ional memorial to him, this commit
tee should be able to do it.
Iheodore Roosevelt believed in the
beopIe that means that he believed in
ne sound horse sense Of the average
american; It Is only Just to his men,
ofR; therefore; that the American peo-
'ple n HON he implicitly trusted and
WHO trusted and followed him should
have every opportunity to express
titeir preference concerning the form
that their memorial to him should
'sIfe committee has no idea what
f|iit iofm Eillsbe. 1t knows only this
that the memorial which the American
PEOPLE intimately dedicate to Theo-
1Qfa Rooe eyalt must not be merely a
thing of tone and bronze. Like Theo.
fote Roosevelt himself, it must BIO
tynani6 Roosevelt never stood STILL
and II would be treason to his spirit
n this memorial should not have in 1t
some d the creative energy Of the
man Il seaks to honor. In some way it
mis- hetp TO build the new and better
Rpose yelt the man is dead, but
Bp6sexe 81 the merging spirit Is very
much live, Il Is the aim Of the mem.
drill cemfNit tee, with the aid of Col.
Roos Falt 8 friends and supporters all
over he country, to find some effec-
i've way o. putting that spirit to
First Contributor Capt. eourke.
The honor OF making the first con-
tftbutton 10 the memorial fund fell to
Capt Edward ~ Bourke, Of the Thir-
ysthitd precinct police station, who
served under Col. Roosevelt when the
latter was Police Commissioner of
New York city, and who accompanied
q so contribution with letter ex-
nfessihg MS appre ciation Of the Ameri.
eafism d tlie former President.
The little town Of Greenfield Hill,