The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-12-11
SOLDIER and SAILOR
MEMORIAL MEETING SET
FOR JANUARY 7
Chairman John Pulse in Open Letter Discusses Work of
State Commission and Objects County Committee
ALL should Attend Meeting.
Editor Grangeville Globe:

Editor Grangeville Globe:
1 wish you would, through the col
umns of your paper, give publicity to
the fact that the State Commission has
firally decided upon the kind of men,
orial we are to erect; that the Soldiers
and Sailors Memorial Committee of
Idaho County will, at once, launch an
intensive campaign to secure funds to
erect memorial that will be a tribute
to the boys Of Idaho County who made
the supreme sacrifice, as herioc as
those of any age-to the dead who |
gave and the living who offered all |
they had to give-not for mere con-
quests, but for a cause, ir a war that
is the greatest in history. Let us then
commemorate them, and their acts In
the past, with the most beautiful that
we can give, and in a form that will
perpetuate for mankind the worth of
their sacrifice. Surely they deserve
that we show, at this time, in their
place and standing for them, only the
best of which we are capable.
There has been startel in rearly
every county Of Idaho a similar cam
paign. Some are erecting parks
others, bridges; and the majority mon
uments, costing all the way from $10,
600 to $25,000 In Asotin county, on
the first day of the drive, $500 was
subscribed to erect a memorial bridge,
and the fund is increasing rapidly.
1t is hoped that the patriotism that
prompted the people to subscribe so
literally during the war, is not dead
or the sentiment calloused, and that
Idaho County will erect a monument
that will reflect this sentiment We
cannot afford to allow our heroes who
sleep in France, and elsewhere beneath
the soil of foreign lands to be forgot
ten. They have erected an undying
monument to themselves, and we can
not allow their identity to be lost as
the years roll by and every community
: of Idaho county, TO matter how loyal
ly it has supported the boys at the
front, owes to the gallant fellows who
surrendered their lives in the cause of
democracy, still another debt.
Your correspondent endeavored to
create sentiment to secure funds to
erect a community building, but found,
after repeated meetings, that the senti-
ment of the committee was against it
! because of the maintainence problem.
During the past year. I have gathered
data and designs. to submit to the
) committee, that believe will meet with
their approval, in the selection of a
suitable monument in connection with
the state and county appropriations and
believe that a special effort should be
made to raise at least $4,000 addition.
al. We would like to dedicate this
monument next Armistice Day, Nov
. ember II, 1920. The exact form OF
< the memorial, is open to discussion
q ard any member of the committee viii
be glad to accept suggestions. Will
the hearty cooperation and aid Of
8 the various communities of Idaho
n county to facilitate the problem oi
i assembling funds, / assure you we viii
: have a dignified. artistic memoria
= which will be an inspiration to thi,
d coming generation and when our high
s ways are completed, and people from
n an over the United States pass thi
memorial, they will sy that Idaho coun
s ty is surely a nursery of the finest de
II mocracy. If we are to put into ef
+ fective operation, at home, those ideal
II for which our boys fought abroad, tn
l. opportunity is now open.
The money subscribed ir this driv
,e will not, like all other drives, be sen
n out of the country, or overseas-it vii
E stay at home, and the more you give
Is the better the type Of memorial More
se over, I am in favor of placing besid
the names of the boys who made th
supreme sacrifice the names of thei
mothers. The mothers OF these maj
ID tyrs have rendered a conspicuous SCI
Or vice to the cause for which their son
l., fell They furnished the heroes, and
ye their loss have already suffered NOR
IN thar the boys, and will bear the az
Id ditioral burden Of loneliness and hare
Of ship down the long trail OF the futur
in While We remember the heroic boy
In 1t is unfair to forget their equal
herioc mothers. We have lost abo,