Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19
TO RAISE MONEY
FOR MONUMENT
WANT TO RAISE $4,000 TO
$4,000 FOR SOME SORT
OF A MONUMENT.
Editor Cottonwood Chronicle:

l wish you would, through the
columns of your paper, give
publicity to the fact that the
State Commission has finally
decided upon the kind of mem
orial we are to erect; that the
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Committee of Idaho County will,
at once, launch an intensive cam
paign to secure funds to erect a
memorial that will be a tribute
to the boys Of Idaho County who
made the supreme sacrifice, as
heroic as those of any age-to
the dead who gave and the living
who offered all they had to give
not for mere conquests but for
cause, in war that is the great
est 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 started in
nearly every county of Idaho a
similar campaign. Some are
erecting parks; others, bridges !;
and the majority monuments,
costing all the way from $4,000
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 patriot
ism 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 can-
not afford to allow our heroes
who sleep in France, and else
where beneath the soil Of foreign
lands, to be forgotten. They
have erected an undying monu-
ment to themselves, and we can
not allow their identity to be lost
as the years roll by, and every
community of Idaho county, no
matter how Loyalty it has sup
ported the boys at the front,
owes to the gallant fellows who
surrendered their lives in the
cause of democracy, still another
debt.
Your correspondent endeavor-
ed to create sentiment to secure
funds to erect a community
building, but found, after re-
peated meetings, that the senti-
ment of the committee was
against it because of the main
tainence problem. During the
past year, I have gathered data
and designs, to submit to the
committee, that l believe will
meet with their approval, in the
selection of a suitable monument
in connection with the state and
county appropriations and be-
lieve that a special effort should
be made to raise at least $4,000
additional. We would like to de-
dicate this monument next Arm
istice Day, November II, 1920.
The exact form of the memorial,
is open to discussion, and any
member Of the committee will be
glad to accept suggestions,
With the hearty cooperation
and aid of the various communi-
ties of Idaho county to facilitate
the problem of assembling
funds, / assure you we will have
dignified, artistic memoria
which will be an inspiration tC
this coming generation anC
when our highways are complet'
ed, and people from all over the
United States pass this memor
ial, they will say that Idaho
county is surely a nusery of the
finest democracy. If we are tt
put into effective operation, a
home, those ideals for which oul
boys fought abroad, the oppor
tunity is now open.
The money subscribed in thi
drive will not, like all othe1
drives, be sent out of the coun
try, or overseas-it will stay a
home, and the more you give tn,
better the type of memorial
Moreover. ] am in favor of plac