The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1919-04-02
MEMORIAL MASS
MEETING MONDAY
MIR. '. J. Hultquist Discusses Memorial
Hospital Project Which Will Be
Considered Monday

peaTS cnleI reference not TO the
worth, but to the wealth of the one
who is dead. No better form of
monument can be imagined than such
hospital as that of which you speak,
where the wards, the clinics, the
| operating rooms, the endowed beds
and the like will bear names sugges-
ted by the donors.
You and | have known of many
cases where good, but by no means
especially distinguished, men of great
wealth have, wnen dead, been COM
memorated by mausoleums or tombs
costing in some cases half a million
aoAals. those that loved them need
ed no such mausoleum as an aid TO
memory. To the immense multitude
VINO uIu not know them the mauso-
n"~' meant absolutely nothing, and
could mean absolutely nothing. 10
the many suffering souls whom the
money could have helped if it had
been wisely and beneficently used,
the mausoleum represented a loss
exactly as great as If it were sunk In
the ocean.
The Society of Friends use only
plain stone slabs to commemorate the
dead. Surely this is a good CUSTOM
Surely it is not well that there should
be after death great monuments
erected by the family Of the dead,
testlfying really not to the good
deeds, but to the wealth of the dead.
Surely if the dead man or woman is
of such character as to warrant a
memorial then that kind of memorial
most grateful to his or her spirit will
take the form of doing good to the
living whose need is urgent.
faitnfuIly yours,
(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Plan of Building
A Memorial in the shape of a
Modem Hospital can be built that
viii be as perpetual as any kind of
memorial that can be built. 1t should
be a two-story building, built of
orick and concrete which would make
it both fire-proof and permanent. It
wuI pe SO designed tnat it can be
extended when future requirements
demand; should be of pleasing archi-
tecGural design and should be so de-
signed that the architectural features
would not be injured by future ex-
tensions. 1he hospital should have
'i> wards, namely; white male and
a white female ward; colored male
.Ao coIored female ward, a child
rnn's ward and contagious
disease ward. There should. be two
private wards and ten or twelve
r~;rate rooms. For the present pro-
visions should be made for about
seventy nve beds, part of which can
be installed at the start and the re-
mainder added as needed. Besides
the rooms for the patients there
should be an operating room near
which should be an anaesthetic
room, sterilizing and instrument
rooms; laboratory, doctors dressing
and scrub up room. Besides these
there should be executive Offices for
hospital superintendent, doctors con-
sultation room, waiting room, nurses
work room, kitchen and dining room.
In the basement of the building
should be located, boiler room,
nurses lecture room, storage
rooms etc. A building of this descrip-
ton would cost from $75, 100000 to
100000. $4,000, is as little as
should be raised for this purpose in
order to build a building which would
be of permanent construction and
one which will truly typify the spirit
of its inception and in the years to
come will be the means of sending
out from its portals lives saved and
regenerated through it's agencies.
The lives of those we commemorate
will in this way instill new hope and
new life into the thousands who will
seek its benefits.
For the benefit of those who are
anxious to know just how the Mem
1ral feature of the hospital would be
/ would suggest that a
oronze tablet with the names of those
who died be installed on one side of
he entrance, while on the other side 4.
4 tablet bearing the names of all the
boys who were in the service would
De erected. As further remem-
orance to those who died, certain
wards, rooms and beds could be
named in their honor and would thus
De a living tribute to their memory
'or all time to come.
1t is not the intention here to lose
sight of the fact that there are
yreat many advocates for memorial
;haft. This too, is worthy tribute
% our dead which can be realized
and should be done to satisfy those
Who may look upon this method as
he more worthy way of symbolizing
he beautiful spirit of sacrifice that
las been made. Neither method
should stand out as a division in
public sentiment, but both should
.epresent combined spirit of rever-