The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-03-23
JUDGE DUNDON APPOINTED AS
CHAIRMAN OF MEMORIAL
COMMITTEE

Judge Denis Dundon, of Paris, has
been asked to accept the County
Craftsmanship to raise Bourbon
County's part of Kentucky's prorata
of the cost of a monument which will
be erected on the site of the first
Marine battle, and to be known as
Americas Gift to France"
This monument is being designed
by Frederick MacMonnies, the fam
Gus American sculptor, and the ex-
act site will be selected by General
Foch and General Joffre. The total
cost of the monument will be $780,
600, and it is the earnest desire Of
those with whom the idea originated
that this money be raised by SUBJ
scription from every county in every
State in the Union.
Kentucky's quota is $4,000, and
the amount desired to be raised in
Bourbon County will be $1OO. The
campaign will be held all over the
country during the week of March
~ to March 81, and Chairman Dun
don is particularly DESTROYS to have
Bourbon County go "over the top"
on schedule time.
Everybody is asked to send a small
subscription to Chairman Dundon to
quickly raise Bourbon County's
quota.
1t is the desire of Judge Dundon
to have the quota one hundred dol
lars, from Bourbon, raised in small
amounts, permitting everybody to
contribute mite to the fund, in
stead of having the whole amount
given by few persons.
A General Appeal For "The Gift"
The Marine was one of the great
throbbing moments of the heart of
the world. At the Marine the ideal
ism of the ages was fused with the
supreme moral and physical herOism
of the hour. Over the Marine breath
ed the spirit of Salamis and of Tours
At the Marine the supreme love of
liberty was crystalized into the su-
preme defense of liberty by one of
the agencies of civilization most
highly dedicated to human liberty
the Republic of France.
This Memorial, this Gift of Amer
lea to France, is the effor ito express
in a tangible, enduring form the pro-
found admiration of one iberty-lov-
ing nation for the devotion of a sis
ter Republic to the ideals and prac-
tises of liberty.
This same love, and similar de-
votion to similar ideals, led us in time
to enter the war. And running cur
rent with the high purpose of Amer
lea to protect this world-liberty, was
the steady glow of our century-old
gratitude to France. While we do
not now feel, nor will we ever feel,
all we owe to Lafayette, we may
truly say that at the later Marine
we took larger credit on our death
less debt to Franco And we stand
today, France and America, more
closely bound than ever before,
bound by ties of mutual sacrifice and
heroism, ties that run from Yorktown
to Chateau Thierry and that will
now endure until the end Of time.
This Memorial should be given by
all Americans, and especially by
those to whom did not come the high
privilege to offer themselves upon
the soil of France And we should
be as jealous of our poor right now
to give little money, as were our
boys on the banks of the Marine and
in the Argonne Forest, Of their most
glorious right to give life and live;
to give and give until life and love
were gone. Kentucky will give !;
give her share and more, and give,
we hope, from many hearts and many
hands because the number of those
who give, and not the amount given,
will be accorded as the measure of
our sympathetic interest in this no.
BILE and beautiful work