The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-15
THUEEFOLD PURPOSE
OF MEMORIAL HALL
FOR OUR SOLDIERS
Solicitation Of Funds for Soldiers
Memorial Is Resumed With Re-
doubled Energy.

AS the soliciting of funds for the
Soldiers Memorial is about to be re-
sumed with redoubled energy the Me-
mortal committee wishes to emphasize
again the threefold purpose of the pro-
posed Memorial Hall.
First.-It is to be a permanent me-
mortal to our soldiers, sailors and ma
rlnes and airmen, both dead and liv
ing The names of all to be engraved
there.
Seoond-A meeting place and head
quarters for the American Legion. An
organization formed to preserve what
our boys fought and died to save.
Third.-A recreation center where
they may meet for recreation, athletic
practice, and that social fellowship
and exchange of ideas recognized as
so essential to the advancement of all
good causes.
/ About our duty in the first clause
there can be no difference of opinion
among people whose conscience is not
dead
The second clause and the idea of
combining a memorial with a meeting
place for the American Legion is
somewhat new to most of our people,
but not new to the young men of the
Legion who have been advocating 1t
for months because they have known
that it is being put into practice all
over the country. A single township
in Marion county, Indiana, having
built fifty thousand dollar memorial
of that kind to her soldiers. While
Cincinnati is now preparing to build
one to cost millions. 1t must be re-
membered that these young men have
been part of things in the forefront
of time. They know what they want
they have been in touch with and have
visualized things which the rest of us
have not glimpsed. Even those who
were only in training short time felt
themselves part of something so vast
and selfless that their point of view is
forever changed, their horizon forever
widened by that experience. They are
marching to a different kind of music
II is time we stopped looking al
them as the boys Of yesterday, and
look at them as the influential men OF
tomorrow. Indeed great many OF
them have already arrived" notwith-
| hot
wrenched from their native environ
ment, and sent as suddenly back, un'
provided for. We thought them ole
enough to make soldiers of them to gt
against the greatest military machine
of all time to defend us our country
and all we have and are, and thu
knowledge there we're millions NOR
where they came from, is what mad
u the Kaiser pause. If we cannot trus
these young men to act wisely and il
I good faith for the future honor o
: their dead comrades and themselve
:. then there is no one we could entrus
1 it to. The reading of the roll call G
Z the local American Legion disclose
] that it is composed of our best youn
citizenship. There are more to fol
4 low. The only way to get definite eS
: preston from any body of men
through their organization, and tn
natural leaders of that organization
are those who are sufficiently interest
ed to respond. The Leslie H. Arthu
Post of the American Legion has s
spoken. Let us then lose no more tim
but proceed at once to raise the none
to buy the Central Presbyteriol
Church building for this purpose Will
it is to be had.