Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-27
PLAN NOT READY
FOR MEMORIAL
BUILDING HERE
State Commissioner Urged to
Activity in Getting Designs
From Architects.
MONEY PRIZE OFFERED

Editors NOte-This is the first OF
series of articles dealing with the pro-
posed War Memorial in Indianao oils,
showing the necessity for a structure
here that Will benefit the entire State
and at the same time pay tribute to
the sacrifices made by the service men,
and showing what is being done in other
States to honor the memory of the vet
erans.)
With the time fast approaching
when actual steps must be taken to
fulfill the pledge of Indiana to erect
a memorial to the States sons and
daughters who gave their lives in
the World War, the question of para
mount interest is What shape shall
the testimonial take
Necessarily the actual construc-
tion of the building must await the
decision of Indianapolis and Marion
County as to what form their par
ticipation will assume, but the State
War Memorial Commission should be
laying the ground work for the
plans.
There are two schools of thought,
guided largely by artists Of wide expe-
rience and by public demands. The later
are Influenced by local needs and the
community requirements figure exten-
sively In the consummation of plans to
memorialize the boys of II.
The two schools represent roughly
those who believe that a monument sym
bolizes the spirit of sacrifice made by
the youths who answered the call Of the
nation In its hour Of trial, while the
others believe that a testimonial of en-
during proportions can be made along
utilltarian llres ana that its influence on
the community will, to more fitting de-
gree, carry on the work which the serv-
ice men so indelibly impressed on the
country.
In the proposal to establish war
memorial in indianapolis the entire State
is the great community 1t was with
this plan in mind that the War Memorial
idea was born when the Hoosier Ameri-
can Legion delegates won the national
headquarters Of the great service mems
organization at the Minneapolis con
vention nearly two years ago.
NO BONUS ASKED
IL INDIANA.
From that time on the agitation con
tinued until the voice Of the people
caused the special session of the Legisla
ture last summer to appropriate $2,0OO,
600 for the undertaking. and a later ses-
sion authorized Marion County and In
dianapolls to cooperate with the State In
erecting the structure
II is time, in the belief Of many per
sons interested in the project, that steps
are taken to determine the type of me-
mortal that is TO be erected The ques-
ton should be approached with great
care. because whatever IS built will stand
for years, just as the great Soldiers and
Sailors Monument towers In, the midst
OF the city to commemorate the deeds
of 1861 Go. Once the design is accepted
the work can be pushed to- completion
rapidly.
II has been pointed out frequently
that Indiana service men have sked
nothing from their State but this build
ing, which Is to serve as a center of
patriotic activities for the entire coun-
try. In Its original conception, from
which the promoters have never de-
Waited the memorial is to contain the
headquarters Of all great patriotic or
ganizations and from it will radiate
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