The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-04-06

has iis advocates and their preachIngs
are heard mud their writings are read.
The fight 10 cut down the army. In
Wny. has been rs hard and as hot
rs soIne ~ the fights in the Argonne
forest. The administration seemingly
believes that the men who hold tho
money bags IN congress are willing to
rut their country In danger in order
To- save n few dollars. There Is an
other side than thar of money to this
matter. rs II affects the regular army.
Question to Be Considered.
Can the United States. II Is asked.
afford to be wholly ungrateful to the
men who have given their country
their Iife's service? Today there ~
unrest IN the regulnr army because OF
the apparent willingness Of congress
to take away from the men Of years
Ut service their means of livelihood.
| Admittedly. II the good of the people
| shall demand the dismissal of some OF
| its servants, we'll and good. but what
of condition which involves the dis
misSal Of the faithful and as a com
panion act the loss Of safety for our
| Institutions?
Your correspondent knows some
| thing personally about the conditions
| today in the regular army. He has
! been regular aud he has been an
emergency officer. Service men have
lost neart. They do not know what
is going to happen to them and their
families. They are trained to serve
their country along certain lines and
now they fear that their country Is
going to turn them adrift without SO
much as a straw of safety.
Today there L. an actual attempt
being made To force willing and able
men out of the army. Soldiers who
physically and mentally are capable u
years of work are being ordered be-
fore examining boards of doctors, In
the hope-yes, In the hope-that the
examiners will be able to find some
little thing physically wrong with them
which will give the government an ex-
cuse for Diminishing the faithful ones.
Crowds Visit Lincoln Memorial.
Visitors of the springtime are be-
ginning to come to Washington In
crowds. Almost the first place which
within which stately building is the
seated statue of the wartime Pres
ident.
John Boyle O'Reilly once wrote q
poem called THE Statues In the
Block" In sense II described the
emotions Of the man who was gazing
upon "A block of marble and thinking
upon the possibilities in the way Of
lifelike representations which could
be brought by the chisel Of the sculp-
tor from a cold stone.
The statue Of Lincoln Is heroic In
size. The face Is wonderful. This
masterpiece came from block OF
stone. | made some little inquiry az
TO the methods Of sculptOrs who were
to make statues of men whom they
had never seen In life. The face. and
in a way the figure, Is known to the
sculptor from Photographic or paint
ing reproduction but almost always IL
is necessary to get some living man
to pose as the subject in order to get
the living effect.
After looking at the statue Of Lin
coin a day or two ago l went to Du-
pont circle, where recently there was
a statue Of Admiral Dupont, a statue
which was taken down because II Ii
not thought to be n properly artistic
representation of the sailor.
Great scuIptoTs Methods.
BY IA curious coincidence, almost I'm
mediately after looking on the Dupont
| circle fountain | met man whom
had known for some years, Arthur q.
| Fuller of Groton, Mass. Mr.. Fuller
had known the sculptor, French, virtu-
ally all his life. He told me some
things concerning the labors Of this
man whose work is known throughout
the country which 10 ME were inter
esting, and may not prove to be unin-,
teresting to others.
1t vas French who did The Minute
Man" which stands at Concord bridget
the rude bridge which arched the
food where once the embattled farmer
stood" The Minute Man is a statue
OF extreme simplicity. but full of sig
nidcance and of action. II represents
a young farmer with one hand upon
the pillow while the other hand holds
rifle. He is looking fur of and lis
tening for the call TO duty.
Memorial hall, so called, In the cap
itol. the old nall of representatives,
mas in 1t many atrocities. Each state
OF the Union has the right to place
in this hall statues of two of Its great
citizens. The states not always have
| chosen we'll Sometimes legislatures
have been moved by political consider
ations or considerations even less
worthy when choosing men 10 be rep
resented by memorials in the capitol
of the United States. There are some
statues in Memorial hall of men Of
whom the average person never heard.
and some of these statues are an
abomlnatlon 10 the eye of any one