The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1922-06-15
AMERICAN LEGION
MEMORIAL AT CAVE

j hedicatory ceremonies of the Ameri
can Legion Memorial at Mammoth
ave will feature the fourth annual
icohSention of the American Legion of
hehtucky, to be- held at Glasgow, Aug.
rs. % and 80.
on the third day the entire program
VIII be held at Mammoth Cave.
IN the "Rotunda," one of the Caves
most majestic domeS. and the junction
point for the several brancehs of the
historical old cavern, there will be ded-
icated memorial, the base of which
VIII be crypt for the names of the he
role and immortal dead of the World
war from the entire nation
This monument will be erected by
me members of Barren County Post
40 Is OF Glasgow.
Mammoth Cave. which has been in
existence before man himself, and will
endure until the remotest point of time
Will be a most suitable place to perpet-
uafe the undying memory of the heroes
OF the world war. Little need be said
OF the history of Mammoth Cave. and
to try to describe il in short sketch
would be a task little short of the inn
possible.
: The cave was known and used as
ss<rtShilfh point lot surveys as early
as the year 1897. From the part of the
cave near the entrance. saltpeter was
mined for the manufacture of gunpOw-
der during the war of 1872. II is near
the remains of these saltpeter works
which are yet to be seen at the cave
that the Legion monument will be cree
ted.
Nothing could be more fitting than
thar Ua should TRIANGLE af
hallowed places in Kentucky. and no
more appropriate spot could be chosen
for such national monument than
this gigantic hole which winds for miles
and miles under the hills and valleys of
Gods garden spot-kentucky.
About fifty miles TO the northwest of
Mammoth Cave lies the birthplace of
Abraham Lincoln. now dedicated into n
park, to stand a pereptual
honor to the poor farm boy who rose
above the pressure of circumstances and
became the unions helmsman during its
most tempestuOus times
To the southwest of the cave, almost
on the site OF the farm
where the first and only president of
the Southern COnfederacy first saw the
light of day, remnants of the gray hosts
are erecting "A shaft 10 their hOnored
leader. jefferson Davis.
The erection of this American Legion
will complete the triangle.
Z - - --xk.xs.sxe Of the base being represent
Ell 10y the birthplaces of Americas Civil
war presidents, the apex the resting
place of the names of the fallen warri-
Drs of our present day democracy.
Storms. fires, vandals and war may
lestrOy or uprOot cemeteries and monu-
nents on the surface of the earth, but
nothing less than violent eruption of
he earth itself will ever efface this un-
usual subterranean cenotaph.
InvititiOns have been etended 10
President Harding, General Pershing,
5Oovernor Morrow, Lieutenant-Gover-
Tor Ballard. all of Kentucky's repre- |
i'm Congress, national officers |
f the American Legion and the vari- |
,us state headquarters of the American
4egion.
Permission has been granted for the |
rection of this monument by the Mann
moth Cave management, and for the |
irst time in the history of the cave the
.ates will be thrown open for the dele
,ates and visitors to the ceremony