The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-19
PLAN ID PLACE STATUE OF GORGAS
 IN HALL OF FAME
Senate Permits Each State to Name Two For Hall of ame--Southern States
 Lacking in Interest
By HUGH ". ROBERTS Washington Bureau. The Age Heri

Washington, June Especially )- Since Virginia refused to permit the Senate to put the statue of George Washington In the Hall of Fame un- less it would also accept the statue of Robert E. Lee, the Senate now ac- cepts the statue of any individual up to two-which the stae might designate
 Southern states as rule have rot taken advantage of the oppor- tunity. North Carolina has Senator Vance and South Carolina, John (. Calhoun. Florida has Dr. Corrie, who invented the refrigerator (and inci- dentally. he was born in South Car olina). and General Kirby Smith, Confederate soldier. Texas has Aus tin, the Indian fighter. Tennessee has neglected both Andrew Jackson and David Crockett Some time. Missis- sippi will send the statue of Jefferson Davis. Georgia, If its constitution will ever permit will send the sta tues of Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, and Dr. Crawford Jones, who first applied ether as an anaesthetic in opcra- tions Something is the matter with the constitution of Georgia. That which flinders 1t in appropriating e,r it's sons is also responsible it Is said, for the fact that the jeweler who engraved and furnished the silver service for the battleship Georgia, has never been remunerated.
 Monument to Gorgns
 There is delight in Washington that Alabama has undertaken movement to put statue to Gen. William C. Gorgas in statuary hall. He was born in Mobile and educated in Tuscaloosa, where his father. who had served as chief ordnance officer of the Confederate army, was pres ident of the University of Alabama. General Gorgas was internationally famous as a sanitation expert. His work made the Panama canal zone habitable.
 Alabama Is now represented by J. L. NJ. Curry. who was born in Virginia and was more closely iden- tiled with Tennessee. The legisla- ture of Alabama suffered relatives of Curry to put his statue in the capitol with the understanding that they would defray all expenses. To that extent Alabama sold it's birth right.
 May Include Semmes
 It is the hope of Alabamians In Washington that Alabama will re- move the Curry statue and put in it's place one in honor of Admiral Semmes, who commanded the famous Alabama during the Civir war, and was the souths greatest naval hero: or William Rufus King, once vice president of the United States; or Senator John Tyler Morgan, the real father of the Panama canal legisia- tion
 There was a sensation, of course, when Virginia sent the Lee statue to Washington. The Senate bickered. But Virginia said that Lee must be accepted or Washington would be withdrawn. A Hall Of Fame without Washington would be a joke, the Senate recognized, and, without for- mal action, permitted the statue to be placed. While the Senate strug- Eled over the Lee controversy, echoes reached the House. Carter Glass, then representative. declared in a speech that Virginia did not care very much as the government had already erected in Washington a statue to Lee most descriptive of his military genius.
 One of the red shirt" wavers was amazed. He made inquiries of the Virginia member.
 Tt is nothing more or less than the pension office, returned Glass without the semblance of smile.