New Britain herald., 1925-02-28
.BORGLUN QUOTED
 IN HOT SPEECH
Will Not Work for Committee,
 He Says

Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 2S.--The Ra- leigh News and Observer said yes- terday that Gutzon Borglum, dis missed sculptor, of the Stone Moun- tain mem orial, sought by authori- ties of Georgia on charges of mali cious mischief in connection with the alleged destruction of models and plans for the project, spent some time here yesterday and left on north bound night train.
 The story which appears in the News and Observer this morning quotes the sculptor as saying, "Ill rot in jail forever before I will give the key to my design of the Con- federate memorial at Stone Moun- tain 10 that committee" referring to the executive committee of the as- socation promoting the carving of the huge mountain memorial.
 The sculptor, the story relates, was accompanied by J. A. Tucker, superintendent of operations at Stone mountain, who also was dis missed.
 Borglum denied he had destroyed the model of the melnqgial "because there was no model."f He added that the work at Stone Mountain had for weeks been done free hand, and the only model was a rough af- fair which had been discarded.
 Willing To Finish
 The sculptor was quoted further as saying he was willing to com plete the memorial if the people of the south wished" but mot under any circumstances" would he work for the executive committee again, He said, the story says, that he could raise the money to finish the memorial in sixty days.
 The sculptor is quoted as saying that there are several matters that will claim my attcntion," before he is able 10 join his family at Stam- ford, Conn.
 "There has been no model that had the value of iinality," MT. Borglum is further quoted. Weeks ago I discarded the rough model that had been in usc. The texture of the stone of inc mountain anl the contours of the strata had made it useless.
 Would I sell the executive com mitce my child to claim as their own? Could sell them something that I have created. that is a part l of myself? Am q brick mason or a plumber. or mere stone cutter to be hired by committee? ] am not"
 Why then did you destroy the thing when you were leaving the site?" the representative of the News and Observer asked.
 "A Useless Thing"
 Could I leave an inferior thing. useless. worthless thing, an un- worthy thing there to be used by them. perpetuated in the granite of i that mountain? The work will bear my name. and I will not permit something inferior to remain there to be used, copied ineradicably in stone to become a caricature of art | forever.
 "Six tons of clay had been brought down from my studio in Stamford, Conn.,, to be used in the making of new model and is there in the work rooms yet, It was well known that everybody connected with the memorial that the original model had been found useless in many re- spccts and was to be replaced by a model that would represent the fin- lshcd memorial"
 DO you expect to return 10 At lanta at any time to continue the work you have begun there?" he Twas ask cd.
 Tor that committee, no! If the south wishes 10 continue the memo rial, to complete it, will do it, will raise the money myself. do not say that idly, I have already pledged to me-not to the commit tee-money sufficient to finish it. It can be paid over to q committee of the governors of the southern states within sixty days"
 What of their contention that you spent too much time on the mcmorial?"
 They say also that I have loafed on the job. don't they?" he coun- tered dryly. There isn't a cor puscle of my blood that loafs."
 As To Coins
 Referring to a memorial coin dc. signed by him, the sculptor is quot ed as saying;
 At the last meeting of the exc cutve committee, they had a mer chant there with a contract to giy, these coins as a reward to womeI