Evening star., 1937-12-20

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ipeekly articles concerning the notd-
Die radio broadcasts OF episodes
OF South American history, spcn-
sored by the Federal Office OF Edu-
cation, epery Monday evening oDer
the Columbia netWork.)
BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON.
'Ring out the old, ring in the new.
Ring, happy bells across the snewi
The year is going-let him go.
Rims out old shapes of foul disease;
Riag out the narrowing lust Of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars OF old.
Ring in the thousand years of peace!
Ring in the valiant mi man ,aa,.1 aHd trse ssnd
Ring out the darkness of the land
Ring in fEasYsoR thi Gas1Ss sa:t in Is II ns
Turn with . sense of relief from
the guile Of Europe and the crimes Of
Asia-turn with hope renewed to the
panorama Of the republican hemi-
sphere a. It is an interesting fact,
of which North and South Americans
may well be proud, that the two most
famous symbolic statues of the world
and with the exception Of the Egyp-
tian Sphinx the worlds largest-stand
In the Western Hemisphere. They
stand at the principal eastern gate
ways of the United States and Chile,
and they are dedicated respectively to
liberty and peace-to the historic al
lance of the United States and France
in the war for American independence
from British tyranny and imperialism,
and in the cause Of the democratic
rights Of man; and to the more re-
cent alliance Of Chile and Argentina
In the cause of peace, disarmament,
arbitration and reciprocity.
1t is fitting, therefore, that the story
OF these two famous statues should be
linked and told together; and that
the building Of the famous Christ of
the Andes" should become the sub
ject at the Christmas season OF the
Brave New World" educational
broadcast, at 1890 pm. tonight, over
the Columbia network.
Liberty Symbol 81 Years Old.
Prompted by the celebration, in
1876, of the first centennial OF Ameri-
can independence, our own great god
dess has lifted her symbolic torch,
held in a 40-foot Amazonian arm, $50
feet above the windy waters of New
York Bay, for 81 years. Its building
WAS first proposed by Edouard de
IAboulaye, eminent French historian
and political commentator. The re-
sponse Of the people OF France was
immediate, and money-raising cam
paigns were launched with public fetes
and entertainments. Gounod, the IA
nous composer Of Faust" dedicated
q song to the statue (sung at the
opera), which was created by young
Asatian sculptor, Frederic Auguste
Bartholdi. (The original 36-foot model
stands today, in Paris, on the left bank
OF the Seine) Although the cost Of
enlarging 1t to giantess, 152 feet tall,
with a face 10 feet wide, and Of trans
porting and erecting it on Bedloe's
Island (set aside for 1t by act Of Con-
gress), cost almost q million francs,
and was far greater than at first esti-
mated, by 1880 every sou had been
contributed In France by popular sub
scription. without governmental as
sistancs.
The cost Of the 150-foot pedestal,
erected on top Of the rampArts Of old
Fort Wood. cost t225, ,ooo-almost -
much a. tho statue-and was raised
by the efforts Of An American commit
tee Of 400, including william M.
Evarts, Henry spaulding, Richard
Butler, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph H.
Choate, Anson Phelps Stokes, James
W. Pinchot, John Jay and many other
prominent Americans.
On March 16, 1885, the New York
World, under the leadership Of Joseph
Pulitzer. took up the tagging crusade
for funds, assailing public indifference
in daily editorials. Through benefit
performances, sporting events and
public entertainments the World was
able to announce completion Of the
fund by August II, 1885, two months
after the arrival Of the great statue
from France, shipped in 214 specially
constructed cases varying in weight
from few hundred pounds to several
tons, on the French ship 1sere.
Dedicated October 2S, 1886.
Assembled and erected under super
vision Of Bartholdi and the prominent
French engineer, Effel, on four huge
iron pylons, to withstand the air pres
sure and high winds of the wide bay, it
represents the Goddess Of Liberty,
crowned with light, broken shackle
lying at her feet, stepping forward and
clasping in her left hand the Declara-
ton Of Independence, while her up
raised right arm holds aloft a lighted
torch, or beacon (now composed of ff-
teen 1,000-watt bulbs), with its prom
ise OF freedom for the world. With i'm
pressive ceremonies 1t was finally
dedicated by President Grover Cleve-
land october 28, 1885, Bartholdi him.
self being present. The principal
addresses were made by Count Ferdi-
nand de LesSeps, the builder of the
6uez Canal; the French Ambassador,
LeFaivre; William Evarts and Chaun-
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Ing to DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
was by all odds the greatest which that
accomplished orator ever delivered"
Today" he said, "in the gift by one,
and the acceptance by the other of
this colossal statue, the people of the
two free countries celebrate their
unity in republican institutions, in
governments founded upon the Ameri-
can idea, and In their devotion to in
tellectual and political liberty. To-
eether they rejoice that its spirit, in
carnated by Lafayette. has pene-
trated all lands and is the hopeful
future Of all peoples"
Are we half so hopeful and con-
hdent today? Even DR.. Butler admits
that 'ethe promise Of 50 years ago has
faded into the background and liberty
Is on trial for its life in ways and
under circumstances which are Is
alarming rs they are novel. # =
French visitor were to turn his eyes