Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 43

MAGAZINE SECTION FEATURES : HUMOR r M_____—.——_—_.—_————_——:——M « Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1926. = S — M . . ; 1 : I 1 BY GEQRGE PORTER. ! A j the Army. Navy or Marine Corps are Y EMORIAL day, 1926, el‘h'.K . . . A . . . . . . :un e .m' mem s ed M Joars afier the close of the Varied and Extensive Copstruction Programs Undertaken by Many States Indicate Trend of Public Opinion in Direction | (&, muine i’ ., ins, amte : ¢ by 5 builders, which also suggests a flag- States filled with a spirit of . . . . o 1 . . N . stalf with ik e o forsrsnce-ant samition 21| | of Making Such Projects Community Factors—Visible Honors Paid to Soldier Dead of World War So Numerous That Com~ | |22, memorial base, » founsain, herves who paid the supreme sacrifice . . . 3 P & % , o and a stainedglass window as . priate memorials. The pnthe aitar ot vy Noverdouwt | | plete Count Is Difficult—Washington's Important Share in This National Movement—Bridges and Stadiums Among | [F&2 S e s e st o 3 % he American Battle Monuments . end only desiring that their spirit . ~: % :n‘. on el ot g hWOOm_“' O e s e Approved Structural Memonals—One State Estabhehes andquarters of Leglon. Dressions of gratitude and love for our war, endeavored to catch a material - 3 gt 8 K soldiers can best be shown. zktsne!sa fi' tthat l!lpi‘l;lt in nlxlflelr mb?xel{i e EE ctuate it for all time. It has . 3 and is planning to bulld innumerable | | AN epidemic of memorlal building war memorials throughout the length seems to have followed every war. andr breadll; of lhli land, :\'hh‘tl; w:ll | At the close of our great Civil strug- perform a “lest we forget'” function in gle nearly every hamlet erected a relation to the valorous deeds and in- .-ofi:m‘;ngk motivea of its soldier and tribute L::t ::nw -'Ion- e::m:h -‘e}re“:l sailor dead. p many s or plann n the Un! 5 futars notaite miemorial here wil States shortly after the lats war that e that which is m to erected in . honor of both the dead and the Iving those who felt responsible for the ;\‘hobirbpreso;ltml the Dfimr(cl °: Cr:" u’rtlflllc :eulovment of the a“;oun:;:v jumbia in the rmed forces of the time and again warned ag: st 1] great World ¥ Upon the selected mite between the Lincoln Memorial Re- “l'a;o‘:rw'otm:n?:mx zfe:ofldem(lmmeh. flecting Pool and the Tidal Bafln will would prove a burden and & o be built a beautiful temple of white rml’ Seath Tt '-lfi.l anarble, as a tribuie from the people | to future generations. was_also . of ington. | deemed necessary repeatedly to point So many memorials ! kinds, big | out that the memorials we wers build- ®nd little, cost S | ing commemorated not only victory. tistic ‘lns;m- 5 but our ideals, and that “the most im. usetul and nen pressive monument is one which ap- siready built ¢ peals to the imagination alone, which ©f the subje rests not on its material use, but upon wonsider al its fdealism. From such a monument erected by the flows the impulse for great x..nd heroic DAL our She T gt & Gevoat of practical utility, it ministers to a and other objects ties, cities and p ®&s tributes to their Yet even with a lin gort, full justice can be done to the individuality of the Natipn's memorial huilders, for the State undertakings dnclude a varlety of types. The records of the American Le- £ion disclose that 12 States have au- 1horized expenditures .for buildings to be dedicated as war memorials; 1wo have set aside stadiums for the same purpose; four are endeavoring properly to commemorate the aspira- tions of those who fought in France by symbolic structures; one will build 2’ hospital as a reminder of those who died and an ald to those who are still “carrying on"; one felt that a_bridge would be the most appropriate memo- vial, and one ordered the planting of trees as a living tribute to those who made continued life possible. Several much higher use; it elevates the thoughts of all beholders, and arouses and makes effective the finest im- pulses of humanity.” In discussing the memorial “situs- tion” in America, a member of the Fine Arts Commission declared that. while countless memorials of unques- tioned beauty have already been com- structed, the truly great “sermons in stone,” with the war as their text, will not come into being for several years. This is said to be because it takes time for us to get our perspective correct. Being too close to a thing or an event makes it difficult to judge its worth correctly, and, not being able to do that, it is manifestly impossible to perpetuate its meaning. The oftcited Lincoln Memorial is a pertinent ex- ample, for that universally accl masterplece in ma;;ble l::r not l':.om- States succeeded in having statues pleted until more than a century and markers placed on the flelds of ? after the defltlh of m.gdm:l’n‘nwlho:!dllt Flanders, where their soldiers fought, & 4 s Sk aou:or'st; g‘: ’go:a;xrn-;:umtnu n'h]el; R e of the Pitrsfield Mass. War Memoyrial. Wos WORLD. brought forth, our national spirit will diqwstue Lukewman, the scuiptor alleft. Themorials comparable 10 the one to ing to do with the work of the Amer- in the years to come produce imposing Lincoln in Potomac Park. fcan Battle Monuments Conwnission, of which Gen. Pershing is the head. PR 'HE American Legion itself now $ 3 : > + 543 » 3 o 1 1 has its national headquarters in a g : i G e A Mysterious Friend. State war memorial building. The " 3 4 i 5 3 . structure so used is a magnificent P . N 5 e ; ACTERIOPHAGE, that mysterious fourstory, Greclan-temple like_edifice 1 : e e . : ; L principle or organism, as yet un- in the city of Indianapolts. When it . ’ : o : soen by any scientist’ though' used S oy aetered tonthe lawun : % ; i i : 3| [aaily by many, has been discovered in cepted by James A. Drain, the then : g el g G . s R ; |a new role ag devourer of the dead- National Legion commander. on June - 3 i €5y B - 4 7 v . liest of bacteria, says Science Maga- S e T e ety - e——— e i o Fiit zine, by Dr. Paul F. Clark and Alice tional convention at Minneapolis in . . s ¥ e . ¥ ~ |Shieat Clark of the University of 1918 to erect “the finest memorial - s ks & ¢ 5 & o = % Wisconsin, and Dr. L. O. Dutton. of hogle in America” was fulfilled. 1 y P 3 & b - . "i‘hen 4 eMthodist Hospital, Memphis, ut the program mapped out by the E % - b - s . - ‘enn. State of Indiana, the County of Mar- EFEE y : " s L The most dangerous of the disease- jon and the City of Indlanapolis, call- 5 ;i . : 3 Ry : ? = causing organisms which the three ing for the expenditure of $10,000,000 : il : 3 3 i 3 ! . . - i researchers have discovered to be a for the construction of a World War % 5 3 8 1 2 3 % part of the bill of fare of the bacteri- Memorial Plaza was barely begun. : 4 5 ] B i . ~ : ophage is known as the hemolytic The plaza is to cover an area of five o % 3 ; S . : : streptococcus, or _ blood-dissolving blocks long by one block wide in t! % ; £ e { ; S i . 1 - ¥ chaingerm, because of its fatal action very heart of the city of Indianapolis. 5 - 5 4 3 : | - . in the blood causing one of the worst This quadrangle will be planted with ¢ 3 : ¢ 5 3 4 ¢ : types of blood poisoning. It is also landscaped trees and shrubbery and ' : ¢ _ ; 3 4 L . g ; the causal organism of scarlet fever, 1nwns, and will contain, in addition to . 4 o 1 3 | : ‘- and of one of the deadliest types of the legion bullding, another edifice 5 - : ‘ £ : - 2 pneumonia. that will house the Indiana Historical 4 2 £ k3 5 4 ' - | % 3 Cultures of this organism in test Society. These two will be companion p i | [ 1 tubes grow vigorously and make the buildings flanking the dominant struc- » - # . 4 2 ] i ; | 3 = . fluid cloudy, but the introduction of & ture in the Memorial Plaza group, & | 5 , 5 % 4 : 1 i little material containing the bacteri- huge shrine of columned facades, with o > v | i z 1 : iF RE | 3 ophage soon makes it clear again, due pyramidial base and top, which will 2 Y BT R ey i to the death and disintegration of the serve as the Indiana War Memorial. 2 - . . disease germs. In Dr. Dutton’s ex- Jt is estimated that fully three years - - o periments, this clearing-up of the will be required to complete the under- : ¢ . 3 cultures took place in as short a time taking. § s % Sige " as 36 hours. Another architectural masterplece e = 3 4 Bacteriophage, which literally trans- of comparatively recent construction, It o & i . : g lated means “bacterium eater,” is a the James Whitcomb Riley Library, J i , o puzzling something discovered by the stands within tho Plaza, and is the e £ A researches of F. W. Twort, a British only building that did not have to be 3 > 3 : scientist, and F. d'Herelle, a French razed when the ground for the me- - " v Canadian. _Bacteriologists are very morial group was appropriated. # 5 s n‘:‘u:r;talt oc}fi over it, Some ch!.l.rlnlngl arte 3 2 that it is a living organism, or at leas onth:f’:!l’n?:hh:‘;?q:nly ;gw‘ufl : S > & . o 3 3 : a living substance, and others main- dmpressive grace essential to every taining that though it does some things that living beings do it does not . amemorial structure, but it al: bod- . . s . . 4 = = e e e (District of Columbia’s White Mayble Templeof worial, 1 has an dramised boy at all 1t e e ook o be dore k. The| Music, to be exected i PotomacParik. . e S IR exterfor i3 of Indiana limestone, the f‘u;‘nm‘xn throughout being American - :!‘:Ii:r‘;cr:?.flln: :lln:-;o x:l:“l‘hr&llxg: Bach of the four floors is divided v L ' 3 ! 5 5 % iy : Moreover, h:! not k:l)ed by high tem- $nto office rooms for ;he national head- At g > ; 3 it ¥ 5 Tk £ i v peratures that are ;.t:l it :llg:::e: g’mloellv;fignt’h: A‘.’v:g;let:: w; 4 - * e x ' little of the fluld containing it is added Auxillary. Cases containing rare tro- 4 : ) e ¢ p - S J e to a culture of bacteria, the latter are Phies and souvenirs of the World War 2 e > LPAL £ ‘, R 2 AN : - T s00n dead, no matter how numerous are kept in the executive suite, where % 3 3 3 S . & . :heyb:n :'lorhzow little there was of they may be inspected by the public. 4 . 9 R » y . > N8 5 :g hmt.i: - :r; ge tot begin w(m:. - Soseption ‘o ia. tre: original of the Ay - g 3 : . ply ftself that sets the bacteriophage :‘}"301?3 p':fl.'fin; “.:n::’:flc:‘_,“ by the ! : ? : r . ; 7 g . 5 T apart from even the most complex of ficlal artist of the French ministry : > X% BT K o A - z : 1¥feless chemicals, for lifeless things do :;Mwn.r P g et 5 e : ! . Z 3 ih b not have the power of self-propaga- e sy s of ; : v ‘ = ‘ g 1 | |5 15 now ‘o progress, feorm which o for coming to the o > 4 : Y ; 3 : : 3 o stricken France in her hour of need. & e A & k:mlnl effects l:n medicine and At least four States besides Indiana &'y : g . sal n may result. are using their memorial buildings as p g £ # : 2 e S 3 5 A Strange Sea Illness. records an lcs ! P, Y - 3 3 W , diers’ achievements. A building of i 4 o 5 2 X 3 A MYSTERIOUS disease has ap- this sort is “;,,"’cfi"?m"' L 8 ; £ % ? peared in Germany recently and s e B - e s 9o 4 : : . has caused so much excitement that fni«:‘: !gl‘o "um"":"“‘m".'»'e'?x”fi;..’:'.'."‘c‘y’l‘& . i : v T § 6 . 5 3 4 the Prussian lower house has appro- Balem Park: Both North and South 3 £ % ! § g " ; B4 priated $120,000 to have it scientifically e B e ot ' ‘ e | | : o : Investigated. This new affiiction at- e Histoosal pockiis'as Trasoums - : - 1| P ; N Baitc known an “The Haftr tor trophies o the s et s : : e : Lo . . - It grips its victims when they are at The need of a State war memorial i S ot 5 s - . X ; : sea, suddenly and without warni; gy . o : : % g S JIE e : . Severe pains in the muscles of the and a State auditorium will be met » N, 3 s o : 8 i aul lgh are fallpwed by SetE simultaneously by the people of Dela- ” ’ v Gt g qNE FrEs : A i g ! : paralysis. The attack ceases ware, New Jer':yl::xd Tennesses. As : Sk i : - o : i e . within a few hours after the patient fi .“tyn’h th tD:hm structure will % H g ‘ 5 3 2 is once more on land, but is apt to ) ‘yum' °“ .m" R . & e break out again as soon as he goes to o e vt sea. No adequate explanation has yet navel feature of the New Jersey audi- Xy o 2 - gty v - - orfum will be the insertion of 31 <% “Design for the Cevitvalilnit. of Inoliann's 5 ;000 gk i-;;l;‘g o, Sloovee—cme. “fer each C et s q-‘W’wr Memorial &t.lfidh’mmpéh ( 1%4982':230 . Steel Cottages. + desire. This building will stand on : . — - e - - J'¥ Enstand modest houses all of each - Pennsylvanian who died in steel are meeting the needs of 1 site, the State : 5 TgE s T - the conventional site, near the e ‘need supplied. ' Move tly, | brought about is easy to-understand: |should invariably be devoted.to:high|and: “‘Stonewall”. Jackson, lgst Jan:| Capitol, and will be but one story in |and stands in memory of the colored " . height. troops of the Stite. having secured the necessary congres- [ One of the important lessons America | humanitarian purposes. vary.’ . e . | the service during the World War. | workmen of small means. And now, pher An_exceptionally useful memorial | sional appropriations, the Legion has, | learned from the war was the nesti-| A lirge’ number ‘of “organizations,| 'Massachusetts has a much admired | Although some question may be|in recent months, steel barns and steel EVERAL States made provision for | was authorized to be built by the Wis- as in the instance of Indianapolis, lent | mable value of communit: erings, | formed . for the object of ‘furnishing : It | raised as to whether they are strictly 3 il e oo ekttt B aie: tha P ot | Its. AUDROF. 10, Moveral Tentirisl s cacl oppeclally Fir amiatic: atl e oo ‘some comminity with & permanent re- |is the keman; | State projects, stadtums have been | PUNE3IOWS have been making their ap definitely limiting the uses to which for the treatment of | terprises. poses. . Proper Tacilitles in the way. of | mindér of the unselfishness of the war. ittt 3 dedicated as memorials to the soldiers | Pearance in increasing- yxmbers in the #uch structures might be put. Iowa |discharged veterans. aud nurses. A| The predominance of buildings as|buildings for such meetings: were in|days, felt ‘that a buflding alone, no ‘patronized its hom 5 United States, according to Popular 0 construct a 'El\mph of | memorial-of this sort is about the only | memorials among the indiyidual | most instances-lacking, hence many matter how - useful, could- ade- ~memorial carved .from Science Monthly. ¢ N kind which could have received the |States is typical of.their popularity |municipalifies erected . structures. for|quately “fll the bill”.as a commemo- In Tarrytown, M. Y., for example, the American for | among “all groups. There have been |recreational uses and, ‘as local ‘pride |rative work of art.. Several States bronge rpose. there has just been completed a novel Mmmdm-umymmvfldtemmlnmchn called for some sort of war mermorial, ‘were 80 persuaded. 3 set hysical ever more | dwelling in wh:’cfh':::“onuu frame- Maryland spent over umso:o on its | World War, few years that even those who are . accordingly |- . Texas, for. exam strikingly il han work s for 2 '33:"" ,1): 4 to the because that organization emorial bullding, while South Car-|vehemently felt the one big require- | most concerned with such things have y y 3 ; ranspo! ::l‘m erected tw':r‘-aun}e structures | ment of the ex-service men of the|lost count, but this much is definitely | the memory of the dead. ment_ fallen ¢ riate ited together. The Y builders declare that any person who those who went ‘overseas. One hon- | country was propet hospitalization.| known: that every survey has shown| 'Never' before “was the e 3 L Tatd a 1 }::a the Swm?e's ‘white soldlers and has | The llzcl came -out openly as un-|buildings to be far and away the most | type of memorial more popular—e con- | stone. : q illion-dolla: me- | memorials. knows how to use & monkey wrench, lon ¢ the University of South | willing to. give its backing to any|numerous form of the larger war |dition which ~led. many. Yo' ‘Wwarn|menjorial shrine i Z'L‘r&.'."u""\’l ut‘oluembll;v:or ;’ locau‘:m. memorial to the spiritual splendor of | memorials. K against inappropriate- uses part of ‘the State's celebrat The other buildiig is at Oraugeburg (he soldiers unul their urgent physical | How 2 condition of this sort weg bulldings, ~euphbasiziog that - hey, Joint birthdaya of Gen, obe: