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[JOBS PEACE I MEMORIAL PLAN 1General Approval Follows Proposit | L * ion to Erect Monster Memorial on Gettysburg Field. Southern Paper Speaks in Editorial.The r’a to erec^ a peace 1memorial here, announced in last -J week’s News is meeting with general lt;J favor throughout the country. The t Louisville Courier-Journal says in an* J editorial:“Mainly through the efforts of Col. a Andrew Cowan, of Louisville, an or- C ganization has been effected for the a erection of a peace monument on the d battlefield of Gettysburg.“The Gettysburg Peace Memorial'^ Association is made up equally of Fed- r-eral and Confederate veterans. The membership will be enlarged hereaf- * ter. The personnel of 'the Kentucky i members of the association is an as- * surance that they will worthily hold s up their end of the enterprise. v“It was a part of the original plans } of the great Blue and Gray reunion, 1 held at Gettysburg in July last, that the cornerstone of a peace monument s should be laid by President Wilson on 1 July 4, this having been proposed by ' the Pennsylvania Commission, which r made the preliminary arrangements for the celebration. It came about that the programme arranged for this final meeting had to be canceled. When it appeared that the peace monument had been forgotten or overlooked by everybody else, Col. Cowan came to the rescue in an address on the night of July 3, in which he made an eloquent plea in behalf of the memorial. His remarks aroused great interest in the plan and he received immediate and enthusiastic assurances of co-op- 1 eration. (“After the reunion a committee of veterans visited Washington with a view to finding out the prospects for a , congressional appropriation. They were informed that thre would be no hope of a bill being considered by the extra session and that action would j have to be deferred until the regular j session. In the meantime Col. Cowan . has continued to push the movement , with characteristic energy. He was lt;enabled to announce, a few days ago, the completion of a permanent organ- , ization which will devote its activities , to the furtherance of the good work.“The Gettysburg reunion, held on • the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, brought together more than 50,000 soldiers who took part in the Civil War. To quote from Col. Cowan’s address on that occasion, the celebration marked ‘a high tide of peace between , the North and South which shall never , recede while Americans love liberty . and the Union’. Assuredly it is fitting that a memorial should be erected in commemoration of the wonderful reunion of 1913, a monument greater than any now at Gettysburg, ‘to exalt the sentiment and responsibility of national patriotism with all the peoples of our country.’“The suggestion that Congress and the States shall co-operate in building the monument is eminently appropriate and should find general favor. There are many war monuments, but there are too few peace monuments, and, as was demonstrated at the Gettysburg reunion, ‘peace hath her victories no less lerfowned than war/ ”
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Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Oct 04, 1913
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