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PAGE EIGHT *1 he Gray Captain Is on Guard, ’ Sculptor Lukemann’s New Stone Mountain Group TO START WORK OCTOBER FIRST Famous Sculptor Estimates That Group Can Be Carved With in Two Years Here are Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as they appear in Augustus Lukeman’s design for the Central Group of the Stone Mountain Confederate Me morial .which was submitted to the Board of Directors at a special meeting held for that purpose in Atlanta August 27. They approved it unanimously by a rising vote and instructed the sculptor to schedule the commencement of work on the Mountain for October 1. Mr. Lukeman designed the group exact conformity with the con tours of the mountain and arrang ed the figures of Davis, Lee and Jackson to fit into and utilize tlje work previously done, which con sists almost entirely of rough ex cavation. His estimate is that the group can be carved in two years. In addition to the figures of Davis, Lee and Jackson, shown above, the design includes four Confederate Generals who will ride behind'the flag bearers. These four figures were tentatively laid in the design •nd will be modeled to likeness when the State Historians of the Southern States determine who they •hall be. That Lukeman has done a magni ficient piece of ■work, fully measur ing up to the high expectations cre ated by his success and fame as a sculptor before he was called to the Stone Mountain Memorial, is the verdict not only of the Memorial Directors, but of hundreds who viewed the model when it was plac ed on public display. One’s first impression is that of action—the wind blown capes of Davis and Jackson; the fluttering flags above the heads of the boys who carry them so proudly: the splendid. sweeping stride of the (horses. But in a moment one’s attention fe reverted by the faces of the three foremost riders Davis. Lee and Jackson. With a master’s touch the Sculptor has achieved in these por traits not only the likeness of the men they represent, but has vividly and powerfully, 'jprtmed their per sonalities. Tn the face of Davis, are written the high devotion to principle, the pathos and tragedy, the sacrifices and martyrdom, of his career as President of the Confederate States »f America. Lee dominates the central group, as he dominated the military opera tions of the Confederacy. He rides with that superb grace and. skill which were a part of his inheritance. His attire is immaculate, as it was always, even at Appomattox when he offered his sword to Grant. Ma jesty and beauty are blended in his countenance. It is resolute and ■rtern vet touched with sorrow for the suffering of his people. It is high and noble. There was some thing sublime about him which men tlways felt when they entered his presence, and that quality is here in the likeness of him which Au gustus Lukeman will carve on Stone Mountain. Tn |he face of Stonewall Jackson the Sculptor again achieved person- A \ 5% LOAN *rP»VAB Ls MONTHLf- \ LET us SXPLAIN IT J. LEWIS < ELLIS < Empire Building Phone 830 Americus. Ga- s.-. »W w ■ x \ ../ w ,a< . ' ■ z& 3&* y ~ :s&'}? ' Sb . 1 “Oh, Mountain speak your message well. When the shadows of night enwray you, let the stars that train above yuor summit sig nal to America, ‘The gray cap tain is on guard.' When the rain of Heaven beats upon your ma jestic face, let all men say, ‘Lee is weeping for the sorrows of a people.’ When the sun of morn ing strikes along your altitudes, ’ let mankind behold a newer Sol Invictus and exclaim: ‘The In vincible Light,’ Let no winds hiss through your lips of stone, but moving, make the music of an undying benediction. And when at last thruogh cosmic cy cles grain by grain you become a brother to the lowly dust, your message still will live immortal as the valor and the worth of the soul of Lee.’’--_Pl a ton Durban. ality as well as portraiture. The strong undertone of defeat and sor row in the face of Davis and Lee is absent from Jackson. His expres sion is marked by complete assur-I ance, for he died in the high tide of military success. His face is rugg ed, powerful, indomitable. A man of blameless character and deep re ligious faith, yet in war bis doctrine was that “the business of a soldier is to fight—to find the enemy and destroy him.” The figure of General Lee on th? Mountain will be one hundred and fifty-three feet high from the top of his head to his horse’s hoofs, and the others in similar scale. “You have spoken of the action in these horsemen,” said Lukeman to the Directors when they were ap praising his model. “If we have action here in this model, twenty twenty-four inches high, think how much action we are going to have when we carve General Lee and °S^XlHtia RYLANDER jM* i Kw Z/4L bjormaTalm ifl<t Eugene O'Brien ,\v ’The Onlv Woman" Never more beautiful, never more appealing, never closer to your heart than in this part. Here is a beautiful society belle she marries a wastrel to save him from himself. Oh. you lovers of real drama; you seekers for the best, see this, the biggest of its kind. COMEDY ‘Traveler’ on the M' -stain one hun dred and fifty-three t?et high.” Were nothing else carved on S'ttone Mountain these three fig ures, the most colossal sculpture ' ever wrought in granite or marble 1 or bronze, they would s‘ and su preme above all other monumais of all the ages. Were nothing Tlse carved but these three, “no genera tion of youth would ever pass this way and be the same again.” But these three will be only a part of. the central group, and th? central group will be only a part of the sw /j >us panorama. CHESTER JOHNSON I LEADS FIRE MARSHALS • SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 18.— Chester Johnson, state fire marshal of Alabama, was elected president of the Fire Marshals' Association of North America to replace S. W. Wade of North Carolina today. WHAT THEY ARE I DOING IN EUROPE (Continued from Page One) by the Schott Publishing House at I Mayence. These hitherto unknown | compositions, conforming with the composer’s well known juvenile col lection, are “cuckoo in hiding.” La goon of Venice, “Catch-Who-Catch- Cau,-* and “A Waltz.” A Cumplet eedition of the works of Carl Maria Von Weber also is' about to be published. This work js to be one by the musical sec tion of .he Germany Academy with the collaboration of a number of prominent experts under guidance lof Professor H. J. Moser of the lUniveristy of Heidelberg. The first i volume, embracing the unpublished operas of the early years of the AMERICUS TIMFS-RECORDFR composer is to be ready on the cen tennary of Weber’s death, June 26, 1926. PARIS, September 19.—For those who have been waiting for the information, a leading authority in th" French dress making world has declared, “we need not expect any marked change in women’s shape this winter.” The women of Paris will persist in keeping to the straight and slen der line so becoming to the figure. But as some changes must be made the dress makers have hit upon the expedient of trimming, the backs of dresses which is quite opposite to ’ what they did last season. All sorts of designs will be embroidered on the backs of gowns. Strange as it may seeni, mittens are coming baqk into fashion again. Not in the quaint form that our great grand mothers wore them, but made of thread or silk or both, and as delicate ps hair. They are made in charming tints and have touches of gold thread, pearls and small precious .stones woven into them. i Sir Arthur Conan Doyle solved ■ one problem which exercised all minds during the week of interna tional spiritualist congress which has just closed here. Although he did not produce a ghost, he gave a definition of one and that was some thing. ! “A ghost is an appearance too DUDLEY’S QPERA ffOUSE Monday and Tuesday MrtStITTW * \ y J \ J adolph ruKO« gF J I JESSC L LAS AY PA / 7 X. i A / \Q>ammouni I \&idiur ; I s A V/w I \ | Vv I \ /Betty CompsonX | Jack \ Come and learn "Eve’s Secret," and be thrill ed by this fascinating romance in a modern Garden of Eden. Luxuriously produced by the director of "New Lives for Old." material for the spirit life which, therefore, must remain on earth” ( said Sir Arthur. The delegates seemed satisfied. The Belgian delegation monopol- ’ ized least of the sensational part of ( the congress with its report of the , cure of a 23 years old Antwerp girl Jeanne Oeßore, who suffered! a tubercular disease in the right hip, leg and foot from childhood. Doctors abandoned hope of a cure but the girl took spiriturialist treat ments three months ago and now the Belgian delegates stated the girl has became normal arid walks without a cane. Easier naturalization is the latest remedy for France’s dwindling pop ulation. A bill has been drafted by Dep uty Charles Lambert removing most of the formalities and expensive fees rite ndant to becoming a citi zen of the republic. Among other facilities provided, foreigners mar -1 ry-ing French women may claim naturalization at once, while oth ers will have the qualifying period reduced from ten years to three The bill abolishes the right now enjoyed by children born’in France lof foreign parents of choosing be tween French nationality—and mili tary service—and the nationality of the parents. It is expected that the bill will be taken up by parlia ment as soon as the session opens 1 Maurice Bokanowski, one of the SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925 delegates of the French debt mis sion now on the way to the United States with France Minister Cail aux, was perhaps nqt chosen as a delegate fcr that reqgon, but ho is generally regarded as having been born under a lucky star and to be immue from consequences of shin wreck or other disasters. He was aboard the French aux iliary crujser La Provence the old trans-Atlantic liner, when it was torpedoed in the Adraitic during the war. He floated around in the water several hours before lie was picked up and now is supposd to live a charmed life. Henri Berenger, ranking member of the mission after the finance minister, has to his credit as his la test achievement the fact that he struck oil in Southern France. Berenger was “petroleum com missioner” during the war, a func tion in the exercise of which he learned the vastly growing import ance of petroleum. Soon after the end of hostilities he organzed the French Petroleum Company which has struck oil in two places in the foot hills of the Pyrenees. BERLIN, September 19—Pres- j ident Von Hindenberg's friends and | political advisers are grc.ito - pl«as-j ed over the impression the German' Chief Executive made upon the people of Bavarria during the four weeks vacation there recently. The trip was not only in the na ture of a holiday but was a politi cal experiment to see how the Ger mans would take to popularizing the President, by showing his off in various sections of the country. This first attempt proved a one one hundred per cent success, for wherever Von Hindenberg appeared he was the recelpient of whole hearted ovation . As he left Dietramsell castle , where most of his vacation was i spent the fire department, students | at a convent, and hundreds of lusty peasant broke into hurrahs. Simi- lar scenes were repeated all along the route, including Munich. The Bavarian press emphasizes that President Von Hindenburg’s visit did much to cement relations between the second largest German state and the federal government. Berlin smokers are up in arms against what they say is usurpation HEAR SUNDAY EVENING SERMON At First Baptist Church REV. JOE M. BRANCH Will speak on — The Creation Record vs. Evolution Or Should Evolution Be Taught Everybody Invited ENJOY A RADIO IN YOUR HOME Bring the Great Singers to Your Home The same tone values that issue forth from the golden voices of the great so loists of the day are received over the Murdock Radio. 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