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Floor Plan of Memorial Hall to Be Quarried Out of Stone Mountain
It will be the most enduring and beautiful shrine of the ages, a temple In this vast vaulted recess quarried out of solid rock will be perpetua¬
of sacred memories in the breast of a granite mountain. ted the story of the Confederacy until the end of time.
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tilLtcorial Hall will be (jwirrted
nut of Stone Mountain immediately
underneath the central croup of the
Confederate military panorama. It
will he the most unique and en¬
during shrine of the ages, a temple
of sacred memories In the breast
of a granite mountain.
No building material of any kind
will be used In Memorial nail, ex¬
cept the bronee doors of the en¬
trance, the bronte frames of the
windows and the plate glass of (he
windows. It wfll "'terally be a mult
in the mountain, lie walls, floor and
celling formed by the grunl»e from
which it Is quarried.
The length of the hall will be »21
feet, running parallel with the face
*>f the mountain. The depth will be
forty-eight feet and the height et
the ceiling will be forty feet.
Thirteen Incision* will be made
tn the face of the mountain, and
through these the granite will be
dragged out as the tunneling pro
grosses, and when the tunne.iug or
quarrying has been finished
thirteen incisions will be finished j
off as twelve windows and a
eoural entrsm.
AMERICAN LEGION NEWS,
DEPARTMENT OF GEORGIA
Gainesville, Ga. — Garland W.
Powell, National Director American¬
ism Commission, announces the win¬
ners in the American Legion Nation¬
al Contest for Georgia. Miss Ruth
Allen, Climax, Ga., won first prize
which is a beautiful silver medaL
Miss Ethelene Turk, Pitts, Ga., won
the second prize which is a bronze
medal. Those medals will be presented
by the District Committeemen. The
first prize will be presented to Miss
Allen by Mr. Joe West of Albany,
District Committeeman from the sec¬
ond district. The second prize will
be presented to Miss Turk by Mr. V.
E. Durden of Graymont, District
Committeeman from the twelfth
district. The first prize winner is also
in competitionn with the prize win¬
ners from other States for the Na¬
tional prize. Announcement of the
winner in the National competition
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1924.
The entrance will open Into a
large vestibule cut deeper into the
mountain than the two lateral
wings, and the back wall of this
vestibule will be oval shaped, and
ft will be called Georgia Hall.
On the left of Georgia Hall will
be Venahle Hall, so named in honor
of the gift of Stone Mountain for
the purposes of the memorial by
8amuel H. Venable and his nieces,
Mrs. Corlbel Venable Kellogg and
Mrs. Robert Venable Roper.
Berg turn's Name Rropoeed
On the right of Georgia Hall will
be a wing of exactly the same di¬
mensions as Venable Hall, and the
name of this Is yet to be decided
by the Stone Mountain Confederate
Monumental Association. The «Bg
gectlon has bees made that this
right wing be called -Borglum Hall,
In honor of Gntson Borglum, the
sculptor.
Sunk in the granite floor In the
eenter of Georgia Hall will be an
Immense brass star and a similar
wttl be sunk tn the floor Jtist
of each window, thus mak
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!i\g a total of thirteen stars, rtiyre
the thirteen stars of the
onfedcrete flag.
will be announced during the ensuing
month. More than 450,000 essays
were submitted on the subject of
M Why America Should Restrict Immi¬
gration" by the school children of
America. These were gronped accord,
ing to states in which winners were
announced, the winners then compet¬
ing with the winners of the other
states.
Gainesville, Ga.—Commander Ed¬
gar B. Dunlap of the Department of
Georgia, The American Legion, an¬
nounces the winners in the cup con¬
test in class B, C and D posts. Paul
E. Bolding Post No. 7, Gainesville,
Ga., reached 100% membership for
1924 with 255 paid members on De¬
cember 22, 1923. Shanklin-Attaway
Post No. 5, Rome, Ga., reached 100%
membership for 1924 with 111 paid
members on November 29, 1923.
Hubert Ledford Post No. 28, New
Holand, Ga., reached 100% member¬
ship for 1924 with 40 paid members
on November 15, 1928. Large silver
loving cups, suitably Inscribed, were
presented by the Commander to W.
C. Thomas, Commander of the Gaines¬
ville post and Marshall Stone, Com¬
mander of the New Holland post, at
a celebration recently held at the
Chattahoochee Golf Club, Gainesville,
Ga. The silver cup in class C won by
Shanklin-Attaway Post No. 5 will be
presented to Dr. W. H. Lewis, Com¬
mander of the post in Rome, at a
celebration on January 17. The Le¬
gion in Georgia is making great
strides for membership for 1924,
having for a time led the United
States in members and having won
the Hanford-McNider cup for two
successive years for increase in mem
bership.
Gainesville, Ga.—Mrs. Jesse Fol¬
som Stockbridge, State Press Agent
of The American Legion, in collabo¬
ration with the past department com¬
manders, is writing a history of the
Department of Georgia, The Ameri¬
Legion. This history will contain
complete biography of th# heroes
“Founders' Rotl” tablets belong¬
ing to Georgia members at the
"Founders' Roll” will go on the
walls of Georgia Hall. There will
be spaces for’ something over 540
Georgia, tablets.
“Founders’ Roll" tablets belong¬
ing to members of the "Founders’
Roll" of the other Confederate
states will go in the wall spaces op¬
posite the windows. Each window
will be dedicated to a Confederate
state, and each erf these states
will hare 118 spaces for "Founders’
Roll" tablets.
- • Founders' Roll” tablets belong¬
ing to U. D. C. chapters and Ladles’
Memorial Associations will go on
the two *eBd walls, the places of
special honor, and there will be
spaces for 571 of these. They will
be awarded without favoritism or
preference to the first U. D. C.
chapters and Ladles' Memorial As¬
sociations whloh come forward to
take them.
Lining of Tablets.
Ttufs the whole interior will be
lined, as it were, with a shining
bond of “Founders’ Roll” tablets
sot edse to edge, each tablet bear
(TV’ t*!. f* ■> tu! -rar ■' cord of
who made the supreme sacrifice, after
whom posts have been named, and
of all those ex-service men who have
taken leading parts in the organiza¬
tion and the up-building of the Le¬
gion in the State. She will also be
assisted by the Historian of each lo¬
cal post and it is confidently anticir
prted that the volume will be of great
interest, not only to the legionnaires,
but to service men generally, and
an integral part of the history of
Georgia, in that it will carry the most
reliable data, concerning all those
men who represented the State in the
World War.
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WHERE OUR MONEY GOES
The lack of thrift attributed to
the nation at large cannot hold in
the light of the savings reported by
the American Bankers’ Association.
According to this authority the in¬
crease in savings deposits during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1923,
amounted to $1,041,583,000, which,
if distributed among the population
of say one hundred millions, means
a saving during that period of $10
for every man, woman and child in
the country. On the above date total
deposits in banks of the nation ag¬
gregated the huge sum of $18,878,
062,000.
Annually there is published at
Washington by the government the
report of the Commissioner of In¬
ternal Revenue. From the report re¬
cently issued for the year 1921 it
appears that wages and salaries in
that year comprised approximately
three-fifths of- total incomes in that
year, while business, partnerships,
etc., accounted for less than one
sixth of that income. Figures are in¬
teresting, and for the purpose of
visualizing the importance of the re¬
port, and demonstrating the relation
between wages paid and profits de¬
from business, the following
table is given. The sources and the
derived by the internal
revenue department from each
the Confederate soldier or Confed¬
erate military unit in whose mem¬
ory it was erected. The tablets will
be uniform In size and design and
will be twelve by twenty inches.
Above the entrance on the out¬
side will be cut the name “Geor¬
gia” in the granite. Above each
window will be cut the name of the
Confederate state to which that
window is dedicated.
Above each window inside of the
hall will be a bronze tablet, very
large, bearing the names of the
governor or governors of that state
during the war, the state house of¬
ficers during that period and a sum¬
mary of the Confederate troops fur¬
nished by that state.
Underneath each window inside
of the hall will be cut a vault in
the granite. In this vault will be
fitted a bronze chest, and in the
ohes'. will be deposited a duplicate
of the Confederate roster of the
Confederate state to which that
window is dedicated. Thus will be
preserved for all time the names
of all men who served the Confed
eracy insofar as such a record is in
existence: A similar vault will be
provided for Georgia’s- Confederate
in a suitable place in Geor
Mali.
source were:
Wages and
salaries $13,813,169,065
Business 2,366,318,610
Partnership etc. 1,341,186,308
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The panels of “Founders’ Roll’’
tablets will be set some distance
above the floor, probably about the
height of a high wainscoting, and
below these panels will be cases
for the display of Confederate rel¬
ics. documents, souvenirs, etc.
When Memorial Hall is finished,
the Association will invite all per¬
sons having such relics to donate
them, if they wish, to be placed in
the hall for perpetual safe-keeping.
Esplanade Planned
Across the entire front of Memo¬
rial Hall will run a broad esplanade
formed by cutting a notch or shelf
in the face of the mountain where
it curves down toward the base. In
the center of the esplanade direct
tv in front of the entrance will be a
gigantic bronze urn with an incense
lamp which will be lighted with ap¬
propriate ceremonies when Memo¬
rial Hall is dedicated and kept for¬
ever burning.
On either side of a square abut¬
ment. in the center of which this
urn will stand, granite stairs will
ascend from the plain to the espla¬
nade
The Stone Mountain Confederate
Monumental Association will build
Profits from saies of
Real Estate, stocks
and bonds 462,858,675
Rents 1,174,957,882
Dividends 2,476,952,399
the memorial a un.i. at a th.it. The
central group of the panonma will
be the first unit con listing of
seven carved figures repvcsci lx.
the Confederate high command.
This group will cost $250,000 un¬
der the Association's contract with
Mr. Borglum, and Atlanta’s quota
of $250,000, now practically dpm
pleted, will pay for this group, and
it will constitute Atlanta’s contri¬
bution to history’s greatest monu¬
ment
Memorial Hall will be the sec*
ond unit started, and will be pushed
to completion with the utmost pos¬
sible speed. Though this hall in¬
volves the removal of a stupendous
quantity of granite, there is noth¬
ing especially difficult or unprece¬
dented about it Much greater
quantities of granite were removed
in the tunnel through which New
York City’s water supply is deliv¬
ered to Manhattan Island. Much
greater quantities of granite were
removed in a number of railway
tunnels in the Rocky Mountains.
An amount of granite equally as
great, if not greateT, was removed'
in cutting the tunnel of the Geor¬
gia Railway and Power ‘Company’s
hydro-electric plant at Tallulah
Falls in North Georgia.
Interest and invest¬
ment income
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