Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1919 — ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL.

New York, Oct. 20.—The objects of the Roosevelt Memorial association, to be carried out with the cooperation of its members and with the funds subscribed by them, were stated by the Hon. Elihu Root, member of the national executive committee of the association, as follows: “The purposes to which the money obtained from membership fees and subscriptions is to be applied have been definitely determined by the national committee of the Roosevelt Memorial association. The commitee resolved upon three definite objects. They are: “First, to improve the land that ias been given at Oyster Bay for a Roosevelt Memorial park. “Second, to erect a monumental memorial in Washington which will rank with the Washington monument and the Lincoln memorial. The form which this memorial will take cannot be now determined; this must rest largely with the architects and sculptors, who will be called upon to design the most appropriate and dignified monument that can be built and with the national fine arts commission that under the law must approve the design and determine its site. “Third, the establishment of a Roosevelt Society or Foundation to carry on Colonel Roosevelt’s spirit of Americanism and perpetuate and keep alive the uncompromising patriotism of which he was so essentially the exponent.”