Show ra n J 2 I Oth Other cY r Points o of View 1 I I T J lIC l The Tho Roosevelt monument ought not to servo serve ono one utilitarian purpose In Cook coUnt county It ou ought ht to bo be b a n II monument doing doing- no other service than tho the service a I proper I monument does docs It it- ou ought ht not to bo a memorial In to the form orm of ot a a. school for tor tho the blind or the thc crippled it Il ought I Inot not to bo lIo a building devoted C to education or 01 training 1 11 It ought to be a I. I great monument an and as ns such an Inspiration the concrete form of ot an Ideal I Ideals eals servo O more snore than soup HOUp Kitchens nl or tr training schools The Roosevelt ideal can serve O the tho American nation a as the Washington Lincoln and Grant Ideals ha have served That Id Ideal tl can bo lie served ser lI by a 1 monument and not b by a 1 memorial fostering tho the applied arts or b by an Institution in institution institution In- In t taking care of or orthe the tho maimed A ho hospital Is a hospital a school is a t school a a. soup kitchen Is lR a a. soup kitchen anI and a monument is a R monument ment We 0 have ha h had some atrocious monuments and have hwe suffered Id from them We e have ha had some good onus ones and anti have hlo bene benefited Cited Hl from them People who Insist upon a practical utilitarian value in a memorial are missing popular popular pop- pop popI I ular psychology They Thoy have e not had experience with It u I They do not kno know its la laws WB of or cause and effect They rhe to j not know what results from the appeals to human emotion and perception Last Sunday The Tribune a printed a picture of ot Theodora Theo Theo- dora dore Roosevelt suitable f foj- foj framing rho The Tribune be because because be be- because cause this picture was waK offered Its r readers sold old more copies than It sold tho Sunday before The Tribune might have announced that It would publish all an tho the moral axioms of oC Theodore Theodora Roosevelt elt Instead of ot tho the picture of Roosevelt oll and wo we doub doubt If It there would havo hayo been an any Increased demand for copies The rho people wanted the picture because it Il wa was the visualization of ot an nn ideal It was an app appeal al to tho the emotional perceptions It was recognizable appreciable significant sl and thus titus valuable Tho rho art of or such appeal Is known to lo all 11 successful manipulators of or mas mas emotions wh whether ther tho the m manipulator us uses s the thc stage stac the moving mo picture pi printers printer's prin- prin In ter's Ink or what not not and the good ones u use uso o the for tor tho the advancement of human projects and the tho maintenance nanco nance of ot human Ideals J cal tho the emotional perceptions To Insl insist l upon other othel utility than this is in to betray Ignorance of oC the manner In which people are arc moved mO t to to cherIsh ideas idelta thc they ought to cherish to see visions they ought to see eee to live lI lives cs thc they ought to 11 What Cook count county erects to tho the memory to the lire life and accomplishments anI and l Ideals of ot Joo Roosevelt ought to bo a monument and it Il ou ought ht to bo ho in the great forest ore t pr preserve p park rl which is It to lI be made mado available 3 to the people in the environs cn of or Chicago which is intended to Invite them into beautiful spots and to repay them In fine and emotions This forest preserve is yet without a suitable name I Wo Igo O suggest Roosevelt pa park parl rk for tor the s scheme H mc I I of ot forest orest and valto valley anI and hill hili Give GI tho Roose- Roose I veils veil's name and Roosevelt's eltA monument We hav- hav Lincoln I park Washington park parle Grant park Douglas park Garfield Garfield Gar Gar- Gar I field park park parI etc and and nd Humboldt t park Why I incidentally Humboldt park Did we run out of at American Ameri- Ameri can n names nunes which Americanism suggested to American peo- peo plo pie that wo had to name a n park rk for a n. German naturalist I I anti and explorer A curious beggary of or Americanism which intimates that It Il is not loo too late lato for tor a it correction I j Tho Tito Roosevelt monument In Roosevelt elt park for tor the I I perpetuation of or th the Roosevelt l ideal eal 0 of American robustness robust robust- t 1 ness noss courage and an devotion an outdoor monument in III a i forest park for tor an outdoor man man Chicago Chicago Tribune I tea ua tn In 1 m. m r |