Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-01 | Page 11 | Telling the World

f L TELLING THI WORLIE I By NEAL OHARA O'HARA I M I Copyright Press Prell Co CoT New ork World 1928 1921 1 L People aro are just jut b beginning Qi the size of the mo o that has been gouged out of the theof th of Stone mountain near For months a regiment of w warmed work armed with pickaxes drills and dynamite have been inn ina sculpture on the open ar air J figure of General Lee on his I. I lie ho hohas has just emerged M MIt It is Just a a. lef wh when look at it a a. half halt mile milO aw y have to get a a. to 1 size of the thing J For gor instance nce When the cul t came to drill the first buttonhole Lees Lee's coat they got en enough ugh cr crUal I rock out of It to ballast three il ilof of ot macadamized road The memorial is on such ad ami l scale that Jo Joe Humphries 1 th the tho lent leal er announcer for Ml I Richards Richard's prize fights tights could sla ta on the rear of General Lees Lee jho ho and couldn't make hl himself 8 lt hei heiby liei by a a. man who was sitting on horses horse's ear ji It is just a gigantic und i They had to install plunger Cletora Cle le tors tora for foe workmen to get fro l 1 generals general's knee to his spurs with mm losing half a days day's pay It has been said said and and no no I C doubts it that it-that that a couple of laD lab labori bon rot rl r got ot lost among the hairs i horses horse's tall tail and would have fie found their way out if they had hid carried a compass JB If It that doesn't gi g give you An n m Id Idof of ot th the size of ot the memorial th tI just listen to this statistic If nit t Woolworth building was placed General Lees Lee's lap it would look Ii Iia a a. birthday cake The old world has its matri mammo 0 antiquities like the Sphinx pyramids and the Lion of ot Lucen But Put America goes ahead at and bull her own wonders ov over r night I 1930 1920 tIre the whole s seven ven wonders onder the world can be right here in America by our our our-l o J engineers g With the Stone mount mountain ln as an Incentive there is no reaSi why we cannot dig even a a. bigg hole than the Grand canYOn T Grand canyon is only one mile l land and seven miles across e eOr or Otto Kahn or Read Dillon c cOO finance such uch a a. mammoth n ni ISI- ISI seeing hole that the Grand c Ct YI would look like a sand trap JM There is no limit to the ener I Yankee engineers The Tho Roc i Gibraltar remained for years ears Ju jd jt t ta it ita a aa a big hunk of scenery Th ni came an American life Ufe company and made it the bie billboard on earth S S S SAnd I And we have hardly tapp tapped d. d possibilities in this dir I Ican ca can top stop us for instance if f building an arm concrete ba ha baat at the bottom of Niagara making it the largest horse trod trou in in the solar system No idea can be on so l lira large scale as to scare us If we can blai foot tapestries on the a Georgia mountain if we a gorge through a in Colorado then we can put g board fence around the nation Yellowstone reservation and and hav Babe Ruth knock home runs outre oute the park J I After all we are a young n na Ho jot There are big things ahead of us ye