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-Title: Mount Rushmore National Memorial
- A monument commemorating the conception, preservation, and
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- _Mount Rushmore_
- NATIONAL MEMORIAL
-
-
- A MONUMENT COMMEMORATING THE CONCEPTION, PRESERVATION, AND GROWTH OF
- THE GREAT AMERICAN REPUBLIC
-
- [Illustration: Location practically in the Center of the North
- American Continent]
-
- PUBLISHED BY THE
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of Black Hills
- 1948
-
- [Illustration: GUTZON BORGLUM]
-
-
-
-
- CONTENTS
-
-
- Foreword 1
- The Mighty Works of Borglum 5
- From the Beginning 9
- The Role of the National Park Service 16
- Wind Cave National Park 17
- Badlands National Monument 17
- Jewel Cave National Monument 17
- Devils Tower National Monument 17
- The Antiquity of Mount Rushmore 18
- The Hall of Records and Great Stairway 20
- George Washington 22
- Thomas Jefferson 24
- Abraham Lincoln 26
- Theodore Roosevelt 28
- As Great Men Saw It 30
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of Black Hills 31
-
-
-
-
- _FOREWORD_
-
-
-_A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to
-civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve
-an epic, portray a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; neither are we
-dealing with mystery or tragedy, but rather the constructive and the
-dramatic moments or crises in our amazing history. We are cool-headedly,
-clear-mindedly setting down a few crucial, epochal facts regarding the
-accomplishments of the Old World radicals who shook the shackles of
-oppression from their light feet and fled despotism to people a
-continent: who built an empire and rewrote the philosophy of freedom and
-compelled the world to accept its wiser, happier forms of government._
-
-_We believe the dimensions of national heartbeats are greater than
-village impulses, greater than city demands, greater than state dreams
-or ambitions. Therefore, we believe a nation’s memorial should, like
-Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt, have a serenity, a
-nobility, a power that reflects the gods who inspired them and suggests
-the gods they have become._
-
-_As for sculptured mountains—_
-
-_Civilization, even its fine arts, is, most of it, quantity-produced
-stuff; education, law, government, wealth—each is enduring only as the
-day. Too little of it lasts into tomorrow and tomorrow is strangely the
-enemy of today, as today has already begun to forget buried yesterday.
-Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor, and out of its
-body builds its homes, its temples. Civilizations are ghouls. Egypt was
-pulled apart by its successor; Greece was divided among the Romans; Rome
-was pulled to pieces by bigotry and a bitterness much of which was
-engendered in its own empire building._
-
-_I want, somewhere in America on or near the Rockies, the backbone of
-the Continent, so far removed from succeeding, selfish, coveting
-civilizations, a few feet of stone that bears witness, carries the
-likenesses, the dates, a word or two of the great things we accomplished
-as a Nation, placed so high it won’t pay to pull down for lesser
-purposes._
-
-_Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can,
-the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of
-men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure
-until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away._
-
- [Illustration: _Gutzon Borglum_]
-
-
-
-
- THE MIGHTY WORKS OF BORGLUM
- _By_ RUPERT HUGHES
-
-
-How big is great? How high is up?
-
-In the wide and numberless fields of creative art, size is a matter of
-spirit rather than of material bulk. A sonnet may be a masterpiece, and
-an epic rubbish; or an epic may be sublime, a sonnet petty.
-
-It is only affectation to confine one’s praise to small things. Because
-a poet delights in a brook chuckling through a thicket of birches he
-need not therefore despise Niagara. The word “colossal” should not be
-surrendered entirely to the advertisers.
-
-The Shakespeare of the sonnets wrote also “Hamlet” and “King Lear.” The
-Beethoven who wrote the giggling _Scherzos_ wrote also the titanic Ninth
-and added its mighty chorus. Michelangelo did statuettes and sonnets,
-but also his “Day of Judgment” and his prodigious horned Moses.
-
-To the sincere artist it is the idea that is vital. Once that has
-inflamed him, he seeks only to give it the shape and the size that its
-nature dictates.
-
-So Gutzon Borglum, being sensitive to all the moods of life, a born
-poet, with an innate love of form for its own sake, quick to glow with
-inspirations of every kind and determined to give each its unique and
-eloquent shape, has painted and carved without fear or favor the
-exquisite and the tremendous with equal fidelity.
-
-His genius shines in the little bas-relief of a nymph; in sardonic
-gargoyles; in the tiny yet epic statuette of the dying Nero, a bloated
-coward tangled in his toga and drooping to his ignoble death; in the
-suave portrait of the seated Ruskin; the pathos of the old Boer warrior;
-in the billowy rush of the stampeding “Mares of Diomedes”; in his
-colossal head of Lincoln; in his war memorial for Newark, New Jersey,
-with its marvellously composed forty-two figures and two horses; his
-magnificent plan for the Stone Mountain, whose thwarting is one of the
-great tragedies of art; and finally in his supreme achievement, the
-Mount Rushmore Memorial, where he brought his art to the mountains and
-left there the four great faces for all eternity.
-
-This unparalleled accomplishment seems to have been not so much the
-carving of those vast heads upon the peaks as the beating away of the
-veiling, smothering stone and the releasing of the imprisoned statesmen
-so that they might look out upon the world and utter their lofty
-messages in a silence more pervasive and sonorous than any trumpet-tone.
-
-The heads stand up there against the clouds like cloud-gods. Yet they
-are not offered as gods, but as plain men who glorified the plain man.
-Each of them is greater in magnitude than the so-called Egyptian Sphinx.
-The Sphinx represented an unanswerable riddle and she cruelly destroyed
-all who could not answer it. But these presidents of ours represent
-brave, clear thinking towards safety and dignity and happiness for all
-mankind.
-
-The Sphinx was really a portrait, the largest portrait ever made till
-Borglum came along. It is the head of King Khafre set on the body of a
-crouching lion guarding the king’s tomb, with his pyramid back of it.
-Khafre had it built during a reign that ended over four thousand, seven
-hundred and fifty years ago.
-
-Near the Sphinx and Khafre’s pyramid is the greater pyramid of King
-Khufu, better known to us as Cheops. He lived from 2898 to 2875 BC. and
-his pyramid contains over two million blocks of stone, of an average
-weight of two and a half tons. Herodotus was told that it took a hundred
-thousand men twenty years to build it.
-
-Near Karnak there are still standing—or sitting—two portrait statues of
-Amenhotep III, who ruled fourteen hundred years B.C.—just about the time
-of Moses. These statues are seventy feet high.
-
-One of the four colossal statues at Abu Simbel represents Rameses II,
-who died about two thousand, six hundred years ago. Lying on its side is
-a broken statue of Rameses II, once 90 feet high and carved from a
-single thousand-ton block. This and another statue of him in granite
-ninety feet high were, according to Breasted writing in 1905, “the
-greatest monolithic statues ever executed.”
-
-But Borglum’s bust of Washington is larger than the whole figure of
-Rameses, Lincoln’s nose is 21 feet long and the sparkle in his eye is
-secured by a block of granite thirty inches long.
-
-Some of the Egyptian portraits were carved upon their cliffs somewhat as
-Borglum’s statues are upon the peaks. At Abu Simbel there are four such
-statues of enormous bulk.
-
-The Assyrians also built huge monuments, and inscribed the texts of
-whole histories on the faces of cliffs. Their kings were usually
-represented as enormous winged bulls with the heads of bearded men.
-These were called, strangely enough, “cherubs.”
-
-The Greeks created for their greater gods statues of gold and
-ivory—whence the epithet “chryselephantine.” Such was the colossal Zeus
-that Pheidias made for Olympia. It was about fifty feet high. Pheidias
-made also two colossal figures of Athena for Athens, one in bronze that
-stood up like a lighthouse and was visible to sailors far out to sea.
-The other had ivory flesh and robes of gold, and was seventy feet high.
-
-The famous bronze Colossus of Rhodes, erected about 274 B.C. by Chares
-of Lindus, was 105 feet high. It did not straddle a stream, as tradition
-has it. Half a century after it was set up, an earthquake overthrew it;
-in 656 A.D. it was sold for junk and carried off by a caravan of 900
-camels.
-
-In China one still sees enormous Buddhas, and in our own world the Mayan
-monstrosities are being brought back from the jungle that swallowed them
-like a sea.
-
-The statue of Liberty—a gift to us from France—is 151 feet high; with
-its pedestal it is 305 feet tall.
-
-But none of the giants ancient or modern has approached the size of the
-greater works of Borglum.
-
-This carver of mountains was himself a mountainy man, born in the
-mountainous state of Idaho on March 25, 1871. His full name was John
-Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum. His parents had come over from Denmark. His
-father, at first a woodcarver, became a physician and surgeon, also a
-breeder of horses on a 6000-acre ranch. He had no money to give his
-children, but he gave them a love of form and a knowledge of the horse
-that not only inspired Gutzon Borglum to some of his most magnificent
-work, but also made a splendid career for his younger brother, Solon.
-Solon took fire from Gutzon’s fire, worked his way to Paris, won honors
-there, and came home to his West where he turned out a stream of
-important sculptures that perpetuate many poignant phases of Western
-life. His life was suddenly ended in 1922 by an attack of acute
-appendicitis.
-
-Gutzon’s indomitable will carried him from the Idaho ranch to an art
-school in San Francisco, thence to Paris. He began as both painter and
-sculptor and was accepted as both by the French salons. In England,
-critics and royalty heaped honors on him. After painting a series of
-murals for a big hotel at Leeds and another series for a concert hall at
-Manchester, he began to abandon the brushes for the chisel, and to turn
-out statuary in almost every field and almost every imaginable form.
-
-From the first, his works won the highest honors. The Metropolitan
-Museum bought his “Mares of Diomedes” at once and the French Government
-promptly purchased a partial replica of it for the Luxembourg Gallery.
-Commissions rained on him and there was never any repetition in the
-spirit or treatment of his responses.
-
-There is not space here for even a catalogue of his triumphs. He also
-wrote much and well. He was an engineer and an inventor, overcoming by
-his own skill supposedly unconquerable problems involved in the
-construction of his larger works. He was an orator of eloquence with a
-practical skill in politics. At times he was a statesman and the close
-associate of Paderewski and Masaryk in their re-creation of their lost
-republics. During the first World War he investigated and exposed the
-causes for a mysterious and dangerous failure in American aircraft
-manufacture. His career has a strange kinship in its versatility with
-that of Leonardo da Vinci, and I believe that his name will live as
-long.
-
-In 1909 he married Mary Montgomery, a distinguished scholar in ancient
-Oriental languages, and a translator of cuneiform inscriptions. A son
-and a daughter blessed this union of two great souls.
-
-It was in 1907 that I first met Gutzon Borglum while preparing an
-article on his work, to which I paid complete homage. This was the
-beginning of a lifelong friendship of which I wrote him while he was
-glorifying the South Dakota mountains:
-
-“I have always had an awe and a reverence for you that fought with my
-love for the simple, jovial, twinkling-eyed friend you always were.”
-
-He answered: “You have said your say about me and it is a wet eye that
-reads through the letter. You know how vandalism in the name of
-Civilization raids the tombs of our ancestors and destroys the records
-of History. One of my motives in this work was to carve these records of
-our great West-World adventure as high into the heavens as I could find
-the stone.”
-
-As man and as sculptor he was passionately American and he has not only
-given to his country monuments of art that equal the greatest of other
-nations, but he has given artistic expression to the ideals that make
-America America.
-
-The Sphinx and its temple have only recently been recovered from the
-sand that submerged them for thousands of years. Yet even now the worst
-tyrannies and cruelties of the Pharaohs have been revived and paralleled
-in Europe, just as our gentlest, noblest ideals were to be found
-co-existing with savagery in ancient Egypt.
-
-I hope, I believe that in 7000 A.D. there will be pilgrimages to Mount
-Rushmore by Americans still keeping alive the flames of freedom kindled
-and rekindled by the four heroes Borglum had immortalized, immortalizing
-himself and his and their ideals along with them.
-
-His Mount Rushmore Memorial presents to posterity four great Americans
-who upheld the rights and equalities of all mankind, and who were
-themselves the very personifications of Americanism.
-
-Their noble heads are lofty enough to mingle with the clouds, and the
-parading lights of sun and moon and stars, and the processionals of rain
-and snow and mist give them a beauty that is always changing yet
-everlastingly changeless.
-
-Only a great soul and a great artist could have conceived or achieved
-such a monument to them and to himself. His gifts of spirit and
-execution were, I feel, unsurpassed by anything of their kind in the
-history of the world.
-
- [Illustration: The Memorial]
-
- [Illustration: _The Memorial in winter with a light fall of snow
- softening the surrounding landscape._]
-
-
-
-
- FROM THE BEGINNING
- _By_ MRS. GUTZON BORGLUM
-
-
-A nation’s memorials are a record of its civilization and the artist who
-builds them is the instrument of his time. He is inspired by the same
-forces that influence the nation’s destiny—the greater the period, the
-greater the art. The artist cannot escape his destiny. Like the “Hound
-of Heaven” it “pursues him down the years,” forces him to leave his
-home, to go into exile, to combat mountains even, to accomplish what
-must be.
-
-How else can we explain why a man should abandon a comfortable way of
-life, among pleasant surroundings, to hurl himself against a gigantic
-rock, to cling like a human fly to a perpendicular peak, to struggle
-with hostile human nature, in order to carve against the sky a record of
-the great experiment in democracy on this continent—a record which will
-live on and be an inspiration to future generations, a shrine to be
-visited, even after the thing it commemorated may have passed.
-
-This is the history of Rushmore told in a few words. The contributing
-factors are of interest and should be related but two outstanding facts
-are that a few kindred souls, giants in their day, fostered a form of
-democratic government and established a great nation and that a hundred
-and fifty years later another group of Americans realized the importance
-of making a record in the granite for all time of what manner of men
-they were and what they achieved.
-
-The initial step in this great enterprise was taken by Doane Robinson,
-state historian of South Dakota, who had heard of the monument being
-carved in Georgia by Gutzon Borglum to honor the heroes of the South in
-the war between the states and thought it would be a fine idea to have a
-similar patriotic shrine in South Dakota to bring that state to the
-attention of the nation.
-
-Mr. Robinson invited Mr. Borglum in 1924 to visit the Black Hills to see
-what could be done. The first thought was to carve the likeness of
-Washington and perhaps of Lincoln in one of the granite upthrusts known
-as the Needles. The stone, however, was not suitable and there was no
-special reason for memorializing Washington and Lincoln as individual
-presidents in South Dakota. Then Mr. Robinson told the sculptor of a
-lead tablet discovered by children playing near old Fort Pierre, which
-had been planted there in 1743 by Verendrye, an emissary of Louis of
-France, sent to establish French territory behind the English. This
-fired his imagination. Here was a subject for the great memorial he
-wanted to carve in the Hills.
-
-South Dakota lies in the heart of the old Louisiana Territory, purchased
-by Jefferson in 1803, in order to control the mouth of the Mississippi,
-which marked the first step away from the Atlantic seaboard colonies in
-the expansion of the little republic. That step led to the establishment
-of Texas, the conquest of California, the acquisition of Oregon and
-Alaska and the spanning of the continent from ocean to ocean by the
-empire nation called the United States. This was a subject worthy of a
-mountain—a monument to a nation, to its philosophy of government, its
-ideals and aspirations, its great leaders. Here in this remote spot,
-protected by its inaccessibility from the vandalism of succeeding
-generations, would be carved a Shrine of Democracy, as an imperishable
-record of a great people.
-
- [Illustration: _Here is Mt. Rushmore as it stood for countless ages
- before the poetic and patriotic idea of the great national memorial
- was born in the mind of Gutzon Borglum._]
-
-Mr. Borglum paid a second and third visit to the Hills and camped among
-them for two weeks, exploring and examining every rock large enough to
-suggest a monument, with the result that the huge granite upthrust
-called Mount Rushmore was selected as the only stone sound enough to be
-suitable for carving. Another reason for choosing Rushmore was the
-important consideration of lighting. It was imperative that the cliff on
-which the figures were to be carved should face the east in order to get
-the maximum amount of sunlight all the day long. Washington’s face is so
-placed that it catches the first rays of light in the morning and
-reflects the last ruddy glow in the evening. Many beautiful works of art
-are made insignificant by poor lighting.
-
-Senator Peter Norbeck, who had created the park system of South Dakota
-and played an important part in the creation of the Rushmore Memorial,
-also agreed that, in spite of its remote position with only riding
-trails leading to it, there was no other location possible.
-
- [Illustration: _Ranging downward like spiders swinging on fine
- threads, workmen made the strokes on the granite mountainside which
- now bears the features of George Washington._]
-
- [Illustration: _Scaffolding suspended from cables enabled the
- workmen to reach down from the brow of the mountain in order to
- carry on their courageous and difficult labors._]
-
-That autumn a group of Rapid City women put on a pageant of flags,
-designed by Mr. Borglum, on the top of the cliff to show the different
-epochs through which the territory had passed. The French flag was first
-hoisted, then the Spanish, then the flag of Napoleon, next the colonial
-flag and finally the present flag of the United States. Thus was Mount
-Rushmore officially dedicated to the Memorial. Mr Borglum then returned
-to his temporary studio in San Antonio, Texas, to make the models and
-decide what characters best illustrated the idea to which he was trying
-to give form.
-
-George Washington’s presence in the group was inevitable. He was the
-rock on which the republic was founded—the plumb line to establish its
-direction. So on Mount Rushmore his head is exactly perpendicular,
-facing the east, unaffected by the others in the group, the measuring
-rod determining the position of the others. Equally important with
-Washington was Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of
-Independence. By the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, as stated
-above, he had taken the first step westward in the course of the
-nation’s growth. He is represented on the mountain as a young man. He
-was only 33 when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
-
-Abraham Lincoln, the saviour of the republic, was inevitable in any
-record of the country’s history and finally Theodore Roosevelt was
-selected because, by cutting the Panama Canal, he had accomplished the
-dream of Columbus and opened a Sea-way from Europe to Asia and his name
-was closely linked with the territorial expansion following the war with
-Spain. He was also the first president to attempt the curbing of big
-business interests and the only president who had been familiar with the
-west. He had close associations with South Dakota.
-
- [Illustration: _Models in the studio at the foot of the mountain
- which guided construction of the actual figures (seen through
- window)._]
-
-The Mount Harney Memorial Association was authorized in 1925 by the
-state legislature to undertake the project on Mount Rushmore. No funds
-were voted for the purpose. Contributions were obtained from the three
-railroads serving the state, from the Homestake Mine and from private
-individuals, among them Mr. Charles Rushmore, a New York lawyer, after
-whom, quite accidentally, the cliff had been named. The work went on
-slowly, with considerable opposition, until President Coolidge’s visit
-to the Black Hills in 1927. He made a splendid speech at a picturesque
-ceremony held at Rushmore, immediately following which he took Mr.
-Borglum aside, inquired about the financing and urged him to come to
-Washington for help. It is doubtful whether, without this impetus given
-by President Coolidge, the carving would ever have been accomplished.
-
-The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission came into existence as
-the result of a Congressional Bill, passed on Washington’s Birthday in
-1929. The act carried an appropriation of $250,000 for the memorial,
-which was to be matched on a fifty-fifty basis by private subscriptions;
-it designated Gutzon Borglum as the sculptor and designer of the four
-figures and provided also for an inscription on the mountain.
-
-The first ascent of the mountain was made up the canyon where the
-present wooden stairway now is. After the initial survey was made, pine
-trees with branches cut off and cleats nailed at right angles to the
-trees were laid in the crevices to serve as ladders. Heavy ropes were
-then carried by hand to the top and a small winch was carried as far as
-possible by pack horse and then carried to the top by hand. After this
-winch was fastened on the top of the mountain, it in turn was used to
-pull up the heavy cable that became the tramway from the ground to the
-mountain top. Building material was pulled up and shelters built for the
-men. A small studio was also built to house the plaster reproductions of
-the master models that were in the studio at the foot of the mountain.
-These reproductions were used for measurements to save time required to
-go to the studio 1500 feet away and 500 feet below. In some cases these
-models were hung over the side of the mountain so that they could be
-consulted and compared with the measurements as the actual stone work
-progressed. By this method it was possible to save considerable time and
-labor.
-
- [Illustration: _Roughing out the face of Theodore Roosevelt. The
- strong chin and the mouth are already visible. The mass of stone at
- the top will be carved away to form the mustache._]
-
-The work of fitting the figures into the cracked granite upthrust called
-Mt. Rushmore has been a constant struggle between composition and
-finding solid stone for each of the four heads.
-
- [Illustration: _Close-up of Lincoln. Note the shafts of granite in
- the eyes of Lincoln. The light reflected by these shafts gives the
- eyes their lifelike glint when seen from a distance._]
-
-In the first design Jefferson was placed at the right of Washington and
-Lincoln on his left, and Theodore Roosevelt occupied the position now
-occupied by Lincoln. However serious flaws developed in the stone on
-this side of Washington; and it therefore became necessary to change our
-design and place Jefferson to Washington’s left. This made it necessary
-to place Theodore Roosevelt between Jefferson and Lincoln, and the stone
-had to be removed to a depth of approximately 120 feet from the original
-surface to get back far enough for the Roosevelt face. The heads were
-finally relegated to their approximate position (being moved several
-times as new conditions of the stone developed), that is they were
-tilted or dropped or made to look more to the right or left as the case
-might have been, to meet the composition or avoid flaws in the stone.
-This movement being made simply by moving the respective heads on the
-model and cutting the stone accordingly. It was not possible to fit the
-heads so that they would be entirely free from fissures, but it was
-possible to place them so that none of these fissures would be
-unsupported from below and that removes the danger of some vital part
-dropping off. As each head was started its center was located, and at
-this center point on the top of the head a plate was located. This was
-graduated in degrees 0 to 360 degrees, and at its center a horizontal
-arm was located that traversed this horizontal are. This arm was about
-30 feet long, in effect a giant protractor laid on top of the head. The
-arm was graduated in feet and inches so that at any point we could drop
-a plumb bob from this arm, and by measuring the vertical distance on
-this plumb line determine exactly the amount of stone to be removed.
-After determining this master center point on the mountain, we set a
-smaller arc and arm on our model in the same relative position. With
-this small device we would make all our measurements on our model and
-then enlarge them twelve times and transfer them to the large measuring
-device on the mountain. Thru this system every face had a measurement
-made every six inches both vertically and horizontally. These
-measurements were then painted on the stone and it was thru this means
-that men totally unfamiliar with sculptural form were able to do this
-undertaking. In fact all the men employed on the work were local men
-trained by the sculptor.
-
-Pneumatic drills are used for drilling and the compressed air is
-provided by large compressors located on the ground and driven by
-electricity. The air is forced or conveyed to the top of the mountain by
-a 3″ pipe and then by the use of smaller pipes and rubber hoses is
-conveyed to the drills.
-
-Over 400,000 tons of granite have been removed from the mountain in
-carving the figures, at a total expense of slightly more than $900,000.
-This includes all building, stairways and machinery.
-
- [Illustration: _Workmen putting the finishing touches on the strong
- face of the Rough-rider President._]
-
-The men are let down over the face of the stone in leather swings
-similar to bos’n chairs used on ships. These swings are fastened on to
-⅜″ steel cables which are in turn fastened on to winches located on the
-top of the heads. These winches are operated by hand. There are about
-seven winches on the top of each head. The men are lowered to their
-place of work by these winches, taking with them their jackhammers or
-pneumatic tools and other necessary equipment. One man is located in a
-position where he can see all the men at work, and is “The Callboy,” and
-has a microphone with a loud speaker at each of the winches and when any
-of the men working in the swings wants to be raised or lowered they
-signal this call-boy and he relays the message thru the loud speakers to
-the winchman. He also keeps the workmen supplied with new drills as they
-need them, by relaying their requests to the steelman who carries the
-steel to the men in the swings as it is needed. This steel is used over
-and over again; as it is dulled it is taken to the blacksmith shop on
-the ground via the cable car, heated, sharpened, re-heated and tempered
-and sent back to the mountain again. About 400 of these drills are
-dulled each day. They drill on an average about four feet before being
-sharpened. In some places the stone is so hard they will only last or
-drill about six inches and in other places they will last seven or eight
-feet before being re-sharpened.
-
- [Illustration: _The work in process as it appeared from an odd angle
- ... from the road running along the side of the mountain. Not many
- have seen the Memorial from this point of view._]
-
-The problem of finance has always been acute in connection with the work
-of the Rushmore Memorial. The economic hardships of the country made it
-increasingly difficult to match the Federal appropriation, without which
-the carving could not go on. The sculptor made repeated trips through
-the state and beyond its borders to arouse interest in the undertaking.
-He succeeded in raising some money by publishing a small book about
-Rushmore. There were never enough funds for as much power or as many men
-as he would have liked to use. There were long months when the work was
-stopped altogether. Finally the government took over the whole burden of
-financing and the work continued regularly, after 1938, being halted
-only by weather conditions. The sculptor was at last able to employ one
-or two trained stone carvers to do the finer work of finishing.
-
-The Washington head was unveiled in 1930, with Mr. Cullinan, first
-chairman of the Rushmore Commission presiding. President Franklin D.
-Roosevelt came for the unveiling of the Jefferson head in 1936. His
-unfailing interest and support have insured the finishing of the
-Memorial. At the unveiling of the face of Abraham Lincoln in 1937, a
-nation wide radio hookup carried the speeches to all parts of the
-country and again in 1939, when Governor Bushfield of South Dakota
-conducted ceremonies celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the State of
-South Dakota at Mount Rushmore, the radio carried the speeches and music
-all over the United States. The upper part of the face of Theodore
-Roosevelt was uncovered at that time.
-
- [Illustration: _The face of Jefferson begins to take form. The nose
- and the forehead are already plainly visible, but many tons of stone
- must be removed before the picture is complete._]
-
-Mr. Borglum was always scrupulously careful to protect his men from harm
-and it was his boast that in all his years of hazardous mountain carving
-no worker was seriously injured. He took no care of himself, however,
-and physicians said that undoubtedly the strenuous work of carving at
-that altitude weakened his heart and in March, 1941, it stopped beating.
-The carving was practically finished; there remained only the finishing
-of the hands and hair of the four figures and the Rushmore National
-Memorial Commission entrusted that work to the sculptor’s son, Lincoln
-Borglum, who had been with his father from the beginning of the work.
-
- [Illustration: _A blast is set off. The handling of powder and
- dynamite was an especially delicate problem, since a single badly
- placed charge might easily spoil the work of many months._]
-
-The faces of the four presidents, as carved on Mount Rushmore, are
-approximately 60 feet from chin to forehead; if completed from head to
-foot the figures would be 465 feet high. The entire head of the sphinx
-in Egypt is not quite as long as Washington’s nose. The entire cost of
-the Memorial, including all expenses of carving, buildings and salaries,
-is $900,000. This is at the rate of less than two dollars for every ton
-of stone removed, which is a cost incredibly low considering the
-hardness of the granite and that every piece must be removed in such a
-way as not to injure the surface behind. On this investment the Federal
-Government has received from tourists from the one cent gas tax on the
-increased sale of gas during the years since the work started over two
-million dollars and the income to South Dakota is over twenty million
-dollars annually.
-
- [Illustration: _From these beginnings today shine forth the faces of
- four of the greatest men of American history, to light the path of
- freedom for countless generations yet to come._]
-
-
-
-
- THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
-
-
- [Illustration: {uncaptioned}]
-
-Millions of Americans and liberty-loving people from all over the world
-have come to the Black Hills of South Dakota to look upon Gutzon
-Borglum’s _Shrine of Democracy_.
-
-The exact number of visitors to the great granite carvings is not known
-but each travel season the pilgrimage increases in size.
-
-During the period of construction from 1927 to 1941, when work was under
-supervision of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission, no
-accurate records of visitors were kept. Hundreds came each day, however,
-to keep a fascinated watch over the emergence of the likenesses of the
-four great presidents from the great stone uplift.
-
-Consecration ceremonies attended by President Coolidge and the
-unveilings of Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln
-were attended by thousands of people. Distinguished guests participating
-in these ceremonies included the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
-
-Then in 1939, the Memorial was placed under the supervision of the
-National Park Service of the Department of Interior. World War II
-intervened, but in the peace years since the transfer, the flow of
-visitors has been measured at close to a half million persons each
-travel season, 419,817 being reported for the 1947 travel year.
-
-Among the nine great memorials in the National Park Service system,
-Mount Rushmore, by 1947, had risen from seventh to fourth place in
-attendance. So far as these memorials are concerned, those reporting
-larger visitations were the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial,
-and the Washington Monument, all in the District of Columbia.
-
-As with other national parks, monuments, and memorials, Mount Rushmore
-was designated for inclusion in the National Park system because it had
-become a most inspiring site of historic significance.
-
-Its present administration is designed to promote and regulate the use
-of the memorial area to conserve the scenery and the natural and
-historical objects and to provide for the enjoyment of it in such a
-manner as to leave it unimpaired for the enjoyment of future
-generations.
-
-A total of nearly 1,800 acres of the Federal Game Sanctuary in the
-Harney National Forest now comprises the memorial area. It is under the
-administration of Superintendent Harry J. Liek with headquarters at Wind
-Cave National Park. The memorial is directly under Acting Custodian J.
-Estes Suter.
-
-A brief description follows for Wind Cave National Park and the three
-national monuments—the Badlands, Jewel Cave, and Devils Tower—that are
-embraced in the Black Hills and Badlands area of southwestern South
-Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.
-
-
- WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK
-
-Wind Cave is the most widely known of the many limestone caverns found
-near the margin of the Black Hills. Discovered in 1881, it was created a
-national park in 1903. The strong currents of wind that blow alternately
-in and out of the mouth of the cave suggested its name.
-
-Boundaries of the park were extended twice and now embrace a total of
-28,000 acres of federally-owned land, supporting a large buffalo herd in
-its natural habitat and other wildlife, such as elk, antelope, and deer.
-
-Chief feature of the park is the exceptional limestone cavern, noted for
-its unique boxwork rarely found in other sections of the world. Other
-crystalline formations in various color shadings line a series of
-subterranean passages, known to be at least 10 miles in extent.
-
-
- BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
-
-In sharp contrast to the verdant Black Hills country, the White River
-Badlands, a barren, treeless region, lies about 50 miles east of the
-western foothills.
-
-Here nature has beautified the earth with all shades of buff, cream,
-pale green, gold, and rose. Fantastically carved erosion forms rise
-above the valleys, some of them 150 to 300 feet high.
-
-The constantly shifting color and the weird formations make this a
-region of strong imaginative appeal.
-
-
- JEWEL CAVE NATIONAL MONUMENT
-
-A unique coating of dogtooth calcite crystals which sparkle like jewels
-in the light distinguish Jewel Cave from other crystal caverns in the
-Black Hills and provided its name.
-
-One of the finest stands of virgin ponderosa pine remaining in the Black
-Hills is found within the monument which was established in 1908. It was
-originally part of the present Harney National Forest but was
-transferred to the National Park Service, by Executive Order, in 1934.
-
-
- DEVILS TOWER NATIONAL MONUMENT
-
-Another unusual natural phenomenon of the Black Hills country is the
-Devils Tower across the South Dakota state line in Wyoming. This is a
-great column of igneous rock towering 1,280 feet above the Belle Fourche
-river, whose course is near the base. Devils Tower has the distinction
-of being the first national monument created under the Antiquities Act
-of 1906. It was established by proclamation of September 24 of that
-year, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
-
- [Illustration: _Devils Tower in Wyoming’s western border of the
- Black Hills National Forest._]
-
-
-
-
- THE ANTIQUITY OF MOUNT RUSHMORE
- _By the late_ JOSEPH P. CONNOLLY
- _President, South Dakota School of Mines_
-
-
-At the Battle of the Pyramids, Napoleon is reported to have exhorted his
-men by saying, “Soldiers, from these pyramids forty centuries look down
-upon you.” From the standpoint of human history four thousand years
-represent great antiquity indeed. But as one gazes upon the rugged
-slopes of Mount Rushmore, he is face to face with antiquity beside which
-the age of the Egyptian pyramids seems but a moment.
-
-How old is the granite of Rushmore? We have a yardstick by which we can
-measure that quite accurately. Not far from the mountain, in a
-subsidiary mass of granite, there was found a few years ago a small
-piece of coal-black, lustrous mineral known as pitchblende or uraninite,
-of which the chief constituent is the heaviest known element, uranium.
-We know that uranium continually undergoes atomic disintegration,
-changing at a slow, but uniform and measurable rate into lighter
-elements. The end product of this change is the metal lead. If we submit
-the specimen of pitchblende to chemical analysis, determine how much
-lead it contains, how much uranium is still left, it is a comparatively
-simple calculation to determine from the known rate of change, the
-number of years that have elapsed since the pitchblende came into
-existence. That experiment has been performed and the result is one
-billion four hundred and sixty-five million (1,465,000,000) years. Bear
-in mind that this enormous figure represents the time that has elapsed
-since the molten rock came to rest at some depth under the surface of
-the earth, and cooled sufficiently to crystallize into granite. It
-represents the age of the solid granite.
-
-But, although the granite of which the mountain is composed dates back
-to a period almost inconceivably remote, Mount Rushmore itself is much
-younger. We know that all of the granite mountains of the southern Black
-Hills were carved out of the rocks by the process of erosion. Field
-evidence indicates that fairly early in the Tertiary period,
-approximately thirty million years ago, erosion had carved out the
-topography of the Black Hills into much the same stage as we see it
-today. Perhaps Mount Rushmore was not fully born in that period; its
-form may not yet have been completely sculptured under the chisel of
-time, but we know that its age must be measured in millions of years and
-not in centuries.
-
-Mount Rushmore is a child of weathering and erosion. They brought the
-mountain into being and gave it form. But those relentless parents will
-not be content to leave their child as they fashioned it. They will
-continue their work of disintegration on the surface of the rock and
-along the cracks, until eventually they will completely destroy the
-mountain they formed, and long before the mountain will have been
-destroyed, the magnificent carvings of man will disappear. “How long,”
-we anxiously ask, “will the carvings endure?” Two processes will tend
-eventually to destroy the memorial, chemical weathering and physical
-disintegration.
-
- [Illustration: _A typical view from the Needles highway with the
- Cathedral Spires in the background._]
-
- [Illustration: _Fantastic formations in the Badlands. The variegated
- coloring is at its best in the early morning or the late evening._]
-
-Chemical weathering will take place very slowly, so slowly that if it
-were the only destructive process we had to consider, we could with some
-confidence say that the memorial would endure for hundreds of thousands
-of years. And the progress of chemical weathering will probably be
-impeded by the sculpturing of the memorial, for on the figures the rock
-will be smoother, water will drain off more rapidly instead of
-penetrating, lichens and other vegetation will not have as secure a
-foothold as on the natural face of the rock, and thus will not
-contribute to so great an extent their destructive acids to such waters
-as do penetrate.
-
-Physical disintegration is somewhat more to be feared. This operates in
-two ways, by exfoliation due to changes in temperature, and by frost
-action. Differential stresses set up by unequal expansion and
-contraction, owing to the poor heat conductivity of granite, tend to
-spall off or _exfoliate_ the surface layers of rock.
-
-When water gets into the cracks and pores of the rocks and freezes, it
-exerts an enormous pressure, a pressure that will spall off flakes and
-blocks of rock. The artist and his associates, fully aware of this
-hazard, have guarded against it. All cracks and fissures have been
-carefully avoided in the sculpturing so far as is possible. Such as have
-been impossible to avoid are being sealed to prevent the ingress of
-water, thus inhibiting to a very large extent both frost action and
-chemical weathering.
-
-We have traced in part the geological history of the Mount Rushmore
-region, hoping that by learning something of its past we may predict
-something of its future. We see the hazards to which the memorial is
-exposed. We must frankly recognize them and guard against them so far as
-possible, as it would be folly to ignore them. If the science of geology
-can do no more in a practical way for mankind than to point out dangers
-and sound warnings, it does a worth while service. “How long will the
-memorial last?” Geology cannot answer specifically. An eminent geologist
-has already given as definite an answer as it is possible to give, and I
-can do no better than to close by quoting from the address given by the
-late Dr. C. C. O’Harra at the unveiling of the head of Washington.
-
-“How long will Mount Rushmore last? Many millions of years. The number
-nobody knows. How long will endure this monumental, sculptured figure of
-the Father of our Country which today we unveil? One hundred years? Yes.
-One thousand years? Yes. A hundred thousand years? In all likelihood,
-yes. A half million years? Possibly so, nobody knows. The time at any
-rate will be long, far longer than we can readily comprehend. And this
-doubtless will abundantly suffice.”
-
-
-
-
- THE HALL OF RECORDS AND GREAT STAIRWAY
- _By_ LINCOLN BORGLUM
-
-
-The Hall of Records and Stairway have been part of the Memorial plan
-from the beginning and are provided for in the so-called “Rushmore Bill”
-of 1938. A good start has been made in the carving of the Hall, which
-already has been excavated to the extent of seventy feet. Great care has
-to be exercised in the use of dynamite in carving this hall, as in
-carving the faces on the mountain, not to injure the stone which is to
-remain. Careless explosions of large amounts of powder might crumble the
-walls.
-
-The Hall is located about two thirds of the way up to the mountain: the
-entrance to it is in a small gorge or canyon, cut by the ice aeons ago,
-to the right of the carved faces as one looks at them from below. The
-Hall is on the opposite side of the gorge from the heads and is not
-under them. The following is quoted from Mr. Borglum’s plan.
-
-“The façade to the Hall’s entrance is the mountain wall 140 feet high;
-supporting pylons, cut into the mountain, flank the entrance. The
-entrance door itself is 12 feet wide and 20 feet high; the walls are
-plain, dressed granite and of a fine color. I want to finish the inner
-entrance wall in mosaic of blue and gold lapis. The depth to the door
-entrance from the outer façade is 20 feet. The door, swung on a six inch
-offset of the wall, will be of bronze and glass. Small, carefully
-modeled bronze figures of historic importance from Columbus and Raleigh
-to the present day will ornament the doors or be modeled into the
-supporting frame. The walls of the entrance will carry in gilded bronze
-immediately within the entrance ancient Indian symbols; British, French,
-Spanish and American seals.
-
-“The floor of the Hall will be 100 by 80 by 32 feet to an arched
-ceiling. At the height of fifteen feet an historic frieze, four feet
-wide, will encircle the entire room. Recesses will be cut into these
-walls to be filled with bronze and glass cabinets, which will hold the
-records stamped on aluminum sheets, rolled separately and placed in
-tubes. Busts of our leaders in all human activities will occupy the
-recesses between the cabinets. The original thought of a hall of human
-records I developed at Stone Mountain in Georgia and my drawings and
-full plans are extant; that was never completed.
-
-“The records of electricity, beginning with Franklin, which has given us
-light, heat, music, the radio, the telegraph, the telephone and controls
-in power the extent of which we can hardly imagine, must be here,
-together with the records of literature, the records of travel,
-immigration, religious development and also the record of perhaps the
-largest contribution that we have made to humanity, which has been free
-controlled peace, a government of the people, by and for the people.
-Struggle as we will that great contribution is today the cause for the
-real unrest of Europe. Despotism, tyranny of every form is fighting us
-wherever it can, to take away from humanity the power freedom gives
-it—the power that freedom has given America.
-
- [Illustration: _Opening of a gorge reached by the Great Stairway is
- the massive twenty-foot-high entrance to the Hall of Records._]
-
-“The Hall will be reached by a monumental flight of steps varying from
-15 to 20 feet in width, which will ascend the mountain in front, a
-little to one side of the sculpture, rising from a great granite disk or
-platform in the canyon below, which may be used as a rostrum from which
-speakers may address the public occupying the amphitheater facing the
-great group.
-
- [Illustration: _This picture shows the workmen busy in the early
- stages of the work of carving the Hall of Records from the
- granite._]
-
-“These steps of granite and cement will be provided with seats at
-intervals of every fifty feet; they will have a five inch rise and an
-eighteen inch tread. The ascension from the foot of the steps to the
-floor of the great entrance is four hundred feet; the entrance way from
-the steps’ landing to the great Hall is 190 feet; the floor of this
-Hall, reached by three steps, is two feet above the floor of the
-entrance way in the canyon; this to provide for proper drainage.”
-
-Owing to repeated requests from important organizations of women, the
-urging of some senators and congressmen and Mr. Borglum’s own
-realization of the part women have played in the development of our
-country, plans had been under way for some years to include women in the
-great Shrine of Democracy. There was no room in the rock which contains
-the heads of the four presidents and the only other place seemed to be
-the west wall of the granite cliff, or in the hall of records. To quote
-again from Mr. Borglum, from a letter written in January 1940: “If we
-decide that the west side of the mountain is suitable, I am for it. We
-must work out a design that is fitting and in no sense harmful in the
-matter of lighting or location to subjects determined upon and I am
-entirely in favor of carving the faces of two or three women. If that is
-determined upon, these figures will be near what has been known in the
-Rushmore Law as the Inscription and there will be a special paragraph
-given to the work and services of women. The original inscription
-referred to the framing of the Declaration of Independence; that was
-Jefferson’s work and the second was the Constitution. That was
-Washington’s greatest service. The third dealt with the purchase of the
-Louisiana Territory and the fourth, fifth, and sixth, the progress
-towards the south and southwest, involving Florida, Texas and
-California, which included Arizona, a portion of Nevada, Utah and a
-portion of Idaho. The seventh paragraph brought in the Oregon cession
-from England and the purchase of Alaska. There was one paragraph for
-Lincoln and one for the finishing of the Panama Canal, which was
-achieved by Theodore Roosevelt.
-
- [Illustration: _The corridor leading from the doorway into the Hall
- of Records, showing the marks of the stonecutters’ tools._]
-
-“So by these suggestions you will see that a splendid paragraph can be
-developed for the part women have played in the development of the
-nation.” In another part of the letter Mr. Borglum made a place for
-women in the Hall of records and even suggested that a special hall
-might be carved for them, as there is ample rock for many rooms.
-
-Calvin Coolidge had been asked to collaborate on the inscription and
-wrote the first two paragraphs. Mr. Borglum stood strongly for “Justice”
-in the wording, whereas Mr. Coolidge insisted upon “Justice under the
-Law.” Newspaper accounts exaggerated the discussion, which unfortunately
-was terminated by Mr. Coolidge’s death.
-
-
-
-
- GEORGE WASHINGTON
-
-
-_In carving the head of George Washington, Mr. Borglum studied all the
-known portraits of him and drew heavily on certain famous likenesses
-which he preferred because he believed them most faithful to the
-character of the man. Borglum was confronted by an extraordinary
-problem. He had undertaken to place his sculpture on a mountain peak
-over 6000 feet above sea level. His face of Washington, tall as a
-five-story building, was to be far up in the sky “where the clouds fold
-about it like a great scarf, where the stars blink about its head, and
-the moon hides behind a lock of hair.” As Borglum himself pointed out,
-it has been the practice of the sculptors of history, immediately they
-departed from the normal dimensions of men, to conventionalize and
-simplify their faces and to generalize the portraiture, and, in so
-doing, lose those qualities which gave distinction. Such methods had no
-appeal to Borglum. Vehemently, he brushed aside “the claptrap standards
-of Good Enough.” The faces he placed upon the mountain to gaze down upon
-hundreds of generations of mankind must be true, great, and noble faces,
-and that of Washington would be the gauge of all the rest. Borglum spent
-thirteen years digging into every corner of Washington’s life in order
-that his portrait might say the last word about the man who is called
-the Father of his Country. He made an extensive study of his character
-and was deeply impressed by the picture presented by Thomas Jefferson in
-the following letter to Dr. Walter Jones, dated at Monticello, January
-2, 1814_:
-
-
-I think I knew Gen. Washington intimately and thoroly; and were I called
-on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these.
-
-His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order;
-his penetration strong, tho not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or
-Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow
-in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure
-in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage
-he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he
-selected whatever was best; and certainly no general ever planned his
-battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the
-action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden
-circumstances, he was slow in readjustment. The consequence was that he
-often failed in the field, and rarely against an enemy in station, as at
-Boston and York.
-
-He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest
-unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence,
-never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely
-weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided, going thru
-with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed.
-
-His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever
-known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship, or
-hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense
-of the words a wise, a good, and a great man. His temper was naturally
-high toned; but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm and
-habitual ascendancy over it. If ever, however, it broke its bonds, he
-was most tremendous in his wrath.
-
-In his expenses he was honorable, but exact; liberal in contribution to
-whatever promised utility; but frowning and unyielding on all visionary
-projects and all unworthy calls on his charity. His heart was not warm
-in its affections; but he exactly calculated every man’s value, and gave
-him a solid esteem proportioned to it.
-
-His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish,
-his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman of his age, and
-the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. Altho in the
-circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took
-a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above
-mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas nor fluency of
-words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready,
-short, and embarrassed.
-
-Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style.
-This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education
-was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added
-surveying at a later day.
-
-His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only
-in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became
-necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing his agricultural
-proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors.
-
-On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad,
-in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said that never did
-nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to
-place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited
-from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny
-and merit of leading the armies of his country successfully thru an
-arduous war, for the establishment of its independence; of conducting
-its councils thru the birth of a government, new in its forms and
-principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train;
-and of scrupulously obeying the laws thru the whole of his career, civil
-and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other
-example....
-
- [Illustration: {George Washington}]
-
-
-
-
- THOMAS JEFFERSON
-
-
-Writing just a century ago, and a few years after Jefferson’s death, one
-of his earliest biographers said that it had been that statesman’s fate
-“to be at once loved and praised by his friends, and more hated and
-reviled by his adversaries than any of his compatriots.” The fact that
-much the same could be said of the writing about him today merely shows
-that the man is still alive in so far as his influence is both felt and
-feared. So is his great antagonist Hamilton. These two exponents of
-contrasted philosophies of government, though dead, yet live and are in
-the thick of the fight today. The issues for which they fought with all
-their strength are not yet settled. Indeed these issues have broadened
-and deepened until one in especial has become perhaps the most burning
-of all in a bewildered and angry world, the question whether the people
-can govern themselves or must be governed.
-
-Although a political philosopher, Jefferson never set forth his views in
-any formal treatise, as did John Adams in his voluminous works or
-Hamilton in _The Federalist_. Probably the most widely read man of his
-time in America, Jefferson had a broader range of interests—political,
-religious, economic, agricultural, aesthetic and scientific—than did any
-other of the leaders. His curiosity was insatiable, but in spite of what
-has so frequently been asserted, usually by his enemies, although
-sometimes by his friends, he was not a mere theorist. He kept his feet
-on the ground. It was the practical application of ideas and their
-practical effects which appealed most to him and not the ideas in
-themselves as viewed by a philosopher. Even when he could not use the
-touchstone of experiment in such matters as his belief in the common man
-or religious freedom, he was never a doctrinaire. He not only believed
-but said over and over that government and institutions had to be suited
-to a people of any given time and place and could not be true or good
-everywhere and always.
-
-We do not look to Jefferson for a theory of government or of the state.
-To a great extent the things he had to say about government, and the
-things for which he strove in his active political life, were based on
-the America of his day and the slowly developing agricultural one which
-he envisaged in the future, writing as he did, before the machine age.
-What gave Jefferson his profound importance in his own day, as it does
-now, was his view of human life. He was, and still is, the greatest and
-most influential American exponent of both Liberalism and Americanism.
-
-Liberalism is rather an attitude than a program. It is less a solution
-of governmental problems than it is a way of looking at them. It is
-based on the doctrine of live and let live. The Liberal is willing to
-take risks feared by both Conservatives and Socialists. Not being a
-fool, he realizes, as do the others, that society must have a structure;
-but he is more concerned with the freedom and fullness of the life of
-the citizen within that structure than with the structure itself.
-
-It may also be noted that even in his native Virginia, Jefferson
-antagonized many of the most important interests and families by what
-was considered his undermining of a social order. His struggle to break
-down entail and primogeniture, to free religion from the fetters of a
-State church, and his well-known opposition to slavery, have not even
-yet been forgiven by many Virginians who feel that the downfall of the,
-in many ways, charming and delightful society of the eighteenth century
-was due to one whom they consider a renegade from his own order. As we
-shall see later, when Jefferson was involved in financial difficulties
-in his old age, the citizens of his own State, unlike many elsewhere,
-did not offer him the slightest aid.
-
-Europe, in the early days of our country, was filled with restraints and
-barriers. Jefferson felt that the America of his day offered a unique
-opportunity in the annals of mankind to try out the great experiment of
-self-government on an unprecedented scale. His Americanism, written in
-part into the Declaration of Independence, which he preached throughout
-life by word and act, grew out of his personal experience of America
-itself. In so far as those qualities of the American people which we
-group under the word “Americanism” have been fostered by any one man, in
-addition to the natural forces of the American environment, Jefferson is
-beyond question that man.
-
-The struggle going on almost everywhere today, in our own country no
-less than in some of those others which have already lost their
-liberties, is the struggle between the conception of a strong
-centralized state controlling the lives of the citizens for the sake of
-economics and national power, and the conception of personal liberty
-affording the greatest possible scope for the individual to live his
-life as he wills. The old questions which Jefferson and Hamilton fought
-over were who is to rule, why are they to rule, what is the object of
-their rule? These are now being fought out again, as they always have
-been, but with increasing bitterness among vast masses of populations.
-That is why both men are living today and why it is worth while to
-consider again the life particularly of the one who laid more stress
-upon freedom and toleration for the individual than on the strength of
-national power.
-
- JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS
- _from “The Living Jefferson,” 1936_
-
- [Illustration: {Thomas Jefferson}]
-
-
-
-
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
-
-
-Carlyle once said to Holman Hunt: “I’m only a poor man, but I would give
-one third of what I possess for a veritable, contemporaneous
-representation of Jesus Christ. Had those carvers of marble chiseled a
-faithful statue of the Son of Man, as he called himself, and shown us
-what manner of man he was like, what his height, what his build, and
-what the features of his sorrow-marked face were, I for one would have
-thanked the sculptor with all the gratitude of my heart for that
-portrait as one of the most precious heirlooms of the ages.”
-
-Remarkable as it may seem, were it not for photography and one life
-mask, this, with equal truth, might be said of a man who, as the ages
-run, has hardly gone from among us.
-
-Lincoln, one of the greatest of observers, was himself the least truly
-observed. God had built him in the backyard of the nation and there,
-wrapped in homely guise, had preserved and matured his pure humanity. He
-was heard, but seems rarely, if ever, to have been truly seen. The
-reports we have of him do not satisfy, do not justify, are inconsistent.
-The eastern, old-world eye could not read beyond the queer hat, bad
-tailoring, and boots you could not now give away—and he was so long he
-fairly had to stoop to look the little world in the face. Never has bad
-tailoring, homely, deferential manner, so completely hidden seer,
-jester, master of men, as did these simple accoutrements this first
-great gift of the West. But it is surprising that professional
-observers, artists and writers alike, have drawn and redrawn the untrue
-picture.
-
-A great portrait is always full of compelling presence, more even than
-is seen in the original at all times, for a great portrait depicts great
-moments and carries the record of the whole man. It is, therefore, not
-enough to draw a mask.
-
-Lincoln is a comfort and a reality, an example, a living inspiration to
-every mother and every son in America. No mask will satisfy _us_; we
-want to see what we care for; we want to feel the private conscience
-that became public conduct. We love this man, because he was all in all
-one of us and made all the world peers. Now we begin to see him truly.
-Within his coming the West has steadily rolled back the East, and of his
-ways the world has many. The silk hat, the tall figure, the swing, the
-language and manner have become American, and we all understand.
-
-Official Washington was shocked by his address. Men, who could have
-given us master pictures of a master man, remained unconvinced until he
-had passed away. The great portrait was never drawn, and now it is too
-late; we must wade through mountains of material and by some strange
-divination find in fragments the real man, and, patiently, lovingly, yet
-justly, piece them all together.
-
-It was speculation of this kind that gradually led me to a careful
-analysis of Lincoln the man. The _accepted_ portraits of him do not
-justify his record. His life, his labors, his writings, made me feel
-some gross injustice had been done him in the blind, careless use of
-such phrases as _ungainly_, _uncouth_, _vulgar_, _rude_, which were
-commonly applied to him by his contemporaries. These popular
-descriptions do not fit the master of polished Douglas—nor the man,
-whose intellectual arrogance academic Sumner resented.
-
-I believed the healthy, powerful youth and frontiersman, the lover,
-lawyer of spotless record, legislator, the thrice candidate for
-President, had been falsely drawn. I believed if properly seen and truly
-read, the compelling and enduring greatness of the man would be found
-written in his actions, in his figure, in his deportment, in his face,
-and that some of this compelling greatness might be gotten into the
-stone. To do this, I read all or nearly all he had written, his own
-description of himself, the few immediate records of his coming and
-going. I then took the life mask, learned it by heart, measured it in
-every possible way—for it is infallible—then returned to the habits of
-his mind, which his writings gave me, and I recognized that _five_ or
-_six_ of the photographs indicated the man.
-
-Whether Lincoln sat or stood, his was the ease of movement of a figure
-controlled by direct and natural development, without a hint of
-consciousness. Chairs were low for him and so Lincoln seemed when he sat
-down to go farther than was quite easy or graceful. His walk was free
-and he moved with a long but rather slow swinging stride. His arms hung
-free, and he walked with an open hand. He was erect; he did not stoop at
-the shoulders. He bent forward, but from the waistline. His face was
-large in its simple masses. His head was normal in size; his forehead
-high, regular and ideal in shape. His brow bushed and projected like a
-cliff. His eyebrows were very strong. His mouth was not coarse or heavy.
-His right side was determined, developed, ancient. The left side was
-immature, plain—and physically not impressive.
-
-You will find written in his face literally all the complexness of his
-nature. We see a dual nature struggling with a dual problem, delivering
-a single result—to the whole. He was more deeply rooted in the home
-principles that are keeping us together than any man who was ever asked
-to make his heart-beat national—too great to become president, except by
-some extraordinary combination of circumstances.
-
- GUTZON BORGLUM
-
- [Illustration: {Abraham Lincoln}]
-
-
-
-
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
-
-
-Fromentin said of Peter Paul Rubens, one of the greatest masters who
-ever used brush and paint to interpret human character: “He is
-systematic, methodical and stern in the discipline of his private life,
-in the ordering of his work, in the regulating of his intelligence, in a
-kind of strong and sane wholesomeness of his genius. He is simple,
-sincere, a model of loyalty to his friends, in sympathy with every one
-of talent, (and) untiring and resourceful in his encouragement of
-beginners * * *.” The same might have been said with equal truth and
-propriety of Theodore Roosevelt.
-
-Of all the great leaders of this country, he was the most typically
-American. The grief and melancholy that seized him following the death
-of his first wife drove him into Dakota. Here upon the range he found
-surcease from sorrow and sufficient time off from his duties as manager
-of his ranch to write about the West. This work won instant recognition
-and not only established his place among the literary men of his day but
-made him the idol of the Great West. The cowboys with whom he rode the
-night herd liked and admired him, and even the roughnecks soon learned
-to respect his cool courage and resourcefulness. One encounter with him
-did not give encouragement to a second.
-
-But he was more than a frontiersman and writer. He represented all that
-was best in the home, in business and in government. He was energetic,
-intelligent and purposeful. He had an aim in life and drove hard and
-steadily toward his goal. His enemies seldom outmaneuvered him and he
-knew how to strike when a bold stroke was required to accomplish a
-desired end. His association with men of all types and his keen
-observation gave him an insight into men that enabled him to distinguish
-quickly and accurately the spurious from the real. Surface indications
-or social position had for him little meaning. He would rather associate
-with an uneducated but quick-witted cowpuncher than with the dull and
-unimaginative. This accounts for his friendship with men and women in
-all walks of life. Talent and ability, usefully employed, always had for
-him a special appeal but he was bored and annoyed by the pretentious
-commonplace.
-
-He was by instinct and inclination a reformer and sought to improve all
-that was best in public morals, both spiritually and politically. No man
-struggling as mightily as he could escape making mistakes, but he was
-great enough to recognize them and fair enough to seek to rectify any
-injustice that had resulted. His enthusiasm, zeal and sureness of
-himself sometimes led him to pursue hopeless and occasionally
-ill-considered causes that he later had reason to regret, but by the
-large he was a most useful and inspiring personality.
-
-Two outstanding achievements stand to his credit. One of these was the
-building of the Panama Canal, an accomplishment of transcendent
-importance to the American people. It is the link that binds the East to
-the West by water and has helped to make this country one of the great
-commercial and industrial nations of the world. The canal is also of
-first importance from the standpoint of national defense and has added
-greatly to the mobility and usefulness of our Navy, which has always
-been our first line of defense against any possible foreign foe.
-
-The second was the injection of morals into our politics and the
-insistence upon the square deal for every American, be he small or
-great. It was this characteristic more than any other that endeared him
-to the ordinary man and made him one of the most powerful political
-figures and one of the greatest moral forces that has taken possession
-of the hearts and minds of men in any age. It was not that he was always
-right, but men and women clung to him because they felt that he was
-right most of the time and was trying to be right all of the time.
-
-As a lone fighter he was without a peer in his day and generation, and
-had the impetuosity and zeal required to arouse a mighty following in
-any cause which he espoused and upon which he had deep convictions.
-Every word that he spoke and every manifestation of his personality left
-a profound impression upon all those who came into contact with him
-either personally or upon the hustings. Everywhere he was impressive,
-persuasive and compelling. While he may never be loved as Lincoln was
-loved, or rise to the stature of Washington, his example, fortitude in
-adversity, and fight for the betterment of his fellow men will ever be
-like a beacon going before to inspire men and women everywhere who are
-seeking to make the world a better place in which to live.
-
-It was President Calvin Coolidge who said to Sculptor Gutzon Borglum
-that among the immortals to be carved upon Mount Rushmore a place must
-be found for Theodore Roosevelt, “because he was the first president to
-say to Big Business, ‘thus far you shall go and no farther.’” Washington
-is there because he was the trusted leader that made these United States
-possible, and was great and strong enough to refuse a crown and lay down
-the scepter when his work was done. Jefferson stands at his side because
-of his contribution to the rights of man as set forth in the bill of
-rights; Abraham Lincoln because he saved the Union from division by his
-own martyrdom and his infinite compassion for those who suffered, and
-Theodore Roosevelt because he was the greatest moral force for clean
-government and the square deal of modern times.
-
- WILLIAM WILLIAMSON
-
- [Illustration: {Theodore Roosevelt}]
-
-
-
-
- AS GREAT MEN SAW IT
-
-
- [Illustration: {Calvin Coolidge}]
-
-Excerpts from speeches at dedicatory and unveiling ceremonies or
-comments made during personal visits to the Memorial.
-
-
-President Calvin Coolidge (Consecration Ceremony, August 10, 1927)
-
-“We have come here to dedicate a corner stone that was laid by the hand
-of the Almighty.... This memorial will be another national shrine to
-which future generations will repair to declare their continuing
-allegiance to independence, to self government, to freedom and to
-economic justice....”
-
-
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jefferson Unveiling)
-
-“An inspiration for the continuance of the democratic republican form of
-government, not only in our own beloved country, but, we hope,
-throughout the world.”
-
-
-Lord Halifax (Visiting the Black Hills, March 29, 1946)
-
-“The most remarkable confluence of the wonder of nature and the art of
-man I have ever witnessed.”
-
-
-Judge Albert R. Denu (Borglum Banquet, December 28, 1938)
-
-“The historian of the future ... will record America’s enduring
-achievements and include in his history the name of a Master Sculptor,
-whom the earth’s inhabitants of the twentieth century knew as Gutzon
-Borglum.”
-
- [Illustration: {Franklin D. Roosevelt}]
-
-
-_Photograph Credits: Bell Studios, Lincoln Borglum, Charles d’Emery,
-Verne’s Photo Shop, Publishers’ Photo Service, Inc., Wyoming Department
-of Commerce & Industry, and Rise Studio._
-
-
-
-
- MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL SOCIETY OF BLACK HILLS
-
-
- [Illustration: John A. Boland, Sr.
- _President of Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of Black
- Hills_]
-
-The state of South Dakota and the community of the Black Hills have
-logically and with undiminished zeal accepted a considerable financial
-and moral responsibility in the evolution of this magnificent Shrine of
-Democracy.
-
-Through the successive stages of locating, planning, sculptoring,
-improving and publicizing Mount Rushmore, a liaison with Sculptor Gutzon
-Borglum and his son, Lincoln, the President, the Congress and the
-Department of Interior has been maintained through the instrumentalities
-of three nonprofit organizations.
-
-The Mount Harney Memorial Association was first authorized to “carve a
-memorial in heroic figures” under an act of Congress, approved by
-President Coolidge on March 4, 1925. Brought into being through a bill
-passed by the South Dakota Legislature, the Association entered into a
-formal contract with Gutzon Borglum and work was commenced in 1927.
-
-Subsequently in 1929, when Federal funds were appropriated for matching
-purposes, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission was created,
-consisting of twelve members to be named by the President.
-
-Appointed by President Coolidge to serve on the commission were John A.
-Boland, Rapid City, S. D.; Charles R. Crane, New York, N. Y.; Joseph S.
-Cullinan, Houston, Texas; C. M. Day, Sioux Falls, S. D.; D. B. Gurney,
-Yankton, S. D.; Hale Holden, Chicago; Frank O. Lowden, Oregon, Ill.;
-Julius Rosenwald, Chicago; Fred W. Sargent, Evanston, Ill. and Mrs.
-Lorine Jones Spoonts, Corpus Christi, Texas.
-
-Mr. Cullinan became the Commission’s first president and Mr. Boland was
-named chairman of the executive committee at a session in the White
-House, where it met upon invitation of the President on June 6, 1929.
-
-It was the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission which assumed
-financial responsibility for the Memorial, taking over all property and
-contracts from the Mount Harney Association, employing the services of a
-staff for the sculptor and disbursing federal and privately-solicited
-funds during the course of construction.
-
-It was also the parent organization for the present Mount Rushmore
-National Memorial Society of Black Hills, incorporated under the laws of
-the District of Columbia in 1930. And while the Society’s objectives
-were identical with those of the Commission, it had additional
-authority, including the sale of memberships, management of concessions
-and the use of available funds for advertising and publicity.
-
-A long list of “Who’s Who” in America and South Dakota have been
-recorded in the annals and on the membership roll of the Mount Rushmore
-Society. Membership certificate No. 1 is held by John Hays Hammond,
-world famed mining engineer, lecturer, consultant of Cecil Rhodes and
-active in the development of hydro-electric and irrigation projects.
-Number two belongs to Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under President
-Wilson and a one-time member of the Permanent Court of International
-Justice at The Hague.
-
-Other original members, some of whose heirs hold the certificates, are
-John N. Garner, vice president of the United States; Julius Rosenwald,
-American merchant and philanthropist; Sewell L. Avery, chain store
-magnate; Mary Garden, American operatic soprano; Walter Dill Scot,
-author and president of Northwestern University; Nicholas Murray Butler,
-president of Columbia University and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1931,
-and Vilhjalmur Stefanson, Arctic Explorer, to mention a few.
-
-The Society’s Board of Trustees presently is composed of Paul E.
-Bellamy, John A. Boland, Mrs. Gutzon Borglum, Lincoln Borglum, Francis
-Case, Fred C. Christopherson, Miss Nina Cullinan, George E. Flavin, Mrs.
-William Fowden, Mrs. Peter Norbeck, Robert E. Driscoll, Sr., Eugene C.
-Eppley, Mrs. Frank M. Lewis and William Williamson. Walter H. Johnson is
-treasurer and K. F. Olsen secretary. The Commission is not active at
-this time.
-
-Originally a portion of the Federal Game Sanctuary in the Harney
-National Forest, the 1,686-acre tract that comprises the Mount Rushmore
-National Memorial was established in 1929 but did not come under the
-National Park Service jurisdiction until 1939.
-
-During the interim, the South Dakota State Highway Commission
-constructed the present Memorial Highway from its junction with U. S.
-Highway 16. It also built the Iron Mountain Drive with the three tunnels
-that frame the Shrine of Democracy. The planning and intricate
-engineering skill that went into building the Iron Mountain Highway was
-extremely ingenious in itself.
-
-
-
-
- Transcriber’s Notes
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-—Silently corrected a few typos.
-
-—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook
- is public-domain in the country of publication.
-
-—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by
- _underscores_.
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-<div id="cover" class="img">
-<img id="coverpage" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Mount Rushmore National Memorial" width="500" height="647" />
-</div>
-<div class="box">
-<h1><span class="large"><i>Mount Rushmore</i></span>
-<br /><span class="small">NATIONAL MEMORIAL</span></h1>
-<p class="center">A MONUMENT COMMEMORATING THE CONCEPTION, PRESERVATION, AND GROWTH OF THE GREAT AMERICAN REPUBLIC</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p01a.jpg" alt="Location practically in the Center of the North American Continent" width="300" height="306" />
-</div>
-<p class="center"><span class="small">PUBLISHED BY THE</span>
-<br />Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of Black Hills
-<br />1948</p>
-</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig1">
-<img src="images/p02.jpg" alt="" width="627" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap">GUTZON BORGLUM</p>
-</div>
-<h2 id="toc" class="center"><span class="small">CONTENTS</span></h2>
-<dl class="toc">
-<dt><a href="#c1">Foreword</a> 1</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c2">The Mighty Works of Borglum</a> 5</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c3">From the Beginning</a> 9</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c4">The Role of the National Park Service</a> 16</dt>
-<dd><a href="#c5">Wind Cave National Park</a> 17</dd>
-<dd><a href="#c6">Badlands National Monument</a> 17</dd>
-<dd><a href="#c7">Jewel Cave National Monument</a> 17</dd>
-<dd><a href="#c8">Devils Tower National Monument</a> 17</dd>
-<dt><a href="#c9">The Antiquity of Mount Rushmore</a> 18</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c10">The Hall of Records and Great Stairway</a> 20</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c11">George Washington</a> 22</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c12">Thomas Jefferson</a> 24</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c13">Abraham Lincoln</a> 26</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c14">Theodore Roosevelt</a> 28</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c15">As Great Men Saw It</a> 30</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c16">Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of Black Hills</a> 31</dt>
-</dl>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_1">1</div>
-<h2 id="c1"><span class="small"><i>FOREWORD</i></span></h2>
-<p><i>A monument&rsquo;s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of
-the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic, portray a moonlight
-scene, or write a sonnet; neither are we dealing with mystery or tragedy, but rather the
-constructive and the dramatic moments or crises in our amazing history. We are cool-headedly,
-clear-mindedly setting down a few crucial, epochal facts regarding the
-accomplishments of the Old World radicals who shook the shackles of oppression from
-their light feet and fled despotism to people a continent: who built an empire and
-rewrote the philosophy of freedom and compelled the world to accept its wiser, happier
-forms of government.</i></p>
-<p><i>We believe the dimensions of national heartbeats are greater than village impulses,
-greater than city demands, greater than state dreams or ambitions. Therefore, we
-believe a nation&rsquo;s memorial should, like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt,
-have a serenity, a nobility, a power that reflects the gods who inspired them and suggests
-the gods they have become.</i></p>
-<p><i>As for sculptured mountains&mdash;</i></p>
-<p><i>Civilization, even its fine arts, is, most of it, quantity-produced stuff; education,
-law, government, wealth&mdash;each is enduring only as the day. Too little of it lasts into
-tomorrow and tomorrow is strangely the enemy of today, as today has already begun to
-forget buried yesterday. Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor, and out of
-its body builds its homes, its temples. Civilizations are ghouls. Egypt was pulled apart
-by its successor; Greece was divided among the Romans; Rome was pulled to pieces by
-bigotry and a bitterness much of which was engendered in its own empire building.</i></p>
-<p><i>I want, somewhere in America on or near the Rockies, the backbone of the Continent,
-so far removed from succeeding, selfish, coveting civilizations, a few feet of stone
-that bears witness, carries the likenesses, the dates, a word or two of the great things we
-accomplished as a Nation, placed so high it won&rsquo;t pay to pull down for lesser purposes.</i></p>
-<p><i>Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our
-leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a
-prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear
-them away.</i></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig2">
-<img src="images/p02b.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="88" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Gutzon Borglum</i></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_5">5</div>
-<h2 id="c2"><span class="small">THE MIGHTY WORKS OF BORGLUM</span>
-<br /><i>By</i> RUPERT HUGHES</h2>
-<p>How big is great? How high is up?</p>
-<p>In the wide and numberless fields of creative
-art, size is a matter of spirit rather than of material
-bulk. A sonnet may be a masterpiece, and an epic
-rubbish; or an epic may be sublime, a sonnet petty.</p>
-<p>It is only affectation to confine one&rsquo;s praise to small
-things. Because a poet delights in a brook chuckling
-through a thicket of birches he need not therefore despise
-Niagara. The word &ldquo;colossal&rdquo; should not be surrendered
-entirely to the advertisers.</p>
-<p>The Shakespeare of the sonnets wrote also &ldquo;Hamlet&rdquo;
-and &ldquo;King Lear.&rdquo; The Beethoven who wrote the giggling
-<i>Scherzos</i> wrote also the titanic Ninth and added its mighty
-chorus. Michelangelo did statuettes and sonnets, but also
-his &ldquo;Day of Judgment&rdquo; and his prodigious horned Moses.</p>
-<p>To the sincere artist it is the idea that is vital. Once
-that has inflamed him, he seeks only to give it the shape
-and the size that its nature dictates.</p>
-<p>So Gutzon Borglum, being sensitive to all the moods of
-life, a born poet, with an innate love of form for its own
-sake, quick to glow with inspirations of every kind and
-determined to give each its unique and eloquent shape,
-has painted and carved without fear or favor the exquisite
-and the tremendous with equal fidelity.</p>
-<p>His genius shines in the little bas-relief of a nymph; in
-sardonic gargoyles; in the tiny yet epic statuette of the
-dying Nero, a bloated coward tangled in his toga and
-drooping to his ignoble death; in the suave portrait of the
-seated Ruskin; the pathos of the old Boer warrior; in the
-billowy rush of the stampeding &ldquo;Mares of Diomedes&rdquo;; in
-his colossal head of Lincoln; in his war memorial for
-Newark, New Jersey, with its marvellously composed
-forty-two figures and two horses; his magnificent plan for
-the Stone Mountain, whose thwarting is one of the great
-tragedies of art; and finally in his supreme achievement,
-the Mount Rushmore Memorial, where he brought his
-art to the mountains and left there the four great faces
-for all eternity.</p>
-<p>This unparalleled accomplishment seems to have been
-not so much the carving of those vast heads upon the
-peaks as the beating away of the veiling, smothering
-stone and the releasing of the imprisoned statesmen so
-that they might look out upon the world and utter their
-lofty messages in a silence more pervasive and sonorous
-than any trumpet-tone.</p>
-<p>The heads stand up there against the clouds like cloud-gods.
-Yet they are not offered as gods, but as plain men
-who glorified the plain man. Each of them is greater in
-magnitude than the so-called Egyptian Sphinx. The
-Sphinx represented an unanswerable riddle and she
-cruelly destroyed all who could not answer it. But these
-presidents of ours represent brave, clear thinking towards
-safety and dignity and happiness for all mankind.</p>
-<p>The Sphinx was really a portrait, the largest portrait
-ever made till Borglum came along. It is the head of King
-Khafre set on the body of a crouching lion guarding the
-king&rsquo;s tomb, with his pyramid back of it. Khafre had it
-built during a reign that ended over four thousand, seven
-hundred and fifty years ago.</p>
-<p>Near the Sphinx and Khafre&rsquo;s pyramid is the greater
-pyramid of King Khufu, better known to us as Cheops.
-He lived from 2898 to 2875 BC. and his pyramid contains
-over two million blocks of stone, of an average
-weight of two and a half tons. Herodotus was told that it
-took a hundred thousand men twenty years to build it.</p>
-<p>Near Karnak there are still standing&mdash;or sitting&mdash;two
-portrait statues of Amenhotep III, who ruled fourteen
-hundred years B.C.&mdash;just about the time of Moses. These
-statues are seventy feet high.</p>
-<p>One of the four colossal statues at Abu Simbel represents
-Rameses II, who died about two thousand, six hundred
-years ago. Lying on its side is a broken statue of
-Rameses II, once 90 feet high and carved from a single
-thousand-ton block. This and another statue of him in
-granite ninety feet high were, according to Breasted
-writing in 1905, &ldquo;the greatest monolithic statues ever
-executed.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>But Borglum&rsquo;s bust of Washington is larger than the
-whole figure of Rameses, Lincoln&rsquo;s nose is 21 feet long
-and the sparkle in his eye is secured by a block of granite
-thirty inches long.</p>
-<p>Some of the Egyptian portraits were carved upon their
-cliffs somewhat as Borglum&rsquo;s statues are upon the peaks.
-At Abu Simbel there are four such statues of enormous
-bulk.</p>
-<p>The Assyrians also built huge monuments, and inscribed
-the texts of whole histories on the faces of cliffs.
-Their kings were usually represented as enormous winged
-bulls with the heads of bearded men. These were called,
-strangely enough, &ldquo;cherubs.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Greeks created for their greater gods statues of
-gold and ivory&mdash;whence the epithet &ldquo;chryselephantine.&rdquo;
-Such was the colossal Zeus that Pheidias made for Olympia.
-It was about fifty feet high. Pheidias made also two
-colossal figures of Athena for Athens, one in bronze that
-stood up like a lighthouse and was visible to sailors far
-<span class="pb" id="Page_6">6</span>
-out to sea. The other had ivory flesh and robes of gold,
-and was seventy feet high.</p>
-<p>The famous bronze Colossus of Rhodes, erected about
-274 B.C. by Chares of Lindus, was 105 feet high. It did
-not straddle a stream, as tradition has it. Half a century
-after it was set up, an earthquake overthrew it; in 656
-A.D. it was sold for junk and carried off by a caravan of
-900 camels.</p>
-<p>In China one still sees enormous Buddhas, and in our
-own world the Mayan monstrosities are being brought
-back from the jungle that swallowed them like a sea.</p>
-<p>The statue of Liberty&mdash;a gift to us from France&mdash;is 151
-feet high; with its pedestal it is 305 feet tall.</p>
-<p>But none of the giants ancient or modern has approached
-the size of the greater works of Borglum.</p>
-<p>This carver of mountains was himself a mountainy
-man, born in the mountainous state of Idaho on March
-25, 1871. His full name was John Gutzon de la Mothe
-Borglum. His parents had come over from Denmark. His
-father, at first a woodcarver, became a physician and surgeon,
-also a breeder of horses on a 6000-acre ranch. He
-had no money to give his children, but he gave them a
-love of form and a knowledge of the horse that not only
-inspired Gutzon Borglum to some of his most magnificent
-work, but also made a splendid career for his younger
-brother, Solon. Solon took fire from Gutzon&rsquo;s fire,
-worked his way to Paris, won honors there, and came
-home to his West where he turned out a stream of important
-sculptures that perpetuate many poignant phases of
-Western life. His life was suddenly ended in 1922 by an
-attack of acute appendicitis.</p>
-<p>Gutzon&rsquo;s indomitable will carried him from the Idaho
-ranch to an art school in San Francisco, thence to Paris.
-He began as both painter and sculptor and was accepted
-as both by the French salons. In England, critics and
-royalty heaped honors on him. After painting a series of
-murals for a big hotel at Leeds and another series for a
-concert hall at Manchester, he began to abandon the
-brushes for the chisel, and to turn out statuary in almost
-every field and almost every imaginable form.</p>
-<p>From the first, his works won the highest honors. The
-Metropolitan Museum bought his &ldquo;Mares of Diomedes&rdquo;
-at once and the French Government promptly purchased
-a partial replica of it for the Luxembourg Gallery. Commissions
-rained on him and there was never any repetition
-in the spirit or treatment of his responses.</p>
-<p>There is not space here for even a catalogue of his
-triumphs. He also wrote much and well. He was an engineer
-and an inventor, overcoming by his own skill supposedly
-unconquerable problems involved in the construction
-of his larger works. He was an orator of eloquence
-with a practical skill in politics. At times he was
-a statesman and the close associate of Paderewski and
-Masaryk in their re-creation of their lost republics.
-During the first World War he investigated and exposed
-the causes for a mysterious and dangerous failure in
-American aircraft manufacture. His career has a strange
-kinship in its versatility with that of Leonardo da Vinci,
-and I believe that his name will live as long.</p>
-<p>In 1909 he married Mary Montgomery, a distinguished
-scholar in ancient Oriental languages, and a translator of
-cuneiform inscriptions. A son and a daughter blessed this
-union of two great souls.</p>
-<p>It was in 1907 that I first met Gutzon Borglum while
-preparing an article on his work, to which I paid complete
-homage. This was the beginning of a lifelong friendship
-of which I wrote him while he was glorifying the
-South Dakota mountains:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I have always had an awe and a reverence for you
-that fought with my love for the simple, jovial, twinkling-eyed
-friend you always were.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>He answered: &ldquo;You have said your say about me and
-it is a wet eye that reads through the letter. You know
-how vandalism in the name of Civilization raids the
-tombs of our ancestors and destroys the records of History.
-One of my motives in this work was to carve these
-records of our great West-World adventure as high into
-the heavens as I could find the stone.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>As man and as sculptor he was passionately American
-and he has not only given to his country monuments of
-art that equal the greatest of other nations, but he has
-given artistic expression to the ideals that make America
-America.</p>
-<p>The Sphinx and its temple have only recently been
-recovered from the sand that submerged them for
-thousands of years. Yet even now the worst tyrannies and
-cruelties of the Pharaohs have been revived and paralleled
-in Europe, just as our gentlest, noblest ideals were
-to be found co-existing with savagery in ancient Egypt.</p>
-<p>I hope, I believe that in 7000 A.D. there will be pilgrimages
-to Mount Rushmore by Americans still keeping
-alive the flames of freedom kindled and rekindled by the
-four heroes Borglum had immortalized, immortalizing
-himself and his and their ideals along with them.</p>
-<p>His Mount Rushmore Memorial presents to posterity
-four great Americans who upheld the rights and equalities
-of all mankind, and who were themselves the very
-personifications of Americanism.</p>
-<p>Their noble heads are lofty enough to mingle with the
-clouds, and the parading lights of sun and moon and
-stars, and the processionals of rain and snow and mist
-give them a beauty that is always changing yet everlastingly
-changeless.</p>
-<p>Only a great soul and a great artist could have conceived
-or achieved such a monument to them and to
-himself. His gifts of spirit and execution were, I feel, unsurpassed
-by anything of their kind in the history of the
-world.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_7">7</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p03.jpg" alt="The Memorial" width="800" height="610" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_8">8</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig3">
-<img src="images/p04.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="608" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>The Memorial in winter with a light fall of snow softening the
-surrounding landscape.</i></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_9">9</div>
-<h2 id="c3"><span class="small">FROM THE BEGINNING</span>
-<br /><i>By</i> MRS. GUTZON BORGLUM</h2>
-<p>A nation&rsquo;s memorials are a record of its civilization
-and the artist who builds them is the instrument
-of his time. He is inspired by the same forces that
-influence the nation&rsquo;s destiny&mdash;the greater the period,
-the greater the art. The artist cannot escape his destiny.
-Like the &ldquo;Hound of Heaven&rdquo; it &ldquo;pursues him down the
-years,&rdquo; forces him to leave his home, to go into exile, to
-combat mountains even, to accomplish what must be.</p>
-<p>How else can we explain why a man should abandon
-a comfortable way of life, among pleasant surroundings,
-to hurl himself against a gigantic rock, to cling like a
-human fly to a perpendicular peak, to struggle with
-hostile human nature, in order to carve against the sky
-a record of the great experiment in democracy on this
-continent&mdash;a record which will live on and be an inspiration
-to future generations, a shrine to be visited, even
-after the thing it commemorated may have passed.</p>
-<p>This is the history of Rushmore told in a few words.
-The contributing factors are of interest and should be
-related but two outstanding facts are that a few kindred
-souls, giants in their day, fostered a form of democratic
-government and established a great nation and that a
-hundred and fifty years later another group of Americans
-realized the importance of making a record in the granite
-for all time of what manner of men they were and what
-they achieved.</p>
-<p>The initial step in this great enterprise was taken by
-Doane Robinson, state historian of South Dakota, who
-had heard of the monument being carved in Georgia by
-Gutzon Borglum to honor the heroes of the South in the
-war between the states and thought it would be a fine
-idea to have a similar patriotic shrine in South Dakota to
-bring that state to the attention of the nation.</p>
-<p>Mr. Robinson invited Mr. Borglum in 1924 to visit the
-Black Hills to see what could be done. The first thought
-was to carve the likeness of Washington and perhaps of
-Lincoln in one of the granite upthrusts known as the
-Needles. The stone, however, was not suitable and there
-was no special reason for memorializing Washington and
-Lincoln as individual presidents in South Dakota. Then
-Mr. Robinson told the sculptor of a lead tablet discovered
-by children playing near old Fort Pierre, which had been
-planted there in 1743 by Verendrye, an emissary of Louis
-of France, sent to establish French territory behind the
-English. This fired his imagination. Here was a subject
-for the great memorial he wanted to carve in the Hills.</p>
-<p>South Dakota lies in the heart of the old Louisiana
-Territory, purchased by Jefferson in 1803, in order to
-control the mouth of the Mississippi, which marked the
-first step away from the Atlantic seaboard colonies in the
-expansion of the little republic. That step led to the establishment
-of Texas, the conquest of California, the
-acquisition of Oregon and Alaska and the spanning of the
-continent from ocean to ocean by the empire nation
-called the United States. This was a subject worthy of a
-mountain&mdash;a monument to a nation, to its philosophy of
-government, its ideals and aspirations, its great leaders.
-Here in this remote spot, protected by its inaccessibility
-from the vandalism of succeeding generations, would be
-carved a Shrine of Democracy, as an imperishable record
-of a great people.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig4">
-<img src="images/p04a.jpg" alt="" width="628" height="799" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Here is Mt. Rushmore as it stood for countless ages before the
-poetic and patriotic idea of the great national memorial was
-born in the mind of Gutzon Borglum.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>Mr. Borglum paid a second and third visit to the Hills
-<span class="pb" id="Page_10">10</span>
-and camped among them for two weeks, exploring and
-examining every rock large enough to suggest a monument,
-with the result that the huge granite upthrust
-called Mount Rushmore was selected as the only stone
-sound enough to be suitable for carving. Another reason
-for choosing Rushmore was the important consideration
-of lighting. It was imperative that the cliff on which the
-figures were to be carved should face the east in order to
-get the maximum amount of sunlight all the day long.
-Washington&rsquo;s face is so placed that it catches the first rays
-of light in the morning and reflects the last ruddy glow
-in the evening. Many beautiful works of art are made
-insignificant by poor lighting.</p>
-<p>Senator Peter Norbeck, who had created the park system
-of South Dakota and played an important part in the
-creation of the Rushmore Memorial, also agreed that, in
-spite of its remote position with only riding trails leading
-to it, there was no other location possible.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig5">
-<img src="images/p05.jpg" alt="" width="569" height="799" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Ranging downward like spiders swinging on fine threads, workmen
-made the strokes on the granite mountainside which now
-bears the features of George Washington.</i></p>
-</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig6">
-<img src="images/p05a.jpg" alt="" width="611" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Scaffolding suspended from cables enabled the workmen to reach
-down from the brow of the mountain in order to carry on their
-courageous and difficult labors.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>That autumn a group of Rapid City women put on a
-pageant of flags, designed by Mr. Borglum, on the top of
-the cliff to show the different epochs through which the
-territory had passed. The French flag was first hoisted,
-then the Spanish, then the flag of Napoleon, next the
-colonial flag and finally the present flag of the United
-States. Thus was Mount Rushmore officially dedicated
-to the Memorial. Mr Borglum then returned to his temporary
-studio in San Antonio, Texas, to make the models
-and decide what characters best illustrated the idea to
-which he was trying to give form.</p>
-<p>George Washington&rsquo;s presence in the group was inevitable.
-He was the rock on which the republic was founded&mdash;the
-plumb line to establish its direction. So on Mount
-Rushmore his head is exactly perpendicular, facing the
-east, unaffected by the others in the group, the measuring
-rod determining the position of the others. Equally important
-with Washington was Thomas Jefferson, the
-author of the Declaration of Independence. By the purchase
-of the Louisiana Territory, as stated above, he had
-taken the first step westward in the course of the nation&rsquo;s
-growth. He is represented on the mountain as a young
-man. He was only 33 when he wrote the Declaration of
-Independence.</p>
-<p>Abraham Lincoln, the saviour of the republic, was
-inevitable in any record of the country&rsquo;s history and finally
-<span class="pb" id="Page_11">11</span>
-Theodore Roosevelt was selected because, by cutting
-the Panama Canal, he had accomplished the dream
-of Columbus and opened a Sea-way from Europe to
-Asia and his name was closely linked with the territorial
-expansion following the war with Spain. He was also the
-first president to attempt the curbing of big business
-interests and the only president who had been familiar
-with the west. He had close associations with South
-Dakota.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig7">
-<img src="images/p05c.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="568" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Models in the studio at the foot of the mountain which guided construction of the actual figures (seen through window).</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>The Mount Harney Memorial Association was authorized
-in 1925 by the state legislature to undertake the project
-on Mount Rushmore. No funds were voted for the
-purpose. Contributions were obtained from the three
-railroads serving the state, from the Homestake Mine and
-from private individuals, among them Mr. Charles
-Rushmore, a New York lawyer, after whom, quite accidentally,
-the cliff had been named. The work went on
-slowly, with considerable opposition, until President
-Coolidge&rsquo;s visit to the Black Hills in 1927. He made a
-splendid speech at a picturesque ceremony held at Rushmore,
-immediately following which he took Mr. Borglum
-aside, inquired about the financing and urged him to
-come to Washington for help. It is doubtful whether,
-without this impetus given by President Coolidge, the
-carving would ever have been accomplished.</p>
-<p>The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission
-came into existence as the result of a Congressional
-Bill, passed on Washington&rsquo;s Birthday in 1929. The act
-carried an appropriation of $250,000 for the memorial,
-which was to be matched on a fifty-fifty basis by private
-subscriptions; it designated Gutzon Borglum as the sculptor
-and designer of the four figures and provided also for
-an inscription on the mountain.</p>
-<p>The first ascent of the mountain was made up the
-canyon where the present wooden stairway now is. After
-the initial survey was made, pine trees with branches cut
-off and cleats nailed at right angles to the trees were laid
-in the crevices to serve as ladders. Heavy ropes were
-then carried by hand to the top and a small winch was
-carried as far as possible by pack horse and then carried
-to the top by hand. After this winch was fastened on the
-top of the mountain, it in turn was used to pull up the
-<span class="pb" id="Page_12">12</span>
-heavy cable that became the tramway from the ground
-to the mountain top. Building material was pulled up
-and shelters built for the men. A small studio was also
-built to house the plaster reproductions of the master
-models that were in the studio at the foot of the mountain.
-These reproductions were used for measurements to
-save time required to go to the studio 1500 feet away and
-500 feet below. In some cases these models were hung
-over the side of the mountain so that they could be consulted
-and compared with the measurements as the
-actual stone work progressed. By this method it was
-possible to save considerable time and labor.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig8">
-<img src="images/p06.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="644" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Roughing out the face of Theodore Roosevelt. The strong chin
-and the mouth are already visible. The mass of stone at the top
-will be carved away to form the mustache.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>The work of fitting the figures into the cracked granite
-upthrust called Mt. Rushmore has been a constant
-struggle between composition and finding solid stone
-for each of the four heads.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig9">
-<img src="images/p06a.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Close-up of Lincoln. Note the shafts of granite in the eyes of
-Lincoln. The light reflected by these shafts gives the eyes their
-lifelike glint when seen from a distance.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>In the first design Jefferson was placed at the right of
-Washington and Lincoln on his left, and Theodore
-Roosevelt occupied the position now occupied by Lincoln.
-However serious flaws developed in the stone on
-this side of Washington; and it therefore became necessary
-to change our design and place Jefferson to Washington&rsquo;s
-left. This made it necessary to place Theodore
-Roosevelt between Jefferson and Lincoln, and the
-stone had to be removed to a depth of approximately 120
-feet from the original surface to get back far enough for
-the Roosevelt face. The heads were finally relegated to
-their approximate position (being moved several times
-as new conditions of the stone developed), that is they
-were tilted or dropped or made to look more to the right
-or left as the case might have been, to meet the composition
-or avoid flaws in the stone. This movement being
-made simply by moving the respective heads on the
-model and cutting the stone accordingly. It was not
-possible to fit the heads so that they would be entirely
-free from fissures, but it was possible to place them so
-that none of these fissures would be unsupported from
-below and that removes the danger of some vital part
-dropping off. As each head was started its center was
-located, and at this center point on the top of the head a
-plate was located. This was graduated in degrees 0 to 360
-degrees, and at its center a horizontal arm was located
-that traversed this horizontal are. This arm was about
-30 feet long, in effect a giant protractor laid on top of
-the head. The arm was graduated in feet and inches so
-that at any point we could drop a plumb bob from this
-arm, and by measuring the vertical distance on this
-plumb line determine exactly the amount of stone to be
-removed. After determining this master center point
-on the mountain, we set a smaller arc and arm on our
-model in the same relative position. With this small
-device we would make all our measurements on our
-model and then enlarge them twelve times and transfer
-them to the large measuring device on the mountain.
-Thru this system every face had a measurement made
-every six inches both vertically and horizontally. These
-<span class="pb" id="Page_13">13</span>
-measurements were then painted on the stone and it was
-thru this means that men totally unfamiliar with sculptural
-form were able to do this undertaking. In fact all
-the men employed on the work were local men trained
-by the sculptor.</p>
-<p>Pneumatic drills are used for drilling and the compressed
-air is provided by large compressors located on
-the ground and driven by electricity. The air is forced
-or conveyed to the top of the mountain by a 3&Prime; pipe and
-then by the use of smaller pipes and rubber hoses is conveyed
-to the drills.</p>
-<p>Over 400,000 tons of granite have been removed from
-the mountain in carving the figures, at a total expense
-of slightly more than $900,000. This includes all building,
-stairways and machinery.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig10">
-<img src="images/p06c.jpg" alt="" width="571" height="799" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Workmen putting the finishing touches on the strong face of the
-Rough-rider President.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>The men are let down over the face of the stone in
-leather swings similar to bos&rsquo;n chairs used on ships.
-These swings are fastened on to &#8540;&Prime; steel cables which
-are in turn fastened on to winches located on the top of
-the heads. These winches are operated by hand. There
-are about seven winches on the top of each head. The
-men are lowered to their place of work by these winches,
-taking with them their jackhammers or pneumatic tools
-and other necessary equipment. One man is located in a
-position where he can see all the men at work, and is
-&ldquo;The Callboy,&rdquo; and has a microphone with a loud
-speaker at each of the winches and when any of the
-men working in the swings wants to be raised or lowered
-they signal this call-boy and he relays the message thru
-the loud speakers to the winchman. He also keeps the
-workmen supplied with new drills as they need them, by
-relaying their requests to the steelman who carries the
-steel to the men in the swings as it is needed. This steel
-is used over and over again; as it is dulled it is taken to
-the blacksmith shop on the ground via the cable car,
-heated, sharpened, re-heated and tempered and sent
-back to the mountain again. About 400 of these drills
-are dulled each day. They drill on an average about four
-feet before being sharpened. In some places the stone is
-so hard they will only last or drill about six inches and
-in other places they will last seven or eight feet before
-being re-sharpened.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig11">
-<img src="images/p06d.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="636" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>The work in process as it appeared from an odd angle ... from
-the road running along the side of the mountain. Not many have
-seen the Memorial from this point of view.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>The problem of finance has always been acute in connection
-with the work of the Rushmore Memorial. The
-economic hardships of the country made it increasingly
-difficult to match the Federal appropriation, without
-which the carving could not go on. The sculptor made
-repeated trips through the state and beyond its borders
-to arouse interest in the undertaking. He succeeded in
-raising some money by publishing a small book about
-Rushmore. There were never enough funds for as much
-power or as many men as he would have liked to use.
-There were long months when the work was stopped
-altogether. Finally the government took over the whole
-burden of financing and the work continued regularly,
-after 1938, being halted only by weather conditions.
-<span class="pb" id="Page_14">14</span>
-The sculptor was at last able to employ one or two trained
-stone carvers to do the finer work of finishing.</p>
-<p>The Washington head was unveiled in 1930, with Mr.
-Cullinan, first chairman of the Rushmore Commission
-presiding. President Franklin D. Roosevelt came for the
-unveiling of the Jefferson head in 1936. His unfailing
-interest and support have insured the finishing of the
-Memorial. At the unveiling of the face of Abraham Lincoln
-in 1937, a nation wide radio hookup carried the
-speeches to all parts of the country and again in 1939,
-when Governor Bushfield of South Dakota conducted
-ceremonies celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the State
-of South Dakota at Mount Rushmore, the radio carried
-the speeches and music all over the United States. The
-upper part of the face of Theodore Roosevelt was uncovered
-at that time.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig12">
-<img src="images/p07.jpg" alt="" width="652" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>The face of Jefferson begins to take form. The nose and the
-forehead are already plainly visible, but many tons of stone
-must be removed before the picture is complete.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>Mr. Borglum was always scrupulously careful to protect
-his men from harm and it was his boast that in all
-his years of hazardous mountain carving no worker was
-seriously injured. He took no care of himself, however,
-and physicians said that undoubtedly the strenuous work
-of carving at that altitude weakened his heart and in
-March, 1941, it stopped beating. The carving was practically
-finished; there remained only the finishing of the
-hands and hair of the four figures and the Rushmore
-National Memorial Commission entrusted that work to
-the sculptor&rsquo;s son, Lincoln Borglum, who had been with
-his father from the beginning of the work.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig13">
-<img src="images/p07a.jpg" alt="" width="515" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>A blast is set off. The handling of powder and dynamite was an
-especially delicate problem, since a single badly placed charge
-might easily spoil the work of many months.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>The faces of the four presidents, as carved on Mount
-Rushmore, are approximately 60 feet from chin to forehead;
-if completed from head to foot the figures would
-be 465 feet high. The entire head of the sphinx in Egypt
-is not quite as long as Washington&rsquo;s nose. The entire cost
-of the Memorial, including all expenses of carving, buildings
-and salaries, is $900,000. This is at the rate of less
-than two dollars for every ton of stone removed, which
-is a cost incredibly low considering the hardness of the
-granite and that every piece must be removed in such a
-way as not to injure the surface behind. On this investment
-the Federal Government has received from tourists
-from the one cent gas tax on the increased sale of gas
-during the years since the work started over two million
-dollars and the income to South Dakota is over twenty
-million dollars annually.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_15">15</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig14">
-<img src="images/p07c.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="604" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>From these beginnings today shine forth the faces of four of the
-greatest men of American history, to light the path of freedom for
-countless generations yet to come.</i></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_16">16</div>
-<h2 id="c4"><span class="small">THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE</span></h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p08.jpg" alt="{uncaptioned}" width="800" height="522" />
-</div>
-<p>Millions of Americans and liberty-loving people
-from all over the world have come to the Black
-Hills of South Dakota to look upon Gutzon
-Borglum&rsquo;s <i>Shrine of Democracy</i>.</p>
-<p>The exact number of visitors to the great granite carvings
-is not known but each travel season the pilgrimage
-increases in size.</p>
-<p>During the period of construction from 1927 to 1941,
-when work was under supervision of the Mount Rushmore
-National Memorial Commission, no accurate records
-of visitors were kept. Hundreds came each day,
-however, to keep a fascinated watch over the emergence
-of the likenesses of the four great presidents from the
-great stone uplift.</p>
-<p>Consecration ceremonies attended by President Coolidge
-and the unveilings of Washington, Jefferson, Theodore
-Roosevelt, and Lincoln were attended by thousands
-of people. Distinguished guests participating in these
-ceremonies included the late President Franklin D.
-Roosevelt.</p>
-<p>Then in 1939, the Memorial was placed under the
-supervision of the National Park Service of the Department
-of Interior. World War II intervened, but in the
-peace years since the transfer, the flow of visitors has
-been measured at close to a half million persons each
-travel season, 419,817 being reported for the 1947 travel
-year.</p>
-<p>Among the nine great memorials in the National Park
-Service system, Mount Rushmore, by 1947, had risen
-from seventh to fourth place in attendance. So far as
-these memorials are concerned, those reporting larger
-visitations were the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson
-Memorial, and the Washington Monument, all in the
-District of Columbia.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_17">17</div>
-<p>As with other national parks, monuments, and memorials,
-Mount Rushmore was designated for inclusion in
-the National Park system because it had become a most
-inspiring site of historic significance.</p>
-<p>Its present administration is designed to promote and
-regulate the use of the memorial area to conserve the
-scenery and the natural and historical objects and to provide
-for the enjoyment of it in such a manner as to leave
-it unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.</p>
-<p>A total of nearly 1,800 acres of the Federal Game Sanctuary
-in the Harney National Forest now comprises the
-memorial area. It is under the administration of Superintendent
-Harry J. Liek with headquarters at Wind Cave
-National Park. The memorial is directly under Acting
-Custodian J. Estes Suter.</p>
-<p>A brief description follows for Wind Cave National
-Park and the three national monuments&mdash;the Badlands,
-Jewel Cave, and Devils Tower&mdash;that are embraced in
-the Black Hills and Badlands area of southwestern South
-Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.</p>
-<h3 id="c5">WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK</h3>
-<p>Wind Cave is the most widely known of the many
-limestone caverns found near the margin of the Black
-Hills. Discovered in 1881, it was created a national park
-in 1903. The strong currents of wind that blow alternately
-in and out of the mouth of the cave suggested its
-name.</p>
-<p>Boundaries of the park were extended twice and now
-embrace a total of 28,000 acres of federally-owned land,
-supporting a large buffalo herd in its natural habitat and
-other wildlife, such as elk, antelope, and deer.</p>
-<p>Chief feature of the park is the exceptional limestone
-cavern, noted for its unique boxwork rarely found in
-other sections of the world. Other crystalline formations
-in various color shadings line a series of subterranean
-passages, known to be at least 10 miles in extent.</p>
-<h3 id="c6">BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT</h3>
-<p>In sharp contrast to the verdant Black Hills country,
-the White River Badlands, a barren, treeless region, lies
-about 50 miles east of the western foothills.</p>
-<p>Here nature has beautified the earth with all shades
-of buff, cream, pale green, gold, and rose. Fantastically
-carved erosion forms rise above the valleys, some of them
-150 to 300 feet high.</p>
-<p>The constantly shifting color and the weird formations
-make this a region of strong imaginative appeal.</p>
-<h3 id="c7">JEWEL CAVE NATIONAL MONUMENT</h3>
-<p>A unique coating of dogtooth calcite crystals which
-sparkle like jewels in the light distinguish Jewel Cave
-from other crystal caverns in the Black Hills and provided
-its name.</p>
-<p>One of the finest stands of virgin ponderosa pine remaining
-in the Black Hills is found within the monument
-which was established in 1908. It was originally part of
-the present Harney National Forest but was transferred
-to the National Park Service, by Executive Order, in
-1934.</p>
-<h3 id="c8">DEVILS TOWER NATIONAL MONUMENT</h3>
-<p>Another unusual natural phenomenon of the Black
-Hills country is the Devils Tower across the South Dakota
-state line in Wyoming. This is a great column of
-igneous rock towering 1,280 feet above the Belle Fourche
-river, whose course is near the base. Devils Tower has
-the distinction of being the first national monument created
-under the Antiquities Act of 1906. It was established
-by proclamation of September 24 of that year, by
-President Theodore Roosevelt.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig15">
-<img src="images/p08a.jpg" alt="" width="499" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Devils Tower in Wyoming&rsquo;s western border of the Black Hills
-National Forest.</i></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_18">18</div>
-<h2 id="c9"><span class="small">THE ANTIQUITY OF MOUNT RUSHMORE</span>
-<br /><i>By the late</i> JOSEPH P. CONNOLLY
-<br /><i>President, South Dakota School of Mines</i></h2>
-<p>At the Battle of the Pyramids, Napoleon is reported
-to have exhorted his men by saying, &ldquo;Soldiers,
-from these pyramids forty centuries look down
-upon you.&rdquo; From the standpoint of human history four
-thousand years represent great antiquity indeed. But as
-one gazes upon the rugged slopes of Mount Rushmore,
-he is face to face with antiquity beside which the age of
-the Egyptian pyramids seems but a moment.</p>
-<p>How old is the granite of Rushmore? We have a yardstick
-by which we can measure that quite accurately. Not
-far from the mountain, in a subsidiary mass of granite,
-there was found a few years ago a small piece of coal-black,
-lustrous mineral known as pitchblende or uraninite,
-of which the chief constituent is the heaviest known
-element, uranium. We know that uranium continually
-undergoes atomic disintegration, changing at a slow, but
-uniform and measurable rate into lighter elements. The
-end product of this change is the metal lead. If we submit
-the specimen of pitchblende to chemical analysis, determine
-how much lead it contains, how much uranium is
-still left, it is a comparatively simple calculation to determine
-from the known rate of change, the number of years
-that have elapsed since the pitchblende came into existence.
-That experiment has been performed and the result
-is one billion four hundred and sixty-five million
-(1,465,000,000) years. Bear in mind that this enormous
-figure represents the time that has elapsed since the
-molten rock came to rest at some depth under the surface
-of the earth, and cooled sufficiently to crystallize into
-granite. It represents the age of the solid granite.</p>
-<p>But, although the granite of which the mountain is
-composed dates back to a period almost inconceivably
-remote, Mount Rushmore itself is much younger. We
-know that all of the granite mountains of the southern
-Black Hills were carved out of the rocks by the process of
-erosion. Field evidence indicates that fairly early in the
-Tertiary period, approximately thirty million years ago,
-erosion had carved out the topography of the Black Hills
-into much the same stage as we see it today. Perhaps
-Mount Rushmore was not fully born in that period; its
-form may not yet have been completely sculptured under
-the chisel of time, but we know that its age must be measured
-in millions of years and not in centuries.</p>
-<p>Mount Rushmore is a child of weathering and erosion.
-They brought the mountain into being and gave it form.
-But those relentless parents will not be content to leave
-their child as they fashioned it. They will continue their
-work of disintegration on the surface of the rock and along
-the cracks, until eventually they will completely destroy
-the mountain they formed, and long before the mountain
-will have been destroyed, the magnificent carvings of
-man will disappear. &ldquo;How long,&rdquo; we anxiously ask, &ldquo;will
-the carvings endure?&rdquo; Two processes will tend eventually
-to destroy the memorial, chemical weathering and physical
-disintegration.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig16">
-<img src="images/p09.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="801" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>A typical view from the Needles highway with the Cathedral
-Spires in the background.</i></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_19">19</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig17">
-<img src="images/p09a.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="500" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Fantastic formations in the Badlands. The variegated coloring is at its best in the early morning or the late evening.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>Chemical weathering will take place very slowly, so
-slowly that if it were the only destructive process we had
-to consider, we could with some confidence say that the
-memorial would endure for hundreds of thousands of
-years. And the progress of chemical weathering will
-probably be impeded by the sculpturing of the memorial,
-for on the figures the rock will be smoother, water will
-drain off more rapidly instead of penetrating, lichens and
-other vegetation will not have as secure a foothold as on
-the natural face of the rock, and thus will not contribute
-to so great an extent their destructive acids to such waters
-as do penetrate.</p>
-<p>Physical disintegration is somewhat more to be feared.
-This operates in two ways, by exfoliation due to changes
-in temperature, and by frost action. Differential stresses
-set up by unequal expansion and contraction, owing to
-the poor heat conductivity of granite, tend to spall off or
-<i>exfoliate</i> the surface layers of rock.</p>
-<p>When water gets into the cracks and pores of the rocks
-and freezes, it exerts an enormous pressure, a pressure
-that will spall off flakes and blocks of rock. The artist
-and his associates, fully aware of this hazard, have
-guarded against it. All cracks and fissures have been carefully
-avoided in the sculpturing so far as is possible. Such
-as have been impossible to avoid are being sealed to prevent
-the ingress of water, thus inhibiting to a very large
-extent both frost action and chemical weathering.</p>
-<p>We have traced in part the geological history of the
-Mount Rushmore region, hoping that by learning something
-of its past we may predict something of its future.
-We see the hazards to which the memorial is exposed.
-We must frankly recognize them and guard against them
-so far as possible, as it would be folly to ignore them. If
-the science of geology can do no more in a practical way
-for mankind than to point out dangers and sound warnings,
-it does a worth while service. &ldquo;How long will the
-memorial last?&rdquo; Geology cannot answer specifically. An
-eminent geologist has already given as definite an answer
-as it is possible to give, and I can do no better than to
-close by quoting from the address given by the late Dr. C.
-C. O&rsquo;Harra at the unveiling of the head of Washington.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How long will Mount Rushmore last? Many millions
-of years. The number nobody knows. How long will endure
-this monumental, sculptured figure of the Father of
-our Country which today we unveil? One hundred years?
-Yes. One thousand years? Yes. A hundred thousand
-years? In all likelihood, yes. A half million years? Possibly
-so, nobody knows. The time at any rate will be long, far
-longer than we can readily comprehend. And this doubtless
-will abundantly suffice.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_20">20</div>
-<h2 id="c10"><span class="small">THE HALL OF RECORDS AND GREAT STAIRWAY</span>
-<br /><i>By</i> LINCOLN BORGLUM</h2>
-<p>The Hall of Records and Stairway have been part
-of the Memorial plan from the beginning and are
-provided for in the so-called &ldquo;Rushmore Bill&rdquo; of
-1938. A good start has been made in the carving of the
-Hall, which already has been excavated to the extent of
-seventy feet. Great care has to be exercised in the use of
-dynamite in carving this hall, as in carving the faces on
-the mountain, not to injure the stone which is to remain.
-Careless explosions of large amounts of powder might
-crumble the walls.</p>
-<p>The Hall is located about two thirds of the way up to
-the mountain: the entrance to it is in a small gorge or
-canyon, cut by the ice aeons ago, to the right of the carved
-faces as one looks at them from below. The Hall is on the
-opposite side of the gorge from the heads and is not
-under them. The following is quoted from Mr. Borglum&rsquo;s
-plan.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The fa&ccedil;ade to the Hall&rsquo;s entrance is the mountain
-wall 140 feet high; supporting pylons, cut into the mountain,
-flank the entrance. The entrance door itself is 12
-feet wide and 20 feet high; the walls are plain, dressed
-granite and of a fine color. I want to finish the inner
-entrance wall in mosaic of blue and gold lapis. The depth
-to the door entrance from the outer fa&ccedil;ade is 20 feet. The
-door, swung on a six inch offset of the wall, will be of
-bronze and glass. Small, carefully modeled bronze figures
-of historic importance from Columbus and Raleigh to the
-present day will ornament the doors or be modeled into
-the supporting frame. The walls of the entrance will
-carry in gilded bronze immediately within the entrance
-ancient Indian symbols; British, French, Spanish and
-American seals.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The floor of the Hall will be 100 by 80 by 32 feet to an
-arched ceiling. At the height of fifteen feet an historic
-frieze, four feet wide, will encircle the entire room. Recesses
-will be cut into these walls to be filled with bronze
-and glass cabinets, which will hold the records stamped
-on aluminum sheets, rolled separately and placed in
-tubes. Busts of our leaders in all human activities will
-occupy the recesses between the cabinets. The original
-thought of a hall of human records I developed at Stone
-Mountain in Georgia and my drawings and full plans
-are extant; that was never completed.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The records of electricity, beginning with Franklin,
-which has given us light, heat, music, the radio, the telegraph,
-the telephone and controls in power the extent of
-which we can hardly imagine, must be here, together
-with the records of literature, the records of travel, immigration,
-religious development and also the record of
-perhaps the largest contribution that we have made to
-humanity, which has been free controlled peace, a government
-of the people, by and for the people. Struggle as
-we will that great contribution is today the cause for the
-real unrest of Europe. Despotism, tyranny of every form
-is fighting us wherever it can, to take away from humanity
-the power freedom gives it&mdash;the power that freedom
-has given America.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig18">
-<img src="images/p10.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>Opening of a gorge reached by the Great Stairway is the massive
-twenty-foot-high entrance to the Hall of Records.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;The Hall will be reached by a monumental flight of
-steps varying from 15 to 20 feet in width, which will
-ascend the mountain in front, a little to one side of the
-<span class="pb" id="Page_21">21</span>
-sculpture, rising from a great granite disk or platform in
-the canyon below, which may be used as a rostrum from
-which speakers may address the public occupying the
-amphitheater facing the great group.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig19">
-<img src="images/p10a.jpg" alt="" width="695" height="600" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>This picture shows the workmen busy in the early stages of the
-work of carving the Hall of Records from the granite.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;These steps of granite and cement will be provided
-with seats at intervals of every fifty feet; they will have a
-five inch rise and an eighteen inch tread. The ascension
-from the foot of the steps to the floor of the great entrance
-is four hundred feet; the entrance way from the steps&rsquo;
-landing to the great Hall is 190 feet; the floor of this
-Hall, reached by three steps, is two feet above the floor of
-the entrance way in the canyon; this to provide for proper
-drainage.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Owing to repeated requests from important organizations
-of women, the urging of some senators and congressmen
-and Mr. Borglum&rsquo;s own realization of the part
-women have played in the development of our country,
-plans had been under way for some years to include
-women in the great Shrine of Democracy. There was no
-room in the rock which contains the heads of the four
-presidents and the only other place seemed to be the
-west wall of the granite cliff, or in the hall of records.
-To quote again from Mr. Borglum, from a letter written
-in January 1940: &ldquo;If we decide that the west side of the
-mountain is suitable, I am for it. We must work out a
-design that is fitting and in no sense harmful in the
-matter of lighting or location to subjects determined
-upon and I am entirely in favor of carving the faces of
-two or three women. If that is determined upon, these
-figures will be near what has been known in the Rushmore
-Law as the Inscription and there will be a special
-paragraph given to the work and services of women. The
-original inscription referred to the framing of the Declaration
-of Independence; that was Jefferson&rsquo;s work and the
-second was the Constitution. That was Washington&rsquo;s
-greatest service. The third dealt with the purchase of the
-Louisiana Territory and the fourth, fifth, and sixth, the
-progress towards the south and southwest, involving
-Florida, Texas and California, which included Arizona,
-a portion of Nevada, Utah and a portion of Idaho. The
-seventh paragraph brought in the Oregon cession from
-England and the purchase of Alaska. There was one paragraph
-for Lincoln and one for the finishing of the Panama
-Canal, which was achieved by Theodore Roosevelt.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig20">
-<img src="images/p10c.jpg" alt="" width="587" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap"><i>The corridor leading from the doorway into the Hall of Records,
-showing the marks of the stonecutters&rsquo; tools.</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;So by these suggestions you will see that a splendid
-paragraph can be developed for the part women have
-played in the development of the nation.&rdquo; In another
-part of the letter Mr. Borglum made a place for women
-in the Hall of records and even suggested that a special
-hall might be carved for them, as there is ample rock for
-many rooms.</p>
-<p>Calvin Coolidge had been asked to collaborate on the
-inscription and wrote the first two paragraphs. Mr.
-Borglum stood strongly for &ldquo;Justice&rdquo; in the wording,
-whereas Mr. Coolidge insisted upon &ldquo;Justice under the
-Law.&rdquo; Newspaper accounts exaggerated the discussion,
-which unfortunately was terminated by Mr. Coolidge&rsquo;s
-death.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_22">22</div>
-<h2 id="c11"><span class="small">GEORGE WASHINGTON</span></h2>
-<p><i>In carving the head of George Washington, Mr. Borglum
-studied all the known portraits of him and drew heavily on
-certain famous likenesses which he preferred because he
-believed them most faithful to the character of the man.
-Borglum was confronted by an extraordinary problem. He
-had undertaken to place his sculpture on a mountain peak
-over 6000 feet above sea level. His face of Washington, tall
-as a five-story building, was to be far up in the sky &ldquo;where
-the clouds fold about it like a great scarf, where the stars
-blink about its head, and the moon hides behind a lock of
-hair.&rdquo; As Borglum himself pointed out, it has been the
-practice of the sculptors of history, immediately they departed
-from the normal dimensions of men, to conventionalize
-and simplify their faces and to generalize the portraiture,
-and, in so doing, lose those qualities which gave distinction.
-Such methods had no appeal to Borglum. Vehemently, he
-brushed aside &ldquo;the claptrap standards of Good Enough.&rdquo;
-The faces he placed upon the mountain to gaze down upon
-hundreds of generations of mankind must be true, great, and
-noble faces, and that of Washington would be the gauge of
-all the rest. Borglum spent thirteen years digging into every
-corner of Washington&rsquo;s life in order that his portrait might
-say the last word about the man who is called the Father of
-his Country. He made an extensive study of his character and
-was deeply impressed by the picture presented by Thomas
-Jefferson in the following letter to Dr. Walter Jones, dated
-at Monticello, January 2, 1814</i>:</p>
-<p class="tb">I think I knew Gen. Washington intimately and
-thoroly; and were I called on to delineate his character,
-it should be in terms like these.</p>
-<p>His mind was great and powerful, without being of the
-very first order; his penetration strong, tho not so acute
-as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he
-saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,
-being little aided by invention or imagination, but
-sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his
-officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war,
-where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was
-best; and certainly no general ever planned his battles
-more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of
-the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by
-sudden circumstances, he was slow in readjustment. The
-consequence was that he often failed in the field, and
-rarely against an enemy in station, as at Boston and York.</p>
-<p>He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers
-with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature
-in his character was prudence, never acting until
-every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely
-weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once
-decided, going thru with his purpose, whatever obstacles
-opposed.</p>
-<p>His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible
-I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity,
-of friendship, or hatred, being able to bias his
-decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words a
-wise, a good, and a great man. His temper was naturally
-high toned; but reflection and resolution had obtained a
-firm and habitual ascendancy over it. If ever, however,
-it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in his wrath.</p>
-<p>In his expenses he was honorable, but exact; liberal in
-contribution to whatever promised utility; but frowning
-and unyielding on all visionary projects and all unworthy
-calls on his charity. His heart was not warm in its affections;
-but he exactly calculated every man&rsquo;s value, and
-gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it.</p>
-<p>His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly
-what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and
-noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful
-figure that could be seen on horseback. Altho in the
-circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with
-safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial
-talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither
-copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public,
-when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready,
-short, and embarrassed.</p>
-<p>Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and
-correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with
-the world, for his education was merely reading, writing,
-and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at
-a later day.</p>
-<p>His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little,
-and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence
-became necessarily extensive, and, with
-journalizing his agricultural proceedings, occupied most
-of his leisure hours within doors.</p>
-<p>On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect,
-in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly
-be said that never did nature and fortune combine more
-perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the
-same constellation with whatever worthies have merited
-from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was the
-singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of his
-country successfully thru an arduous war, for the establishment
-of its independence; of conducting its councils
-thru the birth of a government, new in its forms and
-principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and
-orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying the laws thru
-the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the
-history of the world furnishes no other example....</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_23">23</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p11.jpg" alt="{George Washington}" width="792" height="1047" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_24">24</div>
-<h2 id="c12"><span class="small">THOMAS JEFFERSON</span></h2>
-<p>Writing just a century ago, and a few years
-after Jefferson&rsquo;s death, one of his earliest biographers
-said that it had been that statesman&rsquo;s
-fate &ldquo;to be at once loved and praised by his friends, and
-more hated and reviled by his adversaries than any of his
-compatriots.&rdquo; The fact that much the same could be said
-of the writing about him today merely shows that the
-man is still alive in so far as his influence is both felt and
-feared. So is his great antagonist Hamilton. These two
-exponents of contrasted philosophies of government,
-though dead, yet live and are in the thick of the fight
-today. The issues for which they fought with all their
-strength are not yet settled. Indeed these issues have
-broadened and deepened until one in especial has become
-perhaps the most burning of all in a bewildered
-and angry world, the question whether the people can
-govern themselves or must be governed.</p>
-<p>Although a political philosopher, Jefferson never set
-forth his views in any formal treatise, as did John Adams
-in his voluminous works or Hamilton in <i>The Federalist</i>.
-Probably the most widely read man of his time in America,
-Jefferson had a broader range of interests&mdash;political, religious,
-economic, agricultural, aesthetic and scientific&mdash;than
-did any other of the leaders. His curiosity was insatiable,
-but in spite of what has so frequently been asserted,
-usually by his enemies, although sometimes by his
-friends, he was not a mere theorist. He kept his feet on the
-ground. It was the practical application of ideas and their
-practical effects which appealed most to him and not the
-ideas in themselves as viewed by a philosopher. Even
-when he could not use the touchstone of experiment in
-such matters as his belief in the common man or religious
-freedom, he was never a doctrinaire. He not only believed
-but said over and over that government and institutions
-had to be suited to a people of any given time and place
-and could not be true or good everywhere and always.</p>
-<p>We do not look to Jefferson for a theory of government
-or of the state. To a great extent the things he had to say
-about government, and the things for which he strove in
-his active political life, were based on the America of his
-day and the slowly developing agricultural one which he
-envisaged in the future, writing as he did, before the
-machine age. What gave Jefferson his profound importance
-in his own day, as it does now, was his view of
-human life. He was, and still is, the greatest and most
-influential American exponent of both Liberalism and
-Americanism.</p>
-<p>Liberalism is rather an attitude than a program. It is
-less a solution of governmental problems than it is a way
-of looking at them. It is based on the doctrine of live and
-let live. The Liberal is willing to take risks feared by both
-Conservatives and Socialists. Not being a fool, he realizes,
-as do the others, that society must have a structure; but
-he is more concerned with the freedom and fullness of the
-life of the citizen within that structure than with the
-structure itself.</p>
-<p>It may also be noted that even in his native Virginia,
-Jefferson antagonized many of the most important interests
-and families by what was considered his undermining
-of a social order. His struggle to break down entail
-and primogeniture, to free religion from the fetters
-of a State church, and his well-known opposition to
-slavery, have not even yet been forgiven by many Virginians
-who feel that the downfall of the, in many ways,
-charming and delightful society of the eighteenth century
-was due to one whom they consider a renegade from his
-own order. As we shall see later, when Jefferson was involved
-in financial difficulties in his old age, the citizens
-of his own State, unlike many elsewhere, did not offer
-him the slightest aid.</p>
-<p>Europe, in the early days of our country, was filled
-with restraints and barriers. Jefferson felt that the America
-of his day offered a unique opportunity in the annals
-of mankind to try out the great experiment of self-government
-on an unprecedented scale. His Americanism,
-written in part into the Declaration of Independence,
-which he preached throughout life by word and act, grew
-out of his personal experience of America itself. In so far
-as those qualities of the American people which we group
-under the word &ldquo;Americanism&rdquo; have been fostered by
-any one man, in addition to the natural forces of the
-American environment, Jefferson is beyond question that
-man.</p>
-<p>The struggle going on almost everywhere today, in our
-own country no less than in some of those others which
-have already lost their liberties, is the struggle between
-the conception of a strong centralized state controlling
-the lives of the citizens for the sake of economics and
-national power, and the conception of personal liberty
-affording the greatest possible scope for the individual
-to live his life as he wills. The old questions which
-Jefferson and Hamilton fought over were who is to rule,
-why are they to rule, what is the object of their rule?
-These are now being fought out again, as they always
-have been, but with increasing bitterness among vast
-masses of populations. That is why both men are living
-today and why it is worth while to consider again the life
-particularly of the one who laid more stress upon freedom
-and toleration for the individual than on the strength of
-national power.</p>
-<p><span class="lr">JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS</span>
-<span class="lr"><i>from &ldquo;The Living Jefferson,&rdquo; 1936</i></span></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_25">25</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p12.jpg" alt="{Thomas Jefferson}" width="797" height="1051" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_26">26</div>
-<h2 id="c13"><span class="small">ABRAHAM LINCOLN</span></h2>
-<p>Carlyle once said to Holman Hunt: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m only a
-poor man, but I would give one third of what I
-possess for a veritable, contemporaneous representation
-of Jesus Christ. Had those carvers of marble
-chiseled a faithful statue of the Son of Man, as he called
-himself, and shown us what manner of man he was like,
-what his height, what his build, and what the features
-of his sorrow-marked face were, I for one would have
-thanked the sculptor with all the gratitude of my heart
-for that portrait as one of the most precious heirlooms of
-the ages.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Remarkable as it may seem, were it not for photography
-and one life mask, this, with equal truth, might be
-said of a man who, as the ages run, has hardly gone from
-among us.</p>
-<p>Lincoln, one of the greatest of observers, was himself
-the least truly observed. God had built him in the backyard
-of the nation and there, wrapped in homely guise,
-had preserved and matured his pure humanity. He was
-heard, but seems rarely, if ever, to have been truly seen.
-The reports we have of him do not satisfy, do not justify,
-are inconsistent. The eastern, old-world eye could not
-read beyond the queer hat, bad tailoring, and boots you
-could not now give away&mdash;and he was so long he fairly
-had to stoop to look the little world in the face. Never has
-bad tailoring, homely, deferential manner, so completely
-hidden seer, jester, master of men, as did these simple
-accoutrements this first great gift of the West. But it is
-surprising that professional observers, artists and writers
-alike, have drawn and redrawn the untrue picture.</p>
-<p>A great portrait is always full of compelling presence,
-more even than is seen in the original at all times, for a
-great portrait depicts great moments and carries the
-record of the whole man. It is, therefore, not enough to
-draw a mask.</p>
-<p>Lincoln is a comfort and a reality, an example, a living
-inspiration to every mother and every son in America.
-No mask will satisfy <i>us</i>; we want to see what we care for;
-we want to feel the private conscience that became public
-conduct. We love this man, because he was all in all
-one of us and made all the world peers. Now we begin to
-see him truly. Within his coming the West has steadily
-rolled back the East, and of his ways the world has many.
-The silk hat, the tall figure, the swing, the language and
-manner have become American, and we all understand.</p>
-<p>Official Washington was shocked by his address. Men,
-who could have given us master pictures of a master man,
-remained unconvinced until he had passed away. The
-great portrait was never drawn, and now it is too late; we
-must wade through mountains of material and by some
-strange divination find in fragments the real man, and,
-patiently, lovingly, yet justly, piece them all together.</p>
-<p>It was speculation of this kind that gradually led me to
-a careful analysis of Lincoln the man. The <i>accepted</i> portraits
-of him do not justify his record. His life, his labors,
-his writings, made me feel some gross injustice had been
-done him in the blind, careless use of such phrases as
-<i>ungainly</i>, <i>uncouth</i>, <i>vulgar</i>, <i>rude</i>, which were commonly applied
-to him by his contemporaries. These popular
-descriptions do not fit the master of polished Douglas&mdash;nor
-the man, whose intellectual arrogance academic
-Sumner resented.</p>
-<p>I believed the healthy, powerful youth and frontiersman,
-the lover, lawyer of spotless record, legislator, the
-thrice candidate for President, had been falsely drawn. I
-believed if properly seen and truly read, the compelling
-and enduring greatness of the man would be found
-written in his actions, in his figure, in his deportment, in
-his face, and that some of this compelling greatness might
-be gotten into the stone. To do this, I read all or nearly
-all he had written, his own description of himself, the few
-immediate records of his coming and going. I then took
-the life mask, learned it by heart, measured it in every
-possible way&mdash;for it is infallible&mdash;then returned to the
-habits of his mind, which his writings gave me, and I
-recognized that <i>five</i> or <i>six</i> of the photographs indicated
-the man.</p>
-<p>Whether Lincoln sat or stood, his was the ease of movement
-of a figure controlled by direct and natural development,
-without a hint of consciousness. Chairs were low
-for him and so Lincoln seemed when he sat down to go
-farther than was quite easy or graceful. His walk was free
-and he moved with a long but rather slow swinging
-stride. His arms hung free, and he walked with an open
-hand. He was erect; he did not stoop at the shoulders.
-He bent forward, but from the waistline. His face was
-large in its simple masses. His head was normal in size;
-his forehead high, regular and ideal in shape. His brow
-bushed and projected like a cliff. His eyebrows were very
-strong. His mouth was not coarse or heavy. His right side
-was determined, developed, ancient. The left side was
-immature, plain&mdash;and physically not impressive.</p>
-<p>You will find written in his face literally all the complexness
-of his nature. We see a dual nature struggling
-with a dual problem, delivering a single result&mdash;to the
-whole. He was more deeply rooted in the home principles
-that are keeping us together than any man who
-was ever asked to make his heart-beat national&mdash;too
-great to become president, except by some extraordinary
-combination of circumstances.</p>
-<p><span class="lr">GUTZON BORGLUM</span></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_27">27</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p13.jpg" alt="{Abraham Lincoln}" width="800" height="1057" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_28">28</div>
-<h2 id="c14"><span class="small">THEODORE ROOSEVELT</span></h2>
-<p>Fromentin said of Peter Paul Rubens, one of the
-greatest masters who ever used brush and paint to
-interpret human character: &ldquo;He is systematic, methodical
-and stern in the discipline of his private life, in
-the ordering of his work, in the regulating of his intelligence,
-in a kind of strong and sane wholesomeness of his
-genius. He is simple, sincere, a model of loyalty to his
-friends, in sympathy with every one of talent, (and)
-untiring and resourceful in his encouragement of beginners
-* * *.&rdquo; The same might have been said with equal
-truth and propriety of Theodore Roosevelt.</p>
-<p>Of all the great leaders of this country, he was the most
-typically American. The grief and melancholy that
-seized him following the death of his first wife drove him
-into Dakota. Here upon the range he found surcease
-from sorrow and sufficient time off from his duties as
-manager of his ranch to write about the West. This work
-won instant recognition and not only established his
-place among the literary men of his day but made him
-the idol of the Great West. The cowboys with whom he
-rode the night herd liked and admired him, and even the
-roughnecks soon learned to respect his cool courage and
-resourcefulness. One encounter with him did not give
-encouragement to a second.</p>
-<p>But he was more than a frontiersman and writer. He
-represented all that was best in the home, in business and
-in government. He was energetic, intelligent and purposeful.
-He had an aim in life and drove hard and steadily
-toward his goal. His enemies seldom outmaneuvered
-him and he knew how to strike when a bold stroke was
-required to accomplish a desired end. His association
-with men of all types and his keen observation gave him
-an insight into men that enabled him to distinguish
-quickly and accurately the spurious from the real. Surface
-indications or social position had for him little
-meaning. He would rather associate with an uneducated
-but quick-witted cowpuncher than with the dull and unimaginative.
-This accounts for his friendship with men
-and women in all walks of life. Talent and ability, usefully
-employed, always had for him a special appeal but he was
-bored and annoyed by the pretentious commonplace.</p>
-<p>He was by instinct and inclination a reformer and
-sought to improve all that was best in public morals, both
-spiritually and politically. No man struggling as mightily
-as he could escape making mistakes, but he was great
-enough to recognize them and fair enough to seek to
-rectify any injustice that had resulted. His enthusiasm,
-zeal and sureness of himself sometimes led him to pursue
-hopeless and occasionally ill-considered causes that he
-later had reason to regret, but by the large he was a most
-useful and inspiring personality.</p>
-<p>Two outstanding achievements stand to his credit. One
-of these was the building of the Panama Canal, an accomplishment
-of transcendent importance to the American
-people. It is the link that binds the East to the West by
-water and has helped to make this country one of the
-great commercial and industrial nations of the world.
-The canal is also of first importance from the standpoint
-of national defense and has added greatly to the mobility
-and usefulness of our Navy, which has always been our
-first line of defense against any possible foreign foe.</p>
-<p>The second was the injection of morals into our politics
-and the insistence upon the square deal for every American,
-be he small or great. It was this characteristic more
-than any other that endeared him to the ordinary man
-and made him one of the most powerful political figures
-and one of the greatest moral forces that has taken
-possession of the hearts and minds of men in any age. It
-was not that he was always right, but men and women
-clung to him because they felt that he was right most of
-the time and was trying to be right all of the time.</p>
-<p>As a lone fighter he was without a peer in his day and
-generation, and had the impetuosity and zeal required to
-arouse a mighty following in any cause which he espoused
-and upon which he had deep convictions. Every word
-that he spoke and every manifestation of his personality
-left a profound impression upon all those who came into
-contact with him either personally or upon the hustings.
-Everywhere he was impressive, persuasive and compelling.
-While he may never be loved as Lincoln was loved,
-or rise to the stature of Washington, his example, fortitude
-in adversity, and fight for the betterment of his
-fellow men will ever be like a beacon going before to
-inspire men and women everywhere who are seeking to
-make the world a better place in which to live.</p>
-<p>It was President Calvin Coolidge who said to Sculptor
-Gutzon Borglum that among the immortals to be carved
-upon Mount Rushmore a place must be found for
-Theodore Roosevelt, &ldquo;because he was the first president
-to say to Big Business, &lsquo;thus far you shall go and no
-farther.&rsquo;&rdquo; Washington is there because he was the
-trusted leader that made these United States possible,
-and was great and strong enough to refuse a crown and
-lay down the scepter when his work was done. Jefferson
-stands at his side because of his contribution to the rights
-of man as set forth in the bill of rights; Abraham Lincoln
-because he saved the Union from division by his own
-martyrdom and his infinite compassion for those who
-suffered, and Theodore Roosevelt because he was the
-greatest moral force for clean government and the square
-deal of modern times.</p>
-<p><span class="lr">WILLIAM WILLIAMSON</span></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_29">29</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p14.jpg" alt="{Theodore Roosevelt}" width="800" height="1056" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_30">30</div>
-<h2 id="c15"><span class="small">AS GREAT MEN SAW IT</span></h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p15.jpg" alt="{Calvin Coolidge}" width="693" height="786" />
-</div>
-<p>Excerpts from speeches at dedicatory and unveiling
-ceremonies or comments made during personal
-visits to the Memorial.</p>
-<p class="tb">President Calvin Coolidge (Consecration Ceremony,
-August 10, 1927)</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We have come here to dedicate a corner stone that
-was laid by the hand of the Almighty.... This memorial
-will be another national shrine to which future generations
-will repair to declare their continuing allegiance to
-independence, to self government, to freedom and to
-economic justice....&rdquo;</p>
-<p class="tb">President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jefferson Unveiling)</p>
-<p>&ldquo;An inspiration for the continuance of the democratic
-republican form of government, not only in our own beloved
-country, but, we hope, throughout the world.&rdquo;</p>
-<p class="tb">Lord Halifax (Visiting the Black Hills, March 29,
-1946)</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The most remarkable confluence of the wonder of
-nature and the art of man I have ever witnessed.&rdquo;</p>
-<p class="tb">Judge Albert R. Denu (Borglum Banquet, December
-28, 1938)</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The historian of the future ... will record America&rsquo;s
-enduring achievements and include in his history the
-name of a Master Sculptor, whom the earth&rsquo;s inhabitants
-of the twentieth century knew as Gutzon Borglum.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p15a.jpg" alt="{Franklin D. Roosevelt}" width="673" height="800" />
-</div>
-<p class="tb"><i>Photograph Credits: Bell Studios, Lincoln Borglum, Charles
-d&rsquo;Emery, Verne&rsquo;s Photo Shop, Publishers&rsquo; Photo Service, Inc.,
-Wyoming Department of Commerce &amp; Industry, and Rise Studio.</i></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_31">31</div>
-<h2 id="c16"><span class="small">MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL SOCIETY OF BLACK HILLS</span></h2>
-<div class="img" id="fig21">
-<img src="images/p15c.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="464" />
-<p class="pcap">John A. Boland, Sr.
-<br /><i>President of Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of Black Hills</i></p>
-</div>
-<p>The state of South
-Dakota and the community
-of the Black
-Hills have logically and with
-undiminished zeal accepted
-a considerable financial and
-moral responsibility in the
-evolution of this magnificent
-Shrine of Democracy.</p>
-<p>Through the successive
-stages of locating, planning,
-sculptoring, improving and
-publicizing Mount Rushmore,
-a liaison with Sculptor
-Gutzon Borglum and his
-son, Lincoln, the President,
-the Congress and the Department of Interior has been
-maintained through the instrumentalities of three nonprofit
-organizations.</p>
-<p>The Mount Harney Memorial Association was first
-authorized to &ldquo;carve a memorial in heroic figures&rdquo; under
-an act of Congress, approved by President Coolidge on
-March 4, 1925. Brought into being through a bill passed
-by the South Dakota Legislature, the Association entered
-into a formal contract with Gutzon Borglum and work
-was commenced in 1927.</p>
-<p>Subsequently in 1929, when Federal funds were appropriated
-for matching purposes, the Mount Rushmore
-National Memorial Commission was created, consisting
-of twelve members to be named by the President.</p>
-<p>Appointed by President Coolidge to serve on the commission
-were John A. Boland, Rapid City, S. D.; Charles
-R. Crane, New York, N. Y.; Joseph S. Cullinan, Houston,
-Texas; C. M. Day, Sioux Falls, S. D.; D. B. Gurney,
-Yankton, S. D.; Hale Holden, Chicago; Frank O. Lowden,
-Oregon, Ill.; Julius Rosenwald, Chicago; Fred W.
-Sargent, Evanston, Ill. and Mrs. Lorine Jones Spoonts,
-Corpus Christi, Texas.</p>
-<p>Mr. Cullinan became the Commission&rsquo;s first president
-and Mr. Boland was named chairman of the executive
-committee at a session in the White House, where it met
-upon invitation of the President on June 6, 1929.</p>
-<p>It was the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission
-which assumed financial responsibility for the
-Memorial, taking over all property and contracts from
-the Mount Harney Association, employing the services
-of a staff for the sculptor and disbursing federal and privately-solicited
-funds during the course of construction.</p>
-<p>It was also the parent organization for the present
-Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of Black
-Hills, incorporated under the laws of the District of
-Columbia in 1930. And while the Society&rsquo;s objectives
-were identical with those of the Commission, it had
-additional authority, including the sale of memberships,
-management of concessions and the use of available funds
-for advertising and publicity.</p>
-<p>A long list of &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s Who&rdquo; in America and South
-Dakota have been recorded in the annals and on the
-membership roll of the Mount Rushmore Society. Membership
-certificate No. 1 is held by John Hays Hammond,
-world famed mining engineer, lecturer, consultant of
-Cecil Rhodes and active in the development of hydro-electric
-and irrigation projects. Number two belongs to
-Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under President
-Wilson and a one-time member of the Permanent Court
-of International Justice at The Hague.</p>
-<p>Other original members, some of whose heirs hold the
-certificates, are John N. Garner, vice president of the
-United States; Julius Rosenwald, American merchant
-and philanthropist; Sewell L. Avery, chain store magnate;
-Mary Garden, American operatic soprano; Walter
-Dill Scot, author and president of Northwestern University;
-Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia
-University and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1931, and
-Vilhjalmur Stefanson, Arctic Explorer, to mention a few.</p>
-<p>The Society&rsquo;s Board of Trustees presently is composed
-of Paul E. Bellamy, John A. Boland, Mrs. Gutzon
-Borglum, Lincoln Borglum, Francis Case, Fred C.
-Christopherson, Miss Nina Cullinan, George E. Flavin,
-Mrs. William Fowden, Mrs. Peter Norbeck, Robert
-E. Driscoll, Sr., Eugene C. Eppley, Mrs. Frank M.
-Lewis and William Williamson. Walter H. Johnson is
-treasurer and K. F. Olsen secretary. The Commission
-is not active at this time.</p>
-<p>Originally a portion of the Federal Game Sanctuary in
-the Harney National Forest, the 1,686-acre tract that
-comprises the Mount Rushmore National Memorial was
-established in 1929 but did not come under the National
-Park Service jurisdiction until 1939.</p>
-<p>During the interim, the South Dakota State Highway
-Commission constructed the present Memorial Highway
-from its junction with U. S. Highway 16. It also built the
-Iron Mountain Drive with the three tunnels that frame
-the Shrine of Democracy. The planning and intricate
-engineering skill that went into building the Iron Mountain
-Highway was extremely ingenious in itself.</p>
-<h2>Transcriber&rsquo;s Notes</h2>
-<ul>
-<li>Silently corrected a few typos.</li>
-<li>Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.</li>
-<li>In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.</li>
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