Art: By Borglum & Coolidge

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A specialist in immensity, a modeler of monuments out of mountains, Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is doubtless pleased to reflect that his name will last as long as the hills on which he has carved his titanic conceptions. Not before Stone Mountain, Georgia (where he started the memorial now being finished by Augustus Lukeman) and Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota (where he is now engaged in excavating 420-ft. images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt), crumble into dust, can Sculptor Borglum be entirely forgotten. It should require at least 500,000 years for this to happen. It became known last week that the huge stone page of Mt. Rushmore is to be ornamented with a text as well as the Borglum configuration. The text is to be a 500-word history of the U. S. Surely Sculptor Borglum must have been pleased when he learned that his partner in perpetuity, the author of this brief chronicle, would be none other than Calvin Coolidge. the laconic 30th President of the U. S. who dedicated the Rushmore Memorial when summering among the Black Hills in 1927. The Coolidge history of the U. S.,* to be composed in the near future, will be its author's free contribution. Dedication of the first two Borglum figures is set for July 4 this year, Author Coolidge's next birthday. Graven on a tablet 80 ft. high, 120 ft. broad, in letters five inches deep, the Coolidge text will be gilded to glitter in the setting suns of centuries.