Hoosier

The erection of a tomb at Washington for the late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall awaits only a leader to collect the funds from the multitudes of his friends.

Said his townsman, Meredith Nicholson, famed author:

"Mr. Marshall had a horror of being buried in the ground. More than once, he expressed a deep-seated aversion to having his body rest in the earth. Only his family and a few of his closest friends knew this, but it was that feeling on his part that caused the family to place his body in the chapel at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, where it now rests. . . "I am convinced that a sufficient number of supporters of the idea will be found in the United States to erect a tomb where his body may hest throughout the years.

"Mr. Marshall was a modest man, and it would not be in keeping with his desire nor with his life to erect an ornate structure as his last resting place.

"My idea would be a plain but lasting structure in keeping with the homely virtues of Mr. Marshall's life."