Christ of the Rockies

"Where is there a statue of Jesus Christ in all our nation, from north to south, from east to west? . . . We have a great beacon of the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a mighty shaft to honor our first President and a noble monument to our great Lincoln, in Washington, but we have no statue of Christ anywhere to signify that we are actually Christians and that we recognize Him as Christ the King." So last month spoke Rev. John Joseph Preston, a modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at the outdoor Wayside Shrine of the Passion which he founded near his church in Kearny, N. J. Father Preston was well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high, that Brazil dedicated last year its 130-11. Christ the Redeemer, world's largest, on Corcovado Mountain near Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931). Why not something even bigger for the U. S.--a bronze statue 150 ft. tall, to cost $500,000 which would be raised by the pennies of 80,000,000 believers of all sects throughout the land? Possible sites: near Washington, in New York Bay, or best of all a high point in the Rocky Mountains. Father Preston had his appeal printed, got for the idea some supporters who last week were busy with plans.

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