HowoiiMG the Memory of "OLD HSCKORY"i IWWWW lng on lts Wnd legs- 8lraUar to the Jackson statue. vISiMEElr whereupon its rider slid off hastily and continued j lWm o Ma way afoot! The statue was unveiled on WmWM0m nuary S. 1S53. and Senator Stephen A. Douglas I k'WZmM M of Illinois was the orator for theP occasion. (k U zAm&'M For al1 the rtacde that has been heaped upon mm0Mm Tr, W; 1 8tLe is . WaM& remarkable one In many respects. It la mounted ' i fc.fSfMP S without pivots, rivets or clamps of any kind. H ' Among many people there Is an Idea that the tall aiflk' WWS and hlnd leSs of the horse were cast solid to bal- lmmWmi: ance the re8t of the figure- But thl3 Idea 18 ! li ll erroneous. The statue Is balanced perfectly on kWkmiWm v n the hInd legs of the horse and de8plte the fact-lt 9m0mlm ft has not Bhmed a fractlon of on Inch ,n the 75 years ttat u has 8t00d on 8ame 80oL From yt&lMiW the original model Mills made a replica for New &MWWmMW!m Orleans and It stands today in Jackson square tf $fl?&WWM (originally called the Place d Armes, but changed f ' f -t to honor the savior of the city after the historic battle In 1813) In that city. Another replica T$S&SP stands on the grounds of the statehouse in Nash- 2 Tllle, Tenn. jaSgjgsfl Mills' statue of Jackson brought him fame and n " """ he was commissioned to do others. The first was tz ' 1 ' 1 ' ' the equestrian statue of Washington which stands UnVeilinC jJaCKSOn. bttlie . X In the circle of that name In the National Capital. ot3."ttiajllfl3lI ', Another was the statue of "Armed Liberty" which " ?.: $jf ' ' stands on the dome of the Capitol in Washington. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON mviuiw ANUAUY 8 Is a day for recalling one I T I of t,ie niost picturesque figures in I J I American hi.story. Andrew Jackson rrnrtMijl was his name, but to his countrymen I s 'ie ,s affectionately known as "Old $W & Hickory.- It Is not a date for special sc VtJ observance because It Is the anni-iluf anni-iluf versa ry of his birth, as Is the case S jNT l' wIln o!lu'r Croat Americans. Rather fl r&h P ue n'lll0nil'er !t because It Is the an-fl an-fl T 5 nlvorsary of a battle which he fought and won on that dale. The Rattle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. Is unique in military history. It is the only major engagement on record which was fought after a treaty of peace between the two nations Involved had been signed. Rat its significance In American history Is more than tint curious fact. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought by a nation divided against Itself. It was one In which Americans of the time took little pride, at least, so far as the record of Its military forces was concerned. Disaster after disaster and reverse after reverse re-verse had caused the country to believe that the breed of successful generals, such as It had known In the Revolution, was extinct. Then Andrew Jackson and his frontiersmen at New Orleans faced the best troop3 that Groat Rrltaln could muster. They were Wellington's veterans who had , broken the puwer of Napoleon. Rut Jackson gave them odds of two to one and defeated them disastrously. disas-trously. "To a country that had almost completely lost fall h In itself, to a country that had almost learned to cringe, this news came like a reprieve to a man upon the gallows," says Gerald W. Johnson John-son In "Andrew Jackson, An Epic In Homespun." "It was literally crazed with Joy. and In Its dcllrl urn It flung the name of Andrew Jackson against the stars. ... If Jackson did not really save New Orleans, he saved something Iufinltely more Important, namely: the self-respect of the coun view of this, lt would seem that January 8 should he one of the red-letter days on the American Amer-ican calendar. The fact that It Is not Is only further proof that the old saying "A republic forgets" for-gets" Is true. For January 8 Is not a general holiday, holi-day, nor even a state holiday. In that respect it cannot take rank with March 2 when. Texas recalls re-calls the Rattle of San Jacinto and honors the memory of Sam Houston, nor with April 19 when Massachusetts honors the patriots who fought at Concord and Lexington, nor with August 16 when Vermont remembers how old John Stark beat the Hessians at Rennlngton. The only observance of the anniversary of the Rattle of New Orleans as a holiday Is In New Orleans, which has good rea son to remember the nume of Andrew Jackson. In fact the only nation-wide notice of this annl ersary is a celebration which has only a meuger connection with the battle and even this occurs intermittently. That Is the Jackson Day dinner, held In Washington by the leaders of the Democratic Demo-cratic party on January 8 and there tribute is paid more to Andrew Jackson, the President and the founder of "Jacksonlan Democracy" than to "Old Hickory- Jackson, the soldier and military victor. Even though America has not chosen to honor the memory of Andrew Jackson by making a holiday holi-day of the date on which lie won his great victory vic-tory and started on the path which led eventually to the. White House, this does not mean that he is forgotten or Is ever likely to be. Tor, as his biographer previously has pointed out, "He Is the hero of the people, not of the Intelligentsia. The people still delight In the legends of his prowess, of his lurid language, of his Imperious und dictatorial dicta-torial .temper. The tale of bis usurpations does not appall them, but delights (them, for Americans have always loved a really masterful man. If Jackson's spiritual heir should appear now, there Is every reason to believe America of the Twentieth Twenti-eth century would hall him as rapturously and follow him as blindly as It hailed and followed tho hero of long ago." Another reason why he Is not likely to be for jotten lies In the fact that, with the exception of m$mm ashing ten ,D.C. Washington and Lincoln, more monuments and markers have been erected to his memory than any other President. Fascinating as Is the story of Jackson's career, a story which Is fumlliar to most Americans, equally Interesting Is the story, of some of these memorials. Outstanding among them Is the famous "rocking horse" statue In Lafayette La-fayette park, opposite the White. House. In Washington. Wash-ington. Perhaps It la particularly appropriate that this memorial to a man whose life was turbulent tur-bulent from beginning to end should be the subject for frequent controversy and should furnish material mate-rial for an almost endless debate among politicians, politi-cians, sculptors and horsemen. The statue, which has the distinction of being the first equestrian statue In the United States. Is the work of Clark Mills, a New Yorker born In ISIS, who drifted to South Carolina where he worked In a plaster and cement mill. While doing stucco work there, he developed a method for taking a cast from a living fuce and. although he had no art education, he began working In marble. Ills first effort, a bust of John O. Calhoun, was purchased by the city of Charleston and he was slven a gold medal by the commonwealth of South Carolina. Mills next went to Washington to make busts of Webster and Crittenden. On the way he stopped In Richmond and there saw Hou don's statue of Washington, the first real piece of sculpture he had ever seen. Arriving lu Washington, he. found plans were under way for the erection of an equestrian statue of Jackson. Cave Johnson, then postmaster general gen-eral and president of the Jackson monument committee, com-mittee, Invited him to submit a design. Rut Mills, never having seen an equestrian statue, felt obliged to refuse the offer. However, he was prevailed pre-vailed upon to make the attempt and. having bought some land near Lanham, Md.t he set up a foundry and a studio and went to work. For nine months he worked patiently on a small model on a new principle that of bringing the hind legs of a horse directly beneath the center of Its body, thus producing perfect balance. A race horse, named "Olympus," was his model for Jackson's charger and he trained this horse to pose for the work. Finally, his design was finished fin-ished and accepted by the commission and Mills set to work to make the bronze statue. Cannon, captured by Jackson at Pensacola, were to be molted down for the statue of the horse and Its rider, and other guns, captured from the. Rrltlsh at New Orleans, was to be used Tor the base. Rut Just when Mills was ready tn.heln the melting and recasting, u gale destroyed his studio. Re-fore he could rebuild It. fire destroyed the foundry. Despite these handicaps, to which were added such misfortunes as the breaking of cranes, the bursting of furnaces nr.d six failures In making the body of the horse. Mills persisted until his work was completed. Just before the statue was dedicated Mills, as the head of r company of mllltla he had organized, organ-ized, tried to ride "Olympus" at the head of the parade. The horse, perhaps feeling that occasion was tux appropriate one; did some Impromptu ooS' rackSon. Scraa-re ,.1TcW OlcanS j lng on Its hind legs, similar to the Jackson statue, ! whereupon its rider slid off hastily and continued j on his way afoot! The statue was unveiled on j January 8, 1S53, and Senator Stephen A. Douglas J of Illinois was the orator for the occasion. For all the ridicule that has been heaped upon "Jackson and his rocking horse," the statue Is a remarkable one In many respects. It la mounted without pivots, rivets or clamps of any kind. Among many people there Is an Idea that the tall and hind legs of the horse were cast solid to balance bal-ance the rest of the figure. But this Idea is erroneous. The statue Is balanced perfectly on the hlnd legs of the horse and, despite the fact, it has not shifted a fraction of an Inch In the 75 years that lt has stood on the same spot From the original model Mills made a replica for New Orleans and It stands today in Jackson square 1 (originally called the Place d Armes, but changed to honor the savior of the city after the historic battle In 1813) In that city. Another replica stands on the grounds of the statehouse in Nash-Tllle, Nash-Tllle, Tenn. Mills' statue of Jackson brought him fame and he was commissioned to do others. The first was the equestrian statue of Washington which stands In the circle of that name in the National Capital. Another was the statue of "Armed Liberty" which stands on the dome of the Capitol In Washington. If Jackson s life was a disputatious one. lt Is appropriate also that It should have begun on disputed dis-puted ground and that the dispute over the scene of his birth should continue long after his death. At the time of hi3 birth. March 15," 1767, the boundary line between the two provinces of North and South Carolina was not clearly defined. That boundary line ran north and south less than a quarter of a mile from the log cabin In which Andrew Jackson first saw the light of day. But was the cabin east of. the boundary line, L e., In South Carolina, or west of It, hence In North Carolina? That Is a point over which his biographers biog-raphers and other historians have never been able to agree. And so the two states of North Carolina and South Carolina have had a part In another "Jackson "Jack-son controversy" as to which one belongs tlu honor of being his native state. Apparently South Carolina has had the last word in the controversy, contro-versy, for In November, 1928. there was erected a marker on the James Crawford plantation, 10 miles from Lancaster, S. C, bearing on the front these words, "Birthplace of Andrew Jackson, brave, truculent, noble, able,, honest," On the rear Is an Inscription from a letter, said to have been written by Jackson to a Lancaster citizen, which reads "I was born In South Carolina, a I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about crossing of the Wax-haw Wax-haw Creek" and beneath that Is this Inscription, "This stone stands upon the plantation whereon James Crawford lived near the site of the dwelling dwell-ing house according to the Mills map of 1820V The year 102(5 saw the erection of another memorial me-morial to Andrew Jackson. That was on April 15 when the statue of Jackson was unveiled In Sta tuary hall In the Capitol. It was presented to tha federal government by the state of Tennessee in honor of the centennial year of his inauguration j as President and was accepted on behalf of the I nation by President Coolidge. The statue, which shows Jackson In the full dress uniform of a major general of the regular army of his time cocked hat. tight-fitting military dress coat and ' breeches, long cloak and high boots, is the work of Relle Kinney Scholz, formerly of Nashville, . Tenn. On that occasion President Coolidge paid a tribute to Jackson as one who exemplified the unlimited opportunities offered to men, regardless regard-less of seeming handicaps: "He gave to the nationalistic spirit, through loyalty to the Union, a new strength which was 1 decisive for many years," President Coolidge said. "Ills management of our foreign affairs was such as to secure a wholesome respect for our government and the rights of our citizens. He left the treasury without obligations and with a surplus. "Coming up from the people, he demonstrated that there Is sufficient substance In self government govern-ment to solve Important public questions and to rise superior to a perplexing crisis. Like a true pioneer, he broke through all restraints and impediments im-pediments into which he was born, and leaving ! behind the provincialisms and prejudices of his day, pushed out towards a larger freedom and a I sounder government, carrying the country with ( him. "If at times he was high tempered and over- I bearing there Is no fairer story of chivalrous devotion and affectionate consideration than that which he lavished upon his wife." Rut If one would see the memorial which best exemplifies the tender side of Andrew Jackson, It Is only necessary to go to Nashville, Tenn., and there visit the Hermitage where he lived the happiest days of his life with his beloved Rachel, where the most crushing blow In his whole career, her death, was dealt him and where at hst he died with a miniature of her next to bin heart Tn that fine old mansion, which has become a patriotic shrine of the sort thai Washington's Mount Vernon and Jefferson's Montlcello are. preserved as It was In the days when Jackson lived there, one may come nearer understanding Andrew Jackson not Andrew Jackson, the Indian Indi-an fighter or the general or the politician or c President, but Andrew Jackson, the man.