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William T. Sherman
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William Tecumseh Sherman Monument
Location: 15th Street at Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Sculptor: Carl Rohl-Smith
Date: 1903
Medium: Bronze
Although the Grant Memorial may be the grandest, the Sherman Monument behind the U.S. Treasury is the largest and most complex of all the Civil War memorials.
Before the Civil War, Sherman had floundered in life. He graduated from West Point in 1840 and went on to serve in the Mexican War, but resigned his commission in 1853 to enter the banking business. But as banks failed, so did his banking career. When he tried to return to the military he was rebuffed and turned to law but lost the only case he tried. In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Sherman was serving as superintendent of a new military college in Louisiana but turned down a commission in the Confederate Army. At age 41, he was reappointed as colonel of the 13th infantry as the regular U.S. army expanded. His memoirs note that he "felt as though there was now a purpose in his life" at this commission. Achieving the rank of commander of the Army of the Tennessee in 1863, Sherman's "March to the Sea" during the winter of 1864-1865 captured the imagination of the North. This event led the press, who Sherman mistrusted and who disliked him in return, to become an immensely appealing hero. As a lieutenant general and then general and commander of the entire army from 1869-1883, Sherman was popular among veterans, whose welfare he looked after. He was active in veterans' organizations, in constant demand as a speaker at reunions, dedications, and encampments, and he rarely turned down an invitation to "mix with the boys." When word of his death in February 1891 reached the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, its officers began to plan for a memorial honoring his memory.
Selection of the Sculptor
As with the Grant Memorial (although several years later), members at the society's summer encampment voted to erect a memorial to honor him "in the nation's capitol, the heart of Union he had fought to save." Congress was asked for and appropriated ,000 to establish the Sherman Monument Commission. The Society quickly established committees in each state to raise funds, writing solicitation letters to many military organizations of the day, as well as encouraging each Union veteran to contribute to the statue fund "so that when the statue is erected in Washington, every soldier who sees it will feel that it is a part of his effort." With the plea for funds was an emotional circular to remind veterans of Sherman's concern for them. Despite the appeals, only ,469.91 was raised, requiring Congress to double its contribution. By 1895, confident that they would be successful in raising the final funds needed, the Society announced a competition to select a design for the monument. The Society wanted only equestrian models from American artists and asked the National Sculpture Society to assist in the selection of the artist.
By April 1896, twenty-three sculptors had submitted models. Many of the sculptors had submitted models for earlier monumental commissions but had lost. The models were displayed in the basement of the War Department where the public could view them and offer opinions. In mid-May, the commission announced four finalists and the National Sculpture Society sent a delegation of the nation's most prominent sculptors to evaluate the finalist's models. The public had favored the most elaborate model, submitted by Danish born Carl Rohl-Smith, but the National Sculpture Society's judges relegated Rohl-Smith's design to the bottom, finding "it is ill conceived and overdone." Two weeks after the National Sculpture Society's delegation opined, the Sherman Monument commission announced Rohl-Smith as the winner. The losers were outraged and cried foul, claiming that the Sherman Monument Commission completely disregarded the opinion of the experts. The National Sculpture Society also protested the decision. The "Washington Star" newspaper called the competition a "bunko game." In June, at the urging of the National Sculpture Society, Sen. Wolcott (CO), who had said the nation's capital was already disgraced by enough bad sculpture, offered a resolution for an inquiry into the award of the Sherman commission. What ensued was a debate that intensified the great divide between the "artistic experts" who disliked Rohl-Smith's model and the public's desire for Rohl-Smith's design. The wrangling continued until July, with Rohl-Smith having to deny that he had any influence in Washington, only the best design. Finally, the opposition surrendered and Rohl-Smith went to work on his sculpture.
The Location
While the selection process was contentious at best, the selection of the location for Rohl-Smith's statue, which was going on simultaneously, was much easier. A slight incline on the south side of the Treasury building was identified, since it was where Sherman had watched the two-day Grand Review of the Union Army in May 1865. On the first day of the review, Sherman stood silently watching the Army of the Potomac march by in precision. Sherman's own men (the Army of the Tennessee) would pass in review the second day, and worried they would not measure up to the Army of the Potomac, he rode across the river to their camp and called together all his commanding officers. He described in detail the precision marching of the Army of the Potomac, hoping that the officers would relay this to his men and inspire them to look as sharp as the Army of the Potomac. On the second day of the review, Sherman led the Army of the Tennessee up Pennsylvania Avenue with the military bands playing "Marching Through Georgia," a new tune in their honor. As he and his band of men neared the rise at the Treasury building, Sherman pulled aside, turned facing eastward in his saddle, and with President Johnson and other dignitaries watched his men march down Pennsylvania Avenue toward him and the reviewing dignitaries.
Commenting on the second day of the Grand Review, the Washington Star reported that "this day's men were taller, lankier, more sun beaten that those who had marched the day before. Their strides were longer, more confident. They swung along with an easy grace and their spirits high. They were magnificent." Crowds along Pennsylvania Avenue cheered them, throwing flowers and Sherman was nearly overcome with emotion. In his memoirs he recalls this to be "one of the happiest, most satisfying moments of his life." Therefore, this spot was chosen as the location for the Sherman monument, and the pride Sherman felt watching his men would be captured by Rohl-Smith in the statue itself.
The Sculpture Takes Shape
In 1897, Rohl-Smith set up his studio in a large barn-like structure that the Secretary of the Treasury built for him near the site. The building included an apartment where he and his wife Sara lived while he worked. In 1900, having completed models for the equestrian statue and three of the four soldiers that would stand guard at the monument's corners, Rohl-Smith sailed to Denmark for a visit. While there, he died unexpectedly at age of 52 in Copenhagen. His wife, Sara, asked the Sherman Monument Commission to allow her to arrange the artist who would complete the statue and the commission agreed. Sara, along with some of the young Scandinavians who had been working with her husband, successfully directed the completion of the monument using her late husband's original drawings. In August 1903, the Washington Star reported that the first cast sections of the 14' tall equestrian statue were arriving at the site. Sherman's torso, hands, arms, shoulders, neck and head comprised the largest piece.
Design Elements
On each corner of the tiered platform, facing outward, were placed four life size soldiers representing infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers. A relief on the north side of the pedestal shows men marching through Georgia as slaves step from their quarters to watch them pass. The relief on the south side depicts the Battle of Atlanta with Sherman and his staff at headquarters as smoke rises from the burning city in the distance. The reliefs on the west and east sides of the pedestal show Sherman walking among his men sleeping around a campfire and the general with his officers on horseback before the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Pairs of medallions bearing bas-reliefs of Sherman's army and corps commanders (James Birdseye McPherson and Oliver O Howard, John A Logan and Francis Preston Blair, Greenville M. Dodge and Edward G. Ransom, and Benjamin Grierson and Andrew J. Smith) flank the larger reliefs on the east and west sides. Large bronze groups installed halfway up the monument's east and west sides depict "Peace" and "War". "Peace," on the east side, depicts a graceful woman holding an olive branch accompanied by three children, one feeding a dove. "War," on the west side, is a horrible fury, seething with rage and hatred, who tramples humanity in the form of a dead young soldier at her feet. Large bronze vultures perch on the body about to feast on its flesh, graphically driving home Sherman's famous observation that "war is hell." Inscribed on the north façade is another Sherman quote: "war's legitimate object is more perfect peace." Finally, inscribed in the wide mosaic band around the base of the monument are the many battles in which Sherman participated.
The Dedication Ceremony
The Society of the Army of the Tennessee made the plans for the dedication of the Sherman Monument. They arranged special excursion trains to bring veterans to Washington, special hotel rates, and activities for veterans' wives. As the date of dedication arrived, October 15, 1903, thousands arrived in Washington and filled all hotels, forcing many to stay in hotels as far away as Baltimore and Annapolis. In Washington, miles of bunting and acres of flags decorated businesses, homes, and government buildings. The base of the monument itself was entwined with 400' of garland and at each corner stood wreaths 7' in diameter. On each side of the base was a 6' high shield of red, white, and blue flowers—one for each of the four armies. The statue of Sherman was enfolded between two huge American flags suspended on wires while more flags covered the bronze soldiers at the corners. On the reviewing stand for the parade that preceded the ceremonies Turkish carpets were laid. Overstuffed armchairs for President Theodore Roosevelt and other dignitaries lined the freshly painted railings of the reviewing stand. More than a thousand folding chairs were arranged in a semi-circle in front for the actual unveiling, with two hundred special chairs for the "veterans who had left limbs to rot on the battlefield" right at the base of the statue. Special tables were set aside for the press and the Western Union operators. The parade, which stretched for miles, began at 2:00pm. President Roosevelt could barely contain his enthusiasm and kept leaping out of his chair to wave and shout to passing units. The last tune played before the ceremony was "Marching Through Georgia." General Greenville Dodge, president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, presided. At Dodge's signal, the late general's young grandson, William Tecumseh Sherman Thorndike, pulled the cord that parted the flags to show Sherman astride his horse.
The ceremony was unusual among dedications for the eloquence of its speakers. Dedication speeches had previously been patriotic and sentimental, but the speakers at this one, especially President Roosevelt, rose above the normal nostalgia. President Roosevelt's speech was filled with moving, challenging imagery, because Roosevelt had an agenda and he relished the pulpit afforded to at this dedication ceremony (the nation had only recently finished the Spanish-American War), but his words express thoughts still valid today.
President Roosevelt stated that, as an emerging international power, the nation must be ever vigilant and always strong and veterans in the audience roared in agreement. Roosevelt also used this opportunity to call for a strong national defense, chiding opponents by saying, "No man is warranted in feeling pride in the deeds of the Army and Navy of the past if he does not back up the Army and Navy of the present." Roosevelt wanted no one to rest on past laurels, calling for Americans to be vigorous, rigorous, up and doing noble deeds, and pursuing lofty goals, stating that heroes like Sherman should spur citizens to similar acts. The President called for new patriotism, honesty and vigilance – all qualities exhibited by Sherman and other "great dead." Roosevelt continued: "The triumphs of the past should be lessons that, if learned, would lead to victory in challenges yet to come. It is a great and glorious thing for a nation to be stirred to present triumph by the splendid triumphs of the past. But it is a shameful thing for a nation if those memories stir it only to empty boastings…We of the present, if we are true to the past, must show by our lives that we have learned aright the lessons taught by the men who did the mighty deeds of the past." As Roosevelt spoke, the thousands of veterans sitting in front of him, who had done the "mighty deeds" of the past, were stirred to know that this man wasn't looking back in time but forward. He told those assembled that their hard won victories would guide the nation into a glorious future that they would not live to see but whose destiny they had guaranteed. Through Roosevelt's promise of a sort of immortality, the men of the armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Ohio and the Potomac rose and gave him one ovation after another.
Friedman: social responsibility of business is to increase its profits (1970)
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Economist Milton Friedman, propagated 18th century values in the Post-WWII global economy. Like Adam Smith he preached the gospel of minimal government, laissez-faire. The triad, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944), Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957), and Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom (1962) pit economic efficiency against social justice.
Footnotes
I compiled this digitized collage, inspired by Deborah Barndt’s
Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail on November 16, 2006. I used a Google earth generated globe to situate as a kind of circumtomato globe. I developed the concept of John Elkington’s Cannibals with Forks for the image of a world being devoured by those who choose to make decisions based on only one bottom line.
See also oceanflynn.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/friedmansocial-respon…
Barndt, Deborah (2001) Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Aurora, ON, Garamond Press.
Davis, Ian. 2005. "The biggest contract: By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis." The Economist. May 28.
"The great, long-running debate about business’s role in society is currently caught between two contrasting, and tired, ideological positions. On one side of the current debate are those who argue that (to borrow Milton Friedman’s phrase) the "business of business is business". This belief is most established in Anglo-Saxon economies. On this view, social issues are peripheral to the challenges of corporate management. The sole legitimate purpose of business is to create shareholder value. On the other side are the proponents of "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR), a rapidly growing, rather fuzzy movement encompassing both companies which claim already to practise CSR and sceptical campaign groups arguing they need to go further in mitigating their social impacts. As other regions f the world—parts of continental and central Europe, for example— move towards the Anglo-Saxon shareholder-value model, debate between these sides has increasingly taken on global significance. That is a pity. Both perspectives obscure in different ways the significance of social issues to business success. They also caricature unhelpfully the contribution of business to social welfare. It is time for CEOs of big companies to recast this debate and recapture the intellectual and moral high ground from their critics. Large companies need to build social issues into strategy in a way which reflects their actual business importance. They need to articulate business’s social contribution and define its ultimate purpose in a way that has more subtlety than "the business of business is business" worldview and is less defensive than most current CSR approaches. It can help to view the relationship between big business and society in this respect as an implicit "social contract": Rousseau adapted for the corporate world, you might say. This contract has obligations, opportunities and mutual advantage for both sides." See The Economist premium content.
Elkington, John (1997) Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, New Society Publishers, Limited.
Elkington, John (2003) Chrysalis Economy: How Citizen CEOs and Corporations Can Fuse Values and Value Creation, Wiley, John and Sons, Incorporated.
CBC, 2006. "In Depth: Wealth Canada’s super-rich," CBC News, Last Updated December 4, 2006, accessed December 12, 2006. Canadian Business magazine lists 1. the Ken Thomson family (media) .4 Billion Cdn or 19.6 Billion US); 2. Galen Weston (groceries) .1 .4 Billion Cdn; 3. The Irving family (oil) .45 Billion Cdn; 4. Ted Rogers Jr. (media) .54 Billion Cdn; 5. Paul Desmarais Sr. (Power Corp.) .41 Billion Cdn; 6. Jimmy Pattison (entrepreneur) .35 Billion Cdn; 7. Jeff Skoll (eBay) .93 .41 Billion Cdn; 8. Barry Sherman (Apotex drugs) .23 Billion Cdn; 9. David Azrieli (real estate) .44 Billion Cdn; Fred and Ron Mannix (mining) .38 Billion Cdn as ten of the 22 Canadian families who are part of the uber wealthy group of 793 billionaires who control .6 trillion US of the world’s wealth. Others include Alexander Schnaider (steel) baron, Calvin Ayre (online gambling), John MacBain (classified ads), Guy Laliberté (Cirque du Soleil) 1 Billion Cdn. of this group of 22 billionaires their money came from pharmaceuticals, media, oil and gas, food retailing, printing, money management, construction and the BlackBerry. Five of the 22 are in their forties. Danko, William D. The Millionaire Next Door Danko, William D. Richer Than A Millionaire Drummond, Don, Tulk, David. 2006. "Lifestyles of the Rich and Unequal: an Investigation into Wealth Inequality in Canada." Special Report. TD Bank Financial Group. December 13, 2006. Accessed December 14, 2006.
Drummond explains how the wealthier quintile of the Canadian population will continue to become wealthier while the middle quintiles will suffer with lower wage gains intensifying wealth disparities. The assets of of the lowest quintile fell by 9. 1% since 1999. This is the group which includes single women, Canada’s children who live in poverty and seniors.
What is also interesting is that there is a significant amount of inequality within the highest wealth quintile of Canadians. One can get an appreciation of this fact by noting the pronounced difference between the mean and median asset holdings. While median net worth for the top 20% is 2,900, the average stands at ,264,200 suggesting a significant skew towards the extremely wealthy. This difference is even more pronounced when holdings of individual assets are compared for those who hold them within the highest quintile. The largest source of the skew towards the wealthy comes from the holdings of bonds which has a mean-median ratio of 7.9 (the larger the ratio, the greater the share of the asset is held by the top segment of the wealthy). The nebulous category of "other non-financial assets" also has a significant concentration in the super-wealthy. Included within this category are such items as the contents of the residence, valuables, collectables, as well as such high value and sparsely-held items as copyrights and patents. [...] Within this category, the share of employer-sponsored pension plans (18.5%) is twice as large as individual pension assets (10.5%) such as Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs), and Locked-in Retirement Accounts (LIRAs). Holdings of non-pension financial assets (10.4%) and equity in business (10.5%) each represent a comparatively smaller portion of total asset holdings.
Morissette, René, Zhang, Xuelin. 2006. "Revisiting wealth inequality: Perspectives on Wealth and Income," Statistics Canada. http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/75-001-XIE/11206/high-1.htm
Vol. 7, no. 12. December 13, 2006. Accessed December 14, 2006.
"When all families are considered, real average wealth rose 70% from [1999 to 2005] however wealth inequity increased as well. Real average wealth increased between 51% to 70% reflecting large increases for the wealthiest 10% of Canadians who held 58% of the wealth, a percentage that continues to rise as it has since 1984. For fifteen years prior to the deep cuts made in the post-1984 period of deficit panic wealth inequity fell then plateaued. Canadian families will continue to become more at-risk to social exclusion as their debts increase, equities are reduced and they face little or no wage increase.Morissette and Zhang (2006) reveal how challenging it is to estimate the share of total wealth controlled by the upper quintile, particularly the UHNW. See also Davies (1993). While 10% may control 58% of Canadian wealth less than 1% of Canadian families may in effect hold up to 46% of the wealth.While Morissette and Zhang (2006) claim that elderly unattached individuals saw their median wealth double, from roughly ,000 in 1984 to 0,000 in 2005, they did not qualify that the extremes of wealth and poverty skew the statistics. See the article on the large number of senior Canadians who live below the poverty line.While the wealthiest quintile, particularly the top 1% benefited since 1984, the lowest quintile, mainly female lone-parent families remain as by far the most financially vulnerable. "In all years, more than 40% of persons in these families were in low income and would have stayed in that state even after liquidating their financial assets." This is where Canada’s children who live in poverty in a rich country live. Lower quintile included those with median wealth no higher than ,000, families with no assets at their disposal to lessen the impact of unexpected expenses or earnings disruptions. The average wealth of the most vulnerable families fell to -00 between 1999 and 2005 from zero assets/debt ratio through the 1980s to negative (about -,000) in both 1999 and 2005. The value of their real estate, for those who did have a modest home, did not rise. "it fell substantially among those in which the major income recipient was aged 25 to 34. In 2005, these families had median wealth of ,400 (in 2005 dollars), much lower than the ,000 and ,400 registered in 1984 and 1999 respectively." While in the middle quintile there was a modest rise of average wealth rose of about ,000, families in the most wealthy quintile experienced a substantial increase in the value of their real estate. They allocated more of their financial assets to RRSPs and LIRA holdings. They sharply increased their investments in RRSPs between 1986 and 2003.
"Median wealth more than doubled between 1970 and 2005, having grown by c.20-25% since 1984. While the median wealth of young families fell by half between 1984 and 2005, it rose by almost 40% for those in which the major income recipient was a university graduate aged 35 to 54."
Stenner, Thane, Bower, Rod, Currie, John, O.Connor, Rory. 2006. "True Wealth Report: Values and Views of Ultra-Affluent Individuals," www.truewealthreport.com/downloads/2006_TWR_low.pdf
Researchers for the True Wealth report surveyed 165 Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) individuals, those whose assets are over .
Making Business with Open Source, Mårten Mickos
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Making Business with Open Source, Mårten Mickos
6M customers, same as sybase
Trying to build a profitable business by giving things away. Dolphin doesnt jump left to right like in the western world. Free and open is in love with business. Collaboration aand sharing gives you differentiation and competitive edge. When you get big a lot of your actions become defensive instead of creating new opportunities. Most popular os db, 50k downloads per day, may be the most popular db. 20M product copies seeding the market. 8M installations. 190% CAGR, 25 countries, 70% at home. Bezos: I base my business on the things that will not change.
OS is not the cause of the changes, but the most appropriate response to it. OS is a production model, not a business model. Don’t assume something that is popular and new will be profitable. The world is flat and transparent. Aggregate power of the community than one community. Marten Mickos is Larry’s worst nightmare. 60 developers competing against 1200. Experts driven more by fame than fortune. In FOSS, you solve a problem by publicly posing the question. In closed source, you must yourself find all the answers. That’s expensive and time-consuming. No backup, then __. No CRM, then SugarCRM comes along. There is no social collaboration in the lamp stack and then rm comes along.
Sourceforge: 111k projects, 1,232k users. If a company had a million engineers, they would have to pay high salaries to a million engineers.
1 paying customer, 10 contributing users, 1k non-paying users. Never done anything in china, but there are users and Other companies invest and have -0M, but we are still at zero. If you are going to use a database without paying, use ours. We have such a strong brand. With one, you could screw up for years, but don’t do that.
Geoffrey More’s Four culture slide from USBC 2005
Schmidt: "I know this is a shock, but not all the best programmers are sitting here in california.
Innovation happens
* in frugality
* in encounters
* where there is a need
It’s not just about technology. I know many companies spend billions in R&D, but the best innovations happen when they dont have much money. If you close the door it doesn’t happen, but if you tell them they have to travel to China with the money you give them, get out an innovate.
Spaceship One, M, no computer controlled descent.
Commercialization
# Community: those who spend time to save money
# Then customers: Those who spend money to save time
Differentiation drives the compelling reason to buy (2), but may cause a "compelling reason to abandon" (1)
Challenge is to balance these two. If you create too compelling reason to buy, it may be a reason to abandon. Be careful not alienating your community. Similar to publishing’s balance of editorial and ads. Apache is most popular, 70% market share, goal of world domination, no money.
Balancing profit and freedom.
|JBoss|JBoss|
|RedHat|Fedora|
|IBM|ECLIPSE|
"Selling supprt for fre software is a legitimate ethical activity. As regards these details of how you sell the support, as far as I’m concerned, you should choose them so as to maximize your income" Stallman email Feb 2005.
Protect with:
- copyright
- trademarks, brand
-trade secrets
-superior service
-product stewardship
-mastery of supply and delivery chains
Softwre patents are detrimental to businesses large and small, open and closed, producers and users. Nosoftwarepatents.com
Why make it free? because a thriving ecosystem is stronger than any competitor. 5 guys, when he joined, but competing because of the ecosystem.
Why share? innovation happens elsewhere. brilliant minds are driven by fame more than fortune. People are not against us making money, they are against it if we have mis-communicated. Brand promises is the ultimate differentiator. OS isn’t a hurdle, it’s a ladder.
method of OS is nothing new, have always collaborated to build something bigger than we are ourselves. with the net you can collect that group around the wo
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