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MR. LLOYD=GEORGE AT CARDIFF.
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MR. LLOYD=GEORGE AT CARDIFF. A National Council of Education. On Saturday last Mr. Lloyd-George, M.P., visited Cardiff as the guest of the Cymmrodorion Society. On his arrival in the city he was given a reception by the Mayor and Members of the Corporation. Later in the day the honourable member dined with the Cymmrodorion, and at the dinner made an important speech. Refer ring to the Government's forthcoming Education Bill he said, that one set of people were fearing that the Government would go too far, and another set feared that they would not go far enough. He would tell them a secret. He believed it was going to be a better Bill than either party feared. But what concerned him was what they might get for Wales. He was not referring to anything controversial, but to some- thing they could get which would be construc- tive, which would not in the slightest degree infringe upon the conscience of anybody. He wondered whether, if Welshmen agreed, they could not get something out of this Education Bill which would help Wales apart from the settlement of controversy. He ventured to think that they could if they only agreed. A Bill of that magnitude would be very difficult to carry through even with a big majority, and if they were going to get something which would specially refer to Wales it would only be in the event of there being agreement among all classes so as to make it worth while to give that proportion of time which it would be necessary for the Government to spare in order to carry it through. They made an attempt in the Act of 1902 to secure unity among all the Welsh local education authorities for purely education pur- poses. They tried to set up a National Council. There was machinery provided under the Act for that purpose. They sent the whole of Wales, and to that Council they proposed that powers should be delegated by the Welsh education authorities with regard to the training of teachers and matters of a kindred character. When such a council had been formed they proposed to ask the Government to delegate to it powers now vested in the Board of Education with regard to the inspection of elementary and secondary schools. He had good reason to believe that the Government would have sanc- tioned that scheme. The difficulties arose in Wales. That was why he now wanted to warn them. If they wanted a scheme of that character carried through they must agree among themselves first. They could not ask an outside authority to settle their internal dinerences for them. Fifteen out of sixteen councils were in perfect agreement. Now the time had arrived to make another attempt. What did they want? They wanted their own central education authority in Wales. They had travelled so far on the education road that they had left behind the foremost among their neighbours. With respect to them they thought they could do better for themselves than they could do for them. They wanted a little more co-ordination. They wanted elementary, secondary, and higher education to fit a little better. They wanted a great central machine which would help to co-ordinate all three. He believed that with the general assent of all grades and sec- tions of the Welsh community they could get the Government to set up an authority of that character. Such an authority ought not to deal with matters of controversy between parties and sects, but with matters of a purely educa- tional character. Is it to be National Council representative of the people (Mr. Lloyd-George continued), or is it to be a board of experts nominated at Whitehall ? The Lord Mayor: A National Council. Mr. Lloyd-George: I agree. We know the best men to manage our business, and we don't want anyone else to manage it for us. If it is
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UNDEB GWEINIDOGION LLUNDAIN.
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UNDEB GWEINIDOGION LLUNDAIN. Cynhaliodd yr Undeb ei gyfarfod y mis diweddaf yn Brynteg," 30, Lee Park, Black- heath, palasdy Mr. a Mrs. J. Hinds. Llywydd- wyd gan y Parch. Thomas Jones, City Road, a chafwyd ymdriniaeth werthfawr ar rai o ddarlithoedd yr Athro William James, LL.D., Prifysgol Harvard, America, ar Amrywiaethau Profiadau Crefyddol." Mae Dr. James yn un o brif feddylegwyr y byd ac y mae ymdriniaeth ac ymgydnabyddiaeth a'i weithiau yn sicr 0 fod yn dra gwerthfawr i athrawon crefyddol. Deallwn fod Undeb y Gweinidogion wedi cael bias hyfryd ar ddarlithoedd y gwr uchod fel y sychedant am y llyfr a fwriedir ei gyhoeddi ganddo yn yr hwn yr addawa roi ei ddysgeidiaeth bendant, gadarnhaol, a'r casgliadau y daw iddynt drwy ei ymchwiliadaeth mewn athroniaeth a meddyleg. Rhoddodd Mr. a Mrs. Hinds dder- byniad croesawgar i'r Undeb i'w ty. Hyfryd yw gweled undeb a brawdgarwch perffaith yn ffynu cydrhwng y gwahanol enwadau, a'u gweled yn uno i gydweithio yn aiddgar i hyrwyddo buddianau teyrnas Dduw yn y byd. "Wele, mor ddaionus ac mor hyfryd yw trigo o frodyr yng nghyd." Diau y tyna Undeb y Gweinidog- ion yr eglwysi yn nes at eu gilydd eto, ac y daw eglwys y Duw byw yn fwy o allu er daioni yn Llundain. Tir cyffredin-cyttir-oedd Blackheath hyd yn gydmarol ddiweddar. Safai ar fin y brif- ffordd o Lundain i swydd Caint yn agos i Barc Greenwich o enwogrwydd brenhinol. Deuai cyfoethogion Llundain allan yn fynych iddo i ymddifyru eu hunain a'r hen chwareu Ysgotaidd clwpa (golf), yr hwn sydd mewn cymaint bri yn awr ag erioed. Lie enwog oedd Blackheath yn y cyfnod hwnw am ladron penffordd. Llawer porthmon o lanau y Towy wrth farchogaeth adref o Caint, wedi bod yn gyrru eu da yno, a ysbeiliwyd gan ladron penffordd ar gyttir Black- heath. Nid oes raid i wyr glanau y Towy ofni ei groesi yn awr, ca'nt ddinas noddfa i gyd yn Brynteg. Croesid y cyttir hwn gan y Watling Street Rufeinig redai o Uriconium gerllaw Llan- idloes i Rhutupise Portus ar gyfer Ynys Thanet, ac i Portus Dubri sef Dover neu Dwfr. Gellir gweled ychydig o olion yr hen brif-ffordd hono ar y cyttir yn awr, Yn y flwyddyn 1695 cododd Syr J. Morden adeilad eang ar y cyttir i gynal ynddo fasnachwyr gwywedig a ffaeledig. t, 11 Gwaddolodd y lie a chyllid o 5,ooop., ac enwyd y ty yn "Morden College." Gwersyllodd y Daniaid ar y cyttir hwn yn ion, a llawer gwrthryfel terfysglyd a welwyd arno megis eiddo Wat Tyler yn 1381, a Jack Cade yn 1450. Ar gyttir Blackheath y croesawodd Llundeinwyr Henri V. ar ei ddyfodiad o Agincourt, ac yno hefyd ar ei ddyfodiad o Dover y cyfarfu Charles II. â- byddin yr Adferiad. Cynhaliodd y Chartists gymanfaoedd enfawr ar Blackheath o bryd i bryd gan orymdeithio oddiyma dros gyttir Kennington i Westminster i osod eu syniadau o flaen y Teyrn a'r Senedd. Mae Blackheath, fel pob cyttir arall o amgylch Llundain, wedi newid yn ddirfawr ers deugain mlynedd a llai. Nid yn unig nad yw y Gipsy crwydredig yn cael lluestu arno, ond y mae Cyngor Sirol Llundain yn ei drin a'i gadw, ac y mae tai heirddion gyda gerddi prydferth yn gylchynedig iddo oil. Un o'r cyfryw yw Bryn- teg," preswylfa dlos Mr. a Mrs. J. Hinds. Brodor o ymyl' tref Caerfyrddin yw Mr. Hinds, ac y mae yn un o ddisgynyddion yr enwog Barch. David Pugh, yr hwn a fu am lawer o flynyddoedd yn weinidog yr eglwys yn Ffynonhenry, ac a fu farw yn y flwyddyn 1818. Bedyddiwr hefyd yw Mr. Hinds, ac y mae yn ddyn o argyhoeddiadau dyfnion a goleuedig ar gwestiynau gwladol a chrefyddol. Efe yw un o golofnau ffyddlonaf a dewraf Y mneillduaeth Gymraeg yn Llundain. Cydweithia yn galonog gyda phob mudiad cenedlaethol a chrefyddol. Diau fod dylanwad Stephen Hughes, Meidrym, wnaeth gymaint dros addysg a chrefydd a rhyddid yng Nhaerfyrddin a'i chyffiniau, yn gryf yn gweithio yn ein cydwladwr enwog Mr. Hinds. Genedigol o Llanymddyfri yw Mrs. Hinds, ac y mae neillduolion yr ardal hono i'w gweled yn amlwg arni. Bu raid i Llanymddyfri, beth bynag er amser Henri I., tua'r flwyddyn 1113, pan feddianodd Richard de Paris y lie, ymladd o blaid rhyddid Cymru. Bu Gruffydd ab Rhys yn 1116, Meredydd ab Rhys yn 1158, Gryffydd ab Rhys ei frawd yn 1201, Maelgwyn yn 1202, Rhys mab Gryffyth ab Rhys yn 1204, Rhys Fychan wedi hyny, a llu eraill, yn brwydro dros hawliau Cymru yn y lie, fel y mae cenedlaethol- deb yn nodweddiadol o'r ardalwyr. Llanym- ddyfri oedd tref Rhys Pritchard, offeiriad Llandingad, awdwr "Canwyll y Cymry," yr hon oleuodd drwy y fro nes gyru pechodau y cyn- oesoedd ar ffo megis adar y nos o flaen haul y bore. Gerllaw Llanymddyfri y mae Pant) celyn, cartref William Williams, perganiedydd Cymru, emynau yr hwn a genir tra byddo addoliad Cymraeg yn bod. Y mae y wasg Gymraeg yn Llanymddyfri hefyd wedi gwasgar llawer iawn o wybodaeth werthfawr i'r brodorion, fel y mae crefydd, rhinwedd, a gwybodaeth yn nodwedd- iadol o'r trigolion. Ceir cyfuniad hapus o genedlaetholdeb, crefydd, a gwybodaeth yn cyd- gyfarfod yn Mrs. Hinds. Siaredir Gymraeg gan y plant ar yr aelwyd yn Brynteg." Efelyched Cymry y ddinas Mr. a Mrs. Hinds yn eu ffydd- londeb i'w iaith, eu cenedl, a'u Duw. CRWYDRYN.
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MR. LLOYD=GEORGE AT CARDIFF.
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to be a National Council how is it to be consti- tuted ? It would be much simpler in the first instance if the members of the Council were to be nominated by the councils of the land. But upon what basis is it to be constituted—popu- lation, contribution, or area ? This is an im- portant point for 15 out of the 16 councils agreed upon everything, and the sixteenth broke away upon that one point. The decision on that point is in your hands in this great industrial centre. Mr. Lloyd-George went on to say that if they made their demands too high it would give the power entirely to that part of Wales, and it would be difficult to get the sparsely populated parts of the country to join in the scheme. He appealed to them to be generous and not to insist strictly upon a population basis. They were well organised and had men of great in- fluence and power, and in any event their in- fluence on the National Council would be out of all proportion to their representation. Let the councils of Wales meet once more on the invitation of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff. He wanted a guarantee that it should not be a partisan movement, nor sectarian, nor political, but a Welsh educational movement. Would the Lord Mayor invite the councils of Wales to a conference at Cardiff to thrash the matter out. Mr. Lloyd-George proceeded I do hope that they will come, and that when they do come they will state their objections there and then. The trouble we found was this, that resolutions were passed and that after- wards men who helped to carry them did not agree with them and criticised the scheme. Criticism should be done on the spot. Then we shall know what the objections are and be able to meet them. Then we shall have a scheme that not even the keenest critic can object to for a National Council for Wales which can do great things for Welsh education. The Lord Mayor promised that the matter should be given every consideration, and an- nounced at a later stage that he would have the greatest pleasure in falling in with the sug- gestion made. He would ask all the councils of Wales to meet in conference at Cardiff, and if they accepted his invitation he could promise them a hearty welcome.