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OHTH. WALES HEROESI MEMORIAL.

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OHTH. WALES HEROES I MEMORIAL. (To tho Editor ) I The following letter ha» been sent to the ilon. A1 ice Dougias Pennant in answer to her letter, which appealed m the V orth li iite* Cln oit ,rlc of August 5Gt.li:— Dear Madam,—I have received your letter in reply [I, my appeal on behalf of the North Vv ales I-let-o(:s' LNien,ut-i.it. 1 iegret the- form the Memo- rial is to take doe-i not meet with your approval. This was decickd on at a largely attended meet- ing representative of all the public bod it •J 111 North Wales, held at lthyt m February last. I may perhaps be permitted to point out that the form ot the proposed Memorial has la) the hearty approval of His Majesty the King, (bJ the hearty approval, as well as the support, 'of II is iloyai Highness the Prince of Wales, (c) the hearty approval of the Prime Minister; and lei) jadgmg, as i have the right to judge, from the number of letteij received, and the support I am almost daily receiving • trom the front, tho form proposed certainly meets with the approval of tile nül.Jic sons oi North ales \ho lighting tor us. Personally, 1 regard it, an honour to be asso- ciated wifh the movement, which has at its head such a staunch Churchman as Lord Kenyon, and whrch is lieat iiiy approved by the King, the Prince oi Wales, and the Prime Minuter.— Yours very iaithiuiiy. W. A. FOSTER. The Ilonble. Alice Douglas Pennant, 12a, Curzon-street, W. iTo tho Editor ) Sir, I should be much obliged if you would be so good 3:; to insert the enclosed kiter (copy of which hu: Leeu for v. aided to Mr Foster) re North in 'his week's Nortlt IJ"¡!"i Chronic!—Yours, etc., ALICE DOUGLAS PENNANT. 12a, Curzen street, Mijfair, W.I., Sept. iZih, lbi7. Dear Sir, Iu your icply to my li tter answer- 'l>g your appeal tor iuinio for additional build- ings to the Bar.gor Cnivusity College a3 th? memorial to North Wales heroes you mention that the leheme is approved by the King, tho Prince of Wales, and Mr Lloyd George. Many people think it most regrettable that the King s name shouia have been maue use of at the earliest moment before th scheme had been presented to the public Jt looked too much like living to t-Lirk- iiiiY)Iiissed discussion of a project which might otherwise not --naterial ise and probably v. ouid become, as this one has, the subject or much adverse criticism and divided opinion. It 1, noi.'eeable that :n the letter signifying the Priii e of Walts' interest m and support of ''the p-oposed rebuilding of the science section" no .innition whatever is made of the scheme as & memorial. The Prime Minister would naturally upport a movement to barefit one of the institutions which was so obliging and so fearless oi, evil 4.'onsequences as to be willing to accept some of the spoils c the Church, tor I suppose it was not easy for a Government, any more than for ato find persons to undertake the odious part of receiver of stolen goods. It seems most deplorable at a time when we are all am ious to be united on those subjects in which we sympathise that this ill-considered scheme should have been thrown iri as all apple of diürd; for one cannot imagine any sugges- tion more repugnant and more lacerating to the feelings of Churchpeople than that they should commemoiate those they have lost in the war cv subscribing to an institution which has proved itself so conspicuously unfriendly to the ancient Church to which they belong. I remain, Sir, Faithfully yours, ALICE DOUGLAS PENNANT. W. A. Foster, Esq., Hon. See. (N. Carnarvonshire), N. W. Heroes' Memorial.. i. the Editor ) Sir,i am confident that very many of your North Wales readers will be grateful to the Hon. Alice Douglas Pennant for her outspoken letter in your lastIssue OIl tho subject of the Welsh Heroes' Memorial, and will agree with her that the plan proposed by the promoters can- not prove cither a worthy or an appropriate plan for perpetuating the memory of the many sold- iers from Nortn Wales who have fallen in this war. Mr P. J. Thomas deserves the highest praise for his splendid munficence, and for the patriotic sentiments which prompt it. But, with due IC- spect, it doei seem a far-fetched idea to seek to honour the bravo dead through tho medium of a new institution which from its very character cannot touch at a single point the interests of the working classes of North Wales. A bacterio- logical institute is doubtless vital in the scheme of medicine. But a bacteriological institute is essentially an undertaking tor which the Stauj itseii should be responsi bIt; How it is going to honour il:if- niemorj of the gallant dead by set- ting up in Bangor, at a cost of many thousands, a building wherein to pursue the study of microbes, when they might still be "bottled" and despatched, as is Jone now, for the necessary scientific anabpia to eminent specialists in Eng- land, is a point w hieh is more than cbscu e. The proposal does not, I respectfully submit, appeal to the imagination of the working classes of North IVales. It leaves th M, ir. the mass, cold. It seems at once ludicrous and fantastic. And it prompts the question, to vary a theatrical title, Who's the 'Bunty' who pulls the strings?" On the other hand, a truly fitting and profitable method of payii g tribute to our fallen could easily and readily be found in a comprehensive scheme of technical education for tho voufh of Nortn Walts. There were no blind-alley occupations for tho youth of Germany. Technical instruction dogged the footsteps of the German youth at every tarn, with t-he resuit that tiie tee! ml teal proficiency of the German workman in the time of peaoe was equal to his devilish ingenuity in the time of war. Evocy facility was afforded Ene German youth to master the intricacies of his craft. The inevitable recult of all this had been painfully evident for decades to those in this country with an eye in their head. One spMiks feelinglv"— as they have it in Lancashire—in this matter. One is only too conscious t-tiotare thousands of lads in this laud who never had a ghost of a chance to vrqui-e a working knowledge, much less a mastery, of their job. These lads emerged from their servitude so ill-equipped for the practice of what should have been their lawful calling as to be fompHled to seek their bread U hewers of 7(X)d and drawers of water" for fchose to whom the fates had shown due kindness. "Ftili many a. gem of purest ray serene. Tite dark unfathom'd caves of ooean bear; Full many a flower is bom to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." There i& now, however, a rare opportunity to make up for past neglect. There is now a glorious oil j rice to plant in North Wales, under the aegis of its University, an efficient arid com- prehensive scheme of technic al instruction whioh would fittingly commemorate through the ages the valorous deed,3 of those who have given their lives in the cause of their country. The scheme would from its intrinsic worth and from its permanent utility, appeal to the im- "ginatl on and command the ready and generous monetary support of every v,orking-elass organua tion in N(-th W ales. Every sect and every oreed would add its moiety to the already splen- ciid fund* It would seem to me that Miss Douglass- Pennant lias clothed with flesh a.nd blood the inarticulate but very real aspirations of manv fchousancw of the working-classes of North Wales of all seers aad politics. —Yours, etc., Upper Ban jo r, CYMRO. I

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