The North Wales Weekly News

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A KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. OUR READERS, especially those of them who take an interest in efforts for the promotion of the public health, will peruse with interest the letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire which we publish this week. As Chairman of the Public Health Committee of the Denbigh- shire County Council and in other ways, Colonel Cornwallis West has rendered services to the community which entitle him to be heard on the subject which he now submits for public con- sideration. As is generally known, steps are being taken in various parts of the country for setting up memorials of the late King Edward, and of course Wales is not behind hand in the matter. A conference representative of the whole Principality has been held at Cardiff to consider the ways and means for raising a Welsh national memorial, but as was inevitable it was found impossible to agree upon the form the memorial should take or the place where it should be erected. Agreeement upon these two essential points having been found impossible ot attainment, we quite agree with Colonel Corn- wallis West that North Wales should have a memorial of its own and that it should be in the form of a series of sanatoria for consumptives. We do not propose to argue the first point, but with regard to the second we feel that such a scheme would be in accord with the feelings of the late Sovereign, who took such a deep per- sonal interest in all kinds of hospitals, and was especially favourable to the efforts made in his time for the stamping out of "The White Scourge." If there were no necessity for the provision of sanatoria in North Wales, we should not be ready to support such a scheme, but because they are needed, and badly needed, we offer the j project our most earnest and enthusiastic sup- port. Everybody in North Wales is prepared to subscribe to a King Edward Memorial, for nowhere is the memory of the Great Peacemaker and the Nation's Grand Almoner more tenderly cherished, and as the scheme of Colonel West would not only result in the establishment of such a memorial but would also supply a known and widely felt want, it is plainly worthy of general support. It would, of course, be possi- ble to put up a memorial in one of many other forms, but from the point of view of public utility we do not believe that anything better could be devised than the suggested sanatoria for con- sumptives. Some years ago the Lord Lieutenant laboured hard to induce Denbighshire to provide at least one sanatorium, and obtained promises of private assistance but all along the scheme met with vigorous resistance from Aldermen and Councillors whose chief argument was that such institutions, whose cost, we may add, they greatly over-estimated, should be provided by private subscriptions. Without saying a word for or against that attitude, we may point out that the present scheme is not to be rate-aided but must come into existence as the result of private support. Their chief, and perhaps only, objection being removed, will the erstwhile opponents now give their help? We sincerely hope so, because the failure of the present scheme will have serious consequences and per- petuate hardships whose severity none can appreciate except those who have witnessed the sufferings which tuberculosis is causing in our midst for the want of the very accommodation which the Lord Lieutenant proposes to supply. It is not our purpose to dwell upon the number of cases of consumption in the district. Our readers know the facts for themselves. All we desire to say on this head is that it is full time for the people of North Wales to do what lies in their power for the extermination of this terrible malady. In view of the history of Wales in conection wirth consumption mortality, it is simply extra- ordinary that we have so long been content to fold our arms and do nothing practical to cope with the disease. Welsh "fatalism" is having serious results which should not be allowed to continue. Are ignorance and prejudice to be allowed to continue their fatal work? In the name of our boasted civilisation, to say nothing of the Christianity which we profess, let us put a stop to this needless suffering and sorrow. Con- sumption is curable, and in the words of King Edward, If curable, why not cured?" The answer so far as Wales is concerned is simply this, that we are so slow to follow the good ex- amples of other countries in the provision of sanatoria. England, Scotland and Ireland are not free from reproach in this matter, it is true, but that is no reason why Progressive Wales should lag behind Germany and other en- lightened countries. True, we have in the Principality a number of private sanatoria which are doing much good, but they are both too few and too costly to cope with the evil, and it is full time for the com- munity as a whole to join forces in one grand assault upon the common enemy. Sanatorium treatment is the best and most effective treat- ment, and in any public-spirited country that treatment should be available to every patient, poor and rich alike. And equally it would be the duty of every person, rich and poor alike, to contribute towards its cost. From the multipli- cation of sanatoria up and down the Kingdom, their doors open to every sufferer with out con- sideration of social position, there would flow glorious results. But at present that is only a dream. What is now needed is to proceed step by step towards the attainment of that ideal. The first duty is to seize the opportunity that now offers itself, and which may not recur for a very long time to come. For the love they bore the great King, the people of North WTalse are ready and willing to raise a memorial to per- petuate his glorious memory; for the love they bear their neighbours they are willing that such a memorial should have an active influence in the alleviation of human suffering for the love they bear their county they are willing to make sacri- fices on behalf of a movement calculated to raise the standard of national health and well-being. The moment, then, is opportune for directing the national sentiment of love and respect for a dead King into a channel of useful service to living fellow-subjects.

CAKES AND PUDDINGS.—No. 36. A very good and decorative pudding is made from the following recipe, which is not ex- pensive. This recipe gained one of the prizes offered by the Proprietors of Cakeoma recently. ETHEREAL PUDDING. Sent by Mrs. Frost, Blaina, Mon. packet Cakeoma. 8 oz. fine chopped Suet. 2 or 3 Eggs. 2 oz. Currants. 2 oz. Raisins (stoned) oz. Candied Peel (shredded). METHOD.-Put the Cakeoma, Suet, and a pinch of Salt into a mixing bowl; beat the Eggs and, together with sufficient Milk to make a rather stiff batter, add and mix well but lightly. Grease a mould well, and stick it all over with the stoned Raisins, Currants, and Peel then, without disturbing them, pour in half the Pudding Batter, then put in some Apricot Jam and the rest of the Batter. Place over it a greased paper, then tie it in a cloth and steam 2 hours, and serve with Transparent Sauce poured round. Make the sauce by mixing together i part Apricot Jam to 2 parts of boiling water, and strain. Cakeoma is sold in 3!d. packets by Grocers and Stores everywhere. Recipe Book will be sent post free, on request to Latham and Co., Ltd., Liverpool.

CURRENT TOPICS. County Schools. Do we live in a democratic age? This is not a conundrum, but a seriously intended ques- tion. And the answer appears to be: "It all depends on the part of the country in which you happen to live. « TAKE, for instance, the administration of our county schools. The schools belong to the people, and the governors who manage them act in the name of the people. This fact is recog- nised in Carnarvonshire towns, such as Llan- dudno, Bangor and Carnarvon, and in the Flint- shire town of Holywell, but not in the exclusive Denbighshire town of Abergele. In Carnarvon- shire and Flintshire the meetings of County School Governors are thrown open to the Press, so that the people may know what is being done in their names and on behalf of their children. Why should not the same rule apply to Den- bighshire? We do not hesitate to say that by holding their meetings in camera the Governors of Abergele County School are failing in their duty to the public and to the school. Which of them will start an agitation in favour of the policy of the "open door?" About Caravans. CONWAY RURAL COUNCIL object to gypsies en- camping within their district, and their attitude and their endeavours are supported by the police. They aTe, generally speaking, keeping their district free from these wanderers, but sometimes they do not succeed. This failure is due to two reasons—because their powers are so limited, and because some landowners are short- sighted, unpatriotic, and do not realise that ultimately their lack of public spirit may recoil with disastrous consequences upon themselves. In other words, for the sake of a few shillings a week, these landowners provide a harbour of refuge for a class of people who are a pest to society and whose encampment is a positive menace to the public health. It is un- desirable to enlarge upon this subject, parti- cularly at the present time of the year, but it is a public duty to aid the authority in awakening the conscience of the community to this evil. Sentiment. WE say that these professional caravanners are a public nuisance and a public danger-and the amateurs are not so very much better. These latter are not so thoughtful of the comfort of other people as they might be, as we could easily prove with first hand evidence. As to the gypsies, we are well aware that in the eyes of some sentimentalists they are sur- rounded with a halo of romance, but this is cer- tainly a case where common sense ought to pre- vail over sentiment. Their mode of life is a breach of important laws, sanitary and other, which are being sustained at enormous expense to the country at large, and such lawlessness should not be abetted either by sentiment or by love of filthv lucre. SOME PEOPLE, who have met gypsies only in the pages of sentimental novels, think of them as picturesque survivals of picturesque times. Look at the gypsies themselves, and say what element of picturesqueness you can find. Be- sides, no section of people should be permitted to be picturesque at the expense of the health of the majority. Some there be who consider that gypsies should be allowed to continue their vagrant life because of their associations with the Romanies beloved of George Borrow and Theodore Watts Dunton. But how many of these Romanies are now living? Very few, if any. And whatever their number or origin, that is surely no reason why they should not conform to the same laws as the great mass of the people. No; these gypsies have no right to lead their lawless life to pitch their insanitary camps which imperil the health of decent people who dwell in houses and pay rates to shirk their duties and resposibilities as citizens for a country where existence is impossible ex- cept on a basis of mutual responsibility. A civilised state of society has at present no room for such an anachronism as these disease- spreading camps-and the gypsy must go! Mr. Speaker Lenthall. Miss LEXTHALL, of Belmont, Llanddoget, in whose pretty grounds a fete! was held on Thurs- day, and whose name is associated in the Vale of Conway with all that is generous and help- ful, is a descendant of one of the most notable Speakers in our Parliamentary history. First elected on 3rd November, 1640, in the "Long Parliament" of Charles the First, he held the office continuously until 26th July, 1647, when with other members he fled to the Army; then he filled the office from 6th August, 1647, until 20th April, 1653; from September, 1654, to January, 1655 during the December of 1659 and the January and March of 1660. It will thus be seen that his occupancy of the exalted posi- tion coincided with one of the most troubled times in the history of England, a period when the office of Speaker demanded exceptional qualities in its holder; and it is gratifving to learn that, despite the criticisms of his detract- ors, Mr. Speaker Lenthall acquitted himself with honour and credit. "OF all Speakers," says one writer, "Mr. William Lenthall is, qua Speaker, the most re- nouned, nor has any real reason been shown for grudging him his fame." The Speaker of the Long Parliament needed to be a man born to that office, with qualities especially com- bined and fitted for it. A Parliament whose first act was to impeach and destroy a power- ful and most able Minister, whose last act was to defy an autocratic usurper; which in the course of its career initiated and carried out a successful war, executed a monarch, abolished the House of Lords, devised a constitution; which, on the other hand, was subjected to in- cursions of the King in person and again of a rebellious soldiery-such a Parliament must have needed the hand of no ordinary Speaker on the reins which directed it. An account of a debate in this Parliament astonishes a modern reader. He findts in it a dignity and decorum which will compare favourably with the methods of to-day. The credit of this must, in great measure, be ascribed to Mr. Speaker Lenthall. A contemporary diary-writer, Bishop Kennet, wrote on January 21st, 1659: "This day, the Speaker, being recovered of his late indisposi- tion, returned to the House and took the Chaisr, a place that was never managed by any with greater prudence and dexterity." The regard in which he was afterwards held by Cromwell, Monk, and even Clarendon, is in itself evidence of his ability.

Conway River Regatta TO BE HELD NEXT MONTH. Through the endeavours of a number of in- fluential gentlemen, this one time popular re- gatta is to be revived this year, and it has been decided to put forth a splendid Togramme of events for Saturday, the 13th of August. The Chairman of the strong committee who have the arrangements in hand is Mr. R. B. Crowe, and the treasurers are Messrs. Owen Rowland, J.P., Conway, and E. Jones, York House, De- ganwy. The secretarial duties are in the capable hands of Messrs. J. E. Bottomley and A. Mclntyre. The Committee are making a strong appeal to the inhabitants of the whole borough for support to enable them to offer sufficiently good prizes to attract the entries necessary to make the Regatta a great success. It is hoped tt the appeal of the committee will not be in vain, for the regatta will undoubtedly be means of attracting large crowds of people to the borough. The secretaries are in communication with several well-known gentlemen inviting them to become patrons and officers.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. Mr. F. L. Hcywood, open scholar of Balliol College and formerly a pupil of Grove Park County School, Wrexham, whence he proceeded direct to Oxford, has taken a first class in'mathe- matical honours at moderations. < The President of the Local Government Board {the Right Hon. John Burns) has appointed as lady inspector for Wales Miss Elizabeth Mary Jones, lady superintendent and matron of the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool. < The Governors of the Ruthin County School have appointed Miss May Williams, of Aberdare Hall, Cardiff, and Girton College, Cambridge, assistant mistress in history and French at a commencing salary of £Iõ5. There were 32 applicants. M.E.Comp. the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn has conferred the rank of Past Grand Sc.N. in the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in England upon E. Comp. Sir H. L. Watkin Williams-Wynn, who was recently installed as the first M.E.Z. of the newly conse- crated Sir Watkin Chapter (1336) at Wrexham. The members of Salem Welsh Congregational Church, Rhos, near Ruabon, decided on Sunday, evening to extend an invitation to the Rev. John P. Gough, of Caergwrle, near Wrexham, to be- come the pastor of the church. < The Hon. W. Ormsby Gore, M.P., and Col. Cornwallis West were among some eighty of Mr. Chamberlain's friends who celebrated the states- man's birthday by dining together at the Prince's Restaurant in London on Friday night last. On Friday, at the invitation of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the members of the Square and Compass (Wrexham) Lodge of Freemasons visit- ed Bala Lake, and were entertained at Glanllyn by Sir Watkin, who is a Past Master of the Lodge. Mr. W. George (brother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Miss Anita Williams, daughter of the late Captain Williams and Mrs. Williams, Cefnydre, Fishguard, will be marriea at Hermon Welsh Baptist Church, Fishguard, on Saturday, July 23rd, when Mr. D. Lloyd George is expected to attend. "0< The degree of Doctor of Divinity of Pella College, United States of America, has been conferred upon the Rev. H. Cernyw Williams, of Corwen. Mr Williams is a minister of the Welsh Baptist Church and a past chairman of the Welsh Baptist Union. < Mr. E. A. Hughes, who gained a Major scholarship of £ 100 a year at Trinity College, Cambridge, from Abergele County School, and who was placed in the First Division in both parts of the History Tripos, has now left the University, and has secured a valuable appoint- ment on the staff of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. The Rev. Howell Harris Hughes, of Oswestry, preached a special sermon at the New Taber- nacle Chapel, Bangor, on Monday evening. This is taken to indicate the close of the prolonged search for a pastor as successor to the Rev. T. J. Wheldon, and as a preliminary to a call to Mr. Hughes, who was formerly a student at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. < The Rev Josiah Jones, who on attaining his Soth birthday has retired from the pastoral charge of the Graig Congregational Church, Machynlleth, which he held for 56 years, has been elected a life deacon of the church and has been granted the occupation of the manse as long as he lives. Mr Jones is an ex-chair- man of the Congregational Union of Wales. The Rev. T. E. Timothy, Curate of Llandrillo- yn-Rhos, near Colwyn Bay, has just accepted the living of Rhesycae, near Holywell, in suc- cession to the Rev. W. Annon Ellis, who goes to Ffynnongroew, near Holywell. The Rev. T. E. Timothy is a graduate of Lampeter College, and was ordained in 1898. The Council of Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses has accepted the conditions of the bequest of Bryn Menai, Bangor, the resi- dence of the late Miss Harriet Hughes, as a Home of Rest for the Jubilee nurses. Miss Hughes provided £ 6,000 for the maintenance of the home, which overlooks the Menai Straits. Mr. Peter Manuel, of Rock Wood Farm, Bryn- teg, near Wrexham, has just forwarded to Mrs. Lloyd George a handsome lady's walking stick, with a silver mounted inscription. Mr. Manuel has received the following reply:—"I am directed by Mrs. Lloyd George to thank you for the very nice walking stick which you sent her. Mrs. Lloyd George very much appreciates your kindness." Mr. Manuel, who is an old age pensioner, formerly sent a similar stick to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in appreciation of the old age pension scheme. to » At the close of the service at Bethlehem Welsh Congregational Church, Rhos, near Ruabon, on Sunday night it was announced that the Rev. Peter Price, of Bethania Welsh Congregational Church, Dowlais, had decided to accept the call recently extended to him to become the pastor of the church in succession to the Rev. Robert Ro- berts, who recently retired after a successful ministry of 29 years. Mr. Price was previously at the Great Mersey street Welsh Congregational Church, Liverpool. He aroused a great con- troversy by his frank criticism of Mr. Evan Roberts's revival methods. The death occurred at Pencoed, near Bridgend, on Monday, of the Rev. O. Waldo James, one of the best-known Baptist ministers in Wales. Born 66 years ago in Anglesey, he entered the North Wales Baptist College at Llangollen, and when 19 years of age took charge of a church at Dowlais. He afterwards became pastor of the famous Tabernacle Church at Merthyr, and took a leading part in educational work. From Merthyr he went to Aberavon, and thence to Edwardsville, in America. On his return to Wales he settled at Blaenclydach, and a few years ago retired from the ministry. He won many prizes at Eisteddfodau, and was a popular lecturer and Eisteddfod conductor. He gave the welcoming speech to Cajmen Sylva, the Queen of Roumania, when she visited the Eis- teddfod at Bangor about twenty years ago.

r- SA YINGS AND DOINGS. SIR ALFRED HOPKINSON. National welfare depends upon the self-control of the citizens.—At Sedbergh. MR. H. M. PLATNAUER. The great bane of England in all departments of art and life is amateur-ism.-At fork. < SIR GEORGE FAUDEL-PHILLIPS. It is much easier to win a battle than to win a heart.—At Southwark. < MR. ERNEST FOSTER. The father who cannot find time to play with his children should not have married. At Watford. GEN. SIR CHAS. BURNETT. Games are of the greatest importance to the country, both morally, physically, and intellec- tually.—At Liverpool. MRS. E. B. LAKE. Most of the causes taken up by women suffer from a lack of warmth and enthusiasm.—At Derby. « I <