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TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 1921.
THE GROWTH OF LONDON. far beyond the original walls. A The “passing on' prosess, it
sprinkling of important houses seems, to me, is a matter of hopa)• stood out along the Strand as far rather than experience. as Charing Cross and St. Martin's
A MASCULINE IDEAL. in-the Fields, and housas dotted the fields along. Holborn as far as
Saldiering fascinates a boy. It St Giles-in-the-Fields. The green appeals to be of his fundamental felts were within easy walking instincts, and whatever may be distance of all parts of the City said and done by pacifists for him. and Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Innite glamour can never be destroy- Fields were almost rural retreats. To him the rifle and bay ed. So a cadet corps attracts
100 Years Ago.... and Now. We have just heard some interesting speculations about the London of the future: what this great Metropolis may be and what it may look like fifty years bence, states a writer in the Observer. Few of us, perhaps, stop to think
THE STOLES QUAX. what it was like in the past, and
onet, and the uniform, and the "London's great opportunity band, stand for a certain mascul- how it has grown to its position to-day. Since the first known came with the Great Fire, in ine ideals. settlement it has taken London September. 1665, when four hun He joins, and because he joins, twenty centuries to reach its dred and thirty-six acres of crowd- the country runs the risk of los-
BEST VALUE IN THE present state the London we ad property in the City were ing a recruit for the citizen army.
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know to-day with its twenty-nine destroyed in four days Sir Raving had no "little experiance boroughs, its mase of streets and Christopher Wren produced a of soldiering, both as a youngster traffic, its stately buildings and great plan for rebuilding the City, and an adult, I shall not easily be parks, and its miles upon miles of but property owners were jealons convinced that drill and discipline of their rights and privileges, and in themselves are anything but shops and hanses.
No one can tell us more about the only part of the plan which distasteful to a boy. He endures its growth than Mr. W. Ras actually carried out was the these that he may grasp the rifle Davidge, late Housing Com construction of a riverside quay, and wear the uniform, and, for a missioner for the London area, forty feet in width throughout time, the joy of the one is worth and formerly for many years the whole length of the City from the pain and Loredom of the other. In a little while, year or two district surveyor in London. He Blackfriars to the Tower. This is just back from India, where he New Quay for upwards of a at most, the illusion is shattered. and was Soldiering has no longer army has been advising the Government century remained
much used br river com-attraction; be on the town-plancing and develop
throws off his merce of the time. Little accoutremant, and wild horses ment of Bombay, and when our
owing to will not
into drag bim representative saw bim yesterday by little, however. at his office above The Land in encroahments caused by stacks Territorial Force. Society. at 27, Abingdon-street, he of goods and temporary build- There are, of course, exceptions. was looking out upon Londonings, it disappeared in 1921 and a Some boys trickle through to the special act of Parlament bad to higher school of arms, according with new eyes for its beauties.
The first thing that strikes be pasted whitewashing offenders to plan, but these are soldiers one," be said, "is the enormous who had stolen one of the most hor, youths who, would join the growth of London during the past importan: highwase of London. senior branch though the junior
"Great developinents came in did not exist. century as compared with that of
UNSUITABLE OFFICERS. the eighteen centuries that pre-just before the reign of George ceded it. In the last hundred II. The old City gates were
Only those who have lain Sears the Metropolis has shot out taken down and the houses on arms in all directions, the length Old London Bridge removed. Now powerless in the bands of a of these arms varying from tin to bridges were built at Westminster clumsy ill-trained dentist know and Blackfriars, and the whole of the torture that incompetence; twelve or even fourteen miles.
the south and west of London can inflict upon the boy. How much worse is it when discipline man down under the: holds a blundering activities of a mist officer.
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
"A bundred years ago London were for the first time brought reached barely as far as Hyde into closer touch with the City. Park in the west, and only as far Turnpike roads were at the same north as Bloomsbury, and as fartime being constructed in all east as Stepney. South of the directions, and an opportunity river there was practically no
presented itself such as London buildings outside the Borough of has never bad since. Southwark, and it will be remen- FIRST GREEN BELT SUGGESTION. bered that the coaching inas A proposal was made even at which provided the rapid transit that day that London should be of those days were situated either surrounded by a broad belt of in the Borough High-street or green park
Holbore.
The average officer of cadets is undoubtedly incompetent. How could be be otherwise? The Crappy training-if any--which the majority receive cannot qualify them for the serious duties entrusted to them. Grown men under a bad commander become land, and that philosophic; but boys are affected somewhere along the length of the utmost limit of build. very differently. To the irksome- ing should be Hyde Park ness of discipline is added the "Compared with other cities on the west side and what is now trial of blundering leadership, and the development of London bas Euston-road on the north. This the effect on the restless wind of been very haphazard. No regular suggestion bore no fruit at the the adolescent's to produce a spirit plan of growth has ever been time, and the belt of green which of rebellion. officially carried out, although London so badir needs must
The most skilled of officers are The London Society has put for-periores be made farther out.
necessary to deal with this very werd a skeleton plan in which "In 1829 a similar proposal plastic, very sensitive material. the main arteries and railway | was again put forward, but and yet any but the best are communications have been most the same difficulties and given.
I do not wish to imply carefully considered." For the objections were raised which that these cadet officers do not moment all that is being done is face us now, for the financial give of their best: undoubtedly) that the Ministry of Transport resources of the metropolis were they try, but inexperience trying! and the London County Council thought to be insufficient to hard is still inexperience, and is are combining in the construction provide what we now see to have none the less painful to its victim. of one or two arterial roads ofli zen an absolute necessity. lesser importance, with a view With the growth of London principally to finding work for the the need of additonal playing unemployed. If the development fields, both big and small, within of London is to be provided for easy reach of the population, and efficiently the first essential is a large breathing spaces for the rest comprehensive development plan and enjoyment of the young and and the use of town planning old of all classes becomes more of the parade ground may be of and more apparent. The truest value, the strength of military economy lies in looking well discipline lies in its-segregation "The six Roman roads running ahead and providing for the needs of officers from men. Excellent to London have been absorbed in first of the present-day Locdon in dealing with grown-up folk, the general system of London and then of the London of the this principle is entirely wrong streets, and their identity is near future, whose wants we can when applied to youngsters. almost lost. But even to-day the already forecast with considerable Those who would guide the young toog, straight line of the Edware-[accuracy."
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ROMAN LONDON.
road, the Shooters Hill-road, and
the Clapham-road point to their Roman origin.
BOYS.
"London began in Ro.nas days SOLDIERING FOR SMALL as a fortified camp in the neigh-| bourhood where now stand Cannon-street Station, and about: the year A.D. 306 the City was first enclosed by walls. With its open spaces a bowsho: outsidel the walls, which is later times
The Question of Cadet Training.
It is about this time of the year,
WRONG IN PRINCIPLE. Our cadet enthusiasts tell as that juvenile soldiering is excell- nt for the moral welfare of boys. Here. again. their argument is fallacious, for, while the precision
must be brothers, close compan- foss in work and play, not colonels and adjutants, who pose 13 superior beings.
I cannot forget the sight of a tall and austere figure, monocled, booted, and spurred, who clanked bis way down the cobbled roads of a little seaside place last summer, receiving the salates of little boys who had ill-fitting khaki on their backs and chunks of toffee
| formed the City liberties, its area about the time when the grass is in their mouths. He was B then, as Dow, was approximately dry enough to be crawled upon, colonel of cadets and, I believe, a square mile.
that soldiering for small boys com-by profession & parson. For The streets of the square milemences. Soon, from behind trees pomposity I have веел fam are still substantially the same and hedges and, sandhills and generals to
equal bim. His as in the old walled city, and ono stiles, youthful heads will appear.juniors. Lowever, went to the can still trace the line of the old each crowned with an unkempt other extreme, and these, wall from Lodgate along the mop of hair and a military cap. between them, were charged with Old Bailey to Newgata and There will be along sniff, an the moral and material well-being Aldersgate, and thence alongobelets carbine will be dropped, of some hundreds of lads! - London Wall or Fore street and you will realise that you What I saw of the "troops" of !' Fore "The Wells), passing have been ambushed, writes that command was exactly what. Cripplegate, and Moorgate, which Mr. Archbald Taylor.
one would expect. Dress boys
in the middle ages led out to the Our new War Secretary has as soldiers, And with their monss, then Bishoperate and on just told us that of these young-inberent habits of imitation they to Aldgate and the Tower.sters entitled to wear the King's will ape the soldiera' bad habits. "Houndsditch" is in reality the uniform, there are now no fewer These boys did. old it ditch.
than 120,000. Extreme pacifists It makes one sad to think of THE MONASTIC MIDDLE AGES. will say that there are 120,000 the friends who are buried in the "In mediæval days the too many, and the irony of King'e uniform, and to see the monastic life of London con- the situation is that many of wholly frivolous use to which the stituted a most important part those who are not extreme paci- Government permit it to be pak JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the of its everyday existence, fists will be obliged to agree with' In the past financial year Stan most digestiva food for Infan ts which keeps good in quality during Whitefriars and
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