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CANADA'S WAR MEMORIAL
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LAUNCHING HORRORS.
Christenings
A JAR OF ICE CREAM.
The time-honoured custom of The following interestingly disgruntled. article, la by a special correspon- Before the British Empire The Y. M. C. A. has been trying Mr. Vernon March, whose de-christening a ship with a bottle. dent of the Manchester Guardian: Exhibition finally closed its gates to sound the opinion on various sign for the Canadian National of fixe, old, sparkling champagno Wembley is no more. Soon to the public last October, I took toples of boys in two Dominions War Memorial has been accepted is another of the laudable ancient evan the buildings that housed the occasion to discuss its value to and in Japan by setting them by the selection committee from institutions which would appear British Empire Exhibition may be them with cach of the questions to answer. One or two among 127 submitted from all to be in danger of falling Into the scrap heap.. For the Dominion and Colonial Commis of the questions might puzzle older over the world, is the youngest disuse, a victim of the onward. CHAMPION SPARK PLUGS threatened auction of an Empire sioners in turn. These men came heads than thoas of the young of seven artist brothers who live march of progress, comments the
is to take pince this month unless to this country as the accredited examinees; indeed, the greater the together" near here with their N. C. Daily News. some private offer arrives which agents of their respective Govern experience of the world and its sister, also an artist, who keeps with water have already come to be accepted, but we never removed is sufficiently attractive to inducements at Wembley, and, without ways, the harder would it be to house for them. the liquidators to close with it. exception, they assured me that give a reasonable reply to auch A real brotherhood of artists, from the old custom of wine Almost christenings till we read of a ship So far, none has been received. their sojourn in our midst had an inquiry as: Who are the most their work is known
important men, in the world? throughout the Empire. Among being christened with ice cream. But, just as the good men who lives been worth while. after them, so the value of Wem-
Some could point to this order This question, it has been said, their outstanding achievements It seems that a vessel named the Hallfreid was turned over to hor bley remains after the outward
new owners, the New York-Florida and visible signs of its glory have and to that which in themselves is a sure test of mature character are:-
Cape Town War Memorial... paid most of their expanses. and ripened interests, inasmuch vanished from our midst.
Some had to content themselves as the politician will immediate- Champlain Memorint at Orillia,Navigation Company, and was and renamed Henry W. Breyer. Now a politician, un-en- | Ontário. Yet one ly mention The preliminary financial states with indirect results.
Kitchener Memoriale at Ehur-Mr. Honry W. Breyer, after whom and all declared that from their gincer another engineer, a post ment published by the auditors
the ship was named, la an fee or another poet if not himself, and toum and Calcutta. just before the end of last year
own particular Dominion's
on through all occupations. shows that the loss on the Exhibi-Colony's point of view it had beeri 90
War Memorial at Victoria, cream manufacturer of Philadel phia, and it was he who christened But even the most broad-minded | British Columbia, and, tion amounted to at least a million In success.
He performed this and a half, and it was stated at
Cecil Rhodes statue at Bulu- the vessel. So, paradoxical as it may sound,adult, conscious that there are
ceremony by breaking over the the time that unless the assets brought in the full value put upon one comes to this conclusion: that many kinds of men and walks of wayo.
War memorials in many places bow of the ship a ten-pound jar them for balance sheet purposes Wembley might have made money life to which he wna personally
The official account does not fell Who can be their ability. the loss to the guarantors would and been a profound failure, a stranger, might hesitate before in this country further testify to of ice cream, his own product. tig whether it was chocolato, Per- held to be indispensable?
In their main studio, says a strawberry or vanilla, but some- not be less than 20s. In the pound. whereas, in point of fact, it lost attempting a ist.
haps none of the figureheads are Daily Chronicle writer, Mr. Verne how despite the Volstead Act the The final balance sheet is not yet money and was a real success,
On the other hand, however, no so important as they seem. The showed me the rough clay model, thought of a good American ship available, but for practical pur- poses the financial loss on the two one would assert that the Exhibi-boys, however, cannot be sold to a foot high, of the Canadian tooking like an ice cream sundae years may be put down in round tion was as great a success as it have made bad shots in their Memorial which he worked out in te not an alluring one, We £2,000,000. might have been. On that subject answers; they picked out undeni- an hour when the inspiration came wonder, incidentally, whether this figures at roughly Was the Exhibition worth that to Manchester at one time held very uble leadere in many professions to him.
modern movement of appositeness, It criticised the and countries. the nation and to the Empire? strong views.
In Japun they
"It represents nothing bellicose which had its birth five years ago of that, I think, there can be management and all its works were asked an even harder ques- or aggressive, but the response of in American ships being consign- no doubt. Leaving out of account and the cotton industry, in couse. tion: What three great men have Canudo to the call to arms," hoed to their element with a baptism
those Intangible benefits, quence, refused to take part in exerted the greatest influence in
of distilled water, will apread, and educational, social, political and the second session. This is not the world? But no doubt the Y
"At the top of the memorial, (whether it will become the custom sentimental, which accrued from the pince to discuss that question. 11. C. A. was right in asking, for which will be 15ft. high, and cost for a vessel, on, being launched, to the holding of a British Empire Nor is it a profitable subject for on the answer depends & strong 20,000, there will be figures of be spattered with an essentially Exhibition, which it is impossible discussion," for mistakes are in-indication of young Japan's attiPeace and Justice--the ideals for national product of the country to translate into terms of pounds, evitable in any big enterprise, and tude towards nations and civiliza-which Cannda fought and below whose fing she will bear. For shillings, and pence, but which in if a great many mistakes were tions not Japanese.
them, marching through a granite launchings in France, there should Taking the British boys as aarch, are 19 Agures representing be no difficulty, as champagne the aggregate were enormous, one made in connection with the could make out a strong case on British Exhibition it is quite pos- whole, it may be said that they soldiers and sailors, nurses and would naturally continue; and in a great many more answered like young Britons in doctors, and other war workers, Germany a bottle of hock or of purely, economic grounds for "the sible that
might have been made had its their loyalty to the Throne, their, value of Wembley,
"When I saw in the papers inoselle would be very appropriate. been in other liking for some dozen typically that I had been successful But what of the British Isles, for administration
America has shown which would go into the real handa. But it is easy to be wise English books of various periods, in the competition I was remind-Instance? British Empire Exhibition balance after the event. And that is what and their conviction that
ed of a funny happening last year that the christening medium may the critic himself usually is.
mothers and fathers and schools in Canada, where I went in con-be either liquid (distilled water)
best influences under nection with the Champlain for solid ice cream). On one point, however, criticism were the
most emphatically justified. which they came; nor were the Memorial. A fortune-teller who should it be in Scotland: a bottle is Not nearly enough was done to bad influences any but those tradi-read my hand said, 'You'll be back of whisky or a haggis? Imagine Among here again soon, doing bigger and a launching, under the new qondi- Orders obtained by the take advantage of the presence in tional to upright youth. British firmas at or through London of representatives of the conversational subjects they agreed better work. She seems to have [tions, on the Clyde. As the vessel
Dominions and Colonies, official by a majority to put sport in the been right."
commonees slowly to move down Mr. Vernon's successes are the the ways, the great crowd, present and unofficial, to discuss the many first place; motors and picture problems of Empire that beset us shows, by which must be meant
more remarkable, as he has had to pay tribute to the skill and wers others. Of on all hands. By the Exhibitior the cinema,
no training apart from that given genius of its national engineers, authorities themselves, in fact such stuff is boyhood made, especi- by his brother, Sydney, also is blanched with horror as Wembley;
u good many of the During the ally when
Indy commits nothing was done.
who sculptor,
beautiful counts Trade relations between mer-course of the first season organis boys are under fourteen. chants and manufacturers ined bodics were encouraged to hold add six more years and the under Edward, King George, Queen Crime of smashing a bottle of the Dominions and Colonies and conferences at Wembley, but the graduate stage (among certain Mary and Queen Alexandra among matured whisky on the ship'a
bows! Or again," what would be " the home country established at Exhibition interest was the Ex-classes) is reached, and sophia-
the feeling, and what the effect, of Wembley;
hibition, not the conferences.. tiention and paradox enter with it.;
a mature haggis being smashed, A well-known headmaster, who"
dismembered and destroyed Trade relations established al
That was the attitude of the was speaking from knowledge,
ngainst the stem of a virgin Wembley between British Arms
authorities all along. To them,
once gave it as his opinion that
battleship? We do not know, we and foreign firms.
the Exhibition was an end in there was nothing more detestable
cannot tell. And yet again, what One cannot assess with any
itself, not a means to an end.
than teaching undergraduates;
of dear. decorous England? accuracy the value of these items.They ignored the fact that Wem-but the younger, the boys the
Assuming champagne to be do But one knows suficient about
trop, a very small bottle of cider cerlain of them. to be on fairly bley had a trade basis, that it was better he liked his duties. And
publicity for the Empire all then it may be with examining. To Sixty mothers and half a dozen should logically be used, but if we safe grounds. In the first place time, that the attraction of people ascertain, as the Y. M. A. seems fathers received a lesson in child are to take heed of a statement of there
to the doors of the Exhibition was to have ascertained, that boyhood, training from Mr. Frank Roscoe.a věry recent correspondent, Imperial Economie Committee set
but a first step, and that the least especially English borhood, is secretary of the Teacher's Regis nothing but boer, a whole hogs- up last year to consider
important one, in fostering the following in the right path in its tration Council, at Lady Robson's head of it, would be appropriate. development of Empire trade re-
true purpose of the Exhibition.
belief in home and school, Bunyan house in Eaton Square on January We do not know, we cannot tell. commended the spending of
There they undoubtedly showed and Dickens, cricket and football, 26.
Speaking for ourselves, champagne £1,000,000; £600,000 of which was to be devoted to direct adver-
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The sweets., assert that anything like the same ences were arranged between cer-red results could be obtained within of the Dominions Commis-fathers talk politics, for the boys! This method of "feeding up" sioners anti representatives of the overhear them; though they smoke, Mr. Roscoe illustrated with two chief industries exhibiting in the and sometimes drink, they will examples. His twin boys, at the Some of the Dominions and Palace of Industry and Palace of not let their boys do so, and it age of four, were presented by a Colonies, when the question of the Engineering. These had valuable is evident that as a class they are kind friend with hammers. second year's session came up. for results, the more valuable perhaps not, at any rate in New Zealand, Roscoe, instead of confiscating the discussion," inclined to the view because, like Topsy, they grew.effusive towards foreigners. Not hammers or waiting until valuabir that individually they could do But far more might have been are they much given, it would seem, furniture had been smashed, better by spending the money they done, and would have been done, to devote time and thought to the would have to spend on Wembley had the Inspiration come from the works of contemporary men gf kitchen table, and gave the" chil-symptoms of a cold, such as sneez-
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Unless the YM. C. A whole day. able effects of Wembley, an effect needs. |doubtedly right. Where they
deceived, have been would have gained, however, the which unfortunately does not examiners Empire as a whole would have show in the balance sheet, was its there is obviously a good deal of lost. Without Wembley as a focus influence on art as applied to in-gravitas and pictas, such as Mr. the press of the world would not dustry. Wembley was not "high- Baldwin has lately admired, in
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