THE CENOTAPH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 250, 16 July 1920, Page 5

THE CENOTAPH

GOVERNMENT GOT THE WRONG IDEA. A ocording to ono State school headmaster the question of the site of th» proposed cenotaph to be erected through the subscriptions 0 f the school children to the memory, of those who fell in th«< war, was more a question for the Returned Soldiers' Association to decido rather than the educational authorities, who were only really rxmceriied in th« matter of "raising the wind." Our informant was of 'the opinion that. th« Government was hardly in the right in summarily refusing the. sit© proposed bv the Returned Soldiers' Association. "A cer.otapii," he said, "was hardly in Bo same category as a statuary group or u jxjrsonal monument—it was just a wiflpe.y uiocic •of stone or marble—some' tmns quite impersonal-but whicti would stand there to remind all who passed that _ between 1914 and 1018, the British Empire was in very great peril, ami was saved from defoat and destruction hy the sacrifices of her sons. The ceno: rapu is an altar at which all miirht pray for -the repose of the souls who went West" in the war and give thants to God for those who camo back. It was- for all soldiers, not merely' thorn of Wellington, and, therefore it should ho where all could see it, as it was at Whitehall in London. Tlie Government hod got tho vrone idea."