CHILDREN & THE EMPIRE

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1920, Page 7

CHILDREN & THE EMPIRE

FOUNDATION IN THE SCHOOLS. PROPOSED MEMENTO OF THE prince's., visnr.. Speaking to a Post reporter, Mr. Stuart Wilson stated that the proposal made by the Mayor that the foundation-stono of the new railway station should be laid by the Prince of Wales was a.p excellent one, and it was to be hoped would be accepted by the Government. It was well known of course that-this absolutefy itecessarv work had been promised by several Governments, and the people had a right to expect that the project would be undertaken as soon as possible. As' a memento of thu visit of the Prince there was something nearer and dearer to the hea.it of the people than even the much-needed railway v station, and that was the welfare of'their owh children. What could be better as a practical beginning of national reconstruction than a better school? fund to change thr present ugly congestion which was a glaring stupid national crime? As a beginning a, representative committee of citizens might be formed to approach the Education Board with a view of ascertaining what might be done by the Government, local bodies, and the public U assure the fund's necessary for reform on which/the national welfaire depends. Associating the visit of the Prince with such a movement would make a lifelong impression on the children, and would no doubt stimulate the public into effectual action. '

Mr. Wilson finally expressed his confidence that the Prince would be pleased to have an opportunity to identify-him-self with a movement which had for its purpose the strengthening of the foundations of the British Empire, for it was well known that the future of the Empire ratted with the I'ifciag generation.