CONSIDERING AN INVITATION.

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1920, Page 5

CONSIDERING AN INVITATION.

In turn, the Countess of Warwick has been, in politics,, a Conservative (she "was very young then"), a Liberal, an openly-professed Socialist, and now she is a member of the Labour Party. It is in tho ; interest of the last that she is .considering an invitation from East 'Walthamstow to stand as a candidate for Parliament. The present M.P is » Coalition-Unionist. Discussing the question of women in Parliament, Lady Warwick said she believed there would be a great many women in the next Parliament, and their numbers would increase as time went on. "They have a great work before them, and I believe'that the trades unions of this country will put many forward. What is really troubling me about entering Parliament is Anno Domini," she said laughing. "I think I am getting too old; and should leave this matter to the younger women." . A peeress, Lady Warwick, would like to abolish the House of Lords ; a landowner, she advocates the nationalisation of land, and the family motto is, "I scarcely call these things my own." She has property in the constituency, and is lady of the manor of Walthamstow. She is a woman of many intellectual and social interests. "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH." An interesting incident connected with the erection of the memorial to Nurse .Cavell, on this island site at the junction of Charing Cross-road and St. Martin'slane, was witnessed when Viscount Burnham. deposited in a cavity of the structure a leaden box containing documents relating to the life of the woman whose memory the monument is intended to perpetuate. The casket, on the front of which, is.the moulded head of a lion, was the gift of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, and, in addition to copies of the Daily Telegraph, describing . the history of the memorial, the heroism of Nurse Cavell, and the manner in which she met her death, there are the signatures of the King and Queen on \ellum bearing the Royal Arms, and documents with the signatures of the . King and Queen of Belgium. The box also contains letters from others closely 'associated with.the erection of the memorial, as well as a complete list.of the subscribers. Accompanied by Sir G. Frampton, R.A.(the sculptor), Lord Burnhani took up a position on the scaffolding, :Sid deposited the casket in the space that, had been prepared for it. . ' The monument will be simple in character. The main structure of granite, forming a massive background, has been erected. The base upon which the statue of Nurse Oavell will rest bears the simple inscription : : EDITH OAVEIiIi, ' I.; . .Brussels; ' Dawn, October 12th, 1915. ■ Tho white marble figure will shortly be placed in its position, and show* Nurse Cavell standing erect, with the nuvse's bonnet and the tied strings, and the cape falling in long folds to the feetThere are four panels, one on each side, with the words carved in stone— Humanity, Sacrifice, Devotion, Fortitude. At the back, also carved in relief out of the hard granite, is a British, lion trampling on a serpent, symbolical of envy, malice, and treachery, and above it axe the words, "Faithful unto death." ' THE MERCANTILE. MARINE. Tho Prince of Wales, attended by Captain the Hon. P. Leigh, paid an informal ' visit to an exhibition organised! by the Silver Thimble Club, under tho direction of Mrs, Handover, Mayoress of Patldington, which is intended to as--sist the raising by ,the club of a sum of £10,000 towards the erection at Limehouse of a sailors' hostel, as a national memorial to the men of the mercantile marine, who sacrified their lives during the great war. The Prince of Wales inspected a plan of the proposed new buildings, which will be situate opposite to Limehouse Town Hall, and the cost of which will be £150,000, an increase of something like SO per cent, on the original estimate, owing to the increased; cost of labour and' materials. About £75,000 has already been paid, or promised. The Admiralty sent two hundred guineas out of the proceeds of the exhibition of "Mystery Ships." A document was handed to the Prince setting forth the_ need of decent accommodation for sailors on shore, so as to 1 prevent them from drifting into -undesirable quarters. The proposedhostel will accommodate about 450 men in separate cabins. There will be modern kitchen arrangements, and good food at moderate charges. Heading, smoking, and 1 billiardrooms, and a large hall for meetings and. i entertainments, will be provided, and safe storage will be found for sailors' belongings. The hostel scheme is being promoted by the Ladies' , Guild, whose chairman is the Dowager Lady Dimsdale, and who answered many keen questions ] put, by the. Prince as to the proposed' | housing and feeding of the men ashore. THE PRINCE AND THE 11.V.5. It is probable that before the Prince leaves for Australia he will receive a formal invitation from the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron to accept the position of Commodore left vacant by the death of the late Marquis of Ormonde. This position was held by King Edward for many years, and only relinquished by him when' lie came to the Throne, when he accepted the position .of "Admiral" pf

the Squadron—an appointment held by the King at the present time. There is good reason to beliave that the Prince will accept this appointment, since _he has expressed, his interest in yachting on several occasions, and last year joined the Royal West of England Yacht Club, which has its headquarters at Plymouth. In due course, it is understood, the King proposes to hand over the famous old Royal racing cutter Britannia to his eldest son. EX-"IMPERIALS" AS OVERSEA FARMERS. ■■• ■ In the course of a week or two there will arrive in England a committee of Canadian-, farmers, appointed by the Dominion Government, to adjudicate upon the 'suitability of former members of the Imperial Force as farm settlers in Canada. Selected candidates must be of good character and physically fit, and possess 200 dollars of their own. Passages will be paid for them, and after a period of special training in Canada they will be eligible for a loan of 1400 dollars to start themselves in . farming. It is believed that a large number of candidates await the scrutiny of the Selection Committee. "QUICKSILVER"—THE 5s NOTE. Silver is still soaring upward, and in twenty-four hours it has leapt to 6s lO^d an ounce. A rise to 7s will cause absolutely no surprise. The Far East, India, Further India, and China are positively howling for silver, and cannot get sufficient, reports an authority on the Bullion Market. The domestic position here is that a Treasury note for £1 is intrinsically worth sixteen silver shillings, although "twenties" are still being dealt out as change. All the Sheffield silver, candlesticks, soup tureens, soup ladles, and silver spoonß in the leading London shops, and j wherever silver, old or new, is sold, have been relabelled, as.weight .tells in their price. They will doubtless be relabelled again each day for days to come. But, of course, the public is in terested in the silver pieces which are playing tricks in their purses and pockets. "In this connection" (it is announced), "the Treasury is seriously debating whether to put into circulation the new 5s note. . Stacks, almost millions, signed 'Warren Fisher,' are ready. The banks have been holding silver, or passing it on to the Bank of England at face value. The effect of the new notes will be.to call in some tons of silver from circulation; but the date is not fixed, as the issue of 5s notes will be a last resort." VICTORY MEDAL EMBLEM./ The King has approved of an emblem being worn on the riband of the Victory Medal by all personnel in the strength of the British, Dominion, Colonial; and Indian Expeditionary Forces who have been mentioned one or more times in the military despatches during the recent war by a commander in the field., The emblem will be an oak leaf in bronze, and two emblems will be supplied in each case. Additional emblems will not be worn in respect of «, second or subsequent mention. Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men no longer serving should apply to the officer in charge of records of the corps ■in which they last served. Officers no ■longer serving and other eligible personnel should apply to the Secretary War Office (A.G. 10.) 27, Pilgrim-street, E.C. 4. In all cases, information should be given as to the date of the Gazette in which the "mention" appeared and the theatre of war. : THE FIGHT AGAINST IGNORANCE. Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, at Southport Educational Conference: — "I want to see increasing use of books, and I should like to see in every school something nke a real library. When I go into a school and see no sign of a good book, I begin to doubt whether we understand even the alphabet of the subject. Our public scheme of education is often criticised. When critics scold a. system which pspduces young men.'and women who prefer to go to picture palaces rather than to attend 'a play of Shakespeare, and who show little culti- j vation in later life, I'can only reply that I that is' the land of result which a country must expect from a system of edu-, cation which closes at the age of 14. If I am asked why there is so much ignorance in the body, politic, my answer is that these pernicious results arc-directly encouraged by the refusal of the State to take any responsibility for the education of its citizens during the years most vital to the formation of character. One of the primary needs of this country is the development of ' continuation schools. There is no subject on which I feel more deeply, and I consider it would be a disgrace and humiliation if we were to recede from the position we took up in 1918." ... : NEW USE FOR THE LETHAL CHAMBER. Canon J. H. B. Masterman, at the Joint Conference on Adult Education: "Up to the present time only the sur- j face of the subject lias been touched by | the different bodies engaged in promot ing adult education. There is still before us the question of bridging that fatal gulf between the end of juvenile education and the period when people first begin to care about adult education. That particular problem, we hope, is going' to be solved, by the establishment of continuation schools, which would be a vital link in the chain, and we hope for very great things as a result of the carrying forward of education through these different years until young men and women begin to care for education for its own sake. Adult education on a- very much larger scale can only be solved by the multiplication, on a very large scale', of the methods adopted at present. I hope you will not fall Jnto the mistake of talking of adult education as though it means onlythatclass of the community sometimes called the working classes. lam afraid it is true that on the whole the working classes—a large proportion of them at least—have a. more ' real enthusiasm for education than propie in other classes of the community. The idea that people in other classes finish their education at the termination of a certain process is one of those dangerous delusions which we must all do our best to dissipate. • There is a great future before the university extension movement of the country. People must be kept alive to the fact that unless the machinery of the mind is kept in workin gorder, their course is rapidly downhill in the scale of human beings. When people cease to be educated theyceaseto be of any value to the community, and the lethal chamber is the only place for them."