THE MEMORIAL
TO TUG EDITOB.
Sir, —I am deeply interested in the question of the war memorial, and think that the suggestion of it taking the form of a tower with a carillon of bells is tiie most suitable, as well as the most sensible idea that can be offered.
Those who say "this memorial should have no utilitarian purpo.se" must surely have forgotten all the great memorials of the world that have been given by Cecil .Rhodes, Noble, Andrew Carnegie, J. U. Rockefullow, and many others, who have given their millions for the memory of those who have gone west, either for a wife's, a genius, public services, missions, or many other causes. Even most of our great 'churches are memorials, and would those who say that a memorial should have no utilitarian purpose mean to say that thi> churches have none?
j\ow, Sir, m favour of the carillon, anybody who has travelled in Holland or Belgium,.and heard the beautiful bolls —there is never more than a quarter of an hour-without hearing one-will admit the effect, is beautiful. Many of the iwifellows to whom the memorial is to wmmenioiate. died within the sound of tlms,\ bells, and many of them had pli-i^aut memories of those moments. 1 Inist tlitit i Li CaV.- ,V- lovvcl" wiU he tlle imm ''1!lt the Wellington memorial will lake--1 am, eli 1., „ , , r THE WATCHEI!. 1 :22ml May.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 8
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234THE MEMORIAL Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 8
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