PROPOSED CARILLON

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 124, 21 November 1925, Page 8

PROPOSED CARILLON

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I am very sorry for your correspondent, who signs himself "Anti Bellman." Somo people scorn to bo born without a note of music in them, and they fancy that bells give nothing but a continual ling, tang, but 1 can assure "Anti Bellman" that the most beautiful music can bo got out of bells —-something that would move his morbid nerves, and even "Auti Bellman" woulif not regret a carillon once he had heard it. What wouJil Ihis world be without music 1. 1 And to my mind nothing would be nioro symbolic to our glorious dead. A carillon can give sacred as well as mirthful music, and what would be more appropriate on Anzais Day than a muffled peal on tho bells'? The "Dead March" on tho city organ is grand in the extreme, but to my mind v muffled peal on the bells is really more so, as it is nioro awe-inspiring and would be heard at least in a three-mile radius. Again, aa it would be tho only carillon in New Zealand, people visiting Wollington on arriving would say, " Whero is that beautiful war memorial I have heard so much about?" Mr. Editor, I could say a lot more in favour of "a carillon, but fear to trespass ou your space.— I am, etc., JOHN HISCOCK. 20th November.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I would like to add a few words of appreciation of your correspondent, 8/848, a returned soldier, v.-lio voices the feeling of many people Jibouj; tlie war memorial. His stateincut that thousands would bo uplifted by tho sound of beautiful bell music is a true one, and added . to that is the statement made by a member of tho Society of Musicians given recently, that music first of all soothes people, then indices them think, and then brings a fooling of peace, the ideals for an assemblage on war anniversaries. The great object of. a war memorial, to my mind, is to recall great deeds, to remind the people-of those fine and self-sacrificing ones who" foil in the war, and to carry on this memory after 'all those-who have personal memory have passed on. ' Statuary, however, fine,, would be but a passing interest in the present, with a. careless look later on from the travelling or resident public, most people neither sceijig nor caring for it in the least. On the other hand, bell-music, sounded on the great anniversaries of the war events, and made an established custom of tho town, would be an ide.|. way of commemorating those who have gone. I can see no gloom in the idea—nothing but joy—full appreciation of those who made the supreme sacrifice with a thoughtful care that they are not forgotten, arid a realisation by those who remain that this beautiful memorial is here of their, comrades, and that when they, in the course, of' Nature, follow on, that they too will bo sharers in the honour conferred.

The fact that tho world was deprived of the services and companionship of hundreds of thousands of fine men is a sad one, but those with the Christian ideal of life' realise ■ that they must have had great happiness when they "entered into the joy of their Lord," and were greeted by Him as "good and faithful' servants. Therefore, do not let us put our appreciation into cold marble, confined in a small space, but broadcast it all over our city on stated . occasions, ■'Li ;We Forget," and get careless of those who remain among us ana Boed our best care.-I|m b et^

TO TUB EDITOR. <*h- —In reply to the secretary, of ormroved by a public meeting, though th?committee was »W-« obhgation'to see that this was done by the terms of the resolution by which it was appointed—l am, etc., STTJART WILSON.