DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 9

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

OBSERVANCE OF ARMISTICE NIGHT

PRINCE SETS A PRECEDENT

MEMOBLIL iBBBVICB INBTBAD

OF BALL.

(Frf™,'•* ?*■ CwruMiUmi.) , LOWDOW, Utfc November. ; In -.futon,. Anniitie*' Bay in Kaglan* ia likelytq b<rkept *s/^ day <i* remembrance, and not as a day of *•• joicing.: A: gesture has been mad* which will net the custom. Bias* 11th N<|venib«r, 1918, th«iVe of At«*»tiee &ayh^g beenL'gtrci. over to dancing and to fluting. ' Carry*** on the custom a committee interested ■» "VWtksT *!"> '«*& of the Boyal Northern Hospital organised a Vietory Ball to take place in the Albert ,Hall oh- Armistice Night The B«t. Carton HK. L. Sheppardrvicarof -Btt, Martin-the-Fields, Trafalgar sqwn, through the columns of '' The .Tinm," uttered a word of protect, appealing for a day free from unusual hilarity. The giving of a ball on 11th"NbVw ber appeared to him.'.'not "aoaweh •irreligious .; indecent. ?' ' ■ From that moment the newspaper! opened their Columns to expresooaa of opinion on the subject. The Areabishops and the Moderator of the ftae Churches threw in their weight a»d pleaded for a solemn observance of Armistice-tide. But many people maintained that-the day was in ooamemoration of the'end of the war; aid anoccaaiyn for rejoicing. Lady Oxford'digressed to show her detestation of inelegant war memorial*.

'•If,the «l«rgy,". she write,; "tostead .of interfering with people" wlkb wi«h toi dwee, sing, moiirn, or eom--memorate Armistice Day in wjiita»ear manner: they choose, would raiso a •nit* Against '. the erecting of hideoae and * expensive : war memorials that h*rß gone far to spoil our English TrSlUge?,- aiid now threaten to deform London, their - protest would be net. wifhv united and heartfelt respona*. The Vast' dummy gun on the: fine' sit* opposite a hospital which would' hnr« been.-glad to:reoeirc half the money spent; on.it--^ahd other horToni that"** could all / enumerate—perpetuate a spirit which it should be the privilege of thfi Chnreh to combat. You cannot have -it WjtS.-ini.jifc; ■„• is .iV'io.i^s .:*;-(Bw.or:»'- : Chre.sit" L»4y Oxford, of Mwrse, wae referring especially-ib the Attlßwy^ i^emoriaf irlifcb -hat; met with disapproval from B»»»y qrurton. Other people raggetifeid that another day, preferably All Soili' liter, 2nd N6Teißfc«, ahonW b« obMrrid as a day in whleh hononr should. b« givep to the dead, and that llfh N*>. vomber shovld b« obserred ai a f«tival fo Express the liniversal rtßaf experienced whea •fh« war, with all it* salferißg, at last came to as rad. VIOTOkT BAIX POSTPOHZD. Seeing that a aeetioa of th« erasmnnitj' had a strong fettling againit pnblio zajoleinf on Amiatie Day, the eomnittae of th» Victory Ball decided to poatpon* it to ths following nigh*. Lord Nortbampton pabliarp announced: "In abaaidenaoa of th« eorrapoldtme* la th«: Pt«sb, and parttealarly of tfca aatioaal appeal by the Antibiahopi of Canterbury sad York, and the Moderator of (Jie ObbbcU of free Chuwhee, the ««-»H*.f hate decided that the ball will take place on the night, of Thmrsday, Uta NoTember, at the Albert Hall, -sraea Hisßoyalffighaeas the Prinee of Wales, who would aot have atteaded the ball oa »mi^ie« Kight, haa etgnifled his intention, as preddeat ef the hoepital, of being present^' . The Prinee of Wales has thai eat the lead to the whole epantry, aai it U likely to be followed. "Theteeaa be no question," aays f«The Tliaea, "that flagrant extraragaßee aad eetenUtion in any elasa of the ft>aaaaity—entirely out of keeping, a* they are, with the tpirit of the age-are peculiarly offensive at aaeh a tfaae as thi. It is but a handful ef peopK with no claim to leadership or tatpoitanee, who so affront pabne sentiment; but their display creates a fake impreeuion, and does iauMMviable barm." Instead of for the ball, Albert Haß was ued on Annistiee Night for a Meat memorial. »«rvie«i. eonducted by, the Ber. H. B. L. Sheppard. ;, -

a nunroxL nua. A suggestion eoaes froevltrvjt T. Lucas, the well-known writer, that the original idea of the arekiteot of the Cenotaph should be rsasawd. ttf Edwin Lstyeu Utended the OesjoU& to b« both » ■epaleknU mm*seat and an altar, and his ooaaeptlon cottpriaed a parpetnal flame em its summit; bnt for some reason tne Mithbritiflß forbad* tnia, ; "Visitor* to Paris," aays lit. Xucar, "wiD remember how impwsalTe U the light that, i» newr. estinguished over the grave of the unknowa Soldier beneath the Arc 4e Triomphe. If there, why not, •"• aeks, here* For heTe the conditions would make it even more notable and significant, since the Cenotaph is lofty and isolated in the midst of a busy street, with long vistis, whereu the French grave is on th^ ground, and-the- light- only jnst above- that level. But, for reason's' that I have never heard explained, Sir Edwin's noble-project ..wasCdcpriYea:.'of' this ultimate imagtaatlve touch 1;-: ;O»w4 not those now,in control be .persuaded to' reconsider eoch- a decisioiit: •'By day the eyer-guarded fcs) would be an additional symbol of nmforgetfulness; by night it would I*- , eome even more-, it;would betome the monument itself, being from ■ a di«tanee all that was-visible a «aexed VMd'-m'ysteft6iD»\'.flaai«Jn.-th'e'air.-...Aad further, and not negligibly-, to ktedle it wo'iiilh be an' act .of: justice, by eompleting the artist's purpose." ;^S^.Tleet street-v'^^ -■--•:-■ - ■. ■.