Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-14
BRITAIN PLANS
TO HONOR DEAD
viii Spend SIS, 100000 for
Memorials for Soldiers.
BEAUTY SPOTS ARE ACQUIRED
Stone Crosses Will Record Names of
Dead in Villages and Hospitals Will
Be Founded in Large cities-Funds
Created for Relief of Dependents of
Those Who Were Crippled or Killed
Parks Planned in Some Places.

The London Daily Mail has been
writing to local authorities through
out England and Wales for particulars
Of war memorials to be erected In
their districts. In general, stone
crosses with the names Of the dead
will stand in every village, while
large towns may found hospitals o.
lay out parks. Particulars of 326
places where memorials are to be
erected have been received.
Of these, Y have not yet decided
what form the memorial Is to take.
To this total must be added the
amount to be spent in towns that have
not yet decided OF the form Of mem
orial, and the cost Of the shrines and
monuments which have been erected
in almost every church and chapel
throughout the land. 1t is a fair es-
innate that at least SIS, 100000 is be-
ing spent on war memorials in Eng
land and Wales alone.
S 5,O00,O00 to Hospitals.
With memories Of the suffering
caused by the war, it is not unnatural
that many towns have chosen the
building of new hospitals or the *
tension Of existing ones as the best of
memorials. In the list collected Al
towns and villages out Of 2A are de-
voting more than 100000 to hospit-
ais. They range from great new hos
pitfalls in Blackburn and Islington to
small cottage hospitals in little mar
ket townsville public spirit and gen
crosby of the latter being, on the
! whole, more remarkable than in great
cities.
There are numerous parks and pub
lie halls, and several instances in
| which funds have been created for the
relief Of dependents of those who were
| crippled or killed. Clubs for ex-serv-
| ice men are in some cases being built
as memorials, and in others cottage
homes and almshouses for widows
! and children Of the dead.
Reproductions Of the Cenotaph
| erected In Whitehall abound, and an
| other popular form of memorial as
I the Stone of Remembrance, similar to
| that erected at the entrance to Brit
| ish war cemeteries in France. For
the rest there are hundreds of crosses
of all kinds, winged figures of Victory.
| obelisks and other stone columns.
Islington, Blackburn and W0olwich
! each propose to spend S5O0,OO0 ON new
| hospitals. and the last named borough
| already has collected more than $780,
900 Of the required amount.
Beauty Spots Acquired.
Opportunity has been taken in many
cases of acquiring famous beauty
spots as public parks. Coventry has
been specially fortunate in this re-
spect. Bideford has acquired Chud-
leigh fort and grounds; Clitheroe has
purchased Clitheroe Castle, and Lord
Cowdray has presented to Colchester
the famous local castle as a memorial,
with $4,000 for improving the APP
proaches and maintaining the fabric,
Carlisle, as a memorial for all the
men Of Cumberland and Westmorland
who fell in the war, has acquired a
magnificent park of ninety acres, and
is building a large new bridge as a
better approach to 1t.
One of the most original and most
beautiful memorials will be at Leices.
ter, where 100000 is being spent In
laying out emu of lime trees in the
plan of a cathedral church, consisting
of nave, aisles and transepts, with ar
apseg at the east end. At the west
looking east, will be the cenotaph, ani
at the crossing, in a circle of stone
walling, on which will be inscribed the
names of Leicester's dead, will be the
great war stone, a monolith altar, witt
the phrase: Their names liveth fol
evermore." Paved paths will accentu
ate the plan and lead to the monu
ments. The designer of this unique
memorial is Sir Edwin L. Lutyens.
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