The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-21
BRITAIN PLANS
TO HONOR DEAD
viii Spend s15,c00,000 for
Memorials for Soldiers.
BEAUTY SPOTS ARE ACQUIRED
Stone Crosses viii Record Names Of
Dead In Villages and Hospitals viii
ee 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 or
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 on the form of men,
orial, and the cost of the shrines and
monuments which have been erected
in almost every church and chapel
throughout the land. 1t is fair es-
innate that at least S150O0,OO0 is be-
ing spent on war memorials in Eng
land and Wales alone.
100000 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 ex-
tension of existing ones as the best Of
memorials. In the list collected Al
towns and villages out Of 254 are de-
voting more than $4OOO,OOO 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
titles.
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 Is
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 Woolwich
each propose to spend $500O0O on new
hospitals, and the last named borough
already has collected more than $780,
600 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 memorial,
with $4,000 for improving the ap-
proaches and maintaining the fabric.
Carlisle, as memorial for all the
men of Cumberland and WestmOrland
who fell in the war, has acquired
magnificent park Of ninety acres, and
is building large new bridge as a
better approach to it.
One of the most original and most
beautiful memorials will be at Leices-
ter where 100000 is being spent in
laying out avenues of lime trees in the
plan of a cathedral church, consisting
of nave, aisles and transepts, with an
apse at the east end. At the west,
looking east. will be the cenotaph, and
at the crossing, in circle of stone
walling, on which will be inscribed the
names of Leicester's dead, will be the
great war stone, monOlith altar, with
the phrase: "Their names liveth for
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