The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
Prominent British Delegation
VIII Be Here Next Thursday.
Represent Branch of Widely
Known Sulgrave Institution.
TO LEARN MORE OF AMERICA
Topeka VIII Be Only Stop in
Middle West.
Complete Program of Enter
tainment Arranged by c. of C.

With the arrival OF the British dele
CATION representing the British branch
of the Sulgrave Institution scheduled
for next Thursday, Topekans are at
loss to know what the organization
stands for and of whom it is COM
posed, The organization was formed
previous to the world war by Ameri-
can and British citizens for the pro-
motion of friendship between the
English speaking people but its work
was hampered as was true with other
orGa ntzations.
The British delegation is now in
the east unvei.ing statues of British
heroes and trying to learn more OF
America. The delegation is coming to
Topeka to receive more representa-
tive ilea of this country. Topeka will
be the only stop of the delegation in
| no political significance. John A.
Stuart, prominent lawyer of New
York City, is president of the Ameri-
can branch of the institution and
Andrew Z. Humphrey Is secretary.
Program Is Arranged.
A complete program for the enter
tainment of the visitors next Thurs
day and Friday has been arranged.
The history of the Sulgrave institu-
ton written by Judge w. l.. Higgins.
of the Kansas court of industrial rela-
tons and chairman of the local enter
tainment committee for the British
visitors. follows:
..The Suigrave Institution takes its
name from Sulgrave Manor in North
Championships, England. Sulgrave
Manor was the ancestral home of the
Washington family. Some time before
1914, an organization was perfected
containing membership of both Brit
| ish subjects and American citizens,
which purchased the property and re-
| habilitated Sulgrave Manor and estab-
| lished there hosiery at which
prominent American visitors to Eng
1 land might be entertained and estab
| lished also a kind OF museum or col
lection of antiques and souvenirs of
| the Washington family for many gen.
erations.
To Celebrate Anniversary.
Tout of this organization came the
| idea TO celebrate in America the one
| hundredth anniversary of the signing
| of the treaty of peace between Great
Britain and the United States at the
| close of what we call the war of, 1872.
The celebration did not take place
| because on the first of August. the
kaiser with bis German hordes crossed
| the Belgian border and plunged the
whole/of Europe into war. However,
| the Organization was kept up.
| THE American branch set up a
statue of George Washington on Ira
falgar Square. London, where it looks
] over Onto Lne SIdIue OIL LOIQ INClsOn
and the Lions of Trafalgar. Opposite
Westminster Abbey. a statue of Lin
coin has been erected and in the town
hall at Manchester, England, a bust
| of Lincoln was set up. All this was
done by the American branch of the
institution.
Now the British branch of the Sui
grave Institution is coming to Amer
lea. They are presenting to the peo-
pie of this country q statue of Edmund
| Burke to be set up at Washington
and unveiled by President Warren G..
Harding, Edmund Burke was noted
turnout a long and brilliant career in
/ parliament as a friend of the Ameri
can colonies. He opposed with all
George the Third and Lord North dur
ing the American revolution.
Statue to Pittsburgh
| sour British friends are also bring
| ing to America to be set up and dedi-
| Gated at Pittsburgh, Pa, a statute OF
William Pitt. the Elder, q most famous
| friend of America in the House of
Lords during tho American revolution.
1t was Pitt who said in a speech in
| the House of Lords, If I were an
American as am an Englishman,
while a foreign troop remained in my
country. I would never lay down my
| arms. Pittsburgh was named in honor
| of william Pitt and it is most appro-
| pirate this statue should be erected
| there. The British delegation will
also present to the people of America
a bust of the late Lord James Bryce.
! a former British ambassador and
| author of several books discussing
America and American institutions.
This bust will be set up in the Con-
gressional library at Washington"
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