The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-03
p RE MFR CALLS WELSH HAMLET
 LIFE DULL
By THOMAS c. WATSON, International News Service Staff
 COrreSDOndent

1 London, Oct. B. Llyod George
 has teamed up with Sinclair Lewis 1 in his attcakS on the unattractiveneS eSS | of life in the small towns.
 l Fresh from his hearbreaking, her 1 culean task of trying to straighten | out an international tangle. the Pre-
 nier returned to his native Wales and, | in their own language, told the small l town Welshmen the danger that exist 1 ed in their own unattractive small l towns.
 Lloyd George was the president at a small social affair held in a vil- | Iage described in the time table as Llanystumdwy, but pronounced by 1 the natives something like 'tShlan- You cannot get people to live in @ village unless you make life worth living" said Lloyd George. The dea- cons of the church guIped down their impulses to protest, but Spluttered into their boards impotentIy.
 Britain Endangered
 There is a good deal of talk" went on Lloyd George, "about the way the keople deserted the countryside for tthe big towns; it is one of the social hangers of Britain. The more I think about 1t the more anxious I become it's land. Of all the countries rssu enn on gagged in the war we had the smallest proportion of people whose life was associated with the soil, and for that reason we had the largest percentage of rejections for physical unfitness.
 I can see the proportion of the industrial population gecoming over- Whelming and the calm. vuiet life of the soil vanishing. It Is a real peril to Britain. Therefore you must have something in the village that makes life worth living.
 The church and the, chapel have done their best. But they can't do everything. I remember going over the names of the village school I at tended. I saw large numbers who left the village and went af1e1d to Manchester, Liverpool, London, Amer fca and Canada to make their way in the world-they did everything and went everywhere except remain in their own village.
 The greater attractions of the big towns have lot to do with it. Un- less the villages provide similar at fractions, apart from the penny read ings and the dull concerts, the villages would soon become a waste of deso- lation."
 Favors ''NationaIity''
 The value of retaining ones na- tionality was next lauded by the and one language the British Empire could never have reached it's present state" he said in defense of the pre- servation of the national tongue of Wales.
 There were some people who thought that they had better cease to become Welsh and concentrate on pC1liS SoOu bTlLOnSs we IOuSlL TOT the Empire better by being good Welshnen than we could have done by being bad Englishmen. It is no good thing taking a Highlander out of bis native kits.
 "The British Empire is a temple of many stones. Far distant lands con tribute, and all it's local stones are vel! polished. I want the granite of 1 Wales to be there, but I don't want it | painted like the granite of Aberdeen. l Polish it if you will, but let the color remain Welsh The Empire will be stronger-Wales will be better.
 Therefore, for Gods sake go on | singing your Welsh songs and deliv- | erlng your Welsh recitations I heard | them when was a lad. and I hope to | hear them until I die. Sing them over my grave!
 Keep to the songs of Wales. Keep | to the literature of Wales; 1t is only i by so doing that you can make your | to humanity"