Llangollen Advertiser Denbighshire Merionethshire and North Wales Journal

F "TIPYN 0 BOB PB Tif. It I f C*B Do KOT NECESSARILY IBESTIPT OURSELVES WITH 1HB I OriKIOXS OF OCR CORRESPOKDEKT]. -At the annual business meeting of the Den- bighshire, Society in London, recently held at the Holborn, Restaurant, under the presidency Roberts, Bart., 6f member, Sir J. H;p.it wa« announced that tie members were doing air that was possible to visit Denbigh- eY8 in London hospitals and, to help to the brave heroes. If any Uaflgofleh friends have relatives -in LondJon hospitals and would specially like a friend to visi-t 'on their behalf fehev would do well to ^rnte to Mr. G. E. Mitchell, 1., Wliitbread Roadv Brockley, London, S.E., the energetic secretary of the Society. The licensed victuallers ofLlarigoUll are up in arms and their appeal to the Petty Sessions on- Monday indicates the cause. They contend that the Orders of the Board of Control presses very unfairly upon them in common other "holiday resorts in North Wales; W-ith (Yt ?i, r,. ho l i d a., y and one or two of their grounds of complaint certainly appear worthy of attention. One of i these is, that parties travelling to Llangollen in motor charabancs and cither means of tran- sit by road are able to bring with them all the alcoholic beverages they aie likely to require ife their vehicles, a.nd consume it at Llan- gollen, otlv callil ig at fully licensed houses to be supplied with more solid forms of refresh- ment. I JHLve observed what has beening on for a couple of Sundays past. Parties of considerable size have come to Llangollen by road and most of the vehicles I have observed have been, more or less, travelling bar- parlours. Cases of beer and other forms of liquid refeshment have been stacked in them; and when Llangollen and the place at which dinner and perhaps tea had been order- ed wei-f- the travellers alighted ",uti entering licensed premises for their rueal returned outside at inter- vals for refreshments of anotiher kind upon premises that were not. licensed., All this searcelv appears to be fair to the local ..traœT" tlu¡J is if we are to regard him as having any rights at alL Witih many licensed victuallers I have con- versed, and most of them assure me tnaic in these days of abnormal prices for foodstuffs of all lands, it rkallv is not, and cannot be made: a paying. proposition to cater for the supply of solid refreshments only. They have hither- to endeavoured to "ma-ke np on the swings what they have lost on the roundabouts," and by supplying liquid as well as. solid refresh- meto cause boith ends to meet, if not to overlap^ & trifle. Now all this is ianpo^sible-- henoe their petdt-ion, to which the magistrates felt tbemaelves unable to a,de aJtihoUlgh, imder quite similar circumstances, the Divis- ional Bench at Oonway came to a, different decision. The licensed victuallers whom I in- terviewed told me that, on Saturday last, quite a large number of excursionists pulled np at his house in the afternoon about half past one. Leading their large Charabancs near at hand, they entered and partook of din- ner w%ich Occupied Mlem until after two o'cioek and then, a*- it was not possible, unider the new order of things, for them to be sup- plied with drink after 2.30 on the premises ,,mft"P. they dined they were,furnished with "-ivW ttwy oiLILed. for" immediately before the- hour and out to the cha/racbancs to wtuidh tlie travellers were able to return and refrenh tefanMelves a« they desired during the afternoon. Tfob mAY be contrary. to the spirit of iheOrder; but, I understand, it is in strict conformity with. the letter, which is the great thing in i&eee matter of fact days. However, now ht the Bench have put their foot down there must be no "crossing the bar" in future during prohibited hours at Llangollen. I ovenlieard an interesting conversation nt Llangollen the other afternoon between a. Belgian gentleman, now visiting in the town, atjd a looai tarader. The subject under discus- sion was the one that has been uppermost in 2nOfri;plaees where men do congregate during past week, viz., the big sea tight; and quite appositely it drifted into a general com- parison of British and German methods. Tbesm, «an be no doubt, said the Belgian, and this was what. chiefly what interested me, "that the Britisher is far ahead of the Hun in all things; *but.fhis lies been your fault in Hi* "past in -you* beatitiful countfy. You ha.Ve adheKed with bull-dog tenacity to the idea that only a man with a long stocking can have a long head. Witli von 'bra.ins and bullion' have been inseparables; but with Germany, and with Am/erica also., it. is different. In j their rou-$h a.nd tumble way they lay hold of evieayttring that holds promise of utility and work it out. To them the product of the vil- lage smithy may be as good as the offspring of the, most palatial environment. 'Brains all the time' is what they are in search of; and this must be our quest after the war." This is what Miss Philips, of Cardiff, also told us, in part at any rate, in her speech, to iche Educatfonal Conference at Llangollen a week' ago. She assured us that many of the finest ideae that have ever been worked out. to further oommereial or | other enterprises have been the products of British brains and have been "scrapped" in this country. And w<hy have they been scrapped? Became the neor-*sary long stookimglias not been behind the long head. As to the t-hcrough-aess and the accepted Felia-bility, all the world over, of Bntwi manfuctures Ifiss Pfaillips said there wM »6 ddtafofc. In this country and every other Country, even in Germany itself, the phrase "Hade in Germany" connotes shoddy; whilst "made in England" carries with it precisely the opposite meaning in Berlin—or did until the sfaraufers intervened. However, the war will end all this and sound, the death knell of a, good many other old-fashioned ideas be- sides. The policy of +,he long stocking is and has proved a "darned" bad fhing sri4 it is just about time it was discarded. All this reminds me of af conversation I had gome little time back with a- Llangollen lad, who had returned on brief furlough flrom the trenches. "We're all Socialists out yonder, Jus told roe, "not Sceoalists of the f Icl-f ash"oned type,' winose ue was their •own good and ty p e, whoM everyone else's, goods, but men who hoW all things in common," and he assured metbát I the long days and nights spent in the trenches, i in tI1,e continual presence of death, knit men together in close bands of brotlher-hood and wiped out all claes distinction as nothing else possibly could do. Then he alluded to what I in his L oplaloni, vlolal-td happen when the boys came marchtine; home again. "We shall have saved' tw coulHferyj'' he exclaimed, and we shall be content with nothing less than the full and complete enjoyment of that which we, .have saved.. Do you know that notice boards with the inscription 'This is a private path,' 'No right of way,' etc. will cease to have precise- ly the meaning they had for us before the war, and why? Because we shall know that but for our strong right arms and willingness to do "our bit" when the eali came, this fair land might readily have pasd into other hands. No, we are not going to pull the chestnuts out of the fire and sit down to watch others eat th!e-ryi a,,s in hye-gonç. days." There is much to inspire,thought in my young friend's suggestion.. By the way, when is the movement in favour of giving public form and siajw to the local Roll, of Honour to materialise, at LIangoUen? With the coming into force of tihe Military Service Act which removes the option of choice and introduces compulsion the Roll, as we un- derstand it locally, and on which the names of every man who volunteered is included,, a u. o- matically completed itself. Some months ago the Clerk to (the Urba.n Council washstI-ùeted to bring the list up to date, the suggestion be- ing that the name of every man rendering vol- untary service to his country at the present crisis should be inscribed on vellumto be framed and placed in a suitable position in the Town Hall as a permanent memorial of Llangollen's response to the Empire's call dur- ing these most memorable times. Of course,, siutable alterations and additions might be made thereto from time to time, and as circum- stances reqtiired but it is difficult, to see why there should be delay in carrying forward the work. There will be" so many things to attend to when the war is over. Quite a number of local tradesmen have re- cently been, for the first time (shame on them !) I cultivating the "gentle art" that good old j Iza-ac Walton so finely described; and, from an accounts and to judge Yrom results, they 1 are proving as skilful in baiting their hooks as they are in arrang,ing their shop windows. The "dun brown/' I am assured, is proving a very. effective luxe just now but a voung officer, who has recently joined the Koyal Aviation Corps, finds the "May Fly" the most fetching thing in his line. However, all the budding anglers who have just broken ground (or should it be broken water?) so far as, the peaceful sport is concerned, assure me that each fish that ha,scome their wa y and has not taken, their ha.i t has taken their nook; an order or procedure that vrill, Let us hope, be reversed in regard to purely business matters. A Carwen correspondent forwards a protest against tihe action of the local tribunal in re- gard to certain eases, which he asks me to criticise. Unfortunately, in the way he would ha.ve me do this, it is quite impossible for anything that might have a tendency to in- terfere with recruiting—and I suppose to call in question the impartiality or competence of a local tribunal eonies within this cat-egory-is strictly taboo to-day. The occupation 113 far too "unhealthy" for yours truly to. participate in. if Pnvone has anything to say in regard to the action of a local tribunal he should say it, to the local tribunal. If they will not listen to him in tA),e way he desires, there are other bodies to which he may appeal; but let it be clearly and fully understood that it is quite impossible for any main to avoid doing his duty in tille long run and if tribunals have erred in any way at all it has been in the di- rection of being tioo lenient to those well qualified to serve, who have come to them with all manner of excruses—ridiculous and otherwise. r gather that, as a restilt of pressure, there will soon be, a dearth of batchers in Cor wen, owing to the demands made upon the young and vigorous. There will, of course, be slaughtermen's services to command amongst the aged and, at a recent meeting of the tri- bunal, when the cases of tlhree local butchers were considered, it was pointed out that it was possible for them to obtain the services of a public slaughterman to do the killing and put wcpmen in the shiops to do the selling. One of the men was asked if be could kill a bul- lock and he replied that he could "kill any- thing" by which remark, metaphorically speak- ing, he may be said to have "killed his own pig." The militairy representative asked him if p i g he could kill Germans, to which he replied he otmM kill Germans if they were brought to him. This response—on all fours with, that of the London commissionaire who said e would soon tackle the Germans when they interfered with him—did not prove effective. The tri- bunal gave his arguments the cold shoulder; and all Corwen will see to it that, the fatted calf is killed when he comes home with his "V.C." May that date be not far distant! And so say all of us. Speaking of the manner in which responding t6 their country's call has depleted certain trades, I may mention that at Llangollen, there is not. at present a single saddler, all the tradesmen who were in business here, having closed their establishments and, with their as- sistants, gone off to do their bit in France. "Loyalty and leather go together," and as we have heard for many and many a year there is nothing in ail the whole wide world like a well-tanned hide, as the Bodies Iwill find to their oost if they come across any of the boys from Llangollen. There has been plenty of "strap," and when the butdhers of Corwen and the saddlers of Llangollen get fairly going they may be relied on to foot the Butchers' Bui. HWFA GLYN. I

A Ricbard Wilson Story. Apropos of the paragraph which appeared in our personal column last week, the Rector of Merthyr, the Rev. D. Lewis, in moving a vote of thanks to Lord Plymouth for his con- duct in the chair at the last meeting of the governors of the National Museum of Wales, recalled the fact that he was not the first nobleman from that district who had held the position of First (Commissioner of Works, for in the time of George III. Lord Bute held such an office. It was at a time when a great Welshman, Richard Wilson, was living, and on one occasion when his Majesty wanted a picture painted Lord Bute asked Wilson what his charge would be. The latter said, "About £ 60," Lord Bute urged that he feared his Majesty would think that figure rather high. Wilson's retort was that if his Majestv thought so he could pay up in instalments. The King heard of this, and as a result Wileon lost the Rayol patronage and eventually went to settle down in his native county, of Montgomery. Wilson in so doing prophesied that his paint- ings would fetch far more after his death, and time had proved his words true to an extra- ordinary daaj!a-

Welsh Wesleyan Assembly. MEETINGS AT NEWTOWN. The Welsh Wesleyan Assembly is being held at Newtown this week. On Monday, special preachers occupied the pulpits of the circuit, and also some of he pulpits in the Oswestry, Welshpool, Llanfair, and Llani<lloe8 circuits. At Newtown, on Monday, Dr. F. Ballard, D.D., M.A., B.Sc., gave a lecture on "The Heavenly Father, or the mystery of pain," Mr. Edward Powell, Plasybryn, presiding. On Tuesday, the first pastoral session was held. The ebW s*ss.on ,,f the Welsh Wesleyan Assem- bly at Newtown was held on Wednesday, Dr. Waddy (Moss, President of Conference, presiding. The Rev. Evan lane, Merthyr, was nominated for it'he presidency next year. Rev. Tegryd Davies, Caersws, was unanimously re-eleoted secretary. The Rev. T. O. Jones, Denbigh, moved a reso- lution of protest against the proposed removal of, Brigadier-General Owen Iliomas from the com- ma.nd of tihe Welsh Army at Kinmel Park. The Rev. Isfryn Hughes, an seconding, said improper inlfuence .bad been used: by tlhe ^twade" because of the (temperance work done by the General amongst the and co-op^jat/ion was lent by the Anglicans owing to his efforts to secure justice for Nonconformist young men joining the colours. Tins not tihe first tame tfts* Anglicans and publicans had co-operated in Wales. The RtW. T. T. Pnitohard and J. Row-landa, chairman iand secretary of the South Woiefc Synod, opposed interference with the militairy authorities, who knew the whole of the fackw. The Assembly appointed a comttMttee to con- sider and repotrt on tha best means of co-ordinat- ing the English and Welsh sections of th.e work in Wales, so as to avoid overlapping and the nW. sulirantfc waste of energy and money. The Assembly also heartily approved of the proposial for closer federation and co-ope rati on amongst ^he Free Churches, and welcomed tihe stigfirestions from the General Secretary of the Welsh Oalvmist-io Methodist Sunday &hoot. for unittv betwoon the four denominations in Wales as to the Sunday School lesson, and referred the matter to the Welsh C-ominktteo iof Representa- tives of the different churches to be shortly con- vened by Dr. Meyer. The Rev. Tècwyn Evans, Birkenhead, urged the importance of securing young men of hilfh educational attainments as candidates for the ministry. The Rev. Gwynfryn Jones, FEnt, said that if" they persuaded young men it made preachmg a profession. The Rev. W. 0. Evans said Methodism had lost much ¡!!111Ð past by not being more wide- awake on this question. The question was deferred. On the mot,io,n of the Rev. Rerwvn Robert*. Bangor, it was decided to notation the Bowrd of Eduoation and 'the Central Welsh Board wiftih the object of removing a grievance which mini^era suffered from owing to their it-inc.ra.ncy by their children bem? deprived gained at. the intermediate schools on moving to other oir- cufts. A system of the -transfer of echolajrshipa was, it was urged, desirable.

NORTH SEA BATTLE. The navies of Great Britarin and Germany fought a. desperate action on Wednesday of last we off the Coast of Jutland. The engagement was, in fact, an action on a great scale, in which the main forces, or, in other words, the bowe fleets, on both sides were engaged. The German Grand Fleem issued from port, probably eecoftM by the Zeppelin which was reported badly dam- aged from the Island of Fano on T he morning of the 1st of June. Our "main forces" and our Cruiser Flee*" went out to meet them; the had probably about ithe same distance to ?o. but our battle c-rutse? being the iMt?r am'vfcd first, and an the hazy weather ran into tne Ger- I man alean fleet. Battle cruisers are built™* whether rightly or wrongly—for long-die tfasc* fighting. They are hignly-engined, htavily- gunned, and lightly-armoured, and they «r» not meant to stand the brunt of a close fOUIÛ1 en- gagement with heavily-armoured battleships. That is the obvious explanation of the Aomir- alty statement that; the German Battle H'1(\(1t, was "aided by low visibility." Their heavy metal got our lighter metal at close range and a.o it a severe punishing. The fight, must hnvc been eri; what is nowadays close range, and th* Ger- man battleships, well protected by their aiuirur, outmatched our cruisers in a fight tar which they wer. not suited. Our advance guard, in fact, | engaged the German main guard, a, I the Tt- suft could not be otherwise than eerious for tie, lighter vessels. As a matter of fact, wo, have lost one of our very best battle cruisers, the Queen Mary, and nvo otblara.n,dv;\1.bl. ships. More SfmoU$ even tba.n the ion ?f the ehips is the loss of the officers and men v? hich m?t m the nature of things have hMn h ew. The enemy picked up a portion of the Tn: L.?t ttbere were only two survivors of the ln&fat4g. able; the crew of the Wamtior were saved, no doubt by the ship which WM ow¡ng her ?hen she_sank. WHn our main forces came ip ?e Ksftion \vM re"5ed. The< German H?h Se*a set turned and ran for protected '.n??r?. In tiws encoiuftier tbo-- fcftd been. eeysMi*