2 A War Memorial for Belfast. 



call that we must make our Memorial worthy of those in honour 

 of whom it is to be raised. We need something that shall touch 

 the imagination and the soul of those that will help to create it ; 

 that shall kindle a fire in them which shall not be quenched so 

 long as our Memorial shall stand. 



A WAE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE. 



I suggest that the means whereby such an ideal could most 

 fitly be embodied would be a War Memorial Institute of noble 

 architectvu-e, and occupying a commanding site. In its design 

 and in its decoration, as in its actual working, it would be the 

 expression at once of our Memory and of our Hope. 



Memory. It must contain a permanent record of the 

 Great War, more especially as it affected Belfast. The names 

 and services of all our dead should be preserved in it : portraits, 

 photographs, maps, drawings, letters, books, newspapers, flags, 

 guns and shells : statuary : regimental records : medals : an 

 endless variety of relics and mementoes by Avhich future 

 generations might be enabled, to some extent, to see these days 

 through our eyes. 



Hope. The other essential is a comprehensive plan for a 

 Greater Belfast. Here would be books, maps, and drawings 

 about all branches of civic activity : especially, everything dealing 

 with Belfast should be accessible, past or future, historic or 

 constructive. I would have a Lecture Hall, and a Publication 

 Fund : which together should form an open court for the free 

 discussion of every suggestion towards the betterment of our 

 city. In this, and many other ways, we would build up a 

 Town Plan and Survey, not rigid and inexorable, — for a rigid 

 programme would leave too little room for elasticity and change 

 of detail, — but upon broad lines, likely to meet the prospective 

 needs of the community, and embodying the best thought of 

 those most competent to guide an educated democracy in the 

 task of its own uplifting, 



