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Show States, like so many other American customs and institutions, derived its source from the mother land." To strengthen the bond of friendship friend-ship now existing between England and America it is suggested that lectureships lec-tureships at the principal universities of both countries be established, peace centennial prizes offered for essays on Anglo-American relations, and, perhaps per-haps most important of all, that the school readers and histories of the two nations be revised so as to give the children on both sides of the Atlantic At-lantic a more just idea of their cousins cou-sins across seas. ENGLAND HONORS HER GREAT ENEMY Erection of Statue to Washington in Westminster Abbey Is in Contemplation. IN England they are already talking and planning for a great Jubilee to celebrate a century of peace between the United States and Great Britain. This hundred years of peace will be rounded out, Christmas eve, 1914, which will be the one hundredth anniversary anni-versary of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent the pact which ended the War of 1812. The peace celebration will be a three-sided affair, in which the United States. Great Britain and Canada will Sulgrave Manor House, the Ancestral Home of the Washingtons, Which the English Talk of Buying and Converting Into a Museum In Honor Hon-or of George Washington. take part. Various tentative plans have been suggested as fitting for the occasion. Earl Grey of the British ministry believes that it would be a good plan to unveil a statue of George Washington in Westminster Abbey "as a testimony to our ungrudging nd generous recognition of the influence influ-ence for good exerted on successive generations of the British as well as the American people by the example of his splendid qualities." "The lamp of his character" this Is the part of a speech made by the earl and received with cheers by a British audience "the lamp of his character has been a beacon which for nearly 150 years has enabled struggling humanity to steer through the darkness to a nobler and a higher life, and for this reason we think it is only right that we should make use of the opportunity provided by the approaching ap-proaching centennial to do his memory mem-ory honor on British soil." Members of the committee which has charge of the celebration In England Eng-land have also recommended the purchase pur-chase of Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral ances-tral home of the Washington family in England. It is proposed to convert con-vert this into a sort of Washington Typical Country Road Near Sulgrave. nuseum. to which American tourists would be especially welcomed. "On the walls of this ancient build-ng," build-ng," says the London Chronicle, "may till be seen the Washington coat of rms, which was the origin of the Stars and Stripes, thus showing that j he national emblem of the United |