Beaver County News | 1919-03-26 | Page 2 | Belgians Proud of Cities

BELGIANS PROUD OF CITIES In Their Centers of Industry They Se Embodied the Glorious History of the Past. No man shall say we love our land less than a Frenchman loves France, less than a Belgian loves his native land. We have our holy cities. Win- t Chester and Canterbury, and a hundred more whose old names are dear to speak. Tet I believe, writes "Londoner" "Lon-doner" in the London Evening News, that the Belgian has a patriotism of the city, of the town, which we never had. The story of that love for th city Is all the history of Belgium. The history his-tory of the freedom and the wealth and the ancient arts of Belgium Is In the history of Antwerp and Bruges, of Brussels and Ghent, and Louvala and Ypres. It begins with the building build-ing of the town wall, with the market that grows up behind the shelter of walls and armed gates, with the raising rais-ing of the tallbelfry, the town's pride, and the hanging of the bells. If you were a tourist who could see the glory of old Flanders and Brabant, you would look not at the cathedral or tlie church, although Belgium ha many noble old churches, but at the town hall and the belfry. The like of them Is not In any other country.