Welsh Journals

and the lower forms of secondary schools. It was also announced that arrangements had been made for co-operation between the Council of Music, the Press Board, and the Oxford Univer- sity Press, for the production of musical publica- tions for the use of the Welsh people, and for the establishment of a distributing agency in Wales for the distribution of publications. GREYHOUND RACING. A meeting of the Free Church Council of the Evangelical Churches of Cardiff passed a resolu- tion protesting against the introduction of grey- hound racing in South Wales, and decided to make representations in regard to the matter to the Chief Constable of Cardiff. The clergy and the ministers of Swansea de- cided to seek an injunction from the High Court to prevent greyhound racing at Swansea. Conway Council appointed a sub-committee to HUGH ]ONES-PRISONER AND PIONEER. III. THREE themes constantly recur in the letters of Hugh Jones-Wales, the Red Indians, and Religion. In spite of the Declaration of Independence and his own resolve to make his home in America, Hugh obviously regarded himself as first and foremost a Welsh- man. He sent the names and ages of his children "to be registered in Wales, and pray let Brother John set them down in his Bible". "Little Harry", he wrote in 1790, "can say Bachgan Drwg in Welsh. Perhaps I may send him to Wales for his education I would give a great deal for a Welsh Bible or other good Welsh Book. I have seen but three Welshmen for near eleven years, but I would be exceeding fond to receive a letter in that language". Acknowledg- ing a letter from his brother, John Jones (the Edeyrn preacher) he wrote in 1791 :­ "I thought when I first cast my eye on your Welch lines that it was the South Wales linguor, as you was often preaching in that Country. But when I came to look at it again with more atten- tion it was what I had been used to. I wish you would write to me a great deal in Welsh. What would I give for a Welsh Bible! One Thos. Llewellin, a Taylor from South Wales, a man that I had some acquaintance with in North Caro- lina, had sevl Welsh books, especially an excel- lent Bible. He is dead since I left those parts and I am told he left his books to me. It seems some- watch developments and report regarding the proposal to establish a greyhound racing track at Llandudno Junction. VARIA. The Association of Welsh Local Authorities, meeting at Conway, decided to set up a com- mittee on regional and town planning, and agreed that for the purpose of its activity the regional area should comprise the coast line between Pres- tatyn and Bangor, and the hinterlands of Den- bighshire as far as Pentrefoelas, and Caernarvon- shire as far as Ogwen. The first number of the following Welsh periodicals appeared during the month:- "Y Llwyfan", the organ of the Welsh Drama League, with a special message from Miss Sybil Thorndike. "Yr Athro", the bi-monthly journal of the Welsh Teachers' Union. T.H.J. THE EXILES' CORNER. times like I could ride 40 miles to see one of my Countrymen, and I have a good mind to go and see John Price at Charleston next winter, what do you think of it? — One of my Countrymen named David Griffith, aged about 100 years, died last winter. He could talk good Welsh, and was the only Welshman I saw for many years. He came from Haverforwest when a Boy. There are sevl Welsh Settlements in America, where, I am told, they retain their language. I went through one on Peedee River in South Carolina, but as I was under Guard I had no chance to talk with them, and when I removed to Georgia I crossed Pee Dee 40 miles above there." And again: — "Many a time have I read the affecting history of Joseph. I have often wished I could do as much for my parents and brethren as he did for his. When I first heard from you by Bro. Evan's letter I was ready to say, enough, enough, mv Father, Mother and brethren are yet alive. I will cross the unruly Ocean and go to embrace them. And if I had been better settled in the world, I would have begun my journey imme- diately. It seems like if I could only see you once I should be satisfied". His references to the Indians are cautious, for he was anxious to get his brothers to join him in America. Talking of the early days before his marriage he says:—"I was minded to go with some adventurers to a new Settlement over the Western Mountains called Kentucky, seven or