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OXFORD'S YOUTH MARES PROTEST.
WAR MEMORIAL.
XX-SOLDIERS' CHILDREN.
the Oxford Union Sociers, makes a a sweeping statement to say that, com
TRAIN FOR BATTLE OF LIFE. ing to London from Berlin, one ispirited protese in the Monting Past chiefly struck by the let that the to a letter by A Bewildered Par Here is a happy idea for a true children playing in the streets look who does not understand the War memorial. fat and dirty instead of thin and clean, youth of to-day.
The United Services Fund is to Of course one knows that there are: "Throughout history Youth has spend £300,000 on special scheme also thin children-far too many of been exploited. Youth has been the for the education of the children of them in our own cities; and knows motive power of the world. It has promise of ex-Service men, and thus further, the reasons why, if they are hewn the wood, drawn the water, at them for the battle of life. also clean, this is a triumph for their fought the battles. Throughout the operation almost at once, and a large The scheme is to be put icto mothers, under present conditions centuries it has fought, fought in wars number of children will be started on But it is even a greater triumph for which it did not understand and did their course of studies throughout German working mothers that how pot control. And the young men were the country during the autumn ever emaciated or rickery or ruber old, all the time, that all this was term culous their children may be, they being done for their own good. Elder- always seem to be neatly dressed, and poets wrote sonnes about The official of the scheme to a Daly "In a few years' time," said au are rarely dirtier than healthy young Happy Warrior." Aged rhapsodists Chronicle representative, "the fund sters of any class anywhere would be informed each other that "to be young will have a living monument in the after a morning's play out of doors,' is very heaven."
presence of those children whose This is a greater triumph for the They have had their day, and a fathers fought for civilisation German mother, because the obstacles long day and a bloody day it has been, "You will understand that the in her case to maintaining a decent If you wish to see what young men scheme has been eagerly awaited standard of cexiness and cleanliness think of war to-day you will not find and it is the outcome of expert ex- are so nearly insurmontable, alter their opinion in any of the Romantics Perience as voiced at the recent four years of war and two of peace, of the Victorians. You will not find
conference on the subject and that only her extraordinary thrift and it in the Bamborant insolence of Rud- specially by representatives of the self-respect have probably enabled her yard Kipling. For will not even find Board of Education and the Scottish to keep up the struggle at all. Soepit in the poems of Rupert Brooke.
Education Authority. is still sold at a price that would make You will find it in the verse of Sielried it prohibitive to a working-class with Sassoon. It is white-hot bitterness a lower standard of cleanliness, and It is a challenge fung with passion all but the luxury kinds are a wretch-ate hatred into the face of Age. Look ed compound of grease and grit, which at the poems of the Sirwells, and all will be the double benefit to the leaves a residue of sand in every re-the school of young poets who are children and to the nation as a ceptacle in which it has been used. associated with them. And then go whole, The bristles of many of the brushes home and ask yourself. Who is the are imitation bristles: I have seen happy warrior, who is he?" mail-brushes in which they were made i --- Will our next Soviet be a Soviet (1) Exceptional children. Le., child- of rice straw. "Beste Ersatz-Glans of Youth?' asks your correspondent.ren who have won scholarships, free stärke best substitute starch tells. Perhaps it may. At Oxlord we have above the average, and who, there its own rafe: yer blouses and mentalready the beginnings of a Soviet fore, should be helped as “regards places, or who have qualifications come home from the wash as well movement. It started at St. John's. their education. **200 Up
as if the laundress had to where, under the auspices of the Pre- difficulties to overcome. As for the sident of the Union, a committee of tion. It is not proposed to assist (2) To continue interrupted educa- actual clothing of the children, one has undergraduates was appointed 10 children of this class, but only those
suppose it would be rightly considered) Beverley Nichols, the President of
be true to say, both of middle-class and working-class families in Ger many to-day, that they carry their household goods, on the backs.
and other relatives suffering from The main idea is to help parents financial disability arising from the war, to give their promising children an equal chance in education. There
"Briefly, the scheme is divided into two parts to help :-
to examine its origin before taking it examine into the organisation of their whose parents are unable to give as evidence of the prosperity of their college. parents. In nine cases out of ten it, in the dovecots of the dons, especially merit. Where necessary and desirable There was much fluttering them the education the children. is made from towels, pillow-cases. when the movement was repeated in assistance will be granted during the table-cloths, curtains; in fact, it would other colleges Already it has had whole stages of education from the its effect, and voices are being raised secondary school up to and including to suggest that the Union should co-the University. operate with Convocation and the "In every case promising ability Hebdomadal Society in order that the must be proved. Each case will be It must be remembered. however, undergraduate may have a voice in judged on its merits. that mothers elsewhere who do not what concerns him. belong to
Self determina- the wealthy classes are tion is the order of the day. Oxford driven to a similar exercise of inmust be made safe for the under geaulty, as may be proved by any graduate. exhibition held during a "Baby Week":
grants made for railway season Boarding fees will be paid and
tickets, clothing and books..
"It is intended to ear mark £300,000, for educational purposes
men's dependants should have been by which time all cases of ex-Service
satisfactorily settled."
£70,000,000.
**Perhaps all this may alarm the in this country. I only mention the old men who have lost their faith in 10 extend over a period of 18 years, German mother's shifts for washing human nature, and who have forgot and clothing her family because the ten what it is to cherish an ideal. afford another proof, that it is not wise; All we would ask them to do is to to judge by appearances in Germany, look round at the world they have to day if one wants to arrive at a fait made. What sort of world is it? Is estimate of her condition.
**Ersatz" is, indeed, still the key? Does it do credit to the wisdom of it so very happy? So very wise? word to the state of Germany, though Age? Why not let Youth have its DON JUAY WHO HANDLED IT. some of the war, or rather blockade, try? substitutes are less prominent than, else, and every time it has failed. We have tested everything they were. That is to say; not all the Youth has ceased to knock at the materials and icodstuffs you now see door, and already the citadel is being in the shop windows are other than stormed."
they seem. But here, too, the make-
shifts are often so ingenious as to he
very misleading to the casual obser
IMPUDENT FRAUD."
"I have collected millions for the Government, and if I had wished to be dishonest I could have taken some of it," said Henry Horace Tigwell,
ver. You know where you are with good solid motor or bicycle tyre made when charged at Westminster Police coffee that is sharply defined as of paper can be procured, and an ex-Court recently with obtaining Govern- "Bohnon-Kaffee" (bean-that is real cellent makeshift, if à noisy one, forment money by false pretences -coffee) or as "Ersatz-Kaffee." and a pneumatic tyre is made out of re Tigwell, who is 38 years of age,
our grim English joke in distinguish metal rims between which "are little has had bat one arm from birth, but ing fresh eggs" from "eggs" is spiral springs like those in an old-was employed until recently by the paralleled by the German way of de-fashioned box-spring mattress. But Ministry of Munitions as a clerk scribing honey as "Bienen Honig "" Gummi-Ersatz "** remains very (bee's hosey) or simply as "Honig."" Ersatz" indeed: and the so-called And a charming picture of a rising rubber texts and rubber tubes have so moon in a blue background of stars far proved unusable.
I did nor once does not deceive anyone into think-seca baby's comforter." which ing that the gritty mixture sold as would rejoice the hygienist, perhaps. "Maimond (May-moor) Thee
has But then, since the blockade, one has any real relation to tea. Equally ob-seen very few babies vious was the repaired shop window That is one result of war and after in Berlin.
He claimed that he had collected 70,000,000 for the Disposals Board, of which £2,000,000 was in hard cash.
Originally he was to have been charged with forging and uttering a payment draft made out to himself, but counsel for the Public Prosecutor so that the matter might be dealt said the lesser charge was preferred,
Tigwell is a married man with
I saw, where the enomous cost of the war for which no "Ersatz” can with summarly, whole new sheet of plate glass had be devised. been avoided by the substitution of
glass patch neatly fitted into the hole out in my mind particularly. Among he went off with another woman by One or two clever substitutes stand four children, but seven years ago and joined to the rest of the window, medical devices there was a wonder, whom he had two children.
as leaded panes are fixed in a lattice fui oil-silk, made, I believe, of paper, window
There was a warrant in existence
Less dramatic, though not and celluloid. There was an equally for his arrest in respect to arrears less successful, was the substitute for wonderful kind of cotton wool made due to his wife under a separation coal I was shown in a large cable from wood fibre; and there were ex-order. factory near Berlin, where the fur-cellent paper bandages. Among other naces were fed almost entirely with things the flexible wooden soles for for a number of women," said the He seems to be quite a magnet old tree-roots, extracted from the boots and shoes, made of many wood. officer." It is marvellous the num- } ground by means of explosives...
ed rivers wired together, struck theber with whom he has had associa tions. That, and betting on horse-
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But other substitutes are less easily particularly, though I was mid that racing, has led to bis downfall" detected. I had been weeks in my they warped in wet weather. The hotel room, for instance, before I dis- most remarkable instance of "Ersatz"witness said unfortunately he knew In reply to the magistrate, the covered that the rug, a really pretty manufacture that I saw was a small nothing in Tigwell's favour. rug, in tones of black and brown and machine belt, about a foot wide and Describing the frand as a most rose, was made entirely of paper. 1 an inch thick, which had bees in con-impudent one, Mr. Francis sentenced travelled about many times in trains stant use in a small shoe factory for Tigwell to six months' imprisonment. before-it-was-proved, to me by a rent three years. It was made of paper" with such hard labour as they in the material that the railway car and Ersatz" grease of some sort. riages were upholstered in a paper! Short-sighted people are, I know,
choose to give."; / fabric exactly corresponding in ap- ready to see in all this ingenuity a pearance to the stuff with which they proof that Germany needs no help in were covered formerly. The paper her efforts towards reconstruction. substitutes are no doubt among the It is the custom to consign, those who cleverest of the inventions, that neces- help themselves to the care of Higher sity bas mothered in recent years in Hands. But it may be wise to remem Germany, I have seen paper curtains ber that an “Ersatz" country cannot
1. and hangings that would defy any test do more than barely exist, that a paper but that of touch, a litle stiff in the world is always liable to catch Ere folds, perhaps, but available in many that tree-roots are not an inexhaustible coloured striped designs that are very substitute for coal, and that all the pleasing I have seen a child's paper available stocks of house linen, &c.; frock, the inside of which was soft have now been used up. Many ex--- and Huffy, like some kinds of fan perts agree that the coming winter will nelette; and a woman's paper skirt, therefore be the greatest test to whichy Matins 11 which, until one felt it, would pass Germany has yet been put; it is a Reep Ferial; Venite; Maclarzen wywhere for blue serges; and men's severe one it will be a ghastly tragedy paper braces and paper sock-suspen for her men, women, and children. ders, which were perfect in every. La any base it must seem an absurdity detail except for the lack of clasicity, to all but the most "prejudiced" mind For, with all their ingenuity, they that so much genius of Invention do not seem to have found a satisfac which might be placed. at the service tory substitute for rubber, although of hananity, - should be wasted I heard from a professor of experi- croating a “ Ersatz”. existence for ments being made with hard col that one of the races, that people the earth, are likely to end in success.A very-Manchester Guardian,
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