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THURSHAY, OCT. 8, 1936.
AFTER-SCHOOL
EDUCATION
It may be stating the obvious to remark that education cannot, or should not, stop at any age.
Round the bend of the Road; Take me away from the river Yet that was the submission made
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who reminded his hearers of the absurdity of thinking that the educational process can cease at 15, 18 or any other age. In fact, It is in the teens that serious education really begins, but it is a process that cannot be carried out by Act of Parliament; the motive power must come from
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Chamberlain and Dilke eclipsed him in the earlier period;. Rosebery and Harcourt In the later, His leadership of the Party after 1895 was due solely to the fact that internal dissensions in his Party made him the one "available" candi- flate.
Few Parties have been more far- tunate in a second
string.
sented,
He repre-
admirably
the new Liberalism 1874,
which, after
began to challenge
U
supreminey
the old Whig tradi Tion,
of
Imperialists spoke and intrigued against him without hesitation. C.-B. went on his own way, con- Adent that time was on his side.
11e developed in the country a profound failh in, and liking for. his clear principles, his sterling character, his power to say hon- ently just what he meant. There were more brilliant men about liim. There was none in whomi there was, greater confidence.
H19 two brief years as Prime Minister were cirring years. Ho. And he alone, achieved a noble and enduring settlement with South Africa: he proved the truth of Burke's great words that "men- sures of lenty were means of conciliation."
by
Ile was Benerous because he knew how to be just. Through him, and mainly through him, the Trade Disputes Act was placed on the Statute Book In the form demanded The by the unions. record would have been ampler if half n dozen of the mensures his Cabi- net carried through the Commons had not been wrecked in the Lords,
Harold
Laski
As a young Minis- tee I had done ud- ible administra- live work. He not only reorganised the War once, He not only ended the intolerable regime of the Duke of Cambridge. Let it be remembered that he was the first Minister to establish the n Government 48-hour week in
actory.
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IN all his administrative work he showed himself
sagacious, imperturbable, quietly efficient, and full of stout common sense. Everyone liked him be- cause everyone had conndence in hlm. His convictions were clear and downright; he knew what he wanted, and he always went straight to his goal.
After he became the Liberal icader, he grew astonishingly in stature.
Ho never forgot Ireland and the British obligation to Ire- land. He fought the Imperialists over South Africa; and it was his -stinging description of the concen- tration camps as methods of barbarism" which gave Botha and -General-Smuts--the-hope-after 1902. of a new relation with Great Britam.
Hila tusk in those years before his Premiership was in all conscience aimcult enough. Lord Rosebery Julked in his tent. The Liberal
And it is import- ant that in noting significance of the Lords' action he laid down the lines of the polley which culminated in the Parlia- ment Act of 1011.
He was a strong exponent of dis- armament, and the energy he de- voted to a theme which became a passion with him was heightened by his sense that European dicas- ter was the alternative. He hated tyranny wherever he saw it; and there is no nobler example el courage in a Prime Minister (would that, Mr. Baldwin had the same courage) than his famous remark when the Tanr dissolved the Duma -La Douma est morte; vive in Douma.
It was a phrase that rang round Europe. It was not, of course, the tactful thing to say; it caused great offence in high quarters, and It could only be said by a man who knew when to unseal his lips,
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ALTHOUGH I was only
Apoy when it was Bald.. I
can still remember how every-- where men felt that, once again, C.-B. had uttered the thought in every heart that cared for freedom.
He died a tired old man in 1908: and with Mr. Aswatih's accession
[& Study by “ Soy.",
HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN First Radical Premier of Britain
to power the lines of political cleavage began to forms,
assume
new
What did C.-B. mean? He was the best. because the "Inost-con- vinced, representative of a Radical tradition in British Liberalism which never got its chance.
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ONE aspect
of it died when Chamberlain left Party: another when, the shadow of war, and the trouble over Ulster killed the social re- form era of which Mr. Lloyd George was the embodiment.
The followers of C.-B. were for educational reform, Industrial re- form, democratic political changes (he was R convinced supporter of votes for women), They hated the shoddy Imperialism of the Kipling period. They worked with all their inight for international under- standing, freer commercial inter- course, and the right of a people to choose its own form of govern- ment.
The best of Cobden, the best of Bentham, and the best of that love of freedom for which Browning and Meredith stood, went into the inking of their ideas. They were defeated because they were toa late. What they wanted in their generation contracting Capl- talist system was no longer willing to afford.
But under C-B.'s leadership he and his disciples made a brave night for the ends they served.
I suppose that, measured against the suprante figures of his age, he was not a great man. He spoke vigorously and persuasively; but he was not a great orator. Ha
THE Y.M.C.A. MUST
SAVE ITS SOUL
and
energetically administered emciently: but he was not a great Minister.
Yet his qualities were of a value that great men do not always pos- sess. He never lowered the moral standard of politics; and in every vital insta that he touched he raised it.
He was never behind the ideas of his time. He always know when to give a lead. He was never tim crisis. He never felt that tact and discretion were more important than truth.
In the sense that every politician 1s necessarily ambitious, he no doubt cared for power; but he never sacrificed conviction 10 power, whether in great matters or in small. He was free from vanity. He made men respect him, not by qualities which dazzled. but. by a character which naturally and Inherently inspired conn-
dence.
You knew where you were with Tin. You knew that he would always take the straight roud and the high-road. It was Impossible not to regard him with mingled affection and respect.
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HERE have been abier Tar more brilliant Pre-
miera in my lifetime. I venture to believe that there has been no other so completely satisfactory in his job. I venture_to_belleve that few other people have over grown so consistently na respon- sibility elicited from him the chance to be himself at his best, In our own generation he re- minds me of no ono so much as the late Arthur Henderson. Both hud the quality of forthrightness. Both had the same solidity, the sense of being four-square to all the winds that blow.
Neither of them could electrify publle opinion; yet both of them were always able to make public' opinion confident so long as they were in charge.
Where Mr. Lloyd George dazzled, where Mr. MacDonald bewildered. they seemed to set a straight, clear course which carried men along by the obvious integrity of its makers.
been argued that devotion to learning, which has resulted in many a self-taught boy rising to fame, does not appear to mark the youth of to-day as it did those of carlior generations-that in spite of greatly increased educa- tional facilities now provided, or possibly because of them, there seems to be less disposition to pursue self-education beyond the school years.
cir- For this cumstance, many counter-attrac- | tions of the age are blamed in some quarters. None the less, in the Old Country there are still many serious-minded young men vomen anxious to "better themselves," and it is not too nuch to say that it is largely on this type that the future of the nation depends, Of 'the import-]
a statement made under the three heads of ance of an educated democracy Message, Motive and Mission; and by calling for there can be no question, a fact a special inquiry into the religious life of the which Sir Richard Livingstone Association, particularly as regards its system stressed in his speech. Good of dual membership and the serious numerical government. rests ultimately on disparity which exists between "full" the good sense and perception of "associate" members in the larte majority of
local associations. the masses, which in turn pro-
"Full" members are those who are committed to between "blood and 'fire" and "milk and thanks, to Ancient Malo, f Alder
water." duces મ well-informed public the Christian way of life and who seek to co-operato This is where the Charter Statement comes in. In opinion. There was never a time with others in Christian service in and through the
Association. "Associate" members, while availing that pronouncement,
heartedness! more so than to-day in which themselves of the privileges which the Association offers, do not accept the responsibilities of full member-
THE Young Men's Christian Association has
Treached a turning point in its history.
ship:
'It does so by the adoption as its Charter of
and
these points need bearing in mind. Britain is justly proud of the stability and moderation of its people; these traits can best a
US It is to its "full" membership that the Y.M.C.A. must took, in the words of the Com- preserved and expanded with the
missioners, for Is, "striking force" in its campaign to support of an intelligent a win young men and boys for Jesus Christ. active dutocracy. And that is It is clearly faced with a grave situation when the where inremitting attention to Commissioners have to report not only that the dis- proportion between the two classes of members is such education has its value. There is greatly to wenken the life and witness of the Asso- are, fortunately, any number of clation-bur that far too often full membership is
a nominal thing." merely
It is dificult, as they say, agencies at Home where the to over-estimate the seriousness of such a state of educational process can be con-affairs. tinued after the school years, and it is reassuring to know that the
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THE YM.C.A., 'to put it bluntly, is faced with the need of saying its soul. It of by increasing numbers of young men and women, even if cannot do it if it is content to be muinly a social organisation, for its whole value as a social there are others who are not organisation depends on its spiritual strength.
Says Hugh
Redwood
At least, there is no half-
"Our message (says) is Jesus Christ. We re- Brm that God offers His own power to men that they may be fellow-workers with Him, and urges them on to a life of adventure and self-sacrifice in preparation for the coming of His Kingdom in its. fullness.
"We believe that the Gospel is the sure source of power for social regeneration. It proclaims the only. way by which humanity can escape from these clast and neo hatreds which devastate society at present" into the enjoyment of national well-being and inters untional friendship and
peace. ་་Ç་ find in Christ, and especially in His Cross and resurrection, a
inexhaustible source of power that makes us hope when there is no hope. We belleve that through It men und societies and nations that have fast their moral nerve to live will be quickened into life.
"We have come to see more clearly the fullness and sufficiency of the Gospel and our own need of the salvation of Christ, Confronted by international relations that constantly fout Christ's law of love, there is laid on all who bear is name the salenin etiigation to labour unceasingly for a new work-ordet.
"We are convinced of the urgent necessly for a great increase in the Christian forces in all countries.
"We are persuaded that we and nil Christian
making the best use of the op- I think if I were asked to define the issue portunities provided by the State. as briefly as possible I should say that it lay people must seek a more heroic practice of the Gospel."
Campbell-Bannerman has not But got a great nicbg in history. I miss my guess if ahy historian in the future will speak of him without a sense of regard that goes an deep as it will with any figure of his time.
LIMEY
Many thanks to the old salts who nswered my request for the origin of Lunes." the American nickname for British scamen.
And congratulations, combined with
shot, for the following reply:-
In print that fairly scoms to shahl (1. Seys Showman, Nah then, wat abak
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So in this rhyme an old salt tries ifis best to put our Showman wise," Long years ago a law was made By Jack Tar's pal-the Board of
Trade-
That Jack, on reaching trojilo alimca, Be lasued with the juice of limes; Simply because the Board was nervg Salt horse and heat would give Jack
ACUTVU.
Then Yanks, then wishing to traduce
her,
Nicknamed a Britial ship “Lint-
Juicer "^;
So "Limey" was the term thoy'd' use' To show contempt for Dritish crews. Limehouse may be the source of
"Blimey,"
But not the origin of "Limcy."
Wags' Corner.
The small man was shown to the only vacant Acut at the cinema, which happened to be behind a man of im mense proportions.
"You can't acc?" said tha big máu. eventually in ansteer to the small fellow's protexis. "Just keep your cyc on me, then, and laugh when I taugli." Half-a-guises to Mr. T. Wool, of Bradford,
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