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Britain's Public Schools
There is no other country in the world which has educational institu- tions quite like Britain's "public schools"-Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, and the others which for centuries have educated the sons of the English upper and middle classes. So much have these schools been a part of English life that the English character would scarcely be the same without them.
The crisis through which many of these schools are passing today is not wholly due to the war, but has" been aggravated by it, for many of them have been uprooted from their normal surroundings, and masters and boys have been evacuated, New expenses have been added, just at the moment when the usually well- to-do classes can least bear the bur- den.
An-
But the problems which are caus- ing anxiety existed before the war. These splendidly equipped schools with their highly trained staffs were costly to maintain. In days of ever-increasing taxation, the num- ber of parents who could afford the fees has tended to diminish. other problem concerns not only their power to exist, but their right to exist in these democratic times. Endowed, independent, exclusive, they have provided a singular con- trast to the democratic system of education which begins in the State provided glementary schools, con- tinues in the county secondary schools, and tow-as not in the pant
-leads even to the older universit-
ica.
The ancient public schools no lon- ger afford the only approach to the higher posts in the Government and the professions. And it is now questioned in Britain whether there ancient homes of privilege either can or ought to maintain their ex- clusive social character. Such questions are being earnestly debat- ed in British educational circles. Some fear the loss that may come from brench in the tradition; others
FEBRUARY 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th at 9.15 p.m. look forward to a time when only
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the clovereat boys In the country, the poor no less than the rich, should have entry to the best schools.
February 20, 1940.
Wour: Last year sırrah, you
grossly insulted me. LAMB: That to impossible,
Sir, for I wasn't born then.
WOLF: Well, you feed
my pastures.
In
LAMB: That cannot be, for
I have never yet tasted grass.
FINLAND
WOLF: You drink from my
spring, then. LAMB-Indeed. sir..
I have
never yet drunk anything but my others milk .
AESOP'S FABLES: The Wolf and the Lamb.
QUESTION of the moment
answered by W. N. Ewer
Will Hitler
D
turn Bolshevik?
I believe these re- ports that Nazi Germany is "going Bolshevik "7 The
comes question often these days.
The answer depends on what you mean by "Bolshevik."
That Adolf Hitler will turn Bolshevik" in any sense of the word that Lenin would have recog- nised or even understood is wildly unthinkable. You can count it out. The ideals of Lent have been and are anathema to Hitler.
But it is no longer a question of Ideals. Nazism has come to the pont in its evolution at which it is Indifferent to ideals. Its Jew- hatred sill clings to; but even that it would abandon if abandon- ment served its purposes.
It has evolved as dictatorships and oligarchies always evolve. It has lost sight of everything but the twin purposes of self-preservation and of power for its own sake.
All or Nothing
The ruling gang, and their subordinate gangsters, must keep power of 10se everything (includ- ing, probably enough, their lives), They must hang together or hang separately." Power is the first necessity of their being. And the need for power begets the lust of power. It is an appetite that grows with eating.
At all costa they must keep and strengthen their control. At all costa they must repress and de- 'stroy any possible opposition to their authority.
If the "Bolshevisation" of Ger- many seems to them to serve that purpose, then they will become
Bolshevika." "Paris is worth a
Mass," said Henry IV of France when that Huguenot hero turned Catholic. Adolf Hitler has fewer scruples than Henry of Navarre,
And in one sense of the word, "Bolshevisation" would seem to serve their purpose admirably. The frat law of a dictatorship must be to crush every possible centre of resistance to its authority.
Three Enemies
Nazism began by crushing all possible contres of working-class opposition-the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Trade: Unions.
It passed, inevitably, to war against the
Churches,
against every freedom of writing, of speech, of education.
To-day it sees in Germany, three possible rallying points of opposi tion, three spheres in which there is at some kind of authority, some kind of lende ་ ་ ་ his not that of the Nazi party. There
are the old Army leaders, the in- dustrialists (capitalists, if you. will), the landed aristocracy.
The conquest of Germany by the Party In not complete until these three have been crushed; until there 13 no power, authority, no prestigo In the country except that of the Fuchrer and of his satellites.
no
break "capitalists," to break the To break the "army caste," to
" aristocrats "-hero is the clear line of Nazi policy.
Lust for Power
That is, if you will, Bolshe vism." But it is a Bolalıevism ** inspired by no Socialist or Demo- cratic ident: Inspired purely by in- stinct of self-preservation and lust of power: by the desire to have nothing in Germany but a leader- less muss controlled at every point by a dominant and predatory oligarchy,
The war gives the opportunity. And it looks as though the oppor- tunity will be taken. Not for an attack on all three fronts at once. Hitler is a political tacticlan of the first order, He will attack the in- dustrialista Arst-and he Win attack them with the slogan of Socialism,
So, in that sense, I can expect a "Bolshevisation," a "swing to the Left," an "offensive against Capl- talism."
But do not be deceived by it. It will have no ideological algnificance at all. It will merely be a devlee for increasing the power of the Party and for tightening its grip on the German people.
WOLF: Well, anyhow. I'm not going without my dinner
The Finn at home
BY GEORGE GODWIN
W
HAT manner of people are, these Finns these lambs who coolly face the menace of the Moscow wolf?
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This tall,, fair, blue-eyed and virile stock, as a biological ex- periment, must be classed as one of Nature's best efforts,
If, hitherto, you have mentally classed the Finns with the " back- ward" peoples, disabuse your mind. To-day, the Finns are at the very forefront of culture, and their country one of the most highly civilised and progressivo in the world.
I shall never forget my first visit to Stockmans, the Helsinki store. I wanted a book; but I did not ex- pect to be shepherded into what is known to be the biggest book shop in the world.
The Inns set great store on education. I recall an afternoon spent in a typleal farmhouse on the shore of Lake Puruvesi, near Punkaharju. The family consisted of the farmer, his wife, three grown-up cons, two small girls and a daughter of twenty-one,
There are thousands of such families throughout Finland.
In that farm-house neither farmer nor wife had ever visited a town or scen a railway. Yet the daughter was halfway through the ten-year medical course, and ono son could speak good American after Ave years lumbering in the West,
I
remember
being told
Western Canada that the Flon was an ugly customer to stage a row with. He was credited with rough Oghting ways, with a proneness to
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Do you expect to go through life ALWAYS having your own way?”
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use the rather lethal-looking knife every Finn carries on his hip,
During a wandering that took me 3,000 miles through Finland .I visited one of the big prisons and had a chat with the governor,
"We seldom have any prisoners. here convicted of crimes against property," he told me. They are nearly all in for crimes of violence."
Kindly, hospitable and with a. remarkable natural generosity, the- Finn, once roused, reverts,
Out comes his knito. The blood: flows.
Once at a dinner party that had lasted from half-past_eight until two the next morning, my host told me that on such occasions in the old days guests would stage a duel for the pure joy of combat.
Presenting the point of his knife. the challenger would ask: "How much will you take?" On-recely- ing the raply--one Inch, an inch- and a half-both weapons would be bound at that point below the steel point.
Then before their fellow guests the combatants would stage a' fierce and barbarle duel.
Such fights do not take place now. The overflowing dynamic energy has been diverted into aport,
What is the secret of such athletes as Nurmi?. I asked a famous Finnish physician. He-re- piled: "One reason in our use of the sauna; another our national drink. It is not, as you suppose, schnapps. It is milk."
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A sauna is a steam bath. Every- farm-house has a hut by the woods for this purpose. Great boulders
heated, and then water is· thrown on them.
took one
of these primitive- Turkish baths at the verge of a scented wood, and was later well and truly pummelled by an ageless.. hag-the final process.
It was a marvellous experience, leaving one indescribably vigorous.
Why is the rinn so little known. out of his own country?
Because he travels for when ho 'travels at all and usually as a sailor. Then there is his language, which, with its eleven cases, defies any but a linguistic genlus. Tho: curse of Babel rests heavily upon. the
*Finn. ,་་
To sum up, the Finn has a codo of personal honour second to none. He will face with quiet courage the longcat of odds. In adversity he endurea. But his memory is long and he has a taste for that good.. old human weakness-rovenge.
could be no better-key to the Finnish character than you. will and in the national epic, the Saga of the Kalovala.
There
Ranking as the fifth of the great epics of the world's literature, the Kalovala to the story of the overthrow of the forces of brute- evil by the Christian virtues.
To-day her national eple should prove a source of inspiration to the.... most 'wonderful little country in the modern world."-
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