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MORAL RE-ARMAMENT

EDUCATION EXPERT AND AUTHOR RECOUNTS HIS

EXPERIENCES

Major Stephen Foot, D.S.0., is best known as the author of "Three Lives' and Lite Began Yesterday, the latter, published in 1935, hav- ing been translated into siglu languages,

Before the War. Major Foot was the youngest manager in the Shell Oil Company, and during the War he was responsible for the idea of the 'mobile army' that was adopted by the Allied Annies in the spring of 1918 as the hast of the proposed operations for 1919.

As a Housemaster and Bursar after the War, Major Fool was res.. ponsible for many educational reforms and was the first Careers Master' in England. His atlèles in the. "Daily Telegraph" on educa- tional subjects have attravled wide attention.

For forty-seven years, he writes.

I chased life as though it were a

· Will-o'-the-Wisp. It was always

just aheed, waliing round the next corner, but when I got there it had always disappeared again.

Life seemed to have begun when I started in my fist Job-It was à tremendous thrill to be netually eaming some money-yet it wasn't long before I was pining for the day when I should be the manager. And then my dream came true. I was only 25 years old when found myself manager or an Oil Company out in Mexico It was an exciting and responsible job: my salary was in the four gure class, the work was full of interest and adventure, there were revolu“ tions, wars. big deals, to pull aff: I was the youngest manager "in a world-wide organisation and could look forward confidently to becom ing a director later op. And yet. I wasn't happy. Life still seemed to have slipped round, the corner out of my grasp1

Then came the War: three years In Flanders in the Sappers and the Tanks, promotion, a year at the -War Cifro and the adoption of the plan I put forward for the creation of a "mobile army."

A NEW WORLD

War South America as manager for the

The

CARING FOR.

REFUGEES

Sir Herbert Emmerson," who will be the President of the International Refugee Com- mittee which will be establish-

in Landon the New Year and shall undertake all work for the refugees, as well as in- stitutions "like the Nansen Ofce in Geneva.

over, I returned to CRICKETER SHOT,

oll company. But all the time I

felt I ought to be doing something. LOSES HIS EYE

to build a new world in which war -

and England cricketer. lost his

ye . p.shouting accident on

is father's arm near Taunton Somerset recently, and. there fears that he might were

be blind.

would be impossible. I thought. White, the former Semer that education was the way since 5 the, future Hea with the younger; generation. I resigned my position and returned to England where I became Housemaster and Bursar at my old school. I spent fourteen years trying to teach boys how to

He was pimpsont-shooting with

live, yet I had not learnt the secret

a party. Including nis father and myself. In all these years I had brother, and as he was running falled to And complete satisfaction ahead with a dog to retrieve a for myself, and I was beginning to fhilên bird, another pheasant realise more and more clearly that!se and the party shot it down. the world was as far from peace i Then Mr. White was discovered ns it ever had been. I began to with his face bleeding. No feel that, the solution" must be in the party knows what happen- deeper and more radical

rd.

one

COURTESY AT

-ALL COSTS

Japanese "Politeness” And Old Bailey Parallel

Salire has been busy with Japan- „ese "politeness" in the last year,

but even satire could do nothing. to "paint the ly" in the matter of that instruction which has been issued to those responsible. fur Japanese children's magazines te be very careful not to publish any- thing that is not strictly polite to the Chinese. This news happened to coincide with accounts of one of the most terrible of holocausts from the air on a Chinese town. In the Western world it would not be easy to find any parallel": unless it be sought at the Old Bolley in the bad eld days, says a Londen writer. It may be guessed that Mr. Justice Graham, "the pollte, judge." would have tasted the full favour of it

In one case before him involving a death sentence the Crown ap- piled for a postprhement in the absence of a material witness. The prisoner strenuously abjected. The judge Intormed bim that "common humanity requires" that I should not let you be tried in the absence of an Important witness for the prosecution "

Even if the trial took place im- mediately the man might still be found guilty and honged, whereas If a postponement had been grant-- gd" the witness might, against all expectation, have cleared the pri soner. That would nyt matter to the prisoner, since he would have been hanged: "But you must con- sider my feelings when I had hanged an Innocent man." So the case was postponed-and the man eventually hanged.

In another case when sentencing batch of prisoners Graham for- got to name QXL. He had this

put back. made him 8.11 elaborate apology for his "quite cidental mistake" and, ordered him. " be "hanced with the rest."

RADIUM DEAL BLUNDER DENIED

Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister of Health, denied in the House of Commons recently that a great blunder had been made by the Government in announcing the scheme to purchase radium in connection with the Cancer Bill.

Mr. David Adams asked whether

And then one night at dinner His brother, Mr. C. White, help- Mr. Ellint would take steps to con- sat next to a famous Europeaned lum to a

car, and he was trol the world price; of. radium by. statesman He told me that he ruched to an eye specialist, then the use of the immense purchasing belleved that answer for world to a Taumbes nursing home. power of Britain; whether he had, peace jav in a programme of Moral

announcing An operation was immediately since

his recent Rearmament. I met others who performed. but it was impossible scheme for the control of cancer, belleved the same thing and In to save his eye.

purchased radium, and, il so. at talking with them. I began to see

what price what it would mean for my own

Mr. Adams also asked if it was not a fact that the world price of radiem was £5000 a gramme be- fore the Minister made his an-

life. I could see that it meant ter hostilities. Moral rearmament coming down off my pedestal with for this pair meant that they had the boys, for instance, that to forget their resentment, Inake meant apologising to a housemas-riends with the man who had 'rouncement about three months

ter of whom I was jealous.

PROGRAMME OF ACTION

struck the blow and ask him to tea. agu, and that subsequently the I was staying with a young.soll-Minister had purchased 11 gram- citor in the West of England. For mes at £18,000 a gramme, making Moral Rearmament, I came to some time he and his wife had a difference of no less than £143.- realise, stood for a new set of been drifting apart and the breach 000. standards and 1 new spirit In was widening rapidly. One day Mr. Ellot replied that the state- every area of life. Here, in short, they decided to admit their own ment was entirely Inaccurate. was a programme of action which faults instead of each blaming the, An option was bought at world gathered up all that I had hoped other, and began learning "to see prices, and no such purchases at and longed for a new way of Uv-the other's point of view. The re- inflated world prices, had taken ing, which began with myself. It is sult has been not only a new open-place. true, but which had in it the germ ness between them but a lasting

of a new way of living for nations. unity in working together to bring

It is clear to me now that this be real happiness to other homes. ginning had a spiritual signin-

A bank manager who was lunch-

cance, because my new way of lifeing with me last week told that meant that I recognised God as the within twenty-four hours of put- ültimate reality. I started trying ting Morat Rearmament into prac- to fit into His scheme of things tice he had straightened out a instead of trying to make the business matter in which he had world fit into mine.

not been honest, made friends with That was five years ago, and the man next door with whom he since then I have seen Its practical had not been on speaking terms effect in a dozen countries, re-for three years. and had broken uniting homes. bringing a few down a barrier which, existed for attitude .in foreign polities.

fourteen years between him and

HOW BIG BEN GOT

ITS NAME

Big Ben's time-keeping in error to On only 18 days last year was

the extent of more than one sec-

Astronomer Royal, Dr. Spencer ond, according to the report of the

Jones. Yet 80 years ago, when the specification for the clock drawn up clockmakers said that such accuracy was impossible.

was

18011

Big Ben owes its name to Sir Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner of Works at the time the 131-ton- bell was Installed. The four dials of 22it in diameter are above ground. Each of the minute Zewt, while the hour hands are oft hands is 14 ft long and weighs

long and weigh Bowt

I was talking recently to the his mother-in-law. Foreign Minister of Holland; he In one industry where price-cut told me how he had established ating and cut-throat competition new friendship with another are threatening to ruin everybody country as a result of locking at some of the leaders have started to questions in dispute "from the build a new spirit of co-operation other fellow's point of view." Only and understanding. In one case a few days ago in the annual the head of one of the biggest memorandum from the Foreign firms went to his principle com- Office he announced that the petitor and shared with him some PHARMACY DAMAGED

making of his secret processes, for the

Dutch Government

SAME SPIRIT

BY FIRE

Moral and Spiritual Rearmament benefit of the industry as a whole. the guiding principle of its foreign since then, on occasions when his The pharmacy of Messrs. J. policy.

factory has been working overtime. Llewellyn & Company at 151-Nan- he has passed on orders to his King Road, Shanghai, was the England is being stirred by the competitor so that he too could scene of a Bre before daylight last бате spirit. Wherever I have keep all his men in work.

Tuesday, the front part of the gone I have seen Moral Rearma- I have seen in these men the shop and contents being badly ment transforming people, and the beginning of a new England. What | damaged. situations in which they live and work.

part will England play-in building An alarm was sounded at 4.03 a new world? Can we re-build | a.m, and engines from Central

A year ago I was having tea in a jour own country on such founda- miner's cottage. The miner's wife tions of friendship and co-opera- had been struck in the face during} tion that the world will want to a. riot and the whole village had follow us? That is our task of been spilt in two by the most bit-Moral Rearmament. .

Fire Station responded. The flames caused serious damage to the front window and to goods stored in the part of the pharmacy near that window.

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