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AFTER-SCHOOL EDUCATION

It may be stafing the obvious to remark that education cannot, or should not, stop at any age.

B-4352 Round the bend of the Road; Take me away from the river Yet that was the submission made

B-4354 Hush-a-bye, Lullaby: Got the South in my Soul

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dreamin'

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Gloomy Sunday: Honey

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Shenandoah: Jes' mah Song

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BORN 100 YEARS AGO

PREMIER

All Could

C.

TRUST

-B, was the 'first Radical Prime Minister in our history; and his arrival at that office was a good deal of an accident.

He entered the House of Com- mons in 1803 and though. after 1871, he always held ofce In the Gladstonian Govern- ments, he was never thought of as the first man of his Party.

Chamberlain and' Dilke eclipsed him in the earlier perlod; Roschery and Harcourt in the later. His leadership of the Party after 1805 was due solely to the fact that internal dissensions in his Party made him the one "available" candi- date.

Few Parties have been inore for- Lunate In a second string. He repre- sented admirably the new Liberalism which, after 1974, began to challenge. the supremacy of the old Whig tradi- tion.

imperialists spoke and intrigued ngainst him without hesitation. C.-B. went on his own way, can- fident that time was on his side.

1le developed in the country a profound falih in, and liking for. his clear, principles, his sterling character, his power to any hon- estly just what he meant. There were more brilliant men about klm. There was none in whom there was greater confidence.

His two brief years as Prime Minister were stirring years. He, and he alone, achfeved a noble and enduring settlement with South Africa: he proved the truth of Burke's great words that sures of lenity were means of conciliation.""

mea-

He was generous because he knew how to be just. Through him, and mainly through him, tho Trade Disputés Act was placed on the Statute Book In the form demanded The by the unions. record would have been ampler if half " dozen of the measures his Cabi- net carried through the Commone had ----not been wrecked in

the Lords.

by Harold

Laski

As a young Minis- ter he had done ad- mirable administra- tive work. He not only reorganised the War omce. He not only ended the intolerabic regime of the Duke of Cambridge. Let it be remembered that he was the first Minister to establish the 48-hour week in Government factory.

TN all his administrative 1work he showed himself sagacious, imperturbable, quietly enclent, and full of stout common sense. Everyone liked him be- cause everyone had confidence in him. His convictions were clear. and downright; he knew what he wanted, and he always straight to his goal.

went

After he became the Liberal

leader, he grew astonishingly in stature. He never forgot Ireland and the British obligation to fre- lartd. 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

1962, of a new relation with Great

Britain.

His task in those years before his. Premiership was in all conscience difficult enough. Lord Rosebery. zulked in his tent. The Liberal

And it is Import- ant that in noting significance of the Lords' netion hò laid down the lines of the policy which culminated in the Parlia ment Act of 1911,

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 disas- ter was the alternative. He hated tyranny wherever he saw I; and there is no nobler example of courage in a Prime Minister (would) that Mr. Baldwin had the same courage) than his famous remark, when the Tsar dissolved the Duma -La Dounia est morie: vive in Douma,

It was a phrase that rang round Europe. It was not, of course, the factful thing to say: it caused grent offence in high quarters, and It could only he said by a man who knew when to unseal his lips.

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★

LTHOUGH I was only a

Aboy when it was said. I

can still remember-how-overy where men felt that, once again." C.-H. had uttered the thought in. every heart that cared for freedom. ·

He died a tired old man in 1908: and with Mr. Aseith's accession

A Study by "Spp."""

·HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN. First Radical Premier of Britain

to power the lines of political cleavage began to assume new forms.

What did C.-B. mean? He was the best, because the most con- vinced, representative of a Radical tradition in British Liberalism which never got its chance.. '

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NE aspect of died

Olen Chamberlain left

the

The Party; another when shadow of war, and the trouble over Ulster killed the social re- ̧form era of which Mr. Lloyd George

was the embodiment,

The followers at C.-B. were for educational reform, industrial re- form, democratic political changes (he was a convinced supporter of vates for women). They hated the shoddy imperialism of the Kipling. period. They worked with all their might for International under- standing, treer commercial inter- course, and the right of a people to choose its own form of govern- ment.

The best of Cobden, wie best of Bentham, and the best of that love of freedom for which Browning and Meredith stood, went into the making of their ideas. They were defeated because they were too late. What they wanted in their generation a contracting Capl- talist system was no longer willing to afford.

But under C.-B.'s leadership he and his disciples made a brave

fight for the ends they served

I suppose that, measured against the supreme figures of his age, he was not a great mau. Не броке vigorously and persuasively; but he was not a great orator. He

THE Y.M.C.A. MUST

before the savants of the British Association

Sir recently by Richard Livingstone, one of the world's best-known educationists, who reminded his hearers of the absurdity of thinking that the educational process can cease, at 16, 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

from must come

It has been argued that devotion to learning, which has resulted in many a self-taught boy rising to farne, does not appear to mark the youth of to-day as it did those of earlier generations-that in spite of greatly increased educa- tional facilities now provided, or possibly because of them, there seems to be less diaposition to: pursue self-education beyond the school years. For this cir- 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 "better and women anxious to themselves," and it is not too much to any that it is largely on this type that the future of the nation depends. Of the import- ance of an educated democracy there can be no question, a. fact which Sir Richard Livingstone stressed in his speech. Good government rests ultimately on the good sense and perception of the masses, which in turn pro- duces a well-informed public opinion. There was never a time so than to-day in which these points need bearing in mind. Britain is justly proud of the stability and moderation of its people; these traits can best be preserved and expanded with the support of an intelligent and activo democracy. And that is where unremitting attention to education has its value. There are, fortunately, any number of agencies at Home where the educational process can be con- affairs.. tinued after the school years, and it is reassuring to know that the facilities offered are being availed of by increasing numbers of

more

SAVE ITS SOUL

THE Young Men's Christian Association has

T

reached a turning point in its history.

It does so by the adoption as its Charter of

a statement made under the three hands of Mesange, Motive and Mission; and by calling for a special inquiry into the religious life of the Association, particularly as regards its system of dual membership and the serious numerical exists between "full" and disparity which "associate" members in the large majority of local associations.

Says Hugh

Redwood

and between "blood

firo" and "milk and "Full" members are those who are committed to

water." the Christian way of life and who seek to co-operate

This is where the Charter Statement comes in. In with others in Christian service in and through the

is по

hall- Association. "Associate" members, while avalling that pronouncernent, at least, there themselves of the privileges which the Association heartedness: offers, do not accept the responsibilities of full member-

ship.

Tus it is to its "full" membership that the

Y.M.C.A. must look, in the words of the Com-: missioners, for its "striking force in its campaign to win young men and boys for Jesus Christ.

It is clearly faced with a grave situation, when the Commissioners have to report not only that the dis Proportion between the two classes of members is such as greatly to weaken the life and witness of the Asso clation but that "far too often full membership is merely a nominal thing." It is dicuit, as they say, to over-estimate the seriousness of such a state of

"Our message (it says) is Jesus Christ. We re affirm 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 belleve that the Gospel is the sure source of power for social regeneration. It proclaims the only way by which humanity can eeppe from those class and race hafreds which devastate society at present into the enjoyment of national well-being and inter- national friendship and peace.

"We ind in Christ, and especially in His Cross and resurrection, un inexhaustible source of power that makes us hope when there is no hope. We believe that through"it men and societies and nations that have lost their moral nerve to live will be quickened Into life.

"We have come to see more clearly the fullness THE YM.C.A., to put it bluntly, is faced the saivation of Christ. Confronted by international with the need of saving its soul. It relations that constantly dout Christ's law of love, there young men and women, even if cannot do it if it' is content to be mainly a social | in lald on all who bear a name the solemn obligation |

organisation, for its whole value as a social labour unceasingly for a new world-order. there are others who are not organisation depends on its spiritual strength.

""We are convinced of the urgent necessity for a making the best use of the op- I think if I were asked to define the issue great increase in the Christian forces in all countries.

We are persuaded that we and all Christian 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,”

administered energetically and efficiently: but he was not a great Minister.

Yel hk qualitles were of a value that great men do not always pos- ses. He never lowered the moral standard of politics; and in every vital insup that he touched he raised it.

He was never behind the ideas of his time. He always knew when to give a lead. He was never timid ha crisis. He never felt that tact and discretion were more Important than truth.

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In the sense that every politician. is necessarily ambitious, he no doubt cared for power; but he

conviction never sacrificed 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 confl- dence.

You knew where you were with hlm. You know that he would always take the straight road and the high-rond. It was impossible not to regard him with mingled affection and respect,

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THERE have been acter

and more brilliant Pro~ miers 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-havo-ever- grown. RD consistently as respon- aibility ellclted from himt the chance to be himself at his best.

In our own generation he re- minds me of no one so much as the late Arthur Henderson. Both had 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 public 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 'alóng by the obvious integrity of its makers.

Campbell-Bannerman has not got a great niche in history. But I miss my guess if any historiar in the future will speak of him. without a sense of regard that goes as deep as it will with any Ogura of his time.

LIMEY

Many thanks to the old salts who answered my request for the origin of *Limey," the American nickname for British scamen

And congratulations, combined with: thanks, to “Ancient Mallo,” of Alder- shot, for the following 'reply :-) In print that fairly-acemis to shcht it. Sapa Showman, "Rak then, wot spekt

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So in this rhyme an old salt tries His best to put our Showman wise. Long years ago a law was mado By Jack Tārs patcha · Board

Trade-

That Jack, on reach tropia climes, De issued with the juice of itmer; Simply because the Board was nervy Sell" "horsa and heat would give Jack

scurty,

Then Yanks, when wishing to traduco

her,

Nicknamed 'British ship, •LINIC

julcer"

So "Limey" was the terms they'd uso' "To show contempt for Eritish crews.

Linchouse may be, the source of

bitmey

But not the origin of “Limey.” Wags' Corner

"The small man was shown to thie only vacant reat at the cinema, tolich happened to be “behind a 'man" of "Im- mense proportions.

"You can't see?" said the bii) than eventually, in antwer to the small

· fellow'a protesta. “Just keep your eye on me, than, and laugh when it laugh.”- Half-a-guinea to Mr. T.: Wood, at : Bradford.