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WEDNESDAY, OCтoren 20, 1938.

THERE CAN BE VICTORY IN DISASTER

DO

HOW YOU PRAY?

MANY of us have started to pray again for the first time, perhaps since we were children. And, we don't find it easy. We Bop down of our knees, and any, "O, God, please lel there be, peace in the world, and -If there must be war, don't let them

kill me and my family."

A petition like that is not really u prayer, but a wish, and, when you come to think of it, rather a selfish Why should you In particular be exempt from danger?

gitc.

Those who get up from their knees... after a prayer like that probably feel, "Well, now I've asked God to do what I want. If He doesn't do il 1 shall feel that He doesn't exist and that it is no good praying."

This frame DF mind leaves such people very much where they were before they started praying, in a state of despairing half-belief. It is reducing God to the level of a lucky

inascot.

All the same, half the battle is won by the willingness of people to

trust something more than

just clever wits and material strength. The most encouraging algna recently have been those of the public dis- taste for war. The question is: When you pray to God, what ought you to pray "about?

The Arst thing for you to de la to acknowledge' the existence of Evil. This should not be difficut. The dogs of war have rather barked their way into prominence recently.

The next thing is to remember that it is not for you to condemn any human being a wholly evil. You nre not to pray for the destruction of those of whom you disapprovć. God will destroy them, In the end, if they ought to be destroyed. God always triumphs over evil, because He is all- powerful and evil is only negative.

B

DUT God has more time to work His will than our short lives. Even Communists of dictators or Conservatives or whoever they may be whom you personally dislike must one day die.

·

But you can work against the will of God and nazist evil and war-by wishing destruction of people rather than of things. So when you pray, pray for, justice right and grace.

JUSTICE for all in the decisions

• widelt are being made, to-day, not the sort of justice, that was made nt Versailles, but divine" jústico.

Right triumphant over wrong. Grace working in the hearts of all men, to bringt about the triumph of good over evil,

And here you can dedicate your- self to God, të tek Him use' you as He wills. In this way, even. If the proyers of the faithful cannot averi a war, you will be submitting your- self to the will of God and He will tell you what to do.

And if you want words in which to express all this and moré, you will And them in the Lord's Prayer.

High Shields

Ex-pupil reports

on his school

by

LORD

FORBES

his name on the school roil at birth.

O-DAY a new genera Then the parent must name which tion of Etonians

of Waterloo

A

A

NEtonian, when he

first Goes to Elon,' has to fag. The first six tỏ ten boys will be able- to order the new arrivals to run

errands for tiem A young boy will

two

have to be a fag from one to years, according to how well he passed his original entrance examination.

Discipline in the house is main- tained by

the first five or six senior

persons of the house. If a boy mis-

T 7.25 am, weather wet behaves the captain of the house has

will house he desires his son to go to. will attend early school. To get to

or fine, the young Etonlun right to beat him.

said, "The battle

the persuasion of the house

evitable; that to fight in Han public have regarded Elonians with that you decide that he should be forward to the limited amount of and is flogged with a birch.

must

oul

The Chinese people will need all the moral support

their friends can give to withstand the second disaster that has)

of the child, on entrance examina- a mile. And he will not be given Eton, is as a rule asked before the tion has to be taken.

breakfast until 8.30. overtaken their country in less Duke.

culprit is punished. - A boy can only times Before the examination the After his Perhaps in these troubled

breakfast you would be than a week, for morale and con-

punished for house offences by the It is good that they should hear tell parents must decide whether they think that he would be able to sit in captain of the house. fiderice necessarily must he of a strong Irishman.

wish their son to attempt a scholar-A warm room in his house, especially If a bay does badly at his work: badly shaken by the successive. The Duke of Wellingon did Eton ship or to be an Oppidin.

in winter. No, this comfort is de- he comes before the headmaster. The nied to him because none of the form master will complain to the losses of Canton and Hankow, College great Injury when, in a fit

he of generosity,

headmaster that Mr. So-and-So it are many advantages Eton houses has central heating, THERE in pence-time the two largest

if your son is clever

Each student has his own bed- idle and should be chivied. enough to take a scholarship. His sitting-room. There is a fireplace in The headmaster then sends for the cities in the country excent felds of Was won on the playing

Few believed this fantastic state fees will be halved, Instead of his every room. But no boy is allowed idle boy, and puts him on a white Shanghal.

ment, few would have remembered education costing £300 per annum to light a fire in his room before ticket.He is on a white ticket for ten

twelve noon. For the whole day on days, Chinese newspapers are prob-it to this day if it were not the cus- it will cost 180.

for every young Etonian to be I a boy passes the scholarship he Etonian is given one small scuttle of At the end of that time he ably much better adapted than told by the school authorities of the has the right to put KS. after his coal.

obtain the signatures of all his form duke's fooilsh remark.

Not every day, however, but four masters on the ticket to say that his that means King's Scholar. name; British journals to telling the

Since this evit day Elonians have He will then live in "college" among mes a week only. When I was at work has improved. If one of his masses that the withdrawal regarded themselves as the mainstay

seventy other scholars.

Eton I endured cold for three days form masters should fail to sign, the from the Wuhan area was in- of the Army officer class, and the

If your son

week. However, I looked boy is summoned to the headmaster Is not so bright as in- the

both distrust and suspicion.

come an Oppidan. He will then cool I was given by my housemaster

Flogging at Eton is carried kow would have hurt China

if he for the remainder of the week. take a simpler exom, and THE public are biased ut THE

Eton refuses to install central heat- with porap and ceremony. The boy will go to one of the twenty- phases much more than Japan; that

once by the clothes that eight houses. Each house has about log in the houses, although it has to be logged is made to kneel on a Chinese leaders, including Gen- Etonians wear. The top hat and forty boys in it.

done so in the

trousers down, a schoolrooms. The block with his However, a boy

who goes to a housemaster must not be blamed for gentleman called a fussed then sits eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, pre- tail coat for boys from the age of

twelve upwards is ridiculous.”

house always looks down on the giving the forty students in his on the unfortunate's head, and one dicted early this year that the "Is that school trying to educate the scholar. He

of the senior boys hands the birch 10 will call the scholar house a limited amount of coal Japanese entry would be effect- sons of the rich

by t

For the living of a housemaster the headmaster. And the logging the derisory name of Tug, There are twelve hundred boys depends upon the money he can marches on, ed before July. That it is the fops?" That's what is said.

A century ago that would be a at Eton. But it would be an error mass out of his house. Each house- It is considered a great disgrace to tenth and not the seventh month true statement. Eton was trying to to think

When that they are pampered master receives £90 per year Der be forged by the headmaster.

I was at Eton the heavy hand of Dr. the educate its scholars into being little with luxury and

Eton boy Doy, of the year in which

than the or- He has the boys in his house for Alington, now Dean of Durham, was genlemen and to wearing the same boy has less luxury Japanese can claim that they clothes na daddy.

dinary boy who attends a council eight months per year. Out of this much feared. I never experienced is a better school. have reached their

In winter the Etonian has gure he has to pay rent for his the chastisement of the Dean of Dur- objec- Now, however, there

reason for keeping the Etonian uni- first of all to resist the cold, damp house, feed the boys, provide servants ham. tive seems no cause for des-form,

Thames Valley climate,

and heat and maintain the house, pondency

the on

The headmaster of

of Elon, if he the Chinese. They have were questioned as to why he did,

not dress Elonians in clothes suit- mude a gallant and impossible able to boys young in years, would GRIN AND BEAR IT stand for the three cities when probably it would have been easy, and probably not much less fruitful, to draw the Japanese further into the hinterland. The story of Telan is one that should be immortalised by China's his-

part

into effeminate

answer: "Convicts are dressed in loud-striped overalls su that they can easily be seen when they escape. We can easily follow the top hat of on Etonian it hel breaks bounds."

So rather pity the Etonian. His

tail coat worry hlm top hat and more than you.

It is not easy to get your Jon torians of the future, for to the dressed in a top hat and tall cont. gallant defenders of this obscure It is expensive, too. To send a boy to Eton it is necessary to inscribe

and previously unknown villago goes the honour of immobilising practically the entire might of is more able to withstand the |Japan for three months.

attacks of Japan's mechanise'l | units and aeroplanes than Japan China, réeling under two suc is able to withstand the attacks cessive blows, temporarily is

on her financial and economic like a punch drunk boxer. But structure. China'a reveries are with the withdrawal from Han-blazoned on the front pages of kow and the taking up of now the world's newspapers; Japan's lines in more favourable terrain, reverses, because of their in- she has gained a breathing spellsidiousness and because they for the next round. For Japan are really known only to the there is no such breathing spell, financial leaders of the country.

are seldom or never mentioned. Entry into a city, even a city of Nevertheless, of the two, they the size and richness of Catitonare probably the greater. It and Hankow (the riches of both becomes a question of which will

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EVERYWHERE-

appeared in the hour of the in-If China's morald remains frin; vaders' victory) does not end or if the Chinese people continue to relax the terrific strain under leaders who have led them for. give unwavering support to the which she ti conducting this war fifteen months no nation on of aggression.

earth can conquer this great China, it should be reiterated, country which fa our neighbour.

enre. An

БОРТО

HOWEVER, I once came ne

to it. I was before him for offence to which I pleaded.

By Lichty gorance.

"Them Canal Streeters say it's only their fall · manet

we, better keep an eye on 'em!”

Sald Dr. Alington: "You are either a fool or a knave. If I consider you to be a knave I shall fog you,"

I quickly explained to Dr. Aling- ton that I was a fool. To my intense relief he agreed that I was a fool,

Elon provides a good education.. When a boy first goes there he has to work about ten hours a day. When he gets older the volume of work in reduced, no doubt to accustom many to the life which they will live after they have left "dear mother Eton

Etonians leave the school from the DECS

the

of seventeen to nineteen. Many Etonians go to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and later Army. Others go to the universities and others enter business.

When an Etonian leaves the head- master blds him farewell and hands The

him

a copy of Gray's. "Elegy.", gift of this book is very important to

ah Etonian, for it shows that he left Eton In honourable

and was not dismissed.

clrcumstances

THE name of the departed Etonish will be carved on the panels of Upper School where Plit once studied." Pitt started this custom for he carved his name on ong of the shutters of Upper School. Etonians, do this, because they fan the same school Urch say "I

as William

What happens to Etonian 2 Some go to jail, some lo the Bou! of Commons as Torles, some become good ministers, some become fly

club

and others do nothing: But live in the memory that they were ahoo Elonians, and holat high the lies of black and blue.

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