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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 sone

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 to-day 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.

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-

February 20, 1940.

Wour: Last year sırrah, you

grossly insulted me. LAMB: That is impossible,

sir, for I wasn't born then.

WOLF: Well, you feed in

my pastures. LAMB: That cannot be. for

I have never yet tasted grass,

WOLF: You drink from my

spring then. LAMB Indeed, sir,

I have never yet drunk anything but my mother's milk.

AESOP'S FABLES: 'The Wolf and the Lamb.

QUESTION of the moment

answered by W. N. Ewer

Will Hitler

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turn Bolshevik?

I believe these re- ports that Nazi Germany is going Bolshevik "2 often these days.

The question comes →

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 Lenin have been and are anathema to Hitler,

But it is no longer a question of Ideals. Nazism has come to the point in its evolution at which it is indifferent to ideals. Its Jew- hatred it still clings to; but even that it would abandon If abandon- ment served its purpose.

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 or lose everything (Includ- ing, probably enough, their lives), They must" hang together or hang separately." Power is the first necessity of their being. And the

power. It is an appetite that grows with eating.

At all costs they must keep and strengthen their control. At ali costa they must repress and de- stroy any possible opposition to their authority.

ber of parents who could afford the need for power begets the lust of fees has tended to diminish. An- other problem concerns not only their power to exist, but their right to exist in these democratic times. Enlowed, independent, exclusive, they have provided a singular con- trast to the democratic system of education which begins in the State provided elementary schools, con- tinues in the county secondary schools, and now-as not in the past lends even to the older universit

les.

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 these. ancient homes of privilego either can or ought to maintain their ex- clusive social character. Such questions are being carnestly debat- ed in British educational circles. Some fear the loss that may como from breach in the tradition; others

If the "Bolshevisation" of Ger- many seems to them to serve that purpose, then they will become "Bolsheviks," "Paria 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, serve their purpose admirably. "Bolshevisation" would seem to

The Arst law of a dictatorship must be to crush every possible centro of resistance to its authority.

Three Enemies

possible centres of working-class Nazism began by crushing sil

opposition the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Trado Unions,

It passed. inevitably, to war against the Churches, against overy · freedom of writing, of speech, of education.

To-day it sees in Germany three possible rallying points of oppost-

FEBRUARY 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th at 9.15 p.m. look forward to a time when only tton, three spheres in which there

Booking at Andersons

the cleverest boys in the country, the poor no less than the rich, should have entry to the best achools.

is still some kind of authority, some kind of leadership which is not that of the Nazi party. Thore

are the old Army leaders, the in- ! dustrialists (capitalists, if you wi), the landed aristocracy.

The conquest of Germany by the Party is not complete until these three have been crushed, until there is no power, no Authority,

prestige no

in the country except that of the Fuchrer and of his satellites.

break "capitalists." to break the To break the "army caste," to

aristocrats "here is the clear line of Nazi polley.

-Lust-for-Power-

That is, if you will, "Bolshe

vism." But it is a Bolshevism" inspired by no Socialist or Demo- cratic ideal: inspired purely by in- stinct of self-preservation and lust of power: by the desire to have nothing in Germany but a leader- less mass controlled at every point a dominant and predatory oligarchy.

by

The war gives the opportunity. And it looks as though the oppor- tunity will be taken. Not for ap attack on all three fronts at once, Hitler is a politicnt tacticlan of the first order. He will attack the in- dustrialists Arst-and he will attack them with the slogan of Socialism.

So, in that sense, I can expect a "Bolshevisation," a "swing to the Left," an "offensive against Cap- talism."

But do not be deceived by it. It will have no ideological significance at all. It will merely be a device for increasing the power of the Party and for tightening its grip on the German people.

WOLF: Well, anyhow, Lim 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?

This tall, fair, blue-eyed and virile stock, as a biological ex- periment, must be classed as one of Nature's best efforts.

It, 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 civilised and progressive in the country one of the most highly

world.

I shall never forget my first visit to Stockmans, the Helsinki store.

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 knife. The blood flows.

Once at a dinner party that had lasted from half-past eight until two the next morning, my hest told

I wanted-a-book; but I did not ex----mo-that on such occasions-in-the

pect to be shepherded into what is known to be the biggest 'book shop in the world,

The Finns set great store on spent in a typical farmhouse on education. I recall an afternoon

the shore of Lake Puruvesi, near Punkaharju. The family consisted of the farmer. his wife. three- Krown-up cons, two small girls and a daughter of twenty-one.

There are thousands of such familles throughout Finland.

in that farm-house nelther farmer nor wife had over visited a town or seen a railway. Yet the daughter was halfway through the ten-year medical course, and one son could speak good American after dve years lumbering in the West.

I

remember being told in Western Canada that the Finn was án ugly customer to stage a row with. He was credited with rough fighting 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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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 reply--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. flerce and barbaric duel.

Such fights do not take place- now. The overflowing dynamic energy has been diverted into sport, What is the secret of such athletes as Nurmi? I asked a famous Finnish physician. He re- piled: "One reason is our use of the sauna: another our national drink. It is not, as you suppose, schnapps. It is milk."

A sauna 13 a steam bath. Eyery farm-house has a hut by the woods for this purpose. Great boulders are heated and then water is thrown on

them.

I took one of these primitive- Turkish baths at the verge of a. scented wood, and was later well and truly pummelted by an ageless hag-the final process.

It was a marvellous experience, leaving one indescribably vigorous..

Why is the Finn so little known. out of his own country?

Because he travels far when he travels at all and usually as . sallor. Then there is his jarigusge, which, with its eleven cases, deles any but a linguistic genius. Tho curse of Babel reats heavily upon the Finn.

To sum up, the Finn has a codo of personal honour second to nono. He will face with quiet courage the longest of odds. In adversity he- endures. But his memory is long and he has a taste for that good. old

human weakness—revenge. There could be no better key to the Finnish character than you will And in the national epic, the Saga of the Kalevala.

Ranking as the fifth of the great epics of the world's literature, "the Kalovala tells the story of the overthrow of the forces of brute evil by the Christian virtues.

To-day her national epic should prove a source of Inspiration to the most wonderful little country in the modern world.