auxiliary park camp; draughts tournament.  No. 10, religious discussion class; Lord Wm. Cecil; service conducted by Chaplain Berry.  No. 11, Professor Thos.  Welsh’s Bible class; mid-week rally.  No. 12, fretwork and carpentry class; games; letter writing.  No. 13, mid-week service; Bible class; letter writing.  No. 14, cinema show; indoor games.  No. 15, lantern lecture on “India in the Trenches.”  No. 16, ladies’ concert party; Hindi and Urdu classes; letter writing; games.  All of this covers only the program for half of the huts on a single night!

Principal Fraser, of Ceylon and Uganda, but equally conversant with present-day problems in Britain, has been conducting a weekly parliament in different camps on the great questions of reconstruction after the war.  For here are men away from home, lifted above the toil and narrow drudgery of their former cramped lives, and they have learned to think.

There is evidence of wide industrial and social unrest.  The men are conscious not only of world wrongs which threaten their country from without, but of wrongs within as well, and they are going to demand that these wrongs shall be righted.  A deep tide of feeling runs through the audience, as these men, blunt of speech but clear of brain, openly and frankly discuss the future, and they hang eagerly upon the words of Principal Fraser as he guides their thought to higher ideals for the period of reconstruction that is to follow.

One night they are discussing the present social order, and what is wrong with it; they are dealing with bad housing, employment, low wages, the cleavage between the rich and the poor, industrial oppression, and social injustice.  The next night they consider the dangers of demobilization.  What will be the effect upon hundreds of thousands of women workers?  Here are more than five million soldiers in the army, and a large number of men and women, boys and girls, working on government orders.  What steps must be taken to minimize the dislocation of industry and to prevent unemployment?  On the night following, they discuss the question of industrial reorganization.  They resolve that “the time has come, as the only means of averting social disaster, to grant a constitution to the factory, and quite frankly to recognize and insist that the conditions of employment are not matters to be settled by the employer alone, any more than by the workmen alone, but in joint conference between them; and not even for each establishment alone, but subject to the National Common Rules arrived at for the whole industry by the organized employers and employed, in consultation with the representatives of the community as a whole.”

At the next parliament they discuss the future of education in England.  What should be its aim, how far should it be technical, and how far should it aim at the development of personality?  Should the school-leaving age be raised to fifteen, or half-time education be given up to the age of eighteen?  One night in the parliament they discuss the problem of drink and the war; on another night, gambling; and on another, the social evil.  The men who attend the lectures and parliaments of these camps will almost get a liberal education during the three years.