A SCHOOL WITHOUT A COLOUR BAR
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of the correspondence in your pages on the lack of a sense of brotherhood to the coloured races, I think your readers may be interested to hear of a project now on foot in South Africa which has a distinct bearing on the problem.
I refer to the Friends' School near Maritzburg, which it is proposed to found for the children of white races (but with no colour bar in the constitution), if only the necessary funds can be collected. If a new spirit is to be introduced into racial relationships we must begin with the young, and it is with the urgent desire to forward a reasonable idea of co-operation for the welfare of their common country between the different races in South Africa that the school is being planned. Although the children there trained cannot influence the policy of their country for many years, such a school would immediately be a nucleus for like-minded people, thus making a contribution to a great world problem which calls loudly for solution in South Africa.
On a high hill overlooking the wide plain in which lies Maritzburg only five miles away, there is a solid house built for a school, surrounded by the wonder of a Natal garden. Here the eye of imagination can see the ideal place for this new school, and if anyone is interested in helping to make it a reality, will they write and ask for more details to the undersigned ?—I am, Sir, &e.,
Friends' House, Euston Road, N.W. 1. A. Rum Fay'.
[The Friends often lead the world in humane and far-seeing enterprises. We hope the proposed school will soon be established, and that many of our readers will write to Miss Huth Fry.—En. Spectator.]
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