A LEAVER'S CONFERENCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—IS it possible that Mr. D. Halliday McCartney has not attended a Leaver's Conference ? There are usually present representatives of the juvenile branch of the Labour Exchange —skilled in problems of industry ; a representative of evening institutes and continuation schools ; in most cases a padre, or someone equally conversant with clubs and guilds ; parents ; an experienced worker from the District Organizer's office ; the school master and mistress ; and there is also a fully-filled- in school-leaving form (four copies) telling of the leaver's capacity, bent, and what organization has been joined, whether belonging to Church or to some secular association.
Some young folk utterly refuse to link themselves with any church, club, scouts, guides, or G.F.S., &c.
This is hardly the fault of the Conference system—I am,
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