Mr. Neville Chamberlain published in Tuesday's papers an appeal to
Public School boys over sixteen years of age to help in the work on the land during the summer holidays and for a fortnight of the summer terra. We may take oredit to ourselves for having recom- mended this and something more in the Spectator, and we are glad that the Director of National Service has adopted one of the Spectator's "fads." The schoolboys will, we are sure, be delighted at the proved. Work on the land in properly organ. ized squads is both useful and amusing, as many of them have found already. . The schoolmasters will be delighted also, and moat parents, if not all perhaps, will agree that their boys should be encouraged to render such natioaal service as they can in this Most 'critical Bummer; when we tired-to save every ounce of the crops. The Science masters ought to nutlet admirable directors of boy-power, and we .have no doubt that before hang we shall hear of the Classical masters finding useful " tips " in Xenophon's Economize, or even in the Works and Days and the Georgics.
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