ARTISANS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS. (To THE EDITOR Or THE
" SPECTATOR21
SIR,—The incident reported in the enclosed extract from Tues- day's Daily Mail furnishes proof of a gentlemanly and generous feeling on the part of the aircraft workers at Chelten- ham which is pleasant to read of, and worthy, I venture to think, of being placed on record in the Spectator.—I am, Sir, AN OLD PUBLIC SCHOOL BOY.
"Stem TO COLLEGE RAG.'—There has been a satisfactory ending to the Cheltenham College 'rag,' the victim of which was an ex-baths attendant, now an aircraft worker. The head- master had promised that a representative of the local aircraft workers should witness the flogging of the ringleaders. When this representative kept the appointment, however, he ex- pressed a desire not to humiliate the college or the boys, and asked for their release, in the hope that they would recognise that there were gentlemen in the ranks of artisans, even if they were not educated in colleges. The boys loudly- cheered this announcement."
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