EVACUATION AND TAXATION
must confess to feeling surprise at the letter signed "Pharos" in your last issue, in which your correspondent complains that the education of his two children, aged eight and ten, is interfere.] Nob by the evacuation schemes. He deplores " the danger of our two children having to be withdrawn from their schools, at which they have been happy for some years, and sent, I suppose, to new schooS7 in strange billets far away, with strange children and strange teachers, to begin a changed educational life of a different character in gum altered circumstances."
For a time, and because of the war, it seems, the education of two very young children is dislocated. ' This is the complaint, at a time of unexampled national crisis, of a clergyman who sends Isis children to preparatory and high schools, lives in a "fair-sized' vicarage, and is reduced to "giving up one maid." One would ltke to know how many thousands of English children, evacuated from poor homes, have had to undergo this unfortunate change. What d the hundreds who have been sent to Canada " in strange billets, far away "? If it is a question of " preserving their education." what of the numberless young men who, called to the war, have 'sad to abandon their studies, and perhaps their whole career? What d the many children who have lost their fathers in this war, and ;doe entire circumstances, let alone their education, may be endanzered? And finally, what of the gallant airmen who, daily and nigh!■Y. risk their lives to preserve for "Pharos" and his children, the freedom
to pursue any educational plans at all?—Yours faithfully, TFN13Y*
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