O.T.C. TRAINING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 8, 9 July 1935, Page 17

O.T.C. TRAINING

HEALTHY DISCIPLINE

PRINCE OF WALES'S PRAISE

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, June 15.

In an address at Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire, the Prince of Wales highly commended the fine training which is given by the O.T.C. throughout the schools of the country.

The address was delivered in the great hall after the Prince had inspected members of the school O.T.C. He said he had learnt with interest that over 70 per cent, of the boys were members o£ the corps'.

"We live in very interesting times indeed," continued the Prince, "and it takes people with different ideas to make up a community.. But it is always a mystery to me how a certain number of people—l will go so far as to call them misguided people; in fact, I will even go so far as to call them cranks —who feel that the only way they can express the feeling which all of iis have of the abhorrence of war and of the appalling disaster to the world if another war occurred, is by discouraging, or if they happen to be an authority, by prohibiting any form of healthy discipline and training.

"After all, you may say, 'Don't discipline boys at school,' but, believe me, whatever walk.of life you go into, you will need discipline. I can think of no better way of disciplining beys than by the healthy form of training given by the O.T.C. and the different corps in our schools throughout the country of which we are so proud."