THE RISING GENERATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 11

THE RISING GENERATION

“FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY” “My message (o the. rising generation is-short. Four words suni it up: Fight for Your Country!” writes Dr. L. P 1 Jacks, Principal of Manchester College, Oxford, in tlio “Daily Mail.” _ “She is sore stricken and in great peril Fools have misled her; puacks have given her poison; parasites have sucked her lifeblood ; men without souls have defiled her beautiful garments and clothed her in their own ugliness; Fight, first of all. against the reign of talk, where the word of the wise man is incessantly beaten down by clamour and clap-trap; where the deeds that needs to be dono evaporates into futile discussion. .• Fight, next, against mass-bribery, now shamelessly practised by all 'politidal parties, and vastly more demoralising to the people than tho straightforward bribery of old, times, when tho towncrier went round at four o’clock in the afternoon offering twenty pounds for a vote—'as my grandmother used to tell me. How to get rid of the dole? I know of one way only. Let tho young rise up in their millions and tell the cowardly bribers to their faces that they will die of hunger rather than touch the poisonous thing. Finely spoken, you will say, by one who is novor likely to bo in that position. Well, ho as nasty as you please, but strike, and strike with all the strength of self-respecting manhood and womanhood at the damnable system which has brought into existence this stagnant mass of State-supported idleness. Make revolution on these lines and shut your ears to the fools and scoundrels who have made revolution on any other.”