ENGLAND'S REAL DANCER.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13613, 3 January 1913, Page 8

ENGLAND'S REAL DANCER.

Sir Thomas Barclay, speaking recently at Browning Hall, Wahvorth, chvclt forcibly on his impressions of Gertr.any, a country which Jio has visited for well-nigh 40 years, and which ho ;s profoundly acquainted with. He said tljat lio had long sauce convinced hiin-f.c-lf that it was neither the Germany Army nor the German Navy that we Jn i ou fear, but German industrial e.'iiciency. The Germans were wasting as Isttlo time as possible on political striFt*, and were devoting all their energi is. to n liking more .intelligent, more capaMp a;\d more adaptable artisans. On t!i<-;ii ('impended tho future of Germany, as in tho ens-o of erory other industrial <n-*n iv:unity. Germanj' had long ago Uncovered that tho expansion of her voirrrityco depended on well trained eomin'.'i-ci-ji travellers. England's real en.'.«-»-was h-r.r indifference to tlieso things.

England could apply a Jesson i.-j-u Cx'i'Jiiany in trying to interest the* \vbolp rcpiilation in the prosperity of liic country. The working people's nitf^-i ; ; v/us their efficiency. It me.i Jit Lyettv; and steadier wages, more coin I: -t. colf-respc-ct, and all that woI.; together to rc.ake a- prosperous aui liappy community. Tlis indifferor.ee oi' rin^lich parents to the industrial and tet'lmical education of their children•fe iit them for tho ever increasing Qtrugglo for life was a disgrace—-(-rer-ttiany-aiid th-o United States were an example" of what . England shbuld <!<•■ Technical and industrial schools were the working men's salvation, and at otery election the''caiididato's intorest ia technical and industrial education chonUl be the chief criterion of-Iris siiit-A'-ility -to represent a working: men's constituency. Englishmen w-ci'e.being iiMitcM l»y tiic Germans in every field of cutori.Ti^c. They word .'cutting us out no I only in our own colonial and in for-; c-1-j.n markets, but in England itself. The T'V.itii'.!] wore not*naturally fools,, and <r.:;lfl ctill wako up to the• nccessiffcy,-of '."VV'iiroil training, but wlien on© saw bh;it ihoy wcio.-dependent iti-Hungary, P..n<,si:!, Spain, and even Argentina and cit !■'.!• countries on German commercial t-sv.-lk'rs to "boll English goods; 'one C'-r-hl otily feel profonndly liiimiliated r-t oi:r o-.vii-inferiority...■■'•'•- : . ' -