Show LIGHT AND PEACE The British pol policy J. J of peace by hy means of light in South Africa is certain to command success success The Thc public school has bas tal taken n the place of the tile camp tent and the teacher that of the sentinel The Tue educational education education- al nl movement inaugurated in South Africa by bJ the tile British is meeting with signal success The Thc St. St Thomas Times says that the growth of the public schools in the Or Orange River Colony South Africa is 15 a gratifying ing feature of the situation During the tile war when families were gathered into the tile concentration concentration concen concen- c camps schools were wele opened b by the tile Government Government Govern Govern- ment for the Boer bOJ boys s and girls and were well at at- tended The youngsters O showed great desire to learn Since the war these schools have been con continued COli c awl and others have been added all over tue he country In MaJl 01 children were in the tue schools against before the war At present the attendance is not so large laige as the thc farmers return- return to their distant farms take their children with them them but the work still goes on Some teachers teach teach- ers mostly from England and Canada have been employed besides Dutch girls who act as int interpreters and and assist in the teaching Britain could not 5 adopt a n. better bettel method of effectually pacifying ing the tile conquered colonies Ignorance is the of j prejudices and of hatred The clear duty duly of a conquered conquered cont con- con t countr country is to acknowledge defeat and pro pro- rc pare for new conditions as well as for the duties these conditions impose e. e The undoubted duty on the other hand of the conquerors is iR to treat the defeated de de- j party part equitably and humanely s so that hat tim the h wound wound of war ma may maj be he speedily healed and its its' reI re- re I 5 1 suits accepted as final finai at the practicable The Tile BO Boers lS l'S h t young and vigorous people cannot afford to lo e time ro ding Over the tile past Their duty to themselves and ind nd to fo posterity calls calis' Jora for Jor fora a fearless facing of the future with all it its obligation obligations obligations obliga obliga- tion and demands South Africa is a country o of oC illimitable resources It affords ample room for Britain and Boer to th their ir civilization x reflecting reflecting re reo reon re- re n honor on two of the greatest races s on earth The public school works works' for peace and progress It has given America its immovable place in the front It will bring South Africa ca well to the tile front also It will teach the tile young that the most fruitful victories 4 are pot not those of war wai war but that those triumphs won h by ly self control and b by devotion t to the tile arts of peaceful industry are most conducive to the development of human brotherhood and human n advancement |