e men are
conscious not only of world wrongs which threaten their country from
without, but of wrongs within as well, and they are going to demand
that these wrongs shall be righted. A deep tide of feeling runs
through the audience, as these men, blunt of speech but clear of brain,
openly and frankly discuss the future, and they hang eagerly upon the
words of Principal Fraser as he guides their thought to higher ideals
for the period of reconstruction that is to follow.

One night they are discussing the present social order, and what is
wrong with it; they are dealing with bad housing, employment, low
wages, the cleavage between the rich and the poor, industrial
oppression, and social injustice. The next night they consider the
dangers of demobilization. What will be the effect upon hundreds of
thousands of women workers? Here are more than five million soldiers
in the army, and a large number of men and women, boys and girls,
working on government orders. What steps must be taken to minimize the
dislocation of industry and to prevent unemployment? On the night
following, they discuss the question of industrial reorganization.
They resolve that "the time has come, as the only means of averting
social disaster, to grant a constitution to the factory, and quite
frankly to recognize and insist that the conditions of employment are
not matters to be settled by the employer alone, any more than by the
workmen alone, but in joint conference between them; and not even for
each establishment alone, but subject to the National Common Rules
arrived at for the whole industry by the organized employers and
employed, in consultation with the representatives of the community as
a whole."

At the next parliament they discuss the future of education in England.
What should be its aim, how far should it be technical, and how far
should it aim at the development of personality? Should the
school-leaving age be raised to fifteen, or half-time education be
given up to the age of eighteen? One night in the parliament they
discuss the problem of drink and the war; on another night, gambling;
and on another, the social evil. The men who attend the lectures and
parliaments of these camps will almost get a liberal education during
the three years.

We have spoken of the vast work going on in the thirty huts conducted
by 167 workers in this single base camp. Let us now pass into a
typical center and observe the work a little more