Correspondents are pointing out that agriculture has for too long been regarded as a backwater so far as careers for boys are concerned. It has been looked upon as the sphere for boys with no brains or personal. ity, nor is it just a pastime—betier boys are required on the land and efter the war the best type of the demobilized men should be encour-egod to be farmers. A house-master writes to say that many boys desire an open-air life, and therefore there should be some system of farm-training at school to replace advanced foreign language classes for such boys.
The newly introduced system of clothes rationing by means of coupon books still occasions letters to the papers. A secretary complains that the ration-coupons do not provide for laddered stockings! More serious is the letter pointing out that whereas 14 coupons are required for an overcoat, if you buy the material yourself you must have 14 coupons for the cloth and six more for the
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