Few men can have a better understanding of the difficulties and outlook of post-war Youth than Valentine Bell. He is old enough to compare them with the pre-war generation and is not among those to disparage them. He has been forty years a schoolmaster in London-in touch with young wage-earners all his life.
Before the war he worked in North
Lambeth and was head of the Whitehall institute for the Junior Messengers in the Government offices. After three and a half years in France he was appointed Principal of the White-chapel Day Continuation School, and he has been Chairman of the Battersea Juvenile Advisory Committee and the Battersea Juvenile Organisation Committee, and one of the educational advisers at Wandsworth Prison, where he has been- a voluntary tutor since 1923. Last year he made a notable report for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust on ' Junior Instruction Centres and their Future '.
During the past month Valentine
Bell has again been studying ' Youth at first hand throughout Great Britain.; The second of his four talks is on Thursday evening this week.