A LETTER FROM BIG BROTHER BILL

Evening Star, Issue 23680, 13 September 1940, Page 3

A LETTER FROM BIG BROTHER BILL

Dear Bairns,—Tnere was no room oil the page for last week’s Picture Gallery, but /the pictures are here this week. The competition this week has been • suggested by some of the bairns One letter says: “ Why not a competition in descriptive letter writing, Brother Bill, to give the subject? the best subject Brother Bill can think ot, the nearest to something the bairns will remember with the greatest freshness. is the last term holidays. So the competition this week is for the best descriptive letter about them. Make it not more than three (writing pad) pages long, and crowd into it as many of your experiences as you can remember. Write it neatly (this counts a great deal), and on one side of the paper only. .... All the bairns will be thinking of English boys and girls who daily and nightly are being made victims of German air raids. The thing to think of is their courage. Another thing to think of is our pride at belonging to the same nation. We cannot help them, but we can be proud of them; Boy

Scouts and Girl Guides carrying on even though English autumn rain is now German bombs of fire and death. When the history of this war is written some of its best stories will be of the part played in it by boys and girls who were unafraid. The boys and girls who read this letter, and our weekly page, belong to the English-speaking race; the proudest and greatest race in the world. Keep that in mind always. What is there

to be proud of, you ask? Here are some things Brother Bill was sent the other day—the British Ten Commandments :

1. For the open door—a fair field and equal rights for all nations. 2. For the gospel that the workman is worthy of his hire, and no Englishman shall live as a slave. d. For humanity in all things; for the prevention of cruelty everywhere, kindness to animals and the love of little children. 4. For the honour of promises made between men and nations throughout the world.

5. For throwing open as wide as can he the field of human knowledge. 6. For spreading as wide as can be the field of human happiness. 7. For believing the truth to be as free as life itself. , 8. For the toleration of every man s opinion. 9. For the unselfish pursuit of the good of all mankind. 10. For the peace of all the world, which no nation ever longed for more, or did more to achieve. These are some of the things for which the British Empire, stands, and has tried hard_ to bring to men. They are things which cannot die, and to believe in them, and be part of a nation that does so, is a matter of pride to all. Yours affectionately, BIG BROTHER BILL.