HOW BRAVE MEN DIE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 78, 9 April 1913, Page 8

HOW BRAVE MEN DIE.

THE LESSON IN THE SCHOOLS

As tho memorial service to Captain Scott and las gallant companions at 'St. Paul’s Cathedral, Loudon, was beginning, the story of tho expedition and its lessons was being told to tens of thousands of school children both

in London and in the provinces. In London the offer by ! the London “Evening News” to supply an article to bo read aloud to elementary sciiool children by the head teachers was readily accepted. Shortly before noon the various classes were brought together, and in some cases with appropriate introduction, and in others without, the triumph of Captain Scott and his comrades was explained. The story which had been supplied to the schools was written by Mr Arthur Machen. It began with a note upon the greatness of England—the sort of greatness of which the expedition had furnished an example—and after describing very simply the journey, and the terrors of the Polar regions, it gave Captain Scott’s own narrative, and closed as follows: So these brave men died, and now you know what we'mean when we say that they were great. They feared no danger, they never complained, they did their very best, each one was willing to give up his life for the others, and when they knew that there was no hope for them they laid down their lives bravely and calmly, like true Christian gentlemen. At some of the schools the teachers added their own words to the lesson of heroism, which had been followed with striking evidence of the child’s power of sympathy and admiration.