The Days of a Man Xj^^-i^z 



speaker himself, next in now and then setting a gifted 

 young man or woman to thinking along a new and 

 fruitful line. 



The north country in November is a continuous 

 bank of fog, and you distinguish the cities along the 

 road simply as deeper smudges in the mist. Such at 

 least is my recollection of Sheffield, Chesterfield, 

 Derby, and other towns lying between Darlington 

 Munches- and Manchester. Manchester itself is very sturdy and 

 ^"Guafd-^' big, although not so big as London, of which city it is 

 ian" nevertheless a bit scornful! Indeed, it prides itself 

 on its intelligence, directness, and freedom from 

 Toryism. The superior moral and intellectual fiber of 

 this great Midland mart has long been represented by 

 the Manchester Guardian, for half a century the 

 most trustworthy and fair-minded daily newspaper 

 in the world, while the editor, Charles Prestwich Scott, 

 is perhaps the most highly esteemed of English jour- 

 nalists. 



Mez now having rejoined me in Manchester, we 



were the guests of Professor Graham at Dalton Hall. 



The .There, also, the local ''Norman Angell Society," the 



^°^'^P strongest of several university groups of that name, 



Society gave me a reception. On that occasion I met a young 



Canadian, A. W. Haycock, a resourceful advocate of 



peace. During the early part of the war he went to 



France as a Red Cross worker, from which service he 



was withdrawn and imprisoned for a time upon his 



refusal, as a conscientious objector, to fight In the 



ranks. 



Of my three Manchester audiences, the largest 

 (and one of the most appreciative of all I anywhere 

 addressed) gathered on a Sunday afternoon for one 



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