ON TRAINING IN CITIZENSHIP. 4.23 
urge this upon all associations which are formed for the instruction or recreation 
of the people. The formation of local parliaments, showing the practical work 
of the Government in the discussion and promotion of the laws, would be of 
inestimable value in the constituencies. Such parliaments could, by admitting 
the public as audience to their deliberations, demonstrate to the electors their 
individual responsibility for the framing of laws and for the observance of due 
decorum in public discussions. 
_ The associations for young people—Scouts, Guides, Brigades of all denomina- 
tions, Clubs—are invaluable; but a word of caution may be uttered against these 
institutions militating in any way against the home duties of the young citizens. 
Home life is the bedrock of civilisation ; with adequate housing home life should 
reach a standard at present unattainable. 
The Committee beg leave to lay a record of the year’s work before the 
Education Section. 
During the year 1,000 copies of the Committee's Report were presented at 
Hull, and 1,500 circulars advertising this and the two Reports already in 
circulation have been obtained; 1,335 circulars have been distributed and 165 
sold. Three hundred and thirteen of the 1920 Report, 286 of the 1921 Report, 
and 239 of the 1922 Report have been sold. The sum realised by the sales is 
21. 8s. 11d. 
At the Hull meeting a sum of 71. 1s. 9d., the proceeds of the two years’ 
sales of Reports, was handed to the British Association, and 50/. of this was 
granted to the Committee for the current year’s expenses. A statement of 
accounts shows that 15/. Os. 8d. has been spent, leaving 34/. 19s. 4d. With 
the amount realised by sales the balance in the bank is 56/. 18s. 4d. The 
Committee ask permission to use this balance, or such part of it as may be 
needed, in the preparation of an anthology illustrating the evolution and literary 
expression of the dominant ideas of citizenship in the course of the history of 
civilisation ; they believe that such an anthology would be useful as supplementing 
~the labours which the Committee have undertaken and accomplished in the 
preparation of their Reports. 
The Committee ask for reappointment without further grant for one year. 
1923-4, for the completion of the anthology. 
