Railwaymen and Education.

The Frankton Junction Railwaymen's Class in Economics, held under the auspices of the Workers’ Educational Association, is growing in popularity. The Class has been in existence for two years and is steadily increasing its membership—and its eagerness for knowledge. Its members have just concluded a very successful session of lectures during the course of which practically every phase of economic thought came under review. The lectures delivered by Mr. T. N. Pemberton, M. A., Dip. Jour., F.R.E.S., were not only instructive, but enjoyable. His lectures gave ample evidence of thorough preparation and had the additional advantage that they were free from technicalities or from anything savouring of the academic. A feature of the meetings was the election of a new chairman for each lecture. This procedure served the double purpose of acquainting the members of the Class with the duties and responsibilities of chairmnaship, and of giving them practice in the art of public speaking. With the need that is evident to-day for trained and disciplined minds to study (and solve) the economic and transport problems of the Dominion—problems in which we, as railwaymen, are vitally interested—it is to be hoped that classes similar to those at Frankton Junction may be started at centres where at present, they do not exist.