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THE WELSH OUTLOOK NOTES OF THE MONTH 3 WELSH PIONEERS-RICHARD PRICE 7 THE EDUCATION OF THE ADOLESCENT 9 LABOUR AND THE UNIVER- SITY 13 ALL of us at the end of the last month almost made a virtue of our bewilder- ment in attempting to predict the results of the General Election then in progress, and we were clearly justified. After all prophecy is a science, and like all the sciences, must have its postulates, based more on experience than on anything else. Our recent electioneering adventure should greatly assist us in arriving at a new and a clearer estimate of the political situation in the United Kingdom, especially on some points which have in the past few years confounded many of our wise-acres. For instance, although women over thirty had been given the vote, practically by common consent, nevertheless the quondam enemies of the women's suffrage movement, and the doubting Thomases, had always insisted that the woman's vote would be, for a long time, a fickle, uncertain, and completely disturbing factor in our national politics. We would not like to say yet that their fears and doubts have been completely or utterly falsified, but the last election has at any rate shown that however short in point of time the political apprenticeship and probation of the woman voter may have been, she can think as clearly and definitely on fiscal and economic issues as the most hardened male voter. The election has JANUARY, 1924. «,*# The Editor does not necessarily identify himself with the opinions of contributors to "The Welsh Outlook. n Editorial responsibility is limited to the views expressed in the "Notes of the Month." Manuscripts sent should be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope. Where there is no vision the people perish. NOTES OF THE MONTH PAGE A WELSH BORDER WRITER 15 WILLIAM 17 THE BORROW MANUSCRIPTS 18 APRES LA GUERRE 20 RHYGYVARCH & ST. DAVID 22 Annual Subscription. 7/6. CONTENTS: certainly given us an index to the direction in which this vote is likely to be cast in future. Apart from exceptional attacks of national feverishness and their concomitant delirium, it will generally be on the side of peace, honest and fair national and inter- national relationships, and cheap and decent living. On the other hand, it will be dis- tressingly timid in its support of any ex- perimental policy, however attractive and promising. The election has also shown that the average British voter is not to be greatly scared by the imaginary terrors of the Rothermere, Beaverbrook and Birken- head factories. Education, and particularly political education, is a slow and un- conscious process, and democrats have, during the past few years, had ample reason to doubt whether it was taking place at all; recent events have proved that at any rate the ordinary voter has become conscious of the fact that he has interests and a deter- mining will of his own, and is not altogether an ugly mechanical toy, which can be wound up at pleasure with the key of a wilful and ignorant daily newspaper. That is the ex- tent of the comfort we get out of the General Election, but we are told that it has shown that protection is not only "dead and damned" as in the days of Disraeli but damned again a second time, that the PAGE A STUDY IN MEDIEVALISM 23 POETRY 25 WALES AT WORK-A SOCIAL DIARY 26 REVIEWS 28 Half Year, 3/9 (post free). PAGE