The Rushden Branch of the League of Nations Union has solved one of the most difficult problems – how both to interest and to educate. This was accomplished last Saturday in a pageant which they had organised. The comical, the ludicrous, the momentary appeal to a jaded sense, are comparatively easy of accomplishment, but to tell the public for many weeks beforehand what you are going to do, and in spite of that, to exceed their wildest expectations if the work of enthusiastic genius. Thousands of people in Rushden learnt more about the League of Nations – what it has done for them materially and morally – in 15 minutes on Saturday afternoon than, possibly, they ever conceived of before. A more exquisite demonstration could not be imagined. There was in the procession an appeal to the sense of beauty and tastefulness, and, in one glance, a lesson that could not fail. The results came after months of careful planning and many weeks of very had work.

Completely free from bias, political, religious, industrial or any other kind of sectional axe-grinding, the monster procession and meeting proved a tremendous success, particularly from an educational point of view. The procession, nearly three quarters of a mile long, was led – a happy inspiration – by a little girl of six (Jean Sonia Wilmott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmott of Wellingborough Road, Rushden), behind whom was a banner with the words “It is the children we must think of”. Another significant feature was that the three political agents for the Division, Capt. Barron (Conservative), Mr. W. Lawson Carter (Liberal) and Mr. Horace Allen (Labour), walked side by side, indicating that those three great parties have a common platform in the desire for furthering the cause of the League of Nations. The Rushden Urban District council members and officials, the Rushden members of the Rushden Education Sub-committee and other administrative bodies walked in the procession. All organisations and institutions in the town, religious, political, social, educational and commercial had been invited to render assistance, and a very gratifying response was made, as the thousands who witnessed the procession could see. Every individual group or tableau had struck two decisive notes – the artistic and the educational. Innumerable banners and mottoes set forth the aims and purposes of the League of Nations – showed what it had done, was doing and could do with adequate support.