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HERE, THERE
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"EVERYWHERE
The Unsinkable Mrs. Jay
Twenty-two years have passed since the sinking of the Titanic.
SCHOOL LEAVING AGE SHOULD BE RAISED
INFANTS THRUST INTO
INDUSTRY
Two new American books publish 34 YEARS SINCE 14 WAS FIXED
ed recently perpetuate the memory of the American heroine of that: disaster.
This was Mrs. J. J. Brown, wife of a Colorado millionaire.
Molly Brown, known to Ameri-' caas as "the unsinkable Mrs. Jay," won fame by taking command of one of the lifeboats and keeping up the morale of panicky passengers and a demoralised crew.
warm
She kept the passengers quiet by giving them all her own clothing and the crew busy with the mellifluous oaths of a Colorado
gold-miner.
All this was done after she her self had been picked up out of the
aca,
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Happy Ending
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(By Thelma Cazalet, M.P.)
Ex-Chairman of the L. C. C. Elementary Education Committee
i
A proposal that the L.C.C. shall, personal interest in them as some-- confer with other education thing he himself wishes to do sel- authorities in Greater London to dom appears until later. Then by bring pressure on the Government 16 there is more chance of his go- to make 25 the school-leating ageing on of his own free will to the came before the Council's Educa man- and varied forms of voluntary, tion Committee recently.
| education-technical, commercial, or
academic.
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London.
After all,
We still hear the old grumble, FTER nearly ten years' fairly]"There is far too much of this
close contact with education-education business." particularly elementary-1 am quite everyone who can afford it does, in certain that the time has now come fact, keep his or her child at school. to raise the school-leaving age to for at least two years-usually 16 or 16, and still further, with the four-beyond 14, however stupid co-operation of employers, to pre-the child may be. So-quite apart pare a scheme of part-time compul-from the cost-it must be thought that these extra years of education sory education up to 18.
There are many reasons for takare of real value. ing this step. Educationally the
I venture to think this prejudico indus jis based only on the fear that argument is overwhelming,
than children-many of whom must be humdrum
Mrs. J. J. was a Mississippi bar. gee's daughter, who ran away from
Lo (home, when she was 15.
Colorado mining camp.
Three weeks after her arrival trially the reasons are more she met and morried a digger, sufficient, and practically we have destined to do menial.
the means already at hand.
jobs for the rest of their lives- known as "Leadville Johnny."
First and foremost, let us get it would be upset and made discontent.
The marriage brought Johnny luck. He struck a rich claim, sold out of our heads that there is any-ed by further education.
Far from increasing any discon- it outright for £100,000, and thing sacred about the age of 14. brought the notes home for hin It is many years since this age was tent, it would enable them not only young wife. Mrs. J. J. hid them in fixed upon as the proper time to end to view their tasks in a philosophi
Much has cal light, but also to know better the stove, while her husband went compulsory education.
came home happened in the interval to make it how to employ their leisure.. loft to celebrate. He early in the morning with two pais advisable for us to alter our views -formed so long ago and bring many and Austria discovered and, feeling cold, lit the stove.
his not only our ideas but our actions assist The next morning, when Italy declined to them in their war. But Poland wife told him that he had warmedjup to date. is doubtless sincere enough, in his hands with bis own fortune, Hong Kong, Monday, June 18, 1934.her desire for neighbourly rela-Johnny laughed, went out again tions, and doubly so in wishing and the same afternoon located Colorado's to see not only Russia but all "The Little Johnny,"
The China Mail
Russia And The League, members of the League sign the greatest gold mine.
Minorities' Treaties. These trea-i ties, designed to protect minori- ties (though they have often Will Russia join the League of failed to do so), were imposed Nations? The question, often in 1919 and 1920 on Poland. asked and as often dismissed, is
when
it
He took £5,000,000 out of it.
*
*
Fandango
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than the League, and has hither cate of the "status quo," is na-ikely to remain in the more statel, jequipped for their Bfe's tank?
believe that closer association
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Can We Afford The Cost?'
This new system
who did not believe in education toŝtion. those who did.
now
new
AC-
In the whole course of history we find the same story. Industry
This prejudice would vanish if it were generally appreciated that after 14-aud only after-a definito. practical bias can Infants. Thrust into Industry
be introduced.' This question has nothing what-Excellent reorganisation schemes ever to do with politics, and those based on the Hadow report, with being who, on either side, try to exploit the break at 11, are
for this purpose should be worked in many of our elementary country (al- ashamed. Surely the only interests schools all over the
cent of that matter are those of the chil-ready more than 80 per
London elementary schools are run dren and the country.
Educationally there can be noth- on this basis), The Fandango is said to be going
has already. Czechoslovakia. Greece, Yugo to London ballrooms by way of ing to commend, and everything to believed at last to have almost slavia. Austria, Bulgaria, Paris. If it does, it will add to condemn, a system which stops the proved its worth, and I feel aure entered the sphere of practical Rumania Hungary, and Turkey. their gaiety, for it is a rollicking education of children at the age of that if we could raise the school 14 and thrusts them into Industry leaving age, it would be even more politics. Many reasons account There has always been an agita-affair.
valuable. There can be no doubt for the possibility, and many tion in favour of having the trea-
Imported into Spain from South barely more than infants.
a four-year course from 10 We educate children in order to that implications would attend the ties made universal. and now America in the 18th century, the realised fact. It involves, of
once more we have a recrudes dance was incorporated by Bozart them for the lifelong task of living could include a grounding in a num course, an amazing volte-face on cence of that desire, the main into one
of his operas. Sullivan career as worthy of application ber of practical subjects in which the part of the Soviet Governmotive of which probably is that introduced
A vivid example in and as difficult of success as any in many people think our education is ment. Moscow prefers by in thereby would be lessened the The Gondolier."
the long list of human activities.jat present lacking.
So much for the purely educa- stinct an international organisa- chances of general treaty revi
Are we not mand to leave the the The Pavane, the Bourree, tion of quite other character sion. Poland, as an ardent advo
are majority of our people insufficiently tional aspect of the matter. Indus- Corante and the Sarabande
trially, also, the moment la propt- tious, to go What general would care to lost few opportunities of de-turally in favour of any stabilis-
On all hands we hear it said that ipast. riding and belittling the lattering procedure. The idealist may
into battle with troops only two-
their industry cannot afford further bur through thirds of the way Russia. while continually in-and little, more to comfort him creasing her own armaments, has in the reasons underlying what
Your Daily Smile!
training? Who wants to be driven dens. Taxation is high enough al- at times affected to regard the support the Soviet may gain than
by a two-thirda competent motor-ready, without adding to it the cost of keeping the children longer League as not sufficiently pacifist he will in the promptings of the
He had made a lot of money and, fat? to please her- un example. Soviet itself.
Jon the strength of It, took a castle
Perhaps I was wrong in saying at school. This argument is, I be surely, of seeking a needles pre-
there was nothing sacred in the age lieve, as unsound as to say that we Nevertheless, out of evils, or in Scotland. text when we know that her geneven half-evils, some good often
On the first evening the butler of 14. Taken as the school leaving cannot afford to replace any eral attitude has been one of arises. Friends of the League approached him and said, "Wood age, it fa no more than an arbitrary piece of machinery or to scrap any an out-of-date thing for the sake of aversion from the West. Is
have the pipers at boundary-never intended may well acclaim any prospect of you care to there, then, any change of basic seeing it strengthened. Friends dinner, sir?"
ideal by those who originally raised something better. The real fact is go on principles? It is not at all likely of Russia many of whom are "No thanks," he answered. "but the age, but merely as representing that we cannot afford to Those good souls who profess to vastly different from those who you can put them in the lounge, an advance; a concession from those much longer without further with Europe will gradually soften officially style themselves Friends and I'll read them later."
of the Soviet may continue to the Muscovite's unreason must wait, and wait long, for time to hope that she may learn some- thing by contacta. The League
A woman had gone to Scotland prove their case. For the pre- sent, the cynic who mutters that was not able to prevent the sub- "the devil is sick" has a multi-ugation of Georgia by the Bol-for the first time in her life, Oning of nearly a generation, it has nor the eight. But industry has
sheviks, although Georgia, al-her return to London she express taken on the air of a principle, survived. tude of plain facts with him.ready a Socialist Republic, ed herself na quite surprised at whereas there has never been any: Thirty-four years have passed For the first time since the Rus officially recognised by the the comparative civilisation of the conception of principle behind it at since the leaving age was raised to sian revolution. the Soviet has League, and appealed to it for North
fourteen. During this time there... begun to think that there might support. That was in 1921, and,
But taken as a landmark in the have been many changes; Industry be advantages to itself in belong in the years which have since spreading
seid: development of the individual, the is more highly and more efficiently. ing to the League of Nations, elapsed, so many glaring injus-éven in a little town like St. An age of 14 is of the utmost impor organised; not only could the face
nice golftance.
We all know that round or tories do without child labour, but- advantages of a moral, and postices have been committed, by drews they have sibly even of a material, nature. Russia and by certain other course."
about then the Individual conscience to-day they are even unable to use - begins to make itself felt-tastes all the adult labour at their of court, why should not Russia to little-known Georgia has been
and habits begin to emerge. The posal, take her place in the League?
If the practically forgotten.
A London undertaker attended a child becomes the adolescent
(Continued on Page 8) There would be grim humour in League cannot acknowledge the recent first night. He found he enters a period when the nicely. it, though, if such a step were to existence of Manchukuo, might had been given accommodation balanced scales can be tipped one bring Japan back again and, it not with equal consistency de-high up near the prosceniura. way or the other and life made or with Japan, Germany. There are mand that the case of Georgia.
"Look here, old cher," he com- marred. Could we choose a more ELECTRIC FAN THAT reasons for thinking that these two may in the near future dis- and other dissatisfied provinces plained in an interval to the man-insane moment to launch him into
of Russia, notably the Ukraine, cover certain interests in com- he re-opened? If Japan were hardly see anything from that box
Jager, a friend of his. "I can the maelstrom of industrial life?
Many people think the first seven mon. Even the possible entry of cancel her withdrawal, it might
years of training are the most im the United States might be conceivably be for the purpose of you've given me,"
"You can sue a darned sight portant; personally, I believe it is brought considerably nearer by raising that very point. It might more than I shall see from one of the continuity of right education
A fine of $30, in default three the action now under discussion strengthen considerably her own
through the longest possible period works' imprisonment, was imposed that counts in the end. Poland and the Little Entente argument, besides embarrassing Yours!" was the reply. are understood to approve of ad-somewhat the delegates of a
tion and roof are equally useless on Leung Sang, 17-year-old unem
ployed, by Mr. Q. A, A. MacFadyen mitting Russia. With Foland converted Moscow.
without each other, Russia has just renewed the 1931
A golf played a long ball' which
In architecture the builder works at the Central Police Court thig pact, under which the parties
struck an elderly man on the head with solid calculable quantities, morning, for the theft of an electric agreed to "abstain' from direct
The injured party approached the He knows from the beginning what fan, valued at $25, from a ten house With at No. 50 Queen's Road, Central; of indirect aggression, and to
golfer In Indignation, asserting brick and stone will do.
yesterday: maintain neutrality if either is
that the Injury would cost the children we work in another mater-
Sergeant Goodwin sald that ac the victim of attack." It is fur-
More than 300 men and nine wo latter five pouads in compensation. fal, lay the best foundation we may, ther stipulated that if either at-
But I shouted Tore" quite dis-and waiting for each individual to cused was a former employee at the tea house, and yesterday he went tacks any other Power, the other men have registered with the com
there pretending that ha was taking party has the right to terminato mittes in preparation for a bicycle tinctly said the player in demaks his own ass of it.
Years That Are Of Real Value
the fan away for repair. He was the treaty. There is ample race competition which is being tence:** room, of course, for acute differ- promoted in Nanking by. Mr. Lin "Oh, did ye?” said "he old man,
Almost, mechanically up to about arrested while attempting to sell it ence of views over the definition Sen, Chairman of the National "Well, I didn't hear ye, but Fil. take
(24 'a child will do his lessons. Real in Upper Lascar Row. four guld" lot the word "attacks,” as Ger-Government;
was
If Japan is put of favour and out Powers too, that the wrong done
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rapidly," she
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