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ADVERSARIA
THE STATESMAN'S STANDARD
The eminent KC. who has had the audacity to suggest that classes in "plain: "English" "should be started
for the benefit of Cabinet Ministers |is not the first outsider to be im
pressed by the need for instructing our Elder Statesmen. There is an ages-old Chinese poem which,
plain English," reads:
in
Families, when a child is born, pray that it many be intelligent. I, through my intelligence, pray that who have wrecked my whole life
my little son may be ignorant and stupid." Then he will crown a tran- quil life by becoming 籍 Cabinet Minister (mediu ezizengont
That is a hard saying, but it has found an echo through the centuries. John Stuart Mill thought so little of thè èllucational standard of members of Parliament that he proposed an examination for all candidates be- fore they were allowed to stek elec- tion, and Joseph Livesey, when He Hong Kong, Saturday, July 23, 1938. was member for Preston, suggested
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Postage Abroad Extra
“PICTURE ·AHEAD
a specific educational test.
His fellowmembers, fearful, perhaps, of results to themselves, were not en-
thusiastic.
Photography, has swept the "When "these ideas were being world with a tremendous popu- thrown out. (in more senses than larity during the last few years, one), the Prince Consort sent Lord Camera makers thrive; miles of Derby, then Prime Minister, the ex- film are exposed every hour, pic amiation papers that had been set to tures enliven the magaziiles and the Duke of Edinburgh when he newspapers millions of people passed as a naval cadet. In re- have found an enjoyable hobby turning the papers Lord Derby and at least thousands have dis- wrote: "As I looked over the pa- covered a fine art in the capture pers' I could not but feel grateful of beauty on sensitised paper that no such examination was neces- We may not all be enthusiasts sary to qualify her Majesty's Minis- of the mechanical camera but all ters for office, as it would very carry a powerful image rec
seriously increase the difficulties of in the camera or hum
forming an Administration.” sciousness. To what photographs do we give most attention in BACKSLIDERS THEMSELVES salon, a shop .... window.” daily paper.2. Are they are tra Sad news from Scotland, where; in gedies of war, a gruesome auto-addition to the crime of the B.B.C. mobile wreck, a squalid✨ slùm annexe of the music hall fifahuhe- in^making the Scottish Sabbath Vám back yard or a discouraged and cusation which indst surprise some haggard face? Photography's vis-
ualisation of broken bodies and of the English critics of "dull Sun- slimy trenches has helped turn day programmes"), there are to be humanity from the supposed seen in the same motor buses "youth glamour of war, and authentic of both sexes flaunting unabashed evidence of "how the other half their golf, sticks and their tennis lives" has helped awaken public rackets at the side of those people conscience, AR PANANTA over whose staid demeanour, with Bib
But again; what are the picles in their hands, bespeaks their tures from which we get a lift? mission to be a nobler one But If we are to turn away from the would not the champions, of anot half-world-of-shadow-there must far distant. Scottish Sabbath have be something to turn to. There is wanted to know what the staid significance in the fact that it people with Bibles in their hands takes light to make a picture. were doing in motor houses on Sun The pictures that are fullest of day? Surely such riding ... would light, in a mental sense, are the have been hardly less reprehensible ones that impart most feinspira- than the daunting of tennis rackets? tion, aut tenni tofsong ABUNE .... A long way south Scotland, the These are some of the best incumbent of Hughenden rebuked liked subjects a graceful bird Prime Minister for trav ng-in-a against the sky, a ship in sail on train, on Sunday.
The English
a sparkling sea, a bunch of flow-parent who punished a child,^, for ers, a pretty girl, a character giving his pony an apple-on Sunday study of weather-beaten rugged certainly would not have allowed the ness, a bridge that is poetry in child to use the pony for
steel, the gleam of a lighted win-and in
Scotland
dow in a darkened street, a child frowned upon, except t
HO
at the serious business of play from home to kill? It imno softly inquisitive, cat, & friendly very long bince a man who took his dog, a dozing cow in a summer wife and child for a walk on al Sun- meadow or the clump of birches day afternudal in Scotland was 16olid that alters the sunlight on a upon as a backalider – In those brook.
Is it too much to ask for beauty replied that by Sunday bus riding days it certainly might have been and strength in the pictures we the “unco-guid! had brought upon love? No, that is what makes us love them, and what makes them by the tennis
themselves the contaminati herve us. Many fago
can be discerned
the
pictur
ally
g. And a came
CZECHS
caused