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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE-11, 1941
CHINA MAIL
“WINDSOR HOUSE
A "HUMAN NEEDS" DIET
The Oxford Institute of Statistics in its latest bulletin makes a most in- teresting attempt to find out what it costs now to obtain a "human needs" diet a properly balanc- ed diet for the family of low income. Prices were collected from the cheap- est shops in Oxford and a diet compiled to corres-
pond as nearly as possible!
in nutritional values with
that laid down by the British Medical Associa- tion.
Mr.
Seebohm Rown- tree's inquiry in 1936 put the cost of such a "human needs" diet for a man, wife, and three young children at 23s. 5d. a week. The Oxford in- quiry last month puts it at 32s.
So, in spite of the par- tial substitution of cheap for more expensive foods, the outlay will be 41 per cent. more than in 1936.
In the same period the
Ministry of Labour's food
index has risen by about
27 per cent. (20 per cent, since the war).
DEMOCRACY
AXIS
卐
HEUTRALITY
WHERE WILL THE WORM TURN ?
A Self-Educated
Most people are vaguely aware that, after many false starts, there is an Army education scheme in
Army
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action, but they know very little W.E. Williams
about its purpose or about
the
an
dom policy was that it tended to develop an indiscriminating Idea of education. "Any old thing-to- interest the men" is an attitude 7 which might soon produce the t effect of a Gresham's Law and reduce educational effort to a. sheer entertainment level. But
one hears far less from command- ing officers to-day than one did dote value of education and far a few months ago about the anti- more about its value as a stimulus to thought and as a provoker of positive new interests and occu- pations.
The
The comparison does way it works. Until a few weeks not speak well for the ago, apart, of course, from techni- present-day value of the cal military training, there was
one single educational source in In one unit the only sample you of are offered is a weekly debate on official index. The diet is, the adult education bodies
bodies, such a topic as "Amateur v. pro- Britain. These however, short of Vitamin Great
or a spirited working through regional com-fessional in sport" C and probably also of mittees provided Army and R.A.F. performance by a small percus- iron and calcium. Its min-units with lectures and discussions ston band. But in another unit eral-content and also its on a wide variety of subjects. you will find a timetable which
The massed resources of univer- includes within a single week within the Army of the real cul- growing understanding richness in the Vitamin B sity extension, W.EA, local classes in French, German, music, tural purposes of an educational group would probably be education authorities, &c. were drama, world affairs, local gov-system is best shown in the em-
phasis .now thus lent, at first on a voluntary ernment, elementary science, and
set upon discussion. improved if brown were
At first there used to be some- basis, to those citizens who had archaeology. There are units so
well off in teaching talent that thing of a parade atmosphere substituted for white also become soldiers and airmen they can not only provide their about this voluntary system. The proceedings. bread a matter of taste for the duration.
own men with a wide choice of "high spot" of the subjects but can also lend their was regarded as What the Lec- turer Said. The present inclina- and of price. The short- But adult education in peace- surplus to their poorer neigh-
bours. In many places, again, tion is to consider the lecture as age of fruit makes it diffitime provides lecturers for
the soldiers still depend entirely the preliminary to an unfettered audience not one-twentieth the
"imported" on the
educational give-and-take of opinion among cult to supply the Vitamin size of the
feature all the more Army to-day. The rations instead of providing their the men
healthy because several officers Ċ deficiency at moderate only possible way of supplement-own.
are usually among the audiences. ing this inadequate ration of im- The truth is that in this still cost.
was ported education
for the tentative and experimental scheme several policies are operating, and While theoretically the Army to attempt to produce some not all of them are effective or of its own education. In its wise even desirable. In some places, diet may be reasonably and imaginative pamphlet "Educa-for example, the well-meaning but premature policy was -tried War-time Army."
After a slow and uncertain adequate, the average tion in the
of "training the men for the as well as in later instructions, return to civil life." On this basis start Army education has got on housewife, it is urged, will the War Office has urged on units artisans were coaxed to consider to the right lines and is develop-
surprisingly good pace.. the advantages of a black-coated ing at a scarcely be able to supply the importance of developing their life after the-war-end for a few Its administration is in the very enthusiastic hands disillusioning weeks capable and it to her family, since it own cultural resources, and-to-brief and
of the Army Education Corps, l
a keen day, although the Army is using tried to learn. book-keeping involves more time spent to the full the available services This idea is now less favoured, "Intake" of men who were W.E.A.
shorthand or commercial French. recently reinforced by in shopping and more of the adult education bodies, it and the local education authorl- tutors, officers of a local educa-
ties are better engaged, apart tion authority, cooking than is usually is also increasing, week by week, from the considerable aid they and so on. Conditions of military the number of "home-produced" are giving in technical training, training and movement make the possible to her.
educational classes. Unit éduca- | in" arranging courses in handi-whole scheme something of an The conclusion, and it tion officers are now finding and crafts, drama, music, and similar obstacle race, yet those same con- constructive kinds of recreation. ditions are making units: realisd
that, however valuable the ser is an important one, is using the teaching talent of off-
cers and men at a rapidly increas- Another policy, which gained a vice they get from civilian sources,
hold for a time was the anti-bore the only education scheme they [ that such a diet could ing rate.
|dom line, It is probablo-that can be sure of wherever they go only be made generally Any one who has spent a few would have beonindifferent to selves. It is all the more lamen-
some commanding oficers who is the one they provide for them available if people were to weeks observing at close quarters "education for its own sake" were table that the ATS, so much the development of the new Army persuaded to push the scheme for more stationary than the men, be supplied with one com-
Its value in keeping "theimen | have so far shown the most tepld education scheme is at first-bewil, occupied in the winter evenings, interest in providing similar murial meal a day. 2 lidered by the contraste it presents. The weakness of the anti-bore-facilities for the women.
or
Another good symptom is the effort being made to organisé continuous courses in a subject rather than a series of unrelated lectures.
schoolmasters,
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