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FEW RECRUITS FOR TWO VIEWS OF THE
CIVIL SERVICE.
BUSINESS NOW PREFERRED BY PUBLIC-SCHOOL MEN.
A memorandum sulimitted by the Civil Service Commissioners as the recent Civil Service Commission in London stated that among the cau- didates at the last administrative grade competition were the son of a tramway linesman and the son of a dake.
Mr. R. S. Meiklejohn. C.B., que of the Commissioners, said that the idea of personal interviews or oral examinations was to ascertain wbnt. the personality, general alertnees and width of interest were.
Written examinations were a test of knowledge. Oral examinations were to see what sort of a fellow the candidate was."
No More
Cramming."
The examination tests had greatly altered since "the war. The sul jects were limited, and "crum- ming," he thought, was no longer necessary to supplement a candi. date's nominal serious study.
The practice of giving marks for superficial knowledge had been abandoned, and a high standard of general practical intelligence was encouraged.
There had been a change during the past twenty years in the char acter of the schools from which successful candidates came. From 1908 to 1910 the larger proportion of successful candidates came from university. There was a tendency now for the proportion of success ful candidates coming from minor or secondary schools substantially
to increase.
Lord Tomlin (who presided):
What is the reason?
Mr. Meiklejohn: The main reason is that public school.people go into other things.
Lord Tomlin: A change in direc- tion of ambitions 1-Yes.
Dr. Baillie (one of the members of the Commission): What would you describe as the attraction for University men going into the Civil
Service 7
Mr. Meiklejohn: I am not sure. There has been a slight falling off in the quality of candidates since before the waÀI. It is from the academic standpoint, and is nothing
worry about.
Personality is
to
quite good.
How do you account for the fall ing-off of suitable candidates ?— Living is dearer, although perhaps that" is not deciding factor. Many of the elever graduates from the Universities are no doubt finding larger opportunities in business and
commerce.
"TALKIES."
ELSTREE'S SILENCE AFTER A TEST.
Mr., Henry Ainley was welcomed back after his long illness by the O.P. Clubs at a dinner at the Hotel Cecil, London, last month. Mr. Ainley said that while recovering he gathered that one had only to ge
25, 1929.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
DANCES.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
The question whether dramatic entertainments, and dancing should be allowed at social gatherings on Sunday school preatises was raised by Mr. J. Lewis Parkhouse, presi- dent. fo the Southampton Sunday School Union, at the autumn con- to Hollywood and play in a talk-vention of the National Sunday ing pictare to be able to return to
School Union held at the Great Lendon and refuse to act in any George plays.
Street Congregational Church, Liverpool.
Mr. Parkhouse said, most of them had come up against the problem of young people trying to express themselves in that manner, and it
BRITISH
CURRANSERO
bave our voices tested. On the seemed as if that element in Sunday Their shadows never grow less
After my recovery," he con. tinned, Mr. Nelson Keys and I were asked to go to Elstree, and strength of this I got quite rude to 31r. Watson (the Haymarket Theatre manager), but neither Mr. Keys nor heard any more from Elstree."
school life and among young people was rather rampant. The young people fought shy of devotional meetings, which they would not at- tend, and they desired a dramatic performance and perhaps a little dance and social. The question arose whether they should tolerato such things in Sunday schools.
The Rev. A. G. Seaton, secre-
of School Department, said that in tary the Wesleyan Sunday
their own Wesleyan Church the mutter had been settled by a re gulation by which dancing and cards were forbidden on Methodist trust property. A committee had been appointed to draw up
London theatres, he said, had nover" done so well as now-that might be because talking films were so utterly bad that stage perform ances seemed good in comparison.
Replying to the toast of "The First Mrs. Fraser," the play in which Mr. Ainley mude his reap pearance, Mr. St. John Ervine said that the first actress he ever" saw in London was Miss Marie Tem- pest. He there and then prayed that one day she might appear in a play of his an ambition that badPreamble to those prohibitions so now been fulfilled.
that young people did not get the impression that the Church said:
I also prayed," he said, that M. Ainley might one day do a play by me. In fact I once sat in a room with him and read him a five-act play of mine. A good deal has been said of Mr. Ainley's heroism as nothing to his heroism in keep during his recent illness, but it was
ing awake during the reading of those five acts, (Laughter)
A Dramatist's Opinion, Mr. Ashley Dukes, the dramatist, who adapted Jew Süss" for the stage, speaking at the Gallery First Nighters Club, expressed the opinion that the talkies helped the theatre. Many of his audience, hewever, did not agree.
the audience of to-day," he said, The most important addition to
are the people who have never formed the habit of listening to stage plays, but who, having heard very bad dialogue from machines in the picture house, have formed a desire to hear better dialogue in the
theatre.
"I would not say, therefore, that the talkie is the enemy of the stage. It helps by forming a new and large dramatic audience hun gry for good dialogue, in the same way that a new audience was form- phonie, by people realising that there are certain limitations in this canned stuff. Therefore, people are tending to turn away from the mechanical to the real thing."
&
do not have it.
It is wrong, and that is why we
OF
while the Church expressed no They wanted to point out that judgment on wrongness
the rightness that type of enter- did not feel it was expedient at the tainment under good conditions, it
moment on church property. There would be a report on the proposed preamble next year.
Drift from Sunday Schools. "We were losing scholars at a much faster rate before 1914 than we have been doing since 1018," declared Mr. Seaton.. "Scholars between the ages of 12 and 13 are causing the greatest amount of difficulty. It is among them that the drift is growing. They are much more worldly-wise and much more resticas than their fathers were at the same age. I don't know that that is altogether a bad sign. It is partly esused by new methods of education, such as films, and partly by new self-expression methods of training not only in Sunday schools but in day schools.
"If you are going to bring up lad until he is 17 to be unques- ticnably obedient to his father, you may postpone the day of his re-
Mrs. Hamilton: What is youred for music through the gramo-bellion a long time, but he is being
view of the non-admission of wonten to the Foreign Office for the Con- sular and Diplomatic Service 7
Mr. Meiklejohn. I think, things are, they should he exeled ed. We do not think that other countries, any more than this coun- try, would like to have women Ministers and Ambassadors.
ENGINEER'S STATUS.
CLOSED PROFESSION NOT
POSSIBLE.
Professor W. Morgan, of Bristol University, in his presidentin! nd- dress at the opening meeting of the seseion of the institution of Auto- mobile Engineers at the Royal Automobile Club Inst month, said, it was hoped by some people that the time would come when the engineer would have attained A privileged position similar to that of doctors and barristers.
JUDGE AND PARI-MUTUEL
METHODS. CREDIT BETTING A DREAD.
FUL THING."
Judge Sir Alfred Tobin, at West- minister County Court entd he viewed a case in which the Nation- al Pari-Mutuel Association, Ltd., of Green-street, W.C., wero the "one of the very plaintiffs, as greatest gravity."
He had previously postponed judgement. The association claimed £. from Frank Walker, locomotive fireman, of Bravington-road, Har. row road, W., alleged to have been paid on his behalf in connection with "pools" on horseracing con- ducted by the association.
The law had consolidated and extended its inherited privileges The Judge mid he had intended to give judgment to-day, but on into a powerful system co that no external competition was possible, reading the papers he found that and the medical profession had also
the real issue was different from evolved a system as vigorously ex-
that which had been set forth. clusive of outside competition. "A There was a question of public po- similar position does not appear licy which it was desirable that attainable by the engineer in our counsel should argue.
time," said Professor Morgan, "In Mr. J. H. Goldie, barrister, who the first place, he is handicapped appeared for the association at the by a misunderstanding of his func-bearing, was not present, and Mr. tions. The designation of engineer J. R. C. Chamers attended in his is applied by the public alike to the designer of the Golden Arrow as to the mechanic; indeed, to any work er clad in greasy dungarees."
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place.
Judge Tobin said he recognised that Mr. Chalmers was not in the position to deal with the legal points at the moment,
kept a baby far too long. New methods in day and Sunday schools now tend to give the boys more freedom so that they may be able to stand on their own feet.
"Our greatest danger is to un- der-estimate the intelligence of in- termediate scholars. We have not given them strong enough meat for their age. There are about 3,000,000 children of day school age," he add- ed. "who do not attend our Sunday
sbools."
HOW PRINCES KNIT.
SCARVES WITHOUT A DROP-
PED STITCH.
There are no dropped stitches, in the six woollen scarves made by the Prince of Wales and Prince George, recently, on view in Lon- don at the exhibition of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild,
I examined them carefully, writes a woman Press representative, and could not find a single flaw.
Each Prince has added a crochet scarf to his quota of two knitted ones, and these were also entirely blameless of the perforation holes frequently acen in feminine work.
Two saxe blue and one red were the "colours chosen by each of the Princes; who finished off their scarves with fringed borders.
A Stray Piece.
The Prince of Wales, having some red wool left, scored over his bro ther by adding a pair of mittens to his pile.
In there I found a stray piece of "Here is the Pari-Mutuel. As-
wool carried from one stitch to sociation asking people to pay 108.
another. I had tried so hard to) membership fee and become life
pick holes in the' Princes' work, members, and offering them credit but this erring scrap of wood was of £4 a week. What does it mean? all I could discover.
'We will advance the
The barrister and doctor were ex. pected to fail often, but 100 per cent, success was demanded of the engineer. Improvement in the en- gineer's position must be preceded by public appreciation of the nature of his services and the arduous It means,
examine the work.
Queen Mary bas contributed cot covers of her own working, and Princess Mary'a knitted jerseys were also on the table piled high with royal gifts.
The Duke of Gloucester sont
woollies, but he did not knit them
himself.
"I wonder who will get the character of his work, Professor money and put it on for you. Peo-Princes' scarves," said a young Morgan mentioned case in which ple betting ready money is bad girl, who was queuing up to An engineer was asked to report on enough if they are poor people, and value seven vehicles for a fecand the invitation. to give them of 108, od, and said that there' were credit of £4 a week to be put on other equally scandalous cases in horses for them seems a most which highly qualified men had dreadful thing against public mor- Licen offered derisory remuneration. als. *
Referring to the methods of test- "I shall fix a date when you ing a student's training, Professor can deal with the questions whether Morgan said that engineering could it is a matter coming under the not be a closed profession, Men Gaming Acts and whether it is who knew the theory of structures desirable in this country that an or the calculus only by repute bad association of this kind shall hold risen to eminence in the engineer-out to members the facility of pay. ing world.
Should auch men being so much into a pool to be do harred from membership of the voted to horse-racing. Institution because they could not "I understand' that other coun pass an examination of the stan tries have made wholly illegal thie dard typat... Shade of Stephenscat.pori-mutuel...-betting forbid, exclaimed Profesor or where credit is given by the associa- gan
tion to poor men.".
Solicitor at Bow County Court: Can he pay this money 1 Plaintiff: Well, they call him "Old Scrooge round our way.
Judge Cluer at Shoreditch County Twins woke woelde ingray vina nerves to come here. Girl's mother: It has not, improved mine.
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