HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
CHILD TEACHERS FIGHT NEW HEAD OF
ILLITERACY IN CHINA
Amazing Campaign In West China Township.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
Changking, July 30
"Sons of filial piety are often bred in homes of poverty," while" a disturbed state provides more chance for the display of loyalty by oficials," according to a well-known Chinese saying. Had they been born somewhere else, the 359 boys and girls, very few · aged more than 14, in Pehpei. a small town of Szechurn, could not have so easily earned the dignity of being called "little teachers,"
THE B.B.C.
Irish University
President
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The B.B.C. announces that Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, President and Vice- Chancellor of the Queen's Univer sity, Belfast, has accepted the In- vitation of the Board of Governors to succeed Sir John Reith, and has been appointed Director-General. He will take up duties on October 1.
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Mr. Frederick Wolf Ogilvie, a distinguished scholar and educa" tlonist, succeeded Sir Richard LEAD THEM Livingstone as President and Vice-
That China must win the pre- A LITTLE -- sent war over Japan. all Chinese
CHILD SHALL agree; but at the same time, men, money, and munitions must be ready, every moment, while al obstacles to early and immediate success of the Chinese in arma. should be removed. Illiteracy. some 66 to 89 per cent in west China towns. must be done away with as quickly as possible.
"Should all towns and villages adopt the same methods as Peh- pel, a thousand men and women could be taught to understand 1.000 simple Chinese written char- acters within a short time. Since these words have been selected by experts in education and compost- tion, they are very useful and practical in every day newspaper A young Szechuen girl who took reading or occasional letter writ- part in the anti-illiteracy cam- ing.
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Chancellor of the Queen's Univer- sity, Belfast, four years ago. Born in 1893, he was educated at Clifton and Ballol, where he took a first | in Classical Moderations in 1913.
GENERAL
REORGANIZATION
OF
THE AIR MINISTRY
Appointment For Air Vice Marshal Tedder
Important reorganization, within the Air Ministry to assist fulfil- ment of the Air Force expansion scheme was announced recently. Sir Kingsley Wood informed the House of Commons of three new ap- pointments.
The present, member of the Air Counsti who is in charge of re- search and development, Air Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, will in future also be responsible for production. His new designation will be "Air Member for Development and Production," and according to axisting plans his period of appointment will be extended for at least two years from the present date. To assist him he will have the help of a Director-General of Production, and of a Director-General of Re- search and Developmenk
Mr.. EJ.H. Lemon Is the new large numbers of fast modern war- Director-General of Production. planes now passing into the R.AF.
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He will have a seat on the Air More than 2,000 pilots, 550 obser- He served in France with dis- Council. He is vice-president of vers. 26,000 tradesmen and unskil- tinction as a captain in the 4th the London. Midland and Scottish led hands, and 3,000 boys are Bedfordshire Regiment, and was Railway, the board of which has sought {severely" wounded. On his return lent him to the Air Ministry at the from the War he was appointed a government's request. The post of Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity Col- Director-General of Research and lege. Oxford, and he was Bursar Development goes to Air Vice-Mar- from 1920, to 1922.
shal A.W. Tedder, who has been in command of the Royal Air Force In the Far East since 1936.
Four years later he left Ox-· ford to become Professor of Political Economy at Edin- burgh, which post he held until his appointment at Belfast...
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Within
FINE RESPONSE ·
twenty-four hours of launching the new drive more than 1.000 applications, in letter and in person, had reached the Air Minis- try. The appeal is primarily made CAREERS FOR POOR BOYS
to young men in Britain, but re- crults from the Dominions can be Five scholarships in the aircraft accepted through oficial channels. Industry are awaried again this Interview, selection and medical During his professorship at Edin-year under the scheme financed by boards exist in Canada, Australia, burgh Mr. Ogilvie served as vice-the Society of British Aircraft New Zealand, Kenya. In Mal- Under the auspices of the Peh-of the Committee in charge of chairman of two Trade Boards, as Constructors and administered by boume, for example, is a govern- pei Committee in charge of mass mass education and some men or chairman of the Joint Advisory the Royal Aeronautical Society ment-appointed. Selection Board. "education. 359 pupils from 19 women who may have found new Committee on Adult Education for Designed to give talented boys whose recommendations the Air higher primary and lower middle happiness in being able to follow South-East Scotland, member of from poor familles a chance to Ministry in Britain have agreed to schools recently responded to the the wall-newspapers or official the National Advisory Council for train for high positions in the in-accept. The fare to London of ac- call to join a short-term normal bulletins in the markets or other Juvenile Employment (Scotland).dustry, the scheme was launched cepted Dominions candidates is training class in preparation for popular places.
and member of the Food Council last year, and the five boys then paid. going out" in their spare time to
of Great Britain.
chosen are all doing well in lead- teach others to read.
TEACHING IN SPARE TIME
STARTLINGLE LOW COST
In 1936 he was chairman of the Within but a brief period of six As 您 little encouragement to months, some 1.000 men and wo-those who have done better than land) Committee for Instruction of Ministry of Labour (Northern Ire-
the Committee awarded. men in Pehpel and the vicinity, others. succeeded in mastering a rudi-certificates of first honour to 108 Unemployed Juventies, and he is a
member of the Economics Commit-
mentary education more or less child teachers at the conclusion tee of the Agricultural Research for the term. At Council, of the Art Advisory Coun- satisfactory and acceptable to the of their work school inspectors who have been the same time, the Committee didell of Northern Ireland, and of the not only watching the progress of not forget the adult pupils. some Royal Irish Academy. the adult pupils but also grading 184 being awarded diplomas for the enthusiasm and efficiency of their studles the child teachers.
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He is the author of publications Money is not everything after which include "Industrial Conflict" All these young voluntary all; for in all this work the Com- and "The Tourist Movement: An and a contri- teachers receive no compensationmittee has only spent, to be exact. Economic Study," for their service, except perhaps $24.79, mostly in gifts to recipients (butor to The Times and numerous
¡professional periodicals. the gratitude and the appreciation of certificates and diplomas.
HE LIGHTS 200 NIGHTLIGHTS A DAY
For two hours every weekday Mr. Leslie Isaacs walks round a Lon-
27,000 Mosquitoes Bred To Cure Hospital Patients
That the Ministry of Health had been allowed to feed on a should keep a mosquito farm for malaria victim. In ten days they the purpose of infecting people become Infective their bite trans- don theatre, lighting nightlights. with malarla would seem at first mits the malaria.
By law every theatre must have a very improper thing: But the
After that they are ready for use,
an alternative system of lighting mosquito farm shown me recently An open-ended bottle containing G. thirty of them is placed on the In case of emergency. Most by Dr. W. Nicol and Mr. P. theatres have either oll-lamps or Shute, at the L.C.C.'s mental hos-thigh of a general paralysis patient gas, as well as electric light but Pital. Horton, near Epsom, is one and they are allowed to take a ""not the Victoria Palace, where Mr. of the most beneficent institutions good blood meal,
Isaacs works as an electrician.
So each afternoon, before he mounts his elaborate switchboard
He has a long journey to make through an almost completely darkened theatre. “
With him go two tapers, 200 nightlights. and a box divided into compartments, one for the unused lights, the other for those barnt the previous day,
In England, writes an Evening (Standard correspondent.
HOSPITALS SUPPLIED
the
the
There are 27,000 mosquitoes at What then happens to the farm. They are used to give patient was described to me by Dr. malaria to patients suffering from Nicol. The patient becomes general paralysis of the insane, with malaria, so ill that if he were because that has been found the not watched carefully and most effective way of curing them. fever checked at the right moment In the last ten years for which he would die. There have been no statistics are avaliable, between 12 deaths at Horton. When he has and 15.3 per cent, of the patients had as much malaria as he can thus treated have been discharged atand he is allowed to recover. cured and 8.4 per cent, discharged The results in cure and substantial showing substantial improvement. Improvement are as mentioned.
I was taken to an" isolated -hut- This specialised work is of im- Following a set route to save swarming with baby mosquitoes. mense value, for hospitals all over ✔himself retracing his steps. heMost of them were, swimming, in the country are supplied with in- lights the last one at 5 p.m. having the backward way that mosquitoes fective mosquitoes from Horton.
The prospective value is even by then been to every part of the swim, in bowls where grass tufta
greater, for not only general par- theatre stalls, gallery, boxes, bars. were growing-imitation marshes. cloakrooms, corridors, and cellars: But several hundreds were hang-alysis patients are treated, but During the three years he has ing by the two little hooks in their their wives, husbands and children, been at this job, Mr. Isaacs has lit bind feet from a cobweb in the because when the malaria treat nearly 180,000 nightlights, at the corner. Mosquitoes like living on ment is given to those who have rate of 200 a day,
cobwebs. There was a spider in latent in them disease transmitted
He lights his first alghtlight at 3 p.m. in the dressing-room. corridor.'
His lights burn för eight hours, it but he was not taking any notice by parents or partners it prevents but if there is a matinee he has to of them, having learnt by expert- the disease from developing. go to work earlier, and has to use ence that they drop off too quickly
on his approach. longer burning lights.
RED ENSIGN
PRESENTED TO
CATHEDRAL
PURE BREDS
These were non-infected' mosquitoes, harmless. All the 27,000 in the farm come from a single insect taken from the Thames valley five years ago.
Thus Horton's 27,000 mosquitoes are destined to reduce the future population of our hospitals, asy- Juma and gaols by a very important Agure.
CHILD WITH
"They are a parer breed than "MIDDLE-
any race horse,” remarked Mr. Shute.
In a pen in the corner was a small pig.
HEART
The presentation to Canterbury Cathedral of a red ensign, the gift, of the Honourable Company · of Master Mariners, was the chief feature of a Service of the Sea held in the Cathedral recently. The
Dr. Eric Gardner, pathologist, congregation of 3,000 was represen- "He is on the staff of the Mials- said at an inquest at her, Surrey tative of all phases of marithme try of Health though without sub-recently, that he had shown sec- life and the service was broadcast sistence allowance." Mr. Shute told tions of a child's heart to other to the Empire and to ships at sea. me. "He is what the mosquitoes doctors who thought that it was The presentation of the red en-feed on when they leave the the heart of a middle-aged man." sign was made by the Master of the water.”
The inquest was on David Ed- the Honourable Company of Mas- The pig was scratching himself, wards, aged two years and nine ter Mariners, Bir Robert Barton- for in his pen I saw mors hundreds months. of Lower Green-road Chadwick.
of mosquitoes clinging to the wall. Esher, who died from heart failure The Dean, Dr. Hewlett Johnson. But they do no more than frritate following an operation for the re- accepting the ensign from Sir Rob- him...
|moval of septic tonalis at Thames
ert Burton-Chadwick, placed it on Then in the laboratory I saw the Ditton Cottage Hospitalist pro the alter. It was dedicated by the infected mosquitoes. They were, in A verdict of "Death by Misad- Bishop of Dover, D., A. C. W. Rose. rows of gauze-netted cages. They venture was recorded,
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Most favoured branch of ng aircraft and aero engine fac-evergreen Service is flying (om- tories.
cially termed "General Dutles") in which the exultant thrill of hand- ling, solo, Britain's 300 miles an hour plus" warplanes is the goal of | every enthusiast.
MANPOWER
Britain's biggest air recruit- ing drive since the War has be run. The Royal Air Force needs. 31,000 entries before March 31. 1939-end of the present financial · year—thus aiming
for a strength in personnel of more than 100.000. Numerical- ly this new, expansion, pro gramme equals the entire peace-time strength of the Ser- vice before 1935. It will bring to the colours Afteen times the number of men recruited an- nually in average years before. 1935.
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OBSERVER-GUNNERS
"Air Observer" is a new category in post-war Service aviation. Hit- herto, the varied duties implied in the wide-meaning term "observa- tion" have been performed by picked airmen. Now observers are to be recruited direct from civil life. This indicates an enormous strengthening in fighting efficiency, particularly of aircraft concerned in reconnaissance and army co- operation nying. In this class of allflying attack from hostile Aghters branches to man and maintain the may be frequently encountered.
Recruits are required. in
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