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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE SCHOOL AGE.
TEACHERS FAVOUR RAISING IT.
More teachers had a tilt at the Education Department when the conference of the National Union
SATURDAY, JUNE
BRITAIN AND AMERICA.
1927.
AIRMEN FORBIDDEN TO MARRY.
MR. HOUGHTON ON HELPFUL | REGULATIONS TO INCREASE
RELATIONS.
EFFICIENCY.
the
The American Ambassador, Mr. Rome.-No Italian airman af Teachers resumed at Margate A, B. Houghton, speaking at the whether he be officer, plot or me-
of luncheon recently, the subjects dealt with
Manchester
chanic, may marry before the age being the school ags, proposed Chamber of Commerce last month, of 80. economies, and the size of classes said the world was not standing
This regulation, though based The conference discussed the still. The most difficult period of Executive's motion that the rats post-war reconstruction was be-on serious and practical considera- tions, has caused a ripple amongst ing of the school age was urgently hind us.
We had reached the time when the young aviators, who find them-i necessary for social, educational,
selves bound by the same. rules as and economic reasons, and called by shoer force of economic neces- the priesthood. They are in fact, upon the Government to promote sit a steady increase of buying until they reach the age of 30, early legislation to bring about power throughout the world might
a kind of priestly be expected.
this reform.
Mr. W H. Hill, Loicester, anid it was a human and social ques tion, Every year nearly half a million of young people were thrown upon the labour market, which was already over-stocked to the extent of 1,000,000 unemployed werkers.
turned into castu.
Referring to British and Ameri-
The now law Imposing this 'ob-| can relations, the Ambassador said he believed that the future ligatory celibacy is based on the of the world, its peace, its happi-presumption that a man cannot, if ness, and its well-being, depend he has a wife and family, give of ed largely upon the existence of his best in a service, which, above a sound and cordial understand-all things, requires daring and and single-mindednoss. The report in- ing between the British American peoples.
troducing the new measure"statos that "the obligations and duties deriving from the possession of a family exercise a notable influency on the serenity of spirit of persons i attached to the air force."
Single Purpose.
There is the same principle be hind the new law as that which enjoins obligatory celibacy on the Catholic priesthood, whereby, ac- cording to the belief of the Church, a man cannot at the same time serve his sacred mission and his family.
That was a glaring blunder on
The fundamental basis of such the part of somebody. He wished Mr. Esmond Harmsworth, M.P. an understanding already exist
We thought in the same were present, so that they could ed. plead with him to start another terms and we had the same scale We wanted the same anti-waste campaign, protesting of values. against the waste of human capa-kind of world, we were seeking city, human attainments, and for the same kind of future. human personality,
We must not hope or seek to The cost of an unemployed per-develop those wholly natural and son to the taxes was £40 a year, helpful relations into anything Although the which was the sum he received like an alliance. as dole, but the cost of keeping a idea was tempting, he believed it To bring child in an elementary school was to be wholly false. only £13. He recommended to the English-speaking peoples together Chancellor of the Exchequer new into an armed and exclusive group; Slogan "Raise the leaving school propared if need be to enforce its age and reduce the Income-tax." collective will by force, would if This further education was a it were possible: tend neither to sound investment, for every well promote, peace nor to assure our educated man and woman was an mutual security, Its only result be to unite the world addition to the wealth of the coun-would try. In raising the school age against us. It would turn this they were not adding to the coun- earth of ours once again into an try's burden but helping to streng-armed camp. In the end precise- then its foundations and support..ly what we sought to avoid-ato
Mrs. L. Manning, Cambridge, war-would result, seconding, said that since the raising of the school age there had been a profound change in human life and the whole of the world's activity.
The Italian aviation authorities believe that pilots must be young men und allow them to marry after the age of 30, on the supposition, that in the majority of cases, by that time, they will go into the ground services.
The new regulation only applies military and naval airmen aviators in the commercial ser- vices being free to marry wher they like.
We might have to ight side by aide in the future as in the past,
In the army and navy, the earli but if the need arose, which God
est age for marriage is 25. In the forbid, let it be for a cause and for a reason which brought us in-case of junior officers, both milit- stinctively together and not by a fary and naval, the possession of calculated
which private means or the bringing in arrangement might of itself tend to bring about of a dowry by the wife is also so dreadful a catastrophe.
Maintenance Allowances. Mr. F. A. Hoare, West Ealing, in moving an amendment, said! they were beating the air unless they coupled with the proposal the Commissions which had been
Where America Leads. The Ambassador referred to
necessary.
Women' will become, bald-head- some system of maintenance al-visiting America from this ecured just like men do, if they persist
They had to get pub- try to study the American Indus- juwances.
overcome.
Mr. Bertram, Buxton, Derby- shire, opposed the motion on the ground that the time for a general eduentional advance had not ar- rived. They ought to dig them selves in and throw out their salient.
lie opinion behind them in this trial position and to search for in having their hair cut "a la malo"" matter. It was for them to show that elusive phenomenon we call and wearing tight hats, according to several London doctora. Hair- how the difficulties were to be prosperity.
America h great natural phy-dressers here, however, and one woman doctor, entirely disagreei 1 agreed to accept the sical advantages at her disposal. with the assertion. They first de- suggestion that early legislation She had no clash of nationalities, clare that the more a woman's
or problems of hair is cut, the mcre should include some scheme of no tariff walls,
it grows maintenance allowances where exchange.
She had a great part of a whole while the female M.D. exclaimer: necessary.
Continent, giving her people they only fear is that it will make women grow, breads and mous- taches." advantage of maximum freedom of horizontal movement which any man, dependent enabled largely on his own ability and will-power, to rise from the low- est grade of service to the high- Miss Burrows, Leicestershire, est.
The American people, too, were said the trouble was that the
far making
grenter
of adolescent turned out the wage-mechanical aids to production earning grown man.
The motion was carried with than any other people. In Ameri- the point ea they had reached only one dissentient.
where behind every industrial On the Executive's motion pro-worker there now stood on the testing against the policy of the average. an. invested capital Board of Education in pressing £1,200, which resulted in putting Local Authorities to reduce their at his disposal some four primary teaching staff and declaring it to be entirely opposed to the in- terests of child education,
horse-power,
une
cf
Since one horse power was roughly equivalent to ten men's Mr. Merrick (Salford) said it power they would see that the seemed to teachers something like productive ability of each of these muckery for the Board of Educa-industrial workers was, by the aid tion to say in effect to local edu-of machines, multiplied by forty, cation authorities, "When you are In other words, each of these submitting your three years' promen was put in a position of do- gramme include in it a scheme ing forty men's work. Thus the For improving your staff but at the twenty milion industrial workers same time remember you must not of America were doing the work add to the number or quality of your staff, and if you do we shall of at least 800,000,000 unaided men, and this without throwing cut down your estimate."
Anyone out of employment. When progressive education authe contrary they were creating thorities showed the way Lord Eustace Percy called upon them more work. Lo balt and ordered the foremost of them to fall back.
Earning His Money.
On
The share of the average man in the resulting output was also enorihous..
He believed that the Americans had made a real contribution to Mr. Owen Prineau (Leyton) said the problem of the relations be the education authorities, were between labour and capital. They ing told that they had too many were leaving behind very rapidly clases and to many Bertificated the time when labour and capital teachers. (Cries of "Shame.") each believed its own interests He thought he earned his money as a teacher if he prevented the furniture from being broken (Laughter.)
In his area they were to reduce aatail of 600 teachers by 20, which meant inevitably that they would get back to the 50 and 60 classes they had in the past..
best served by maintaining an at- Litude of suspicion and more or legs netive hostility towards each' other.
That could not endure for a moment when a maximum output was seriously and consciously sought.
A now spirit had to be develop- The motion was unanimously ed, and that was precisely what adopted.
The conference reaffirmed it had taken place in America. The labourer was becoming a capital- belief that no school could be ist und this tended to make indus- satisfactory which did not provide trial war with its wreckage, its. classrooms for not more than 40 senseless destruction and human children, provision for playing
misery, an indefensible thing. accommodation games, adequate for the staff, and room for medical He believed America had found inspection, and also that no class the practical and definitely right in an elementary school should rond which led to greator indivi-
} dual freedom. have more than 40 on the roll..
Mr. W. Lloyd Pierce (Welsh- pool), in supporting the motion the only playground was an as- said that masters of bounds in his phalte yard, and that children's district housed their dogs in build-games were running about and ings far superior to those in which screaming. The State made bet- schoolmasters did their work. Ler provision for animals in capti- Mr. F. A. Hoare, in supporting vity than for children In 'school. the resolution, said it was a trage- The motion was unanimously dy that in the majority of schools carried.
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