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tion or a "back to Asia" poly NOT-SO-FREE
NOT-SO-FREE EDUCATION The Very Idea!
By A. E. MACGREGOR
ON BIRTHDAYS By Eddie Kelly '00 Vintage,
Yet it is difficult to see how the latest moves, dictated by the necessity for the Army and Navy to save their face against a growing volume of world con-
nvok demnation, can
theic A recent ovent marked a turning literature of education is the
point in which ultimate developments
English education, Scottish father who worked his VESTERDAY, being, our those in authority at Tokyo ap principle that parents who can of parts" might get his chance. when a further application of the fingern to the bone that the "lad
birthday, we thumbed parently fear. There is room afford to pay for secondary educa. It may be that school education our nose at the office type- for a host of awkward complication, was brought into effect. will have more intellectual and tions. And a hint of the nature During the last 100 years there moral value if parents have to writer, slipped a few pesos of the first has already been has dovoloped the notion that, encrifico a bit more for it.
into our pocket, and wander- given. Contending that the pre-just an every private entering the It in 100 years since the British sent ratio system is invidious, as Napoleonic army carried a mar-Government made its first granted forth. creating an impression of in-shal's baton in his knapsack, nu for education. How much was it?
Strange though it may seem, feriority in status, the militarists very inglish child who entered an Fow people could guess. We have the sun rose exactly at 6.60 a.m.. olementary school earried a gradu- become no used to colossal figures, of Japan have now given warn-ato'n hood in his Antchel. If he as used to education as a major and despite the fact that it was ing that they intend to challenge had the brains he had the right to parliamentary issue, almost our birthday, did not set until the London and Washington Na-reach the university.
major industry, that we cannot 6.81 p.m. val Trenties and to demand
conceive of a grant except in Probably if you are old enough, excuse equality. There is no
you will The first grant was £20,000. It member for this attitude. The Man- churian adventure makes no the forest of scaffolding known as grow each year, but did not reach great serious increased demand upon whole country It has been made 000 in 1851. It did not reach out
the scholarship system. Over the 100,000 till 1846. It was £150,- ment through- the resources of the Japanese possible for the clever boy to £1,000,000 till 1871.
civilised world that limb from the first floor to tho Navy. The assumption.
For the year 1932-88 the Govern- Just about ratios are an index to status is second, and from the second to ment grant was £12,892,000. The this false. The system was adopted the third floor in the house of total from public funds, including in In order to prevent a race in education. Some lave complain-rates, was £83,078,000, armaments, but the guiding faced it was more like an cecalstor tor, in fixing the ratio, was, we than a ladder. A clover boy has had as much right to a free place in a secondary school ng his father had to a vote or his mother to the money she won in sweepstake,
SCHOLARSHIP SYSTEM. Upon this theory was erected
THE HONG KONG HOTEL believe, the naval needs of the
GARACE
Powers concerned. Japan cau- not fairly argue that she requires as large a Navy to protect her shores, with Korea, Manchuria and the Mandated Islands thrown in, as does Britain with an Em- pire atretching right across the globe and important trade routes the State wero overborne Under the pressure of financial necessity, to protect. The trouble appears however, Parliament finally faced
The
This glamorous theory carried! the day so strongly that those who asked whether the compulsion to give secondary education to the clever boy need lle always upon
millions.
THE WIFE GOES TO A TALKIE
BY L. G. MOORE
-
re- the excite-
the
time 1900.
In this one week there was an unfounded rumour that the Hongkong government was go- ing to cope with the water situa- tion; Listerine and Halitosis were invented in America; the Kellys, of Australia, announced the birth of a sixteen pound sen; the present King, in celebra- tion of the event, went to the Australia to inaugurate Commonwealth, and almost on the same date, fourteen years to be that the Geneva decision the question: May not the com. Hullo, darling, sitting up for
later, Britain entered the has got Japan's back up, and pulsion lie upon the parent in-me7 There's a good boy. But
Great War. feelings.stead The result not Inte, am I?
These events occurred before ture. Haven't enjoyed one Ho there was wireless broadcasting, gest the development of an in- regime of payment.
If the miner, the shepherd, or much for a long time; you ought a Very Idea column, teleprinters, feriority complex.
or air mail, and the news of the the railway portor has a specially to go. clever boy he will still be able to I know you don't like talkica birth of young Kelly had to bo got secondary education without much, but this film is different, flashed, to the world by ordinary costing his parents a penny. But It's so true. There are a young cable and telegraph. If the man with £10 a week wants couple who have just got married, his boy to have secondary educa- and the girl who is the wife la that tion he will have to pay for it, not one you liked so much in that film That the mere fact of being arrange for other people to do so we saw a long while ago when a alive is a doleful and dangerous even if the other people happen to man thinks his wife doesn't love have been twins if there had been him. What's her namo? You another one of us when wo were business is proved beyond all be called "the State."
know her. In the film there was anborn, we would have addressed peradventure. Daily the ad-
HIGER FEES.
jold professor-no, not the one I ourselves as "I", providing, of
Hongkong Telegraph. aroused nationalisten to sug-in that to-morrow, begins a new Splendid.. It was a beautiful pic-
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933.
WHAT NEXT FOR JAPAN
So
far Japan's resignation from the League of Nations, has had little effect upon
course
the
The Menace of a Mud Pie
Number of germs.
Only Editors and Kings are allowed to use the plural "Wė" when boasting about themselves. But for the fact that we would
Oui..
As a result of careful living, wo hope to be in a fit condition to celebrate our next birthday.
As we cannot celebrate with every member of our public on the one day, we are willing to start next year's celebrations right now. Appointments may be made at the Hongkong Hotel any time bo- tween to-day and May, 1934. THE RUSH. APPLY
*
to-night, and they want us to go Out of 1,867 secondary schools and play bridge on Thursday. in England and Wales in a return Anyway, her name doesn't mat- AVOID made as for March 1931, 860 had ter, only I wish you could think NOW. fees of over 9 guineas a year. In who I mean. Never mind. She 1,800,000 116 they were 12 to 15 guineas. cannot settle down to married lifő, 2,450,000 Seventy-four were charging no although I don't know why not, for
We Angered our whiskers cares- 000,000 toition fees and 8 were charging she had a beautiful home and a singly. We never have blinked at 3,000,000 fees not exceeding 3 guineas a husband who worshipped her. the Call of Duty-or the call of
900,000year.
These girls on the pictures never "Roy!" for that matter. And it
GLASS HOUSES.
of world events.. The vertising columns of publications The income limit is going to saw to-night, the one we both saw course, that we could have found other fifty-six members are re-point to the perils of not using vary from county to county. The with the same girl in it. Oh, I'm that unusual letter on our type- fusing to be driven into a panic. such-and-such a potion. But to much-maligned "Circular 1,421" sure you've seen her, And there writer.
Besides, our parents insisted It is a wise provision in the Con-a bacteriologist of Pittsburgh contemplated an income limit of was a funny man who stuttered, venant which compels a Mem-must be given the palm for cau- £3 to £ a week in the case of a and you didn't like the idea of that we should never say no. Our tioning the world that the worst family with one child. But moat making jokes about people witho" is taken from the French ber-State to give two years' has not been told. Analysing areas have arranged something infirmitica. notice before it can sever its mud pie with which his small higher.
YOU KNOW HER NAME? Where existing fees are low connexion with Geneva. In son had been playing, he is re- they are to be raised. Circular
I wish I could think of her 1935, it is true, more than one ported to have discovered that 1,421 auggested that the fees name; not a very well-known infantile should where necessary be actress, or I should remember her knotty question will be raised if this time-honoured Japan's withdrawal is consum-pastime is fraught with the dir-brought up to 15 guineas a year at once. I believe the night we est possibilities. Investigation and said that the Board of Educa-saw her was the night we saw the mated. There will be the proof that apparently innocent tion "will ordinarily hesitate in Smiths in the shilling scats. By blem of the Pacific Islands, ad-make-believe confection, he de- future to approve n fee of less the way, I met Mrs. Brown there ministered since the Great War clares, yielded the following than 9 guineas." by Japan under mandate from alarming result: the League. The Little Entente States, it is rumoured, will lay Diphtheria claim to the permanent sent on Mensles the League's executive Council Smallpox
Lockjaw which the Japanese will Dyaontery forfelt. At present, however, Pneumonia
500,000 Somebody is going to be hit by seem to know when they're well really did distress us to find that a Tuberculosis neither Japan nor the League
G00,000 the higher fees and by the fact off. You saw her making up to go group schoolboya should have not- members are going out of their As nothing appears to have that Bscholarship boys now paying out, and she was sitting at one of hing better or more amusing to do nothing will have to pay as much those dressing tables I want you when lessons are over than to way to cross the bridge before happened to the child, it looks as of the fees as their parents can sort of sit in the middle of it, and throw stones at lamp standards. though those particular Pitts-afford People who have been mirrore come all round you. I The Government ought to do they come to it. Why the proburgh germs must have had a getting something for nothing or meant to ask you if you'd seen something about it. spective secession of a Great Pol
yellow streak or have been too next to nothing will dislike having that one in Robinson's window;
(Absent-mindedly, brooding wer is being taken so calmly at proud to fight. For 11,000,000 to pay.
it's ever so nice, and quite cheap,about Government servants. Wo As I say, this wife gets tired hereabouts put away a "quick Geneva can be easily explained. | bacilli to sit idly back and lot GREATER MORAL VALUE.
of her dull life because her hus-one") During the next two years, the a little boy poke them in the
But will it do education any band is always working, trying to situation may materially alter. ribs, so to speak, without any harm? The finest figure in the
(Continued on Page 9.) It will not be easy for Japan, 88 attempt at retaliation, rather argues for either cowardice or long as her leaders are deter-weakness on their part. Or mined upon a "positive policy" perhaps they were on a five-day to follow the example of Spain schedule and all this happened who resigned in a fit of pique on their day off. There is a
French proverb, by the and came back before the two
is a great inventor. which, translated, reads: Fear
Way,
Freedom of Speech
years had expired. But expert ence has proved that no Power in the world is big or independ- ent enough to cut itself off entirely from the League. Both the United States and Soviet History records movements Russia tried their hardest to organized for the achievement of keep apart from the comity of many different cndo. It has been left to Sweden and the nations, but have been drawn in- twentieth century, however, to to one after another of its activi-[organize a movement-not for tics. It certainly seems sign the attainment of national frec- ficant that the Japanese military dom, or religious liberty, or the dictators, who are responsible sanctity of treaties, or the aboli- for the present policy, have left tion of body-line" bowling-but themselves many loopholes, for the full, unhampered and Japan is to remain a member ofùntrammelled use of the harm- the League's International La-less direct form of address. It bour Organisation and her deis incredible but true, as the logates will still attend the the Times has recently made Disarmament Conference. Hints | clear, that the ordinary Swede— of co-operation with the League's so famous for his love of liberty technical organisations have and acorn of the yoke of the been thrown out. No notice oppressor-is not permitted. has yet been given that Viscount when he meets a friend, to hail Adatchi, tho. distinguished him with the cordial invitation, Japanese judge who is at pre- "Smith, drop in and ecg us on sent President of the Permanent Thursday evening," The force Court of International Justice, that freezes the Invitation on his will resign his position of im-lipa is not. a wholesome regard portance on the bench. Also, for what his wife will say; it is the official Japanese statements merely that the Swedish langu on the subject of the resignation age will not allow so easy and have endeavoured to emphasise friendly a greating to be given that Innan does not want isol
any circumstances whatever.
"No, Wallace has promised to stay. In to-night and help me with
my studies, but I'd be glad to take-bery
Fact is, with all this mudsling- ing and site-changing going on, the P.W.D. must be working overtime in scouring the Colony, looking for places to change to and from. Couldn't volunteers he invited from some of our local schools. An appeal to the patriotic spirit. Per id ed astra, 'sort of thing. It goes a long way.
But why brood troubles?
on our local
A HARD WORLDI Hero we have shareholders dar- ing to challenge directors about the amount of their foes. We don't know what this world is com- ing to. We have always said that he who gets what knows what's coming to him. We were loading up to something, but about from that drawback, and what with writing with one hand and scrat- ching the dog's back with the other, it slipped us,
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Dear Edward Kelly-My hus- band went for a visit to Shanghai with one of the Interport teams two years ago. Since then I have not seen or heard from him. What am I to do?-Mother of Seven.
Cloaked in our garb of modesty, we hardly know what to suggest. First impulse is to recommend drowning the brate and going aftor him, but porhaps that would hard- ly do. After consulting Auntie Flortle, wo wonder whether the man is really worth it. His actions would seem to suggest that he is. not at all anxious to return, and It would almost be a sign of de-.. generacy to chase after him. By the way, have you seen "Osval