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THIS WORLD OF
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BUS SERVICES
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WHAT BOYS HAVE TAUGHT ME
By GUY KENDALL
Headmaster of University College School, London
The Very Idea!
OUR COMPETITION
By Edward Kelly, Judge
WE
E did not win the Tele- graph photographic competition, partly through jealousy and partly because we did not enter any photo-
But we're all in favour of
Fears that the establishment of a bus monopoly in Kowloon would produce an entire absence of con- trol rather then unified control are certainly being borne out. The K.R.A. registers direct complaints and is ignored; the complaints aro passed on to the police authorities and there is no sign of official action, much less of remedial efforts by the bus company. An incident occurred yesterday which could not learn from the boy of to-day tion with the young, and will 'con-graphs.
TO have been possible in days of com- Is to learn from primitive sider what some others And.
For myself, I think I have con- petition. Two nuns. a dle man. It is a commonplace of edu agreement with the conductor con-entional theory that the growing trived by contact with boys to the idea. In fact, we're cerning fures with the result that human being goes through all the keep a young mind. That is why a dozen other passengers were com-stages of biological evolution till sometimes it shocks me to see my seriously considering running a
creases in the competition of our own. poiled to spend ten minutes at the the status of (more or less) civi-wrinkles and
of the mirror. Retaining many Bus Company's garage and another lised man is reached.
As a mater of fact, we've put seven or eight minutes outside the
The boy of ton rovels in reading intellectual onthusiasm of youth, Mongkok Police Station, while the stories about Red Indians and I feel that I ought to look more it to the rest of the staff, and very zealous conductor discussed the pros and cons.
ference. In fact he is a Red bored with cricket; yet if I have they've enthusiastically agreed duty at the station admitted that Indian. In this sense he is not to take a solitary walk, I some- to assist us.
Our motoring correspondent has he had known of instances where only father, but forefather of the times enliven it by an Imaginary cricket match (of course, I am buscs had been held up at the policeman. station for half an hour in con- But this is not to say that a supremely good in imagination as agreed to donate the magnificent sequence of a dispute about five boy of ten has the complete mena tortuous bowler or a lively bat). sum of $23.50 for the best sedan (Rolls Royce typo). There will be for the cents! Competition
tality of a Red Indian. When we scores and all. Or, as I
no restrictions as to size but the Nathan Road traille-put such non-
system
plays. "scalping" games by pre-youthfull Again, I easily got The officer on
sense out of the question in the days before the "unlfled control" caro Into operation. Schedules seem to mean absolutely nothing and the more convenience of passagers, what is that?
DISARMAMENT
Gormany's communication on the disarmament issue illustrates the gravity of the problems to be re- faced when the conference sumes next month. The Reich is prepared to accept the principle of control of armaments, with the proviso that it is equally applle- able to all nations. On the face
Was
potrol.
read accounts, of missions among trained a wethob, it is sometimes Savages, we are always aware that a Varsity race. I did it "when.my. the missionaries are dealing with life began:" I probably shall still car must do at least thirty miles people who are half adult, half du so "when I shall grow old." to the gallon in order to conserve child. Some of them they induco It helps me to keep young. to grow up, more or less. They even ordain a select few.
Similarly the boy is half savage, half young man of his time. We tench him civilised ways, but yet he is not wholly civilised; and we feel, like the missionary, that there is something to be learned from the healthy savage. BOY.SHY MASTERS.
Then it has been of inestimable use to me to have had to teach many classes of the younger kind, My preferred type of thought is the abstract and involved. Any one who teaches boys of under 16 has to be concrete and direct and simple. Not that some boya do not seem to roval in abstractions and generalisations from the beginning but they are the exceptions. GROWN-UP IDEAS OF THE YOUNG.
"Morcury", the aviation corres- pondent, has agreed to donate fifty cents as first prize for the Best Aeroplane sumbitted.
"Abigail" offers, 25 cents for the best box of chocolates (cream centres) and "Vinjar", who writes the Nature Jattings, will present ten cents for the best posy of pansies.
"Early Bird", who has always
been noted for his generosity has agreed to donate $50 for the best Australian griffin.
The presence or absence of the
"Colluloid” will give two com- Here are some suggestions of of it, the demand is perfectly capacity for entering into a boy's reasonable and it le safe to as-point of view obviously determines
a schoolmaster keeps my friends and acquaintances Plimentary tickets to the King's Theatre to the competitor who sume that Germany will not budge whether from her attitude. There is also young or gels prematurely old in about what boys can teach us,
"Boys live in the present moment submits the cleanest and neatest much sound basis for the French mind. Probably those who are Inalatence upon a four-year pro- made older by their association and their lives are therefore five dollar bill,
France quite with the young never ought to be healthily simple and uncomplicat- bationary period.
ed." Perhaps somo have that frankly distrusts the Hitler re in the teaching profession.
Everyone will recall some in-1 gime and not without good cause.
their chastisement briskly from The great peril in Europe to-day stance. He deals out learning of animal quality of upringing up and the greatest obstacle to dis an elderly, academic type. He and bearing no grudge. But by
Edward Kelly will offer iz armament is the rise of the apirit rather avoids boys out of school. no means all. Some do (if sub
empty beer bottles (which may of militarism in Germany, care- Ho shuns them like the plague in consciously) cherish deep resent-
be redeemed at the Brewery for fully fostered by the Hitlerites. the holidays. Possibly be was ments; and what of the boy who to the holidays? A girl
$.25) to the competitor who France cannot shut her eyes to born adult and has not even any is always wistfully looking for this even if it means shutting the recollections of youth to help him.ward
submits the best case of beer. Only if Such as he had once are now for-once said to me: "Do children have door to disarmament.
worries like grown-up people? I to gotten. Mr. Norman Davis has more
On the other hand there is the think I used to."
The competition is open to the alloying contribute
"They set themselves high
whereas grown-up whole of the Colony. Europe's fears can there be hope type represented by the more
successful public schoolmaster, standarde!
find excuses for of a successful issue. ..
who la content to make his life people try to
Each competitor must submit among boys and can enter into all themselves." No; in this I do not their occupations and amusements think they differ much from the three separato samples of his with the enthusiasm of 16 or 17. grown-ups except that they are work, which will remain the pro- He understands their difficulties less hardened and cynical. Nor
towards
times around the
equator.
of
But
One learns self-control in deal-battleships,
?
CHAOS While there are a great many stiff. hurdles to be surmounted, the world will, eventually, find a way out of its present political and economic chaos. Some may feel that the situation,must get worse before it gets better. Others believe the restoration of stability has begun. Meantime, WALKING RECORDS the tendency is to swing from op-
Long-distance walking records timism to pessimism and back
for should not be exploited exclusively
in class, and his humour is of the do I wholly, agree that they are perty of the prize givers,
Following this competition there again, without due reason
type that appeals to them.
"free from petty meannesses and such oscillation. Never before by postmen. Perhaps some
to He tries to live the adult lifespites." Perhaps more than girls will be others for grand pianos, Hongkong Bank was there such a need for keep them have trotted from door ing a steady view and, perhaps door for a distanco equal to four and the boy's life simultaneously but is that saying much?
before has
balanced
We persons in other occupations are and to be something of a "man
A sense of humour perhaps cannot breweries, and Chow doga. thought been so lacking.
grown boy,
No entrance fec. Submit your know, for example, that the fun-qualified to figure up quite a bit of the world" as well as an over-ing with boys-but not from them, shares, dirigibles, distilleries and
"Above all, the measure of his bo acquired if it is not inborn, of mileage in thier long careers. There is the policeman, for in-
success as a schoolmaster is the But, If it can be learned or caught, amount that he can learn from it is in the class room and the entry now. stance. Perhaps he has been in
his pupils.
boys' study that the infection is the service ever since helmets were invented. He has worn out For to learn about them is to strongest, enough shoo leather to stock a tannery. His beat may not have
and Perry, has been arduously long, but the total of his daily rounds present figures membered that if adolescence be- youth. But its freshness, direct-welcome in England to the nation's that even an investigator into the gins in the stage of the wild man ness and fun are as reviving as saviours, Austin age of the earth might envy of the woods,, It does not end a sea breeze. Like the sea, it can just reached us.
In the thick of the frantic mob Reduced to actual mileage, it is there. It progresses through early be rough or disagreeable. But the
young unwillingness to accept hoarse with cheering, a quite possible that he, too, has civilised man to "the world's great enthusiasm of the young for dis-
chivalries and first discoveries, their
defeat, their cheerful acquiescence man trod on the face of a young made an squatorial foursome and age" the world of heroism and covery (If you do not damp it) of 10,000, black in the face and who had fallen to the perhaps thrown in a little
which 80 well "begin anew." trip to the north pole.'
From the representatives of such in disagreeables, above all their woman
the ing. When Austin and Perry had an age we should surely learn all refusal to be taught what they ground, mangled, but still shriek-
know is futile-these are
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
in out
alde
damental situation of Europe is unsatisfactory, that it is produc- tive of perils. Yet it became fashionable, to pretend that the problems were solving them- selves and that substantial pro- gress toward permanent peace was being effected. The basic position had not changed. It cannot change while there are countries which bellove that monstrous injustices have been done them by the peace treaties, and while others are resolved to preserve the status quo. Then a few overt acts and bellicose speeches suddenly broke the at-
One of the biggest socialistle mosphere of self-complacency,
ever been n so-called and Europe was in a ferment of measures that has apprehension. Nothing really carried had changed; the dangers were 'capitalistic" atate has just been precisely what they had been for pushed to its completion in Great years; but the pendulum had Britain-with little opposition and with so little alarm or fuss that, swung to the side of alarm. it might be added, no ordinary In the economic domain, we person roailsed that anything_re observe the same tendency to
markable had happened. The swing from one extreme to the capitalistic organisation that had other. First, there is an un-built up a combine controlling thinking belief in a prosperity electric subways, tramcars and over the whole which has fictitious elements; motorcoaches next, there is an unthinking metropolitan area of London has formally handed over this gigantic mood of despair; and afterward business to a public concern, there is a reversion to the established by Act of Parliament, earlier sentiment, irrespective of called the London Passenger circumstances. Yet It is surely Transport Board. The man who important, not that we should was chairman of each of the com- allow ourselves to be unduly panies that formed the group enthusiastic or unduly depress (Lord Ashfield) becomes president ed, but rather that we should, associates who worked with him at all times, thoroughly ap-under private management become preciate the permanent factors his associates on the public body.
under of the economic and financial The shareholders, equation. When things appear Government scheme, remain share- to be flourishing, wo should holders, The samo plant and the soberly ascertain the facts and same employees are taken over by endeavour to see what will come stroke of the pen, and the now hody, freed from possibility of out of them. When things proficoring, will go ahead, armed powers to co- appear to be adverse, we should, with statutory with similar sobriety, ascertain ordianto all forms of passenger what is sound and what is transport within the metropolitan unsound, and act accordingly. area. It is Socialism, governed by. Nothing could more greatly the principle of the inevitability
of gradualnos." interfere with the steady purauance of our task than
of the board. His executive
tho
these ups and downs of como idle and to suppose that feeling. For when we consider our efforts are no longer needed: the immensity of the problems Against these vacillations of and the imminence of the opinion we should oppose, first, perila, we are apt to become a clear knowledge of the basic. helpless'i and wh wo persuade material facts, and, "second; an
ETI UnAnakable contaigus
of
Some philosophers have erred by learn from them.
After all, he is not only learning ideallsing the savage. We shall re- similarly err if we try to idealise from savages. It must be
we can.
THEIR TWIN SOULS MEET
A romantic ocho of the recent
I will state shortly, then, what things which we are never too old left the station, he helped her up.. good I seem to derive from associa- to learn from the young.
Stimulated by their common pas- sion, acquaintance swiftly ripened. Into love. She had an aunt who lost an eye welcoming Carnera last year. His uncle George was, left for dead at Waterloo when Charlie Chaplin went to London in 1924.
They are to be married next month.
P.3. The English are a shy and undemonstrative race (Anybody, any time).
CUT THIS OUT
The fact that September 6, 1938 will be exactly five years, two months and five days off the twen- tieth anniversary of the cassation of the Great War loaves us more recite determined than over to once again the finest war story of all time. Nor shall any tears or entroatles of yours provail on us to stop till we have recited it to tho.very ond
Story:
There was once a man, newly de- mobilised, who ordered his, Gear, vant to call him every morning at
The servant said each morning "Sir, the Colonel's complimenta and you are late for parada.##5
To which his master replied time: Tell the Colonial, with compliments that he can go to and that if: t have any mor
lip I'll come down and kick
Having attered whichwort rolled over and went to las