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NOTES OF THE DAY
US. FAR EASTERN POLICY
It is not perhaps surprising that the publication of the Kirola-IIu!! corresdonpence. should lead to the development of an agitation in the United States, for adoption of the programme of mutual concession therein indicated. The proposals must have a certain attraction for those who are anxious to got the problem of the status of Man chukuo out of the way-and, in leaping to the idea of concessions on both sides, it is natural that the advocates' should be inclined to overlook the cost in confidence Abandonment between nations,
of the Stimson Doctrine would ba disastrous in the present state of world predilection to upheaval, -
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THE NEW GOVERNING CLASS
By H. B. LEES SMITH
FR. Leca Smith, who was Labour Minister of Educa- tion, called attention recently to the fact that the modern educa- tion system has made the age of eloven the critical one In the From that ago of schoolboys. fact arise some startling cons Requences upon our social and industrial systems,.
the Indian Civil Service. It was.
The Very Idea!
WE'RE PARTYCULAR
By Eddle Kelly, Sweep Whner.
ABOUT Monday we shall
probably be in hospital You must come up and see us sometime.
Bring a lot of fruit. and their new labour at 14 years of ugo and give the abler lads promotion cakes and things for the
three years of
Doctor to eat. Also 4
after two ot routine.
It's all going to be brought about by the party we, intend tò
But by this system they are now couple of bottles of beer for losing the cleverest boys, for those boys win scholarships to the the nurses. Secondary Schools and do not leave school until they are 10 years old,
Natural ability is being drained have on Saturday. We'll be away from industry and being glad when it's all over."
university over-concentrated In
There's only one bright spot
about
A few days ago there was pub. teaching, school teaching, jour- lished a list of successful candi-nalism, law and the professions. In the preliminary proceedings. dates for the higher positions in! But industry is now awakening. The wife said to us, "What about NÁVAL UNDERSTANDING!
always taken for granted that to this fact. It is beginning to drinks? I suppose you'd bettor One sound suggestion la nd these positions were the exclusive adopt its methods of recruitment and to that. How much will it vanced by the New York Daily preserve of the boys from Public so as to secure the ablest boys cost?"
We said, "Well, there'll be Aunty The most thorough examination News in sponsoring the demand for Schools, but this time the boys from the Secondary Schools
from the State-alded Secondary revision of America's Far East Schools have beaten those from of this question was made recent and Unclo and grandfather, and
naval
the Public Schools. And just the ly by the Committee on Education our brothers, that'll be about $100. policy. The need for
of overy understanding with Britain is same thing happened in the com- in the engineering trade, consist Then there's us
branch of the industry. This $700. clearly observed and is strongly petition for the parallel positionsing of leading men
Committee came to the conclusion. So she said, "All right. Go and Appeare, how in the British Civil Service a recommended. It ever, as the last item on the pro-
A silent revolution has taken proportion of well educated young take $700 out of my purse-but no gramme proposed, when its correct position is first. A clear under-pince in the last 25 years. The men than it at present possessos. more." (You lic, you dog. You
The reason that it does not know you lie.) proportion of the population which goes to the now Secondary Schools obtain them is that apprenticeship has multiplied by four. Three-begina at 14 years of age and quarters of the children go there rules out the boy from the Second
ary School. by scholarships or other moang The Committeo recommended from the public Elementary
that a boy should be allowed to Schoola.
enter apprenticeship as late
standing between Britain and the United States as to the use of sea power should be preliminary to a re-orientation of Far Eastern policy, not an offshoot.
WORLD PAX
month ago.
that the Industry needed a larger
We're afraid we might have exaggerated a bit. It's a habit. we've got into through buying sweep tickets.
48 We nearly left home over this
At these now Secondary Schools 17 years of age, and that his pro-year's Champions. We remarked the teaching is practically as good vious years in a Secondary School that we didn't know whether to as in the old Public Schoola. should count as years of ap-buy an open car or a sedan. The
as
gentleman.
Tho boya
·
baby car to go shopping in.
wife said that she'd like to buy a The issue is dealt with pointed-Whether a boy is at Eton or Winprenticeship. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934.
The changes in education in baby ear. We said that it was a ly by a contributor to the current chester or at a County Secondary
School he prepares for exactly the the last 25 years are now begin- good idea, because we could use Issue of the Round Table in the
same examination--the school ning to modify the whole structure the big car and she could use the EUROPE PERILS: course of an article devoted to leaving certificate.
of British Industry, "The Empire, the League and from the Secondary Schools do
The latest example in another HOPE OF SANITY?
She said that she didn't intend to Security," in which he points quite as well in this examinationsphere is Lord Tronchard's now. Ho polico. the boys from the Public
proposals for the
do any shopping, the butler could, The die must be cast in
out: Since 1920 we have attempt-
Schools.
pointa out that the present age Europe pretty 8000. Theed to regularise our relations with
of enrolment for the police is 18 do all that. British Cabinet, having satisfied Europe and Asia while leaving our The Public Schools claim to or 19 years, by which time the Then she wanted to put $25,000 itself that there is no misap relations with the United States have the advantage of uncon- Secondary School boy has found on fixed deposit, and we said it was prehension concerning France's undefined. Should the present at sciously inculcating the manners, another job.
So he proposes to start a scheme damned madness, and she said we Just word on disarmament, is tempt to restore the universal refinement and quiet self-con-
fidence which has been regarded for picking out suitable candi-vere nothing but a spendthrift proposing to send further Notes collective system break down, our
Schools and finding them employ didn't shut up she wouldn't get a to Berlin and Rome, and upon primary duty-if the most disust as the hallmark of the English dates as they leave the Secondary wastrel, and we said that it she
But the Secondary Schools also ment in police offices until they
penny out of us... their terms and their reception roua of all wars, an Anglo-
are learning the art of instilling reach the age of enrolment.
The next generation of police
Then she said that we always. the future may well depend. American war, is to be avoided, if
we are to avoid becoming part of these qualities. They are learnt
and themon will have passed the same Speculation concerning Britain's
a European balance of power, if outside the classroom, decisions is useless. The only there is to be any centre of gravi- Secondary Schools are developing examination as most boys from wore mean and that we never took a rag to her back. This left us certainty is that hope has not ty in the world at all-will be to the esprit-de-corpe, sportsmanship Westminster, Rugby or Charter her out, and that she hadn't got
rogularise the relations between and sense of honour which have house.
cold, as we'd heard it all before. yet been abandoned. It is pos-the British Commonwealth and the been regarded as the secret of the
But all this is creating a new Anyhow, we said that we'd be a sible that an appeal will be made United States. For the world Public Schools.
The result is that these boys problem. The boys from the big goat to give her 26 thousand for a round table conference in raz that was maintained by Great
are increasingly invading: the Elementary Schools will have less
to throw away, and she said: "Is a final effort to adjust differen-Britain from 1815 to 1914 can no
The tough, hard-boiled, thrust that all you're going to give me out. ces. It is a long time since the longer be sustained by Great monopoly that the Public Schools chance than ever of promotion.
Britain alone, but only by the have had of the Civil Service, the sky in Europe has been as dark British Commonwealth and the Bar, the Church, the Professions, ing lad who went to work at 14 of eighty thousand, you miser?” na it is to-day, but remembering United States in co-operation and now even of the officer class years old, attended technical what the last war meant to At the same time the problem of in the Army and the Air Force. classes in the evening and built Well, one thing led to another, up the cotton mills of Lancashire and at the Anish we decided not to civilization, it is not easy to cor-defence grows in urgency. It is
and the shipyards of the Clyde le buy the confounded lottery ticket template the approach of a new quite certain that weakness never
passing away.
at all, and that's how we came to He is being pushed aside by the be done out of a fortune and have one without the most profound maintained either pence
bright, enger, intellectual boy whe misgivings. And yet although Institutions.
wins a scholarship.
to work fer a living, this is a most hackneyed re- mark-it is just possible that things are not quite as bad as they seem; possible, that is, that what
observe Continent is not the
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Diary of a Worm
But they have made one mistake. They have crowded into the black- coated occupations and
have consequ avoided Industry. The ence is that many of them are
Even if he goes to evening now finding it difficult to get classes at the Technical Schools, jobs,
he finds himself competing with The headmaster of a London the Secondary School boya who An amusing' "Sunday obser
Worm, who has promised to take eve vance deadlock has occurred in the Elementary School told me a few are already Alling half the places of general dissolution, but that little Borkshire town of Faringdon weeks ago that 80 parents of his in theso schools to-day and are wife to theatre, arrives home with
between the butchers and the local poorest boys had refused to allow Increasing there each year. very dark hour which, accord-council. For years the butchers of them to go in for the scholarship Our educational system is de- raging toothache. Says he would
those Elementary rather not go. examination for the Secondaryvising for ing to tradition, comes just be the town have been in the habit of
Oh, so worm has arranged to have fore the dawn. For if there is killing animals on Sunday, but the School as they did not believe that School boys an elaborato scheme left in mankind any sanity at district council are considering tak- they would get a job at the end of Senior Schools, Trade Schools,
The fault has been with in- Junior Technical Schools, ending toothache on first night for five all, the present troubles in ng netion to stop the practice.
dustry. The traditional habit of up yith plans for raising the school years that over-worked, uncomplain- Europe ought to be convincing They quote as their authority an evidence that the policies of the Act of Charles I, which imposes a employers has been to recruit age to 15 and then to 16. post-war era have been disas- penalty of 6s. 8d., but the butchers have threatened to rotullate through trously impractical. The frenzi- the medium of the anme Act, which ed tangle of repression, competi-imposes penalties on those who do tive armament, blind national-not attend a place of worship. ism, disregard of economic law and exaltation of strong-armed dictatorship is giving the world a complete demonstration of its ruinous futility. It is enough to show the blindest, in other words, that the world cannot go much farther along the road they have been following with- out tumbling, together, into the LORD TYRRELL Ipit. And there should be
enough common sense
war
The
butchers say that if they are prose- cuted they will keep a watch on members of the council, and will
turn informer against those who do not attend church the number of times required by the statute. The council are to discuss the mat- ter further.
in The announcement of the depart- European capitals to pave the uro from the Paris Embassy of way for some sort of under Lard Tyrrell provoked such genuine standing. is incorrect to regret in Paris. Lord Tyrrell, insist that to-day's situation is when he interpreted the policy of similar to that of 1914. In that his country, brought to the Inter- year the world had not yet had which enabled him to present in a pretation a sympathy with Franco its frightful demonstration of conciliatury manner propositions the catastrophe. which which the French sometimes felt to brings to victor and vanquished be lacking in a completa considera- alike; nor was the imminence of tlon of French dificulties. But the laudatory press comments were still war a matter of general know-au
more inspired by the belief that bis ledge, except among a relatively own understanding of French small group of statesmen. To difficulties enabled him. Influanca day everyone knows or fears British policy in the direction of that war may come at any time sympathy, and by the conviction knows that if it comes it will that when he was at the Foreign mean complete disaster for all Office, in the years before the war Involved. Is blind optimism to
lie was one of the most devoted and lending architects of the Entente suppose that this general Cordiale. This has given him a awaredness may create a prea Bedure and permanent place in the sure on the statesmen of Europe” affections of those Frenchmen who that will lead to the adoption of | have followed the course of forelyn more sane policies?
affairs,
"Don't you remember? Wo sat next to each other during our college year."
ing wife is to be taken to theatre? Wife has always noticed that worm is in best of health when worm is going to dinner with witty worn friends.
But, when wife, who has given best years of life working fingers to bone to minke home comfortable for 'dalfish, ungrateful, worm, is looking forward to few hours' relief from alavery, warm chooses to have toothacho.
If worm had spent more money at dentists instead, of in low taverns, and had disgusting teeth out, wife would have been able to go to theatre.
Worm heroically offers to go to
theatro,
Oh, so worm thinks that wife in going to have evening spolled by swollon-faced worm meaning and groaning through performance?
Worm suggests going to theatre when teeth are out.
Of course, worm would suggest going some other night now there is no dinner and wife has had perma nent wave, which will not last morn than week. Probably worm would liko
to take wife to theatro when hair is straight, so that shameless who wil probably be in box with millonafro, can think worm his married frump. Luckily wife Is no fool, and can ace through deep plots fald by low, cunning worm.... Worm gives up argument and totters to bed-Nal. Gubbins.
Blonde,