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B-4446-Aldershot Tattoo March (James)
Le Grenadier du Caucase (Meister)
Massed Hands (cond, by Bandmaster Traylon Adams)
·B-4468-Entry of the Gladiators--March (Fuelk)
Sambre et Meuse March (Planquette)
Maased Bands (cord. by Bandmaster Trayton Adams)
B-8051-Colonel Bogey March (Alford)
Officer of the Day March (R, B. Hall)
Mansed Bands (cond. by Bandmaster Trayton Adams) C-2572-Adagio from Sonata Pathetique (Beethoven).
March from Lee Hugenots (Meyerbeer)
Massed Bands (cond. by Bandmaster Trayton Adams)
B-8002-William Tell-Overture (Rossini)
The Storm & Finalé
Massed Bands
B-8025-Medley of Marches-Parts 1 & 2
Massed Bands
R-8038 The Day Thou gavest
Eternal Father
Massed Bands
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NOTES
S OF THE DAY
SOFT PEDAGOGY
An immense amount of Ingenuity | has boon expended by teachers and parents in inventing devices ·· In- tended to make children happy in their school life. Anyone who is
OCTOBER 30, 1934.
LEGENDS OF BRITAIN STILL KEPT ÄLIVE
By JOHN A. MAY
The Very Idea!
WHOSE MISTAKET
Пty Georgo INDER the heading of
U local celebrities the
in a position to compare the school PERHAPS Robin Hood and while would-be employers look, Bonnio Prince Charlie would around and take their pick, or per- activities of to-day with those of not need to feel as lonely and out haps exchange servants among little gem of artistic talent a generation age and to take note of pince as one might imagine if each other.
until the ex-week-end.
to
wo should add that we put the is art and honour's a farne, and heading on it ourselves.
Prizes will be awarded to all
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In order to forestall the obvious we should point out here and now that the subject is not a Haggis, dead or alive, but it may have. enten some Haggle just prior to the drawing.
of the differences in the tone and they returned for a year to modern At some fairs those chosen in which is seen lurking below, quality of the decline, and in "sophisticated", Britain. They this way do not receive a penny in fell from the pen of an erat- of the discipline, and in would find that "once upon a timo" wagca, except perhaps two shillings while friend during the the care and consideration given still lives for countless villages deop"fastening money;" to the children must recognize in the countryside, where every piration of the period, usually a that the changes which have taken year upon the days determined by year and a day, for which they have place in the ported may, without tradition the country folk com- heen hired. At others such face skilful libel on a turnip or a You may recognise it as a exaggeration, bo described as re-memorate the bygone years. with lors as "porklings," or rows of volutionary. There may be differ. the dances and songs and costumed turnips, or sacks of potatoes are rough drawing of a traffic acci- ences of opinion as to whether the festivals of their ancestors.
we give no further just as likely to form part of the dent but change has really tended to in-
The wanderer in Cornwall Inwages contract as money. creano the true happiness of the carly May, drawn by the music of
guides ng to its, his, or her children or 18 merely calculated to young voices, singing a
Near Aberystwyth, in Wales, the identity. provide them with opportunities traditional air, may come upon by a celebration known 88-the-
Wing hiring fair of Nov. 16 is preceded
It is however only fair to say for pastime and ploneure in the scene that may well cause him to "parting of the ways. This re- that it was born at a Hallowe'en schoolroom; but there can be nu forget this is the age of motorcars presents the ending of the yearly Dinner in circumstances when art doubt whatever that educational and radio. practico Is now profoundly in- fluenced by the likes and dislikes streets are thronged with people.
It is the village of Helston. The contract between farmer and hired During this evening the villagos of the young, that their con- clad in "Sunday best," dancing in run wild. The older Inhabitants venience and pleasure are consult and out of the houses. Anybody's remain calm and collected, sure ed at every stop, and that in some house. Then on down the street, enough. Thoy merely sit by a huge ear guesses and a punch on the schoola, where the polley is in full Boys and girls, men and women, peat fire spinning yarns. But then to any who make the correct, awing, their consent and co-opera- dancing on and on and in and out, youth of the villages are allowed solution. tion in the educationa! process led on their winding route by a dress up, black their faces and must indeed over-ride all other proud band and a considerations.
still prouder terrify their elders for this one young lady.
night in as many suitable or un- This echo from a forgotten age suitable ways as their imaginations DANGEROUS THEORY
Is the Helston Furry Danco, per- can suggest, Victims know that Few will deny that this theory formed every year for centuries, quiet submission is the best policy. unchanged yet still fresh and At the end of the revel washing of education has its dangers. colourful. The proud lady is the tubs are filled with ice-cold spring
Nor la it the inside of a hagyipe Something may be said, and in- most recent Helston
bride. Her water and the revellers, arms tied or a worm's eye view of a set of deed, a great deal has been said privilege it is to lend the dancers, behind their backs, are required to kilts in action.-but you're getting about the importance of mildness Behind her must dance two couples pick apples out of the water with warm! and kindness and good feeling be- of Helston birth. twocen
Local Inebrities. After that, their lipe. Biting, is not allowed, a teachers and Laught, but is there
apparently anyone can join in. ducking being the penalty for tooth tween the severity and unneces-folk have nei malde a day for satisfactorily cooled off.
Near by in Davon the country marks on the rescued fruit, So are the high spirits of the evening. sary harshness of the past and song. Down at Widdecombe, to- gone Victorian era and the happy-ward the end of the summer, to the go-lucky soft pedagogy of to-day? rollicking tune of his own ballad, Surely the answer in that dla-Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh rides market town of Hallaford "lets off Away in Leicestershire, the old elpline aa administered by men again. He rides into Widdecombe steam" in a different, but quite as and women of senso can be Fair each year, as he has done effective, manner with its yearly BRITAIN'S POLITICALng to be firm and wholesome, and centuries.
humane and kindly without ceas since a time that is lost in the mediaeval festival for "Bottle Kick- that if boys are not required to And all Devon sings his song perform hard and uncongenial with him; are missing the very discipling tasks during their school days they that they will need most in reat life. When Byron wrote the lines: Oye who teach the ingenuous
youth of nations, France, Scotland, England, Italy
and Spain,
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Hongkong Telegraph. -
TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 1934,
OUTLOOK
The reassembly of Parliament to-day is likely to intensify political activity in the Old Country. Although the Govern- ment still commands a substan- tial, majority, there are prospects of lively debates in the House of Commons. Outstanding amongst the issues to be discussed is the Indian question, concerning which there are sharp divisions of opinion in the Conservative ranke, It remains to be seen whether Mr. Baldwin will be able to compose the differences with in his Party, or whether the dis closure of the Government plans will lead to a sharper cleavage, with the possibility of adverse reactions to the Conservatives as a whole-when the next Gener
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mind the pain,
STATISTICS OF LONDON
instance.
· passenger trac
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ing and Hare Pie Scrambling.”
This in, despite its name, a foot- ball match, said to be the oldest in the world. But it is a football match with difference. Two ether. The "field" is the world whole villages play against each
I want for to go to Widdecombeories of the two villages, Hallaton around. The lines are the bound-
"Tam Pearse, Tam Fearec, lend
me thy gray mare, All along, out along. down along
Lee:
Fair,
WI BU Brewer, Jan Stewer, bottle," is a small barrel.
and Medbourne. And the ball, or Peter Gurney, Peter Davy,
But before the kick-off the teams Dan'l Widdon, Harry Hawke, must scramble for a gigantic hare Old Uncle Tom Cohleigh an' pic, big enough to fill three eacks all,
after the vicar has cut it up. Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh an all." After the scrambling the "bottle"
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The above is a strong argu-. mont for the Doctors' Mandate. and the old sawit isn't what you're made out to be; it's what you are that matters.
dressed to Editor, Nature Notes, Solutions must be sont in ad-
the and nuust be in the form of answers to the following quen-
rendered
tions.-
1.—Ig it animal, vegetable, or mineral?
2-ale or female? 3.-Alive? Why? 4.-Dead? How long? 5. Which way up should it be held?
6--Where is the rest of it? Which end do you like best, the bit above or the part that isn't there?
7.-Where does it grow, drop from, or hang on? Why?
8-Has it a secret passion? If so can it take it like à gentle- man?
Why are you wasting our time" "It" has just been identified by a shroff.
his words were probably not in- tended to be taken too literally, but merely as a reminder, half jest modern mare being lent by a more head and flang into the middle of And although, owing to the lifted three times above the and whole earnest, that education careful Tam Pearse, Bill Brewer the mob. Then the game is on, is at bottom a moral process.
A member of the police force' If a and the gang do not get their ride, and only better oracle is desired we
-rule applica-n just out from, England claims to consider the familiar words begins spectators or argumentative
may they are at the fair just the same biting.
In London. one amusing rule, also after he had been well liquored up recognise "it" and it was only ning; "Train up a child in the salesmen. The visitor can see them applies to the ancient ceremony of that he admitted he was a keen way he should go." Soft pedagogy all and amuse himself thinking out
"Beating the Bounds of West-air fan and was liable to make makes the mistake of supposing which is which For the old minster," that is that a choir-boy mistakes like anybody else the that children cannot be under strict discipline.
happy characters of the song are just must be tossed in a blanket during artist for instance.
real even in 1934.
the ceremony. After this Intor And throughout Britain the leafy walk round the bounds boating ludo the chief persons of the parish summer months see other villages them the boundaries, not proudly dressed up for the annual The year-book-of the London festivals and fairs. Fairs not of choir-boys-with long willow sticks. al Election takes place. There, son of the world's greatest city of the panting steam organ and the County Council gives an impres-the hurdy-gurdy and the gypsy, uol are indications that the Govern-likely to interest any imagination. side-show barkers, but faire dating scene of a custom which has hap Old Father Thames is yearly the ment, is anxious to do the right It in Just a record of figures, but from thing by India, but the "Die- they are on a scale that might well isolated and insular. Horse fatra Thames watermen known as the time when villages were pier history, the rowing race for Hard" element amongst the
deal with a nation, itself. For such as Barnet Fair, sales fairs Doggett's Cont and Badge. It was Tories may
easily create Greater London has reached 3,890,-"mop" fairs and "amock" fairs services the watermen
in such as Stratford, hiring fairs, instituted by an old actor for the serious position if it insists on
000,000 journeys, equal to 472 per such as Alnwick, saints' fairs such him by piloting him whittling down the Government year per head of the population, Ra St. Wilfrid's Procession at river on a stormy night in order
On all hands, it is con- The distribution was as follows: Ripon.
across the plans. ceded that the new session of railways, 947,000,000; tramways,
that he might keep faith with his | Parliament is likely to be a most 1,038,000,000 and omnibusca,
audience at Drury Lane. anxious period for the Govern-
1,906,000,000. Attendances
At the hiring fairs one of Many miles to the northwest, in ment, for, in addition to the museum and art galleries in 1933 Britain's most ancient customs still Derbyshire, the village of Tissing- Indian question,
numbered 13,000,000. There were persists. Labourers and servants ton maintains each year & cere- there ar 1,657,701 visitors to the Zoological who are seeking employment wear mony which is known to have its numerous other controversial Gardens, 1,256,818 to the Science plece of ribbon or mop in their origins in the year 1350. It is the issues in its programme. Whilst Museum, 1,226,057 to Kew Gar-hats, or a special coloured smock, (Continued on Page 7.) the defent of the Government is dens, and 1,076,385 to the British. hardly to be expected, in view of
Museum. its comfortably big majority, there is just a possiblity that: its policies might be so challeng The Metropolitan borough with ed that it would decide to appeal the largest population is Wands- to the country at an early date worth, with a population of 353,- for a fresh vote of confidence, 300, and Holborn, with 36,440
persons, How it would fare in such an
the smallest. The event would largely depend on
resident population in what is the main issue on
known as the City of London in which the 1932 was 10,870. The London local battle was fought. Some weeks authorities are responsible tor tne ago, political observers were yearly disbursement of £65,000,000, disposed to attach much import of which £39,000,000 to spent by ance to the then pending by, the London County Council. Des. election at Swindon, which was pite this immense expenditure the
interest to be a trial of strength between, aloctions, is very alack. In the ratepayers, as shown by Conservatives and Labour. Far voting for the election of the ticular attention was centred on Council and the 28 Matropolitan the Liberal vote and it was.con-borough councils the percentages eeded that if Labour won, it wore 80.0 in 1925; 35.6 in 1928; would indicate strong Liberal 27.8 in 1931 and 86.6 in March of disapproval of the Government at the borough councils were much this year. The percentages voting The result has been a big victory, the name. A section of the statis for Labour. This result, taken in tica shows a count of traffic taken conjunction with the North Lam- by the Metropolitan Police at beth gain last week, suggests various points on a certain day be that Labour will be a factor to tween the hours of 8
a.m. and bo seriously reckoned with at the 8pm. Hyde Park Corner showed next election. With the Liberals vehicles. Then camo Trafalgar the densest traffic with $1,857 largely out of the picture, the Squar
Square,
ble Arch,
51,160
OTHER FIGURES
Marble
coming struggle will be for all 52,197; Piccadilly Cire Stroot,
practical purposes a straight Edgeware Road at fight between the Conservative 45,028; Piccalilly at St. James and Labour Parties. It is some. Street, 42,883; and Blackfriars what early in the day as yot to Bridge, 41,740. How those figures attempt to forecast the outcome, ties of thirty years ago which
have grown is illustrated by statis but it is obvious that the Govern- showed Hyde Park Cornor, 29,286; ment will have to fight hard to Trafalgar Square, 27,768, and avoid defeat.
Marbla Arch, 29,320,
"The usher was right, dear. There's only one seat here."
POLISHED CHESTNUTS.
'Don't Look!
Nervous Passenger: "Don't drive so quickly round the corners. It makes me frightened."
Chauffeur: "You don't want to. got scared. Do what I do shut your eyes when you come corner,"
to a
The "Hadding" Machine. Meg (discussing her latest con- quest): "He is the nicest boy friend I have ever had."
Pog (bored to death): "And is he aware that he is being had?".
Nearly The Same, "Woman is nothing but
a bone, and a hank of hair."
"Man is nothing but + groan, and a tank of air"
rag.
brag,
Never Too Good! "I'm sorry, but I make it a rule never to lend money. It ruins: friendship"
Still, old chap wo were never what you might call wonderfully good friends, ware we?".
Would A Sword Do?
Mr. Norman Foster
Hollywood, Calif:
Dear Mr. Foster,
Would you send me a photo
of yourself, also one of these freo lances which I hear you are giving Away.
Yours truly, Tensio MONTE
*** (signed) EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr Foster was designated by the Movie Magaz sings as a free lance player