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Sombre et Meuse March (Planquette)
Massed Bands (cond. by Bandmaster Trayton Adams)
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Officer of the Day March (R. B. Hall)
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March from Les Hugenots (Meyerbeer)
Massed Bands (cond. by Bandmaster Trayton Adams)
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The Storm & Finale
Massed Bundes
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TUESDAY, OCT. 10, 1934,
BRITAIN'S POLITICAL
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- tlal 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
NOTES OF THE DAY
SOFT PEDAGOGY -
LEGENDS OF BRITAIN STILL KEPT ALIVE
By JOHN A. MAY
The Very Idea!
WHOSE MISTAKE?
By George' INDER the heading of celebrities the
Ulocal
among little gem of artistic talent which is seen lurking below, fell from the pen of an erst-
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An immense amount of ingenuity has been expended by teachers and parents in inventing devices In tonded to make children happy in their school life. Anyone who in
would-be employers look in a position to compare the school PERHAPS Robin Hood and while
Donnie Prince Charlle would around and take their pick, or par activities of to-day with those of not need to fool as lonely and outhaps exchange servants a generation ago and to take note of place as one might Imagino If each other.. of the differences in the tone and they returned for a year to modern At some fairs those chošon in tomy of the Instructors, in the "sophisticated"
Britain. They this way do not receive a penny in of the discipline, and in would find that "once upon a time" wages, except perhaps two shillings while friend during the the care and consideration given still lives for countless villages deep "fastening money," until the ex-week-end. 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 period may, without tra
You may recognise it as com-been hired. At others such fac akiful libel on a turnip or a exaggeration, be described as re-memorate the bygone years with tors na "porklings," or
tradition the country folk 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 opinton as to whether the festivals of their ancestors.
we give no Just as likely to form part of the dent but
further change has really tended to in-
The wanderer in Cornwall In wages contract ns 'money. crease the true happiness of the early May, drawn by the music of
guides as to its, his, or her children or is merely calculated to young volden singing a
Near Aberystwyth, in Wales, the identity. provide them with opportunities traditional air, may come upon a by a celebration known as the Hiting hiring fale of Nov. 16 is preceded for pastimo and pleasure, in the scene that may well cause him to "parting of the ways." This re- schoolroom; but there can be no forget this is the age of motorcars presents the ending of the yearly doubt whatever that educational and radio. practice is now profoundly In-
contract between fürmer and hired hands, fluenced by the likes and dislikes
the young
of
that their
con-
venience and pleasure are consult ed at every step, and that in some schools, where the policy in in full awing, their consent and co-opera- tion in the educational process must indeed over-ride all other considerations.
DANGEROUS THEORY
of
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It is the village of Helston. The atreets are thronged with pouple,
During this evening the villages clad in "Sunday best," dancing In run wild. The older inhabitants house. Then on down the street. enough. They merely sit by a huge and out of the houses. Anybody's remain calm and collected, sure Boys and girls, men and women, peat fire spinning yarns. But the dancing on and on and in and out, youth of the villages are allowed to led on their winding route by a proud band and
dress up. Linck their faces and still prouder terrify their elders for this one young lady.
night in ns many suitable or un- This echo from a forgotten age suitable ways as their imaginations la the Helston Furry Dance, per can suggest. Victims know that formed every year for centuries, quiet submission is the best policy, Few will deny that this theory unchanged yet still fresh and
At the end of the revel washing education has its dangere. Something may be said,
colourful. The proud Indy is the tubs are filled with ice-cold spring and in-
most recent Helston bride. Her water and the revellers, arma tied deed, a great deal has been said privilege it is to lead the dancers, behind their backs, are required to about the importance of mildness Behind her must dance two couples pick apples out of the water with and kindness and good feeling be- of Helston birth. After that, their lips. Biting is not allowed, a tweeen teachers and but is there
taught, apparently anyone can join in. ducking being the penalty for tooth no middle way be tween the severity and
Near by in Devon the country marks on the rescued fruit. Se sary harshness of the past and song. Down at Widdecombe, to satisfactorily cooled off.
unneces folk have set aside a day for a are, the high spirits of the evening gone Victorian era and the happy-ward the end of the summer, to the go-lucky soft pedagogy of to-day rollicking tuno of his own ballad, Surely the answer is that dis- Old Uncle cipline
Tom Cobleigh rides as administered by men again. He rides into Widdecombe and women of Renge can be Fair each year, as he has done ing to be firm ead wholesome, and centuries. humane and kindly without cens- sinen a time that is lost in the that if boys are not required to perform hard and uncongenial taaka during their school days they are missing the very discipline that they will need most in real life. When Byron wrote the lines:
O ye who teach the ingenuous
youth of nations, France, Scotland, England, Italy
and Spain,
I pray you flog them upon ait
Occasions:
It
ends their mornia-never, mind the pain,
And all Devon sings his song with him:
Away in Leicestershire, the old market town of Hallaford "lets of steam" in a different, but quite, as effective, manner with its yearly mediaeval festival for "Bottle Kick- Ing and Hare Ple Scrambling."
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This Is, despite its name, a foot- ball match, said to be the oldest in match with the world. But it isn football difference. Two other. The "feld" is the world whole villages play against each
I want for to go to Widdecombearics of the two villages, Hallaton around. The lines are the bound- Fair,
"Tam Pearse, Tam Pearse, lend
and thy gray mare,. All along, out along, down along
Lea
WP Bill 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 all three sacks all,
after the vicar has cut it up. Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh an' all." After the scrambling the "bottle" his words were probably not in- but merely as a reminder, half jest modern mare being lent by a more tended to be taken too literally, And although, owing to the head and flung into the middle of Is lifted three times above the and whole earnest, that education careful Tam Pearse, Bill Brewer the mob. Then the game te on. ranks. It remains to be seen
is at bottom a morni process. If a and the gang do not get their ride. bitlug.
and only one whether Mr. Baldwin will be able consider the familiar words begin-
rule applies no botter oracle is desired we may they are at the fair Just the ARMO to compose the differences with- ning: "Train up a child in the salesmen. The visitor can see them "Beating the Bounds of West- --as spectators or argumentativo In London one amusing rule also applies to the ancient ceremony of in his Party, or whether the dis-way he should go."
Soft pedagogy all and amuse himself thinking out minster," that is that a choir-boy closure of the Government plans that children
makes the mistake of supposing which is which. For the old
cannot be will lead to a sharper cleavage, under strict discipline.
happy characters of the song are just na the ceremony. After this inter- must be tossed in a blanket during real even in 1934. with the possibility of adverse
And throughout Britain the leafy walk round the bounds beating ludo the chief persons of the parish reactions to the Conservatives STATISTICS OF LONDON summer months ace other villages as a whole when the next Gener-
proudly dressed up for the annual them--the boundaries, not the festivals and fairs. Fairs not of choir-boys--with long willow sticks, al Election takes place. There
of the panting steam organ and the Old Father Thames is yearly the the hurdy-gurdy and the gypsy, not are indications that the Govern-likely to interest any imagination. side-show barkers, but fairs dating scene of a custom which has hap It is just a record of figures, but from a time when villages were pier history, the rowing race for they are on a scale that might well isolated and insular, Horse fairs Thames watermen known as the deal with A nation itself. For such as Barnet Fair, sales fairs Doggett's Coat and Badge. It was instance,
passanger traffic in such as Stratford, hiring fairs, instituted by an old actor for the Greater London has reached 3,890,-"mop" fairs and "smock" year per head of the population. as 000,000 journeys, equal to 472 per such as Alnwick, saints' faire auch him by piloting him across the
faira Bervices the watermen St. Wilfrld's Procession The distribution was as follows: Ripon. railways, 947,000,000; tramways, 1,038,000.000 and omnibuses, 1,905,000,000. Attendances
At the hiring fairs one museum and art galleries in 1933 Britain's most ancient customs still numbered 13,000,000. There were persinta. Labourers and servants 1,567,701 visitors to the Zoological who are seeking employment wear Gardens, 1,265,818 to the Science a plece of ribbon or mop in their Museum, 1,220,067 to Kew Gar-hats, or a special coloured amock, dens, and 1,076,385 to the British Museum.
ment is anxious to do the right ning by India, but the "Die
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The year-book of the London aton of the world's greatest city County Council gives an impres
OTHER FIGURES
at
rlara" element amongst the Tories may easily create serious position if it insists on whittling down the Government pials. On all hands, it is con- ceded that the new session of Parliament is likely to be a most anxious period for the Govern- ment, for, in addition to the indian question,
thero
are numerous other controversial ssues in its programme. Whilst the defeat of the Government is hardly to be expected, in view of its comfortably big majority, there is just a possibility that ita 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 warth, with a population of 853- for a fresh vote of confidence. 300, and Holborn, with 36,440 How it would fare in such an
persons, la the smallest. The event would largely depend on
resident population in what known as the City of London in the main issue on which the 1982 was 10,870. The London local battle was fought. Some weeks authorities are responsible for the ago, political observers were yearly disbursement of £65,000,000, disposed to attach much import of which 39,000,000 is spent hy ance to the then pending by.
the London County Council. Des- election at Swindon, which was
pite this immenso expenditure the to be a trial of strength between elections, is very slack. In the Interest of ratepayers, as shown by Conservatives and Labour. Far-voting for the election of the ticular attention was centred on Council and the 28 Metropolitan the Liberal vote and it was con- borough councile the parcentages eeded that if Labour won, it were 30.8 in 1925; 35.6 in 1929: would indicate strong Liberal | 27,8 in 1931 and 85.6 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 same. for Labour. This result, taken in
A section of the statis. ties shows a count of traffic taken conjunction with the North Lam- by the Metropolitan Police
various points on a certain day be
at tween the hours of 8
a.m, and
beth gain last week, suggests that Labour will be a factor to be seriously reckoned with at the p.m. Hyde Park Corner showed
noxt election. With the Liberals vehicles. Thone came
the densest traffic with 81,867 largely out of the picture, the Square,
Trafalgar 64,735; Marble coming struggle will be for all 52,107; Piccadilly Circus, 200
rble Arch, practical purposes a straight Edgeware at Praed Street, fight between the Conservative 45,028; Piccadilly at St. James and Labour Parties. It is some Street, 42,839; and Blackfriars what early in the day as yet to Bridge, 41,740. How these figures attempt to forecast the outcome, tics of thirty years ago which have grown is Illustrated by statis- but it is obvious that the Govern- showed Hyde Park Corner, 29,286; ment will have to fight hard to Trafalgar Square, 27,768, avoid defent.
Marble Arch, 29,320.
and
at
of
It is however only fair to say that it was born at-a-Hallowe'en Dinner in circumstances when art is art and honour's a name, and we should add that we put the' heading on it ourselves,
Prizes will be awarded to all norn to any who make the correct near gussies and a punch on the solution.
In order to forostall the obvious we should point out here and now that the subject is not a Haggle, dead or alive, but it may have eaten some Haggis just prior to the drawing.
Nor is it the inside of a bagpipe or a worm's eye view of a sot, of kilts in action, but you're getting warm!
Local Inebrities.
The above is a strong argu ment for the Doctors' Mandate and the old saw-It litt what you're made out to be; it's what you are that matters.
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A member of the police force just out from England claims to
flim fan and was liable to make recognise "it" and it was only after he had been well 1lquered up
mistakes like anybody cloe-the that he admitted ho was a keen
artiat for Instance.
dressed to Editor, Nature Notes, Solutions must be sent in ad- and must be in the form of answers to the following quaя- tions.-
1-Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral?
2. Male or female? 3.-Alive? Why? 4.-Dead? How long?
5. Which way up should it be
held? rendered
river on a stormy night in order that he might keep faith with his audience at Drury Lane.
Many miles to the northwest. In Derbyshire, the village of Tissing- ton maintains each year a cere- mony which is known to have its origins in the year 1350. It is the (Continued on Page 6.)
"The usher was right, dear.
Thero's only one seat hero,"
6.Where 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 passien? If ao can it take it like a genile. man?
Why are you wasting our time? "It has just been identified by a shroff.
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 get scared. Do what I do-abut 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 fa nothing but a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair."
"Man is nothing but a brag, groan, and a tank of air.”
Never Too Good!
"I'm sorry, but I make it a rule nover to lend money. It runs. friendship."
"St, old chap wo were never what you might call wonderfully
good friends, ware we?"
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Would A Sword Do?
Mr. Norman Fonter
Hollywood, Calif:
Dear Mr. Foster,
Would you send mo a photo of yourself, also one of these free. Inaces which I hear you are giving луду.
Yours truly, Tossla M
(signed)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Foster was designated by the Movie Mage kines as a "free lanoe