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FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1936.
BRITISH EDUCATION
REFORM
Britain is at the moment engaged on a big scheme of educational reform, in which practically all aspects of the question are being taken in hand. It was only a
few months ago that the Board of Education completed its pro- posals, but no time is being lost in developing the scheme, which is mainly concerned with the raising of the school-leaving age from fourteen to fifteen. The full programme requires some statutory changes, and thus the
morning, what was to come.
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THE HOHENZOLLERN from Germany, the Habsburg.. from Austria, the Romanov from Russin, the Bourbon from Spain, the Braganza from Por- tugal, the Osmanli from Turkey,
NOTES OF THE DAY
SAFETY IN THE AIR
Those concerned with British
Where Are They Now?
Asks Ian Ward
In the News Chronicle
KING CAROL (RUMANIA)
ANUEL RAS TAFFARI
FABYSSINIA)
HAAKOM, SYORWAY}
DORIS (BULUJKA)
aviation do not lay too much stress not to speak of Saxony, Bavaria and still get to the open upon high speed and the general efficiency of aeroplanes at the ex- and Wurtemberg cach was The paper is still there. pense of the comfort and the safety there. Although representa- Braganzas are not.
of passengers. The accident
figures show that flying is becoming lives of some of their houses steadily safer in British machines are here to-day, not one single This is true of both the Royal Airhouse still rules. Force and civil aviation, in spite
of apparent contradictory evidence
of ten
A similar story could be told
The Kaiser was there. H¢
The reasons are
practically impossible for à foreigner, for
instance, unless he be an in-. tuitivo
export,
like M. Andre Maurois, to un- derstand. M.
Maurols recent- ly made a very penetrating re
* mark. He said that one of the reasons why we were the mos enthusiastic monarchists ir the world, was because of the English Consti- tution, and he went on to say "the inimitable virtue of the Constitution is that it does not exist." This is perfectly true Unlike that im- movible bogey, the American Constitution, it is resilient, ad- aptable.
Above all, the CASTANÓ King is never
held responsible, and is conse- quently outside the ephemeral
His function is to preside and, and, dangerous play of politics.
The In presiding, to represent. What
sea.
he represents is England. He represents England because he The Hereditary Prince of the is a man, and not an idea, be- Ottoman Empire was there. In cause he inherits his position 1916 he committed suicide. and does not have to scramble for it, and because he is the centre of social life.
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con-
necessity has arisen of introduc-were twenty-three fatal accidents dinand of Austria was
of civil aviation. In 1936 there
in recent days. The number of was to be hustled, still pro- fatal accidents to Royal Aircraft recorded for 1936 was twenty-five, testing, into Holland, having THERE were others presont involving forty-three deaths refused officially to abdicate. who, although their descendants which included nine killed in one There is, to-day, a field-marshal still rule, were as accident. This
'unfortunate is admittedly a
IN SHORT, HE is England higher figure than that of 1984, in Doorn, who dines, nightly, in as any of the foregoing. -the England of charm, of when twenty fatal accidents were his decorated uniform and still Against this must be act an in- attended by thirty-one deaths. has his private correspondence
George, King of the Hellenes, splendour, of duty, of die- crease
interestednes8 -the England delivered
But was assassinated in Salonika, by courier, squadrons in the strength
of the service and the neither the fact that he is now at the head of his victorious that does not make mistakes; fact that the hours flown in 1936 one of the most expert living army, in 1913. The Hereditary the ideal England. The value, have been appreciably higher than woodchoppers, nor that he pos- Prince of Serbia, later King the comfort of Buch & con- In 1934. It is believed that In no other air-force in the world is the sesses a private fortune of some Alexander of Yugo-Slavia, met ception is inestimable. It is, so average amount of flying mileage £40,000,000, can change, for this his end quite recently, in Mar- to speak, the no-knife-to-
great as in the British Air field-marshal, the terrible truth seilles. miles flown last year exceeded fifty Force. The aggregate number of that he has.
grind quality of it that is 30 not onc soldier million.
The King of the Belgians was important. Such a state of under his command.
killed rock - climbing. Tsar affairs could not have been Ferdinand of Bulgaria was the deliberately, consciously The Archduke Francis Fer-
there, luckiest, perhaps. This brilliant structed. It just grew. ing a Bill on the subject in the to civil planes, including afc liners, Proud of his reputation as the orthologist was one of the odd- Even then, it could not, in
It is an and forty-eight people lost their local authorities are being reef fatal accidents was twenty-five, back on other peoples maps, tractive, of all modern mon- ing personal characters of our essential part of the scheme that lives; whereas in 1934 the number man who was putting Austrin est, and in many ways one of the last 100 years, have ever "the shrewdest, though least at- grown, had not the astonish- quired to survey their own und forty-five lost their lives. But particularly that of the Bosnians educational fields and co-operate here again allowance must be made and Herzegovinians. At
archs. He had such a horror sovereigns made it possible. the in devising a complete pro- for the tremendous increase In the
of disease-the sanitary equip gramme, when it will be possi- number of
flown. The same time, a charming man,
King George was, technically, ment of Bulgaria was sketchy- without power. But the power not yet been estimated but there in the Empire, well disposed to cost involved.
It is have been increases in air trane minorities and the Slavs, and expected that an ehormous port in all directions. In this con-
was an infinitely greater, more sum will be required; it nection the record of Imperial who had the courage to marry is already
Threatened, at the outset of lasting, and more real power estimated that Airways deserves special mention. in defiance of the most £12,000,000 will be required for From 1933 to 1936 this Company bish Court in Europe. His car he said, "I resolved that if there most truculent dictators. Their snob- his reign, with assassination, than that of any of Europe's Improvements in technical and carried 129,000 passengers and its art education, which forms but aeroplanes flow a distance of went up the wrong street one were to be any assasinations, I secret is secret police, plus one of the eight main plans pro- 6,800,000 miles, but the recent day in Sarajevo and had to would be on the side of the as- hysteria. His secret was al- posed. These plans provide for accident to one of its planes off! the training of the children Alexandria was the first fatal one
that had occurred since 1933. from infancy to adolescence. Provision will be made for
House of Commons.
miles
ble to form an idea of the mileage covered by civil planes has the most far-sighted politically that he had all his carriages that he wielded by his example
total
This refers
come back, slowly.
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THE Grand Duke Michael of
disinfected every day.
aassins." He ended his days truism, plus patience. peacefully at Coburg, in exile, They will fall, and kings who collecting butterflies and flowers. emulate them will fall, as they children between the ages of payable on the conveyance-of Russia was there. Brother of these are the kings of to-day's but they do it the wrong way have done, like ninepins, since two and five years to attend nur children to school.
Apart from King Edward, 1914. They may do their work. sery schools and classes. There are at present five thousand
ceremony: King Leopold of the and for the wrong reasons. such centres throughout the
Belgians, King Haakon of Nor- the satisfaction of ambition, country, but these have proved
way, King Christian of Den- for personal rewards. A King insufficient and local education nection it has been suggested authorities have been asked to that the authorities should pro- was there. Perhaps the most, and King Carol of Rumania. tlons, and as for rewards he King Alfonso XIII. of Spain mark, King Boris of Bulgaria of England can have no ambi notify the Board of those areas vide school canteens where chil-romantic figure of all-outside The heirs to thrones are which require further accom-dren may receive meals at a Spain. But he did not succeed berto, Prince of Piedmont, the modation. This is the most pro- | reasonably low cost. With ro
prefers to bestow them.
He was
more particularly to children the Tsar, he became Regent for living in rural areas where they a short time in 1917. are obliged to travel to school promptly murdered. by bus or train. In this con-
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future.
minent item in the programme, gard to secondary schools, the in leaving Spain with nearly as Crown Prince Paul of Greece, There are many people who; as it is considered most impor-maximum limit hitherto placed much money as the Kaiser, and and the Crown Princes of from the highest motives, would tant that children should be on the number of special the method of his departure Sweden and Egypt. The In. Ike to bring the monarchy to given a good start in life if they scholarships awarded annually was even less creditable. are to profit from the general is to be removed. This is of
fante Don Alfonso of Spain and an end in England. They dis- scheme, and this is impossible great importance, for it will
Prince Frederick of Prussia approve of some of the thinge.' He did not die, and he was while there are many poor enable all children of sufficient not properly arrested, deport-
it stands for. Well, it stands represent the past.... homes in the country where ability to further their educa- ed interned or
for a number of things, and young children cannot be pro- tion under the secondary system, simply got in a boat for Marseil- on these two funerals, not to ness, tolerance, experience,
escorted. He It is difficult, when reflecting among them we shall find fair- vided with the attention they where before only a limited require. Another item provides number, whose parents could es. Now, for the man with speculate a little on kingship, respect for the past and for the improvement of school not afford the requisite fees, more titles than anyone in the its dangers and safeguarda. open mind for the buildings. As children are par- enjoyed this privilege. More-world, there is only the family Of all these monarchies, past These are not bad things. ticularly susceptible to environ-
over the mumber of State at Fontainebleau- mont, it is obvious that, in order scholarships
from secondary velling....
And tra- and present, there is plainly one to reap full benefit from a high schools into Universities is to be
which finds itself in a unique country to have a man in whom It is not a bad thing for a standard of teaching, they must increased by twenty per cent.
position. King Manuel of Portugal was some hang in the balance, and
Some have fallen, the aspirations and ideals work amid pleasant surround- Particular stress is laid upon there. One of the youngest and
*of" ings. The worst evils in this the importance of young people
some continue, as popular as
millions may, concentrate. A direction are to be found in cle- obtaining the career most suited handsomest of all. A fow
man above politics. A man who mentary schools, and the Board to them. It is obvious that all months later, in that ́ ́extraor-
is an example of selficasness, is therefore increasing from types cannot be catered for, but dinary palace perched on the
whose character teaches, init- twenty to fifty per cont. the pre-by the furtherance of technical hills at Cintra, built by a Ger- sunt rate of grant payable on and art education much can be man colonel, he left a copy of sure, and more popular in 1936 contemporary world most neede ONLY ONE IS stronger, more self, one of the lessons that the Oxpenditure on elementary done to open prospective careers school buildings. The Board to large numbers whose talents an English illustrated paper than it was in 1886, or in 1914, to learn. A man like King also proposes to provide for an would otherwise never be pro- open on the table, half rend. or 1918, or than ever before. It George V. A man like King increase in the rate of grant porly developed.
There was no time to finish it is our own.
Edward VIII.
ever.