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PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

"Growing Number of

Misfits.".

ARISTOCRACY'S IDOL.

Man-meaning the conceited being who thinks he is, the lord of creation and a great advance оть his ancestors-way de- licately but firmly put in his place by Dr. H. S. Harrison in his to the presidential address Anthropological Section of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, at Bristol University.

Man is left with nothing of which to be proud, except the mere fact of his existence. So far as true discoveries. go, he is simply an opportunist-like the first shipwrecked sailor, perhaps, who tried oysters out of desperate hunger, and found that he sur- vived..

"Man, did very well before ho was a man at all," said Dr.. Har- rison, "and no one has given any reason why he ceased to be an Japc.

"Man's artificial environment,!" the doctor continued, "has ex panded with, the growth of civilisation, but the human brain has not undergone a like infla- tion; nor, as far as can be seen, has the human mind undergone a change in its essential charac- ter's.

"The brain of Later- Palaeolithic man appears to have been like our own in-all essentials, Land & Cro-Magnon born to-day might become a skilled mechanic for an able bishop. But man had no more need to become a me- chanic than he had to practice as a theologian, though he drifted into both professions.

Blaming Nature. "Man was given the means to earn a livelihood, and found him- self commanding and inventing luxuries. In producing a new and cunning big brained animal with hands nature evershot her mark and we are struggling with the consequences."

THE CHINA MAIL.

Fiery Cross at Banff.

When the Highland Gathering and Scottish Music Festival was held at the Banff Springs Hotel, August 20 to September 1, under the patronage of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway, one of the high lights of this great annual gathering of the clans was the Fiery Cross race, reminiscent of the days when the clansmen were auinmoned to war by runners carrying a burning torch through the glens. Seventeen Highland regiments in Canada entered their best, pipers to compete for valuable trophies. Lads and lassies dressed in the flashing kilt performed reds, sword dan ees, and Highland flings. Leading Scottish athletes of the Dominion and tossing the 'were rounded up for the traditional Caledonian games, such as putting the "atane, caber, as well as the more usual track and field events. The musical programme this year was con- centrated on the songs of Robart Burns and two ballad operas incorporating these songs were pre- arrangements by sentul one entitled The Ayrshire Ploughman," written by J. E. Middleton with Healey Willan, distinguished Canadian composer, and the other, Burns" own cantata of "The Jully Beggars," The Alfred Heather Light Opers, Company, which presented a two-month season of Canadian and Old English operas at the Banff Springs Hotel, supplied the artistes for these pro- ductions.

Lord Eustace Percy, president economic conditions, still think in of the Board of Education in the terms of the 'liberal professions." last Conservative Government. The choice before their sons is and a son of the seventh Duke of either to enter a liberal. profes- Northumberland, was another sion in order to serve the com- iconoclast.. He was unable to be munity and to make a career, or present, but his address on educato go into business' in order to tion was read by Sir Richard make money. Gregory.

"The 'working classes, imitat- He criticised "the superstiti-ing as hest they can this aristo- ous reverence for full-time school-cratic superstition, assume that ing," which, he said, was due to their sons must, ha a rule, subject an hereditary governing class. to the drudgery of industry, but Any public school man could their great ambition is that as draw up a deplorably long list of many as possible should escape misfits of which he had personal from this bondage and become knowledge among his contem-teachers, civil servants, or trade The number of these union organisers. This is still poraries. misfits was growing as the old the atmosphere of both the hierarchical social/system of the public school and the secondary {nation crumbled.

school. "Aristrocrátic Idol.”

""The idea that industry may be

BRITAIN'S WEAK

SPOT.

Dumping Ground for

Patent Medicines.

with

Driven from their own countries by legal restraint, quacks find Britain the home for fraud.

"Vast fortunes are made out of fake medicines, and it has been estimated that £2,000,000 a year

Robbing the Poor. "Simple household remedies have been sold for years at a re- tail price out of all proportion to their cost. Those vendors rob the poor and the ignorant, and should be prohibited under drastic pen-

is spent on advertising these medicines. While the respectable papers generally refuse all adver- tisements having any suggestion of the improper, some of the Sir Leonard Hill, speaking at papers of what are called the re- Ilfracombe on Sept. 2, at the first ligious Press have shown a wider meeting of the annual conference hospitality to secret medicines, and many advertisements of an of the Sanitary Inspectors' Asso objectionable character have been ciation; of which he is president, found in their columns. said that more than 100 years ago Britain was called the paradise of quacks, and it was entitled to the claim now.

"The credulity of the public in The public school boy of to-day made to offer the most adver ur- unchanging," he continued. "The tended to weary of school at an ous of careers, that it is the evil 19 rapidly increasing because earlier age than did his father, chief and, indeed, the only direct ours is the only nation which does alties by the law. It is the over- and an increasing number of agent of social welfare, and that nothing to check it. Profits are wrought, the despairing, and the "upper" and "middle" class par the liberal pipfessions, includ- being made by aliens

poor who should be protected.

"The belief in proprietary ents must experience an uncoming government administration, remedies which, if employed in fortable feeling that some of their have at best only the secondary their native land, as they are c-remedies and quacks is wide- sons might have developed much job of diverting some of the ployed here, would send them to spread among the well-to-do

classes. stronger intellectual-appetites if wealth produced by industry into prison as enemies of society.

When I suggested that they had gone through a work- particular channels of social wel-! "Mass production, has spread, talks should be broadcast by the shop apprenticeship at & com fare which might otherwise run the evil. Unemployment and B.B.C. on fraudulent secret reme- authority paratively early age.

dryall this is an unfamiliar shortage of money are acute, and dies, an eminent conception of society to many yet the turnover for quack medi- said that the vendors would have teachers and to most parents." cine is bigger than ever, and to be allowed to reply. Well, why

many people spend on rubbish not try a debate? what they ought to spend on food,

While criticising patent medi. Patent medicine advertisements cines, I must point out that the involve long-distance diagnosis conditions of panel practice tend and treatment of disease by post to help on the doctors to give cer- which every medical man knows tificates of sickness when they is-impossible."

should be withheld, and lead to bankruptcy of the national health Insurance scheine at a time A constant stream of morbid when the mortality rate shows suggestion in these advertise that the health of the nation has menta make some people regard greatly improved".

Yet this was the moment we chose for compelling all parents to burn incense to this aristo- cratic idol of indiscriminate full- time schooling.

Smith was a chronic borrower. He had exhausted all his friends, "The organic defect in our higher education," Lord Eustace and one day he tackled a mere ac continued," is that, like our Gov-quaintance, Brown, outside the ernment, it is not harnessed to latter's home.

"Excuse rae," began Smith, the life of the society it claims to, serve, to the new power and diffidently, "but I find I've come the new opportunities which so away without any money, Can you ciety is constantly generating lend me a pound?" from new knowledge. This lack of touch is most clearly seen in our traditional attitude towards industry.

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"I'm sorry, but I haven't one with me," said Brown.

"And at home? Smith, hopefully,

queried

"Alt very well, thanks,'

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"The upper classes, though deeply affected by changing mured Brown.

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A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE,

The full dress debate on the Colony's Budget Estimates took place during the week. Unofficial members brought up varlous points on the Vote where it was claimed economies. might be effected, in particular as regards the Military Con- tribution and Government personnel. At the same time, they expressed themselves as satisfied that increased revenue was essential to the progress of the Colony, and so, whilst agreeing with the proposed new assessments in principle, confined themselves to a hope that they might be operative only temporarily, until such time as financial conditions in the Colony improved. The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL contains the full speeches,; including the one.... Ly His Excellency the Governor in which a proposal for a different basis of conversion of sterling salaries for Govern- ment officials was agreed to) -

The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL also contains an exclu- sive article in connection with the intention of the Govern- ment to construct a new motor road to the Peak, at an estimated cost, it is understood, of $50,000. Interviewa with heads of local utility services make the feature one of unusual interest:

Startling revelations as to the loss of $20,000 yearly on the local broadcasting service are contained in a special article in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL. It is understood on reliable authority that a private company who were interested in broadcasting in the Colony abandoned the scheme when it was established that at the present it would not be a profitable one.

Another special feature of the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL is an exclusive interview with an official of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai, who came to the Colony specially to study the ferry systems, with a view to institut- Ing a service across the Whangpoo. The scheme, which incidentally involves the extensive development of Pootung, is described in detail in the current issue.

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