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A protest has been published 1rom the National Association of Schoolmasters against the employ ment of men teachers in mixed schools where the head is a woman.

THURSDAY MARCH 15, 1934

FRANCE'S MEN OF

THE MOMENT

PROBABLE SUCCESSORS TO POWER

GASTON DOUMERGUES CAREER

It is understood that similar pro- "More than any great European withered as fast as ently daffodils: tebbe have been made by the School-capital, Paris is the head and heart that he has never yet been a mistresses Association against of its country," writes a special failure: that he was popular." And their members being required to correspondent of the London Even this compliment, made to an ex- work under a headmaster.

ing Standard, 200

President, le, no platitude. The master of Berlin is not the One can say, with certainty that Education oficiala of the L.C.C.

of Germany. When the Es no gentus-and with equal Bay that very few complaints from master-

held Rome he held certainty that he has not touched. individual teachers are received] Garibaldi

Italy, the pitch that now defiles all the of apno other under the present system

and to be Moscow

Leningrad In-unfortunate members of the two pointing men and

That may: terchange, and the North might past Governments. heads of misted schools on merit.

Actually out of about 1600 cle-ignore the decision of London. suffice, for the chief need of these But throughout the history of crazy rioters at the moment is not mentary schools in London only 330 are mixed. One-third of these have France all quick decisions have been a Bourbon, a Lenin or a Napoleon: | handmistresses.

women

Men Outnumbered

taken in Paris. I do not mean that but a man whom they will trust, they can override the provinces, Without being glib or suMBINAŁY whose slow, surly opinion, based on one can dismiss Communism as the the possessive instinct for the land, one force which the provinces will The Middlesex County Council cannot be ignored. But whenever not stand for, you can't "collec control more "co-educational schools the provinces don't care, Paris has tivise" a French peasant.

Reluctantly also we must dismiss than other county authority in Eng-her way. land. They always appoint head- mastera for mixed secondary

mistresses

.

Your Daily Smile.

Tate

In

On this occasion they may care those charming fanatics, the French and boys or not; they have, apart from minor Royalists, with their Camelots du head troubles in some half dozen towns, Roi, their Maurras and Daudet, schools and for girls' secondary lain low. They will have their way Even now M. Daudet may be tele- schools. In mixed elementary if they wish. But if they are in-phoning to the Duc de Guise in schools the proportion of women to different, feeling that the social Brussels to pack his traps. But can ignore this crisis is not to be solved by men heads is one-third as in Lon-continuity of the soil

political change, then Paris will propping up a sentimental miscon don.

In the whole of England women decide; and for this reason it would ception of the eighteenth century.

Leon Blum in lender of the outnumber men as teachers in the be wrong to dismiss the riots as elementary schools by three to one. Royalist fanaticism or Communist French Socialist Party, who have In the secondary schools the sexes toughness. Perhaps the new Min-so far stood out against the alliance istry will merely be another set a with Doumergue. A tall, thin man are evenly divided,

of flashing false teeth in poor with the Inverted Harry jand education heads get to-

Marianne's face. But it might be moustache that is common gether, slate their respective

a real change. Let us examine the French politics. Before he was a cases and pool their recourses.

probable successors to power in the Marxist he mixed with the high- TOO BAD

immediate future and see whether brows of Paris and was a friend of Hong Kong, Thursday, March 15, 1984. Each has something to contri-

Proust. As long as parliamentary bute. Two heads are better than) He came tearing along the quay-any such real change is possible.

exists, even in a one and three than two. Here is aide at Southampton to catch the

The man of the moment is Gaston government an opportunity for public spirited liner for America. There was a Doumergue, who has rushed to National" form, you cannot ignore Jendeavour. What is wanted. is thick fog and no sign of a gang Paris like any Cincinnatus desert Leon Blum and his Socialists. a body that will find out the na-plank. But about three feet from ing his farm pro bono reipublicae. whose parliamentary strength is ap- ture of the demand in local firms the quay he saw, dimly, the great

If significance can be attached to proximately 100.

Herriot was Daladier's school. The suggestion made by the as well as Government Depart ship. Even then did not give in such a record he was the first Pro-

Premier in Headmaster of Queen's College ment for recruits from our local He took a terrife leap, cleared the testant and first bachelor to have master and also his

1924 and 1926. Chinese and European taffrail, and landed on the deck. been President of the Republic. in his Annual Report that there schools.

"That was neat thing,” he said; He was a peasant's son of Algues--

The Radical Leader** should be set up under the aus general commercial or technical.

Vives in Province, who went to a As much as anyone can be in the pices of the Education Depart. The demands of commerce and "I thought I'd missed her." ment an employment for the re-industry being shown, steps could "Wrong boat," said the purser. Lycee at Nimes, became a barrister, maze of French politics he is leader a magistrate in Cochin China and of the Radicals and therefore, in cruiting of boys for positions in then be taken to meet that de-"We're just coming in,"

Imand. Reliance on olo custom,

combination with Blum, a man al- in Algeria, and then a politician. and Government Departments

}friend pidgin' and so on leads] local firms deserves a better fate merely to stagnation and subse-

Like all French politicians of any ways on the verge of power. Nel- distinction, he wandered about from ther of them is, perhaps, the man

Recruitment For Commerce.

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"I just put it into my mouth and it went right down,” Joan. Inform- ed her.

Doumergue No. Genius

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than burial in the bound volumesquent decrepitude. New times "Mummy," said little Joan plead-Ministry to Ministry from 1902 to for this angry Paris crowd, co- of official reports or newspapers demand a reorientation, No ingly, "can I please have another 1918. In that year M. Poincare pecially Herriot, whom it hunted It is one of these seeds scattered more fruitful advance could be piece of toffee?"

lasked him to form a Cabinet. He last night. In spite of their per by the wayside which if they fall made for the benefit of the

"I've only just given you a piece," did so, but resigned in May 1914 on bonal Integrity they, cannot escape on suitable soll will germinate Colony than the establishment of said mother. "What happened to

blame for the sinister contusion of à point of principle. and if carefully tended will in a body to realise this most im-

From the outbreak of war till French politics in the post-war "I've lost it," the child replied. 1917 he was Minister for the decade. due season bring forth fruit, portant object.

"Where did you lose it?" mother Colonies, and after the war a mem

Herriot was over forty when he The question merits considera- tion. Many boys are being sent

inquired.

ber of the Senate,

entered Parliament as deputy for Lyons. In 1924 he found himself cut annually, from our schonle,

at the head of a successful Radical- well-fitted to adapt themselves to

His first experience of high office Socialist party, with which he foru occupations of various kinds only)

We may now fairly assure

in post-war years came when he ed the first "Cartel" Government. to find that the market for the ourselves that the recovery of

accepted the Presidency. But the His years of office (1924-1926) wire labour is oversupplied. This is the British shipbuilding industry

President of France is a ceremonial] the bad years for France that ended a bad state of affairs from every is making steady progress. Im- point of view. However, muchprovement began early last year, aired his views on the slightest official. One knows as little of his by Poincare throwing the Ufebelt, potentialities as a Prime Minister but fat, black, hairy Herrlot has al- It has now so provocation. may be said about education for but was slow.

as those of the Prince of Wales, ways bobbed up again. culture, education for leisure-far advanced that the tonnage

What is known, of M. Doumergue is He survived:1928 to be Premier and we believe the case for these under construction, 381,541 tons, long-suffering acquaintance, "Look that he fulfilled all the social duties again in 1932 and left once more ls 106,044 tons greater than the what wonderful progress it has of a President, from 1924-31 with because he stood by the principle cannot be put too strongly--it amount at the beginning of 1933, made in the last twenty or so

Long Walt in Store The talkative young man always.

"Take aviation," he said to a

an

neither

must be realised that the parents Now our shipyards are building years. It's nothing short of amar cheerful smile--that he is shrewd, of paying war debts. For this drst aim in giving children an 43.8 per cent. of the total under Ing. Men can now do absolutely disident-that he showed tact at a 11 unsuccessful.

showy nor irritatingly Herriot will always be notable, even education of a given kind is to fit construction in the world. In anything a. bird can do.” them to earn a living. The mo- January 1983 our share was "Is that sol" said the other time when Ministers grew and (Continued on Page 13). dern cynic says that much of the only 20.4 per cent. This advance wearily. "Well, when you see schooling children are now get is a timely proof of the enter airman fast asleep hanging on to ting merely units them to earn prise and efficiency of the indus a branch with one leg I'll come and a living. If that be so the faulty, but there is a long way to look at him and I'll probably be lles not with the school author before the shipyards recover lieve you." ties and the teachers but willjoyed, not in the boom years, but the prosperity which they en-

the parents themselves and with in 1929, just before the depres

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· Know,

the leaders in commerce and in alon began, whom the tonnage A Hollywood couple have been dustry, In these days eduça under construction was 1,560,254 married six weeks and are stijl lonists know pretty well what. The proportion of the world's living together. Least we can do, they want; do parents and building we have recovered is, it seems to me, is to send them managers of firms know equally however, most encouraging: the Dummon Flitche well what they want? If so, This is an achievement the more have they communicated that to be admired because the plight knowledge to those whose con-of shipping gave small induce- cern it is to provide the educades Courageous hope of im- ment to shipowners to place or- Hon? The question is exercising

provement in trade could how Diesel engined cars used by a the best minds in all spheres of ever, fustify the order of some German railway are controlled by life in Britain Avenues are be new liners, and we may will be men seated in the middle of the ing explored by which businesses proud of the enterprise, of those roof, giving them a view in all and universities and schools can who thus determined on a for- directions, while the passenger" get together, air their views and ward policy before the clouds view ahead is unobstructed. arrive at some common under were lifting, Useful help has standing. The time is rine for been given by orders for a large

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