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MASTERING "HISTORY

Mr. C. H. K. Master, speaking at the Public Schood Masters' Con- ference yesterday, "defined educn- tion as "what was left when they had forgotten all they learned at school."

He might have added that all that is left to many Etonians is the history they were taught by Henrs Master.

MENDING UNHAPPY

B

MARRIAGES

RECONCILIATION, NOT SEPARATION, NEEDED

PRIVATE INVESTIGATION OF

CASES REQUIRED

(By Dudley Barker)

EFORE a police-court dock with bad home conditions and

stands A man. In the separated: parents. Part of the time Henry Master

witness-box stands his wife. would dictate copious notes which all round are the usual police

Reconcile, Not Separate Lord Merrivale's Bill, proposes. no one ever read again. Most of

court officials and uniformed that, before any application for a the time he would recite, with the policemen, and at the back crowd separation comes up for a public childlike fervour of a B.B.C. Com-he publle spectators, "gloating hearing, It should be Investigated mentator at Twickenham, the page- oyer the evidence of the woman, thoroughly, and the magistrate or ant of history, occasionally pausland smirking at the evidence of the justices should be told of this in ing to make the divielon shout out man, "as one. London magistrate vestigation. Then the court should

It is not a criminal trial: it is private.

missing" words.

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BOTH WAYS

For example: "Now, gentlemen,

put it.

have power to hear the case in.

an attempt to reshape the intimate Furthermore, an organisation: domestic life of two people, the should be set up aiming at recon-

I am the South sea-South Sea-"hearing of an application for aciliation rather than separation.

legal separation order between Mr. Mullins has shown already

(pause).

"Bubble, sir."

husband and wife.

how that reconciliation can be.

"No, no, no, gentlemen. I am

It happens every day all over the roached. When he sat at the country. the South Sea Company.

Every year between North London, police-court, which Then there was the French Re-14,000 and 17,000 separation ordere was chocked with marriage cases,. volution. "Now, gentlemen, In are applied for in British police he learned how often sexual life July. 1789 it was very hot. And courts, roughly four times as many lays at the root of the trouble

So, with he help of his probation: when it is very hot people's tem-las the number of divorce petitions

officers and the British Social pers get short, and they are more heard in the divorce courte.

In about one case in four, too. Hygiene Council, he organised a ready to start revolutions, Sol

that scene in the police-court has panel of local doctors who would they stormed the Bastille.

a sequel, an embittered wife is a see both parties privately, and give: "And in October it was very cold, and people are starving and cusing her husband of falling to them proper medical advice. miserable, they are more ready to pay the weekly maintenance that

the court has awarded her. start revolutions. So the people

Every year about 4000 men are of Paris marched to Versailles,”"

Private Hearings

Ile also separated the marriage cases from the rest of his st, and

Everyone laughed. Few forgot Bent to prison for failing to Day heard them on u special day as

One went to prison 16 times and ended in a lunatic asylum....

Reform The System!

have precedence over all other

privately, as possible. This plan payments; but when legislation the storming of the Bastille or the

thas since been adopted with great faced him with the unpleasant march of the women to Versailles, Hong Kong, Saturday, Morch 2, 1930-alternative of an international

success by courts at Bury, Brom- exchange bureau, the money was Your Daily Smile!

ley Liverpool, Mansfield and Sun- Agitation for a reform of the derland. Now other London magis- forthcoming. "It is also to be

whole system of legal separation trates are doing the same thing, and- A Quieter World

noted that in spite of the strict) "Children are getting thoroughly out

grows.

People who have studied several times recently I have seen limitation of remittances, there of hand nowadays," complains & Cor-

We hear of young it, magistrates, probation officers, the magistrate take the parties into Yesterday, when the German seems to be trouble in securing respondent.

{rascal who commandeered hin new doctors and clergymen, any that his private room to hear their story.. police quietly took over the con- the finance necessary to buy the electric train and insisted on demont-not only do they know where it is trol of the small territory that ships of the Red Star Line oftrating it while his father looked on at fault, but how it can be re-matter seems to stand. There is -

There, for the time being, the has been such seed-bed of trans-Atlantic ships. The re-helplessly.

medied. rumours and suspicions for fusal of the yarn spinners to sup-

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a Home Office Departmental Com-- They have attacked the problem mittee concerned with it, but last Newspaper Man several years, one of the most ply any more yarn until some- The editor of a newspaper and his from varying angles, the magis-November, the Home Secretary, in obvious of the open sores of thing had been paid on the out- Europe was bandaged up. It standing accounts: amounting to Christmas party. Arriving home, the clergy from investigation, the narrow interpretation on the terms

wife were on their way home from altrates from daily experience, the the House of Commons, put such may be said that nothing hap-half a million pounds, was evad- looked at him very severely, pened; that everything went ac-led by some sort of a scheme I'm ashamed of you, Henry" she doctors (including Lord Horder) of the Committee that it cannot from acientific knowledge. All consider the most important aspects cording to plan; that there had which will at any rate prevent said, been much ado about nothing. an increase of the indebtedness. "B-but what have I done?" he asked, have arrived at practically the of the subject at all. It is true the provisions of the The position is one of doubt as to thoughtless when you're dining out, ences, they say, should be discuss vate Member's Bill, appears, too, to

"I do wish you wouldn't be so same remedy.. Domestic differ- Lord Merrivale's -Bill, as a Pri Versailles Trenty were carried the various figures produced from she explained.

ed in a sympathetic atmosphere in have a very problematical future, out, and that the procedure was time to time, and in the circum- He furrowed his brow, puzzled. only that prescribed in the stances it would not add much to "When Mrs. Brown asked you if a private court.

at any rate in this Parliament more Christmas Recently the Upper House of Meanwhile, hundreds more homen Treaty but the fact that they our understanding to quote the you'd like a little

pudding, you told her that owing to Convocation of Canterbury, led by are being broken up every week were carried out is precisely what figures.

tremendous pressure of space, you were the Archbishop, gave an impetus to which might, in many cases, be was of importance in view of all

It is unfortunate' that any reluctantly compelled to decline” the

the campaign by passing a resola- offer,"

saved. the suspicions that they would comment on German affairs is so

she told him;

tion urging this reform, anc.. sup- not be, and the actual proposal keenly resented. Germany is the

Merrivale's Bill porting Lord made at one time that it would industrial pivot of Continental

Tempus Fugit be impossible to carry out the Europe, and cannot suddenly re-order?" plebiscite peacefully and that it tire into seclusion like the Re "Yes, sir." would be better to postpone it in-public of. Andorra. We want to "I'm, still looking well, I see. definitely. Nothing could be know the progress of any indus are your grandchildren?" more clear an indication of the trial experiment in organisation

..

"Are you the waiter who took my which is directed towards the re-

medying of the evil.

Most practical of all, some magis: How trates are actually putting the|

state of nerves in which Europe partly because the problems of Hint To Husbands lingers from day to day through production and exchange are A little earning, la a dangerous : the disrepute into which "bits of identical for all the countries that thing." paper" have fallen. Questions share the civilisation of Western

principle into-practice in their own court, with admirable results.

"Uncivilised" Method

Mr. Claud Mullins," most energe-

matter; who "alts at the South- Tourist: "Three other faces besides Weatern, police-court south of the

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

ALL-ITALY BAN ON MOTOR HORNS

Word's Quietest Cities

WHY NOT HONG KONG?

It is expected that motor--

of policy and finance have been Europe, but also because the pre- Neighbour: "What was the most tic of all London magistrates in this held up both in France and Ger- sent discord is dissolving the in- unusual sight on your trip?"! many till this operation should fluence of Europe in the affairs mine in the same mirror while I was Thames, once described the present horns will be outlawed" com be finished, and the ready reply of, the world. Outside interest is shaving." to those who have urged any merely a recognition of the great

system of soparating husband and pletely in all built-up zones throughout Italy as the result of proposals has been "wait till the part that Germany has to play in

wife as "utterly uncivilised." S Saar question is out of the way". the reconstruction that will have

He pointed out that matrimonial, decision at a recent Cabinet Counell giving municipalities the If it was Disarmament that was to be consciously tackled by all

cases in the police-courts are right to prohibit the use of all- under discussion. the reply, the nations; the last ten years

crowded every day into a list of spoken or unspoken, was "we in-have proved that the old lazy

A dance will be held by the D.C. criminal charges, motoring sum-acoustic signale inside town

limits. tend to have the Saar back, maxim that time is the best Officers, N. C. O's-and-Men-of-the-monses thefts, assegits nod the Bome has already-led the way peaceably if possible, if not, then healer" is not enough,

Corps of Infantry (Portuguese like, and the court's only tye towards this development by ap by force". Germany,must have We are incurring the risk of Company), H.KV.D.C. at the Club to hear the evidence on both aldes pealing to all motorists to re the force to make the threat being classed with sentimental Lusitano, next Thursday at 9.80 and to decide which side wins, not frain from sounding horns with- good, and therefore must have optimists when we reiterate our pm.

to attempt a healing.

in the city, and the experiment "equality of armaments" in de-belief that this year will see the

The court has no legal duty to has been completely successful. flance of treaty' limitations. The turn of the tide. We do not base The annual prize-giving and investigate the real truth of the Several other cities. followed: English point of view has always any reliance on any compulsory concert of the Normal Guide case, and so the real truth is rarely this example, which probably will been that such limitation could limitation of arms; that has been School will be held to-morrow told. For the cause of the trouble be imitated by the whole of the not be indefinitely maintained; tried and failed. Nor do we ex-morning at 9 o'clock at the is often of an intimate nature, and

country pote but of course those countries pect any sudden change of heart, Prince's Theatre Mr. Nam Kit- no woman will say so in open Italy, which up to recently had that have a common boundary The hope that things will be bet sang will distribute the prizes.

court, with casual anlookers the noisiest cities in the world. are the most sensitive to the ter is simply based on the distori-

will then claim to have the most. silent ones.

Previously the use of motor- horns had been forbidden in Rome between 1 am. and dawn.

around.

Glaring Anomaly

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CHINESE STUDENTS

IN JAPAN

menace of the secret drilling of cal fact that when the dangers An enjoyable evening was spent land forces and the mass manu- of war are fully appreciated it is by members and guests of the

We are faced by this anomaly facture of artillery,--if anything always possible to find a way out; Hong Kong Automobile Associa can be called secret which was and that there is a new tendency tion at the annual dinner dance that when a marriage is shattered known throughout Europe. In to deal with the root of the trou at the Peninsula Hotel last night. Past hope into divorce, it is given any case the rendition of this ble, fear, rather thin with

a measure of privacy; but that small but busy territory will set the symptoms. It is also clear Eight young Chinese will com- when there is still hope that it Germany more free to, consider that when fear of external dan poto in an oratorical contest for may be saved, its sorry story may the programme of economic re- gers begins to die down the citi Dr. Yip's handsome trophy Thebo broadcast without stint, for covery which the present Gov-zens of a country begin to turn Torch of Knowledge at the scandal to pick upon and mortify ernment has outlined, and which their attention to the home griev Chinese Y.M.C.A. Bridges Street So another home fe broken up the winter season has made so ances. and injustices which are this evening at 7.80 o'clock.

another family of children is be urgent. We

queathed the misery of lost Ignored in face of a threat to na

The number of Chinese students: background, and set, perhaps, "'on in Japan, showing a sharp decrease, the road that leads to crime, following the Mukden and Shang of trumpets. There will For latest statistics show that 14 hdi incidents has increased con relaxation of strain and per cent of the Indictable offences siderably recently, there Saing

by than 8,600 Chinese youth stud begin to thi that they of the country are comm

ools in Japan #tobe warded for children under 14/14

It is by no means easy, to formtional existence. There is no an estimate of the progress of the country anywhere that is not at Fuehrer's plans, behind a screen present suffering from privations

of rigorous censorshop and ex- and hardships that are easily re change control. We know that movable so soon as people get to Dr. Schafft made an attempt to work again, and once more s60 prove that he could no longer

how heses pay the interest on the lopus made to secure recovery, in epite

take in dealing with thei

oura When the change that

of the promise that they should comes it will come without any tomon

then 43 per

ande

years Experts unhesitati facts in a great

num

Numbers Again Increase-

In varic

and Shanghat incidents,

Chinese students in U