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MAKING SLAVES OF CHILDREN

RESULTS OF HOMEWORK

OVERPRESSURE

THE CURSE OF

SECONDARY SCHOLS

(By The Hon. H. B. Lees-Smith)

Bettina Landan.

a scholarship at the local second- the Editor, and be accompanied by the Director of the Eastern Ba- Nothing less mystic, nothing

secondary schools are onceary school, from happy normal the Writer's Name and Address reau of the League of Nations, more unequivocal, could be found

Lagain settling down to their girl to a worried-looking young- not necessarily for insertion, but who have their headquarters in than The Voice of the Heavens,

old woman.** These words are as a guarantee of good faith.

Singapore, and which is organisa section of Raphael's Almanac ing the curbing of the advance of for 1996, which contains promises new year.

Tens of thousands of fathers taken from a letter written by a malignant diseases in the East of "amazing predictions of the

and mothers are hoping, that their father about the results of home- with particular reference to ing destiny of nations. laria," arrived in the Colony yes In April, the Budget will call children” will be happy in these work

for a great deal of comment and schools for the next four or five In its educational results the terday by the s.s. Tanda.

He is Dr. C. L. Park and be has there will be bitter controversies years. Most of them will find that system is equally futile, for it de

after the first year or two their feats its own intentions.

As the mind does not retain come to Hong Kong direct from in Parliament.

essure the knowledge pamped into it by this Hong Kong, Monday Nov. 4, 1935 the Second International Pacific June does not baffle the horolo- children's happiness is oper

Health Conference, which was gist. He scours the sky for Derbysh

the secondary schools.kind of forcible feeding, ten years held in Australia in September month to discover that: "Racing curse

A of the chikizen will have forgotten nths of the fro edge that conscientiously squeezed

School Certificate

Reciprocity The Basisst Park intends to remain will attract much attention, and This will show itself mainly in after leaving school the great mass

Of Trade Expansion

J.

come home for dinner, having very child is expected to take this examination at the age of 16. finished the business of the day. It was originally intended to be Your Daily Smile! the children will have a quarter of taken by the normal child in the

a day's work to do.

Teachers, examiners and educa-

stride, without worry or pressure

Love lies in a women's eyes, and tionists are humane people, yet the of any kind. But the whole pian

lies and Fes and Bes

has gone wrong.. passivity with which they watch school children doing a longer day's The Universities have perverted. work than dock labourers, business it by allowing it to be used for the

matriculation for the men or civil servants will seem into the Universities. The ordin

to "Dotheboys Hal

entrance

in the Colony for about a "fort there will be great sumogance at homework. night during which time he will arbitrary legislation regarding One hour a day for home work attend the centenary of the Cin speculation and games of hazard." is ample, but parents will-gen

Tinto In July the wists of the future ly see their children bringi tor Hospital

Apropos the recent Conference are even more clearly dispelled: home two, three and sometimes It may be thought that Mr.

Where is the root of this curse? Amery overstated his case when Dr. Park and to a China Mail There will be a very great in-even four hours' homework a

The answer to this question They will leave home in the leads us to the real bogy--the he told the International Par-representative on Saturday night: crease in travelling, both by air night. liamentary Conference that the "The Second International Pa-and the sea. We shall hear of

most-favoured-nation danse cific Health conference was consex mysteries ad curious matters morning at the same time as their School Certificate examination was one of the main causes of vened by the Government of the connected with the sea and sea-fathers. But when the fathers

of Australia" side tours.” the world depression, but the in- Commonwealth creasing mass of evidence that study problems of health, of in- it is retarding recovery can hard-terest to countries in the East

The first Conference had a ly be resisted. "Most-favoured- nation" treatment was the key meeting in 1926 and the result stone of the old British Free was that certain investigations Trade system. Through it we were undertaken by the League obtained such privileges as we in conjunction with the Govern

*MORE TO COME had Now we have a tariff, and ment of Australia into conditions

Mother Dear me, the baby back so have been enabled to make in the Southern Pacife Eland

Father That's nothing to the in a few years, as heartless as the bilateral agreements for mn-Groups. A number of the pro-swallowed a piece of worsted."

Certificate verimination passed tual advantage. Everyone anti-posals of the first conference were yarns she'll have to swallow if she indifference of their fore-runners system now is that the School with five credits, is equivalent to cipates that this policy will be not carried into efect because of lives to grow up.”

Effect Of Strain

the University Matriculation. developed. How can it be conn-the depression. The second Con- its object the patible with an unconditional ference had for

The effect of overwork is less The whole cuzicalain of our "most-favoured-nation" clause? reconsideration of the situation in

serious upon boys than upon girls. secondary schools is framed so as Such a proviso means that the light of current events.

"But I thought you had serious in-When a boy feels lazy, he is lazy to prepare children to enter the "The following countries were we, having granted favours to A

Girls, unfortunately, are more Universities. Japan, China, the tentions in a certain direction."

As only 5 per cent of the child- in return for valuable consider-represented:

"I did, but the evening I intended ations, have to extend the same Netherlands Indies, Papua New

meet the extra strain. Allfren ever go to the Universities, we ed Browning, and Kipling, and Shelto favours to B, who gives us no Guinea, New Zealand, the Fiji to propose to her she told me she lov conscientious and exert themselves consideration at all. Both the Islands, the Solomon Islandsley. Now, what chance have I with teachers know that when they are are spending vast sums of money President of the Board of Trade Australia and the League of Na girl who is in love with three other talking to a class of boys above preparing 95 per cent of the and the Chancellor of the Ex-tions. chequer have insisted that the Government cannot indefinite The subjects which came up

The poet, Wordsworth was walking ly continue to allow full "most-for consideration related parti favoured-nation" treatment to cularly to malaria, nutrition and in a country lane, thinking of serious matters, when a labourer came up to countries which will not treat tuberculosis. In addition there and said in an excited-mamer, our goods equitably. On the presentatives gave a detailed Have you seen my wife?” other hand, Mr. Runciman has view of the conditions in respect argued that without some such of their countries, together with clause the negotiation of information concerning the trial agreements would be of imprac-measures which were adopted. ticable complexity: What Mr. In summing-up the work of grow squire. Pess Amery asked for recently was the Conference the Chairman Vantage is they do not roll off the seeds of anaemia, tuberculosis and "For the Fallen" and

Subjects Considered

modification of the old absolute laid special stress on the ques-

Competition

"Not married yet?”

fellows?"

Unknowns

Wordsworth replied, "I didn't know you were married.*

their heads the pupils will remain children for a life that they will quiet their minds are wandering never lead. into more interesting fields.

(Continued on Page 11)

But girls packer their fore- heads in the endeavour, to unravel perplexities, the blame for which

In connection with their Recital lies with the teacher

Many thousands of schoolgiris in St. John's Cathedral on Armis- at 9.15 are destined to pay a heavy penalty tice Day, November 11 A gardener claims to be able to for their overwork though the rep.m. there will be a rehearsal of Brahing Their great. ad-salts of exhaustion which sows the the Hong Kong Singers (Elgar's nervous debility may not reveal "Requiem”) in the Union Church, themselves until the years of home-Kennedy Road at 5.30 pm. work have become a día memory.Tuesday and the final rehearsal at

"It has altered our girl, who is 9 pm in the Cathedral eleven years of age and obtained Saturday.

knife.

form His argument that tion of nutrition, which was one The fashion of going under arch stands in the way of reorgan of the most potent causes of "ways at weddings is very popolar," The couples would isation of the world's economic health in all countries where the says a writer." system on the basis of recipro native population was predom look foolish going over the top. city must be admitted. and inant. He drew attention to the that is clearly to be the system fact that nutrition deficiencies of the future. »

were the subject of enquiry not only in the Pacific groupa, but

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In his distribution of the onus presentatives should, in person. of responsibility for road acci- make what enquiries were passi- dents the Chief Constable of ble with regard to these deficien- Southport gave the National cies and their influence on di- Boad Transport Conference sug sease."

Following this conference Dr. gestions which were worth gen eral study. If certainly does Park attended the British Medi not help anybody much to be cal Association's meeting, which told that there are a quarter of was held in Melbourne this year a million dangerous drivers in honour of the centenary of Any such estimate is fanciful that city. It was attended also But when we recall that there by hundreds of the most promin were 7,000 deaths on the road ent medical men from all paris of in Britain last year; that, in the British Empire. spite of control lights and new

signs and speed limit, recent

records have been black, and CHARITY BAZAAR that the pious hopes of the

DRESSERS Ministry of Transport do not

extend beyond a reduction to some 6,000 fatalities this year, one must allow that bad driy- ing is far too common. Major Egan's dissection of its causes

Fete Of St. Vincent De Paul

The annual bazaar and al fresco is valuable. The deadlygins which he detects are infete organised by the Society of patience, inattention, and dis. St. Vincent de Paul in aid courtesy. That crazy reckless-needy folk of the Colony nces with which sensational was held yesterday in the gr cases horrify us is no doubt at the Rosary Church, comparatively rare. A Road proved an immense succe It follows that the raising and should result in a handson

of the standard of driving is addition to the funds for the poor not so much a matter of de of the Colony, Hundred rent penalties, though these tors bought freely have to enforced, as a task ly enjoyed ther

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