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7. Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. Notice To Contributors.

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Took $8,000 Gems To Petticoat-Lane

STORY OF MEETING

WITH THREE MEN

There and Everywhere

POST-WAR FIELD-MARSHAL

BASIC CHANGES IN

EDUCATION

SCHOOLS- & PARENTS

OF THE FUTURE

All communications intended for

John Dimente, sed 28, a Pimlico The Field-Marshal's baton re- DEFINITE PURPOSE IN TEACHING publication should be addressed to signwriter, who was sentenced last cently conferred by Herr Hitler the Editor, and be accompanied by month at the Old Bailey to 18 on Gen yon Blomberg is the first the Writer's Name and Address months' imprisonment for stealing since the War. not necessarily for insertion, but jewellery worth £8,000 from Mrs. as a guaranics of good faith.

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Eugenie Bonsor, a wealthy widow,

The ranks of the German

OF CHILDREN

(By Prof. A. M. Low)

of Seymour-street. W.. gave evid- Field-Marshals have been thinned ence at Marylebone Police-court by death. There now later when three men were charged only Field-Marshal von Macken-bave what it has always hit-and so on. HE.$36.00

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The men were John Harris, aged sex and the ex-Kaiser.

King George was , job buyer, of Osborne-road.

and Forest Gate; Nathan Sussiene, aged Field-Marshal

street trader, of Brunswick miral" of the German Hong Kong. Monday, June 1, 1936. Buildings, New Goulston-street, E; the outbreak of war.

and Samuel Harris, aged 56.

Dimente stated in the witness-

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A New Era In Church

box that on Nov. 24-a Sunday

Finance

that

as

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remain the future, education will, "Basic French." "Basic English."

This would make

it

herto lacked -- definite purpose. possible for them to taik intelli- German A father tells you he is giving his gently with a citizen of any coun

can try and to listen to "talkies” made "Grossad-son the best education he Fleet until afford. but if you ask him "Edu-by Eskimos with the same plea-

cation for What?" he stutters and sure as those in American.

To Acquire Knowledge Up till shortly before the War is often unable to reply."

Education. like "tress" is re- The object of all instruction in the Field-Marshal's batou in Germany was awarded only to garded as an end in itself. while schools will be not so much to give Ino two people can agree on what the pupil knowledge, but to teach it means and whether its object him how to acquire, knowledge should be to fit a man for his life's himself. The amount that any-

эл commanded

a merely to give him that dreadfula university is comparatively called "tone." Probably-small. As long as the pupil on- at his birthday most fathers hope that their boysderstands this fact January 27. These will collect something from each how to continue to

Your Daily Smile!

Holding The Audience Actor: And the audience, my boy were glued to their seats."

Rival: "Ah! That was a neat way of keeping them there."

and

KALO IDE

acquire in-

There will be no children in the Modern teachers would feel as future like the girl who, when made. strangely out of place in the school asked what seven twelves of the future as would the seven-replied eight-four, but when asked teenth century pedagogue in a what twelve serens" were" "replied Fa-that

learned she hadn't

her present-day. council school.

table." The me- thers will not insist upon their "welve-times

of children learning subjects siraply chanical learning by heart because they learned them them-tables, whether they are the dates selves, but will realise that the of the Kings of England, the re- educational needs of young men sults of multiplication, or even the and women are subject to change, atomic weights, will disappear.. It questioned pronouncing like everything else in the world. is much more important that give child should be able to No More Greek Verses A chap said. "Permit me to spique:

The schools of to-morrow will sensible reason why two and two Pronounce it "oblique'

not tolerate such folly as plays make four than to know the for- siven in Greek Latin. as mula for solving quadratic equa- unintelligible to the players as the tions. audience: dull beyond bearing.

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When

"oblique"

the jewels were in his possession.

those who had Went To East End "Not being in connection with army in the field A century's controversy will any receivers of stolen property," The ex-Kaiser, however, bework, to stimulate his brain, or one can learn at school or even at be set finally at rest with the continued, "I went to the East tween 1908 and 1910, created enactment of the Tithe Bill, the End of London to see who would large number of Colonel-Generals thing text of which was issued early buy them. The first man I spoke Field Marshals last month. It is almost exacte was named Freeman, and from reviews on ly 100 years since the first Freeman I went to another man, Tithe Act was passed, and half who was auctionering or selling on birthday reviews, of which Herr department. quite forgetting that formation all his life, detail does a dozen others have followed it stall in the next turning to what Hitler's is an imitation, were al- heredity has exhausted most pos-not matter se mock.

know

Petticoat-line" ways the occasion for a lavish dis- jsibilities beforehand. in the interim. The device for is

tribution of promotions, orders substituting tithe in kind by af(Middlesex-st., E.).

That man, Dimente said, was Sus-and decorations. money payment based on the luctuating prices of corn has siene, who took them upstairs to hir bred misunderstanding and bit-fat where the jewels were pro terness. Though tithe is office. Sussion went out, and on his turn said. "I have found the nature of real property, rated and taxed as such, it is to. You must cone to a tea the good of all concerned, and op.'

How Much? especially of the country clergy,

Dimente added. "Er asked me that causes of friction shouldow much I wanted for the jewels. be removed, and there will be and I said that I did not know the

relief genuine

the of them, but I would be satis machinery and credit of the with 20 an article, State are to be available for a

The jewels were actually in ny comprehensive reform. Where market. I went with him to the agricultural land is concerned-ea shop, which was next to the

Sussiene left mel and that is the heart of the mat-police station.

"Why" will be the keynote of Tabloid Readers ter--the tithe-payer will have with Freeman, and told me to take

"Something exciting must have were it not for some exceedingly elementary education. and children the constructional. his annual payments substan-la seat at the bark of the shop, and

prize will acquire bad puns The idea of a tially reduced and they wille sat down at a table where two happened in Bologne."

"Why so?"

for hexameters will seem as ridien-questioning mind, seeking for rea- come to an end in 60 years. other men were wated,“

"Well, the papers are full of it!"lous as would, no doubt. an award sons which are the natural work- His gain is mainly at the ex- The other two men were Samuel

[for the best poem in Esperanto ing of laws. At present, teachers pense of the clergy, whose and John Harris. When he left the former incomes from tithe will shop, accompanied by Sussiene and

Freeman, the other two men follow- "Uncle, will you get into evening to-day. But, whereas these Greek give the law first and be severely diminished. It is a

ed, and eventually caught them up dress? Then I can throw my lan- verses are the sheerest waste of trouble to explain the reason.

Excluded Subjects serious criticism of the Govern-1

Esperanto might conceivably be of Certain subjects will, of course, ment's Bill that no regard is a side turning near the Minories. tera slides on your shirtfrent and you time, other than as mental exercise.

John Harris wid the jewels were can be a *

some beneft.

be wiped from the curriculum of had to existing life-interests.not worth £20 article, and even-

Longer Experience The Irish and Welsh schemes of tally he (Dimente) received £20

Conversational methods taught the best schools. although J do not Lady in car (to man she has bowl- disendowment were careful to for five pieces. More was promised, ed over): "It was your own fault en- in the school of the future will be doubt that 100 years hence there preserve the interests of pre-but was not received.

tirely. I have been driving a car for international. I would not like to will still be schools, supposedly sent incumbents of affected

ten years, and I am thoroughly ex-forecast the success of a new lan-select, because they teach subjects atwhich have been abandoned by benefices, and Parliament will

perienced."

Pedestrian: "I am not a beginner, guage, but it is possible that either. I've been walking for Srty simplification of all speech will en others.

able men and women to leara years."

do well to consider whether a

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dangerous precedent is being HOLY CARPET

DISPUTE

set. It is certainly contrary to long-established practice to deal! thus summarily with the pro- perty rights of individuals, and this case may arm unscrupulous Special Envoy At

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mea-

and pooling could be easily

effected. Welcome and just as

such a reform might be, it is work-so complete, indeed, that bound up with 窳 further advance in the powers of the they end with the poet's own

central authorities of the epitaph:

The Infty shade advances,

I fetch my fute and play: Come, lads, and learn the dances And praise the tone to-day. To-morrow, more's the pity,

Away we both must hie, To air the ditty.

And to earth I

Strange futing this for a University Professor, erudite in

was

Church. On the whole the cause of religion in England lowes much to the independence of the parochial clergy. With- out it the great religious move- ments of the last 200 years would have been exceedingly difficult of accomplishment, if not impossible The conse quences of the present Bill the obscurer Latin poets, and giving in his contributions to may thus prove to be much more textual criticism no hint of his far-reaching than it's promoters realise. It behoves the clergy own poetic sensitiveness save in to, bestir themselves in time an occasional outburst of in- and to see to it that the Church vective. His philosophy Assembly, which is destined to melancholy and profound, and we. are not bound to believe his become increasingly powerful,

the Cam- is fully representative of the own insistence, in

bridge lecture in which he pro- best interests of religion.

fessed to disclose the secrets of his workshop, upon, the par- tance of the part beer had play- ed in the composition of his A. E. Housman, whose death verse. A more hopeful genera- lat a ripe age occurred on May tion than ours may reject his 1, holds a unique place of his half-pitiful, half contemptuous own in English literature, estimate of life. But posterity though in France Heredia offers will surely do justice to the de- La parallet No other of our licate and searching ear which poets has made a strong bid for found those new cadences for immortality with but two slim our tongue that have tempted volumes of lyrics. Yet they musicians to compose settings represent a complete body of for "A Shropshire Lad."

The Professor-Poet

If that's what you likue- An onion's as good as a lique."

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