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EDUCATION

collection and supply of informa- tion relating to openings for employment, the registration of candidates who could be put in touch with employers, the collec- tion of statistics, co-operation with schools and colleges and advice to the Government on unemployment questions.

India's problems, of course, are not comparable to those of Hong Kong and only in minor details could such a scheme be adapted to local conditions. Hong Kong's

One of the problems which main hope of a solution possibly will face His Excellency the lies in the encouragement, per- Governor when he takes up his haps through an official or even fan unofficial organisation, of new duties in Ceylon will con- cern unemployment among the migration, meaning that students who have passed through Hong educational classes. It is a pro- blem of big dimensions though Kong's educational system might find it more profitable to place it is not peculiar to Ceylon.

their services at the disposal of Indeed, it exists, in Hong Kong

the Chinese Government, in the to an extent which few people fully appreciate, and which al- provincial spheres. With China most entitles us to challenge the going so rapidly ahead in every direction the need for young men Colombo assertion that in no other place is it so frequently of some education must become

increasingly great. discussed and deplored with so little attempt at remedial action.

The existence of the evil has

long been recognised and though First Aid At The no methodical attempt has been

made to assess its magnitude, Food Store there are many indications by

Though the mere English are which its dimensions can be es- timated. One of these is the often accused of taking their low standard of salaries for non-pleasures sadly (or is that a foreign office workers and an-charge which we have nowadays other the rush of applicants for outlived?), it would seem that every minor post that happens the Russian is also able to im- to be advertised. Most of them port a touch of sobriety into men "educated" what might normally be regard- are young without any vocational end in ed as festive arrangements. A view. The educational system new type of delicatessen shop is followed in the schools must held shortly to be opened in Moscow, to be primarily responsible for we are told, and all the many producing a multiplicity of mis- dishes, from sausages to dairy fits. There is no distinction products, are to be displayed in made between the small propor-a setting of cool grey marble. tion of pupils who can hope to That in itself sounds just a lit- profit by a University course and the like a mausoleum, but a the large number who are ex-stranger addition to the scheme livelihood in is provided by the assurance pected to earn a mediately they leave school. The that "a trained nurse will be in almost exclusively literary char-charge of every counter to ad- acter of the education imparted vise customers about diet.”

In the ordinary way a shop indiscriminately to youths of

in many varying ability lies at the root of which specialises

varieties of piquant foodstuffs is the trouble.

The eradication of the more apt to be rather a stimulating obvious defects in the system of place to people of average and education is imperatively needed inquiring appetites; they may be in the interests of the future tempted to wander round and generations for whom work will speculate whether they should have to be found Meanwhile, try some experiments with out- what of those victims of lack of landish viands. The presence of foresight and direction in theja trained nurse suggests a cer- past? Must they still await the tain curbing of that spirit of ad- slender prospect of a job in a venture, she may well look like Government department, or drift a standing "don't in the matter through life, embittered and of unusual diet. The old legend ever grousing against the exist ing scheme of things?

intains that the ancient gyptians used to have skeletons during their feasts impress upon

In certain parts of India this problem has been faced and suit in able remedies devised For in- guests the brevity of human life stance, in the United Provinces, following on, the report

uire

unemployment among edu

the

taken to included

vanity of human plea-

he trained nurse at the counter seems to be minous an introduc- der-of

dangers rather than