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THE CHINA MAIL

21, 1937.

THE OLD SCHOOL TIE

COORDING to Mr. John Hilton, ratio, the proportion of Eton boys.

"Napoleon is-sand

A Professor of Industrial Rela- in the House would not be one-sixth that every soldier had a Marshal

brains.

boy at Hackney Public School. If he does not, he ought to. Already has been spent on him for every 214d spe

on the council school boy

baton in his knapsack. We can make tions at Cambridge University, it is but one-six-hundredth. impossible to under-estimate the

“In so far as a University degree, the same boast, regarding all our importance of the "old school tie."

Observing The Taboos Professor Hilton was speaking at and especially an Oxford or Cam- professions. And everything would the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge degree, displayed on a back- be fair and above board were it not bridge. He was himself educated at, ground of an unimpeachable school that a select few, besides having the

Professor Hilton's suggestion for elementary and secondary schools, tie, is the passport to a really Marshal's baton in their knapsack,

Universities are

also went to the Marshal's old weakening the hold of the old and once worked as a mill "posh" job, the mechanic. He contended that the willy-nilly helping the really posh school, were born into the Marshal's school the is to make public element- set, and have been entered for the ary and secondary education so odds against a central school boy jobs to go in most lopsided ratio to getting into one of the "reserved those who have parents with pass- Marshal's club. An ounce of tie is much better that the snobbery value of having been at a Public School books instead of to those who have worth a ton of baton."

will pale by comparison with the stalls” of life were 1000 to 1.

He suggested that in order to learning value of having been at "To get there you must have

"The rule is, "The old school tie bring about a change it would be the other schools. The Rector of started right, he said. "You must

to make public element- Dundee High School appears to think that an appeal to the national have been at the right school, and for the old school post. Of 56 Bis-

ary and secondary education be entitled through life to wear the hops, 52 were at a public school; of right school tie. You may joke about 24 Deans, 19 were at a public much better that the snobbery value spirit will lead rich parents to the old school tie, but he who school; of 156 County Court Judges, of having been at a public school keep the coming leaders at home. baghs last laughs best, and the old Recorders, etc., 122 are public began to pale by comparison with But it is because so little value is school tie has the last laugh of all, schoolītes; of 210 home Civil Ser the learning value of having been put upon education that the old for it carries its wearer into post- vants receiving over £1000 a year, at the other schools. tions for which a man with the 152 have old school ties. wrong tie stands about as much chance as a man without a shirt.

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school tie is so attractive. It is more important to observe the "The present distinguishing mark taboos of the ruling class than it is "Take the present Cabinet. There are 21 Cabinet Ministers. Of the of a public school," he said, "is that to master one of the sciences or to total, 20 went to public schools. Of the public has no place in it and be at home in the arts. As a Prin- "Those reserved stalls are, of those, 15 went to the most exclusive no control over it. You might con- cipal of a Scottish University put it, course, the more glittering appoint- of those schools, including 9 to sider a law that no public school some of our best students fail com world because they have no oppor~ ments. You would not, perhaps, look Eton. Of the 21, 17 went to a Uni shall be allowed to function unless pletely when they go out into the necessary on the House of Commons as a glit versity, and of these, 13 to Oxford it has on its roll-call at least 50 per tering place, yet one-sixth of its or Cambridge, including four who cent of scholars who come from tunity of acquiring the members were at Eton. If the na- were of New College, Oxford, Quite elementary schools, who were pick savoir faire while they are students. tural ability that passes through a College reunion every time the ed for their qualities, and who pay Skill in handling the calulus is so- cially less important than a know- ledge of what is, and what isn't, Eton were represented in its true Cabinet meets...

done with a table napkin.

THE

WORLD GOES BY

By “ULYSSES

only such fees as their parents can afford

Deeply Ingrained

Yet all is not well with the Pub- lic Schools if we are to judge from a correspondence which has been

At that same Summer School at running in one of the weeklies. It would appear that the smaller Pub which Professor Hilton made his lic Schools are finding their attack on the snobbery of the Pub- lic Schools, there was a Nazi lectur- finances unequal to their needs. The difficulty appears to be to secure ing who put our national weakness enough parents who are able or very neatly. "You are so used to liv willing to pay the fees required to ing up to, not State-imposed, but convention-imposed uniformity, run the schools for 300 boys or that you can indulge in what in- some number less than that. But

dividualism you desire, because you that is just another indication that

never go beyond those convention- it is not the education of the boys imposed limits." If we really valued which is the main consideration in sending them to such schools. What education we might rid ourselves Professor Hilton calls "the most ex- which we regulate our social af- clusive schools" have no difficulty fairs, but they are deeply ingrain- in finding the necessary numbers, ed and will not be easily removed. otherwise they couldn't afford to be so exclusive, and it is just those schools which can show that their pupils "get there. In the cabinet there are 21 ministers, 20 of whom came from Public Schools, and 15

from the most of them came

THE only seat vacant is by me, would revive its fire. I catch the Tand I and smoking. The lady lady's eye. Is it possible that so takes the seat. Ought I to stop obvious a gentlewoman...? But smoking? I have a long ride beves, 1 mark the faint firstling of a fore me, and I have but just begun smile in the corner of that mobile to enjoy this pipe. I try to remem-mouth. Slowly, tentatively, I raise ber that in these days of Women's the pipe to my mouth, and then I Rights, firmly established, men am sure of it. Her face has put on set up as a certain warmth, and I fill my have wrongs. She has an equal, and therefore has aban-month with the clean smoke, and doned her quondam claims upon eject it in a beautiful blue feather. my chivalry. No comfort do I get "Excuse, me," the lady murmurs. from this. I know it for jesuitry, "Would you mind telling me the for a mean quibble, for a con-name of the tobacco you are smok- science deluding equivocation. The ing? I would like my husband to lady has said nothing, of course, get it." I bow. I produce and ex- but her eyes have spoken. Her hibit before her the box, with the clusive schools. Whatever views whole attitude is speaking. There name on the fid. I murmur the one may have as to the standard is a tension in the carriage of her name of the shop where she may of education required by a cabinet body which informs me I am no get it. How happily this affair minister, there is no doubt in the gentlemanr. 1 remove my pipe from proceeds. As the the lady descends, public mind that they have arrived. my month, and carry it to my hand, one station before mine, I discreet- watching from the corner of an eye ly admire her walk, and I envy the to see satisfaction. I detect none, unknown husband, so doubly bless- and have the feeling that I have led. He has the right sort of wife. wasted an unnecessarily large tip Now he will have the right sort of an uncivil waiter. My ap- tobacco. And what more could any petite for tobacco was never more man want? I would tell you this avid. My nerves complain as the tobacco's name, but that I am tram rumbles along. Perhaps, sing afraid the publicity would send the bogie wheels to the rail joints, its price, already high.

upon

It does not matter, matter, matter. Perhaps she does not care at all- may even smoke herself, herself. The tram stops. She does not get

Pass-Books And Brains

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of a good many of the taboos by

you

FOR AMATEUR MECHANICS.

D. F.

What is significant is that it is taken for granted that the leading positions will be occupied by those whose parents can afford to spend a good deal in giving their children the right start in. life. The assump tion evidently is that those parents

When you start tinkering with your who have sufficiently fat pass-books car or some other piece of machinery, must have superior brains, other wise their pass-books would not be Trying to impress my Boy with the

so fat, and that their offspring are off, although it seems to me a per- immensity of my knowledge, I ex likely to inherit their brains as well fectly charming place for a lady to plained how Happy Valley was as their bank accounts. That is get off. Two men have got off, and carved out by the action of water, rather a large assumption. Profes- are replaced by two Chinese work and that it probably took millions sor Hilton put the question on here men, quite close to us. One of of years to do it. them, my nose assures me, has not bathed since the Chinese New Year. The other, less well dressed, why does he compel me to think of the name of Kipling? I have it, as the ohrase, “them spicy garlic smells, floats irresistibly across the sur face of my mind. I sniff audibly, and look hard at my pipe. It has not yet gone

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SHE-KO

course the boy at Eton looks a like- cident lier type for a General or Bishop Antisen or Judge or Cabinet Minister than

Soothing Curative.