1939-07-24 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 24, 1939

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CHILDREN HAVE LOST ART OF PLAY

Modern children are forgetting how to play. That at least is the opinion of the headmaster of Claremont-avenue School, Kenton, Middlesex, Mr. A. Davy, and he is out to cure this discrepancy.

So he is devoting himself to encouraging his pupils to show more imagination in amusing them- selves.

This hot weather makes one thirsty. Miss Rosemary Andree, wearing her 'clock' hat, finds TIME for a drink after a dip.

OUR FOURTH'

DEFENCE LINE

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"There is too much games ganisation,” he "Children show far less initiative in having a good time than they did twenty years ago. In the street they merely go on playing games they have been shown at school instead of inventing new

ones.

"This has a bad effect on them when they go out into the world and have to fend for themselves. At the same time,” he said, “it is signi- ficant that during the past twenty years there has been an increase in juvenile delinquency all over the country.

Greek dancing and ballet dancing are two specialities of the girl pupils of the Crouch End High School, and they do their practising in the open.. Photo shows school girls in happy mood.

TAKING ART TO FACTORIES

To bring art into closer touch with manufacturing thirty students of the Royal College of Art have spent periods of from two to six weeks in factories and large dis- tributing houses.

FROM ALL QUARTERS

Owing to sectional strikes Richard Thomas and Co. Ltd. decided to shut down all departments of their four tinplate works at Llanelly, 2,000 men being affected. Last week 300 men in the cold roll departments went on strike. They returned to work, but during the week-end other section of the workers made claims.

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"Then children with fundamen- tally good characters are tempted to imitate the false heroics of the screen. If only they were encourag- ed to use their inventive powers a

They studied production at first little more in organising their own hand ."Not only have they games, I am convinced that there learnt a, great deal, but in some would be fewer unmanageable chil- cases they have had something to dren,

impart to their temporary employ- Children in Mr. Davy's school are ers," comments the first annual re- TRAPPED IN LIFT supervised, but they are encouraged port of the College Council.

Trapped for half an hour in a to use their own initiative. The re-

To ensure that none but students sults are encouraging.

of highest quality are admitted to lift which broke down at a

house in Wood-street, E. C., s for It's a pity modern children do not. the college, the arrangements

old cowboys-and-Indians admission and the grant of scholar- man was released unhurt by fire-

At least they had ships have been drastically, revised. running about then. :-

Planned propaganda is the coun- try's fourth line of defence," Sir Harold Bellman told the Advertising play the Association a Blackpool. He wel- games comed, he added, the creation of the plenty of Foreign Publicity Department of the Foreign Office.

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With the exception of candidates from overseas one is in future to be admitted to a full-time' course with- out passing the entrance examina- tion.

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"This nation of shopkeepers must FEWER HOUSES BEING BUILT look to its shop windows," said Sir

The estimated cost of dwelling- Harold.”........... “Britain has a story to

houses for which plans were ap-- tell in declaring her integrity and

proved by local authorities in Eng- £64,700,000 FOR ROADS peaceful intent to the world, and we

land. Wales and Scotland last have the skill available to present it

-month was £3,728,900. as it has never been presented be- fore.

men.

350 LOURDES PILGRIMS

ware-

Three hundred and fifty pilgrims from Lancashire, including 47 in- valids, some of them children, sailed from Folkestone for Lourdes.

CZECH · PAINTER'S

GIFT TO M.P.

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Amounts expended on British In May last year £6,032,000, of roads for the year ended March 31,

1938, was £17,600,000 for new con- In recognition of his work for "But time presses and we must plans were passed.

struction and major improvements Czech refugees, a portrait of Mr. D.. prepare to tell it soon and wisely."

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SHERLOCK HOLMES DIES

tell it

H. A. Saintsbury, actor and au- thor, who had played Sherlock Holmes, the master detective, 1,404

* ** £75 FOR AN 8D. STAMP

An 8d. brown stamp of Ceylon→→ exceptionally rare because it was un- used was sold in London for £75. It was in the collection amass- ed by the late Mr. K. Mulder, Reigate, whose executors brought

· and $47,100,000 for maintenance, R. Grenfell, M P. for Gower, minor improvements; according to a Glamorgan, has been written Commons answer.

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BOOK OF ROYAL TOUR

of SPEECHES

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painted

Sudetenland

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Ernest Neuschul, the artist.

* JOB OFFERED TO RESCUER

Wallace Impett, 61, of Ramsgate, whose health suffered through sav-

Humane presented with a Royal Society parchment by the Mayor, Alderman A. B. C. Kempe, and told that the Corporation Entertainments manager would find him work.

times, has died in St. Thomas's Hos the stamps to the sale in cigar boxes cation in book form by King Geor. ing a boy from drowning,

pital, London. He was sixty-nine. because their owner had never Last month he slipped, and broke

a leg when going to answer a tele- arranged his vast collection. phone call at the Green Room Club.

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MACHINE-GUN BULL'S-EYE

RECORD

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PRESENTED FROM COURT

From London police courts. Woman at Highgate: My hus- A record score of twenty-nine hits band is a gentleman. He doesn't un-

derstand motor-cars.,

were"

The King has approved the publi- ge's Jubilee Trust of a record of their Majesties' speeches and broadcast addresses during their

tour.

NO TELEVISION OF "ECLIPSE”

was

MARRIED AT HOUR'S NOTICE

Mr. Maurice Chant, a chemist, of in thirty shots was made in a ma- Man at East Ham: I saw a car

Jockey Club stewards do not want

Dryden-street, Nottingham, was chine gun match at 'Bisley, by two leading aircraftmen. They were coming very near to me, and I look the Eclipse Stakes, at Sandown

for a policeman If it Park to be televised. So "lookers married at Nottingham Register firing at a three-foot bull's-eye at ed round 400 yards. The marksmen

was going to hit me I wanted fair in will not see the race, although Office at an hour's notice to Miss Doris Summers, of Coronation-road, B.B.C. engineers have already sur- representing Eastchurch at

the play R. A. F. small arms meeting.

Defendant at Tower Bridge: veyed the course with the help of Mapperley, who did not appear for

the ceremony the previous day, the Sandown Park authorities. When I saw the constable on my .*.

doorstep I was naturally. alarmed. I wondered if he had remember ed to shut the gate in case the dog got out.

LOST

26,000 YEARS

£768,000 JOB

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Half-a-ton of pro-German propă- ganda tracts was found in the home of a man named Geckisch employ- Balfour, Beatty, an Co., London ed at the port of Dunkirk. engineers, have been

an awarded a con tract worth £786,000 for the con

Sotomayor struction of a barrage on the disLlanelly Harbour Trust decided to Euphrates (Iraq) + to divert

More than 9,000,000 working days (or nearly 25,000 years), were lost in India during 1988 as a result of industrial disputes. These were 890 WAGE CUTS RESTORED disputes involving. 401,000 workers This is the highest

putes in British India recorded for restore wage cuts made during the waters into Lake Habbaniyah

strikes dépression, and to give the men a barrage will take four

week's holiday with pay.

twenty years.

were successful

Half

complete.

„Military" Gov- has ⠀ returned to Algeciras by Brig. İstant, Adjutant filter - General - z