1941-06-11 — Page 22

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 11, 1941

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR, HOUSE

A "HUMAN NEEDS" DIET

The Oxford Institute of Statistics in its latest bulletin makes a most in- teresting attempt to find out what it costs now to obtain a "human needs". dieta properly balanc- ed diet for the family of low income. Prices were collected from the cheap- est shops in Oxford and a dict compiled to corres- pond as nearly as possible in nutritional values with that laid down by the British Medical Associa-

tion.

Mr.

Seebohm' Rown- tree's inquiry in 1936 put the cost of such a "human needs" diet for a man, wife, and three young children at 23s. 5d. a week. The Oxford in- quiry last month puts it at 32s.

So, in spite of the par- tial substitution of cheap for more expensive foods, the outlay will be 41 per cent. more than in 1936. In the same period the Ministry of Labour's food

A

AXIS

DEMOCRACY

NEUTRALITY

WHERE WILL THE WORM TURN?

Self-Educated

Army

Most people are vaguely aware

index has risen by about that, after many false starts, there is an Army education scheme in

27 per cent. (20 per cent.action, but they know very little since the war).

bread-a matter of taste and of price. The short- age of fruit makes it diff- cult to supply the Vitamin C deficiency at moderate cost.

the

about its purpose or about way it works. Until a few weeks go, apart, of course, from techni- cal military training, there was one single educational source in

on a wide

an

By-

W.E. Williams

In one unit the only sample you

educational

dom policy was that it tended to develop an indiscriminating idea of education. "Any old thing to interest the men" is an attitude which might soon produce the effect of a Gresham's Law and The comparison does

reduce educational effort to a not speak well for the

sheer entertainment level. But present-day value of the

one hears far less from command- official index. The diet is, the adult education bodies ofare offered is a weekly debate on ing officers to-day than one did a few months ago about the anti- Great Britain. These bodies, such a topic as "Amateur v. pro-dote value of education and far however, short of Vitamin

working through regional com-

fessional in sport" or a spirited more about its value as a stimulus C and probably also of mittees provided Army and R.A.F. performance by a small percus- to thought and as a provoker of positive new interests and occu- iron and calcium. Its min-units with lectures and discussions sion band. But in another unit

pations. eral content and also its The massed resources of univer- (includes

variety of subjects. you will find a timetable which

The growing understanding within a single week

within the Army of the real cul- richness in the Vitamin Bsity extension, W.E.A., locul classes in Erench, German, music, tural purposes of an educational

education authorities, group would probably be

&c. were drama, world affairs, local gov.system is best shown in the em- thus lent, at first on a voluntary ernment, elementary science, and

phasis now set upon discussion. improved if brown

At first there used to be some- were basis, to those citizens who had archaeology. There are units so

well off in

parade teaching talent that thing of a

atmosphere substituted for white also become soldiers and airmen they can not only provide their about this voluntary system. The

for the duration.

proceedings own men with a wide choice of "high spot" of the subjects but can also lend their was regarded as What the Lee- But adult education in peace- surplus

The present inclina- to their poorer neigh- turer Said. time provides

tion is to consider the lecture as bours. In many lecturers for

places, again, the soldiers still depend entirely the preliminary to an unfettered audience not one-twentieth the

"imported" on the

give-and-take of opinion among size of the

feature all the more Army to-day. The rations Instead of providing their the men -

healthy because several officers only possible way of supplement-own.

are usually among the audiences. ing this inadequate ration of im- The truth is that in this still ported education was for the tentative and experimental scheme Another good symptom is the made to organise Army to attempt to produce some not all of them are effective or continuous courses in B

several policies are operating, and effort being

subject While theoretically the

of its own education. In its wise even destrable, In some places, rather than a series of unrelated diet may be reasonably and imaginative pamphlet "Educa- for example, the well-meaning lectures,

but premature policy was tried War-time Army." adequate,

the

average

of "training the men as well as in later instructions, return to civil life." On this basis start Army education has got on housewife, it is urged, will the war Office has urged on units artisans were coaxed to consider to the right lines and is develop-

surprisingly good pace... the advantages of a black-coated ing at a scarcely be able to supply the importance of developing their life after the war and for a few Its administration is in the very own cultural resources, and to-brief and disillusioning weeks capable and enthusiastic hands it to her family, since it

of the Army Education Corpa, or day, although the Army is using tried to learn book-keeping involves more time spent to the full the available services This idea is now

shorthand or commercial French, recently reinforced by a keen less favoured, "Intake" of men who were WEA in shopping and more of the adult education bodies, it and the local education authori- tutors, officers of a local educa

ties are better engaged, apart cooking than is usually, the number of "home-produced" are giving

is also increasing, week by week,

from the considerable ald they technical 'training, possible to her.

educational classes. Unit educa- in arranging counsel trama The conclusion, and it tion officers are now finding and crafts, drama, music, and similar

constructive kinds of recreation. using, the teaching talent «df saffl-' is an important one, is cers and men at a rapidly increas- that such a diet could ing rate. only be made generally Any one who has spent a few available if people were to weeks observing at close quarters the development of the new Army be supplied with one com-

education scheme is at first bewil- munal meal a day.

dered by the contrasts it presents.

tion in the

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..

for the

Another policy which gained a

After a

slow and uncertain

authority, schoolmasters, tion. and so on. Conditions of military training and movement make the whole scheme something of an obstacle race, yet those same con-

ditions are making units realise that, however valuable the ser

vice they get from civilian sources,

hold for a time was the anti-bore- the only education scheme they dom line. It is probable that can be sure of wherever they ga some commanding officers who is the one they provide for them- would have been indifferent to selves. It is all the more lamen- "education for its own sake" were table that the A.T.S so much persuaded to push the scheme for more stationary than the man Its value in keeping the men have so far shown the most tepid occupied in the winter evenings. interest in providing similar. The weakness of the anti-bore-facilities for the women,

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