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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" diet a properly balanc- ed diet for the family of low income. Prices were collected from the cheap- est shops in Oxford and a diet 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. а

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

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AXIS

DEMOCRACY

NEUTRALITY

WHERE WILL THE WORM TURN ?

A Self-Educated

Ministry of Labour's food 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).

about its purpose or about

the

The comparison does way it works. Until a few weeks not speak well for the ago, apart, of course, from techni-

cal military training, there was

Army

By

dom policy was that it tended to develop an indiscriminating idea: of education. "Any old thing to interest the men" is an attitude

W.E. Williams which might

In one unit the only sample you

soon produce the effect of a

Gresham's Law and reduce educational effort to a sheer entertainment level. But one hears far less from command- ing officers to-day than one did, a few months ago about the anti-* dote value of education and far more about its value as a stimulus to thought and as a provoker of positive new interests and occu- pations.

present-day value of the one single educational source in official index. The diet is, the adult education bodies of are offered is a weekly debate on Great Britain. These bodies, such a topic as "Amateur v. pro- however, short of Vitamin

working through regional com- [fessional in sport" or a spirited C and probably also of mittees provided Army and R.A.F. performance by a small percus- iron and calcium. Its min- units with lectures and discussions sion band. But in another unit eral content and also its The massed resources of univer-includes

on a wide variety of subjects. you will find a timetable which

The growing understanding single week within a richness in the Vitamin B sity -extension, W.E.A.,

within the Army of the real cul- local classes in French, German, music, tural purposes of an educational Education authorities, group would probably be

thus lent, at first on a voluntary ernment, elementary science, and At first there used to be some- &c. were drama, world affairs, local gov- system is best shown in the em- phasis now set upon discussion. improved if brown

were basis, to those citizens who had archaeology. There are units so thing of a substituted

parade for

atmosphere teaching talent that white also become soldiers and airmen they can not only provide their about this voluntary system. The bread a matter of taste

own men with a wide choice of "high spot" of the proceedings subjects but can also lend their was regarded as What the Lec- and of price. The short-

But adult education in peace- surplus to their

turer Said. The present inclina-~- poorer neigh- time provides lecturers for

bours. In many

tion is to consider the lecture as places, again, age of fruit makes it diffi-

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

"imported" educational give-and-take of opinion among cult to supply the Vitamin size of the Army to-day. The rations instead of providing their the men - feature all the more. healthy because several officers C deficiency at moderate only possible way of supplement-own.

are usually among the audiences.

Another good symptom is the

made to effort being

organise continuous courses in a subject rather than a series of unrelated

cost.

for the duration,

an

well off in

on the

ing this inadequate ration of im- The truth is that in this still ported education was

for the tentative and experimental scheme several policies are operating, and While theoretically the of its own education.

Army to attempt to produce some not all of them are effective or In its wise even desirable. In some places diet may be reasonably and imaginative pamphlet "Educa- for example, the well-meaning lectures. adequate,

but premature policy was tried the

of "training the 'men average

After a for the

slow and uncertain return to civil life," On this basis. start Army education has got on housewife, it is urged, will

artisans were coaxed to consider to the right lines and is develop the advantages of a black-coated ing at a surprisingly good pace. life after the war and for a few Its administration is in the very

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tion in the War-time Army," as well as in later instructions, the War Office has urged on units

the importance of developing their

scarcely be able to supply owii cultural resources, and to- brief and disillusioning weeks capable and enthusiastic hands it to her family, since it day, although the Army is using tried to learn book-keeping or of the Army Education Corps, involves more time spent to the full the available services This idea is now less favoured, "intake" of men who were. WEA shorthand or commercial French: recently reinforced by a keen in shopping and more of the adult education bodies, it and the local education, authori tutors, officers of a local educa

authority, schoolmasters, cooking than is usually is also increasing, week by week, ties are better engaged, apart tion

from the considerable aid, they and so on. Conditions of military the number of "home-produced" are giving in technical training, training and movement make the possible to her.

educational classes. Unit éduca- in arranging courses, in hand whole scheme something of an The conclusion, and it tion officers are now finding and crafts, drama, music, and similar obstacle race, yet those same con- ditions are making units realise is an important one, is cers and men at a rapidly increas-

using the teaching talent of off-constructive kinds of recreation.

that, however valuable the ser Another policy which gained a vice they get from civilian sources, that such a diet could ing rate.

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 go some commanding öfters who is the one they provide for them- Any one who has spent a few would have been indifferent td selves. It is all the more lamen weeks observing at close quarters "education for its own sake" were table that the ATS, So much the development of the new Army persuaded to push the scheme for more stationary than the men education scheme is at first bewil-occupied in the Winter evening

Its value in keeping the men have so far shown the möstriepid interest in providing similar. dered by the contrasts it presents, The weakness of the anti-Böre, facilities for the women.

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only be made generally available if people were to be supplied with one com- munal meal a day.

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