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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1957.

Interesting News Stories From

Parts Or The World

ITALIAN STUDENTS SIT FOR EXAM-60 PER CENT FAIL

Public Outcry Over School System

CHILDREN MUST BE TAUGHT TO THINK-CRITICS

By HORACE CASTELL

Rome.

The failure of 60 per cent of Italy's schoolchildren in their High School examinations this year has started an avalanche of protests from parents against schools, teaching methods and examiners.

The

opinion.. vi

veleron

teachers and newspapers is that there is something radically school wrong with the whole system.

A particularly worrylog feature of the "disastrous results" of the examination, as one influential newspaper put it, is the number of fnatures in the esami d maturita, the stallan equivalent of the English General Certi- Acate of Education or the French baccalaureat, which is taken at the end of the secondary educa- tion course.

Chances Slight

In Rome, out of 3,898 can- didates who entered, only 1,275 passed; 344 failed outright and 2.070 will be allowed to make a second attempt pass in October when, with only two months i which to revise a year's work, chances of passing are slight,

in Mio, Italy's wealthy industrial capital, the results

worse. were even

OL 3,737 514 1,186 passed, candidates, failed and 2,037 will take the examination again in October,

The overall breakdown of refull of the cani di maturita in the whole of Italy wan; 40 per cent of candidates passed, 18 per cent failed and 45 per cunt were tered back to

take it again in October, Prozessor Ernesto Lama, as- Bessor for studies at Turin, in a' leading

article in Turin's Liberal newspaper "La Stampa", commented: When a school fails to present 60 per cent of ite pupils for the examinatio it is time to seek the cause and find remedy.

Don't Fulfil

"The schools no longer meet increasing needs in Italy, and no longer fulfil the requirements of modern society."

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Professor Gustavo Colon- netti, President Emeritus of the National Research

Council, have wrote: "Students viously followed entirely wrong

in their

studies. In the public examinations candidates and readily answered difficult abstruse questions, yet fulled to

to elementary questions.

the lies with "The fault schools, where students learn many ideas, but are not trained to think, reflect or reason."

The emphasia, he added. Geenis to be on memory instead of on intellect.

reply

from Letters of protest

poured into nows- parents paper offices after the ex- SUCI- results were amination nourred. At one point, the

ETCAL .publlo outery WE BO

that, reporta - which were promptly denied appeared in tho press that the Ministry for Education intended to do clare the examination null and vold and open quiry.

1. CR-

BURGLAR FELL ASLEEP ON JOB

St Paul, Minn. Josoph Borgerding probably nover will live down his latest burglary attempt. He was caught alcoping on the job.

Borgeraing was found by Police perched atop a safe in a pri- -vate" garage. He apparently had worked very hard at cracking the safe, and resting from his labours.

In

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fact, Borgerding was tuckerid aut, he didn't even wake up when police slapped the handcuffs on him. Police atscovered the sleeping burglar while touring, au alley in a routine squad car cheek. They noticed a ray of Bght from a private garage and heard Borgerding snoring away.

Authorities hauled Borgerding off to guol and a more coin- fortable bunk.-United Press.

Telegraphic Tabloids

Maywood, ID.

A weary mail carrier wha tried to deliver the neighbour- hood, letters the hurd way ran afoul of the law here.

Police sald postman James

admilled WIlliams, ID,

ho

THE MAN WHO WENT TO-

SEA FOR DINNER-

London.

Mr Alister Simpson, 32- year-old Londoner dressed for dinner one "night at the beginning of the month. He wore: two pairs of striped B pair of pyjamas,

bright yellow gloves, flippers, goggles and the rpet of a frogman's suit. Then with his dinner under his arm he wad- dles into the sea at St Margaret's Bay, near Dover.

Reason Mr Simpson was lying on his back in the sen eating chicken out of a lin was because he was starting a one-man series of experiments on survival at sea. He towed his food-

besides chicken there was fruit, orange juice, flapjacks and barley in a child's rubber dinghy. There was enough to last him up to 50 hours. There was no boat with

sugar -

him. Said Mr Simpson:

HEAD-HUNTERSA LITTLE

'POSSIBLE BEGINNING

OF HUMANITY'

Manila.

dumped the mail in the river A noted American anthropa- because it was a hot day and his mailbag was too heavy.- United Press.

Muskegon, Mich. Soda pup has been ruled out for 30 during working hours

city officin's north Muskegoni and employees.

the

logist said a head-hunting cannibal tribe in tho steaming jungles of Dutch New Guinea represents the "possible beginning of humanity."

FLATTERY

AND

London.

Seventy Bve - year - old Men Beatrice Teleford used one or woman's oldest weapons Battery - Lo beat a drunkenness charge iu a magistrate's court here.

She pleaded guilty to charges of being drunk and lecapable of carlog for herself. Ustened to. A pollerman describe finding her

sitting helplessly wall, and

"I must thank this

for beautiful man

Kaving somo We have wonderful policemen, God blem them all. They are angels."

against testifled:

A

Dr Harry B. Wright, Chief of

my life. Anthropology Department Aldermerr denied a request of the Philadelphis National for installation of a soft drink Museum, arrived here with two vending machine on the ground that the "logical but unlikely human skulls in a suitcase and store of information about the climax would see the city dis-Armats" of New Guinea,

for its pensing beer

He said the Asmats, who go stituents."United Press,

around

completely naked, a "high

standard of possess Chicago. material culture and an excel- Robert Holmes was quiet tent family and tribal organisa- enough but his shirt loud,

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con-

"I'm not out just to swim the Channel. Any- body who is fit and well-trained can do that. But I feel that thou-- sands of people who work at sea die every year from

exposure unnecessarily. "That is why I am not taking a boat. What is the good of conducting an experiment of being alone at sea if you have bouts and people around you?"-Express

Service.

DOUBLE BEDS ARE 'BEST"

London.

The Bedding Information Bureau reported trium- phantly that "women like double beds best." -

The Bureau sald it had cate- fully studied 10,000 replies to a. questionnaire sent out through the National Union of Towns- women's Guilds and came up with these figures:

5.338 8,382

под-

Sald Magistrate Milion: "That glowing tribute. I will discharge you

without penalty."-United Press,

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Frank very

Double bed preferred Single bed preferred

Other answers were committal or "don't know."

Only married women questioned.

wero

was too dog" in spite of their head-THE LONG LINE

collecting hobbies.

THEY REPRESENT ́ theatre. "They represent the possible spotted beginning of humanity," Wright

Holmes and two others man- aged to eludo, police for Bix hours by hiding behind false

Chicago walls of a A Reform

But a policeman Parliament is due to debate Holmes brightly striped shirt zald. the schools problem in October, through a hole in the wall and after its summer recess, when arrested the trio on burglary possession the Minister for Education will charges-United Press. reply

demand by a Monarchist Deputy, Massimo

+

Del Fante, for a reform in the stato examinations,

Parents And .teachers further. They are demnating a reform of the whole educa- tional system, not only of the examinations.

Critics declare that schools

Liverpool

SPRING INTERIOR

The survey also showed that When on ambulance look spring interior mattresses are Miss Mabel Lambio, 73, to a the British housewife's choice.

am- The figures: hospital here, seven other bulances had to tng alone too.

They were sent by the Royal He sald the skulls in me Society for the Prevention of belonged to two of Cruelty to Animals to pick up 20 members of enemy tribe 30 dogs. The pooches had no- which the Asmata massacred body to look after them while recently and subsequently ate | Miss Lamble was An the Madison, Wis.

hospital United Press. A newsboy found a Siamese in true cannibal fashion.

Wright said he spent two cat answering the description of One last by Mrs William D. months among the Asmils, ac- by five armed companied

1

Michigan. AL rip to direction, he put the cat on a plane for Detroit.

Today the cat was back in

In

Spring interfar ........ 7,900 All other krypon (foam

rubber, hab, dio) .. 8,100 Feather mattresses ore, sull being used by 184 women who completed the questionnaire.

Detroit.

the Rome you do Walker before she left on her officers, and found them to be Romans

In do

the Motor the most primitive tribe now City, auto dealer William M. known to cost.

Packer Jr was ordered to give He said he would donate his his ex-wife a new Car every

questionnaire' Philadelphia | year as part of a divorce selije- wrong skulls

Museum.United Press..

must revise their teaching Madison, it was the methods; того and botter one-United Press

teachers must be recruited;

and, above all, children must be taught to think instead of learn-

ing by heart parrot fashion,

China Mail Special.

PRACTICAL WORK

Keokuk, Iowa. {Charles") Fugala, and Cal Freniing got in a boat, intent on

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the

ment.-United Press,

IT TOOK THREE TO SAVE MIMI

Asheville, N. C

Three gallant Americanin risked |- their lives to save a French indy named Mimi, but for their reward they foodyed = bark Instead of a boss.

making a study of the caddis | It all started wlieti · Dimal, a

The boat turned over and stat the two men straight to

to the river bottom, which is

Late

French ple Beaver Lake with

Casa Da Maloy, Mini, a kúptoms Bill

well,

wären't'; interesteçi Ingoing Deinir Smolder, new. what had

where the catidis By Broode

Fugate and Frealing said they

quite' that far in the interests

happened, and fingrod down w

of entornology United Press

Bishop, a sailor stationed at the Naval Reserve Training Centre here, planged in to the

Bites bak unable to reach the stroggling, der · and, siarted back to shore. Halfway back. - fiMben ran out of brasin and

yelled for help.

Raisa Tsina of Asheville saw Uld", cazzination from his our and well to ziscue Bishop, le got the saling to ✅ dhorn yand

When Young reached. Mimi, he „was too stred to swim back.

More calls for help.

John G. Penland or Asheville

jumped into a boat but coula} not Bud a paddle, Birštoning ous in the boat, he used his hands to paddie slowly toward Mimi sad Youn

Penland and Young got the Bow Into the boat and then rena

• Chest Mariel beak for: Mimiș land pulled' Young, aboard. who was abank to zo dawn) Everybody · finally

on

The survey also brought out other interesting material sleeping, mattresses and bedding. cent of

·Elghiom' per WDENG answering tha they suffered from Insomnis. · Sixty per ouni mali thay ・ were ro- Freshed on waking.

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More than 1.700 mat treases and bases of those questioned have been in us between 18 and 20 JOSTE, MANY up to 25 years "and even over 80 years,”

★ Forty person of the

wenen said they tærned Lhair ungttresses at least once a wock, de ser omni Q300/s month, 1. DIT, ONE Tem mantar sind ano-per

To Bedding Information Bureau (BBB) was set up by the National Bedding organiza“ tionav sadamastecas de manufac» Strefa coordinate Intocmin“

FATHER

cut the hedge and MOTHER

went to rest when A CHILD was scalded

London.

Tho parents of a soven-your- old girl who scalded har- solf woro asked in ¤ juvenile court why noïthor of them bothered to ga with her to hospital.

The

father replied: I WOS cutting the hedge,

The mother said; I was too tired and needed a rest.

The child was sent to Hackney Hospital, two miles from her hume, in the care of her nine- year-old sister when her mother got home from work half an hour after the accident.

Sho was kept there for two weeks.

'APPALLED'

·Policewoman Maureen McCas- kill wuld that a surgeon at the hospital had been appalled at the way the child had been neglected and had complained.

The child was before the court in North London as being In need of care or proicetion,

The chairman, Mr Husb Parsons, asked the father: "Is it not true that you were completely atid absolutriy disinterested in getting the child to hospital as quickly as possible?

"What do you consider the most important—your hedge or your daughter?”

The father did not reply.

A supervision order for three years was made

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