1959-05-16 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MAY - 16, 1959.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

'Commandos' Move In On UK

The Life

On Mars

Trouble

May Hold Schools

Surprises

Washington.

The life on Mars may turn out to be pretty surprising.

For example, says Dr Harold C. Urey, the first space travellers from earth may .discover that Martian plants are able to shake themselves.

Urey, 6-year-old University

of California chemist, made this suggestion in on interview on un other the subject of life planets.

Os worth, the basic life sub- Blance is dioxyribonuclule acld (DNA), Ik the vital stuff of a genes, the virung as well 1ny units of heredity.

But the supposed plant fe en Mars, Urey said, may be built around Borne other basic material,

Although recogtiisable a life, it may be fundamentally different from the Bre that has evolved on earth. "The plants of Mars," he said, are not covered up by the duri storms astronomers have Are the plants able to shake the dust off themselves?

seen,

"Why not?"

"I ask this question of people, and they laugh. But I sug

London,

London, faced like the rest of the world with rising juvenile delinquency, has docided to send highly-trained mando toachers" into trouble-spot schools,

com-

Their specific assignment is to be "missionaries"

of modern education and they will get extra pay for the difficult job of managing unmanageable boys and girls.

School officials deny that they are moving in on any English-style Blackboard Jungle," but the fact remains that delinquency among youth remains one of Britain's biggest problems.

traditionally law- abiding nation la frankly

This

at this stage probably has had abruak with the law,

Townsend said that because of aghast at the postwar up the heavy turnover of teachers trend in youth crime.

And the student misbehaviour The Home Secretary Mr R. Aresulting in a problem classroom Butler had to report this month you feel like a young lion that the greatest Increase in tomer

venturing into a lion's crime last year was omong the

14-21 uge group.

Council's

|

London County education committee, one of the biggest school boards in the world, will try out a frat con- of 30 hand-picked, tingent specially-trained "commando teachers,"

"These missionary teachers will be extra people over the normal allocation" in L.C.C. official said.

They will be assigned at first 'why not? The lots of Murs to 12 schools out of the 400 anny be completely different | publie schools in London county, from ours.

one of six counties making up

cara.".

Townsend said that even more pathetic than the students' mis- behaviour was the question they invariably put to

new teacher. "Will you be staying with us sir?" he was naked by some of his most troublesome students. "Nobody ever stays with us," was the students' own reply.

Townsend said that He knew of one young woman teacher who was driven to drunken- ness and of a beadmaster who committed suicide because of the acale behaviour problems in certain schools.

"It's

waste of time to send children to these schools..

Each "commando" wilt receive

£130 anligst no one wants to teach in them,"

may be, he said, that or- metropolitan London. gonisms dwelling on Mors couldn't live on earth and vice versa. It piso is possible, on the other hand, that Martian life Instead of being basically dif ferent from coril's is basicolly

mkar to it.

In any event, every effort must be made, Urey said, to Avold contuminating" Martian life with organisms from earth, That would spoil selentle investigation of the rod vienol

250 said it is just sa im- portant to avoid contaminating the earth with organisms from Mars.

"Organlans living under the exceedingly adverse conditions on Mars, if transplanted to the earth might take over," Uroy Fuld.--UPI.

It's Dali's

Latest-

A BOMB

London. Salvador Dali arrived in

town recently with bomb.

a

allowance as an inducement to atick with the fough assignment.

He or she may be naked to stay in one school for a two- year term, or moved about an emergency missluns.

Headmasters

Schoolteacher - author John Townsend, 34, whose recently "The Young published book Devils" is said to have jolted the County Council into launch- Ing Its programme, warned that school authorities are missing half the target if they're out only to reform the students.

"Where you have problem student you always have a problem headmaster and you can't get rid of him," said Townsend, who himscif Is ready to volunteer as an 1.C.C. trouble shooter.

"The Melal teaching pro- ramme is a step in the right direction but it doesn't go far enough. You need the same "missionary" programino op- piled to headmasters because every school stands er falls by its headmaster.

Tia bomb was a square box * Young Lion

filled with serup Iron and nuts and butts.

The box was lind with

"What he needs are qualities scumper-plates and contained month of character and a

4

explosive charge.

Dalt promised to set the bomb off. To scratching of the scrap against the copper, he said, would produce "such engravings us mau has never seen before."

The surrealistic painter here to publicise Na blography by Fleur Corries UPL

FLEW

John Looks In Anger

London, May.... 28.

Writer. John Osborne Looked back in suger at the oritios who predicted carly death to

his new play, "The World of

Paul Silcker."

He said his successful novel, "Look Back in Anger," got a similar panning, and then had a word for the crities.

Worat

notices since

Judas Iscariot," he said..

"Thera la not otse dally; erille in Lotion intellectually equipped to review a play properly."UFI.

SO SORRY!

London, May 18, Burglar ularms. streamed shrilly at the Bank of England

of all places.

Every door in the place slammed strut and locked. Folice stations all over the city of London Leeged to the alert.

Then one of the customera took his albow off the alekm button and apologised for he mistake --UPI

public relitung keris-all the things they don't look for in the headmasters whom they havo now."

Townsend pointed out that in the rest problem schools, which, fortunately, aro few, one of every Ave children might reach the age of 18 without being able to read and write, and one out of ten

תחת!

he mid-UPI:

THE AGE OF

PERFUMED MEN IS FAST RETURNING

London.

Take it from a beauty ex- peri, men: within a few years 28 many of you males will use cosmetica as women do now.

Мая Davis Factor, head of the

Factor one tiss firm, told reporters here that the age of ceretios for men was coming fast.

"I don't mean men will go in for lipstick and powder," he said. “But the use by them of colognes, afler-shave lotion and commetice of that kind is steadily – increasing. They are being conditioned by advertising to the 150 of colognes And deodorants." Bacior said. Atlas cotidianing, plus the

ing of perfumes by men for wives or girl friends would eventually **GVSTCOM their Usc natural reluctance" to comics themselves, he said, Factor, son of his Erm's founder,

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