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India Invites You!

Enchanting Land

With

Enticing Places

For

Holidaymakers

What the world famous Ajanta & Ellors Cavei....... sha Karla, Kanhert & Elephanta Caves. See the astic splendour of India ii stone and mural. Take a trip to the Gir Forests in Saathura, she lone abode of the Asiaticon.

Spend the time at Fanchgani, Mahabaleshwar and Matheran...Over 3,300 feet up in the clouds. Enjoy enchanting scenery and let the climate brace You w

Sew the historical Somnath Temple at Pan and Shatrunjaya, the sacred fälls of the fans at Palitana Many other places of interest, miles of coastăine, magnificent hotels and wenty-mears of transport st your bach and 'cat

for information please contact

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CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1960.

PARKINSON'S SECOND LAW-7

PEOPLE

are largely taught what they are

- supposed to know about life by television, radio, cinema, newspapers and books; also, and still more effectively, by cach other,

As a formative influence in society, schools play a smaller part, in fact, than teachers are prone to imagine. As an item, however, of public expenditure, education comes high, on the list, much of the money is clearly wasted.

That this, should be so is mainly due to the rise of an imaginary science of education with a jargon of its own. This is known, technically, as educationalisth. Broadly speaking, the dif ference between teaching and educationalism is that

the teacher takes a dif

ficult subject and strives

BY C.

NORTHCOTE

to make it relatively easy, very much longer and costs very the educationaliser takes a narch more. simple subject (which he

Education expands to fill the

The new education

7

BRAWING

PARKINSON

mary classrooms and equipped' with ordinary blackboards.

Educationalism would be fan- tastically expensive even if

has failed to master) and time available, so that years were of any value. We have also. makes it seem practically be spent in edunationalising what used to be laught in as impossible.

The chief result of education. many weeks. alism is that everything fakes

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to meet the closely-alled costs of juvenile delinquency, as also the further expenses connected Educationalism is also expen- with the police, the reformatory sive in buildings and equipment. and the prison Schools have now to be bullt

almost entirely of glass, so as to HELP, FIRE!

admit the sun, and have then to

be filled with plastic blinds in order to exclude it.

No one could say of educa- Apart from that, however, a tionalism that it is cheap. And school filed with workshops and the most expensive thing about art-rooms, buildings devoted to it is the retaining in school of

and home economics

interior boys who will never benefit and decoration, projection theatres who would be happier and less and visual aids, costs far more frustrated if allowed to earn than schools consisting of ordi- their living.

Juvenile misbehaviour is large- ly the result of wasting the thing of those who ought to be a work.

-take a simple subject

and make it difficult

You receive rather less than you whether the plumbing was originally fed.

destroyed by bomb-damage of The whole process from re- by troops, de foto porting the fire to receiving the The dispute Bel between the cheque will recupy something War Department and the Bomb between 10 days and sik weeks. Damage Commission; that is, be- Had the Govehiment dealt "tween two sets of officials who with wat damage through the are agreed only in prolonging exista system of fire insurance, the business until they have all all claims would have been became pensionable. settled in 1947 at the latest. In this sort of argument it is worth nobody's while to wrangle beyond a certain point, All con cerned shut à value on fine.

In such a plight as this the householder must abandon hope. Nothing will be settled In his lifetime. Nothing, perhaps, will their be settled at all.

Contrast, however, with this PROFITABLE?

process the record of the War Damage Commission, which is

It accounted for £20 million in the estimates for 1958-59,

The Commission will evidently exist until another war gives it new scope for inactivity."

We cannot but wonder that so still happily at work some 15 little bitenton has been paid by years after the last damage was the Ministry of Agriculture, done.

Fisheries, Food and Forestry to the subject of the organic manue to be derived from sewage.

It is now well knows the sewage will yield methane gun, the remaining sludge being sale- able (after proper treatment) as an organic manure at more thah £2 per ton

Whon your house catches fire, being badly damaged, you in form your insurance company, which employs an assessor to survey the extent of your loss, You or your agent will dwell

The fate of those awaiting war at length on the value of what damage compensation may at was destroyed. The company's tract our sympathy, but the real sessor will tend rather to em- victims (apart from the salary- phasise the previously dilapi- paying taxpayers) art, those un- dated state of the building, con- fortunates with a double claim. gratulating you on the fact that your better furniture was in the unharmed part of the bouse,

Suppose that your house was first damaged by a bomb and then pecupled by warriors of the

A more or less amicable dis- Arthy Pay Corps, who used the pute ends in a compromise. The banisters as firewood and backed company pays rather more than a lorry through the garage doors, inovélable. It then becomes a question its, assessor thinks

Americans repair'

AMERICAN scientists

have cleared up a mystery surrounding Pioneer V, their midget sun planet, now streak- ing on 7,000,000 miles. · from earth. The alarm started when some of the coded

sent messages back by the satellite be cante meaningless.

A call went to Robert Gott- fried, at the Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles. Gott- fried designed "Telebit," the | remote-control gadget which switches Pioneer's transmitters un and off.

He pin-pointed the fault to one of 5,000 miniature radio parts Inside the beachball sphere. Obviously, it could not Be mended across such a vast distance. But, by altering their "code translation" tables, the found they cotild Americans

understand what

once again

Pioneer was saying.

Streams of messages sent

Pioneer V

mil.

fault-7

miles

The World

of Science

by Puter

Fairley

back twice a day are filling on the opposite sex. in vital gaps in man's now Davis, a U.S. scientist, ledge of space, While the rest

Sewage disposal can be done, in fact, at e profit; whereas the out-dated schemes in use wil often put as much as 2s. 6d. on the rates.

Wednesday: WASTED WORDS

-London Express Service).

BY THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

PIECE of writing

on the to go, and even what he is to

A disadvantages of a long nose do when he gets there. Here

treats the matter only from the is a tip for the eccentric who point of view of the-owner of likes to be Independent. By the nose.

studying all the travel litera- ture he can find out what For his, friends it is another places the agencies ignore, matter. They like to see the and can enjoy. A peaceful unwieldy probostis emerging holiday. In every endinitry from a glass of beer like Venus there are vast areas, off the from the foam, dripping but main routes, where nobody undismayed. They laugh, but goes. This means meeting without malice when it gets foreigners, but that is not another for use when joining a Caught in a door. And they terrible when you get used to it. admire the efforts of a short- armed mah who must stretch.

away

THE

flock after the mating season. VOLCANO CONCRETE THE Russians are using a new type of concrete _for_building_— extracted from a veleako. They call it perlito, When heated, it swells to ten times its original volume.

Watis of the new material W difficult than it is today, in the sky Oh, them" sald

His arm to Its limit when he She has the wrong idea

Nor wants to blow his nose. must it be forgotten that for A GIRL who went to the some lovelorn girl that nose is Baker Street Planetarism the long, long nose a-winding to "See All The Stars" received

a surly answer at the entrance into the land of her dreams.

when she asked if Mr Cary Grant was there. It's the night sky they are showing," said a kindly” old gentleman. "Stars. You know, Real "stars

A note on holidays

THEN travel

need be only half as thick and and therefore

more

wis

more

of ap decided

the girl with a wealth contempt.

a quarter the weight of con-adventure, *. man ventional concrete, they claim where he wanted to go, and To find the volcanic glass from went there. Nowadays he AN which it is made, the Russians told where he ought to want Sitting pretty Dr. are now digging furiously into

has

of the world cursed the recent spent five years studying SAM Bare which blacked-out the habits of the bird. world radio communications,

NO. 1 used Th winter, an- Pioneer's trackers blessed it. nounces that he has found a cosy For one of the purposes of little home and wants a part- the satellite was to find out her to enjoy it. how the gas, puffed out during such a flare, travels down from the sun to become trapped in belts of radiation around earth. Pioneer was perfectly poised for

the job. But the answers are still secret.

WOLF-WHISTLE

LADIES, next to you

a

NO. 2, used in spring, is what Dr Davis calls an urgent noti- fication of availability.", RATTLING NOTE

NO. 3 is a whistle of satisfac- tion given as he shows his wife over the new nest. The lady, Il seems reacts elther by chucking

an

that

Siberia. They estimate extinct volcanoes in Eastern more than a million cubic yards

are there for the taking.

Britain, too, has a few light- weight building material at her hollow brick, disposal a measuring 18 inches by eight by two...

SHORTAGE, BUT

It was perfected more than 18 months ago by the Depart ment of Scientific and Industria) Research Lord Hailsham regards it as one of the most valuable and brilliant achieve. ments of Government research

by emfiting lun nggressive. It could remedy rattling note,"

TARGET NLD

EMV

How many

words of four letters Or or Ca You

trom the letters in the

on the left Lat baking CRU word. the letter In each of

the small squares may be used unce only. Each word must com tain the large letter in the centre square, and there must be i e one nine-letter word in th st. No pintais;, ind forelan words no ErDDET name). TODAY'S TARGET 169 ward good 67 words, sery good 80 words, excellens. Solution On Monday

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 Bed irlar bile bleb Betbe briber brjer cell, crieg, İste relle

It could remedy the présent national shortage of bricks. But don't glare too fiercely. It

Other features in a starting's "what are our brick manufac- may be a starling. For, as vocabulary:—-

turers doing about it? Practically Dr. David Davis has... din...... He can imitate other birds. nothing. With such a demand,

ward off covered, the male starling rasp out cries to

they can sell all the old-style gives THREE types of wolf another bird, scream at a really bricks they want. At the prices/criber ice stre silce.-

hostile opponent. He has

"they want.". whistle and user them... all special "chuck” for danger, and

THE „** GAMBOLS

THEN THE HONTAN -

IN THE RED HAT

RAIBED HER ARM

BUT I REFUSED TO GIVE IN

London Express 'Surofen).

ribble SCRIBBLE ribe

London Express Bei'vine.

by Barry Amyliby

I SAID TO MYSELF

ONE LAST EFFORT ~ANO | OUT-BID HER.

1 LIKE BUYING ANTIQUÉS)

WITH A STORY

BEHIND THEM

AT the international car show in New York there is a car with windscreen wipers of pure gold, golden bumpers and golden screws. It is generally admitted that these luxuries are not essential for comfort or for good performance on the roads. I hope there is a built-in jewel- case, so that lady drivers can wear costly jewellery. as they Idly twirl the platinum steering wheel, or merrily sound the horn encased in chinchilla..

(London Express Service).

Chess News

Solution No. 5818: 1 QxB 1Q811. QxQ; 2 R-Bich, R K12; 3 RIB11-87 ch. E-KLS; 4 B-K4 måte.

London Express. Service

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