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THE BOY WITHOUT

A TIE.

PROTEST AGAINST

ARREST.

FAGGING DENOUNCED.

COUNSEL ON THE QUESTION TWO BUSINESSMEN AND A ALSO DEPRESSING BOOKS

OF SNOBBERY.

Mr. Sidney William Joiner, of Sutton-road, Watford, who refused to send his son to school wearing ttle, was fined 29, od, at Watford Police Court for failing to send his

child to school.

WOMAN.

A strong protest against ", tho arrests of two business men and a woman was made at the Guildhall Police Court, when John William Ricordon, aged fifty-seven, of Aner ley Park Road, a, manufacturers' agent, William Stuart Ramsay,

ON SCHOOL LIFE.

The fagging system and some modern books dealing with school life were vigorously attacked by Mr. J. Howard Whitehouse, war den of Bembridge, new public school.

FACTS ABOUT THE HONG KONG CENSUS.

(Continued from Page 1)

Please Co-operate. One of the most important factors in the "success of a census is the attitude of the people to it. It is imperative that the sympathy and co-operation of the whole population should be enlisted so far as is possible or at worst that any mis- Mr. Whitehouse, a former M.P, givings or resentment at the ap. Mr. Frederick Wilton, proscent ing, said, that the headmaster of aged sixty, of Greasenhall Road; told the Society for Experiment parent inquisitiveness of Govern- ment should be dispelled. The law Bescham-grove School asked Mr.Wandsworth, agent and merchant, and Research in Education, of

provides penalties, against non-co- Joiner for a medical certificate to and Mrs. Hilda Mary Ricordon, which be is president;

"Of all the had features connect-operation or any obstructive tactics say that his bog's health demanded aged sixty, of Holdshott House, that he should wear as open-neck leekfield, Basingstoke, Hampshire,ed with fagging I think the worst that may be employed by in- shiri, int it had not been furth-also described as agent and mer is the power that is sometimes dividanla but it is earnestly hoped given to senior boys to inflict cur- that it will never be necessary to coming.

chant, appeared"

poral punishment upon junior invoke the assistance of the law but that each and every individual will boys,"

assist to their utmost.

They were accused of having re- If evidence was now given that this boy, who was not too robust,ceived sums of money nggregating should on medical grounds wear a shirt open at the neck the proceed inge would be withdrawn.

Mr. H. Giyn Jones, for Mr. Join er, pressed that the case should go

Oct

"Improving the Appearance," Mr. Wilson said that last year

the headmaster felt that in the sum-

£7,752 118, 8d; on behalf of the firm of Edourde Stuecí, of Como, Italy, and converting the same to their own use and benefit, contrary to Section 20, (4) of the Larceny Act,

1310.

That younger boys should feel themselves snubbed, outcaste and servants was a bad feature of the public school system, he said,'

Hobbies Help.

It was bad, too, that the leleure Detective Inspector Giles, of the City Police, stated that on the pre-hours of the younger boys were not vious afternoon he saw Ramsay at organised properly, that they could Aldersgate. Street. He then read not follow their own interests live

In order to stimulate interest in the Census a few articles will ap pear from time to time in the Press. The material for these articles has been provided by the Superinten

dent of Census who has opened an

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improve the general appearance of some of the boys. They attended school without coats and waistcoats during the warm weather. The re- Kulation which Mr. Belsher, the headmaster, introduced was that they should be allowed to come to school without coats and waistcoats, provided they wore ties.

Mr. Joiner sent his boy to school properly dressed last year, but in the summer when there was trouble over the dress of two other boys, he sent his boy to school without eoat, without waiteoal, without tie, and without his shirt buttoned up at the top.

reply, "That is wrong. This is a matter for a civil action. He was taken to Moor Lane Police Station, There, in reply to the formal charge, he remarked: "This is not

a case for criminal action, it is a

civil matter."

Application Opposed.

time.

"The boy with good hobbies is the boy who later is going to have noble interests inlife," Mr. White: house said.

system which, unless it is care- fully controlled and supervised,

"Every good school would desire Lo protect all its members from anything approaching bullying or cruelty. I am making no general J. W. Ricordon was arrested Interchanges, but the fagging system is in the day at the same address, He expressed surprise, and said:

Ho Surely this is not right?" added: "We wrote to them (the Mrs. prosecutors) yesterday," Ricordon went herself to Moor Lane Police Station, and when she was charged she said: "I don't know anything about it,"

Mr. Kilner, prosecuting, sugges:-

Mr. Harry Myers, appearing for

The headmaster and the parent arranged as a compromise that the shirt should be buttoned at the neck. The boy did not attended an adjournment. school for some days, and then camo without tie or buttons. The the men defendants, said that was most an application which he endmaster sent him home for a stud, and the boy had not attended strenuously opposed. school since July 7. The regula tion applied only to the summer months.

The Teacher's Open Neck,

Referring to an incident in the classroom when the boy was sent home for a stud Mr. Jones asked

Mr. Belsher whether, there was a woman teacher in charge.,

"Yes," replied the headmaster. With a collar oh -No.

Did she have an open neck - She was dressed in, the manner in which women are generally..

With an open neck?—Yes.

Mr. Jones was about to put an other question, but the headmaster, addressing the magistrates, said: "Am I obliged to answer all these questions? I am not enter- ing into a controversy on dress re- form,"

People with Collars,

Mr. Jones produced a journal circulate by the Medical Officer of Health for Watford, and referred to a heading "Loss Clothing Bet- ter Health,'

“I venture to any," he added, "that when all the facts in this case transpire it will be seen that theso warrants ought never to have been issued at all. I understand

my friend desires time for further investigation. All I can say is that it is a little unfortunate that a fuller investigation was not made before these people were dragged from their business and placed in the dock.

"My clients are partsers in the arm of Ricordon, Ramsay and Co., which has been established sinco 1837; they are silk merchants and agents. There has been an associn. tion between them and the prosecu- tora for thirty-two years, and during all that period there has been a running account between, them.

The

Bleeping Partner.

defendants feat very strongly that whatever dispute there may be it is purely a civil

Mr. Jones said that it was un. thinkable & headmaster should have the right to prescribe what child.attor, and they deny that they ren should wear, providing they have were decently dressed and clean. offence." He added:

"You cannot have the headmas ter of a public elementary school putting the children into uniform. It is an inducement for children to think that persons wearing cof Iars and tics are to be preferred to those without. Why should it be necessary to make anobs of them t❞

MOTHER-WHO LOST HER

TRAIN,

..

committed

uny criminal

lends itself to cruelty."

articles, and the Superintendent acknowledges his indebtedness to several sources-Eitel's History of

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day!-- Holy Communion at 8 n. m. Holy Communion (Peak Church) at

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Children's Service at 10 am.

Choral Eucharist and Sermon at

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Prenober:-Rov. HY. Koop.. Evensong at 6 p.m.

Preacher: The Dean, Bocial Evening in Cathedral Hall

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after Eventong,

It seems desirable to impress on everyone at the beginning that the taking of a Census this year is a normal act of Government; that we Schoolboy Authors.

in Hong Kong are inerely following Referring to a novel dealing with the lead given to us by the Home life at a public school, he said it Government, which will also be the Empire. There is no ulterior was "the most disgusting and de-followed by all the other parts of pressing book ever published."!

motive in taking the Census now; it is not being done with a view to introducing such things as a pull tax, an income tax, or any other taxation; there is no proposal to take action as regards any over- may exist; and crowding that various other rumoura which may arise as they have done in the past regarding the object of the Census may be discounted at once. There SUNDAY SEXvicz, February 1, 1931, at is no reason for taking the Census now other than the usual objects in view in the taking of all Censusco.

"The fact that it can be publish ed without any official reply forth coming in disquieting, and I hope an official reply will be forthcom ing," he added.·

Whereas school stories used to bo written by schoolmasters about ashoolboys, now they were written by schoolboys about themselves and their masters.

These books leave one very de pressed. They are, for the most part, depressing chronicles of nar- row, conventional life in which the mass spirit, the herd instinct, is dominant, in which bays are often brutal beyond works."

MOTOR CAR IN FLAMES,

ESCAPE FROM BURNING

WRECKAGE.

Two motorists had a narrow escape when their cars fell down incline at the roadside on Barnes Common, overturned, and caught fire.

Following a slight collision with another car near the Southern Rail- way bridge on the common, the embankment. motor car swerved and fell about five feet down an The car overturned, and almost be. fore the occupants could crawl out, burst into flames. Other motorists, who pulled up, helped to drag them Mr. Bell, solicitor, for Mrs. clear of the blazing wreckage. Tho

client was car was practically destroyed. Ricordon, said, his

Both men-Mr. H. R. T. Hit- nothing but a sleeping partner i chces, aged 30, of Beaumont Road, Twickenham, the driver, and Charl- the business.

Mr. Myera: Mr. Ramsay desiresles Lamming, aged 60, who is stay- me to say that Mrs. Hicorden tooking at Richmond, the passenger, were taken to West London Hos no active part in the business, and

.:

he regrets that owing to her con nital, but were able to leave after nection with the firm she finds her- treatment. self in the dock-she dught never

The Fire Brigado was called, but SOLDIERS AND THE BABY. to have been there. ter

when they got there the fire had Inspector. Giles, in reply to Mr.practically burnt itself out.

Eleven Hurt in Orash. “ Myers, said it was a fact that Ricordon had been in business in

"Eleven persons were injured in the City for thirty and Ramany for forly years, and he had no doubt a collision between a Newcastio whatever that they would surren-motor-coach and a motor-lorry on the main Darnot to St. Albans der.

Road near South Mimms. Both vehicles were damaged, and the coach passengers were injured by flying glass. Eleven persons, in- cluding the lorry driver, were taken by aubulance to hospital at

There was an affectionate requion at Crowe railway station between a mother and her six-month-old

daughter, the baby having travelled 250 miles from Southampton in the care of some soldiers, returning from India.

The mother, Mrs. Lambert, re turning from India to her home in Lancashire ns her husband had been ordered to China, had handed over

The magistrate granted a short adjournment, and said that he should not, at the present stage, require the accused persons to find bail. They would be-released on their own recognisances.

her daughter to the soldiers in handed the child to the station

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attended to her tuggage."

When she returned she was din. tracted to find that the train had departed with her baby, the first stop being at Crewo.

Officials wired to Crowe, where the soldiers, who had fed and nursed the baby during the journey, (Continued at foot of ficit column,

Barnet.

Five passengers were slightly in jured when an omnibus ekidded and collided with the signpost of an hotel at Fore Street, Edmonton. BETTERJUNTARZEKAZou won Witzozunagiotochor In the meantime the mother bad Church Lawford, near Coventry, was killed and his pillion rider, travelled to London, hoping to ar- rive at Crewe by an express before Miss Doris Jupwell, of Binley, was the Southampton train, but she lost seriously injured in a motor-oycle her way in crossing London and accident near Brandon, Warwick- shire. The couple were found lying missed the express..

She journeyed North by the next on the road near the overturned

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