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of the National of a vast superspectacle to cele Celebrations Committee, says the Maritime Board, writes in the rate the peace. The acknow, Japan Chronicle, it has been Dandy Neus

lodged chief of pageant masters decided to appropriate money The beginnings of great things in England is Mr. Louis Nraised by subscription to a suitable are often obscure. The origins of Parker. thousands of important customs To a representative of the Daily memorial in accordance with the which rule the lives of men are Vecs, who met him recently he resolution passed at a meeting of unknown and baffe scientific explained that for enquiry. Let us take note, then reasons he is not in a position November, and with the balance to various the Allied community on 27th of a great thing which happened to speak quite freely on the create an Endowment Fund inFav-

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Mr. Alec Waugh, the youthful author of the Loom of Youth *- addressed A large dudience in London recently on the reform of the public school

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reverence.

magnificent institution; but it is "The public school," he de

time electric light was substituted clared, "isa very old and very

for gea. It conforms with the character of the nation, and it is vain to attempt to build up another system.

were quite sure that as soon over 30 so-called pageants, burbe hurt and no offence could be realises the possibility of becom-I

as a ansversal standard was arranged there would be sectional disputes and demand which would averred that the sailors on the North-East coast, who were the most highly paid, would not be content with a standard which placed others on the same footing as themselves, and that they would demand a rise above the standard to restore to them their old position of superiority.

break it down. It was also

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at the International Seamen's matter of a great peace pageant, our of the International Hospital Conference in London, when but he has very definite views as we believe the creation of such a report was received from a com to what an ideal celebration mittee which had been set up to should not be consider the subject of an inter-

a fund will be generally approved national minimum wage for sea

Pageants" he said, in affect, as a worthy memorial in itself, men. The committee. recem- have been much misunderstood, and we astume that some steps mended that the present rate of especially by Londoners who will be taken to mark by means £15 per month for sailors and have not seen any. Pageants of a tablet on the Hospital build. We are to-day on the razor edge I do not speak as an iconolast. other ratings employed in pro-are not meant to be were shows ing that the endowment fund was of change, and it is time to be portion therete, should be the but a genuine expression of raised to commemorate those honest. If we are not careful. minimum wage for all nations feeling by the people itself.

Kobe men who have fallen in the the business of reform all through represented at the Conference, A Peace Pageant to be worthy war. In view, however, `of the such wage to be exclusive of any of the occasion must not be some-fact that

the country will fall into the SÜMLE part of payment for overtime work. thing arranged officially: the the money which

Wrong hands, and if that happens want to

be The report was adopted, ships impulse must come from the the erection of the Hospitalreparable injury will stewards and cooks being specif people, who must themselves take came from German residents, caused. cally incorporated in the terms of part in it. No controlling me and that Germans have therefore · A SURPRISED AUTHOR. the resolution.

chanism must be seen or felt, but the same right as other members at the same time there must be of the foreign community to treat Youth I imagined myself to be "When I wrote "the Loom of That is a very important and somewhere an autocra: who, for ment in the Hospital, it may writing what everyone who had far-reaching resolution. It is the first time, I think, that a sugges-trol of the King, the Queen, the memorative Endowment Fund is be true. The critics admitted its the moment, has complete con- perhaps be objected that a Com-been to a public school knew to tion for a minimum wage of in- Royal Family, the Judges, the open to the same objections as fidelity, but the public were ap ternational scope and operation Bishops, the Army, the Navy, and the German has been put into concrete forts.

crowds. Who is going to make raised in order to commemorate not be true, and the masters said fund, which was palled. The parents said it could anybody present of them all. the silver wedding of the late that though it might be true of a even for half a day?"

German Emperor and Empress very bad set in a very bad house Asked whether in his opinion by naming a ward after thefin a very bad school, in a particu cause until late in 1917 we had the war had made it likely that Kaiser.

and which not even a standard wage for sea-pageants

after larily bad time, it did not repre as they were before the war started " men in the United Kingdom. 1914 would revive, he said that turned to the donors on

Was re-ant the condition of affairs in Down to October of that year the increased coat of everything round that the condition with

the the majority of schools." articles were signed at rates of was rather against a revival, and which it was associated bad

Mr. Waugh gave an interesting considerable variance as between that for the present people were become impossible of fulfilment. Picture of public school life as port and port, ranging from £8 to too unsettled to undertake the In the present case, however, all he saw it of the boy who comes £10 per month. Indeed, the con- long and careful work of propam that would be necessary would be from a preparatory school keen ception, of a standard rate totion that is essential. In some to insert a tablet into the wall of for games and work, and goes apply equally to all British ports of bis most successful pageants the Hospital in memory of Kobo home at end of the first term was scouted by many a im- each of the 5.000 players had been men who laid down their lives for with probably a prize, and possible and by some as of dubious prepared individually, mostly by certain great principles, and with certainly a good report. In his the inscription worded with tact end and subsequent terms he Since the war he had organised and discretion no feelings would loses interest in his work. He ing one of the leading lights in the atletics of bis school, and editions of those in previous question of the Victory Memorial. him. not much more than pocket "There still remains the knows that work will not help years. Still, they had realised According to the resolution pass- over £70,000 for war charities. ed at the meeting of the Allied

DULL MASTERS. Speaking of pageantry in community already referred to, it The masters make no appeal to America, he said he had been was decided "That a Victory his imagination; they are asked to organise a good many Memorial Fund' be opened for apathetic and dull. The worship functions in the States, but had the purpose of erecting a suitable of games becomes his never consented to do so. The memorialin Kobe on some site to ativity. At last he gets into the Americans, he observed, were be decided later. to perpetuateSixth, haven of rest after the more anxious in their celebrations the glorious victory of the Allies storms and troubles of the Fourth to look to the future than to bring and in memory of Robe men who and. Fifth, and by specialisation the past, before the spectators, have fallen in the cause of human-manages to do as little work as and, consequently the Americanity. It is to be regretted that a possible. And then he becomes a pageants had developed rather in little more consideration was not prefect, when he may smoke and the direction of symbolism, with given to this resolution when it drink, be thoroughly immoral, and Reservoir on April 1, 1919. which he. Has not ton much was drafted, for it raises very have a kad influence on younger sympathy.

serious difficulties. Apart altoge-and more The origin. of the standard of

impressionable PITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER ther from the question whether boys. £15 per month recommended by

WORKS LEVEL it is desirable to erect a memorial the International Conference is

"What the average boy does is of victory, the question arises to of much interest. In October,

what form it should take and games, swear & little and crib,

work a little and worship tum { shahvior 1917, trouble arose at the Port of.

where it abould be erected. continued Mr. Waugh. Liverpool where the seaman's ternational minimum arrived Presumably, as the meeting in dictment of the public school has

The in-ry wage was then £8 10s. per month at.

the Gymnasium did not, include its most sure foundation in the British seamen were confronted

In the nature of things Japanese, and Japanese are, we general lack of enthusiasm. The with the appealing fact that would seem that the rates of pay understand, not represented on masters say they do not produce in American seamen were getting of seamen throughout the world the Committee and are erecting showy intellects, but Empire £12 per month, plus a 30 per must be assimilated. It would special memorial themselves, builders. They do, but it is in cent. war bonus, making £18 per be intolerable in the long run for it is intended that the memorial spite of rather than because of month. Thus a British A. B. ships of different nationalities should be specially represent the public schools. signing on at Liverpool was passing each other in the Atlan-ative of the foreign getting less than one-half of tic or elsewhere to be manned unity belonging to the Allied at different rates of pay. The nations. If it is to take the form It was not surprising that ease of the seamen is one in which of an obelisk or a building of some finitely preferable to the type pro wapwichezz

Yet the public schoolboy is in- Intermediat circumstances inequalities of wage as between character, where is it to be erect- desertions from British ships nations are thrust upon the atten- ed? If an obelisk or column, are duced by any system of education Forla in America became frequent, es- tion of the wage-earners. The the Japanese to be asked to give

in England Of

the pecially when there existed the inequality once realised in each space for it, say on the Recreation,

Continent. additional temptation of high striking fashion, it must be Ground or some other public

The system actively but un- shore wages When British sea-removed. It is more than pro- place? No doubt such permission consciously denies the spiritual m men deserted, American seaman bable, therefore, that the recom- would be granted without much side of life. Everyone during the had to be signed on at American mendation of the International difficulty, but who will look after years of adolescence is filled with ratea. So it often came about Seamen's Conference will not the memorial once it is erected? a longing for something in-bet var det that a ship would return to these remain a pious resolution, but in the case of the Sim memorial, definable, which, for want of a Constant supply ka në detects during Man of shores with a mixed British and will be translated into accom for which the Japanese authorities better name, is called beautiful. American crew, the latter earn-plished fact.

gave space on the Recreation There must be some counter. KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVÈ ing twice as much as the former "And we may be sure that sider their duty ends there, and tyranny of games

Group they apparently con-attraction to athleticism; the At the same time the American sooner or later, other industries that it is not the duty of the abolished. What can be done for 'Seamen's Union issued striking will follow this example, For appeals to the British seafarers one thing, the low-wage countries public authority either to keep it the boy is to quicken his sense of, urging them not to play blackleg of the world are aspiring to a

in repair or even to protect it, the beautiful e by taking less than American higher standard of life.

while the International Com- In the defence of the public, mittee.seems to be defunct and school it has been said that sort. Gas- another thing, international con- there is now no organisation many have been killed and so ledge are growing apsce. Miners look after these affairs. It almost every system is to be judged on of galiems duringsthe mouth in War.

among the foreign community to many wounded in the war; but if 1in Germany" are asking for the. At this moment the National same wage as miners in America, appears that the Committee which its roll of honour, the war will Maritime Board got to work, and which is

drafted much, more

resolution must, prove a barrier to progress.“ after an interim settlement, we than miners get here. I learned have forgotten for the. There is a very pressing need determined a standard wage of Pot long ago with astonishment

moment the position of for-for raforma, but there are many £12 for firemen (£11-106 for that a docker at Genoa earns

eigners in this country. difficulties in the way. Hours A.B.) for all British

much more than a docker in

А case must be shortened, and there ports. Shortly before, the

London or Liverpool. Our own German

of foreigners creating a Victory must be breaks between classes. collapse war bonus of £3 was pre-war rates of pay, it is clear, Memorial of a public character The curriculum must be so added, raising the firemen's pay will never return. There will be country where they have altered that boy can honestly to the £15 named in the resolution a general world advance, a much either territorial nor extra say, when he leaves school that referred to (£15 was three times higher rate of production and of territorial right. The best he has learned something. the pre-war pay). This was after pay, and a rapid approach to

LEAVE EARLIER. America bat raised their pay to assimilation of rates the world 21510s. per month plus war bonus. over at least amongst the white who arged the purchase of lowered from nineteen to eighteen

correspondent in yesterday's The leaving age should be system' As far as the British wage is 26006- concerned, the £15 named in the With our own country the time or it might take the form of of prefecture is one of t

| play ground for foreignchlidren, for seventeen. The resum Interfational minimum in effect is ripe for general standardisa rebuilding the Gymnasium and valuable experiences on makes the £3 bonus permanent tion, which will be immensely converting it into a public hall in file, ist of presents

stand the American bonus helped by a national electric charge of the KR. A-C. Such reach this stage unti

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