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TEACHERS' SALARY SCALES.

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CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE

ALARMED.

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ULTIMATUM BY UNION,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, “MONDAY, MAY

The seconder of this rosolution, Mr. H. J. Jackson, of Nottingham, reminded the Conference of the conversations now taking place be- tween a representative group of employers and the Trades Union Congress, anying that no peace.wne possible unless both sides dgroed that in any settlement the prin ciples embodied in the agreement would not be varied in any way by either of the contracting parties.

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1928:

WOMAN'S WORLD

Insomnia.

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

[By Maurice Lanc-Norcott.].

Strenuous opposition to any ro- duction in the salary scales of Mr. J. Chuter Ede, of Epson, in teachers as embodied in the Burn-supporting Lite resolution, said that ham Agreement, found expression the principal industry of Epsom at the conference of the National was not suffering from distress. Union of Teachers at Cambridge. He had a lot to say about the incl

dence of the gucation rate in Events in Abertillery, where various localities, and pleaded for teachers have been asked to ac- a better distribution of the burden. cept a reduction of 10 per cent, in

Before putting the resolution, their salaries, caused alarm at the which was carried, the President conference, 1111

a resolution, announced that the Union had de- which, however, did not mentioned to open a subscription list Abertillery specifically, was pass for the distressed areas, and every od expressing grove concern at teacher in the land would be ask suggestions for reductions in the ed to make a generous response. ncales which would destroy the

There was a large meeting of It is no good. I can't start integrity of the Burnham award.

members of Local Education Au-again. Directly I shut my eyes I 'Mr. Mander, who moved the re-thorities, who are in Cambridge can only see the orange. It is ly- solution, declared that it was made at the invitation of the teachers.ing on the top of a mole-hill quite impersive by recent action in The subject of discussion was the near where the sheep were, and a

choice of employment.

cow is looking at it. I wonder if

Abertillery,

sheep, thirty....Well, would you Thirty-two sheep, thirty-three believe it? I've lost the sheep now! I've thought of an orange, and it's put the whole flock straight out of my head. Just as I had got them to jump so nicely over the gate, too. Oh, well, I'd better start again, I suppose.

The Vice-Chancellor presided, the cow would jump over the moon? "If we have to choose between and the arranged speakers were No, it won't. It won't even jump the consequences of dislocation of Sir Horace Wilson, Permanent over the orange. I don't the education services in a locality | Secretary of the Ministry of La-know why I bother to imagine auch on the one hand," he said, "or"the hour; Dr. P. D. Innes, Director of a useless cow. I shall never go to dislocation of our national agree-] Education for Birmingham; and sleep counting a cow like that. ment on the other, we shall not Mr. Frank Henley, London Em- I think I will cut the orange in besitate. We shall choose the dis-] ployers' Association.

half and plant the seeds and see if location of the services in the This gathering was remarkable any trees will grow from them. locality."

for an append from Sir Hornce Well, that's funny. I've grown This may be taken as the Ultima-Wilson to local authorities and to fifteen small trees already and they tom of the Union, as the threat of players regarding juvenile la-are covered with little oranges. a strike of the teachers in an area Sir Horace Wilson, as

I wonder how many there are? a member I had better count them. One little where a reduction is brought for-of a Government Committee, has orange, two little oranges, three been recently visiting the dia... Oh, go away, you sickening Cambridge.--The Abertillery de- tressed areas. He said that un-creatures! Really everything goes bate had been carefully stage-employment, as a whole, was not wrong to-night. The beastly sheep manased. In the resolution the serious for young persons under have come back now and eaten my wild "Abertillery" was not even 18.. but in some of the colliery oranges. mentioned, and it appeared to have areas it was serious, and its re- been arcángred that no member of sults were extremely batt. the Conference who came from Wales should speak.

ward.

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bour. It may be remembered that

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They say that oranges are good

Here is a "modernique" plano supported by a graceful network of colourful metal. The case is finished in marble,

is angular instead of curved, and has "set-backs" like modern skyscrapers.

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OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Across.

1 Brink (Music).

6 Stayed.

10 Fundamental,

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11 Scarfs worn over the shoulder.

12 First day of August.

13 Atmospheric conditions at any

particular time.

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16 Young hawk.

Pianos, the

10 Large mass of lec.

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21 Rivulet

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Sky-blue,

Modernism in furniture has won another victory. last stronghold of conservative art in decoration; have succumbed to the seductive charm of the new.

24 Common metal.' Sedate Jacobean grand pianos and delicate upright Queen Anns 26 Not working. have gone "moderrique-and-exchanged-their-conventional-shapes for 26-Protracted new ones and surrendered their well-known plano laga for intriguing 27 Flick underpinnings of an entirely new structure,

28' Single: 28 'Interweave.

Secure Skyscraper Effects.

31 Watery vapour.

32 Grecian goddess of youth.

excluding females from throne,

30 Composition for two.

40 Military shop,

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45 Scarpe Angora gont.

He had seen a large number of

Eminent modernists, such as Lee Simonson, Ilelen Dryden and 34 Term applied to French haw hoys under 18 who had not done for the blood. I suppose they fat-Edward Steichen have joined aesthetic forces to evolve piano" that any werk at all since they left ten the corpuscles or something. it in with an interior where effects simulate skyscraper lights and 36 Finishes. The resolution itself was a gen-school. Many hundreds of boys is pretty ghastly to think that a shadows, where chairs take the new tub shape and sofas are daised. 38 Hebrew month, eral one, calling attention to the from 15 to 18 were in the Juvenile man is just a mass of corpuscles supplanted by new enses of extremely original and decorative design. The traditional black walnut and polished mahogany surfaces are existence of a, national salaries Employment Exchanges, which the You wouldn't imagine su to look agreement, embodied in the Burn-Government had opened in those him. Not in his hat and every-laurand much snap to some of the planes where new woods ham award. Then It expressed districts. It was vital that they thing. He is, though. Under-and inlaid work in leathers, wood veneers, metals, marble and cork grave concern over the suggestions should had work for those boys neath the skin he is just a swarm work out modernistic effects. now being made in certain areas other places, for reductions in the sealer "which would destroy the integrity of the awart"

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of corpuscles,

cor-

Borrow Bridge Structure. Ilis appeal was to members of I'll bet

count I couldn't Local Education Authorities and puscles. If fifty dr sixty corpus- In one grand piano the formidable buttresses have given way 10 employers to help in the task. cles got loose and it on a man's a delicate network of metal supports that look something like a beau- This problem was now a concen-cheek. I am sure In the resolution also was a CX-

I couldn't count tiful bridge structure. Here is lightness as well as strength and the architecture of the support suggests the fascinating set-backs of täll pression of deep sympathy with trated one, but if it could be spread them jumping over his use.

Well, I might. No, it is just as buildings. the areas suffering from industrial ut, it would cease to exist. If

The ease, which has angles, instead of traditional curves, is a distress, but it was suggested that they could get three or four boya I thought. I can't do it. The little the local infringements of an are taken over by each exchange in the things are too shys Directly they gorgeously colourful affair in black, green, red and gold leaf. Augther bitral award offered no solution to oustry, the problem would be see me, looking at them they run novelty is a delicate diminutive piano called "The Battery" with a key-board only four feet, six inches, said to be the smallest true plano the problem. Althourh Ahere was

away and hide in his ear. no mention of Abertillery in the

He also spoke of the evils of

A clock struck two then. I yet produced. Mirrors inlaid in the legs and on the under side of the resolution, it soon began to becasual labour among boys, and counted that all right. It is only key-board give it a twinkling twentieth century sprightliness.

appealed to employers to try no to ONE-TWO – THREE-FOUR-- arrange their businesses as to MYE-SIX-SEVEN provide avenues to adult employ-breakfast now. ment within the firm for the boys and girls taken ou

mentioned in the speeches.

The mover of the resolition was Mr. Mander, and he said 'That re- cent events in Abertillery had ren dered the step' of talking about Belaries inevitable.

Threat of Strike.

He went into the history of the Bürnham agreement in some detail, saying that the whole 'idea of the national agreement was stablisa- tion. Mr. Mander said also that there were Indications of other an- thorities copying the bad example of Abertillery in eudeavouring the

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solved.

Dr. Is deseribed what was being done in Birmingham, and aid that now no fewer than 5,080 firms' looked to the local employ-- as their main ment committees source of supply for juvenile in- bour.

In Birmingham they had 1,300 voluntary helpers in this work, and everything was approached from that after care and wellare point of view, and the contact between employers, and the schools was be-

break away from the Burnham reming closer every day.

Mr. Henley pleaded for closer Thon came this significant de-co-operation between the parents, claration, which may be taken as the child, the teacher, the Advisory the ultimatum of this Union: Committee, and the future employ

er. He also urged the raising of the school age to 15.

If we have, to choose between the consequences of the dislocation of the Education services in a locality on the one hand, of the dislocation of our national agrce ment on the other, we shall not hesitate, and shall choose the dis- location of the service in the locality.

That, of course, is the threat of

a strike of teachers in the area.

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Education for Manchester, strong- Mr. Spurley Hey, Director of ly appealed for the raising of the Schul age as a means of lessening

employment. He also said that the greatest movement in education during the next 20 years would con- cern the relationship between education and Industry..

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Mr. Munder did not conceal that, Numbers of pilgrims, many from and said: "If the attitude-be ques- Glasgow, Manchester, and Bolton, tioned, my reply is that it is abave visited the shrine at Carfin- disgrace do the local authority con- grotto, near Motherwell, Lanark- cerned that teachers should beshire, known as the "Scottish driven to make such a choice in Lourdes" because of the miracu- order Lo maintain nu agreement lous cures said to have taken place nationally made.".

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A very smart touch is thịn yellow and green glass candle stick, with its large, well- proportioned base.

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Beautifying the Upright.

Another upright planò is orchid and silver in cofuur and in struc- ture has skyscraper set-backs for the base, the keyboard, cover and music rack. It is a dainty, beautiful music box tant, Instead of taking jup just so much space in a room, ean somehow gracefully fade into a

background of silver and deeper lavender.

Other "modernique" piaños take futuristic designs of flowers in gay cplours and also such mundane things, as modernists joy in put- ting into decoration-tacks, ice picks, cups and saucers, and so on.

Novel these pianos undoubtedly are. But they sound the spirit of the times, and probably they point to a day when no plano will be in alien piece of furniture in a modern, room. By its structure and design, each piano will contribute to the feeling of beautiful serenity that the best of the modern rooms achieve.

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Reading Lamps.

Of course, it is far too long, I can see that. No man should be compelled to wait seven hours for in next meal. It is enough to kill him. If he requires four good

Reading in bed is a luxury In- meals during the day-time, it stands dulged in by most folks. That Lo reason he needs just one or two is the reason

wolves.

there is such an

at night. But there, people who embarrassing choice of bedside sleep are so selfish. They have no inps upon the market. One of thought for anybody but them-the most popular typos is that which fixes on the head of the bed, Well, I shall just imagine a so that the light is behind the poached egg, thát's all.

reader. Recently a noticeable im- It is a very high-spirited poached provement has been effected in egg that 1 have imagined. It is some lights of this kind. The electric bulb is covered with two extremely fresh. Go on-jump over the toast. Now do it again. shades, the outer and pretty one Oh, look out, stupid! Mind the which is for effect and an inner ceiling! There! What did I tell shade plain lightcoloured all you? You've broken yourself This second surrounds the light. now. And all the King's horses more closely, and is made and all the King's......

frame which revolves. This may be adjusted at will, so that the One horse, two horses....three density or brightness of the light horses and D sheep...sheep... is entirely under control according sleep...sleep sleep.......alce..... Ito deaire.

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20 Rapid run of notes (music).

22 Otherwise,

23 Name of one of the ancient Greek

races,

30 Small mountain lake.

31 Measure of length.

132 A Scottish dish..

33 Short narrative poem.

30 Drooping (Bot).

37 Stacked.

40 Garmont.

41 Structure at east end of church

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