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TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1932.

DO BARBERS TALK ECONOMIES IN

TOO MUCH?

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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ESCAPE FROM ARABS. A REGISTRAR'S RUSE. NOTHING DRASTIC.

Two Intrepid newspaper men Are barbers too talkative? Mr. Hondmasters in conference who left Colom-Bechar, in Morocco, | Registror Friend thinks so. He Charterhouse, Godalming, discuss- to cross the Central Sahara to Gno,janid at Clerkenwell County Court:Jed the problem of economies In on the Niger, exploring one of the "It is my experience that barbore public schools, and decided that least-known and wildest areas of talk too much."

Boys:

The cost of education cannot be

the world, have just reached Regan. His ruse to stop the flow of talk, drastically reduced without grave

It was feared that the two ex|he explained, la to buy a news-ion of efficiency. plorers were lost, but a message paper and hold it in front of him The conference agreed, however. has been received from them which while his hair la being trimmed. that economies con, and should, be

Inquiries by a reporter suggent-made by Our two

A saving in administrativo ex- armoured curs haved that barbers of to-day are much covered

the 500 miles,

less talkative than their prede-penses, which separated us from Regan in twa Cessors. "Never speak until you Postponement where practicable and a half days. Seven bands of are spoken to," is apparently a gen- of structural improvements, and marauding Arabs were signalled to

Withdrawal of all demands for us, and we certainly just arrived in

expenditure on purposes which are time.

not of essential value to the of fielency of the school,

eral rule.

Following are some experiences gathered.

A Photographer; I have to do my The explorers are M. Leo Ger-newspaper reading before I sit in ville-Reache and M. J. Roger the barber's chair. Two days ago Mathieu, of the well-known Parla my barber was anxious to have my newspaper Le Matin.

viewn on the Gold Standard.

They had reached by arinoured An Artist: I have two barbers car the dreaded Salt Desert, half---one in Bond-street, the other in way between Reggan and Tim- the Strand, The first is too busy buctoo, where slavery still exlata nitending to newly-arrived cus. and where the unfortunate Negro tomers to give much attention to captives, who are compelled to ex-conversation. The other is a keen tract the salt from the salt marshes, antiquary. I

never tire

of his rarely live more than six months stories.

that the expectations of the par- The conference was of opinion

ents of boys in boarding schools have greatly increased in recent years, and suggested that overy effort should be made to securo their co-operation.

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Physical Training. Another topic considered was the physical training given in public schools.

and usually die of thirst and A Novellat: My experience is Mr. M. L. Jacks, of M I, fatigue after they have become that men's barbers are a gloomy who advocated that the army in- totally blind from the effect of the jet in general.

structor type of physical instruc-

blazing sunshine,

Librarian: The man who Instion should be replaced by a system Both during reporters

are trimmed my hair could talk of noth-of physical education directed by a familiar with the immense Ing else but the Irish Sweep.

stretches of No Man's Land of

go

North Africa. M. Roger Mathieu A London Editor: I always accomplished the extraordinary to sleep at the barber's. If he newspaper fent of Interviewing did talk I shouldn't hear him. Abial Krim, the Riff leader, in his A Machine Salesman: I du a mountain fastness at the height of the talking myself the barber can- the Riff rebellion against France, not get a word in edgeways. arriving at his headquarters shelled

graduate, said:

"The bulk of Army Instructors are limited in their outlook, how- ever efficient they may be. Their work is upt to be unrelated to the boy's other subjects and especially to his games,

"Some of the exercises I believe

by the rebel mountain gunners and

Annaber of West End establish to be definitely harmiuf. 1 am bombed by his friends of the Frenchments prominently display the fol- told that the horizontal bars are in their Bidoons: one of the prime cause of round Air Force in Morocen, who were lowing notice unaware of the object of his enter- "Our assistants are instructed not shoulders. The gymnastic appara- ⚫prise.

Lo force conversation on clients." tus caters only for the expert, who are a small proportion of the boys." M. Gerville-Renche is one of the

The conference passed a resolu few people who made the first world-tour with the airship Graf plorers reported that they and their tion recognising the value and di- escort of camel-riders were caught versity of the work already done in Zeppelin, and he also took part in between the two Bros of bands of the schools, emphasising the lin the first trip of the world's greatest Ara nomads who were seeking to portance of a carefully considered. invier-than-air machine, the Ger-pritely the town. They had no system of physical education, and man Vo X.

other course, they stated, but to welcoming the formation of the Before leaving Tradeni, in the make at top speed for Reggan in Carnegie Institute for Physical

Training. heart of the Salt Desert, the ex-an attempt to escape.

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