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WHAT NEXT FOR JAPAN

So far Japan's resignation from the League of Nations, has had little effect upon the course

Yet it is dificult to see how the NOT-SO-FREE EDUCATION The Very Idea!

excuse

no

By A. E. MACGREGOR

millions.

4

ON BIRTHDAYS By Eddie Kelly '00 Vintage.

re- the exclite- through

the

civilised world

about

time

.1900.

latest moves, dictated by the necessity for the Army and Navy to save thole face against a growing volume of world con-

avoid these Arecont event marked a turning literature of education is the demnation, can

point in English education. Scottish father who worked his which

YESTERDAY, being our ultimate developments

when a further application of the fingers to tho bone that the "lad those in authority at Tokyo ap- principle that parents who

birthday, we thumbed can of parts" might get his chance. parently fear. There is room afford to pay for secondary educa- It may be that echool education our nose at the office type-

will have more intellectual and for a host of awkward complication, was brought into effect. tions. And a hint of the nature During the Inst 100 years there moral value if parents have to writer, slipped a few pesos of the first has already been has developed, the notion that, sacrifico a bit more for it.

into our pocket, and wander- It la 100 years since the British given. Contending that the pre-just as overy private entering the

mar-Government made its first granted forth. sent ratio system is invidious, as Napoleonic army carried a

Strange though it may seem, creating an impression of in-ahal's baton in his knapsack, no for education. How much was it? feriority in status, the militarists every English child who entered an Fow people could guess. We have the sun rose exactly at 6.50 a.m., olementary school carried a gradu- become so used to colossal figures, of Japan have now given wars-ato's hood in his satchel. If he so used to education as a major and despite the fact that it was almost our birthday, did not set until ing that they intend to challenge had the brains he had the right to parliamentary insue, the London and Washington Na- reach the university.

major industry, that we cannot 0.01 p.m. conceive of n grant except in Probably if you are old enough, val Treaties and to demand

SCHOLARSHIP SYSTEM.

you will equality. There is no

erected Upon this theory was

The first grant was £20,000. It member for this attitude. The Man-

the forest of scaffolding known as grew each year, but did not reach great churian adventure makes

the scholarship system. Over the $100,000 till 1840. It was £150, ment serious increased demand upon whole country it has been made 000 in 1881. It did not reneh out the resources of the Japanese possible for the clever boy to $1,000,000 till 1871.

that climb from the first floor to the

For the year 1932-33 the Govern- Just Navy. The assumption ratios are an index to status is second, and from the second to ment grant was £42,892,000. The this false. The system was adopted the third floor in the house of total from public funds, including in

in education. Some have complain- rates, was £88,978,000, in order to prevent a race armaments, but the gulding faced it was more like an escalator tor, in fixing the ratio, was, we than a ladder. A clever boy has believe, the naval needs of the had as much right to a free place In a secondary school as his father Powers concerned. Japan can had to a vote or his mother to the not fairly argue that she requires money she won in a sweepstake,

This glamorous theory as large a Navy to protect her shores, with Korea, Manchuria the day no strongly that those who and the Mandated Islands thrown asked whether the compulsion to in, as does Britain with an Em-give secondary education to the pire stretching right across the clever boy need lle always upon

tho State were overborne globe and important trade routes the pressure of financial necessity, to protect. The trouble appears however, Parliament finally faced to be that the Geneva decision the question: May not the com- has got Japan's back up, and pulalon lie upon the parent in-me? There's a good boy. But

These events occurred before aroused nationalistic feelings, stead of on the State? The result I'm not very late, am 17

Splendid. It was a beautiful pic- new

lure. Haven't enjoyed one so there was wireless broadcasting, Withal, the tone seems to sug- is that to-morrow begins a gest the development of an in-regime of payment.

If the miner, the shepherd, or much for a long time; you ought a Very Iden column, teleprinters, or air mall, and the news of the feriority complex.

the railway portor has a specially to go.

I know you don't like talkies birth of young Kelly had to be clever boy he will still be able to get secondary education without much, but thin flm is different. flashed to the world by ordinary costing his parents a penny. But It's so true. There are a young cable and telegraph. if the man with £10 a week wants couple who have just got married, his boy to have accondary educa- and the girl who is the wife is that tion he will have to pay for it, not one you liked so much in that film arrange for other people to do so we saw a long while ago when a

her him, What's

name? You even if the other people happen to man thinks his wife doesn't love be called "the State."

know her. In the film there was an old professor-no, not the one I

The Menace of a Mud Pie

t

That the mere fact of being alive is a doleful and dangerous business is proved beyond all peradventure. Daily the ad-

HIGER FEES.

carried

Under

THE WIFE GOES TO A TALKIE

BY L. G. MOORE Hullo, darling, sitting up for

Oh, yea

In this one week there was an the unfounded rumour that Hongkong government was go- ing to cope with the water situa- tion; Listerine and Halitosis were invented in America; the Kellys, of Australia, announced the birth of a sixteen pound son; the present King, in celebra- tion of the event, wont to the Australia to inaugurate Commonwealth, and almost on the same date, fourteen years the entered later, Britain Great War.

are

Only Editors and Kings allowed to use the plural "We" when boasting about themselves.. But for the fact that we would another one of us when we were addressed have been twins if there had been born. we would havo

of ourselves as "I", providing course, that we could have found that unusun letter on our type-

And there writer.

Besides, our

parents insisted Our that we should never say no. "wo" is taken from the French Oui.

of world events. The vertising columns of publications The income limit is going to saw to-night, the one we both saw other fifty-six members are re-point to the perils of not using vary from county to county. The with the same girl in it. Oh, I'm fusing to be driven into a panic. such-and-such a potion. But to much-maligned "Circular 1,421" sure you've seen her It is a wise provision in the Con-a bacteriologist of Pittsburgh contemplated an income limit of was a funny man who stuttered, venant which compels a Mem-must be given the palm for cau- £3 to 4 a week in the case of a and you didn't like the idea of But most making jokes about people with tioning the world that the worst family with one child.

As a result of careful living, we ber-State to give two years' has not been told. Analysing areas have arranged something infirmities.

YOU KNOW. HER NAME? notice before it can sever its mud pie with which his small higher.

Where existing fees are low

Circular I wish I could think of her hope to be in a fit condition to

celebrate our next birthday. connexion with Geneva. In son had been, playing, he is re-

not 1 very well-known

As we cannot celebrate with 1,421 suggested that the fees name; 1936, it is true, more than one ported to have discovered that they are to be raised.

infantile

where should

necessary be actress, or I should remember her

every member of our public on the knotty question will be raised in this time-honoured Japan's withdrawal is consum-pastime is fraught with the dir-brought up to 15 guineas a year at once. I believe the night we

est possibilities. Investigation and said that the Board of Educa-anw her was the night we saw theene day, we are willing to start mated. There will be the pro-i of that apparently innocent tion "will ordinarily hesitate in Smiths in the shilling seats. By next year's celebrations right now,

Number of germs,

blem of the Pacific Islands, ad-make-believe confection, he de- future to approve a fee of leas the way, I met Mrs. Brown there ministered since the Great War clares, yielded the following than 9 guiness." by Japan under mandate from alarming result: the League. The Little Entente States, it is rumoured, will lay Diphtheria claim to the permanent seat on Measles the League's executive Council

Lockjaw which the Japanese

will Dysentery forfeit. At present, however, Pneumonia

Tuberculosis neither Japan nor the League

Smalipox

tween

to

Appointments may be made at to-night, and they want us to go the Hongkong Hotel any time bo- to-day and May, 1934. THE RUSH. APPLY Out of 1,367 secondary schools and play bridge on Thursday. in England and Wales in a returni Anyway, her name doesn't mat- AVOID made as for March 1931, 850 had ter, only I wish you could think NOW.

GLASS HOUSES. fece of over 9 guineas a year. In who I mean. Never mind. She 1,800,000

146 they were 12 to 16 guineas. cannot settle down to married life,

We fingered our whiskora cares. 2,460,000 Seventy-four were charging no although I don't know why not, for

900,000 tuition fees and 8 were charging she had a beautiful home and a singly. We never hava blinked at 5,000,000 fees not exceeding 3 guinens husband who worshipped her the Call of Duty-or the call of These girls on the pictures never "Boy!" for that matter. And it 900,000 year, 500,000 Somebody is going to be hit by seem to know when they're well really did distress us to find that a 600,000 the higher fees and by the fact off. You saw her making up to go group schoolboya should have not-

over than As nothing appears to have that scholarship boys now paying out, and she was sitting at one of hing better or more amusing to do members are going out of their

nothing will have pay as much those dressing tables I want--you when lessons are way to cross the bridge before happened to the child, it looks as of the fees as their parents can sort of sit in the middle of it, and throw stones at lamp-standards. have been mirrors come all round you. I The Government ought to do they come to it. Why the pro- though those particular Pitts- ntford People who

(Absent-mindedly, brooding spective secession of a Great Po-burgh germa must have had a getting something for nothing or meant to ask you if you'd seen something about it.

yellow streak or have been too next to nothing will dislike having that one in Robinson's window;

it's ever so nice, and quite cheap, about Government servante. wer is being taken so calmly at proud to flight. For 11,000,000 to pay.

As I Bay, this wife gets tired hereabouts put away a "quick Geneva can be easily explained. bacilli to sit idly back and let GREATER MORAL VALUE.

of her dull life because her husons") band is always working, trying to During the next two years, the a little boy poke them in the

(Continued on Page 0.) situation may materially alter. ribs, so to speak, without any attempt at retaliation, rather It will not be easy for Japan, as

argues for either cowardice or long as her leaders are deter-weakness on their part. Or mined upon a "positive policy" perhaps they were on a five-day to follow the example of Spain schedule and all this happened who resigned in a fit of pique on their day off. There is a and came buck before the two French proverb, by the way. which, translated, reads: Fear years had expired. But cxperi-is a great inventor. ence hus proved that no Power

Freedom of Speech

in the world is big or independ- ent enough to cut itself off entirely from the League. Both

History records movements the United States and Soviet Russia tried their hardest to organized for the achievement of many different ends. It has keep apart from the comity of been left to Sweden and the nations, but have been drawn in-twentieth century, however, to to one after another of its activi-organize a movement-not for tica. It certainly seems signi- the attainment of national free- ficant that the Japanese military dom, or religious liberty, or the dictators, who are responsible sanctity of treaties, or the aboli. for the present policy, have left tion of body-line bowling-but themselves many loopholes. for the full, unhampered and Japan is to remain a member of untrammelled use of the harm- the League's International La-less direct form of address. It the bour Organisation and her de- is incredible but true, as legates will still attend the the Times has recently made Disarmament Conference. Hints clear, that the ordinary Swede- of co-operation with the League's so famous for his love of liberty technical organisations have and scorn of the yoke of the permitted, been thrown out. No notice oppressor-is not has yet been given that Viscount when he meets a friend, to hail Adatchl, the distinguished him with the cordial invitation, Japanese judge who is at pre- "Smith, drop in and see us on sent President of the Permanent Thursday evening." The force Court of International Justice, that freezes the invitation on his will resign his position of imips is not a wholesome regard portance on the bench. Also, for what his wife will say; it is the ofcial Japanese statements merely that the Swedish langu on the subject of the resignation age will not allow so easy and have endeavoured to emphasise friendly a greeting to be given that Japan does not want isola-in any circumstances whatever.

But will it do education any .the harm? The finest figure in

"No, Wallace has promised to stay in to-night and help me with

my studies, but I'd be glad to take her, instead."

we

Fact is, with all this mudsling- ing and afte-changing going on, the P.W.D. must be working overtime In scouring the Colony, looking for from. places to change to and Couldn't volunteers be invited from some of our local schools, An appeal to the patriotic spirit. Per id ed astra, sort of thing. It goes a long way.

But why brood troubles?

•

on our

A HARD WORLD!

tocal

Here we have shareholders dar- ing to challenge directors about the amount of their fees. We don't know what this world is com- ing to. We have always said that he who gets what knows what's coming to him. We were leading up to something, but about from that drawback, and what with writing with one hand and acrat- ching the dog's back with the other, it slipped us.

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Dear Edward Kelly-My hus- band went for a visit to Shanghai with one of the Interport teams. two years ago. Since then I have not seen or heard from him. What am I to do?-Mother of Sevon.

Cloaked In our garb of modesty, we hardly know what to suggest. First impulse is to recommend drowning the brata and going after him, but perhaps that would hard- ly do. After consulting Auntle the Florrie, wo wonder whether man is really worth it. His actions. would seem to suggest that ho in not at all anxious to return, and it twould almost be a sign of de generacy to chase after him. By the way, have you sean "Caval-, cade."

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