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THE EUROPEAN MENACE

MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY

SIR EDWARD STUEES.

The Colony will join warmly in Congratulations to ir Edward Stat on his appointment as

| Guamanor of Ceylon. High praises

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WHAT OF THE 'PREPS'? The Very Idea!

UNHONOURED AND UNSUNG NURSERIES

OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

By G. D. MARTINEAU

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CORRESPONDENCE

By Ed. Kelly, Sheik

DEAR Kelly, I am in a

terrible mess. I used.

ago he swore that he would come back for me and make me his bride.

As I did not hear from him. I decided to transfer my affec and when he left with his tions to an officer in the Army

As I did not hear from himm

and an officer in the Air Force was pressing me to return his gave way and became love, engaged to him but when lip.

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Dear Also-Ran-I refuse to meander in this style with you through the Civil and Municipal services in your search for a tie. With regard to your first affair you should remember that there's many a slip between the shore and the ship, and if you don't make sure, that's your Look-Out.

bare ben aung, and justly too, of 】 A 9 the school field, in embryo[prunes and rice, Is it beyond the to be engaged to an officer his work as a colonial adminixirs A" of life, replaces the flannelled capacity of these great intellets in the Navy and when he for in the last fourteen or fifteen feed with the muddled oaf, educato realise that it is the man and left with his ship three years years and the promotion is richly on will become again the subject not the method that counts?

of many critical pena. There will deserved. It is notable, also, that the usual fountain of self-

All sorts of educational "systems" his text achievements have been congratulatory optimism to support are now coming to light. Many of accomplished, in fact have arisen the complacent, and enough acidity them are excellent, but not one of out of, circumstances of diffenity. from the mud-elingers to gratify a them is worth a penny if it is ap Tielther In Hongkong nor subversive minority. The public fed by a teacher who is out of school, of course, will receive the Jamaica was his period in office greater part of this periodical for instance, gets very good results smpathy with it. Mr. Smithson, one of plais xulling, and he was baptism. There will be letters, pro by making each boy lean his head regiment two and a half years Especially chosen to handle the and con, until Interest wanes again back szalnat a cushion during his ago he comforted my breaking

Cyprus situation after the political and meanwhile the school term will

expositions. Mr. Biffson gets heart with a promise to return. riste featured by the burning quietly proceed.

Do not let us waste words over equally good resulla by no using down of Government House. His the public school system. Vir any comatose member of his class as early as posible and make me

his wife. experience is likely to xervo kim Wells and others would like to that a cushion is needed in quite wall in Ceylon where conditions destroy it, root and branch, but another quarter at the end of the have changed vastly since his responsible business man, Govern. hour. Then It is Smithson and ment ces, and organisers of Biffson whe matter-fen't it?-and regime there as Colonial ficcretary, great enterprises choose its pro- not their methods. Surely that is and occasionally an acting Gover- ducts for their purpose without plain. nor. Constitutional changes, not hesitation, and that should satisfy The relationship between masters |gomranised to rolleve the recon- | those not afflicted with genius. To and boys comes, in much more at a

school. There Mibilition of high dice, have normal people this is good enough preparatory

evidence that what is known as a master teaches ten or a dozen boys altered the whole basis of govern- "public schoolboy is likely to during a period. At a public school ment in the Island, The tank be-possens qualities that are in generat his form contains double that fore him will therefore be just an demand." They do not trouble to number, and he spends less time in new an though it were his first analyse a boy's education. If they the roelety of his pupils out of agquaintance with Ceylon. The did, wo might hear less of the public school. Much of the "supervision" school and more of what goes carried out by masters at a private fact should fond the offen added before it.

school passes into the hands of zoat.

monitors at a public school. Quite {"After all, a boy has only four right, no doubt. The boys are years at a pulile school, which he learning to fend for themselves. leaves at the age of seventeen or "You send your son to the school eighteen. The first seven or eight master, but it is the boys who years of his life are generally spent educate him." Yet, just on this under the undisturbed influence of inter training is doing its own I think you were flying too his family, and the intervening five valuable work, so the earlier, in high when you went for the RA.F. or six years givo him his first laste dividual attention (I apologise for man. Mind you I wouldn't say of organised education-at a pri- the familiar catch-phrase) is needed you wore altogether airminded vate school.

by the child who is forming his I am convinced you have Now it is generally agreed that first ideas. A train of thought, brains or you wouldn't have put these are the most impressionable started in a light and humorous up such a good show as you did years of a boy's life. Is it not way, leaning against the playground against the combined Services-- surprising that so little is heard of fence, can be worth a year's work but you were building your them? Or is that part of the es-in the classroom.. but that is Costles in the air. Airmen don't. and "public" school? Mential diforanca between "privato" vienž jeu,

grow their wings, you know, des- pite their Blighty dispositions.

No, dear, I think you should“ abandon theso adventurers, specially as you cannot do any thing else now. I should. Ilke to recommend myself to you just for companionato friendship. You know what I mean.

POUND ADRIFT

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Something very interesting han lately been happening to the pound sterling which suggests that British monetary pulley in again In the balanco, For months British currency was more or lean pegged to the franc. Hince the franc in tied to gold, this means that the pound has been related to Four days have elapsed since gold. The method of establishing Fr John Hlmon was urging that the relation fan been for the Bank 100 gloomy a vlow should not be of England to buy or sell francs taken of the International xitan-an oecarion warranted in order to tion. At that time It noone keep the pound-frane exchangs rather like an invitation to rato stable. Such an operation Jenare the obvious; Loday it spelled the achievement of de would be the shearent fally to acto stabilisation in gold. In the fall to grasp the elements of last few weeks, however, the pound thickening portla, Nolther has quietly alipped its frane our Europe nor in the Far East can Inge. The result is that the profagonists of ponce a pound, like the dollar, has been raits for naythiye but disqulot; sellisting in terms of all the ingradienta are thore for financial obnorvern have been her boy's hair waved by & selected bounds by curriculum and inspec-

to the pound?

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There are between five and six Labour men theoretically view hundred preparatory schools in the the private school with suspicion an country, and over 20,000 boys are "anob exhool," but in practice enlly this is not particularly impres- can, and on to a public school. being educated by them. Numeri-they send their sons to it, if they nive. Yet the public schools rely on

The Board of Education values them almost entirely, and they still

the preparatory school, and is officer the greater part of the Royal aware of its efficiency, but what is Navy. The preparatory school is more important in that it is main- others onviably free.

in somo directions restricted, in

taining a modicum of free educn- The power of the parent is felt tion, controlled only by common more acutely nowadays. If for sense and bread and buttor. The Instanco, gold.

n mother, given to worth of this, in a country where wathalle extramea, wishes to have a much education is kept within

hor datly that it can't be done. Its position is still largely assured, and

It was just after the pound End the frane divorced Itaul? From that Mr. Montaga Norman want to The United States. Mr. Norman's peregrinations are perhaps not so cranks gladly." provocative of popular Interest

seems currency chaos, explored anew the possibility of to have pound-dollar stabilisation as the first step back to universal stabilisation.

preparatory school leece this free- lom, it will have lost its soul. It

"Did you see the West Indians?" "No."

"Gosh! I did I saw Headley make 1601"

He has heard the chimes at mid- (Continued on Next Columns.)

As for the soldier affair-Well, you should know that in modern battles there are breaches and breeches and oil's fair in love and war providing it's not left for him, to hold the baby.

some

Tea for two and two for tea,

Just me for you and you for

mc,

No week-end inflations

Will spoil our relations,

No midweek flirtations,

No midnight migrations

Will give you hysberia,

No intoxications,

No Inebriations,.

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To cause indignations,-- I'll give up the beeria.

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And when my time is hup, Oh parton my hiccup,.

I'll give in my resignation And I'll book my destination..

At my pocketbooks dictation) With a double cabineria.

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In reply to this we received · a Cummore and Moore, Ltd., the lotter from Messrs. Cumshaw,

lowing:-

"Dear Mr. Kelly, Miss Alsaran, to manage having instructed us her affairs, we are desirous of knowing when you propose to con- summate your advances before the altar. Miss Alsoran being a Hindoo, the ceremony will have to include essential extracts from both your convictions and a sacri- flcial goat, to be paid for by you, must be provided. May we say, apart from our legal position in tho matter, that we are glad to find Miss Alsoran's matri- monial efforts are at last to be crowned with success and may. we congratulate you on securing a well-tried and desirable partner for yourself. Yours, etc.,

Only Dok dotormination and a

on at elen bronk with huston con save the dination in Europe; and closs pre-occupation with MR. NORMAN'S VISIT

It can adopt the attitude of "take is significant that even in America, thin diffioul tak must Involva

it or lonvo it." The preparatory before the financial crisis, one pupil chool headmaster, with one eye on in, eleven was attending a private | thnk_rink_of_relaxgi vigilanco in

an unstable lat of entries, cannot school instead of that provided by the Par Haal.; Garmany's roply

afford such magnificonco. Ho must the Stato.

And so, a summer dies, the exorcine a strenuous diplomacy. to the dharmamont proponnin sponsored by France and up

heterogenous details of health and late September's typical portents is He finds himself assailed. on schools gather. Not the least of urted by Britain and the United

diet, and ha la compelled to suffer the arrival of playboxes and of their Staten, onde any prospects of

owners, grey-flannelled, bare-kneed, Hucco for the policy of good

On the other hand he is free from pink-cheeked, and free from affecta intentions. The method han be as those of prime ministers. But the tyranny of a specified curri ilon. They have not yet come come futile, outworn its useful-in ordinary circumstances they likes by any method that he likes, fashion in speech and pose; their culum. He may teach what he under the influence of youthful ness. Firmness and solidarity are are equally important. This fact and the results are all that matter. humours are undisguised, their en- the only substitutes. The Ger-needs no stress in these days of) If he`is orratic or frenkish, his boys thusiasm as undamped as their solicitors, who wrote us the fol man demand for equality may fluctuating currencies. Currency will fail in Common Entrance, and toothbrushes at the matron's first be as essentially unanswerable now an ever it was, but Herr decisions in which Mr. Norman he will lose his means of livelihood. morning Inspection Hitler has made it Impossible as plays such

Long may such conditions last! a lending part may

The amount one hears talked a product of normal diplomacy, determine for Instance whether about methods of education by Politically. It has dropped out farmers can market their produce popular novelista and other of the realms of practicability profitably. On this occasion the amateurs is enough to make an as- as completely as has the admir-British banker, avidently unable sistant master react in favour of able British disarmament plan. (for reasons of either policy or The British plan contemplated finance) to retain a pound-franc some measure of disarmament: stability because of surrounding none is possible or likely in the next five years, unless a miracle occurs. The best that can be hoped for is the preservation of the status quo by convention, with supervision and conrtol of armaments by an international body. When fear of war is dominant, this in itself would be | STABILISATION an achievement. The issue lies in Germany's hands. A change in

It wae tho original verdict of Berlin's tone is essential to the observers that Mr. Norman re- restoration of confidence and if turned to London empty-handed. it cannot be brought about by The United States, it was said, was persuasion it may be necessary

as adamant as ever against, ex- to bring it about by convincing Germany that the other Powers change stabilisation. It now stems are in earnest. Britain enter that the prophets were wrong, or tains few illusions on this score that if they were right, that the to-day, Mr. Baldwin's speech at marked change in the American Birmingham will be historic, situation, has altered President whether or not it succeeds in its Roosevelt's policy, once agála. It purpose. The Conservative loa- | ta hinted that stabilisation of the der could not have spoken a dollar will precede an Anglo- | clearer warning. Europe la to-American war debt settlement, not day faced with the psychological situation of 1914, but with only because no settlement can be possible without stability, but pri- greater, wisdom and knowledge. There will be no doubts con-marily because it is at last corning Britain's position in the cognised, that the United Staten event of a crisis. We stand by must cultivate her export trade Locarno, The statement means and that there can be no stability that Britain has abandoned the in world trade until 'exchanges policy of attempting mechanical | are steady. A link between the cures; in the face of menace, pound and the dollar would bring we are prepared. Mr. Baldwin

about international currency was blunt but there are days

stabilisation within a very short when there must be no room

time. for misunderstanding.

re-

"Since the NRA shortened your hours it takes me twice

as long to keep the house straight."

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In reply to this we are gretfully despatching the follow- ing cable from Singapore,

"DEAR CUMSHAWOUMMOOR AND MORE OUR WIFE HAVING DISCOVERED YOUR LETTER TITERE IS NOTHING TO ADD M188 STOP ANYWAY. WHEN ALSORAN DOES GET FIXED UP YOU CAN CHARGE THE GOAT TO US STOP,

night, let others be allont

And some fantastic innovation, successor to the Yo-yo and the Bif- bat, will invado the class-rooms until it is widely confiscated,

Over two hundred privata schools. go to the trouble of being Inspected. and passed by the Board of Edvica tion. They are then "recognised"," ---whatever that may mean." "No.. doubt it gives them a feeling of greater accurity. About 4,800. preparatory school boys take the Common Entrance Examination in- to public schools in a year,

And the verdicts?

"Can't bent, a public school for turning aut the stuff."

"Yes-wonderful system, Where'd: the Empire be without 'em, chí Morning Post.