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NOTES OF THE DAY SCHOOLBOYS IN

U.S. CHANCE OF POLICY

CONFERENCE

By "The Sentinel"

The Very Idea!

BYE THE BYE!

By Edward Kelly, non-stop.

ET us tell you about some

dread happenings at a

place called the Indian Re

A brief message from Washing ton this week announcing that encouragement of private business initiative will, in the next few thonths, replaco official emergency activity, in more important than it seems on the surface. It amounts, nimost,

THE second annual meeting of, perience which insists that the to Л confession thate Schoolboys' Association children in elementary schools America's experiment with in- dustrial control has broken down, was held. There was a large at who are not overworked are, far creation Club, situated some- The fact that the President is tendance, all the lending Public healthier than the average boy at where in the wilds of Soo- plainly transferring his recovery. Schools and many of the Secondary a Public School. He gave exam- eggs from the National Re-Schools being represented. If was ples of good and bad time-tables-kunpoo.

A few days ago, we took a covery Administration to other lively assemblage, very outspoken the hour's work before breakfast, baskets brings this probability to in parts, and the stewards, who car, which has been cut out at S-, be-

ried canca but did not use them, ing invariably a feature of the Press team down there to play the fore urgently. The sumers Advisory Board confesses had some little trouble in socuring latter. His paper was read to a that workers' carnings have failed silence for the President's Ad- meeting of more than a hundred cricket. As far as we can re- to keep pace with the rising cost dress. A very small man from a Assistant Masters at a very fam member, a certain amount of of living. That Is one significant famous "Prep," who really had no aus school, and I have been told pointer to Administration loss of right to be present (the minimum that it has had a very good effect, interest in farther N.R.A. experi- age-limit for mombership being mentation. General Johnson's ad- fourteen), indulged in squeakings mission that no further spur can and shriekings until somebody be provided without still further called out: "Suppress that dor-against the beaks or nixes or what-ing you who was the moat out- mouse." Nobody knew what his ever you choose to call 'em who standing figure on the field. Of reducing hours is another.

grievance was. He looked exactly really know their jobs. But it

N.R.A. OBJECTIVES

Con-

The National Recovery Adminis tration had two main objectives: 1. To stabilise production and end pro- unfair competition. 2. To vide employment and raise buying power. The first objective has been in great measure attained.

whether it has not been so much

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"I don't want to say a word

cricket was played.

Modesty prevents us from tell.

like the present Headmaster of ought to be generally understood course, we might point out in fair. when, as a diminutive prize by now that teaching ia an art ness to the others that wo come scholar, ho was rebuked by his which has to be acquired. Hero from a great cricketing family..

Our great grandfather batted fellow-Probationers for getting ink our friends from the Secondary all over his face and hands and Schools have some advantage over

un. They are often taught by for ten days and ten nights in the trained teachers, who know how to

clothes,

keep them interested and make back bar of the Hotel Australia The President, Mr. Raymond the most and best of the time al- and they do say it took a riot Indeed, the question to-day is ("Beaver") Desborough, who is a lotted to a subject. That is the

member of the Sixth at Sin real reason wify the Secondary squad to bowl him over and £50 to exceeded as to block the way to the both Elevens, and President of the Schools are rather more than hold get him out. The desk sergeant exceeded na to dr the leaders of this Debating Society, began his speeching their own in the competition said great-grandfather had caught official agency, designed to protect by attributing his selection for so for University scholarship, not consumers, declare flatly that price-honourable a task to the merits of only in Stinks and Maths, but al-him too many times and he refused fixing facilities afforded by the his school rather than to his own so in Classics, which ought to be codes have been so greedily used demerits. He proved a fluent spen- our racket.

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band? and Heavens above, where was the darned boy with a whisky, Roda?

to knock down the bail.

But to get back to Sookunpoo. as to more than offset any wage ker not at all like the rusty-

"Hope I'm not boring you ("No, There was loud applause as we Increases. General Johnson's shor-minded old fellows who think that ter-week plans confirm the implica- to 'er is human, to. ahem divine.

A busy business-like person (hence no." A sarcastic voice: "Oh, sir, stepped from Matilda (that's what tions of the fact that in a few

fec! his, friends

no, sir"). I. suppose you'vo all' weeks the Civil Works Administra- his nickname) tion has given work to more people aure he will be successful at mak- had your reports by now (chorus we call our car), took three bats. than the N.R.A. employed in ing and selling motor-cars, which of groans). It never occurs to six balls, four pads, two pairs of that vocation he prefers to Oxford or the authors of these extnordinary batting gloves, and a pair of run- Reven months. They mean

Cambridge.

documents that they themselves ning shoes from the tonneau the N.R.A. has become, on the em

are to blame for many of the (French for back seat.) ployment side, little more than a

"My school," he proceeded, "s faults they blame us for. The

We raised our cap to acknow- . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934. shure-the-work enterprise which

must resort to a still shorter week not a venerable. Institution. We Fourth Form master who wrote if it is to spread work farther. do not possess a swishing-block that a boy was tall but deceitful ledge the applause but discovered' AUSTRIA'S TRAVAIL This spreading may cut down the made out of the wood of the was not more foolish than the ora

number of those wholly unemployed Armada or anything of the sort. found psychologist who insisted that someone had just hit a six. --

Asurance of In- Nor does the dust of the Sixth that a Third Form kid had the And wore we knocked cock-eyed? Although at the cost of much but it holds no bloodshed, the Austrian Govern-creasing, the total wage fund. It Form Library consist chiefly of mentality of a gangster. An even The indignity of it! This flagrant praised by reception committee? Where was ment has been able to suppress may pick up some of the burden Greek particles. We have a com- younger child at one of the ultra-lack, of courtesy! Where was the

the Government expects to drop monsense time-table and our work- modern seminaries the Socialist upheaval which at when C.W.A. spending tapers off, ing day ends with a late dinner Bertrand Russell was accused of one time threatened the very yet wages income is not enhanced such as you get in hail at my dad's 'anti-social proclivities' because he the President? Where was the stability of the country. Look merely by giving two men pay for college-I'd like to go there, if a had a scrap with a schoolfellow,

The ing back over, the events of the half a day instead of a full day's decent living could be made out

"It would be. a good wheeze for past few days, it is clear that pay to one. Thus the chief hope of scholarship nowadays.

Majestically, we stalked into the the Socialists had intended to in the N.R.A. as a recovery effort food is plentiful and varied and

properly cooked. House masters boys to send reports on the work the fades.' bring off a big coup by seizing

are not allowed to make fortunes and conduct of, masters to control of affairs by force and | AND WHY

out of hungry bellles, which have Governors of every school. Some bar. Majestically, we ordered a were prepared to go to any lengths in carrying out their It fades largely because employ to be filled up at a tuck-shop every of them might read like this; Mir, drink. We had not visited the and were therefore treated with day or from hampers sent from R, Fourth Form: Wastes a lot Indian Recreation Club before, programme. Fortunately, the ers, with few exceptions, could not home every week." (Loud and of our time telling ua what a

dawg he was at College. Uses a the respect we deserved. We

perfume." Mr. Sa passionate Government got wind of the plot or would not take from their own prolonged checra.)

Shell: Work fairly good, but he signed a book, in clear, firm hand- and by prompt action has been pockets the amounts needed to give

buying power the desired advant

gentleman able to nip the rising in the bud.age over productive power. Some

"At most Public Schools the will try to be facetious, and mere-writing, "II. D. Rumjahn," having

admired that

Not that we The stubborn resistance put up firms and some trades have lifted hours of work are too long, with-ly succeeds in being fatuous. Mr. once

out enough breaka is sufficient to indicate how seri-wages faster than prices, but on

or brief W., Fifth Form: Sets a bad ex- playing tennis. ous the situation might have be- the whole the effort has falled. recesses, and too much prepara- ample by surreptitiously using meant to cheat anyone, but it in come had the Socialist plans The N.R.A. has been captured by tion has to be done. The result is cribs. Rocks of some strenuous grossly unfair, not to say dis-.

that boys of fifteen and sixteen, tobacco, presumably shag. Mr. been carried through to full adherents of the "old deal," ob- fruition, Dr. Dollfuss, the little sessed by-prices and profits and who are shooting up, are pale and P., Games Expert: "Seems to reputable, to pass yourself off na unable to see that "the object of washed out at the end of term think cricket is Christianity, like a member of a club to which you

Victorian pedagoguea. do not, in fact, belong., Chancellor, by the rigorous living is work, experience, hap- They are too tired to do anything cortain action taken, in utilising the piness." They

the but loaf for the first week or two The loss of a school match is nat

So as not to arouse jealousy, we military strength of the nation N.R.A. mainly to squeeze out of the hols. And they are called really a proof of religious and and in promptly dissolving the independents. The evidence of a inzy' or 'inattentive' in the reports moral degeneration. Rev. A. T.: used the names of other members Socialist Party, has won the first host of less expert witnesses is written by well-meaning men who We strongly object to his body as the afternoon wore on. An round of the encounter for the establishing the fact that short- don't see that such lethargy is a line preaching. Rev. P. P., Head-

'Pi-jaws too succulent. Honour Board, conveniently near forces of law and order. It is sighted selfishness is rapidly scut form of self-preservation. How master :

not Should give up trying to write the Bar, helped us in the choice of can they know? They' aro clear, however, that the situa- the only satisfaction being that paid enough as a rule over to have Gilbertian verse and second-rate names. If we have forgotten any tion is not yet by any means there is much on the reform side, families growing up

of their stories." " Indeed, such as the abolition of child completely composed.

(These humorode, suggestions there are still any number of labour, that can be salvaged. ugly possibilities, amongst which

"Some of you may think this a were received with loud laughter.) must be reckoned the contin- MORE BANK SUPERVISION

namby pamby point of view (a "Thank you for the kind noises. gency of a Socialist swing to- Increased government supervi- voice, "Hear! Hear!"). Well, II ought, perhaps, to say some wards the Nazis, a development sion of the American banking can refer to a paper by a school thing about recent attacks on the

(Continued on Page 10.) - doctor of wids and varied ex which might easily result in con-system-seems likely to follow on sequences of the gravest possi- the heels of the new deposit insur- ble order, especially in view of ance plan implemented yesterday possible interference from out by President's Roosevelt Bill ex- side Austria's own borders. The tending the temporary measure. Reports from Washington say that events of the past few days officials of the Reconstruction have evidently impressed Dr. Finance Corporation are consider- Dollfuss with the idea that, ing ways of assuming a voice in Dictator though he has been in the control of banking institutions recent months, he must yet fur-into which millions of R.F.C. funds ther strengthen the Fascist do- have been pumped. The R.F.C. mination. Constitutionalism is has spent $823,000,000 buying obviously doomed for the time capital stock in nearly 5,000 banks; being at any rate. With it is hardly surprising that such

the

extensive stock purchases should State in jeopardy, the occasion is considered to necessitate the be expected to carry a voice in employment of extreme mea- tendency is going to take Ameri-1 sures. No mercy may be ex-ca's banking structure, however, pected for those who are ani-is not entirely clear. Is the coun. mated by subversive policies. try insensibly, heading in the It remains to be seen how far direction of straight-out govern- the little Chancellor can con-ment operation of the banking tinue to dominate the situation. business? A man who believes in Austria is certainly in a most signs almost could be induced to troubled state, what with unrest within and possible threats to her independence from outside. He would be a bold prophet who

Plant capable of manufacturing would predict the events of even anti-craft guns in large quantities fa. now being assembled. at the the immediate future, Mean-Federal Government's factory in while, current happenings are Melbourne, and a start in actual such as to cause anxiety through manufacturing will. It is expected, out the whole of Europe. The begin this year. The Government possibilities are almost limitless, also possesses equipment for manu- Whatever happens, the task of facturing field guns and howitzera at short notice, and very little extra working out Austria's national machinery would now be required salvation is one which might to enable the factory to turn out a well baffle the ingenuity of even variety of other guns. The Aus

super-statesman. For the tralian munition shops are among

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management.

Just where

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think so. AUSTRALIA MAKES GUNS

this

sake of the peace of Europe, It the most modern in the world and is to be hoped that law and or are capable of production on a very der will be consolidated and large scale. In fact, though the placed on a firm and lasting Pacific War which we all talk about may never come off, no unnecessary chances are to be taken.""

basis.

own.

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"You don't really need people if you have other interests.

one, we shall be delighted to go down to Seokunpoo on some other occasion, and rectify the error.

For a while, we mused about life. Then someone said: "It's your turn to go in Kelly."

We said "Tut, tut" for we die- like being disturbed when think- ing of beer. Nevertheless, we bat sejected

pads, one two

of and a pair

gloves and wandered forth. Our partner was bowled by Mr. Minu. (Stout He Minu! fellow, Comrade bought us a drink later on.) Then, strange as it may seem, everyone deserted the fick and the awful truth dawned on us. We wore Inst man in. The bitter irony of it. The utter mortification! What would our great-grandfather, say? Wo know darned well what ho would say, but the narrow-minded people who run this paper would never let us tell you,

Broken-hearted, wo staggered towards the Bar. "Never mind, Eddie," said one fair admiror, who had come all the way to see us play. "I'm sure you would have made a century If you had stayed there long enough,”

[She was a nice girl, and probably meant well, but when a man is broken-hearted, he must be alone. We took up a quiet position near the Bar. Hours Intor, they put ur. to bed.

Next Saturday we play the Police. We hope they have an honour board down there. Any- way, you can't be run in at a cricket match. But you might be run out!.