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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY SCHOOLBOYS IN

U.S. CHANGE OF POLICY

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CONFERENCE

By "The Sentinel"

THE second annual meeting of, porlence which insists that the

The Very Idea!

BYE THE BYEL

By Edward Kelly, non-stop. ET us tell you about some

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dread happenings at a place called the Indian. Re-

TH the Schoolboys' Association children in elementary school creation Club, situated some-

A brief message from Washing ton this week announcing that encouragement of private business initiative will, in the next fow months, replace official emergency activity, is more important than it seems on the surface. It amounts, almost, to

confession that America's experiment with In- dustrial control has broken down. was held. There was a large at- who are not overworked are for The fact that the President is tondance, all the leading 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. It was ples of good and bad time-tables-kunpoo. covery Administration to other a lively assemblage, very outspoken the hour's work before breakfast,

A few days ago, we took a baskets brings this probability to in parts, and the stewards, who car-which has been cut out at $-, be

Con- ried canes but did not use them, ing invariably a feature of the Pross team down there to play the fore

urgently. The sumers' Advisory Board confesses had some little trouble in securing latter. His paper was read to a that workers' earnings 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 momber, a certain amount of of living. That is one significant famous "Prep," who really had nos 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 further N.R.A. experi- age-limit for membership being mentation: General Johnson's ad- fourteen), indulged in squeakings mission that no further spur can bo-provided without still further reducing hours is another.

N.R.A. OBJECTIVES

The National Recovery Adminis- tration had two main objectives: 1. To stabilise production and end unfalr competition. 2. To pro- vide employment and raise buying power. The frat objective has been in great measure attained. Indeed, the question to-day is whether it has not been so much excceded us to block the way to the

AND WHY

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"I don't want to say a word

cricket was played.

Modesty provents us from tell- and shriekings until somebody against the beaks or nixes or what-ing you who was the most out-

"Suppress that dor- called out: mouse." Nobody knew what his over you choose to call 'em who standing figure on the field, of grievance was. He looked exactly really know their joba. But it

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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 is an art ness to the others that we come scholar, he was rebuked by his which has to be acquired. Hore from a great cricketing family. follow-Probationers for getting ink our friends from the Secondary

Schools have some advantage over Our groat grandfather batted all over his face and hands and us. They are often taught by for ten days and ten nights in the clothes.

Cambridge.

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The

trained teachers, who know how to

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But to get back to Sookunpoo.

acknow-

Wo raised our cap to ledge the applause but discovered that someone had just hit a six.

band? and Heavens above, where was the darised boy with a whisky- soda?

Majestically, we stalked into the

keep them interested and make back bar of the Hotel Australia The President, Mr. Raymond the most and best of the tima al- and they do say it took a riol ("Beaver") Desborough, who is a lotted to a subject. That fa the member of the Sixth at Sin real reason

why the Secondary squad to bowl him over and 250 tu both Elevens, and President of the Schools are rather more than hold get him out. The desk sergeant second goal. For the lenders 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 ao 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 reed fixing facilities afforded by the his school rather than to his own so in Cingales, which ought to be to knock down the ball. codes have been so greedily used demorits. He proved a fluent spea-our racket. ns to more than offset any wage ker-not at all like the rusty- increases. General Johnson's shor-minded old fellows who think that

"Hope I'm not boring you' ("No. There was loud applause as we ter-week plans confirm the implica- to 'er in human, to ahem divine.

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

his friends feel no, sir"), I suppose. you've all weeks the Civil Works Administra- his nickname) tion hus given work to more people

Bure he will be sucessful at mak- had your reports by now (charusi wo 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 seven months. They mean that vocation he prefers to Oxford or the authors of thesa extaordinary batting gloves and a pair of run- 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, scat.) ployment side, little more than a share-the-work enterprise which "My school," he proceeded, "is faults they blame us for. The 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' made out of the wood of the was not more foolish than the pre- AUSTRIA'S TRAVAIL This spreading may cut down the

number of those wholly unemployed Armada or anything of the sort. found psychologist who insisted Although at the cost of much but it holds no assurance of in- Nor does the dust of the Sixth that a Third Form kid had the And were we knocked cock-eyed? Form Library consist chiefly of mentality of a gangster,' An even The Indignity of it! This flagrant bloodshed, the Austrian Govern- creasing the total wage fund. It

Greek particles. We have a com- younzer child at one of the ultra- lack of courtesy! Where was the ment has been able to suppress the Government expects to drop may pick up some of the burden

seminaries praised by monsense time-table and our work- modern the Socialist upheaval which at when C.W.A. spending. tapers off, ing day ends with a late dinner Bertrand Russell was accused of recoptiori committee? Where was one time threatened the very yet wages income is not enhanced such as you get in hall 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. ing back over the events of the half a day instead of a full day's decent living could be made out past few days, it is clear that pay to one. Thus the chief hope of scholarship nowadays,

"It would be good wheeze for the Socialists had intended to in the N.R.A. no a recovery effort food is plentiful and, varled and

properly cooked. Ilouse mastera boya to send reports on the work the bring off a big coup by seizing fades.

are not allowed to make fortunes and conduct of masters to control of affairs by force and

out of hungry bellies, which have Governors of every school. Soma 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: Mr. drink. We had not vislica the programme. Fortunately,

and were therefore treated with the ere, with few exceptions, could not day or from hampers sont from R., Fourth Form: Wastes a lot Indian Recreation Club before, home every week," (Loud and, of our time telling us what

dawg he was at College. Uses the respect wo deserved. We Government got wind of the plot or would not take from their own

passionate perfume.? Mr. S., and by prompt action has been pockets the amounts needed to give prolonged cheers.)

buying power the desired advant able to nip the rising in the bud. age over productive power. Some

Shell: Work fairly good, but he signed a book, In clear, firm hand- "At most Public Schools the will try to be facetious, and mere-writing, "H. D. Rumjahn," having admired that gentleman 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

Not that ave is sufficient to indicate how seri-wages faster than prices, but on

breaks or out enough

Brief W., Fifth Form: Sets a bad ex-playing tennia. ous the situation might have be- the whole the effort has failed. recesses, and too much prepara- ample by surreptitiously using meant to cheat anyone, but it is 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 been carried through to full adherents of the "old deal," ob- that boys of fifteen and sixteen, tobacco, presumably shagir, grossly unfair, not to say die sessed by prices and profits and who are shooting up, are pale and P., Games Expert: "Seems to reputable, to pass yourself off an fruition. Dr. Dollfuss, the little unable-to-see-that-tho-object-of-washed-out-at-the-end-of-term. think cricket is Christianity, like a member of a club to which you Chancellor, by

Victorian the rigorous living is work, experience, hap- They are too tired to do anything certain

pedagogues. do not, in fact, bolong. action taken, in utilising the piness." They have uned the but lonf for the first week or twe The loss of a school match is not military strength of the nation N.R.A. mainly to squeeze out

of the hole. And they are called really a proof of religious and. So as not to arouse jealousy, we and in promptly dissolving the independents. The evidence of a lazy or inattentive' in the reports moral degeneration. Rev. A. Tused 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-

that short- round of the encounter for the establishing the fact forces of law and order. It is sighted selfishness is rapidly scut- don't see that such lethargy is a line preaching. Rev. P. P., Head- the afternoon wore on.

form of self-preservation, How master: 'Pi-jaws too succulent, Honour Board, conveniently near tling the recovery side of N.R.A..

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

of their stories.'

one, we shall be delighted to go completely composed. Indeed, such as the abolition of child families growing up

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down to Sookunpoo on some other there are still any number of

(These humorous suggestions ugly possibilities, amongst which must be reckoned the contin-

"Some of you may think this al were received with loud laughter.) occasion, and rectify the error. namby pamby point of view (a "Thank you for the kind noises. gency of a Socialist swing to-

voice, "Hear! Heart). Well, II ought, perhaps, to say some wards the Nazis, a development

can refer to a paper by a school thing about recent attacks on the which might easily result in con-

doctor of wide and varied ex sequences of the gravest possi~ ble order, especially in view of possible interference from out- side Austria's own borders. The events of the past few days have evidently impressed Dr. Finance Corporation are consider- Dollfuss with the idea that, ing waya 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 boon 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 the it is hardly surprising that such State in jeopardy, the occasion

extensive stock purchases should is considered to necessitate the be expected to carry a voice in managemont.. Just where this employment of extreme, men tendency is going to take Ameri- No mercy may be ex- cn'a 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 altuation. 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 would predict the events of even the immediate future. Mean

sures.

labour, that can be salvaged.

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MORE BANK SUPERVISION

Increased government supervi- slon of the American banking system seems likely, to follow on the heels of the new deposit insur- ance plan implemented yesterday by President's Roosevelt Bill ex- tending the temporary measure, Reports from Washington say that

officials of the Reconstruction

think so.

AUSTRALIA MAKES GUNS

Plant capable of manufacturing anti-craft guns in large quantities now being assembled at the 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 imitless. Falso posscasca equipment for manu- Whatever happens, the task of facturing field guns and howitzers working out Austria's national at short notice, and very little extra salvation le one which might to enable the factory to turn out a machinery would now be required well baffle the ingenuity of even variety of other guns. The Aus- Д super-statesman. For the trallan, munition shops are among sake of the peace of Europe, it the most modern in the world and Is to be hoped that law and or aro capable of production on a vary 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 nover.come off, no unnecĆssary. basis.

chances are to be taken.

(Continued on Pago 7).

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

An

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

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

two selected

рачів, one

bat and 1 pair

of gloves and wandered forth. Our partner. was bowled by Mr. Minu. (Stout He follow, Comrade Minu! bought us a drink later on.) Then, strange as it may seem, everyone deserted the field, and the awful truth dawned on us. We were lost man in. The bitter Irony of it. The utter mortification! What would our great-grandfather say? We know darned' well what he would say, but the narrow-minded people who run this paper would nover let us tell you.

Broken-hearted, wo staggered towards the Bar. "Novor mind, Eddie," said one fair admirer, who had come all the way to see us play. "I'm sure you would have mado a century, if you had stayed there long enough.”

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

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