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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934,

MENTAL HOSPITAL

QUESTION

FRIDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

ELEMENTARY LAW

sentence. The woman was charged

FEBRUARY 23, 1934.

SCHOOLMASTERS OLD

Bŋ GUY KENDALL AND NEW

do

good and an academic re-

CARICATURIS progreen by the cord, who has been premont con

The Very Idea!

MORE MONSTERS

By Eddie Kelly. Sensational reports, published fr

a contemporary yesterday after- noon, state that a Loch Ness Monster has invaded Stonecutter's Island, Soldiers have been gain-

Once again polles court pro- ceedings have revealed the existence in the Colony of some sort of organisation for the collection of conventionality of their types. tile staff of his school for ability This is inevitable, for the old-in touching and administration, sa cigarette onds with the ultimate

"assistant" to administer; and who nim of making Gutter Brand fashioned and out-of-date are most far as it falls to the lot of a cigarettes. The danger of such re- easily hold up to ridicule.

Such an illustration has recent- la likely to be a man of tact, a manufacture is obvious and the fact that the woman arrested in the casey appeared in a new Charles persona grata to the parent or pro-

Lamb anthology. There you see rectivo parent.

When he is put into office, this ing, much practice for the forth- referred to was in possession of a

of-butt- the dominic of the 18th century considerable quantity

with bands, wig and gown, birch brilliant educator will find that coming Marathon race by chasing. ends-two sucks, whatever that may

tion of private detective, magla.. Immediately the news became mean suggeats that it is carried and Latin grammar in hand, his his position is a sort of combing the monster all over the island. on extensively. Nevertheless, how spectacled ferocity evident.

The type still abides in print,trate, and hangman. ("He took generally known, the Telegraph pat and it becomes fixed in the sub it all down, you know," a small its best reporter at work, to seek ever desirable it may be to din courage the practice, there were features of the case providing consciousness not only of the public school boy recently wrote an interview with the Stonecutter's cause for enquiry as to the justifica-public but, I think quite possibly home, "Just as they do in the de-monster

Several people we interviewed: He is expected to teach at least" tion for a conviction and prison of headmasters themselves. Thoy tective tales.")

cannot shed their pomposity and

mora headmasters would teach that the monster was nothing but a with possession of dutiable tobacco their antagonism to common hu- his Sixth Form-though I wish who should have known better, said

their lowest forms; they might wild boar, on wiilch duty had not been paid.manity.

then understand better, the pro-"

This innuendo was proved in- It was Burmised from the fact that accused was arrested on the Wing

blems of the Lower School. He Lok Wharf that she had arrived in

He may be involved in pro-Pub....sorry, Peak Club, where a the Colony from Macao. At the

has to interview innumerable par correct by a visit to the Clique ents. longed struggles over salaries hasty roll-call revealed that none same time, the revenue officer in charge of the prosecution was not

He must be the first among with whatever authority controls of the bores had escaped or gone sure and admitted that the cigarette ends seized might have been picked workmona manager or foreman the finance of the school. Is it wild,, up In Hongkong, There was, in of works in shirtsiceves or over- any wonders, in view of this, that fret, no real evidence to the con-alls rather than in academic dress; the problems of reorganising the trary. No proof was forthcoming I was going to say armed with curriculum and methods of edu- a test-tube rather than a birch,cation have tended to fall into the

What is the remedy? concerning the woman's movements. Yet surely the whole cane rested on. but I do not want the scientists background? this point. If the cigarette-ends to have it all their own way. were picked, up in Hongkong, they the mass or were no longer, in separately, dutlable tobacco. Duty had already been paid. The truth may be anything, but the woman has gone to gaol.

THE LIBERAL PARTY'

The headmaator of the future must make himself as different from this type as it is possible for him to be.

I believe that what is needed at the present time is a streng- thening of the "humanities," and the Instrument of the humanities must still be the book, unless you prefer the loud-speaker,

So there was nothing loft but for us to go to Stonecutter's. We arrived thore late in the afternoon. just an the sun was setting, and, with our six native carriers, net off Into the impenetrable jungle.

animals continuously 1. Wild. Some might point to the experi- crossed our tracks, but no monster. ment at Dartmouth, where the res-A tiger bounded towards us, yelp- for the discipline are in different him and he died. ponsibility for the teaching and ing furiously, but we breathed on Two soldiers, who were walking

I think it is even worth while hands-of a headmaster and a to ask whether headmasters are commanding officer respectively hand in hand in the glade, bounded necessary at all. No doubt num-But that is not likely to be adopt-away like deer when they saw our bers of those pupils who are this ed generally. It places the head-strange cavalcade.

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The air was full of the strange No careful observer of the politi-week returning to their deaks master in a position of accentuated after the Christmas holidays will inforiority, for the man who has

charge of the discipline will in-noises of the jungle. Crickets cal position in Great Britain can be

evitably be "top dog."

cricked, lions lied, crocodiles croak- unaware that the very existence of rise eagerly at the question.

What I think is mainly needed ed, emus mewed and leopards leapt. the Liberal Party in in danger. It

And then we heard a sound that was ominous that no excitement

1 remember how once in my days now la the appointment to every

of

medical trained G followed Sir Herbert Samuel's an-

as an assistant I had to take the staff nouncement that he, with his little

Someone was sobbing. teaching work of the Head during psychologist to assist the head-stopped us dead in our tracks,

He would investigate the pay- his illness. "How have you been master.

We crept up silently, and watch- getting on?" he asked on his re-

"Admirably," I replied, chology of the idlers, the "duds," turn.

The monster, his face burled in

clutched with the intention of reassuring the misfits, the failures generally.ed the eerie scene.

hands, which him. "Ah," he replied wistfully. Further, he would discover from

adaptation to environment. When China Mail, was crying piteously. "that only goes to prove what his experience why In general

We stopped out and he raised masters are superfluous."

What had happened, of course, the fault ilee in the home, either have always suspected--that head-there are so many cases of his was that the senior assistant had he or the headmaster, or proferone of his startled heads.

"The Monster, we believe," we nominally functioned as deputy nbly both, would tell the parents head, but "first among equals," what is the matter.

In this way the perplexities and said. and, in reality, things had been settled in common room. Cannot nightmares of the headmaster schools always be managed by a would be largely reduced, if not The obvious reply is that school would thus have time and vitality committee of the senior masters? abolished. The head of the school

Is this all that headmasters will we replied. discipline to be effective, (must to spare for the problema of the

His face became bitter. necesarily be in the hands of one curriculum and its administration. man; otherwise neither. the staff nor the boya will be properly con- do in the future, assuming that they will continue to exist? A trolled.

Can't you newspaper. people. I do not think that this is quite distinguished headmaster was once conclusive. At present, in board-Informed by the newly appointed leave me alone?" he cried. "What ing schools, the housemasters Head of another school: "You have I done to deserve all this exercise a great deal of disciplin-know, I don't attempt to teach. publicity 7" ary authority. Only the most I devote my time to organising," serious cases, destined for "swish- "Oh, what then." was the reply. ing" or expulsion, go to the Head "do you do on the second day of

But the control of the staff by term?"

PUBLIC CONSCIENCE

of thirty-one Liberal members, proposed to cross the floor of the House of Commons and offer for- mal opposition to the Government. If Sir Henry Pollock really a decision which a few years ago thought that work on the pro-would have been regarded as a fate posed new Mental Hospital had ful event in the political life of the more than a ripple of gossip and been begun, he was quickly dis nation caused a few months ago no illusioned at Wednesday's meet- some sad comment on the decline ing of the Finance Committee of of Liberalism. the Legislative Council. Un- pressing one, the project has

Yet it has left its ineffaceable happily, although the need is a not yet been put in hand. All mark on England and the whole that has been done is to ear-world. Born in the spirit of mark for the purpose of the new resistance to tyranny and privilege, building the site which had been it assumed its essential character when it took its stand on the rights foriginally prepared for the Cen- of all men to freedom and cauality tral British School. The net of opportunity. In England it result is that this site is now drew the Nonconformiats into Ita ranks by championing the cause of lying absolutely idle, as it is freedom of conscience and the likely to remain for a very long equal civic status of all religious time, and commencement on the sects. Both ita foreign policy and its domestic-social policy school building has been quite were dominated by the idea that needlessly delayed. Official ex- there is auch a thing as conscience. planations of the sequestration in public life. of the school site have been wholly unconvincing. Had there SPIRIT OF HUMANISM been any hope of making an immediate start on the Mental thing more than a policy. It was Hospital, there might have been the spirit of humanism in political excuse for the change affairs through which, by stages, from original intentions; but to and without violence, society was alienate the site for future pur-to build up conditions for the poses and thereby hold up the living of the best life by the largest work on Kowloon's much-needed number of citizens. It has been school cannot possibly be de-suggested that Liberalism has suc- ceeded so well that its tasks, fended. To revert to the ques within the limits of the existing tion of the Mental Hospital, no-order of society, are now finished; one who has had occasion that it has won for Englishmen all to visit the present institution the civic privileges; that it has will question the desirability of converted nearly all Englishmen, new quarters being provided at including Conservatives, to its the earliest possible moment. Liberal point of view; and that Government, A drearier or more uninspiring there is no further reason for its

separate existence.' place it is almost impossible to during the last century, was nec- imagine. So far from the in- casarily rather government for the mates being likely to receive any people than by the people. Since curative effects from a stay in the Liberals have emancipated the this antiquated institution, we masses, is it not natural that the can imagine few experiences be- latter should now desire to govern ing more likely to aggravate for themselves? The Labour Party their mental condition. For could never have existed without tunately, the majority of the in- the Liberal Party, but now that it

some

Liberalism was always some-

mates only make a temporary exists it is ready to supplant it.

stay there, but there are casca

瞻

which are more or less perman- | BETWEEN THE MILLSTONES

ent, and the lot of these poor

poople is sad to contemplate.

That is what is happening.

For the greater part of the time, The Liberal Party is being squeez- they are literally barred in and ed out, at this moment of history,

the between

upper and nothor Liborallaed Con- millstones of a herded together in a manner to militate which is bound

aervatism and the Labour Party. against any hopes of recovery. And there seems real danger that Moreover, the only place they under this pressure the organisa tion of the Liberal Party, as a have in which to exercise is a barc, Ill-appointed, walled-in party, may be smashed. But it la compound. In short, the asy-unbelievable that Liberalism will lum is everything that it should perish with it. For just as there not be. With the circumstances is likely to be always a conserva- thus, it will readily be imagined tive element in society standing for how urgent is the need for a privilege, with which the more. generous spirits cannot identify better and more modern institu-themselves, so on the Labour sido tion. How long it will be before there seems to be a bitterness of a start is made on this work, class feeling which is equally álion no-one seems to know. So far, to the higher patriotism. The. not only has the project not been Liberal spirit has wovon itself so started, but no financial pro- closely into the very texture of the vision has been made for it. Engifeh charactor that, whatever organisation, it is inconceivable On humanitarian grounds, we may be the fate of the official party trust that some attempt will be that what is most characteristic of made to expedito, work on this It will cease to play its part in

public life. much-needed undertaking.

a committee would not be so easy without one man who could put his foot down if things came to n deadlock.

He bowed with quiet dignity, and dried his eyes,

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"Who are you?" he asked. "We're from the Telegraph,"

The tears weiled up in his eyes. again.

"And the crowning indignity-is that they mistook me for a wild boar," he wept,

we

We soothed him as best could, and taking a sip ourself, asked him to tell us the story.

Was it not ever thus? ·

The headmaster of the future will teach forms all up and down the school, if forma still continue which I doubt. I think he will The chief objection to auch an be given two rooms; one more

He had been a respectable mon- good, sturdy Scotch arrangement would probably be like an office, where he deals with

parents. Childhood at Loch Ness that especially in email schoola- his correspondence and reports, the staff might contain no out-and meets his governors; another stor, of standing personality. They might much smaller, a cosy place with be a collection of efficient and un- no vast forbidding desk behind had been a happy one. And then inspired mediocritles; and that which he sits with the Apollo the London yellow Press discover- Praxiteles on guard in marble on front pages, vulgar music hall would make for educatonal stagna-Belvedere and the Hermes ofed him. His name appeared in the tion.

But do we not tend to stagnate either side of him, but with plea-comedians made jokes about him.' overmuch even under the regime sant, rather modern pictures on the Even the otherwise highly respect of the headmaster? The fact is walls (perhaps some sketches done able Shell organisation ridiculed that, when a vacancy occurs, the by the boys themselves), some real him with caricature and poster. governors choose a man who has (Continued on Next Columns.;

"I wouldn't place Mr. and Mrs.Barnes so close

would only start bight

He decided to leave, and came to Hongkong.

He managed to sneak ashore at Stonecutter's Island, the sentry on duty mistaking him for a Sergeant- Major.

For a week, he remained un- molested, until a zealous reporter, hot on his trail, discovered him again.

We promised to do all we could. to stop all this slanderous news- paper publicity, and came back to the olty.

We feel sorry for that monster. But we have our duty to our public.

ly easy chairs, and an informal, rather inviting atmosphere. There There he will receive parents as if he were one of them himself fand after all he probably is!). Boys will not say to other masters: as they have been known to say of the deterrent, bogy kind of Head: "Do anything you wish,,alr, except send me into that room.”:”

It will be a place where they can really unboaom themselves of their troubles and difficulties, and realise that even a headmaster can be us human as themselves.

The headmaster of the future will have to be the llalson man, the guide, philosopher, and friend of all the motive power of the machine, and in the last resort the dietatorank

But that headmaster will be most successful who most carefully con ceals his ultimate despotlamak!