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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934.

THE MANCHUKUO "EMPIRE"

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

AMERICAN ECONOMY

The opening phase of a complete transformation of America's at titude in trude matters is marked by the appointment of Mr. George

"T

AGED ELEVEN

mothers.

Bỳ H. B. LEES-SMÍTH

President of the Board of Education, 1931)

men of his ago.

their health is N. Peok na virtual Foreign Trade 667E Age of Eleven!" These properly until Dictator, Sharp downward rovl-

words have a grim severity established.

Many a child who has spent sion of tariffs on certain classes to millions of English fathers and

months away from school through of manufactured goods and raw Btif materials will be the next. A Throughout the public elemen-liness in these early years has lived to be one of the brilliant fight is certain before the second

tary schools the scholarship ex programme goesaminations for the part of the

secondary Others from psychological ren- through. But President Roosevelt schools take place just before the has not yet been caught out in the children are eleven years of age. political field and must be fairly It in not confident on this issue. likely that ho has ventured Mr. Peck's proposals for wholesale reshaping of the national economy without feeling cortain of success,

NEW BALANCE

on

better

sons that are still obscure do not develop mentally until they have Those who succeed go on to new school where they will stay reached adolescence.

The list of those whom this eleven would have until they are 16 or 18 years old and then enter a black-conted carly test at

relegated to the factory or the occupation with all the chanceaife of manual work include many of a successful life before them..

Those who are left behind will who have been the greatest bone- be sent away from school at the factors of mankind." age of 14 to take their part in tho mass life of the labouring classes, with very little chance of ever leaving it.

Darwin was below the average Intelligence as a child and showed

The Very Idea!

THE NINETEENTHI By. Eddio "Krollite" Kelly,

WHAT impresses us more than anything lately is the utter puerility of modern golfers, who think it a wonderful if they 'do 18 holes in par.

In a long sporting career, during which we have gone down four snakes in the Shang- hai All-comers Ludo champion- ship, won two aluminium sauce- pans at a church bazaar for the measly expenditure of 97 bucks, we have learnt something about golf.

The last time we played golf was on shipboard when we were coming to Hongkong. We put up aro ord for the trip,

Taking our style firmly in both storn, a perfect bunker shot. It took us two to get into the first dock chair.

For the roat majority of the no signs of any bent in any direc-hands, we drove off from the people of England the age of tion.

Sir Isaac Newton was equally eleven has thus become the most backward and was considered a critical year of their lives.

dull boy in all subjects.

Henry Ford at eleven years was below the general level of his age. President Roosevelt's mother. in her recent book, "My Boy

from being n of

The focus-point of the Peck programme amounts almost to economic revolution. A balance is to be struck between agriculture and industry, meaning that for some considerable time industrial interests will be sub- ordinated to those of agriculture. Undoubtedly, this will prove a

A father who was taking his son painful procedure for industry, but of nearly eleven to school on the equally certain is it that some

day of the examination was heard Integration of American economy is imperative. It is ut last ne. Remember, Harry, that whole are he was fares that at this

Administration that trade cannot tolerate one-way your life will depend on the next prodigy."

Hix the

hours." business. Efforts to prove

The father was right. Ambi-

The fateful examination!ugually contrary have been the chief cause

know that he in of existing world economic chaos tious parenta

right. The shadow of this com-consists of four papers of 11⁄2 and the two-thirds decline in inter-

takes in English and an essay. This national trade. To-day, the alter-petitive examination begins to hours each, two in arithmetic, one

fall two years before it

la narrow foundation on which natives are few. Nations may stop trying to trade or they must place.

The ambitious boy and giri, to base a judgment of anyone's trade on a basis of reciprocity.

think about capacities for their whole lives therefore, begin to the examination at the age of and gives no weight to scientific alne, and, they find themselves abilities. within the grip of the compet!. tive spirit when they have barely left the kindergarten.

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PRESIDENTIAL POWER

A very significant sentence in President Roosevelt's Message to Congress may now be recalled. He said: All of us are seeking

For generations the tradition of in the restoration of commerce

was a simple ways which will preclude the English education building up of large favourable one. It assumed that there were trade balances by any one nation two nations. The ruling class at the expense of trade debits onwent to Eton, Rugby, Winchester

he will ask Congress for power to good at the age of 14. adjust tariffs in bargaining with other countries and by accepting Ar. Peek's recommendations for the establishment of special gov. arnment banks to push exports.

up.

Boys and girls who are poor at arithmetle are handicapped, and this would have excluded Lord Kelvin.

Sir William Ramsay, the great chemist, would probably have failed, for he was quite unable to do simple arithmetic to the end

Madame Curie, as a child, wa of his life,

examination does

not include science, she would have by this tent been sent to the factory or the mill.,

This system is breaking

Mr. Winston Churchill, in his The rise of State-aided secondary book, "My Early Days," gives an education provides the ablest entertaining account of himself children from the poorest homes entering for Harrow School. with schools where the teaching

From there we unfortunately sliced into the for'ard lifeboat. But got out of it in five.

It took us 15 to get out of the stokehold after wo had driven one Understand that we are speak- into the funnel. Ing in minutes all the time.

The bridge was more difficult. Only by constant practico can one manage a perfect mashie shot off the bridge of a ship. It was on our fourth trip that we holed out in one.

But why go on with it? (Echo and Editor answer appropriately) Sufficient to say that we did not defend our oceanic title because We don't believe in sen golf. What of the poor little fish?

Golf balla falling on them all day long. Bad language burning. their little pink enra.

Anyway, how would you like a dong in the gills with a golf ball?

MUST DRINK BEER' Fruit cocktails, which are non-

in

are

said to have a greater kick, than ordinary ones.

'S'nothing. We know recipes for several fruity cocktails:

Mr. Henry Pu Yi, ex-Emperor of China, is being enthroned to-the part of other nations. He has and the other public schools, while Rood at science but poor in all alcoholic, have been evolved day as Emperor Manchukuo. His assumption of this title, despite all that his sponsors say, in reality means very little. He becomes the nominal head of a new

State which has been brought into being under conditions which NEW BASIS east grave doubts on the spon-- tancity of its creation,, a State, moreover, which is recognised only by the country which brought about its existence. In

The fundamentals of the new fiscal policy

are. Apparent. Pre- sident Roosevelt is planning to now tariff system establish a based on national rather than local interests, on

economics rather

is as good as at schools which cost parents £300 a year.

A. week ago the Civil Service Commissioners published the lat of successful candidates for the administrative claas of the Civil Service.

Almost all of them came from

plain fact, the elevation of Mr. than politics, and on encourage-schools outside the old sacred ring).

Pu Yi to

efficient producers. The Tarif Message he is expected to send to Congress in the next few days will give much of the tariff-making power to the one official represent ing all the nation-himself-and this avoid the local interest by which Congress "logrolling" has always jerry-built American tariff walls.

EXCHANCE OF GOODS

no more affects the true status of Manchuria than did the change in the name of that ter. ritory to Manchukuo.. All that has happened is that it has been wrested by force from China and converted into a puppet State. Legally it belongs to China, who' has never acquiesced in its |seizure, but actually it is, for all intents and purposes, a Japanese

The Foreign Trade Dictator will | Protectorate. Το the official then grade industries according to their extent, public usefulness, avowals that Mr. Pu Yi's en-

ability to stand on their own feet thronement will set the seal on

and suitability to American con the sovereignty of Manchukuo ditions. Mr. Peek realises that some very important American In- and constitute a pledge to Man-

unleas dustries cannot survive chukuo and the world that they can find entry into foreign Jupan does not intend to annex

markets and that such entry can the territory, there is a disposi-he obtained only by trading, by tion to be extremely sceptical. The goods accepted would compete accepting other goods in payment. The belief is widespread that the with, possibly eliminate, other destinies of the new State will American industries. The que continue to be entirely controlled tlon is, which should be encrificed? Answering the question, the Ad from Tokyo, the enthronement ministration is thinking seriously proceedings

of withdrawing notwithstanding of the wisdom of What is causing considerable tariff subsidies from hoary "infant Industries" which stil cannot speculation, however, is the pre-stand on their own feet in order cise place of the new Manchurian to build up those which have al- Empire in the imperial pro- foreign markets. It is probable rendy catablished a foothold in Įgramme of Japan-a programme that the adjustment will be made which certainly aims at economic gradually, so that capital now cll- expansion on the Asiatic Con-aged on inefficient production can be transferred to efficient indus- tinent, if not at territorial ag-tries. But that it will be mada ta grandisement. In particular, it

virtual certain. American recogni tion of the fact that it is impos- is being asked whother those at

ible continue selling indefinite- the back of the new Empire and ly without buying is likely to im- in the elevation of Mr. Pu Yi will plant a very important nail

the coflin of economic nationallam, be content with the present boundaries of. Manchukuo. Japan, it is true, has again and tendency on the part of the again asserted that she has no Army, especinily of the Army on intention of assisting in the ex- the spot, to make its own decl pansion of Manchukuo at the sions. The most disturbing ele- further expense of China, but, ment. in the situation is that these assurances notwithstand-Japan's influence now extends ing there. is a not altogether right to the Russian border. surprising inclination to be And in view, of the present ten- doubtful on this point. What- sion between the two countries, aver may be the real intentions it is quite conceivable that in- which of the Tokyo Government, the cidents, such as that reported

yesterday, may arise fact is not lost sight of that over would plunge the. For East into since the conquest of Manchuria a conflect the repercussions of there has been evident a marked which might be worldwide.

But a new cleavage is being created, England is again being

divided

into two nationa. They consist of those who can and those who cannot pass ex- aminations at the age of eleven,

For those who do not win a scholarship the chances of rising continually growing fewer, Employers

in Increasing лumbers demanding secondary school education of all who apply. for a job where there are any prospects of promotion.

are

are

BANANA FLÜTTER. — Take one banana, slice and put in glass. Take half a coconut and beat into L etlir froth. Mix briskly and serve. The "kick" is ubtained by standing on one foot. on the skin of the banana and leaning forward while pouring the drink down the back of the neck.

Then we have the ELYING MULE

"I was, in fact, two from the bottom of the whole school, and those two, I regret to say, dis- appeared almost immediately. I did not do well in examina tions. This was especially true in 'my entrance examination to

Take half-dozen raspberries, be- Harrow. I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote ing careful to remove the seeds, down the number of the que alan the sound. Mash lightly tion, 1. After much reflection with hammer. Mix with little ice- I put a bracket round it thus water, and add seeds slowly, one (1) But thereafter I could not at a time, until you are so thirsty think of anything connected you'll drink_anything. Now take with it that was either relevant a red-hot nail, and dip it smartly or true. Incidentally there ar- Into the mixture, removing it al- rived from nowhere in particu- most immediately, Drink nall. WATERMELON WHOOPEE.— lar a blot and several smudges. I gazed for two whole hours at Take one large- watermelon, cut this sad spectacle and then in half. Hollow out one half and merciful ushers collected my

save seeds from other half. Place piece of foolscap and all the in others and carried them up to the Headmaster's table."

wash-basin one small cup gramophone needles (extra loud). half-pint of sulphuric acid. Drink before bottom falls out of wash basin.

No examination under the sun A similar mixture is the HANG. Can a child's true capacity be decided at the age of eleven? can tell with complete certainty OVER BLUES. The watermelon A great number of children at the age of eleven what any man is put into the wash-basin as, be- spend many months of the years or woman is going to be. Never- fore, but covered with crushed ice. between five and eleven getting theless, on the whole it gives re- The hollowed-out portion is then over childish complaints such as sults which correspond with the quarter-filled with crushed ice,

formed by their measles, whooping-cough, mumps, estimates of the children that and placed over the head, taking chicken pox and other illnesses, teachers have

Continued on Next Columns.) and their brains do not grow

"This job upsets mo. Every time there is an alarm I'm afraid it's

my own...HOLEBOJ

care to pull it well down over the forehead The face in then laid rently in the wash-basin,

It will be seen from the above. recipes that the use of fruit as a drink are practically unlimited. Furthermore, most frult is full of vitamines.

Theae need not worry the hoatesa, however, as they can canily be detected by the small holes in the outside of the skin, and this part can be cut out.

And don't forget all these drinks have a kick.

The careful hostess should warn her guests of this danger.

personal knowledge of their work for years.

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A short time ago a large group of London children who had been through this examination ware put through a set of intelligence tests and it was found that alghty per cont. of the children who won the scholarships by the examination were the same as those who had

the intelligence test It on The system will be retained, but with a possible modification, that the examination will be combined with an intelligence test.

won

Meanwhile, it would be possible Bacond to give the children a chanco by holding an examination at the age of 14, which would ahow the "Inte developers" and pick the dhildren with "specialist minds"

to be specially trained along the King of their bent. This

plan has already been adopted in parts of the country.

The raising of the school leav Ing. age to 10 or 18 will be the eventual solution of the difficulty.