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THURSDAY,

AUGUST 2, 1934.

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The Norris Educational Plan which looks towart fitting meri and

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By HOWARD COLBY IVES

scope of the student-worker's

The Very Idea!

BOOK OF ASUWERUS

CHAPTER 8.

NOW Asuwerus made him ready to preach to the people of Kong even that which the Gods of Eng had commanded him.

The fact that trict, with for. the whole dis-places of the Levites, and behold Hongkong Telegraph. alongside these in, say, felland. every year thousands of students who can think in terms of varied

THURSDAY, AUG. 2, 1934,

BRITAIN'S AIR FRONTIER

possess more

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manner

They

Bore

Bishop Hall has put forward a strong plea for the abolition of capital punishment in Hongkong. He argues from the humanitarian point of view and urges an experi-

for mentat.

twenty suspension years, doubtless convinced in his own mind that the results would justify final abandonment of the life for a life doctrine. It is safe 66 A LI. Hope Restored to Those arise in a rapidly changing en to assume that any campaign A Who Enter Here." Such vironment. This is not only a

commanded 2. And he ficially sponsored by Church

reh might well be the legend inscribed practical educational Ideal, it is leaders would command wide-

In bright lights over the town of also an indispensable objective in with himself saying: In spread public sympathy. It is a Norris, rapidly assuming physical, any attempt to aid the individual what manner shall I go up popular appeal in itself. The social and educational coherence in to solve his own economic problem and preach unto this people, manifest sincerity behind the northeastern Tennessee.

At Norris nothing is overlooked arguments advanced by the Bishop

When Arthur E. Morgan, then in that tends to foster a reasonable for they are numerous and may easily many who have formed no convictions one way or charge of the great project, for expectation of success within the of divers tribes?

controlling floods on Miami

3. So he sought council of the other on the issues raised. River, received in 1920 an un capacity. This is best shown by gods in his own chamber and And there must be few who have expected call to the presidency of an examination of the four main prayed. And a small still voice considered the subject from a purely academical standpoint, free Antioch College tribun Sprites, objectives in the Training for called to him, out of the dark- Ohio, an all but moribund Institu Living programme, as outlined by cular murder trials, and can con- thought that fourteen years later of the Trades Training

one that he Howard L. superintendent an anglers, and he

answered: Here I.

4. And the voice said: Go thou plate with equanimity. the

would be directing an educn. First The student is trained tỡ egalised slaying of a fellow-mau,

tional institution covering his offence against whatever

square miles with some millions of be more effelent in the work he is up and preach unto the Levites, of already accustomed to. If he is a or they are the chosen People, students who are going to learn machinist, he is helped to become and the tribes hearken unto them. many fundamental lessons in live a better one. If he is an electri- They do a thing and the realdue ing, whether they enroll in any

or carpenter or mason, or drafts-cheep, The cases for and against capital classes or not. In a sense this is cian, or farmer, or auto mechanic, of the people fellow as a linck of 5. So Asaworus girded up bla drivers sheed on the mid. And yet, the punishment need not be recited rhetorical hyperbole. In a deeper man, he is given the opportunity

the Light surprising low-run for any man the here. It is sufficient to stress that scuse it is a plain statement of not only to establlalt himself more loists and set forth. In his hand Armly his chosen trade, but also ho carried a staff, yea in his right watches every penny! The faisiovent of your the main justification, the deter-fact. light car needs will be found in the Vauxhall rent value of the death penalty, When Henry Ward Beecher auto learn allied trades or jobs, so hand, for the way was long and the

is one impossible of accurate tioned a slave girl from his palpit, that he may be more independent ascent thereof steep.

G. And he toiled grievously, for Inspect one now and allow us

assessment. to demonstrate fully.

No-one can form an he did more to educate the nation of seasonable depressions and sud- estimate of the uncommitted in the horrors of slavery than any den trade fluctuations. Here is the going up was hard, and he was erimes, those instances where the amount of preaching could do. So, where the co-ordination of farm sore oppressed and cried: Oh! that the gods had commanded me 属 will to murder has been present to the thoughtful, and that means and factory work fits in. and fear or

Second is training should fit chariot, even a chariot of fire. caution have Inter-all of us who are beginning to

the work offer-

7. So that my burden might bo vened. In this connection, the hope, the whole Tennessee River him to take part

new industries which eased and the scent made easy results of abolition in other coun- Basin is becoming an object lessoned by the

am old and the cheaper hydroelectric power is to my feet. For tries are of little practical value and a training school, when Hongkong's problem is being

already attracting to the valley. way pingueth me heavily.

8. After many days Agawerus considered. No proper standard The present educational system, The TVA programme contemplatea of comparison exists for gauging which has little bearing on a rapid the promotion of a balanced in-beheld at length the dwelling the potentia results of abolitionly changing order, is, manifestly, dustrial

necessitates workers they were good. unachronism. of the death penalty in this Colony

CHAPTER 9. Psychology comes in importantly, are turned out of our schools and employment.

The Levites were a pious people Imprisonment for life

Third The farm-trained boy would universities atted for trades, arts,

who ruled the land of Rong`and- terrors for may professions and businesses. which rotated in a variety of skills and poured numerous libations beforn men than the thought of the hang-have little or no uso for them is a materials, so that he may become the gods. Their ways were cast man's nonse. Would it be more falling barometer threatening vio-economically a more self-sustained in pleasant places.

stormy weather. An-unit in his natural environment humanitarian to rob such a man legt social

2. Their houses were of stone of his liberty or to end it quickly? tiech College was Dr. Morgan's under the new conditions of anaren dressed stour, and carved with

of carving. If common humanity is being con-answer to the question posed by electrically equipped farm and

And also that he may be stood on high. home, sidered, the study must not be con-exactly such pressing conditions in

to fill the very important 3. And n cloud stood round Whether Mr. Baldwin Intended fined to the feelings of those whose our national life: "How shall we able

about as

it were a cloud of glory. to attach any special significance sensibilities are revoltest by the fit our youth for twentieth-century position of exemplar and instruc- to his "Rhine frontier" decura-taking of a man's life. His own, e?" Norris and the whole valley tor to his fellow citizens when hose that when they spake, they were heard but seen not and the people tion or not, it is clear that it is particularly if he is a victim of is an answer to the same question returns to his home country,

Worth circumstances, are

marvelled. couched in Homeric terms, being invested abroad with a thought..

Employed at Norris Dam and

And fourth-Norris hopes to 4. For the Tribes of the Plain importance which may or may

Norris townsites are approximate provide an object lesson for the abased themselves saying verily not be justified. In plain ferms, THE PRACTICAL SIDE

ly 4,000 persons. Ninety-eight per country in the economic indeped-these set as Gods. They prostrat Mr. Baldwin says that with the

cent of them, again speaking pence which such a training schooled themselves before them. Probing

G. Now e issues on these lines proximately, are men. Fractically may teach. For here is no institu-

Anuwerds Was growth of aviation, old frontiers have disappeared, with the result any further would quickly get the all of them are drawn from the tion with millions of dollars of afraid when he beheld the state investigator into deep water. towns. villages and hills of the endowment, nor is it a drain on of the people and said: Who am that for defensive purposes

Ware the law able to differentiale, basin. They have been carefully the taxpayers. The actual cost is that I should preach unto such Britain's frontier is on the Rhine.

for instance, it would probably in-chusen from

thousands of many

6. For they are mighty and if invasion ever

work on the hundreds of serve mighty Gods, yea they com- threatens Britain, the danger will | rors for the condemned man. It come from

desire for self-improvement.

the Authority. The poultry farm deeds. And he wrestled with his Most of them, if not all, are of students do the possibility has obviously been principle that legal murder should

work which pro-Soul,

7. But the Voice comforted him much in the mind of the British have no place in a well-balanced sure American pioneering stock vides eggs and chickens for the

Society. Can this be claimed for They are distinguished by an in- cafeteria. The wood-working saying: Content thee and go up Government latterly, proof of Hongkong? It is difleult to ac-dependence of spirit impatient of shop utilizes the lumber cut from for thou shalb surely provali. Go which fact is to be found in the

cept the Bishop's view that Hang- dictatorial control. They are the Norris property, and the stu-in peace. statements, guarded in characony, of all places in the Empire proud-of-their-hill-country herident, while learning carpentry. 8. For the people of Kong_are_ ter, admittedly, which have is a suitable laboratory for experi-are, free from most of the modern- makes furniture for the Norris mighty but the Gods of Eng are emanated from official quarters ments in social reform. It has stie dissipations and with a deep homes, and benches for the shops mightier yet. in support of the decision to em- always lagged, and it probably affection for their home land. To they work in, while the student in bark on large-scale expansion of always will. Moreover, the ques them is being offered an oppor scientific agriculture assists in

So Asuverus purified him and the Royal Air Force. The whole tion, simply stated by Bishop Haltually for self-support on the one providing food for the town. Even

las principle to be aimed at, is

a wide basis of the Government's plans hardly so simple witen seen from hand, and on the other.

for life under the equipment for the four main rayed himaci in sackcloth and up and prophesied unto the rests on the point that in the the practical viewpoint. Public scope of training

hne Levilcs, present troubled state of Europe, opinion within the borders of the new conditions, on a scale, and training shops, costing original/Put nshes on his head, and he went practically all of it either been 2. And he cried: Hearken yo, oh defences to an Air Force of lesseruence. The Government could of means to ends unparalleled in the salvaged from the Muscle Shoals ye people of the Innd to the voice Britain cannot afford to trust her Colony cannot by the dominant in. With a swift, yet wise, adaptation many thousands of dollars,

history of education.

shops, where for sixteen years of the Gods of Eng. Yet Once, In the direc- strength than that of her aerial-not take a single step in

has been rusting away, or qur- ly strongest neighbour. Au- tion suggested without

The basic iden at the Norris chased secondhand for 25 per cent, perchance it shall be a little while,

It R mittedly, Germany does not at thority of the Secretary of State

Bail the moment full within the latter for the Colonies. It is hardly con- training schools seems to be that of its original value.

human life that if the Government should ecivable that Whitehall would consideration for entegory, but in Mr. Baldwin's

authorise removal of capital should take precedence over every wish to dispose of its equipment land and many enemies shail at- references to the possible use of punishment from the Colony's conventional educational proto-after the dam is built, which, of tack, therefore be ye prepared. civil craft for bombing purposes, Ordinances while it remains in the type. It is taken for granted that course, it would not do, for the Put off your purple and our anc there is to be detected an anxiety | Laws of England. The Bishop the individual should be trained to whole plan presupposes perman-linen and your life of case,

4. And gird ye with a strong that Britain should not run the may remind us of the oratwhile meet every condition which may

--buckier that po-be not taken in risk of being caught napping, use of the term 'defeatism; we

surprise and perish, Since the Government's decision can only plead that we are com to build up a strong air arm,pelled to a distinction between what there has been a disposition in in possible in the personal life and Crown is passible under some quarters to interpret the Colony administration.

What move as indicating that Britain has lost faith in the efficacy of that "Sir John Simon is willing the maintenance of peace by the to co-operate with France to collective system of guarantees. make the air safe for Englund, Indeed the London News but refuses to go anything like Chronicle recently went so far as far as to make the land safe as to declare that neither Mr. for France." That is a rather Baldwin nor Sir John Simon crude interpretation of the posi- really hetieve in that system.tion, and one which depicts "Thus," remarked the journal, British foreign polley in a some- "the world is the drift to a what unkindly light, but the shambles of another 1914-be-element of truth in it is that cause those who should have Britain has at length come to been the guardians of the peace realise her vulnerability to aerial Iacked both the courage of their attack; also that, as Mr. Baldwin professions and the sincerity to has now so aptly expressed the live up to them." Flow much position, her real defence frontier truth there is in the charge, the is located on the Continent. The future will reveal; it may be suggestion, however, that this merely another way of slating declaration implics any fresh that certain facts disclosing the obligation on Britain's part to grim realities of the situation come to the aid of France, if at- have latterly come to light. tacked, seareely seems warrant- Britain has Inost decidedly ed. The Locarno agreement [shown

markedl reluctance could be invoked in such recently to enter into any fresh event, within the limits stipulat- commitments on the Continent, ed in that, understanding. Boyond and the Government attitude on this, Britain is not prepared to that point certainly reflects go; that has been made quite public opinion. One commenta-clear again, and again within tor on the situation, after point- recent times. Summed

up, ing out that Britain fears attack British policy may be said to be from the air while France fears one of hoping for the best, attack from the air and the land coupled with a determination to as well, caustically remarked be prepared for the worst.

The inference, of course, is that stat upon imposing the penalty applicants because of their charae. Practically nil. The auto-mechanic as these?

seriously which possessed the greater ter ter, ability in some particular di/shop does all the repair and re- that quarter. This Is casler to fall back upon the rection, general intelligence and liding and trucks used by mand all things, possessing many

the wu-

an

(Continued on Pega 7.)`

"I want something for my chest.”

It

CHAPTER 10.

the desire of all nations shall comc.

3. For there shall be war in the

5. For yu have strong defences on your cloud, and mighty shipa" upon the waters but they shall avail ye nought.

6. I'repare

JB against the spirits of the air for their number shall be great. They shall darken the sun at noon,

7. And they shall pour down upon ye unclean vapours that ye shall sen not, neither shall ye breathe. Ye shall be utterly undone.

8. Therefore prepare ye`spirits Ilkowise that shall command the air and destroy those that come against ye before they reach your shores.

9. And the Gods of Eng, shalt come to your aid. 'But only after many days. So Ansuwerus finish- [ed and went to his place.

LOCAL RHYMES.

XI

He's been seen in the grounds

of Hurlingham

Ile's known on the rinks when

they're curling 'em

In the thick of the fight, when

It's "Dress by the right" He's in the front rank, is young

B***

X

A man who bowls a good length

pilch'll

Always get 'em out and which'll' Help bis side. He does not

shirk

To storm the breach should

--'*', danger lurk

He's to the forello's. E

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