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FRIDAY, MAR. 1, 1935.

MAKING DEMOCRACY

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FRIDAY, MARCH

NOTES OF THE DAY

HINT OF SCANDAL

It goes against the grain, as the anying is, to hear in the Houso of Commons hints, if not accusa- tions, that men in high places have used the knowledge gained from

1935.

TEACHING BUSINESS

OF LIVING

By DR. CYRIL NORWOOD

five

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTERS

By Juliet Lowell.

Out of Luck Two Ways

Many thanks for the luxurious cup-form brasslore. I wish, how- over, that you had sent me the enth instead as I am flat busted.

As over,

Agnes E..... (signed).

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She's Not Nosey

Liberty House, Department Store, Gentlemen:

office to better their conditions Mays unfashionable, more importance, receive

MILITARY metaphors are in and hygiene must acquire much To an Intimate Friend.

more Dear financially. We refer to the ques- tiens and allegations of members though not necessarily unfruitful, thought, and demand more time. respecting the personal interest of and in spite of the danger of hav- The Greeks, in whom was realised concealed for two centuries the most perfect members of the International Tin ing imputed to me a

to balance and the greatest in Committee in commodities such as militariam I like sometimes tin and shellac, The Secretary think of the work of organising tellectual capacity that the world of State for the Colonies, Sir Phillp the whole nation for the buslaess has soon, divided their education Cunliffe-Lister, atoutly defended of life as for a campaign. into gymnastics and music: they the good name of those men who At the present moment, using knew what their end was, and control, to a great extent, the figures which though rough are they took the appropriate means. They did not blunder, na we do, destinies of tin, Ho admitted that accurate enough, there are advisers of the International Tin million children whoso education and enter upon a course of eduen- Committee were business men who will end with the elementary tion without considering the end; operated in that commodity. How-school, five hundred thousand but we to-day argue continually ever auch an admission does not whose formal education will be about means, crowding new sub- presuppose guilt. It would be the over by seventeen, fifty thousand Jects into a congested curriculum,

I am attractive widow In the belght of absurdity If a Committee perhaps who are going on to the and testing them by, an examin- of this sort attempted to control highest forms of training: they atton treated as an end in itself prime of life and live in a neigh the production of tin without are analogous to the rank and which tends to grow ever more bourhood full of gossipy people. having the advantage of knowledge file, to the non-commissioned off-meaningless. Yet it is as plain as As a result you can hardly look cers, and the officers of the army.a pikestaff that physical fitness is out of the windows without you And just as an army in the field, necessary for life, and that it in find somebody looking in. I have however brilliant the leadership, the foundation of moral and in- even boen humiliated by having will fall unless the non-com- tellectual fitness.

neighbours say that I was spying missioned officers are thoroughly Every child again is going out on them which is a lo Heavens efficient, so I feel that the well-Into life as citizen of the modern knows. I am not nosoy.but I like boing and real progress of our world, and in the first place of his to know what's going on. Now I nation can only be assured if the own country. I hold therefore want to know if I can get from five hundred thousand are in our that it is the business of the you some curtains for my windows. educational system to-day being schools to teach him to speak and They must be in light gray and of prepared for the exigencies of to write his own language correct regular size. I want the kind that lifo na intelligently as they shouldly. It may be said that this is you can see out through but no-

what they do. But do they?

body can see in through. I like It is necessary, then, that the

This does not mean that I re- How many teach him to stand up to watch out in the street during judgment of the International Tigard either the five million or the and express himself clearly, to the evenings and do not wish to be Committee should be based upon

unimportant: take a messago correctly, tore accused of spying when I am not the advice of mon who know this fifty thousand as

occurrence accurately 7 In the least interested in my business. As for the charge that merely that I do not think that port an members of the Committee profited their present training is defective They do teach him with success neighbours business though Hoa- moved to win marks in a written examina vens knows there's plenty 1 could by n foreknowledge of market in the same way. I am

to admiration by the succoes with tion for the school certificate, but say if I was a woman who gossiped, reactions, it is pointed out that which the elementary teachers, I subralt that this is A very the decision of the Committeo is made public as soon as it is reach still hampered by classes which different thing. ed. Members of Committee, then

are too largo and by. buildings

unsatisfactory,

por- have no better opportunity than the which are ordinary market operator. Unless they are rogues, these carefully chosen officials will not endeavour to force Committee action into a channol favourable to their own

of experts of the industry. A brick-layer may bec

become momber of the House of Commons and at- tack the Government's India policy, and a bus conductor might become a Minister of Cabinet; but no-one would suggest that an untrained and untried mind should attempt to govern industry,

EXPERT OPINION

FRIENDLY ENEMIES

don of

be.

form their duty to the nation of the future. Nor do I criticize the universities.

.

No one who is really trained for citizenship of the modern world elementary can do without an knowledge of what. I may call the how, the why, and the where of

Respectfully,,

Mrs. Kate..... (signed).

House Names

There's a gaashing of teeth at

The secondary schools have that world. He ought to know the The Larches; there's a walling at primitive outlines of world geography, and Mon Repos; control of five years, from eleven to sixteen, and the outlines of world, or at any

very

of

little

There's not too much to be glad of in this care-encumbered land;

Why then must we give up our house-names and the things for which they stand?

To atudents of politics, it is speculations. In any event, there is not a vestige of proof of any

For the Council has decided that not without interest that almost sort that any British member of simultaneously with. Mr. Lloyd the committee named in Porlia at the end of this period the pupils rate European, history for the the names in our street must go--- Our pleasant, artistic house- George's

ment has the slightest financial pass out into the work of life. last two centuries. advocacy

thair wealth .of the

It ought not to be possible, as names, with interest in pepper or shellac, or, But because secondary education creation of a Cabinet committee for that matter, tin.

has been thought of in times past is not only possible but done to suburban lore,

That distinguish each of five members, on the lines of

as a course of preparation for the day, to send out pupils into life! university or for the professions, who are ignorant of geography, or brick-box from the little brick-box the War Cabinet, in order to

it has been conceived of quite whose history is a hazy knowledge next door. concentrate on the task of na

naturally as a foundation upon of the Normans and Plantagenets, tional reconstruction, a similar

Once again there is talk in Lon-which a subsequent superstruc-and nothing later. A course of idea has been put forward by standing. Once again questions thought of as primarily an

a Sino-Japanese under ture is to be built: it has been modern history and geography, In-obligatory for all, ought to be Mr. Henry A. Wallace, the are being asked as to what steps tellectual training only: its mean-studied in the last two years of United States Secretary of Great Britain is taking to ensure ing and values become evident secondary school life, for the plain

the safety of Empire Interests in only if it is continued.

and simple reason that if you do There's the tang of the sea, at Agriculture, a man who is known the Far East. Once again the This was perhaps well enough not know those things you are not Shanklin; there's country air at for his progressive views. Mr. Government, through the Minister before 1902, when the five hundred educated for citizenship.

The Pinas Mathematics and one modern But where's the wind on the Wallace wants to see a reform in for Foreign Affairs, has informed thousand were not there: since the nation's political machinery the House of Commons that there 1902, the conception has become language are an essential part: heath, brother, in your sevens and

is no knowledge of a Sino-Japanese increasingly obsolete. When you I will not discuss them. Science forty-nines? rapprochement, that Great Britain have got half a million boya and also, if science is rightly thought on the footing of political de-

There's a gnashing of teeth at is watching all developments, and girls in the schools, who are, be of. Too often it is thought to mocracy. Writing in Collier's that the Dominions are being kept it remembered, the pick of their be the business of the school to The Larches; there's a walling at

Informed. It would appear from generation, and when you know lay the foundation for

ad-Mon Repos;

or The Council has decided that the and foresees a new governmental that some members of Parliament sixteen or seventeen, surely it is chemistry, a study which

never names in our street must go; have knowledge of a situation in common. Bonso unit, a sort of cross between a

to demand that comes. The course should be one-But we, whoso forefathers. the East which is entirely hidden their education shall be something of simple biology, physics, and battled at Trafalgar and Waterloo, President's Cabinet and afrom the view of those of us who complete in itself.

chemistry, which in the view of Will fight to the death for Fern Supreme Court, existing across

are closer to the scene of alleged

any real scientist is and must be ville, for Mignon and Kosiview. a mere smattering. Granted: It tions empowered to sound out Japan are coming closer together, the business of living

members suspect that China and

They have, all of them, to face should be taught merely with a in the view to imparting a knowledge of public sentiment and make de-are nearing An understanding cisions on the great economic which will perhaps make possible modern world: they have all of scientific method and a conception realisation of the scheme for an citizens, of this country. I claim,

them to be citizens, and intelligent of scientifle law. issues of the day. Such unit,East Asiatle bloc, fathered, we are therefore, that the course follow

so as to put economic democracy

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"Where are we going? I ask my- self this question. But, as usual, I. get no intelligible answer."-Rt.. Hon. Douglas Tinklemore.

"Heredity? Yes, I'm a great be- always said there was nothing in. it. But, thon, my father was an ass.”—Canon Canoodle.

led to believe, by Japan. It is an ed in secondary education should There a uns other change, interesting supposition. It is not be a course of preparation for far-reaching on, on which it reliever in heredity. My father beyond the bounds of probabilty life, of preparation for citizen-mains to touch. Tho course 1 that Tokyo may have ambitions in ship, and that no other standards have sketched above is in con- the direction suggested, but in face are relevant.

siderable measure intellectual and Let us apply those standarda, analyiic: large parts of it will that any alteration of the Open The first revolution that they make heavy going for a great Door undertaking is contemplated, that any pressure is being brought imply is that physical education

of the contradiction from Japan

he suggests, might consist of four councillors representing, respectively, industry, agricul ture, labour, and the consumers. They would be above class nar- rowness just as the Supreme Court is above it; they would hold office for terms of a dozen

to bear upon China to force her to years or more, so that the coun- relinquish membership in the cil would not change colour with | League of Nations, or that any fur- each change of administration.ther territorial expansion on the Most important, they would be mainland of Asia is planned, we empowered to conduct referenda must belleve that there is no im- on vital issues. Suppose, formediate threat to British interests in the East. Even the formation example, that the cancellation of a Sino-Japanese pact would not of war debts, or the wisdom of necessarily be detrimental to the certain "social planning" relations between China and Great schemes for re-employment, Britain, or the rest of the world. were up for consideration; the China is an independent nation and council would poll the country. And though it will be a surprise if is free to choose her own friends. find out just what the voters

aho

makes an ally of an erstwhile would or would not stand for, enemy, as strange things have and then order it to be done, It happened in history. Policy is a is, of course, obvious that such a matter of expediency. As long as proposal as this could not be ae- China's independence is secure, cepted without years of debate Britain, and the world, will have and study. Mr. Wallace does not no need for worry, or to intervene. suggest it as a reform to be

adopted the day after to-mor

or.

row. But in the mere fact of pected directions: To the busi- its being advanced there is a ness man, for instance, significant revelation of the mechanic, or ordinary labourer, growing realisation that econo-lifo may be far more dependent mic democracy and political de- on the decision of some distant mocracy are two separate things, corporation, or on the mysterious incalculable shift of and that machinery designed to and ensure the latter does not al-economic forces, than upon any ways gain the former. When law that Congress or State the American Government was legislature might pass. Some established, it was political de way is needed of putting these mocracy that was all-important. things under public control. If a man could be governed only It may be that Mr. Wallace's

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himself had had a part, he was But he does a service by remind- free man, and the freedom Ing people that the battle front thus gained was the only kind of democracy must be extended of freedom worth worrying somehow if not in his way, about. But the course of then in another-if freedom is [events moved along, in unox- to remain a living reality.

(Continued on next column)

"Hurry up I'm saying a strap for you.”

"These days, if a father reproves. his daughter, she raises supercili- ous eyebrows. But are they ber own eyebrows?-that's what we never know." Mr. Bell Wether.

"For success in business one only needs the three R's-reading, writ- ing and racketeering. And reading and writing, when all us said and done, are comparatively unimport-· · ant. -Lord Mergerwell.

"Lamotte, I believe, in his Natural History, enumcrates somo eighteen species of shark. of course, ho had never been to Hongkong"-Professor Whitclamb..

many of the five hundred thou- 'sand whom I have in mind and may leave them with a, senso of failure.

But education, if it is to be successful, must lead to a senso of achlovémont, which alone en- ables the adolescent to got a group. upon life. There are many whose brains are slow, but whose zengos. are quick. For them education comes quickest through the eye, the car, and the hand.

It follows that art, music, and handicraft, and particularly, as I think, music, need to be lifted to a different and a higher plane in our scheme of education: they ought not to romain, as too often they remain in our secondary school to-day, the Cinderellas of the curriculum, starved of time. and opportunity,, and too often dropped altogether as the end approaches.

Brevity has been "necessary, and dogmatism unavoidable, I do not apologise, but end with a final assertion, that our nation, thus educated, would be fittor to face, the future than our nation as Its is to-day.

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