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A TAX ON CAPITAL

1935.

MASS PRODUCTION

IN EDUCATION

By AN OLD SŤAGER

In the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch

If we do not solve our post-war real gain of 5s, a week per child,

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BULLS AND INNERS

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The timely commenta made at the Chamber of Commerce meeting

wore a splendid example of per spicnasidy.

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The fight will always go on for abolition of, or radical amendment of, legislation covering death duties. A tax on capital is an anachronism of any legislation which is devised for the welfare of the people. The Income which governments take through death duties is the seizure Problems, and presently emerge in to say nothing of the huge advan- always of capital which is spent as the shoals of adversity into the democracy.

our aen-sick weary banque from tage of having a well-educated We think that the Director of Income. Mr. N. M. Ekserdjian. fair haven of rippling prosperity,

the Royal Observatory should be writing on the subject, says that all it will not be for want of an ade- no count at all of the cost of the are in port, the view of the Peak This criculation appears to tako Instructed that whenever tourists sound business methods condemn such a practice. It is only a state quate number and variety of extra education itself; but let must not be mist. tnt tolerates it.

panacens. Almost every other big that pass. The advocates of this If death duties,

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economlat kavo ambitious plan further contend now forming a fairly substantial, their infallible cure-alls, some in that, by keeping children Item in so many budgets, are Le con- dubitably sane, seme doubtfully years longer at school, we shall heard on the ferry to state that A Kowloon resident was over- tinue, Mr. Ekserdjian says, there- should be an amendment so as to, and some mad as March hares to a great extent relieve our uns for years he hoe eaten four bolled alter their incidence and make for is a bright proposal that the seems fairly obvious that any ro- must remind him that that was So far as I know, the very latest employment problem, though it for breakfast daily. We Home mensure of fairness. He gives an illustration in this respect. school-age limit should be extend- fef of that nature would vanish why Robinson Crusoe! "Let us take two young men," he ed from 14 to 18 years, and all our after the first extended period ex- says, "both of whom are equal Inous advantage of what would to where they now are so far as moonlight bathing party of the prolatarian youth given the dubi-pired. Things would.then be back personal qualities,

We understand that the first and whose parents have been equally wealthy.amount to a higher education.

the labour market's congestion is sonson has been fixed. Roge will The only difference between them is

It was some considerable time concerned. that the father of one dies when the after Mr. Foster's Free Edvention non is aged thirty, and of the other Arst began to sit up and take vanced from the elementary to a Act came into operation that 1 The vision of a population ad- when his son is aged tea. Aamat notice of any more impersonal higher standard of academic at-passengers remarked, somewhat One of the Empress of Britain's Lera stand equal death duties are affairs that feeding bottles and tainment may look attractive at loudly, that she wouldn't allow her paid on both estates, but one young boxes of toy bricks. Yet I have a the first impinge of the lden. But husband to live alone in Hongkong. man gaine a considerable adymi- tage over the other merely due to clear recollection of sometimes how would it actually pan out? the accident of the time of hla impassioned controversy amongst So far as general knowledge thank her.

for anything. Wo saw him and father's death taken in conjunction my elders as to the merits or other goes, the attainments commonly with his own age and the fact that wise of this then noval departure regarded ал education by our

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he was, under normal circumstan-in public policy. As my domestle school experts, my experience is We felt quite sorry for the lady ces, less dependent on his father environment happened to be what that at present the products of the who dropped a bottle of ink on the when the latter died. This is a 18 now called "advanced," my elementary, and certainly of the Peak Tram station. She couldn't simplified case, but I feel sure that Juvenile sympathies were on the secondary, schools are usually help looking redinkulous. this anomalous alate of affairs side of Mr. Foster and the school- rather ahead of the averago "pub- could be rectifled by the introduc-masters, Even at that tender age lie school" output. It is only a tion of some scale which would give it was drilled into me that it was small minority of public school relief, calculated on an actuarial

thoroughly sound policy to scholars, those with real

people do. basis, to the legatee in accordance | create an educated democracy. thusiasm for education and anti- They're ever so much worse than with his degree of dependence in

These away-back memories na- tudo as well, who compare favour they could be if they wore not. so far as it can be measured by age turally make one chary of adopt-ably in mere knowledge with the and degree of kinship."

ing a reactionary or unenlightened proletarian youth. nilltude towards this latest evolu- In too many cases all the pre- tion of the good seed planted half sent public school

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CHANGES IN TURKEY

in

their search

temporary significance.

New advancement Dealers, warning the people not the wife

to place too much faith in the

van of the

The

on-

boy or

girl a century ago by Mr. Foster. Yet acquires by their expensivo educa- at the first blush it did sound odd, tion is more or less debatable proposal to extend the school age slightly better manners, and all to put it quite mildly, that the public school

accent, perhaps limit from 14 to 18 years, adding that is associated with that highly a good four additional years of controversial emblem known academic study to the lives of the old school tle.

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The lambs they went in two, by

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The bulls, the bears and

the suckers too:

'Twas shearing time in Ice

House Street:

The more they're fleeced,

the more, they blent.

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MR.. ROOSEVELT There was a time, not so long ago, when had anyone asked in Now that President Roosevelt were most restricted in their act!- what country of Europe the women has completed half his term of vities, the answer would at once office, observers are beginning to have been, "Turkey." That is to every youngster in the country Just those advantages which size up the prospects of his Ad-are now well in the

longer the case. Turkish women circle of the existing school elect, me precisely those that the ex- for a tourist. We understand he A member of the B. & F. De- outside the comparatively small the public school confers seem to partment was yesterday mistaken, ministration for the next two movement for political enai should be accompanied by the tended school age limit would not had the axe sent. years. Questions being asked tion. The Constitution has been further proposal that the parents give the proletarian youth. Be are whether he has any clear altered to permit women to vote at of the said youth should be com- cause they are mainly a matter of ideas on a future programme, as men), and, similarly, they can

the age of twenty-three (the same pensated by the State for the pri-domestic and social environment. If all the sweet young tourists.

vilege conferred on its children, whether he is banking on a be- become Deputies at the age of

There may be something to be said were compelled to wear lief that something may turn up

for the public school discipline, same time all the sweet. Hitle thirty-one. At the recent elections It is possible to imagine what but that is just what the proletar- undies they bought in Hongkong. to simplify his task, and whether there were seventeen women candi on free elementary education as a the case of their own offspring.

for the Grand National Assembly the die-hards of 1870, who looked in parents would not tolerato in they'd all be double width. the confusion in the Government dates and all were elected.

O D ranks is a portent of more than only restriction on women now would have to say about a sugge much as his places is worth often Chinese restaurant, was pleasant- political and economic outrage,

If a headmaster of an elemen- tary school canes

A visitor on the "Resolute" who boy, it is as asked for "Chop Suey" In a local for political tion like the presunt. in Turkey is that To subsidiar parents by way of enough. He is hauled beforo ay surprised when they brought la of a Deputy cannot bribing them into allowing their Justice of the Fence and charged a dinky little sing-song girl. be શ candidate. in Turkey la broadening out in

Government children to be thoroughly educated with ananult. Will the proletarian" other wars than through the have seemed to those worthies a cager in the bulk to take advan-

at the State's solo expense would youth, I wonder, are still hoping for a gradual political emancipation of women. proposition of sheer stark lunney, Luge of their opportunities than tourist siipped in Fedder Street trend towards definitely better Non-Moslem Turks can be elected leading by way of the Bankruptcy the existing order of public school and broke his itinerary, conditions, a steady increase in new Assembly--a Jew, a Greek, an obvious, on the slightest reflection.school at 18, will they experience to office. There are four in the Court to Bedlam. And yet it is youth? And, when they leave

D the national income, slow pro-Armenian and an "Orthodox Turk" that it was, and is inevitable. If any less difficulty than do the lat brilliant observation that a good. Edward Kolly has just made the gress in reform along with re-so broadening. There is Now status_are_to have their sons and Personally I should_nimost bathat Bulls are on the Outer.

The social habits of the people are parents of proletarian economic ter now in finding suitable work? Ball and Inner would be to say covery, and an increasing federal control over Industry and finance.ulsory adoption of European daughters on their hands until inclined to back the employment

and abulition The idea that Utopia could be At the close of the Great War, who put that compulsion upon launched himself on

of the evil. they reach the age of 18, those chances of the youngster who achieved almost overnight died about veiled and cloaked. They part of it, to keep the domestic

Turkish women were

the world still going them must provide the means, or four years earlier. year ago. were not supposed to The Administration's next big other than those of their own kin.

meet men. pot boiling.

Some fervent aupporters of the move will be operation of its hey were debarred from practical- sion of school age limit, plus the admit that it has grievously dis-minded motorist, as he sat down

Those who advocate this exten-Foster Act are now compelled to $4,000,000,000 work-relief pro- not uncover their hair or mouth in make out a very plausible case for Mass production in education has

ly all professions. Women could indispensable subsidy to parents, appointed their gramme. Mr. Roosevelt has com Woman in Turkey has greater free-cheaper, they argue, for the State smattering of general elementary

public. All that has been changed. their proposals. It would mitted himself to giving every dom

be undoubtedly produced a wider flanere. unemployed person who

can European sisters. work some kind of job and ho

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her to make an allowance to parents knowledge, but some careful stu- of 10s. a child between the ages dents of social history assert that; of 14 and 18 than to go on paying so far as real culture goes, 'both the present 108. a week unemploy-as regards the patrician class and

working more harm to the people meanwhile taking others off the relief rolls through old age other forms of robbery put to- of the United States than all pensions and unemployment in- surance. By rapid expenditure

gether"--which has gone uncor- of all that money, the President rected? The national debt will once again hopes that business continue to rise for at least the can be given the long-awaited next two years and it is worth stimulus which will send it on head of the Federal Reserve noting that Mr. Eccles, new the way to a strong recovery: Board is one An attempt will be made to get think it could go above $40, of those who enough of it out this summer, through wages and material pur-ing the federal credit. Liberal 000,000,000 without impair- chases, to ward off the bad aum-New Dealers generally mer.slump such as

feel camo Inst year. That four billion dollars income taxes, especially in that the day of higher will not be the end of govern-the higher brackets, is in- ment emergency spending. Few forecasters believe,

evitable. They don't expect Mr.. even in optimistic moments, that private that way until after election. Roosevelt to make any move induetry is likely to put more than a million of the ten million when he probably will present a unemployed back

proposal for scientific taxation at work in in which federal and state levies 1936. It is generally supposed will be co-ordinated. Of course,

government will bo employing a large work force for faction become too articulate "share-the-wealth". some years. What about the and numerous in the meantime, vast debt burden which. wąs à basic cause of the depression may be necessary. The current some pre-election tax move and, instead of being liquidated, state of low morale has been preserved by the New Washington probably is only Deal? And what about the con- temporary. It has to be re-

that

if the

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another basic depression cause?tion scomed in a bad way in What about the tariff walls, an-dictions of increased difficultes the fall of 1983. Despite pre- other dopression factor-do-ahead, his admirers insist that scribed by Secretary Wallace as Mr. Roosevelt still has a com- "legalized thievery-probablyfident grasp of the situation.

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ment allowance to the children. the proletarinn, this country to-comes a Field Marshal, what title They invite us to regard it as a (Continued mn Page 5.)

"So I thought maybe you could tell me just how far he is likely

to get with the firm, before I take him too seriously."

When everyone In China be-

will they pick for Chiang Kai- shick?

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Californian housewives gone on # ment strike. butchers may just as well close up` their chops.

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Fifty-seven young couples are to participate in the Shanghai mass wedding on April 3. Mr. Heinz will doubtless forward a protest.

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No fewer than 853 earthquakes were recorded in Hongkong last year. The other twelve days, of course, were the first days of the month, when the shroffs called.

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One thing about the depression, beggars can't be boozers.

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A scientist says mosquitoes can

take plenty of food without having

to bite human beings. But how can we tell this to the mosquitoes? D G.

If Malcolm Campbeli didn't do 300 miles an hour, all is not yet Iost. Hongkong lorry-drivers keep on trying it round corners.

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One way of relieving Hongkong prison congestion would be to give some of our convicta a motor-car and an hour's start.

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There's a movement on foot in England for a woman. Pelino: Minister. Before we know where we are, mon will be domanding. equal rights.