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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1936:

M. P. SETS COMMONS SCHOOL SUM

Answers-He

They Shout HOUSE VOTES

ABOLITION OF

M

ALL HOMEWORK

TR. RADFORD, Conservative M.P. for Rusholme, qua- lified for the title of the Schoolchildren's Friend in the House last month with a motion urging the abolition of home-work.

Children will be glad to hear that he found a great deal of support among the few M.P.s who had not taken the chance to rush home themselves.

The motion was carried; which undoubtedly exists in the unanimously.

home."

which he set some of his children.

Mr. G. A. Morrison, former head- Mr. Radford said it was master of Gordon's College, Aber- anomalous that a prosecu deen, said "If you give a girl too tion under the Children's much to do she breaks down. If you give a boy too much he does Acts would take place if a not do it. Standards of children sturdy boy of thirteen were varied. He repeated a problem employed more than two "I frequently got the correct an- hours a day selling news-swer," he said, "but to-day a mem

no ber of his Majesty's Government papers, but there was

failed miserably," prosecution if his fragile A man went into a shoe- sister were kept wearing herself out till nine and ten! at night on home-work.

There was no harder task for a child than to slave late at night onj subjects with which most of the day had already been occupied.

Ile agreed that children learned) for more when they ferveted out in-i formation for themselves

than!

when they sat listening to lectures,

maker's shop and selected a pair of boots at 16s. He tendered 21; the shoemaker hád no change, went into the butcher's next door for change, and gave the custom- er ds, change.

The butcher' rushed in to say that the £1 was a bad one. The shoemaker had to repay the but cher with a good £1. How much did the shoemaker lose? Everybody said, "That's

easy"

but he urged that this preparation | Mr. Gallacher, the Communist mem- time should be put in on the school ber, anwered 16s. promises and not at rome,

"FEWER EXAMS."

Mr. T. M. Sexton, a Socialist and former pupil-teacher, anid school examinations should be cut down.

Mr. Bellinger, another Socialist, took the precaution of asking his son what he thought of the ques ilon. The boy's answers were!

"Homawork is a perfectly in- iquitous system. I should hope that you, father, and other ho-) nourable members of the House of Commons Instead of consider- ing slavery in Abyssinia, would apply your minds to the slavery

EINSTEIN APPLIES FOR

THE SUM

Says

"You're

FORMER C. IN C. OF CHINA STATION IN LONDON.

Vice-Admiral Sir W. M. James (on left)—who as a boy was the model for the famous picture "Bubbles" painted by his great-grand- father, Sir John Millais-took his two daughters with him to welcome Admiral Sir Frederick Dreyer, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, when he arrived in London inst month. Here they are at Liverpool Street.

LINERS' SALUTE

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"Wrong" cried the headmaster SISTER

Mr. Lees-Smith, a teacher of econo- mles, blushed furiously.

Sixteen shillings had been on his lips, too. Other answers. were one pound and a pair of hoota. Twenty-four shillings Twenty and a pair of bools. shillings. Thirty-four Mil- tings."

the right answer to be.

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months ago.

Wrong" Advice To Young Men Not About To Marry

|MODERN APARTMENT FLATS

In Central District.

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-By A Judge One, two and three-roomed up-to-date furnished and unfurnished apartments, each with kitchen, pantry, bathroom, and detached THE Judge in the breach servants' quarters, at moderate rents, in the new building known,

of promise

-The fumished flats are action as "DINA HOUSE" in Duddell Street,

fitted with furniture of modern type. A Frigidaire is provided in

brought and lost

by each apartment. Automatic lifts (Waygood Otis). These apart. forty six-year-old warments are bright and airy, the majority of them facing towards the widow, Mrs. Ethel Fisher, at | Gardens or the harbour. Newcastle Assizes:-

“A little guide should be wrli- ten for young men warning them that they are not safe from a breach af promise action merely because they have never pro posed to the woman.”

The Jury found unanimously in favour of the defendant, Mr. Her-i bert Cowper, of Stotes tall, Jes- mond, Newcastle.

"Amber Light"

Other points made by Mr. Justice Hibery during his summing-up were:-

There was a quarrel in 1932. Mrs. Fisher was nine years older, i

and she saw if not the red light at least the amber light.

The burden was on her to prove

that a proposal was made.

In 1924 Mr. Fisher had expressed the view that a pension was bet- ter than a husband,

After she saw her solicitor and threatened a breach of promise action when she heard that Mr. Cowper had been taking out other women he "came to heel."

Mrs. Fisher had stated in evi dence that Cowper first proposed to her in 1924, and during the next ten years they had lived together at intervals.

Mr. Cowper denied any promise | to marry.

Mr. Paley Scott, in his closing And this was her last voyage-speech for Mr. Cowper, said:

"Mrs. Fisher found Cowper'a last voyage of a beautiful ship affections were straying and tried that has logged a million and a

make him marry her." glided off the stocks.

M FIGHTY liner Majestic Albert Hyman, of New York: is The headmaster stood blandly) second largest in the smiling, and said that up tejworld-boomed a swan song date from eleven important public servants he has received to-day as she steamed down eleven different answers to his the Solent. problem-all wrong. He re- Her sister ship the Homeric fused to any what he considered boomed a reply from her toor-quarter aen milea since first she Mr. Stanley, Minister of Eden-ings off the Isle of Wight. That, tion, was sympathetic towards the 100, was a swan song.

Both liners are doomed. motion to abolish homework as fari Trenton, N. J., Feb. 29.

Albert Einstein, world as possible, but asked for a delay The Homeric has been laid up' famous German mathematician, because a departmental committee since October last year, but only is now inquiring into the curri- yesterday was I announced that she would never again sail the applied as unostentatiously as a steerage immigrant for naturaliculum followed at schools.

Late news at a late hour: There seas 18 H floating passenger zation as a United States citizen.seomed- to-be --a-consensus of paler.

The application was regarded as opinion that the shoemaker had lost Soon To Be 'Scrap'

Dr.

U.S. CITIZENSHIP

Mr. Willoughby Jardine, for Mrs, Fisher:-

Majestic 50,699 tons; Homeric 34.351-soon to be ninety-odd

"Despite the disparity in their] thousand tons of scrap.

ages and experience. Mrs. Fisher Little wonder Homeric's boom-was the object of Cowper's affee- ing seemed to turn to walling as ions, and the attraction was so the mist engulfed her ocean com-violent and overpowering that she panion.

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against persecution of Jews, of which he is one, in his homeland.! But Einstein apparently told no onej of his intention in advance and, after slipping almost unnoticed into and out of the Federal Naturaliza-! tlon Bureau, refused to see any one at his Princeton homt.

Einstein has been exiled and his property confiscated because of his leadership of Jewish proteats against the Nazi programme.

The bushy-haired, moustached little acientint walked unheralded; into the Trenton courthouse to obtain his first papers. He was

Wealthy Ink King'

Dies In Hotel

Airplane To Bring Body Home

HE'S GOING TO DOORN

Minneapolis, Minn. Mar. 15,

A small boy was tending cattle in the misty Black Forest of Germany in 1896. He was approached by a quiet-spoken man who appeared out of the fog to inquire the way to the Emperor's hunting lodge.

R. MICHAEL STEPHENS, wealthy retired ink Stone Age Mmanufacturer, of Portland-place, London, W., died

accompanied by a secretary. He of heart failure this month at his hotel at Estoril, Man Traced asked a lawyer in the corridor for Portugal, soon after he had finished playing

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At the Naturalization Bureau, bridge.

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Mr. Stephens was head of the ink Best known of them is Lynton, with a few friendly remarks about the weather in a guttural accent, manufacturing firm of Henry C. which is entered for this year's the great scientist answered neces- Stephens until he sary questions and paid a $2.50 feo. Years ago. Clerks were unaware, until he was gone, of the importance of their visitor.-United Press,

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That is the conclusion that has just been made public by Walter Fry. United States Commissioner of Sequoia Park, and Dr. Francois Matthes, noted geologist.

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Rizzi's greeting to Wilhelm on hia 77th birthday was answered by a card which read: "Heartiest thanks for true remembrances."

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