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EDUCATION COSTS

recently published concerning the rise in the cost of education in Great Britain during the past quarter of a century. It is shown, for instance; that the

St. David and the Rod Dragon of Wales Patron Saint and emblem of Welsh Na- tionalism

below

how

The pictures (left) the top of Llanberis Pass and Snowdon, and (right) the mining town of Porth.

To-day is St. David's Day. PORTRAIT

In this article a Welshman

own

of

tells the deep love of hla countrymen for their land, how their sense nationality never weakens. Ho remembers. the triumpha and the woes of Wales, and from his exile ho says, "By the waters of Dagenham we sat down and wept."

Welshmen Celebrate

SAINT DAVID

T

David's Day.

tism off our chests.

the uses

to

the

home.

upon 1 time

OF A CHINESE MILITARIST

A Consul General is. giving him a "tea." No one knows to how much power he may sooner or later attain. It is wise, there- fore, to conciliate him, quite regardless of the merits of the business, if any. If he is well treated he may remember it at an opportune time and be ready with "concessions."

Behold him, then, sitting in stute, almost crithroned indeed, at one end of the reception-room. He is clad in the richest of silk, and as he regards the gathering with bland Indifference he smokes Turkish richly-carved Ivory

foot

elbow

cigarette in a holder more than

tible at his

glass of the tepid sweet champagne served to

guests ns

os do not care for tea.

tea.

such

The militarist is a man somewhat past middle age, with deeply lined face and straggly moustache. eyes are the noticeable feature. They are keen and piercing and you feel that you yourself and

every person in the room is being carefully ap- praised to some calculated purpose. He speaks several Chinese dialects and Japanese, but no English. His Japanese is fluent because, In the course of several "retirements" to that country following unsuccessful campaigns, he has had ample op- portunity to acquire it. But there are no Japanese present to-day at the Consul General's "tea" to the militarist, because ot the moment Chinese fenders are not in favour with them.

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save his enemies

HE war between the Gloucestershire, Devon, Dorset, But at least for to-day we will

But neither that nor anything else Northamptonshire, Huntingdon all strive to recapture the spirit is troubling the Marshal now. He is, daffodil and the, leek shire and Bedfordshire are as of old Wales when a poem was as the phrase goes, sitting on top of breaks out again to Celtic anyone in North prized above a ton of coal, a song the world. He has succeeded in day and the Red Dragon Wales, while Buckingham and was more precious than a board-defying the Central Government for

some time in a certain rich and im Some interesting figures were flies over the Eagle Tower Hertfordshire are even more so. Ing house and the sound of the portant province under le complete But the biggest joke is to harp more sweet than the rattle control, and it has been thought best of Caernarvon Castle. The count Monmouth as an Anglo- of the churn.

to buy him off. This morning he has Welsh are celebrating St. technically "English" people, I merits of the leek and the been gouged overnment, er "bor- Saxon county. As one of these We quarrel over the respective than a million taels. The money has received his price, said to be more

out of Chinese bankers can only smile.

daffodil as a national emblem as by the As a race, we seem to have though it There are speeches, ban-

foreign were important. rowed temporarily from had a great genius for absorb- Meanwhile our people are being the militarist hus lost no time in loaris. No one can say which. Bul aggregate cost per elementary quets, a good deal of cant, a ing all invading elements into driven from home. school child rose from £4 68. in measure of humbug, and ourselves. People with

salting it nor

it away well out of the reach of Chinese bankers, the Central 1910 to £13 34 in 1935. This many mutual back-scratch- strangest names arc typical

Government, the vagaries of Chinese exchange, or other exigencies. For latter figure, which iR the ings. Yet underlying it all Welshmen. Take, for example,

better than ho that, equivalent of about $250 in there is an amazing measure Ablett, to mention only a few

Hartshorn, Brace, Cook and POOR St. David! Once none knows

although to-day, he is up, lo-morrow two he may be down-ond possibly out. Hongkong currency, is informa- of sincerity in the hearts of Welsh miners' leaders. Hear their

journeys to his city ware equal tive when compared with the Welsh people.

When we were conquered by to one to Rome, Now our ANY other well-dressed Chinese $297.56 which was cited in the We love our national celebra the great captains of industry, pilgrims travel to Southall, Mare present, together with two Legislative Council recently nation because we are more the Mackworths, Nixons, Han- Hayes, Hounslow, Grays and or three score Europeans including the foreign correspondents. The being the annual cost per stud- nation-conscious than most. burys, McLarens, Crawshays, above all to Dagenham.

Chinese, some of them in Western London is fast possessing a garb, cluster propitiatingly around ent in Government secondary This is our one opportunity in Guests, Mansells and Norths, a

The the militarist. Were he out of power schools in this Colony, and over the year of getting our patrio host of "alien" camp followers Welsh border around it.

came in with thom,

Celtic fringe has become a

one of them would immediately $530 in the case of the Central

Indeed, some of But they were soon absorbed reality round this centre British School. No really use-priest of the sixth century, with names like O'Brien, McCall, never swallow 113.

St. David, a meek and modest into the national life and people Anglo-Saxon might. But it will past.

them have done so in the not distant of tele him,

are especially anxious ful comparison can, of course, would be seriously perturbed McCoy, Potter, Cruse, or An-

to ingrethemselves, but he is be made when contrasting ele- could he but see

We may lose our old language, well aware of them. He speaks to will mentary education at Home with which his memory is put to-day. dignant if you denied that they obscured, but we shall remain when and if opportunity offers. They

drewartha would be most in- but we shall never become them pleasantly enough, but he

quite as blandly cut off their heads secondary education in Hong-

According to English history are anything but good Welsh ever Weish. Always we will be understand that perfectly and the kong, but the figures given are, books, we were conquered by men.

different and however hushed possibility that he may atlain much He is Fenone the less, of some interest. Edward I., and I should hate to

That was in the good old days, the tones, the old language of power makes them uneasy.

known to be perfectly merciless, and Education everywhere is, natur- disillusion-anyone-about-the-Since then our people have be-Britain-will-still-be spoken. even the protection of the foreign

Unconquered by arms, we concessions will not ally, costing more and more charming story of the first gun wandering from

Prince of Wales.

he elects to curtall their activities. an inevitable development in

There will be more fervour for have succumbed to industrialism. Some of them even now, as they But the fact remains that we St. David in the U.S.A. to-day Our unwanted hordes are pour-regard him furtively and finger the view of the universal tendency to give better training to the were an unconquered country than there will be even in ing over the border, seeking tight collars of their European

until Lancashire discovered the Wales itself.

honest work where their fore- clothes, are weighing the relative | rising generation. Britain now pleasures of North Wales and We gave that country Roger bears gloried in thieving cattle. merits of the several steamship lines,

to elsewhere. spends close on £90,000,000 per the capitalists saw the commer- Williams and Thomas Jefferson, But even this does not mark

The foreign correspondents are ad- annum on education, the estim-cial possibilities of South Wales, who modelled their constitution, the end of Wales. You can dressing him through an interpreter. ates for the current year being That was the end of Wales. Yale and Harvard, who founded not obliterate a nation by indus- They hope to discover what effect his

Government may have upon subse the highest on record. So far Now it is only a memory which their education, not to mention trial transference. All that the altered relations with the Central, as elementary schools are con- we revive every St. David's seven Presidents of Welsh ex- word Celtic connotes will abido quent events. He is now, it appears, with us its poetry, music, definitely allied with that Government. cerned, there has been abundant Day. We live in the past when

superstition, fantasy and lyrical But just how actively is uncertain. Harry of Monmouth was king

The Interpreter may or may not be progress. Taking the last quar-and our Welsh Tudors won the

sensitiveness. *

putting the questions as asked, but ter of a century, it is shown that Crown of England.

Whatever our future, each St. In any case the militarist merely

the number of classes with fifty

BUT despite our achieve. David's Day calls us back to re-waves his cigarette-holder in a series of graceful hal-circles and shrugs ments in possessing member and glory in our race. non-committally. He touches this lips or more children has fallen from shall be actively busy forgetting an ancient language and an in- Waerever we may be, on that to the glass of tepid champagne and 23 per cent. in 1921, the earliest all this. The London-Welsh comparable literature: a soul day we see the far-off mountains, languidly wipes his stroggling mous- year for which figures are avail-milkman may have been all for music and a love of art for hear the leaping cataracts, feel silk handkerchief, He does not like tache with a beautifully embroidered able, to under three per cent. in patriotic last night and dream its own sake-we have fared the breath of freedom upon our the wine, for he is accustomed to the 1935. The number of classes of the land of song, but your badly in the modern age. faces once again and remember best vintages, which he secures with with forty or more children has milk was delivered this morn-

Industrialism and commerce that we are still strangers in a out difficulty through English agenla in Hongkong. Moreover, he is anxious fallen from 49 to 36 per cent. ing. We have avenged the con- have killed our soul and blinded strange land.

to spit, but refrains because at the our imagination.

To-day, the exiles will land, moment he is making certain conces- The number of schools making

In the north, our little country those old folks still left at home, sions to the singular prejudices of the provision for handicraft has

has become a paradise for the telling them how they tried to risen during the same period

NOTHING is funnier industrial rich, and in the south celebrate St. David's Day in a from 23 to 65 per cent. At the

than the way English a grave for the industrial land that is not Wales. same time there has been a great people love to call themselves derelicts. We have sold our The sad tale will begin, "By improvement in the quality of Anglo-Saxons. Those two com- heritage, possibly against our the waters of Dagenham we sat

down and wept." British education, in material paratively insignificant tribes will, but sold it nevertheless. and in equipment, as well as in would be flattered to know how physical care and in mental cul- their mame and dominion has ture. An important feature › in been perpetuated. the elementary schools is the The Celts were never sub- development of a "new human-dued. They intermingled with ism", which recognises the their Germanic invadors. They necessity of ministering to "the saw the coming of the Saxons demand of children for a prac-and Danes and. Normans and tical and creative outlet to their still speak the language which THE atmosphere of the operating A labourer, who appeared to be a European mind so easily that their theatre is generally associated rather henpeeked husband, gave vent total lack of subtlety arouses his con- And, corrupt, rapacious, to his foelings when under chloroform tempt. energies". Other points of was used in these islands before with pain and suffering. Neverthe-by declaring, "Jings, the auld wife venal, and ruthless na he is, he des special note are the co-ordination any of them were heard of.

less, it is sometimes relieved by will not bother me, noo. She's never pises his host and his entire breed. between education and industry, Anglo-Celtic is the right way humour,

happy unless she's naggin or He believes they all, even as himself, have each their price. And he scorns in technical education generally, of describing the people of Under the Influence of chloroform bletherin' aboot the neighbours." and above all in the school Britain and it is strange that many patients become particularly political views, brought a

A youth; who held rather extreme them the more because the price they amile to are able to secure does not compare medical services. Special em-when it comes to the Empire voluble. They

of our faces with his remark, "Ah wish with that paid him. He is more

powerful than any, of them. phasis is now laid on the indivi- this is universally agreed upon. decorum and dignity when uncons-King Kong wid throttle Hitler and

To-morrow he will go to

to Nanking dual needs of each child," the There are minions of proud clous, and pass some highly amusing Mussolini.

remarks.

apart, of course, from the slight but Another patient crooned one of the ever-present possibility. that someone duty to develop its individuality | Anglo-Saxons who should bo For instance, one clergyman's wife latest Jazz hits. Little did he know may interfere in terms of hot lead. rather than to treat it as merely celebrating this day with us. who was being operated upon amused the temptation he was putting in the This had happened to other less care one of a group, and special ser- According to one of the greatest the surgeon and his assistants by way of the surgeon,

A chloroformed pvangelist vices to this end are being authorities, the people of Che-suddenly remarking, "Georgie, I do rapidly expanded.

shire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, wish you weren't so like a comedian nounced the taking of a

in the pulpit."

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THE Consul General appears and

bows with exceeding courtesy. Cer- tain interests, have been conciliatory of late and he hopes the new power

will be likewise, to the advantage of deserving persons not in China for their health. The militarist regards the official serenely. If you are cbser- vant you will mark sonicthing of con- descension In the contemplation. For the Chinese understands the position perfectly. He is Important now and. Is being catered to. Wera he in obscurity no one would pay him the Icast attention.

· Ie follows the worldings of the

ful persons powerful in Chinese an- | affairs, but he is prepared in. the pre- collection sence of a strong and heavily-armed.

(Continued on · Page, 4.)