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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4,

The School Where Pupils Do

Do As They They Shout "Hello Neill!" to the

the Head

Choose Their

Own Lessons

By H. W. SEAMAN

"The Do-as-you-like school," said the man on the stile. "That is what you are looking for." "Summerhill," I said. "Mr. A. S. Neill's school."

"Yes," he replied. "It's just down the road. You can't miss it you'll hear the noise. Them kids are terrors.

"Why, at the Do-as-you-like-school there's millionaires' sons

and daughters running about without a stitch on."

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week. So

So I was warned, out the country- tea cost, it cost £1 man could tell me nothing i had not we are going without tea for sla already heard about this. school in' weeks. It is pretty hard on me be» Suffolk. The puplis, aged from 3 to cause I do enjoy my tea." 18, were, I was told, free to smoke, ! drink, and climb trees,

check the masters and mistresses, chose their own Jessons, stay away from tessons,

bed when they liked. $10

THE BROKEN WINDOWS

When I got there, four of the pages in the front door had been knocked out. The panels were filled in with unpainted wood. When I rang the bell It sounded through the house.

Three times the door opened while I walted. Each time two or three whooping youngsters bound- ed out without glancing at me, I realised at last that nobody was expected to ring the bell. So I walked in.

Near a window stood a beautiful stiri of 10 of 19, with clear, blue Swedish eyes.

She was fully clothed -Indeed, charmingly.

asked for Mr. Nelll, and

she

replied in a much sweeter accent

than Garbo's.

"He is busy. His red light burning." The light was above door.

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"This," I thought, is going to be worse than the B.B.C."

IN FLANNELS

But the sight of hadf # dozen cigarettes in the empty hearth

reasured me,

The red light went out, and emerged from his study.

Neill

His flannels were even more com- fortable than mine.

One of the first questions I asked Neill was "Who broke those panes in the door?"

"Oh, those! I don't know. Wef had an epidemfe of window breaking

few weeks ago. A girl of about ten went round throwing bricks at them.

"I and to her, "What's the idea?" "She replied that her parents had¦ told her she couldn't come kome for the holidays, and she had broken these windows in revenge on her parents, who would have to pay for them.

"But I'm not going to ask them to pay for the windows, 1 snici,

"Three days later one of the boys! came to me and sold, "We have hud meeting and we have got 201 estimate of the cost of putting in those windows. It will be £6. We have decided to chilp in and phy it." **HELLO, NEILL "

"Where are you going to get the

money?' I asked. He replied:

ut test for the school will be

In

oui for a month. I called the domestle staff and asked what

"WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH SUCH A NAUGHTY

BOY, NURSE?

"Don't scold him, Mrs. Hardy. He doen't look well. Are you sure he is not constipated? Whenever a child ia cross and peevish, 1 look at the tongue. If it is coated, or if the breath is disagreeable, I know at once what is wrong, I always give 'Califomia Syrup of Figs. That moves the Dowels in a few hours and cleanses the system.

"Children don't understand the

Wille Nelli was talking, sundry kids of all ages, passed, saying, "Hello, Neill," or "Iti be seeing you."

All the kids wore clothes, and did not see one smoking,

We went back into the house, and there we anw five kids toboganning down the stairs on a mattress. "iley. Neil they yelled as he passed.

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"What about lessons?” asked. "Oh,"

Neill replied, "They come to lessons when they please. They choose the lessons they enjoy. One or two kids here have never been seen at a mathematics lesson. But these are very good at English, or modelling, or chemistry, or thing that pleases them."

some-

Still, the school does get things done. It of matriculation successes is formidable,

"We are turning out a fine bunch of independent citizens," one master declared, "Nobody is going to ex- ploit them in the labour market when they get out of here. If only every school could be like this

Every school cannol. The average fee for a child at Summerhill is £100 a year. There are now 70 pupils.

My yokel was wrong about the millionaires sons and daughters.

"Nell" Anys he discourages such propte, preferring.children who will have to earn a living.

Meanwhile, us we talked, Neill was dashing off a play for the children to perform in their own theatre.

Dashing off a play-tell Beverley Nichols that!

Can Police

"Borrow Your Car?

WHAT right has a police

officer to commandeer

an unoccupied private car to chase suspected criminals? This question was the leading topic in motoring circles Just month following the action of a

Three men passed the officer In car which had been reported stolen. Jumping into a car left unattended outside an hotel, the policeman gave chase, and within a mile overtook and arrested the three men.

Dentist Asks

£600

For

1937.

Like

UFS

WAR LOAN-To provide a vast" defence fund, as diplomats failed to reach any basis for settlement of the clash on the Amur river between Soviet and Japanese forces, Rusin Goated the loan of 4,000,000,000 rubles, about $800,000,000. According to

om- cinls the loan was quickly over- subscribed. Meanwhile 350,000 helmeted Russian soldiers, like these on parade in Red Square, Moscow, were reported along the Amur berder.

Saving Man Gives Up

Beauty Wife For His Dog

MR

TRS, MARY STEWART EVANS, of Hunts Barn, Mayfield, Sussex, re- ceived face injuries and had her front teeth displaced in a car crash.

A

RACING greyhound has led to the separation of a young Fulham man and his pretty wife.

Four weeks ago West London Police!

Court magistrate sr Gervais Rentoul, K.C., listened sympathetical- BEER POT

ly to the complaint of twenty-four- year-old Eva label James about her twenty-five-year-old iusband W- SALUTE lium, a lorry driver, earning £4 10s.

week.

Her dentist's bill came to £619. When Mrs. Evans, in the King's Bench Division claimed

damages against the other motorist involved in the collision, eomplaint was made that the dentist's bill was excessive. Her dentist, however, said the treat- | occasions-which the husbaud denied 'ment extended over a long period.

He had restore the teeth to their original position because Mrs. Evans was "a prepossessing young woman," and to have removed the teeth would have "made her look fifty."

She said he spent money on dog- FOR BISHOP

racing, had struck her on several

and had a greyhound which cost him ten shillings a week to keep.

"Surely you are not going to

said the

Dr. Ingram Walks In London Streets

break up your home for a dor!" ESCORT OF CHILDREN them a fortnight to try to compose The Bishop of London, Dr. Winnington Ingram, recently

magistrate, and gave

their differences,

dog

constable at Leighton Buzzard, Bed-charges were "positively shattering,"

The

defence declared that the Later husband and wife faced him walked through half a mile of fordshire, recently.

but the Lord Chief Justice (Lord again, their

differences unsettled. London streets wearing his Hewart) sold it was a question of the young man Sir Gervals said: purple robes and surrounded by how much ' reasonable person "Are you still going to let deemed that beautiful woman come between you?" and James re-an escort of children with whom should spend on saving four front plied that he was fond of it, that dog-he was kept in animated con- teeth. "For mere

lic said. I racing was his hobby.

versation. Groups of men, "it would be about eighteenpence.". The young wife salt her husband attracted by the unusual excite-

Lord Hewart decided that £350, had now lost another

ment, hurried from a public- was a fair sum for the treatment, racing, and she had had to pawn and this mount was included in the her wedding-ring to keep the home house carrying pots of beer and total of £1,050 which he awarded Mrs. Evans us damages.

The legal adviser to the Automobile;

Association told a reporter that he kzew of no legal right which justified such action by the policeman,

LIABLE FOR DAMAGE "If the car had been damaged dur- ing the chase through negligence on the part of ofleer the owner could

the recover from him in common law." Asked whether police are entitled to commandeer cars being driven by their owners, he said:

"It may be found that they have that privilege under the stitute which compels a citizen to come to the aid of a constable attacked in the course of his duties."

do not think the police have a legal right to so commandeer a car,' the solicitor to the Royal Automoblie Club said. "As for the consequences of a smash, it would all depend on the owner's attitude. I doubt whether ordinary car insurance would cover auch circumstances."

Boss-In

importance of regularity. They get Name and

absorbed in piny and won't trouble. And itis only when they get thorough- ly cross and nilserable that you real- ize that they are constipated. I find

il saves a world of sickness and worry to give them a regular weekly dose. I would do that if I were you. With a natural laxativa like 'Cali- formin Syrup of Figs you can't go wrong.

"Doctors recommend it and give it to their own children, and we nurses swear by it. Get a battle of Cali- fornia Syrup Figs from the drug alpro and give him a dose of bed- time. He'll be as happy as a lark in the morning.

"Never experiment with cheap and drastic preparations when buying Children's laxatives. The safest plun Is to do as I do, follow the example of the doctors and give 'California Syrup of Figs,****

"California

Syrup of Figs"

NATURES OWN LAXATIVI

Nature

A THIRTY YEAR OLD

.

London brunette is working 12 hours a day, making money out of the boom in armaments. She is Miss G. F. Boss, who firat recently celebrated her year as her own boss-in a scrap metal business.

When she left school Miss Boss became

a shorthand typist in the effler of a scrap metal firm,

She took an Interest in the tech-

nient side, and learned everything

could about metals.

she

Then she went into business

on her own.

Now the steel shortage has caused

a tremendous rise in serop

metal

prices, 50 Miss Boss's business is Nourishing.

She has opened, a lorge office in the West End of London to cope with The expansion of trade,

men,

Mrs. Roosevel! Accused— "HER TAX DODGING SCHEME"

M

£4

on dog-

in

raised their, huts or waved their The mingistrate asked the man if

he cared for his wife, "Yes, Sir, pots as the Bishop passed. do," he replied, and his words had! the ring of sincerity.

Dr. Winnington-Ingram had been taking part in the Centenary Festival of Christ Church, Albany-strect, N.W., and, dismissing his car, went on foot to keep a luncheon engagement in Chester-terrace.

During

"I cannot quite make you out." said Sir Gervals. "In one breath you tell me you care for your wife. and want to keep her, yet you are

his address at the church he doing your utmost to kmash UP said that in the past fortnight he had your home, and make her thorough-visited five public schools. After one ty sick of you."

visit

After he had Extened to the pro-wide received a letter from a boy.

sald: "It

may encourage you to bation officer's futile elforts to settle know when your sermons are doing the trouble he made 0 separation good. Another boy and 1,were going gder, giving the wife 30 a week to do a great sin that night, and your Outside, husband and wife shook sermon stopped li." hands.

Sald the husband: "I am as fond of my wife as anybody could be, but I don't see why I should have to give up Nugget. He'll win a lot of money one of these days,"

CHRISTIANITY'S BENEFITS Later Dr. Ingram declared: "Crilles of Christianity say, "Two thousand years of Christianity and look at Spain to-day; or look at Europe-only saved from war by the skill of our own' statesmen,

New York, July 10.

"Yes, look at Spain by all means, [RS. ROOSEVELT, the

was a photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt's but let us look, too, at the difference President's wife, was £8,000 contract for broadcast talks, between the world to-day and the accused of "availing herself the proceeds of which she gave to world 2,000 years ago-no hospitals;

churity,

woman a chattel, while to-day she is of a loophole in the tax laws

Look at the difference "I submit," sald Bir. Fish, "that queen. by a smart little scheme"

that contract was for money she even with the early Victorian era- when the Senate, and Con- earned as much as money earned men working 17 hours a day with by anybody else. She directed no holidays, no old age pension, no gress joint committee on

where It would

go and so con- outlook at all. trolled that money.

"Instead of gibing at Christianity, taxation met to-day.

we should have more Christianity, Mr. Hamilton Fish, Republican "If she can avail herself of a more Christians. If the world were Congressman, astonished the com- loophole any one else in America can really Christian to-day, there would mitee by holding up what he sald do the same,"

be, no war."

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HONGKONG' SOCIETY' FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ·

The total Expenditure up to October, 1937, on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated | at $25,000, against which the Income to date is $20,000,

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