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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1937.

The School Where Pupils Do As They Like

They Shout "Hello Neill!" to the

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."

A

week. So going without ten for six

So I was warned, out the country- tea cost. 11 cost £1 man could tell me nothing: 1 had not we are

cause

While Neill was talking, aundry kids, of all ages, passed, saying. "Hello, Neli!," or "I'll be seeing you."

already heard about this school in weeks. Is pretty hard on me be- Suffolk. The puplis, aged from 3 to

do enjoy my tea." 18, were, I was told, free to smoke, drink, and climb trees, check the musters and mistresses, choose their own lessons, stay away from lessons, go to bed when they liked. THE BROKEN WINDOWS

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

We went back into the huuse, and there we saw five kids toboganning down the stairs on a mattress. "Hey, Net!" they yelled us he passed.

What about lessons?"

Neill replied.

they

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

Three times the door opened; tu lessons when

rung the:

asked.

or "They

come They

been

Bul

while I waited. Each time two or chooar the lessons they enjoy. One three whooping youngsters bound-; or two kids here have never ed out without glancing at me. I seen at a mathematies lesson.

at last that nobody was these are very good at Engllab, or bell. So I modelling, or chemistry, or some- thing that pleases them." walked in. Near window stood a beautiful! girl of 18 or 10, with clear, blue) Swedish eyes. She was fully clothed

indeed charmingly.

I asked for Mr. Neill, and she replied in a much sweeter accent than Garbo's.

"He busy. Its red light

burning. The light was above .door.

is

Still, the school does get things lone. Its that of matriculation successes is formidable.

"We are turning out a fine bunch of independent citizens," one musler declared. “Nobody is Roing to ex-

ploit them in the labour market when they get out of here. If only every

school could be like this!"

Every school cannot. The average fee for a child at Summerhill I: £100

"This," thought, "is going to be year. There are now 70 pupils. worse than the B.B.C."

IN FLANNELS

But the sight of Balf B dozen cigarettes In the empty reasured me.

hearth

1 My yokel was wrong about the

millionaires' son and daughters.

"Nell" says he discourages suelt people, preferring children who wil have to earn a living.

Meanwhile, as we talked, Nellt was

The red light went out, and Nell dashing off à play for the children! emerged from his study.

His Annnels were even more com- fortable than mine.

One of the first questions I asked Neill was "Who broke thore panes, In the door?"

"Oh, those! 1 don't know. Wi

ld an epidemic of window breaking; a few weeks ago. A girl of about ' ten went round throwing bricks at them.

"kuid to her, 'What's the Identi "She replied that her parents had: told her she couldn't come hone: for the holidays, and she had broken' these windows in revenge parents, who would have to pay for them.

her!

"But I'm not going to ask them to pay for the windows. I said.

"Three days later one of the boys: came to me and said, "We have had!

meeting and we have KD1 1111

to perform in their own theatre.

Dashing off a play-tell Beverley Nichols that!

Can Police "Borrow"

Your Car?

WHAT right has a poliec

officer lo commandeer

an unoccupied private car to chase suspected criminals?. This question was the leading

estimate of the cost of putting in topic in motoring circles lust these windows. It will be £. We month following the action of al

HELLO, NEILL"

"Where are you going to get the money? I asked. He replied:

fordshire, verently.

Dentist Asks

£600 For

Head

UPS

WAR LOAN-To provide a vast defence fund, us diplomats falled to reach any basis for settlement of the clash on the Amur river between Soviet and Japanese ioan forces. Russia floated the

of 4,000,000,000 rubles, about $800,000,000, According to DAI- cials 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 border.

Saving Man Gives Up

Beauty Wife For His Dog

RS. MARY STEWART :

MRS

EVANS, of Hunts RACING greyhound has led to the separation of a

Barn, Mayfield, Sussex, re- ceived face injuries and had her front teeth displaced in a car crash,

Her dentist's bill came to £619.

young Fulham man and his pretty wife.

Four weeks ago West London Police! court magistrate Sir Gervais!

Rentoul, R.C., listened sympathetical- BEER - POT

ly to the complaint of twenty-fuge-}|| year-old Eva Rabet James about her

When Mrs. Evong, in the King's twenty-five-year-old husband W-SALUTE Bench Division claimed damages | ham, a lorry driver, earning £4 10%¦

against the other motorist Involved; a week.

In the collision, complaint was made She said be spent money on dog. FOR BISHOP

that the dentista bili wag excessive, racing, had struck her on several Her dentist, however, said the treat-, veensions-which the latband denied¦ ment extended over a long period. and had a greyhound which cont

He had to restore the teeth toan ten shillings a work to keep. their original position because Mrs. Evans was “a prépossessing young! woman." and to live removed thei teeth would have "made her nok fifty,"

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person woman

Dr. Ingram Walks In London Streets

"Surely you are not going to ESCORT OF CHILDREN break up your home for a dog""" raid the magistrate, and Rave

them a fortnight to try to compose Winnington Ingram. recently The Bishop of London, Dr.

their differences.

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have decided to chip in and pay it." constable at Leighton Buzzard, Hed-charges were positively shattering." The delence declared that the

Later husband and wife faced him walked through half a mile of

differences but the Lord Chief Justler (Lord again, their

unsettled. London streets-wearing his Three men passed the offices in a fewart) said it was a question of the young man Sle Gervais sald: purple robes and surrounded by car which had been reported stolen, how mitch

"Are you still going to let reasonable near left unattended deemed Jumping into

that a beautiful

dogan escort of children with whom cone between you?" and James re- The whole school will go with outside a hotel, the policeman gave should spend on saving four front plied that he was fond of it, that dog he was kept in animated con- out for month,' I called chase, and within a overtook and ot

teeth. "For mere inen,"

versation. the domestle staff and asked what arrested the three men,

he said, acing was his hobby.

Groups of men, "it would be about

The young wife said her husband attracted by the unusual excite- eighteenpence

24 Lord Hewar decided that 2350 had now lost another was a fair sum for the Bestment, facing, and she had had to pawnment, hurried from a public- and this amount was eluded in the wedding-ring to keep the home, house carrying pots of beer and i total of £1,050 which he awarded

raised their hats or waved their Mrs. Evans as damages,

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH SUCH A NAUGHTY ADY, NURSE?

"Don't seald him, Mrs. Hardy, Ir doesn't look well. Are you sure it is not constipated? Whenever a child ja cross and peevish, I look at the Jongue. If it is coated, or if the breath is disagreeable, I know at once what is wrong, I always give 'California Syrup of Figs.' That moves the bowels in a few hours and cleanses The system.

"Children don't understand the

The legal adviser to the Automobile

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

LIABLE FOR DAMAGE "If the car bad been damaged dur- ing the chase through negligence on the

part of the officer the owner could 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 statute which compels a chuizen to come to the ald of a constable attacked in the course of his duties."

"I do not think the police have a legal right to so commandeer a car, the sollefter to the Royal Automobile Club sald. "As for the consequences of a smash, it would all depend on the owner's attitude. I doult whether ordinary en Insurance would cover queli elrcumstances."

Boss-In

importance of regularity. They get Name and

play trouble. Andil isonly when they get thorough- ty cross and miserable that you real- ize that they are constipated. I find it saves a world of sickness and worry to give them a regular weekly dosa. I would do that if I were you. With a natural laxative like 'Call- fornia Syrup of Figa" you can't go

wrong-

"Doctors recommend it and give it to their own children, and we nurses swear by it. Get a bottle of 'Call- formin Syrup of Figs from the drug store and give him a dose at bed- time. 11e'll be as happy as a lork in the morning.

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

"California

Syrup of Figs”

NATURES OWN LAXATIVE

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 recently celebrated her first her own boss-in u scrap metal business.

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When the left school Miss Boss became a shorthand typist in the office of a strap metal frin.

She took an interest In the tech-

neal side, and learned everything she could abuut metals,

Then she wont into business on her own.

Now the steel shortage has caused

a tremendous rise in scrap metal prices. So Miss Boss's business is flourishing.

She has opened a large ofee in the West End of London to cope with the expansion of trade,

Mrs. Roosevel! Accused-

"HER TAX DODGING SCHEME

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g

on dog-

The magistrate asked the man ir

ite cared for his wife. "Ye:. Sir, pots as the Bishop passed. Io," he replied, and his words had! the ring of sincerity.

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

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

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

Įvisit he received a letter from a boy,

After he had listened to the pro-who said: "It may encourage you to balon office's fatile efforts to rettle know when your sermons are dolog the trumble he made a separation; good. Another bay and I were going order, giving the wife 30s, a week to do a great sin that night, and your Outside, hulband and wife shook

Sermon Hopped it."

linds,

CHRISTIANITY'S BENEFITS Said the bushand: “I am as fond Later Dr. Ingram declared: “Critics uf my wife as anybody euld be, but of Christianity say, "Two thousand I don't see why I should have to give years' of Christianlly and look at up Nugget. He'll win a lot of money¦Spahn to-day; or look at Europe-only one of these days."

saved from war by the skill of our New York, July 10.

own statesmen."

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

was a photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt's but let us logic, too, ut the difference President's wife, was £6,000 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:

charity.

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

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

that contract was for money she even with the early Viclurian 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

outlook taxation met to-day.

where it would go and so con- trolled that money.

all. "Instead of gibing at Christianity, we should have more Christianity,| Mr. Hamilton Fish, Republican

"If she can avail herself of a more Christions. If the world were Congressman, astonished the com- loophole any one else in America can really Christian to-day, there would mitice by holding up what he said do the suine,"

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 destituté children is estimated. at $25,000, against which the Incorna to dato la $20,000,

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