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Girls Go Cruises On School Pay

SCHOOLMASTERS with wives and children to keep think that women teachers have too good a time.

The National Association of Schoolmasters' conference at Nottingham recently opposed the principle, proposed by the National Union of Teachers, of equal pay for the men and women

"Years ago, when I was al

young married man on £3 12s. Doctors Tell Of

Gd. a week," said Mr. S.

Davies (London), "I decided to!

spend a day at Southend during "Easy Death"

the holidays. Finally I took al walk round Hyde Park and listened to the orators.

"But I hear women teachers who have no family responsibilities dis- cussing whether they should go to the Balearics or even to the West Indies,"

THE practice of euthanasia

(easy death) is growing, For every case which comes to light there are probably a dozen which remain secret.

the TWO CHILDREN ONLY

Sir James Purves-Stewart, Many men teachers

on small well-known physician, has fold the salaries had to take evening work Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation when they ought to be studying for Society of a case in which an intimate examinations

improve their

friend of is, dying from согеств.

asked him for something which would make her steep and not wake up.

to

Mr. Davies nuid he did not deplore the fact that women teachers were able to have their trips abroad, but the

MOVEMENT GROWINC

career,

"I will not say what action I took, but the next day the sufferer failed he insisted that the wives of men to wake," added Sir James. teachers were as important to State. He could not think of any married school-master of his acquain-

had fande who

more thun two children.

Mr. F. C. Arkless, who proposed a resolution criticing the system of selection for post-primary schools, said it produced many misfits.

"The position of a boy and man throughout his career may be deter- mined by the chance that he has a headache when he sits for the exam- Ination at age 11 plus," he said.

Some pupils were crammed for the examination, with the result that during the first year in a secondary school they were burnt out."

BOY AT WINDOW While Mr. W. Barford, of Leeds, was putting a resolution to the vote some-one bobbed up against the strong sunlight on his left.

"One dissentient," he said, think ing that one of the delegates had risen against the motion.

"That is not a dissentient, it is a boy at the window, a delegate said. A master rapped at the window over the boy's nose.

Recently Dr. C. K!llek Millard, Eecretary of the Society, said:

"The reform is sure to come." he wald, "but no one can say when, ; The tendency to practise it i

Increasing in the medical profes-

alon"!

A West End doctor told of two cases within his knowledge.

"The fest was that of a woman

cancer."

said. he suffering from

radium and deep "Operations, therapy had all fulled to cure her and she was lingering on in agony,

"For a me heavy doses of oplates dulled the pain, but at last she was given an injection which gradually lowered her vitality and she passed quietly out.

The second ease was one of not striving officiously to keep alive' a hopelessly ill child. For 12 years the mother did her best for the child.

"LET IT GENTLY SLIDE" "Rather than keep the child alive he let it gently silde away."

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 19, 1939.

Heinrich Himmler, left, head of the Nazi scares police, and Admiral General Ericli Raeder, holding Marshal's baton, listening to Ifiller in Wilhelms haven. Raeder recently was made navy commander-in-chief,

Plans To Evacuate 1,300,000 Children

PLANS FOR evacuation of about 1,300,000 London school children and guardians in the event of war were issued by the London County Council recently to the heads of all schools under the council's control.

Japanese Seizure Of British Ship

Lundon.

In the House of Commons recently Lleut, Commander Fletcher naked question regarding the recent seizure of the British ship "Sagres" by the Japanese:

In the event of an emergency two messages will be flashed to schools. When

"Get ready for the first,

Len- evacuation" Is received, head chers will complete arrangements and notify all assistant teachers ahd helpers.

The second will give the date of evacuation, and each school will then forma unit or "school party." The children will march to the train in squads of 50, in charge of a teacher aid helpers.

a

Ench school will have number which will facilitate arrangements at the reception end. Each party will have a tender and assistant teachers will act as escorts.

The plan also includes the wearing of identity labels and armlets by the children, teachers, and helpers.

Lieut.-Commander Fletcher asked the Prime Minister whether he will state the circumstances under which the British steamer "Sagres" us been seized by a Japanese destroyer At the National Union of Teachers

and whal action is being taken?

On Conference at Llandudno Mr. Ken-

Mr. Butler:

April 0 the neth Lindsay, Parliamentary Sceret-

British steamer "Sagres," which had ary to the Board of Education,

Besides the clothes which the declared he saw nothing retrograde:

been louding salt at Chuo-nn Bay near 'Swalow,

boarded WHS

by child would be wearing (and such In a system of compulsory physcal

Japanese naval units and taken to should Include

overcuzi training for boys and girls under 18.

Boko in the Pescadores. Represen-mackintosh), u complète change of There were between 1,000,000 and

An attempt to get a bli legallsing fations for the release of the vessel clothing should be carried, together leisure time training, and whose de voluntary euthanasia was defeated in have been made boll by the British with night uttire and toilet requisites, 1,500,000 young people getting no velopment was left to chance."

Two months ago Dr. Foster Kennedy, one of the best-known British doctors in New York, told a publie meeting that he would risk prison to help an incurable sufferer to end his life.

to the

the House of Lords in 1836. The naval authorities, in Chinn

there, Society have just announced their Japanese naval authorities They were aiming at nothing less intention to reintroduce the measure and by Ils Mujesty's Ambassador ai than a national youth movement, in either the Lords or the Commons Tokyo to the Japanese Minister for embracing all kinds of voluntary

Foreign Affairs. activities, and giving full opportunity? the autumn. for free development,

Civil Suit Lasts

38 Years

Pisa, Italy.

110 After 38 years of litigation page sentence has been passed on a civil case. More than 100 witnesses

-were-questioned and 2,000 pages_of_ documentary evidence were present-

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Year-Best Ever

QECRUITING for the R.A.F. in the year ended March 31 created a record for peace time. In that period 35.104 pilots, observers, airmen, and boys joiued up, the Air Ministry

announced.

The 31,000 recruits for whom Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, appenled last June were obtained by March 4.

The figure of 35,104 is more than double the total entry of the-previous year-15,518.

THAMES PROTECTION

All adults and children "should carry suficient food for the days of evacuation.

All should take their gas masks. The name of the owner should be Iwritten on the webbing.

FORMIDABLE TASK

Mr. E. M. Nigh, Education Officer. pointing out in a circular accompany- ing the plans that the evacuation, if the occasion arose, would have to be carried out in a short time, adds;

The tasks formidable. I earnestly ask for the co-operation of

all.

___,_ke_you, „mosk fervently hope.

that the emergency against which

these plans are made will never face.

us.

"But for the rate of the children of Lotulon we must all be prepared." The circular explains, how the plans provide not only for evacuation of schoolchildren with their teachers, their mothers or other responsible people, blind people, and expectant mothers. A Government survey of the recep- Hon areas shows that there will be no shortage of accommodation for the children in homies where the house- holders are willing to look after them.

TERRIERS REACH QUOTA strength, Considerable progress has but children under five with FOUR London Territorial Army already been made. units have reached their war establishment under the new scheme) Inunched last week for doubling the Territorial Army-the 9th Royal Fusillers, the London Scottish, the Longun Rifle Brigade, and the 23rd Armoured Car Regiment.

There units are now proceeding with recruiting for doubling their

Typists Pay A Secret Levy

TMPLOYMENT agencles which employera hire typists to

and take n hidden cominission on the girls' wages were t- tacked recently,

The Scarborough, conference of of Clerks and the Nationoi Union Administrative Workers were told thut the hidden commission is some- times more than a third of a girl's varnings.

"An unemployed typist who goes

PLANS for air raid precautions on the Thames were lold before a

of the Thames meeting

Con servancy Board, when it was decided ment type to be built at various locks to buy 20 steel shelters of Govern- and works under their control.

The shelters will cost altogether £520.

TROOPS TEST A.R.P.

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Girl Aged 17 Was Put In Irons

wearing A GIRL of 17 attacked a

TWO thousand troops helmets and gas masks took part recently in un all-day test of the passive air defence scheme of the Chatham (Kent) garrison.

of

Warning of the approach "enemy" rolders was received at garrison headquarters, and flushed by telephone to every barrack throughout the erea.

BABY PANDA'S DOLL

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of

wardress in a Liverpool police station and was so violent that she had to be put in irons, it was stated at Liverpool Police Court re- cently,

The girl. Jessie Robertson, was charged" with assault. Mr. H. R. Balmer, prosecuting, said she had -been sent to an approved school but | could not be controlled. From the school sho was sent to Edge-lune re- mand hoino.

While there she broke a window

but that if she cares to be employed is her doll-almost a replica of her; and taken to the police station.

Ming, London Zoo's piant panda, and escaped. She was later arrested

by the agency they will hire her out self. And all the keepers know it,

to firms requiring temporary assis-too. Ming.

tance," said Mr. J. Paton.

dott is

In her cell she began screaming,

refuses to go to bed if the and Mrs. Alice Russell, a wardress,

unlocked the door.

"the girl enters into negotiations! Among Ming's visitors recently The giri jumped at Mrs. Russell

and pulled her on to the floor.

for a proper job with the employer

to whom she is hired, she is told that were the Duke and Duchess of Kent,

It was the Duke's fourth visit to the

legal action will be taken against her Zoo eix weeks.

a threat which has no justification."

"BAN ALL FEES"

Mr. H. Thewlis said that other Irade unions had come up against the "scandal."

A resolution asking that Parlia ment should close all privato fco charging employment agencies was ndopted.

After deelding to oppose the National Service register, the confer-

Robertson WOR remanded custody.

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member of the national committee

of meeting the King and Queen during the Symphony Con-

for National Service, as their pre-cert at the Queen's Hall, W., be cause he did not want to disturb

sident.

..

A delegate naked how he

could

the even tenor of his conducting.

explain to his branch this apparent In the twenty-minute interval, the royal box. When the reply was contradiction.

King and Queen received several given, the King said he sympathised "Members are free to act with re- people, including Mr. Paul Beard, with the conductor's feelings. gard to National Service according to leader of the orchestra..

When the King and Queen left at the dictates of their conscience,"

the and the, audience cheered, and repiled Mr. H. H. Elvin, the secret- The King naked whether Signor Toscanint reappeared on the platform

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