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The FOXES: "Strange! There are no tracks leading out!”
NY day Stalin's two children can be seen rushing helter-skelter
residence, 8 Austin Avenue, through the Kremlin gates
Kowloon, at 2,45 km. on June 9, 1939, after an illness, aged co. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day, (Shanghai, Manila and Macao papers please copy). (No flowers by request).
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Currency
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̧NY JAPANESE hopes that the fall in rate of the Chinese dollar presaged a currency collapse appear to have been doomed by the revela- tion that the Stabilisation Fund has.
on their way to school.
The Tartar towers look down on them, but the children do not bother to return their stare. The barbaric beauty of these old towers and all the secrets they could tell are just part of their daily background.
Svetlana, the youngest, is a pretty vivacious little girl, about ten years. old, and intelligent ; above the average. She takes her school work seriously. Be- fore the last quarterly examina- tions she was in bed with a chill. This coat her her place as head of her form. She was disgusted: with her luck.
deliberately allowed the rate to fall Boy Resembles
His Father
-With acknowledgments to Esop's Fables.
What Stalin's children are
taught at
school
kens's "David Copperfield," of holidays in the country, of ad- venture stories with animals, of the tales of Jules Verne.
There is no summarising the endless variety of books finding their way into the school libraries. I asked some of the younger children their favourite English authors. "Dickens and Rudyard Kipling," they said.
now
When Russians want to start anything new they find or invent a story to illustrate the idea, together on the same sum One times a caricature is tacked on. Every Russian schoolchild knows was doing the work. The other Apparently this works wonders by heart a legend that has been to a better economie level and will re-enter the market possibly to-day.
four were blissfully cribbing. It in maintaining order and a rea- circulated about Kirov, Bol- shevik leader of Leningrad. He was supposed to be bad for their sonable amount of discipline. Actually, the Chinese dollar has
was assassinated fifteen months Her brother Vassily, about character to work separately. At In 1980, 1932, and again this ago. Before his death he did a for some tline shown a stability which
five years her senior, has his that time most of the schools year I looked over hundreds of great deal of work for education, in the present state of affairs is ittle short of astounding and in the un-
father's great shaggy eyebrows. were one long glorious non-stop essays written by children in so he has since been made a kind So far he has shown no particu-political demonstration. official markets in both Shanghai and
schools widely scattered all over of patron saint of schoolchildren. Hongkong has been freely quoted at
lar ability.
The story goes that when a a premium over the Japanese yen.
These days are over. The the Soviet Union. It is prophesied that when he Russian classroom is now-a-place-Formerly there was-u-deadly by his playmates to allow them child at school Kirov was asked_ For some months after the out-leaves school he will fade into where serious individual tuition monotony
about the content to crib from him. He refused the background and do a modest is given on much the same lines matter. What you read in Mos- to do it, but instead this worthy job somewhere or other, as his as in any well run British cow you re-read older brother now does. Much secondary school.
in Tiflis, little boy helped them to do the Kharkov, and Baku. The Five work for themselves. Framed more is expected from Svetlana. There are regular examina- Year Plan, collectivisation in in large letters across Russian Nothing in all Russia can tell tions. Rewards are given for agriculture, the might of the schoolrooms is the moral of the you more about the kind of so- specially good work. Ways are Red Army, the sins of the kulaks tale:
"I shall not allow you to marketciety that is being built there found of making troublesome it was always the same bald copy; but I will help you."
than to follow those children to children feel disgraced.
reproduction of current political: school.
events. Classmates'
Story With
break of war even the normal rate of 14 pence was held without great difficulty until the Japanese attempts to force into clrculation the notes of their puppet Reserve Bank in North China compelled the Chinese Govern- ment to institute some restriction on exchange. Thereafter, the quotations for the Chinese dollar steadily slumped to just over eight- pence, but at that point the currency has been freely convertible into foreign exchange.
Exactly what is the state of the Chinese trade balance it is now almost impossible to say. Statistics for the first quarter of 1930 indicate that the adverse balance is some- where between £7,000,000 and
There is nothing in the build- ing and equipment of the school |Black-List
Well-Stocked
Libraries
A Moral
they attend to distinguish it)
There is no evidence that this A favourite device is to ask from a hundred otners. It is their classmates to black-list
story is true, and no particular bright and airy, has up-to-date them. This usually means stick- have its own individual flavour. longs to the same species as Now every essay begins to reason why it should be. It be- science laboratories and an ex-ing their names up on a promi- They are writing about Chekhov, "Bruce and the Spider" and cellent gymnasium.
nent part of the wall. Some Pushkin, and Tolstoy; of Dic-"George Washington never told
£9,000,000, but these figures need notHis Meals
resources
of
be taken too seriously, for so much trade now passes through channels which scarcely fall within the pur- view of the statistician.
The sterling
the Stabilisation Fund have been provided by the two Chinese Guvernment banks and two Hong- kong British banks, the establish- ment of the fund being made possible by the indispensable financial guarantee of the British Government. To lend a credit in this way is. Indeed, the very least that the Government could do. British financial interests in China for outweigh those of any other Power, and Indced those ... all other countries together. Though Britain's trode with. Ching is only a small proportion of the motherland's total trade, it is by no means insignificant --the total was £10,401,000 last year und £14,101,000 in 1937 before the country was ravaged by Japan. And in the aggregate British capital In China certainly exceeds £200
In the middle of the day a hot meal is served to all the pupils. Those whose parents can afford it pay a little for this service, the poorer children receive the meal free. There is nothing unusual in that. You will find the same sort of thing in every new Soviet school.
But where this one scores is in having as its principal one of man more than sixty years old, Russia's wisest old teachers-B but still vigorous.
He has seen and survived much. What he had to sny about education was so sensible that I wondered how he had fared during the earlier revolu- tionary years.. I ventured to ask him. His eyes twinkled. In His Pupils'
millions and may be £300 millions. China, therefore, is almost a mem- ber of the sterling bloc; and any Interests thrent to the Chinese dollar from the establishment of the yuan can now have little Importance. The Japan-
As a good Bolshevik, he said, ese can have no legitimate cause for
ho had made some show of out- complaint. One could wish that the wardly conforming to each pass- opposite were true. Not merely our own interests, but common decency
ing experiment in turn. But as also demand that Britain should con-
a responsible educationist, ho tinue to support China against the added, he had stuck as much as wanton and Brutal aggression of Japan. Financial aid should not be
he dared to the methods: which allowed to rest unt Britain has done terests of his pupils.
he knew to be in the best ... In- its uttermost to help China defend herself (and incidentally our own Interests) against the menace of Japanese domination...
I recalled how,: în 1032, I watched five small boys working.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Co.
Zapr, 1925 be Unifoŭ Yandere Bymhive this
"What with all my charity luncheons and teas, 1 just
managed to oxist through last winter."
alic."
serves
It
its purpose. It underlines for the Russian child the Government's present atti- tude towards education. He must learn to do individual work, not depend on some one else do- ing it for him;
Stalin has
most pronounced - views on education. He is the terror of his more romantic col- leagues. Ho has made a clean sweep of all the fantastic. theories that were crippling-the- schools a few years ago. He in- sists on matter and methods that: are thoroughly practical. He wants the younger generation.. that will enable them later in life to handle high power modern machinery with a technical eff- ciency sadly lacking among their elders.
Parents Are Puzzled
In this, the children are his ardent supporters. They are crazy about model airplanes and engines and love playing about " with chemical and electrical ap paratus. Many of their parents look on, bewildered by the things. their children know,
Stalin haa, declared war on technical inefficiency. It is in the schoolroom that he expects to have his greatest yictories.
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