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Cuban building, left, and Dominican Republic building, right. recently dedicated at New York Fair. Establishment of an annual peace prize of $50,000 was announced by Dominican officials,

Public And Private Schools In Britain

Bradford.

Delegates to the number of 368 are attending the 88th annual conference of the Association of Head Mistresses, which opened in Bradford recently.

After the morning session the delegates were entertained by the Governors of the Girls' Grammar

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In the totalitarinn States Individuals had not freedom to think, speak, and belleve as they wished. In the democracles many had not economic freedom. Did not the fundamental error lie in failure to remember the spiritual nature and vocation of ment

The Spens Report

rerence was largely taken up with a The opening session of the con- discussion on the Spens Report.

School, were the conference is being held, and in the afternoon there was a service at the Cathedral at whid the Unshop of Bradford, Dc. A. W. Miss M. Davies (Streatham County Blunt, gave the address. In the Secondary School) said that the Spens evening the Lord Mayor, Alderman Committee discrectly avoided any T. J. Robinson, gave a reception in recommendation that the public |the Cartwright Memorial Hail, schools and the private schools of England should come into line. "Over

In her presidential address Miss these they hesitated to assume con- E. M. Tanner, head mistress of Roo-trol, lest all that is behind the old alean, sald that never was training in school tie and the playing-fields of the search of truth needed more than Eton rise and annihilate them." in these days of slogans and head-)

truth.

Challenge to Democracy

Fraudulent School:

lines. Yet she often wondered if the There must be no segregation of multiplication of subjects in the the children of the wealthy or curriculum and of school activity did professional classes in schools reser- not militate against the search for ved for them as such. If these were to become our future leaders it was more essential for them than for any "Is not mare

time for thinking others that they should be educated needed?" she said. "Ought we not side by side with those whom they to demand greater accuracy than we were eventually to lead. can under..present.conditions and a higher standard in the choice of the exact word to express one's meaning? | Welcoming the proposal in the Does not the whole organisation of report for the inspection of private rchool Heat present entourage schools. Miss Davies asked why the approximation rather than exaciness? committee had not gone farther and Yet it is accurate perception that is recommended that a licence must always the basis of sound conclusion."first be obtained before a private

Ischool

be could

opened. "Any Itrickster, she sald, is allowed to Miss Tanner said there were cheer- swindle the public by offering to ing signs that our statesmen realisedProvide children with an education that the principles of the League of which he is totally unable to

provide. It Nations provided he only basis forven Even

inspection is established peace, even though experience had precious years of a child's life may tions in the methods of Its working. lon to not stay with us long enough shown that there must be modifica be wasted before such a school can be closed. Our Ministers to Educa- "We are often considered by other nations to be hypocrites, and are alto lock into the difficulty, far less to

ai solve it." ways surprised that such a charge

hould be brought against us," she Dr. M. D. Brock (Mury Datchelor declared. "Are we guilty, not of in-|Girls' School) Bald that the tentional hypocrisy. but

com-between different types of schools was placency and lack of Imagination, still too big. If the Spens Report and of п certain mental laziness were carried into effect many of the which tends to encourage a policy barriers would gradually disappent. of opportunism?"

Some people thought that the re- Our

system of Parliamentary port moved too slowly, and others government had served our country that it moved too fast. Some would extraordinarily well. Now, however, have nothing but the "whole hog"— when democracy was being so brutal-Camberwell, they said, must be just ly challenged, i behoved us to try like Eton. A gradual adaptation and and see what might be some of the modification of the existing system

was essential. causes of this challenge.

of

Head Mistresses' Aims

Kulf

"Should we consider that in our own country democracy is proving a success from the social and economic In his address at the Cathedral the point of view? Does the man who Bishop of Bradford said the best find work enjoy personal things that school did for children cannot freedom, even though he has political were things not scheduled in specch freedom and the right to vote in day reports, and he suggested that Parliamentary and municipal elec- one of the chief aims of heat tions? Mny

ny the rise of the totalitarian mistresses should be to help the young States be due in part to poverty, and "to see a vision and dream a dream. to encouragment, in those democratic Learning and wisdom were only States where the capitalist system has among the Tower qualifications of tended to produce extremes of

hend mistresses when one wealth.

realised of an exaggerated sense of material that, above all they must cultivate a volucs?"

¡¡measure of unworldly idealism.

THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1039 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $30,000, against which the Income to date is $18,500 only.

In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of

$11,500

before the close of the financial year on 31st October.

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, CA.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P&O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine,

Hongkong.

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