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July 11, 1941.

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Boy Scouts Have 178 Different War Jobs

One G.C., Eight G.M.s

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OFFICE BUILDING--No maro business will be transacted in this offjeg huliding in famous British port of Portsmouth. Hitlor's air raidors strafod anolent álty, and of Britain's shiof naval basos, `` in violent raids. Workers are searching ruins above.

Literary Drive Helps China In Battle

Against Invaders

China, despite its four years of war, is carrying on an active campaign to make its ignorant masses literate. There is admittedly a tremendous distance to go in order to reach that goal, but the war itself has helped and elderly men and women are able to understand the printed announcements and bulletins posted on walls and store fronts,

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One reason for this development has been the Chungking Government's desire to enable a larger part of the population to read and absorb anti-Japanese propaganda. It is realised that according to a Staff Correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor." the man who is able to understand a handbill denouncing the Japanese Army is far more likely to continue his support of his government. Therefore, along with education in the simple characters, have come large doses of patriotic exhortations.

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instruction

corps.

A second reason accounting for the spread of literacy is ing that the Chinese Post Office inds letters being written und the availability of teachers. Thousands of young people with more

received by front-line Kwangsl middle and vocational school training and college and university troops than by any others in the educations fled inland before the Japanese troops. Some of Government's armies. them are eager to assist-in-any-way-they-are-able-und-jump in the far west circuit-riders bring- at the opportunity of scattering learning throughout their education to the doors of people in country. Others who had planned to teach at schools or colleges Ninghsia und Chinghai Provinces. in the more advanced coastal provinces if the war hnd not pre-since they are so scattered through- vented them have merely shifted the scene of their lifework.cut the sparsely-settled areas that it is impossible for them to utlend In a room decorated with Baden-Powell's

Admittedly statistics in China is to see a nucleus school serving regular classes. Special paintings wearing the green and yellow riband of can be far from accurate, but every village. In the following three is given in some schools in Chinghal years additional schools are to be for Moslems, Mongols, and Tibetans. the highest Scout decoration, the Silver Wolf, according to C. Y. W. Meng, added until at the end of the allotted

Chinese

news-period the Government hopes

Communist Stronghold Lord Somers, the new Chief Scout, sits for three paperman writing in the "China have a school to every 100 to 150

Shensi province, where the Com- 'days every week carrying on Baden-Powell's work. Journal," there are approxi- families.

munist influence is all-pervading. Nobody has inherited

hus placed its educational problems the operating theatres. They put up mately 360,000,000 illiterates in

Chekiang Programme

in the hands of the army, militin and title of Chief Scout of the Morrison indoor shelters, and even the country out of a total popu- Many, lation of 450,000,000.

Beginning last sumuner, Cheklang local peace preservation World, but 54-year-old Lord medicinal herbs.

however, are children and many Province pushed the Government's Political leaders teach new recruits

an programme Intensely, making it com- and the immediate alm is others, for one reason or

write to attend classes. Text-books real and write. Classes C con- Apart from numbers of Scout de-other, are not potential students. Pulsory for adults unable to read or every man in uniforin to be able to corations for gallantry they have! A Five-Year Mass Educational are supplied free of charge and pupils | ducted in the factories and won eight George Medals and one Plan, sponsored by the Central living so for from the educational operatives by Instructors.. George Cross. One lad who had Government, is aimed at the 140,000,- centres that they were unable to live Sinkiung Scouts, he told the press are doing put out three incendiuries tried to 000 illiterate persons between the at home received help in defraying

which 178 different war jobs, including

put out a fourth. It was an H.E., nges of 15 and 45 who have never expenses,

schools and 2,000 pupils before the fre-spotting, rescuing furniture, act- and he was killed.

had any school at all. Illiterate ing as messengers and telephonists,.

In the city of Chengtu 40,000 wer and which now has 1,000 schools working in rest centres and

"There is no war jub, save purely children are being taught in requier formerly illiterate persons have been and 160,000 students, pays subsidies technical jobs, that they have not primary schools, bulances.

taught to rend and write and evening of three dollars a month

to encourage Mass Education already learned," sald Lord Somers. One troop has trained to help in hey led the fire brigades during

classes during the next three years tamilies of pupils The Mass Educational Pian, begun aim at eliminating literacy in the voluntary enrolment. the big tire blitz in London: ap last year, has been modified accord-city.

In addition le "pure learning" paratus had

come from far afield ing to local conditions and require-

In other cities and provinces the great strides have been made in into what was to the firemen strangements. In some of the more nd- country. Scouts met them on the vanced provinces progress has beentory is the same. Szechwan has inferior Chim with vocational ant already provided schooling for 5,000, agricultural education. Schools have outskirts and took them direct to rapid and nuthorities are ahead of and out of 18,000,000 adult illiterates, sprung up throughout the country. their objectives,

schedule, while in others the work Kwangst, where educational stand- Classes are being given in such sub- "Sea scouts ore in demand as has been slow and has fallen behind rds have been low, has changed thejects as nursing, spinning and weav- signallers and 400 of them have been preliminary expectations.

Five-Year Plan to a Six-Year one lung, automobile repairs and phur- co-opted

service in convoys During the first two yenes, it is and has incorporated the "people's mucy. nlready. As inore and more reach hoped, one "people's school" is to be schools" into the co-operative enter- the age of 18, they will be taken into established for between every 300 prizes. the service,"

and 700 familles. This figure is open

Somers is Chief Scout of the Empire, leading "half million boys in Britain and twice as many overseas."

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In some areas middle schools pupils are required to show a knowledge of agriculture before being given their diplomas and they are made to tili

The Scout movement, he added, in to considerable change, due to locul

The progress in this province has the roll as part of their regular · looking forward to re-creating ita geographic conditions and availabili- International character after the ty or teachers, but a minimum alm] been startling, Mr Meng said, report-education.

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