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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947.

The great north of England city of Manchester has evolved, from a prewar evening and week-end system of adult education, a plan to create a thriving college to which workpeople will go (without loss of wages or holidays) to study social, political and cultural subjects

Foundation Of A People's College

MONG the social develop.

project is, one of the

Aments projected in Mon- hitous postwar stirrings which have.

by COCKBURN

Six firms have set a fine exaffiple by promising support, and one of them-ihoamallest of all, which employs only 150 people-has undertaken to allow one employee to attend each successivo course, without loss of pay or holidays and with nil expenses paid by the Arm.:

the

"Holly Royde will be the be- ginning...of a real link between the University and commerce and industry," said Mr Wellar. "We and have to persuade commerce industry that it is worth while. The chester. none perhaps is their apotheosis in the great Man-

college, wifen established, can only cheater redevelopment plan. But W.E. more typical of the spirit of the nece i's object is to produce a wider

give its best services to the com- munity if it is

by. supported times than the intention-it has and a keener cultured apprecia-

active sympathy",

For employers, per- trade unions, and already passed beyond the mere tlon, residential adult education can manor house standing in beautiful sonnel managers, proposal stage-to create th

be sold to have its roots in social grounds of about 30 acres, and for departments of public authorities. thriving People's College, reform. It is no longer an expert the first year or so it seems probable There will always be plenty of people applying for admission, but ment on the part of farsighted, that Holly Royde, with its Become the opportunity should be given to for about 30 residents, those who need it most and who will The iden of residential adult idealistic educationists but a funda- modation

will still be carried on a n town make the best use of it,”\. education is, of course, not new-ils mental conception of modern life.

centre, germination owes a great dent to the

The fact that Manchester appears Danish folk high schools started a century ago but the University of to be giving a lead in this direc-

tlon is not merely local pride but Manchester and its Extra-Mural Department are imparting to it a subject of outside interest. It under fresh, Invigorating Impulse which is lines a principle which is probably as producing encouraging resulta. The important to other industrial centres one other essential condition for the as it is to Manchester-the necessity BUCCCSS of the enterprise is that, for the clostat commerce and industry shall provide operation between the University on the one hand and industry and a corresponding stimulus by releas ing their workers so that they can commerce on the other. attend the college.

BY THE

WAY

contact and

PIONEERING WORK

co-

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STIRRING. THE MIND

Д

|POCKET CARTOON

byOSBERT LANCASTER

ir know it sounds priogun. but as soon as over, I get the time, I'm determined, to read some of the Bills'woʻte passed this afternoon."

FACTS

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Miami Beach has one of the The birth of Hoily Royde must

largest saltwater swimming pools be visualised

formid- against a

How. I asked, was "this work of in the world. It holds 1,000,000 able background of effort continued over a long period and brought to reconstruction of our social life" to gallons.

Ila work is be achieved?

Beetles, said to be the "strong a lead by the war. established on the basis of the old

As Mr Waller agreed, you don't men" of the Insect world, can lift intimney between the University and the Workers' Educational Asso- teach anyone. great deal in a 700 times.their own weight... clation, whose numbers are still fortnight. But, as he pointed out;

Deafness today affects two or drawn largely from the ranks of a residential college can, and ought,

ineniculable effect in three times 09 many persons manual workers, although the pro- to have an

and in con-cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, portion of middle-class students has stirring up the mind

centraling thought on problems of and infantile paralysis all put to- risen considerably.

the day which are most urgently in gether, according to The American

Magazlar. For many years now, Manchester need of solution. University has run an annual sum-

The work sel is of a combined The United States flag which was. Here Manchester can claim to have mer school in Wales, and, according

Mt. Surabachl In

Įdone some

admirable ploncering to Mr A. D. Waller, Director of the literary and historical nature bear-planted atop

social, political, iwojlma has been preserved no on Extra-Mural Department, it was the ing directly work. It is, for example, the rat unqualified success of this experi- moral and cultural problems. Here historical relic in the Marine Corps

of the course titles: museum at Quantico, Virginin. University in Britain to establish a ment which was immediately resore some chair of Industrial Health. More- ponsible for the Arst attempts to Entertainment on the Screen and in

Jars of peanut butter should be the establish residential adult education. the Air; the Modern Outlook (here over, on repeated occasiona

down occasionally the general aim is to examine some turned upside In 1938, week-end courses were Chancellor (Lord Woolton) and the begun at the Lumb

of the Guildhouse,

more important attitudes to allow the dll to mix' throughout Vice-Chancellor (Sir John Stopford) Bowden. Cheshire, and, but for the found in the contemporary world); the product.

of A plece of adhesive tope on-the Rights of Mon; the Progress Peace; the Essence of Western end of a curtain rod will make it Civilisation; the English Educational easier to run the rod through the System: the Search for International hem and prevent tearing of the Order, What is Philosophy About?; curtain. Utopia, the Romantic Viewpoint.

on

by Beachcomber have emphasised this aspect of the war, this venture would undoubted the Daily and Weekly Press;

A

THE VANGUARD

University's activities and

drawn ly have become established,

ini- attention to developments in VERY powerful and poign-dustrial relationships which lie not ant opening scene is being very far ahead. devised for the great British documentary "Miss Frozen Cod," in which Mimaie Slopcorner is to appear.

music

to

was

students.

each course.

the

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A two-pound steel ball dropped. from a height of six feet will bounce when it strikes a tough new, heat- tempered glass developed by Lib- bey-Owners-Ford.

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Substantially, the Guildhouse was Undoubtedly an intimacy is grow- moved to Holly Royde-a large Where there is a demand for any

of ing up with lenders

commerce house presented to the University by particulur subject, it will be met. and of industry which will produce, Mr Frank Behrens in memory of his

NEVER TOO LATE It is hoped, golden harvest in the parents-and there, since November, 1944, it has been used as a residen- fields of research and social welfare. tial college for members of the Seagull noises are heard, and the

In ancient Greece, mothers paci- Such 'a concern as a People's Forces. Until recently it was fully THE college itself is comfortably

laid out and equipped. Therefied their crying bables by giving Now, coast of Iceland slowly comes out of

or foll by the occupied for the mist:

however, as the needs of the Service are dining and writing rooms, library them a plece of sponge soaked in of the gulls College must stand The calls

FUCTS, a very large honey, according to the Encyclo- of employers from willingness merge into the dawn

members decline, it is passing again and games voice "Peer Gynt," and a

booms: operate.

The point is perhaps, in into the hands of those for whom it lounge to hold a hundred debaters

originally but Man thousand a Iveland, country of

intended-civilian or dancersi-pleasant bedrooms, and, Pedia Britannica. sufficiently oppreciated,

generally speaking, all the refine- About D5 per cent, of the sub- ments to be found in a well-run stance in grass comes from sunlight, secrets, rock-bound paradise of the chester has made a start, and the northern waters, and home opere boldness of her future plans gives no

kair and water-the rest from soli home.

nutrients. hint of pessimism. frozen cod." (liere the march Id Victoire" is played very loudly). the seagulls call

At present the residential college The Ught grows,

been choir

at Holly Royde, which, has" more loudly, and an unseen

to inaudible words begins to

sing

The

scone changes to used by members of the Forces dur- "Finlandia."

A pestman a stock in Ildbo, delivering letters. He stops outside turned

old from industry and commerce. very a house and talks to fisherman about the weather (Back-about a year, the University proposes for future courses. A score of stu- this will be reduced when, establish to open another residential college dents, therefore, composes the van-ed on a permanent elvilan footing. ground music of seagulis).

in central Cheshire which should guard of a movement which, with a 'the college becomes eligible for a was so great it disturbed water, in eventually accommodate about a little more impetus, will be steadily grant from the Ministry of Educa- Loch Lomond, Scotland, 1,220 miles hundred people.

is a large established.

Pretty decent

the

Those

There is not the slightest doubt that civilians are eager to resumo

Entrance qualifications are, describ- ed simply as "good will, good sense this desirable inheritance. who have experienced the studious, and willingness to observe the rules.

atmos- of-the house." Age limits? but extremely welcoming

From

So far ten "gra is "never too late to leam." highest terms. entrants duates" have taken fortnight's

In course, Ten' others are

The charge is 12s. 6d. n day but

Now tools for electronic and, olomle scientista Include Instru

100,000ths of an ounce and thick- |FICESCH. AS-minute as 1/100,000,000th

of on Inch.

ising World War II, is being gradually here of the place speak of it in the 10 to 80," for in adult education itments that record weighis within

MY puper tells me that a Town Council "Out of sentiment, has

rented a shed for an old fire-engine.". That is a hopeful sign. In these days when more and more people are abandoning fire-engines on doorsteps, Bome #01- probably hoping that hearted fireman's wife will take them in, too many have ceased to care. what becomes of the old engines. Hail, smiling Prawn!

EAR SIR,

DEAL

over to civilian

This

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tion.

IT'S BEING SO

HAT is that most mis- used term a sense of humour?

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Shorn of psychological flap- doodle, it means only one thing sonse of the other fellow's point of view.

May I, as one who witnessed the dredging of Ramsgate Harbour in the 'eighties, put it on record that Mr

in You've got your troubles-so has Gaston Blotteau was mistaken

You've got advantages that he thinking that nobody elke saw the he. enormous green shrimp at the bot-hasn't get--he's got gifts you'll

aw never possess. tom of one of the buckets? I saw

it myself, and the Blotteau family Read the kind of questionnaire

doctor was certainly wrong in sug you'll find in women' weeklies. geating that it was bicycling round Every time they are asked: "What the bucket in tartan trousers and is the first thing you require in your a red bowler. What the shrimp was deaf husband?" they'll answer with netundly doing was

tartan growing epebrows (faster than sound), and 1 one voice: "A sense of humour it was then he noted the fact in my Marine Diary Heaven knows, they need ill

as being the Dawn of a New Era, brought with I-know-not-what.

It

is difficult to understand how the mistake ever arose.

Yours faithfully,

Giles M. Horrible.

He didn't sigh

Now

Jow, if there is one country. In the

world that possesses a sense of humour is Britain-the cold cou})– try. If it hadn't possessed this price- less gift it would have been evacuat- ed long ago.

The earthquake in 1755 in Lisbon

away.

CHEERFUL

by

TED KAVANAGH

-come snow, come crisis, this man knows how to keep 11,000,000. people laughing at Itma every week

It was indeed in the dark days that Ard in the newer medium radio this sense of humour developed, for when in our history was more honest ceared to be self-hilarity created than by the Hand

leys, the Barkers, the Potters, the centret. There were others in the Ankeys, the Pickleses and a scope of same boat, it was a bit rough, bo others?" felt a bit queasy, one or two of his

Stand in front of an empty grate. and any out loud three times. "Emarted Shinwal!" Aure loughing? Not

Then go into the kitchen and whis per in your wife's ear the mugte words, "John Strachey"-then dodge. the rolling-pin.

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Could any comedian Invent better name and one capable of so many variations as that of Sir-Star- fora Crippe? It la possible, of course, that one day we shall bless the name of Sir Stafford, that we ball toast. each piber it not with a neat Shin- well,

trust Jeng with a straight And when we talk of mining don't let us forget that there is one mine that will never be exhausted, A mine that has been dug for con- turies and still produces an enormous output-the great mine of humour.

Now and then when I listen to 110 We are much kinder to them that

B.BC. I we used to be..

a mournfut Valce Look back on, the, scandalous they become so

and when

shipmates were Positively ill, but How they giggled!

they all came round, they reached harbour and went and Ead one in the local.

And so through crisis after crisin he has joked his way. He has Hyed -and died-with a joke on his lips,

mado a jest of it.

wo changed so much that we HAVE

can no longer laugh at our poli- tcfons as well?

15:

describing all hewing that I

No human being could have with. He has, in all his ups tud down broadslients the cartoons, the tain- want to switch off and listen to the

P.S. As a testimonial of my good falth, I should perhaps mention that my name appears on p. 121 of the List of Huntingdonshire Cabmen, i stood the weather unless he had an roughly as follows:

inner: warmth. He didn't spend his

-be had a White Easter unit, now and then just to make him deel at home, a White Summer,

HORRIBLE, GILES M.

Limo sighing for a White Christmas that we have little to laugh at..Moreracli, how they giggled at Glad- she won't give way: "It's only beins

she makes

the best of

poons of the past. How they derided Third Programine, she proclaims that It may be said today, of course,

so cheerful keeps me going.*.*** In truly perhaps may it be sold that our Do you remember how Lloyd other.

words, reviled, how Asquith why shouldn't 2007 and that I should much resent my

laughter is less mild and more bitter. George wa

was lacerated, and what we did to name being translated into French,

Yet when did wo have greater Stanley Baldwin? In those-far-off days, before the in: When he prided himself on feeling laughter makers? When did

And please don't let us hear any Winston was always ahead of us more about "the Dunkirk spirit" it troduction of the radio, Ramsgate in the pink he often looked and music-halls, the very mirrors of our with his funny hats and his cigars, isn't funny and less, please, of such w often thought of as being in felt-blue. And yet it was always dolly lives, resound to greater but surely in our efforts to make the dreary bunkum as There's no fun Huntingdonshire:

when thing looked, black and he laughter, thon that created by the best of it we can laugh of and with like work was in the red that he really come Flanagans, the Millers, the Trinders our own mentors of today. Their G. M. H.into his own.

and the Flolda?

names help.

NANCY

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Ingenuity Plus!

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Henry

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