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Too few teachers

RITAIN is now committed to raising the school- leaving age to 15 and is in the process of trying to find the accommodation and teachers necessary for this major opera tion.

At the lower end of the public education system there has been a large increase in the numbers of young children coming into the schools owing to the drama- Lic growth of the birth-rate during the war years.

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We were assured by the Govern- ment that staffing and accommoda- tion would be adequate to meet these requirements. All the facts were known,

'Temporaries'

by....

KENNETH LINDSAY, M.P. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education 1937.40

dation in both primary and secon- dary schools, varying in. Intensity over the country.

multifarious clerical duties and the superintendence of school milk distribution, sick children cloak

rooms, and lavatories.

meals,

There's money in their madness

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RESIDING

by MILTON SHULMAN

over the pande elty and town in the United States monium of "elizapoppin" at often playing as many as five per- mis-formances a day. And in the pro- the London Casino are two

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chievous elderly gnomes; 57-year- seas the act gradually took on the it possesses today. Tont- old John Sigvard Olsen and the 52- shape year-old Harold Ogden Johnson- tract crowds each elly they visited Ue was

was treated to some brash and more familiarly answering to

unique publicity stunt. In Omaha monosyllables Ole and Chic.

and Johnsori Messrs. Olsen not great comedians. Apart from the gravel-volved assurance of Mr. Olsen and the high-pitched, nervous giggle of Mr Johnson, they have no particular comic talents. But high- ly hierative, wizardry in instinctively IN recognising the ridiculous in any given situation and exploiting it to

the full

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carload of monkeys was let lonso. in the centre of the city. In St. Paul Mr Olsen appeared at an important social function in a coffin carried by four black-suited pall-bearers.

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N 1038 a New York threatrical producer deelded to back them on Broadway. Every raucous, sure- fre gag they had ever known wan introduced into this 'ambitious version of their act. The critics IF you were to shut your eye ad were not amused. "Its lapses from "Hellzapoppin," your ears would taste are almost as frequent as its be assalled by a barrage of shouts, lapses from interest," was one com- screams, shots, grunts, groans, giggies, ment,

bangs, thuds, thumps, whoops, hoots But how vigorously the public and howls. Few words interrupt disagreed with the critics is shown

For

in Olson and Johnson's ledger sheets. this onomatopoele inventory. wit plays little part in this kind ui humour. It is almost exclusively

wwwww visual and relics largely on split- second timing to achieve its effect.

Thus a request for Scotch-and- Sodn over the telephone brings t squirting through the mouthpiece; ships in pictures on the wall sud- denly sink; tiny plaats sprout into 6ft. sunflowers. Events follow with

an

the breathless precision of

trapeze artists in mid-nir. "A laugh is n very fragile thing." Mr Olsen told me. "I it comes a Imoment too early or too Inte it is killed."

"Hellzapoppin" is n 'propman's nightmare. At least six of them are in constant frenzy trying to keep, almost 900 items in the right place while Messrs. Olsen and Johnson and their 20-odd stooges race about the theatre firing hundreds of car- tridges, throwing eggs, fruit and vegetables at the audince and releas- ing dozens of mechanical contrap-

Is

HALF THE STORY

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tion designed to add more confusion In 10 years the stage and film rights grossed to the general chaos. "Every night of "Xellzapoppin" have

£2,375,000: its 1wo subsequent miracle," said Mr Olsen. "Noth edfiions, "Sons of Fun" and "Laugh- ing else. could make it

come out ing Room Only," have earned an- right."

other £2,000,000.

Yet fame and fortune have left THE organisers of this brand of these two ageing extroverts prac- Inspired slapstick have a solid tically untouched. They would still Scandinavian background.

Waterloo Mr push a motorcar over Olsen's father was a Norwegian Bridge if they thought it would get boilermaker: Mr Johnson's father a laugh. They are both devoted was a Swedish tool-maker. When family men and cach hon an off- they first met in 1914 Mr Olsen play- spring ав an active stooge in In some cases subjects have beened the violin and did ventriloqulam "Hellzapoppin."

quartet; Mr school classes have been increased son made funny in numbers, while the teacher sup ply position is described as one of unrelieved gloom.

The Kent Education Committee

The position in Scotland is no admitted last December that "the

a whole and Kent In better both as regards accommoda- country particular are faced with a major tion and staging. crisis in primary education."

They hinted that they might have dropped, and, in others, secondary as part of a comics and played man OLSEN, the thinner and more

to delay entrance to the schools of to on a half-time basis.

This is a county with 1,100 classes containing between 40 and 50 chil- dren and no fewer than 150 classes

containing between 50 and €0

children.

Stay-at-homes

Their irst performance together

the pinno for a singer in vaudeville. M

intellectual of the two, devotes. took place when they both hap- his spare time to his humour Ilbrary, which contains about 25,000 books pened to be in a cafe, and one of and magazines and 400,000

cross- the scheduled acts

nets failed to appear. indexed jokes. Mr Johnson spends. Asked to fill in Mr Olsen concentrat his off-stage hours on his 1900-acre

on imitating an engaged telephone farm in-signal. This harmonised delightful- chickens.

with a synthetic wheeze deve-

ed

It is difficult to estimate the crease in absenteeism, but I have heard of many cases in East Anglia loped by Mr Johnson. They were whi Bre

and London where girls of 14 are kept at home to run the house and

Today these two problems causing a new crisis in education

headache which is giving a

to administrators and throwing a great strain upon teachers, many of them untrained and Inexperienced.

Indeed, no fewer than 6,000 are "temporary teachers, awalling-en-. trance to emergency colleges.

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It is truo that the emergency colleges have trained,

and training, many excellent ex-Service- men,

It is

some

true that this year 6,000 young women will be entering training colleges.

Birmingham has more than 2,000 classes with between 40 and 50 on the registers, and more than 500 classes with more than 50 pupils.

Southampton admits that by next July more than 1,000 children will have to be refused admission to in- fant schools,

uproarious combination, and six weeks later they made it permanent.

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looking atler his 30,000.

successful

Humour is sometimes as sublie as. fallinper, sometimes as raucous at

downstairs. As exponents of the belly laugh Olsen and Johnson take their place at: look after younger children while "We've been in a hell of a mess

the noisy end of the comle scale. mother goes out to work.

For the next 24 years the partner- There they elt cheerfully holding. ship made a persistent and noisy their cars and their sides amidst pilgrimage through practically every the din.

Public interest Was recently rqused over the 100,000 children n normal home life, the Curtis

In Nottingham, it is said that "the deprived of problems are not Immediately and the revelations of soluble, and in the meantime the Report. size of classes is too large to pro- duce the best results."

In West Ham, children are not to be regarded as five years old until the end of the term in which they reach the age of Alve.

Nurseries

But it must also be remembered that virtually no men were trained for six years of war, that 2,000 teachers have left the secondary

Some authorities have closed thefr grammar schools since the war and nursery classes to make way for the that the extra year, plus the in- infants. creased birth-rate, will add nearly

riillion children

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population.

There is now a Children's Bili passing through the parliamentary stages.

ever since," said Mr Johnson.

REPORTING AMERICA

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By C. V. R. THOMPSON

NEW YORK.

Publie interest is, from time to time, aroused

Ohio, Zanesville, DURING a hot argument over a over juvenile delin-

Bill for peacetime conscription диспеу, especially

has a novel method of interest in Congress, Walter Andrews, MP ofter somo scandal in the courts or in thoing its youth in elvic affairs.

for New York, defended the army approved schools.

Every year the management of for the Intelligence test it gives to the city is turned over for a day all recruits. Said he: Any grammar But what of the hundreds of

to the winners of a mock election school student could pass it. An thousands of ordinary normal chil-among students of the local high opponent asked him the questions in dren lacking any individual atten- school.

the test. Andrews did not answer

education tha

tion in large and unmanageable But because of what happened one, to the school In all, only 20,000 children, out

classes, the million children in this year, this practice may stop. of a total population of 2,000,000 schools not reorganised for secondary

The schoolboy omcials took FRANCE has dangled a new balt between the ages of two and five,

their dutles too seriously for the to tempt the dollar-spending attend nursery schools, and every ward or retarded children who sadly

10 percent back-

comfort of regular oficials. American tourist from Britain. For has a waiting list, need our special care?

дз nursery school

Student Jack Harker, acting £231 a four-door car, complete with sometimes with as many as 200 or

police chief, made a gambling raid two and a half gallons of petrol, a 300 names.

and caught sight men in the act. French driving licence, maps, petrol And the real police had not found ration coupons, and export licence gamblet in Zanesville for Д to permit the car to be brought back year.

to New York, will be, delivered to The "Are chief," Charles Cooper, any hotel in Paris. aged 17, insisted on taking two of

Moreover, during the wAT

2.000 schools were destroyed. Thus the resources of local education authori- ties are now strained to breaking point in many parts of the country.

To cope

with this problem, the Ministry of Education invented the phrase H.O.RS.A. (Huis Operation Raising School Age) and commis- aloned from the Ministry of Works several thousand huta.

Where to go?

Sixty percent of so-called de- London's school roll has grown by linquent children are high-spirited thousands, and an urgent appeal bas youngsters bored by lack of atten- been made teachers.

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for part-time women

The Penalty

his

colleagues to the high school. ONCE MORE they are asking

Each authority has its own prob-

He ordered a practice are drill, and Congress to do something for - lems, and some are making-gallant Are we not creating "problem it proved that had the danger been the ex-Servicemen. It's not G.L.S attempts to meet the emergency. 'children' and "delinquents" by real not one student would

have this time, but generals. Under · For example, Bristol has bought will suffer for this neglect unless

our national neglect? The country got out alive.

American law, a peacetime Ameri- The three then ordered the school enn Army can have only four full Army camp But, in fact, the building pro-

for £20,000 and immediate steps are taken to face to be condemned as a tire-trap. Il generals. This means demotion by gramme is out of gear, owing partly

created a secondary school to house the facts and cease day-dreaming.took school officials and Zanesville's June 30 for Generals Mark Clark, to the fuel crisis, partly to the short- 1,000 children, who are brought in The strain will also tell on the over-

real fremen two hours to break Thomas Handy, and Courtney down their arguments. buses from the overcrowded schools worked teachers. age of materials and components.

Hodges. "Mean and petty," says the of the city.

Said Zonesville's City Superinten- American Press, calling for a rapid, Local education authorllies aro

I plead for a new sense of urgency, loose in a job like that they

dent "When you turn youngsters repeal of the law, also empowered to And sufficient ne- Manchester is improvising now for a more enlightened administra-

VISITOR commodation for the younger chil- curricula to meet the needs of the tion backed by a more informed pub-icely to do anything."

to Philadelphia for - dren and for new housing estates. 14-15 age group, with shorthand, lie opinion. The future of Britain BY A VOTE But this has not been possible for typing, book-keeping and current is sitting uneasily at school.

A a non-political speech, President of 7,000 to 100. Trumon smiled when ho saw the same reasons have already affairs. East Ham is appointing

convention representing 6,000,- placard reading "We Want Truman." enumerated.

welfare assistants for infant schools Why in there

000 Baptists in Amerien's Southern But his amilo froze when the crowd Wo are, therefore, faced with to relieve. the impossible demanda silence about facts which everybody Truman for "playing pollies with read: "We want Truman to nominato a conspiracy of States decided to rebuke President uncovered the full placard, which being made on teachers with tho ought to know?

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