Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
THE MORNING POST, london
Bath City council recently passed
q bylaw raising the school,
Il leaving age to is years, effect

T\HE MORNING POST, london
Bath City council recently passed
bylaw raising the school,
4 leaving age to Is years, effect
i've on April l..
Under the bylaw, however, any child
obtaining beneficial employment after
attaining the age of IA will be released
from further school attendance.
The aim of the new bylaw is to pre-
vent children running about the streets
with nothing to do.
Experience has shown that it IS far
better, both for the child and for So
ciety, to have q child at work rather
than idle after he Is IA or Is years old,
in the event that he does not go to
school after that age.
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Music Affects Musicians.
FL Concrete, Lima.-The situation Of
musicians throughout the whole world
has become of so serious a nature that
their predicameut has been receiving
consideration from the International
Employment Conference at Geneva. The
victims of the inroads of mechanical
devices for producing music are not
only the orchestral and band musicians
playhouseS, but even the most artistic
performers and soloists also are without
opportunity to exercise their talents.
But those who used to furnish the music
in theaterS and cinemaS are the chief
sufferers. In most establishments of
this sort, because of the competition of
rival houses, necessitating every possible
economy, whole orcheStraS have been
dispensed with and mechanical playing
devices substituted. Radios, too, now
furnish much of the music that for
merly employed many brass or string
organizations. The employment confer
ence sees nothing ahead for these I'M
occupied players but education for other
professions.
Japan Must Become
Industrial to Care for Babies.
The Transpacific, Tokio.-What will
become of Japan when her production
of babies outstrips her production of
food? The question is the first which
occurs to every one who writes about
Japan, and the answers, especially when
the inquirer comes from land of
plenty-like, say, America-express nat
ural alarm at the speed with which
the baby curve is climbing. Statesmen
and officials now tell us that Japan's
national policy is "industrialization," by
which they mean that Japan must be-
come q country OF factories, like Eng
land paying with her exported manu-
features for the food she must i'm
port. Prophets of other schools believe
that Japan must expand or perish and
that pressure of population will drive
her to seek fresh territory. Others again
dream of a social cataclysm which shall
break down the discipline and patriot
ism of the nation. The only thing COM
mon to all schools is q scarcity of re-
liable and properly sifted statistics, and
in the absence Of evidence one predic-
ton is as good as another.
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Stops Liner
To Ask for Match.
La Nacion, Buenos Aireg.-One of the
officers of the Asturias, the mail steamer
recently arrived In port here from Lis
bon, Vigo. Cherbourg and Southamp-
ton, says that at a point several hum
dred miles on Buenos Aires his ship
encountered small yacht with q soli-
tary occupant. The sea was smooth,
and the 'sailboat appeared to be in no
jeopardy, but inspection through the
binoculars revealed the lone mariner
making most frantic and extraordinary
gestures, as If for assistance. The
Asturias changed her course, drifted
alongside the tiny craft and threw the
gesticulator line. Once on deck, many
expressions of sympathy were heard on
all sides: "Poor mani Is 1t true you
are perishing with hunger and thirst?
How came you so far at sea in that frail
sloop? Was 1t not fortunate our COM
ing just now?"
Imagine the confusion of the captain
and all the passengers when the intrepid
navigator. responded; There's nothing