Evening star., 1933-06-03

nurses of the community at a
meeting of the Honolulu Nurses Asso-
citation.
Under the proposed plan private duty
nurses would receive SIS day for an
8-hour day. The present schedule is
Sc day, plus $3.50 for meals, for a IL
hour day.
It is pointed out the rate change
would not be a burden on patients
needing 24-hour attendance, since the
cost would be the same as at the pres
ent rate, but that it would give the
nurses greater leisure. Patients need
ing only 16-hour nursing service, 1t was
also cited, would find the new schedule
a saving.
Agrarian Program
Urged for Jobless.
The Bulletin, Sydney.-To the Editor:
Official N. S. Wales figures give $4,000
men including myself on relief work.
And not one of us a whit better of for
receiving it, either as regards present
conditions or hope of bettering our
selves In the future! No relief to the
public exchequer; the same old unem-
ployment tax; same old increase in the
national debt.
theoretically he unemployed should
benefit by the moral uplift, bred of
knowledge that they are working for
their pittance instead Of receiving it for
nothing. Actually the forced work
breeds a spirit of sdllen discomfort
What a difference if even a small
percentage Of us had been assisted on
to small farms! Some at least would
now be on the road to independence as
regards government help: certainly we
would be living on a better standard
than the pitifully small-rationed wages
allow. And the work, no matter how
hard, would have the incentive that it
leads somewhere, whereas present relief
workers will end up in a year-or in
two or three years--with what they
started on; nothing. KENDALL.
Shanghai Report
Bares Abnormal Year.
North China Herald, Shanghai.-The
brief but concise report Of the Shanghai
Municipal Councils Public Works De-
partment m4destly conceals valuable
services rendered by the trite remark
that the year 1882 was mot normal"
Such matters as barbed wire eptangle-
ments, perimeters and the like had TO
be included in the peaceful engineers
philosophy.
puDllC AIc HCLltly
exposed in the statement that 1,063
notices had to be served on those re-
sponsible for infringen1ents Of the
municipal regulations and building rules
and another batch of 82l notices on
ingenious folk who tried to construct
without permits at all. 1t is not sur i
prising that the department asks for |
more staff to deal with this common |
failing. The need for expert and in |
dependent supervision over buildings is |
obviously insistent The departments |
vigilance is great asset to the council
and to the community as whole.
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Role of IdiOm Stressed
In Foreign Languages.
El Mercurio, Santiago.--It is fact |
beyond all argument that the best Of |
all methods of learning a foreign Ian
guage Is to live in the country where |
it Is constantly used. This is especially |
true of the ability to speak foreign
language intelligibly This does not
mean necessarily the requirement of a
language in its purity. Such academic
knowledge is. perhaps, best obtained
through books, where the syntax and
the rhetoric flow on without defect or
blen1ish: but really to understand and /
make use of the uttered word, it is
necessary to know much Of the charac-
ter and customs of the people and