Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports from England revealed that attention had been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...
...only solution of the British coal problem, which was the sole occasion for the recent general strike, is the unification of the industry under national control," said the Honorable Rennie Smith, M. P., in his talk on the British strike at the Union last Saturday...
...Smith is the only member of Parliament attached to the Labor Party who is in this country. He has been in America for about six months, an during the fall, spoke at the Liberal Club. At this time, he discussed the labor problem, and prophesied the situation which has obtained during the past week...
...problem, it seems to me," continues Mr Codman, "is whether the Federal Government of this country shall actually absorb the functions of the States so that they are no longer sovereign as provided in the Constitution. Also whether the same government shall establish a paternalism over the individual citizen, directing his activities from the cradle to the gravel or whether, on the contrary, we shall return to the theory of our fathers...
Afternoon?Susan Ertz ($2). A cool study in mature emotions?the remarriage problem...