HISTORIC DAY.

Auckland Star, 4 September 1939, Page 3

HISTORIC DAY.

GERMANY INDICTED.

ATTITUDE OF LEADERS

SCHOOL. COMMITTEES' VIEW. "To-day we meet with feelinjrs of deep emotion. November. 1918. while .■so remote, seems but only yesterday. Never on that 11th hour of that 11th clay of that 11th month would wc have believed that in our day and "feneration the blood of our youth would ajrain delude the soil of Kurope."

"With these words Mr. W. H. Fortune, national president of the Dominion !• ederation of School Committees' Associations of New Zealand opened the sixth annual national conference of the federation in the Auckland City Council chamber this afternoon.

In a. tribute to the British Prime Minister. Mr. Fortune said that Mr. Chamberlain could 'not do other than what he had done. He had humbled himself to the dust in his herculean efforts to maintain peace.

"Britain could not fail to do what she has done." he went on. "and we in the Dominion* will not fail to do our part, cost, what it may. The price will be mangled bodies, blasted hopes, shattered homes and broken hearts.

"Only a lunatic could embark on such m programme as Hitler has initiated in Europe and to us it seems passing strange that a whole nation could thus be led captive at his will.

"Our quarrel is not with innocent tierman people, who are the prev of this human vulture." Mr. Fortune added, ''but with this inhuman, perverted mind, selfdesignated the Fuehrer, and all his diseiples. In the language of His Majesty Kin»- George VI., we can only do the rijrlit as we see the right and commit our cause to God."

On the motion of Mr. Fortune tlie delegates unanimously expressed their sympathy with Mr. Chamberlain, loyalty to the Crown, approval of the stand taken by the New Zealand Government and determination to assist in every wav.

PICTURE THEATRES. MAJESTIC —Charlie McCarthy and YV. C.. Fields in "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man." ROXY—George O'Brien in 'Racketeers pr The Range" and Boris Kaiioir in "Mr. Wong, Detective." ST. JAMES'—Mickey Kooney ana Walter Connolly in "Huckleberry Finn " REGENT—ErroI Flynn ana Basil Katnbone in "The Dawn Patrol.'' EMBASSY—MiIiza Korju? anc Lutse Ramer in "The are?: Waltz." MAYFASR—Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" and "Moonlight Sonata." STRAND—"Tom Sawyer. Detective," and "Code or 'he streets." PLAZA—Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh in "st. Martin's Lane." CIVIC—Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "The story or Vernon and Irene . '■ Castle." ADELPHI—"South Riding'' and "Fisberninn's Wharf." ALEXANDRA—"Made for Each Other" and ••Everybody"* isaliy."' AMBASSADOR—"I«o!uance For Three" and "Our Fighting .Navy." ASTOR—"Service Lie Luxe" and "Fast Company." AVONDALE—"Cowboy and the Lady" and "Manproof." BERKELEY (Mission Bay)—" Toy Wife." BRITANNIA—"Marie Antoinette" and "Beau Hunks." CRYSTAL PALACE—"The Duke of West I'oint." CAPlTOL—"Merrily We Live" and "Pvgmalion." DE LUXE—"Letter of Introduction." EMPRESS—"Mr. Moto on Danger island" and -Gold Diggers in Paris." GREY LYNW--"Three Loves Has Nancy" and "The Texans." GAIETY—-"Adventures of Robin Hood." KINGSLAND—"Carerree" and "Personal Secretary." PRINCESS—"Cowboy From Brooklyn',' and "A Man to Remember." PRINCE EDWARD—"Tbe Citadel" and "Three Loves Has Nancy." PEERLESS—"Kentucky." RIALTO— "The Duke or West Point." REGAL—"Submarine Patrol" and "There Goes My Heart." REGENT—"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." STAR (Newton) —"Gunga Din" and "Sunset Trail." STATE (Devanport)— "Keep Smiling" and Back in Circulation." STATE (Onehunga)—"Jess* James" and "Old iron." STRAND (Oneliunga)—"The Rat" and "The Texas Trail." STATE (Symonds Street) —"Fast and Loose." TUDOR—"The Young in Heart." TlVOLl—"Racketeers Of The Range" and "Mr. Wong, Detective." VICTORIA—"AII Quint on the Western Front" and "Ambush.''

I BOMBS ON CHILDREN. EUROPEAN HAPPENINGS. SCHOOL DELEGATES MEET. "It is tragic to think that while we meet to-day in security in this far country of Xew Zealand, countless thousands of innocent children are enduring the barbarism of aerial warfare and living in terror of their lives." This grim reminder of the situation in Europe was brought sharply before delegates to the sixth annual national conference of the Dominion Federation of School Committees" Associations of Xe.v Zealand. in the presidential speech of Mr. \Y. H. Fortune, to-day. Comparing the educational systems of totalitarian States with that obtaining in Xew Zealand. Mr. Fortune said that in Europe not onlv the adult population had been reduced to a position of servility. Children, too, had been regimented. "For years', in the schools and by means of radio in the home, they have been so deluged with this pernicious political propaganda and their judgment so distorted.'' said Mr. Fortune, "that they liave become apparentlv willing tools in the hands of perhaps the greatest opportunist the world has ever known. This prostitution of the whole, educational system has made possible the situation as we lind it in Europe to-day." After referring to his visit to formally last year. Mr. Fortune said Xew Zealand should be proud of its educational <system. e are citizens of a free country where might is not right." lie said, "and where our scholastic system is not merely a part of a huge political machine. Our teachers, unfettered, inculcate into our children those lii«h ideals which should enable them to use aright this <■ great freedom which is their heritage and which has been purchased through the centuries at so great a cost. It behoves us as school committee men and women to guard jealously this freedom which we enjoy."