DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 95, Issue 14949, 20 May 1922, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

Every now and then the ex-Kaiser bobs nut. infn n littlp. nro-

Latest News of The ex-Kaiser.

out mio a 11 ltit? piuminence, assumes a momentary interest, and passes again into

the shadows of obscurity—usually a little less well thought of than before, if that were possible. • Now he is pilloried by his son, the ex-Crown Prince, who pictures him in the closing hours of defeat as a craven. Wilhelm certainly cut an inglorious figure in flight, and his few public appearances since have not been of a nature, calculated to inspire the respect of his late subjects. But the is said to still cherish hopes of returning to the Fatherland. Recently an enterprising American tried to interview him. *Many ingenious devices were brought into use, but without success; he could not get into personal touch with the exiled ruler. He did, however, get \ snapshot of him, and it has been published recently in some of the American magazines. It shows a grey-haired, full-bearded, rather dis-tinguished-looking old gentleman who appears to have just the beginning of a stoop—very unlike ‘Ore arrogant, upstanding, domineering Kaiser of the old-time portraits, yet like him, too, in a shbdued, furtive fashion. One gathers the impression that he has gone downhill fast both physically and mentally since his hurried retreat to sanctuary.in Holland.

The problem of the adolescent has just

The Problem of The Adolescent.

been discussed at the annual conference of the Australian State Teachers’ Federation’

in Melbourne (writes an Australian correspondent). In moving that the State unions be requested to give consideration to the question of the adolescent, with a view to the inauguration of a complete educational system, a New South Wales delegate said that in Sydney alone there were about 25,000 boys who received no education after *the age of 14 years, and yet at 21 they were compelled to enrol as citizens eligible to vote. , At election times they assimilated the arguments of soap-box orators or of biassed clergymen in pulpits, and generally repeated the “catch cries” usually dragged out at election times. There was no opportunity for them to form a calm, independent judgment. Boys on leaving-~school should be registered by a State Board, part of whose work would be to consider their mental characteristics and the bent they had shown in their school work. Some idea could then be obtained of the direction in which the boy’s future should, be directed. It was stated that only oneseventh of a boy’s time-was spent in school and six-sevenths of the time was spent at home or elsewhere. The conference agreed to the suggestion.