Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1947 — Page 26

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By HAL O'FLAHERTY Yi imes Foreign Correspondent

til the age of 15, Since 1900 chil-

in school only until they were 14. The British people yaised the school age at the

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at the age of 14.

To a visiting W American corre- Mr. O'Flaherty

‘spondent, this act is more portentous of h better future than all of the national planning. Fulfillment of Pledge Actually, Britain's school éystem

are not enough teachers, school houses or textbooks. But the new edict will be put into force even if the children have to attend make-| shift schools. This is not a simple reform of the | educational system. Many Englishmen consider it the | fulfillment of a pledge made while bombs were dropping on London and virtually the whole child population of southern England had been evacuated to the safer areas. Parliament at that time passed what is known as the “act of 1944.” This was the pledge made by the people's representatives that, when war ended, the children would’ be given the advantage of another year in school. School reform has come slowly to untry, largely becguse it was the seat of the industrial revolution and the first factories operating from the middle of the last century, until recent years, exploited children without mercy. Copyright, 1947, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

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minutes from the. citys enter, I5 &/we found the market—composed of | LONDON, April 3.—Educational magnet for visi-. Et * history was made this week when tors to this Soviet "school attendance in the United ' “Kingdom was made compulsory un-|were Covent Garden and Les Hal-{ "dren have been compelled to remain |) “ during prewar days.

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“discovered” by .| conference delegates and their staffs as well as visiting newspaper correspondents like myself.

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Moscow’ 5 ‘By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent

whole family participates.

MOSCOW, April 3.—London has its Covent Garden, Paris its Les S| We stopped first at. the milk At least 200 peasant

Halles, and Moscow its “Push-In Square.” Formally the Soviet Capital's largest “free” market is called the counter. Central food market. But you commonly hear it spoken of'as “Push-In women were lined up there, disSquare”—the only way to join its surging mass of buyers and sellers |pensing milk from five-gallon pails. being to push. | y were getting 10 rubles ($2) a “push-In Square,” being just 10 leagues in an: observation tour and | glass. They urged us to taste some. - wood “It's good milk,” they said. They Ca Sehiss of: large 1 wd angegs pointed to grandma standing beside evoted to the display of meat, oy ing out a wrinkled hand, I milk, fruit, vegetables and so forth! 'cupped to catch the little stream 3 |—a fascinating place. {they offered her to sample. : | It is run entirely by the peasants! We moved on to the meat market. |themselves. Shopping there re- There we viewed fine-looking beef {quires no ration tickets. After roasts at 100 rubles a kilo -(about {titeir families have been feds and $10 a pound). Then to the vege'the state allotment paid aver, the table stalls where cabbage was go- |

es for touristy

And it has been

{surplus products grown on their pound), carrots,

Mr. McGaffin

{And they may set their own prices |—within’ reason.

From miles around they come, | drinking - glass measure

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wrapped for the customer in old newspaper, Yes, there's plenty of bargaining |to at “Push-In Square.” To the query, “How much?” comes the inevitable answer, “I am asking,” in other words, “How much do you offer?” What do these people do with the profits they make on their produce? We spotted a good-natured-looking man clutching a wad of rubles,

asked, indicating the money.

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“I will buy bread with it,” he told me.

Grey Has Its Day

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farmers are permitted t§ bring in’ ing’ at 25 rubles a kilo ($250 a| | Pherson’s queen this coming May beets and onions, ‘will rest her crown on halr of grey. collective farms and sell them here. at 45 rubles a kilo ($4.50 a pound). "The May 14-16 event will be the Apples were here for the bargain- Kansas ing, and flour and starch, sold by | | Hopefuls for the title of Pioneer

city’s diamond jubilee.

“What will you do with that?" I

and (Queen must be at least 75.

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Firm Pays Back DEFIANCE, O. (U, P.).—The city of Deflance 15 years ago “cast bread upon the waters” by raising $4320

to give the Lectrolite Corp. a start in’ business. The firm has repaid;

the debt by turning over $11,450 for a city memorial park dedicated to Defiance’s service men and yomen of all wars, oF

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