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WHY should Aberdare have been made the cock-pit of the present conflict re- garding corporal punishment in schools ? The strangers outside our gates will probably infer that the present agitation against the use of the cane in schools is the direct outcome of some deeds of cruelty perpetrated by the teachers on their pupils. But is that so ? Most decidedly not. It is true that of late years a good many allegations of ex- cessive punishment have been levelled at the teachers in this district. Lads who have been soundly chastised—and not without cause—pour their griev- ances into the ears of credulous parents, who in turn relate harrowing tales to some Labour member or other who is always on the qui vive for such in- cidents and ever ready for a brief in such cases, thinking apparently that he is serving the cause of Labour by mak- ing the most of those trumpery charges. Now in justice to the teachers of Aber- dare—who are at present evidently stigmatised in the eyes of people who are not aware of the facts-it should be made known that everyone of those charges of cruelty which from time to time have been directed against the teachers have ignominiously fallen through, and the accused acquitted. In this issue we publish a letter written by a respectable parent in Aberdare, in which he pays a well-merited tribute-founded on personal experience—to the teach- ing fraternity in the district. His words, we are sure, echo the sentiments of a large number of thoughtful, judicious paterfamilias in the neighbour- hood. We venture to say that if the Labour members will study more care- fully the methods and motives of the teachers, who are themselves labourers in another sphere, they will find that their scholastic brethren are not a set of irresponsibles, always clamouring for a freer use of the cane, higher emolu- ments and more holidays. One mani- festation of the dignity of labour" should be a dignified treatment by workers of their co-workers in other fields of toil.
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SCRAPS. [BY THE SCRIBE.] Another instance of the plurality of tongues which the Revival is responsible for, In an English contemporary I read that a Welsh congregation sang with gusto a hymn beginning with the words Dyma cariad euange ae hen." Perhaps one of our Chinese readers will undertake to translate that line into English—or Welsh. -:0:- The Mountain Ash Education Committee have apparently a higher opinion of their teachers than the Aberdare Committee have of theirs. The former, at any rate, do not think their dominoes so susceptible to the pernicious influence of praise and flattery as other mortals, such as attendance officers- for instance. At the last meeting of the Committee it was agreed to congratulate the headmaster of a certain school upon the good attendance in that school, but the bestowing of praise on the attendance- officers was forbidden, lest it might make them too conscious of their worth and in- duce them to ask for a rise." -:0:- At the same meeting one member made- a reference to teachers known as articles. 68." Such a remark is as common as it i& offensive. To refer to a young lady teacher as an "article" is not fair, much less. gallant. But the blame for this lies at the door of Dr Macnamara himself. Many will remember that in a historic address which he delivered in this district, his sense of humour got the better of his discretion, and he made some jocular observations about the young woman known as article 68, whose only scholastic qualifications were to, be 18 years of age, and vaccinated." Is it a wonder that the lay mind is prone to copy the somewhat undignified example of the head of the N.U.T. caucus ? -:0:- As many of our readers are aware, "Anti- Nunquam is lecturing at Aberdare next Friday on Agnosticism and Christianity." The lecturer is a militant man, and the title savours of controversial powder. Some of Nunquam's disciples are talking of having him here to give his antagonist a gitid pro qito. But that would be like placing the horse after the cart. -:0:- I was glad to hear an Aberdare minister- at the Purity Crusade meeting making such an outspoken pronouncement against the practice of holding religious services up to a late hour. It was the right word in the right place. The Scribe has often said that it is useless to apply the whip of small cords, to the backs of the children of this world unless the temple is cleansed first of all, Now that a Levite has endorsed what the Scribe has written people vill doubtless- listen to it. —:o:— Many make hay while the sun of the Welsh revival shines, and in some instances they have gathered a good harvest. Since the first gleam shot over the Loughor horizon we have had here in Wales such energetic harvestmen as Gipsy Smith. General Booth, Editor Stead, and lastly Prophet Baxter. It was appropriate that he should come last, for he tells us of the end of all things and the crack' of doom in.. another quarter of a century. You who are engaged in drawing out leases, take note! -:0:- Even magistrates err sometimes, although they do not always admit an error, or modify a wrong sentence. However, at the Aberdare Police Court last week Sir T. Marchant Williams had no alternative but to revoke an allegation of forgery which in his haste he had made against an Aberaman man. By the way, I have not heard that his worship has withdrawn the unkind re- mark which he made regarding the Rev Peter Price, when he declared that the rev. gentleman had reclaimed not a single drunkard in the area of his jurisdiction. It will be remembered that at a subsequent meeting in Dowlais a converted drunkard, who had been fined by Sir Marchant, but reclaimed by the Rev Peter Price, gave the retort courteous to the Stipendiary. —: o :— Disraeli said, "It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." Probably Sir Marchant found it much easier to criticise the Rev Peter Price than to correct his erroneous criticism. -:0:- One member of the Aberdare Education Committee is confident that the cane can be dispensed with in our elementary schools because in the Sunday School to which he adds no little lustre there is no rod to check the erring and reprove." However, another Sunday School teacher assures me that the rodless rule greatly handicaps him in his noble calling. He believes that the awe-inspiring presence of the sugar stick" would be far more effectual as a reproving agency than the remote prospect of a drub- bing by the hangman of creation." When Chamberlain was a Sunday School teacher he did not spare the cane. -:0:- Last week was a lucky one for Aberdare. Musical Cynonites were victorious at Lon- don, and muscular Cynonites won at Os- westry. Rhyl were defeated although they had a clergyman in their ranks—or was that the cause of it ? A clergyman sporting the football jersey What a commentary on the anti-sport attitude of the extreme revivalists! -:0:- A correspondent tells me that an ardent revivalist, who is engaged at a local brewery, emphatically disclaims in the presence of his co-workers at the brewery any connection with the Revival. Our friend has probably his convictions but not the courage thereof. -:0:- Is the Welsh revival to be the harbinger of a no-cane era ? We are told that owing to the revival the children of Bangor have become so docile and submissive that the cane is not required in the schools there, and the teachers are burning their sticks, If the movement had had a similar effect on Aberdare children the Labour members would have been justified in bringing for- ward their rodless motion at the present time. -:0:- At the Fancy Dress Ball held at Aber- dare on Wednesday a garb which attracted much attention was one which was a fac- simile copy of a newspaper contents bill. One line announced the report of the last meeting of the Aberdare Education Com- mittee and read thus Use of the cane in schools-climb down at Aberdare." It was a strikingly original design, and m view of the fact that it was a Teachers' Ball it was singularly appropriate.
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Two or three decades ago Aberdare was the cradle of song. The achievements of its Cor Mawr will ever be inter- twined with its history. Its musicians and bards of that period have bad their names writ large on the scroll of Welsh national heroes. Afterwards it drifted into an apostasy of song. No giants were made, neither was the race elevated. Some said that we were getting too materialistic. Others asserted that we were getting too spiritualistic—if that is the proper word. However we are glad to note that there are signs that the dark ages" of music in Aberdare are passing away, and that a renaissance of song is at hand. There has been another battle of the musical giants on the banks of the Thames, and as before a choir from the banks of the Cynon has captured the coveted trophy. Aberdare is justly jubilant. This victory, we hope, marks the advent of a revival in our musical record. It comes at a seasonable period-just at the outset of a season which will welcome the old national festival to the Aberdare Valley. May the sons of Cynon-and why not its daughters also ?-go forth conquer- ing and to conquer.