29 DECEMBER 1944, Page 12

STATUS OF THE TEACHER

Sta,—The following is a true story (the names, of course, are fictitious):— Taylor and Williams, both A.B.s in a destroyer, had been school- Masters. Taylor came from a well-known Public School, Williams from an urban elementay school, and he had not failed to make the rest of the crew aware of the fact. While engaged in a job of work with Taylor; an- other member of the crew asked him: "What Was you in civvies, Taylor?" "I was a school-teacher," Taylor replied. "Go on," said his companion, "we knew Williams vlas a teacher, but we thought you was something Posh, like a bank-clerk."—Yours, &c., Park House, Dollar, Clacknzannanshire. G. A. S. Dismr.