16 FEBRUARY 1945, page 13

Sir Chhotu Ram

Sue,—Too little attention has been paid in this country to the recent death of a really great plan. Sir Chhotu Ram died in the middle of last month. Half of my service was spent......

The Palestine Mandate

SIR, —Mr. Hammersley's letter is refuted by facts. He says there are "over half a million Jews in Palestine " ; that "it is possible to say that the problem of Jewish......

Cost Of Living

Stu,—I see you say in your article on war gratuities that the cost of living will be appreciably higher than it was in 1919. May I point out that it is now 102 points above the......

Affirmation Or Oath ?

SIR, —Why should it be necessary to take the oath or nuke an affirmation at all? It should surely be enough for the Clerk to say that perjury is a penal offence and to state......

Cliches

Sta,—Having read.in a dozen periodicals, high and low, this week anent the , war that "anything may happen at any moment " it was with relief that I turned from such bathos and......

, The Teacher's Reward

Sm,—" Paterfamilias " appears to suffer from what is an understandable misapprehension to those unaware of the details of the proposed new Burnham scales. Headmasters and......

Moles

SIR, —Dr . Kitching invites me to answer some interesting questions about moles and their ways. I wish I could respond with confidence ; but my first-hand knowledge of that......

Wrong Things To Teach

SIR, —Constance Reaveley's article, in your issue of February 2nd, is very much to the ..point. Education should be for life in the fullest sense. Today it can rightly be said......