May 8. ECOMMENDATIONS to leave the Board of Education to decide from time to time the amount of increases in grants-in-aid compatible with the maintenance of existing standards provided such increases should apply equally to total funds in aid of schools for Chinese and Japanese and" other foreign children, have been made to the S.M.C. by its special education committee, it was dis closed in an exhaustive report of the body issued yesterday.
The report is divided into the following eight sections: J, terms of reference; 2; the work of the com~ mittee; 3, historical background: 4, Yecommehdations on general policy? 43, recommendation on application of Tindamental principle; "6, recom= mendations on changes to present system; 7, "comments on present system' and 8, summary of sections and recommendations, The report part follows:
The Present System The Committee holds the view that the Municipal schools and educa tonal administration are maintained ata high standard "of eMicioney Which reflects credit on all con cerned, 'The question was discussed by the Committee ex to whether, oh the forthcoming "retirement _of the pre sent' Superintendent of Education, Successor" should, be "appointed, or Whether the post should be allowed lapse, leaving the Chinese Eduea~ tion" Ofiicer directly' responsible to the Counci for the running of alt Mynielpal" Schools for Chinese. chil-aren, and for grants-in-aid to other Chinese schools: "anda Foreign Edueatipn OMcer similarly directly responsible for' foreign Municipal fand-grant-aided schools, After dis. cussion the Committee "reached the conclusion thet it was, desirable to elain the present post of Super= Intendent. of Education, in_generat charge of the whole of the Counel's Education Department and system, and responsible therefore to. the Council. Tt was considered that the division of organization and respon sibility, "which would'" otherwise result, would impair the eMelency both Of the Internal administration and. of the external control of th Council's educational system, Te was however the view of the Committee that, in the interests. of economy, the post of Foreign Education Assist: fant might be discontinued, Chungking Suffers More Than London May 7.
The Shanghai Missionary Associa tion held a meeting at the -China Inland Mission, 1531 Sinza Road, yesterday, 'The 'Reception Committee was "composed of representatives from the Ching Inland Mission, China Bible Seminary, Sunday "School Union, Door of' Hope, Missionary Home, Free Christian School, and Christian and Missionary Alliance, There was a social hour during which tea was served and then there was singing and prayers conducted by Dr, F, J, Judd, Chairman of the ELM. Mr, Adam Black, secretary of the Missionary Association, read the minutes of the previous meeting and visitors, including Major George Walker who has recently succeeded Brigadier Morris, and Mrs, Walker, were Introduced, Dr, C. Stanley Smith in his address on his recent trip to West China, which was made partly by road and partly by alr, expressed surprise to find the Burma Road in such a good state of repair, Speaking of Chungking. he] said that he had received a letter' {rom England saying that there was) nothing in London among all its ruins to equal the damage done by Indis~ criminate bombing of China's Capital, Dr, Smith said that the cost of living)
"West China had increased over 1000 per cent, and that Chengtu was) the most expensive place to live in.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.