SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD.
A special publication called The Police Gazette is printed daily at Scotland Yard and privately circulated to police officials throughout the country.
Glasgow police headquarters, the Scottish Scotland Yard, can throw a police net right round Glasgow within twenty minutes by a special signal-box system.
New Scotland Yard contains the fingerprints of more than five million known criminals.
When the C.I.D. was created, its staff consisted of 12 detectives, 9 sergeants, and 3 inspectors. Now there are more than 800 'tecs and fully 20,000 constables.
B. BALL.
THE PLACE OF ECONOMICS IN THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM.
A casual glance at many of the Public Examination syllabuses will reveal the word economics. In colleges and evening schools, students of all types are now studying this absorbing subject. It may be therefore of interest to parents and scholars to discuss briefly the merits and attraction of this branch of science. It must be recognized that economics is a study for older pupils, for the would-be economist will find it difficult to follow unless he (or she) has a good grounding in History and regional Geography.
Economics is simply a study of man's business life, singly and collectively. It is therefore a study of man and of welfare, of man's conditions as they are. Economics seeks to explain the present commercial system, not necessarily to justify it, hence it differs from ethics. To achieve this explanation, economics discusses the nature of wealth, its production, and distribution, the system of banking and taxation, of wages and profit. It embraces the heated questions of tariffs and international trade, of the gold standard currency and foreign exchange. Not least it relates the organization of industry and markets. These are some of the main problems dealt with by economics. It is not surprising then that State and municipal bodies, bankers and accountants, to mention a few authorities, place a considerable stress on the importance of this vital subject. But there is even a more essential need for the teaching of economics to-day. Never before has the ordinary citizen been called upon to pass judgment on such momentous issues. It is only by wise and well informed public that popular democracy can be saved from the various forms of dictatorship now raging over Europe.
WILLIAM THE SILENT.