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(TIIAIKLOTTETWNVN. WEDNESDAY, DEC. '7, 1949
lll-gher EilucatlonalT-osts
In an attempt to show the comparative costs of university attendance in different parts of Canada, a survey recently issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics goes into a great deal of detail. It lists not only the average cost of such major items as in- structional fees and board and room, but also gives figures covering clothing, laun- dry. health services, recreation, local transportation and other expenses. According to the survey, it will cost more for a _vear‘s study at lVIcGill than at. any other university in Canada; and the in- stiiulion where a student can get by at low- est cost is Saskatchewan. At McGill, the average annual cost of a male student tak- ing arts and science is $1,247 and at Sas- katchewan it is $892. The cost in lVlanitobn is shown as $992, Alberta, $1,022 and Brit- ish Columbia, $923. The cost at the On- iario universities ranges from $895 at Ot- tawa to $1,086 at Toronto. In the lliziri- times, the range is from $960 at Dalhousie to $1,115 at New Brunswick.
While the figures are of interest, says the Winnipeg Free Press, it is doubtful if they can be of any great value for any pros- pective student trying to determine where he can get a university education at lowest cost.
In the first place, the survey was taken in the 1947-48 academic year, and at a con- siderable number of universities instruc- tional fees have been raised since then. ’ Unless the increases were in the same pro- portion, which they were not, this one item alone would upset the comparisons,
In the second place, the actual figures themselves may be open to some question on the ground that the survey did not cover a sufficient number of students. It was conducted by the Bureau of Statistics and the National Federation of Canadian Uni- versity Students. Questionaires were sent out in sufficient quantity to have given a 10 per cent sample of the students in 1O of the larger universities. But the response was below the 1O per cent figure.
After exposing the survey to further analysis, the Free Press concludes that only two impressions remain. They are that it probably costs more to attend university in the east than in the west and that no mat- ,‘ ier where a student goes, his university edu- cation will cost plenty of money. It would not have been too hard to reach these con- clusions even without the help of DBS and the National Federation of Canadian Uni-
versity Students.
Power To Tax
An attempt to establish self-government, the crux of democracy, in the model village of Deep River withered and died. So runs a Canadian Press report of the testimony of the chief of the National Research
EDITORIAL NUT ES
We are entering upcn a year of great prosperity, as the building plans indicate, not only in the City, Summerside, George- town and Montague, but all over the Island.
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A bill to ban crime comic books has been passed by the Commons and will probably become law. We may expect the bench and bar to extend their reading to this new field.
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“You never miss water till the well rims dry," is the lesson many communities are lczirning just now, including New York (Tiiy. Providing adequate water supplies is a long range project, and those responsible must plan for possible changes in consump- tion to which the rest of us give never a thought.
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It seems that highway building goes on behind the Iron Curtain also. The govern- ment of Roumania has decreed that men from 18 to 56, and women from 18 to 45, with certain exceptions, shall work from two to twenty days a year on road build- ing. Statute labour was once common on the Island but has long been recognized as
inefficient.
The Welfare Council's report that some 2,800 children were placed for adoption through other than recognized social agen- cies is not, on the face of it, cause for alarm. The children are not numbered “cases", and there are many circumstances to bring about adoptions without the inter- veniion of an official agency.
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Justice Minister Garson declares, not perhaps with originality, but with convic- tion, that Canada is one of the most diffi- cult countries in the world to govern. We should rejoice in that fact. Germany has always been an easy country to govern, but it certainly did not benefit the German people.
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In New Zealand a poll on the liquor licensing issue also was hcld in conjunction with the general election and the country voted overwhelmingly in favor of continu- ing the present law, which provides that bars close at 6 p.m. However, they turn- ed down prohibition. O
Re-introduction of the pre-war ban on British servicemen standing as parliament- ary candidates reminds one of a curiosity of parliamentary reporting. In Hansard, all members are referred to as honourable, lawyers as learned and soldiers as gallant so that, in war time, at least, a barrister
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THE WORST OFFENDER
Sin-Today I read of two boys of high school age being sen- ienced to jail and strap in Brant- ford, Ontario. Pat Marco, gaming house keeper, gets a two hundred dollar fine.
lliedical science, before pfCFZflb- ing for an illness, seeks the cause and gets at the root of the trouble. Why does the law nut give the IP-ai Marcos of this country jail sentences and a few lashes. and get at the root of much of our crime?
I am, Sir, oic.. CONCEKNED Albany, P. E. 1., Dec. 6th, 1949.
._.________ ANGLICAN COMMUNION
Sin-The following information respecting the Anglican commun- ion may be of general interest to your readers:
The official name of the church in this country is: The Church of England in Canada. For years there has been discussions at Church Synuds regarding the ques- tion of fixing on a shorter and more Convenient name.
The following is t-he name oi the Church in scvcral other coun> tries: The Church of England; The Church of England in Aus- tralia and Tasmania; The Episco- pal Church of Scotland; T-hc Church in Ireland; The Church in Wales; The Church of the Prov- ince of New Zeal-and; The Church of the Province of South Africa; The Churchkof the Province of the West Indies; The Church of India, Burma and Ceylon; The Holy Catholic Church in China; Japan Holy Catholic Church; The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
I am, Sir, etc" Cl-[URCI-IMAN.
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THE VELOCIPEDE
“Quite a commotion was created at the Prince County Exhibition at Summerside on Wednesday by the appearance on the grounds of a velocipede manufactured by Mr. Burns. This vehicle is a novelty in the Island, but we believe it will yet be brought into general use. Its construction is very. sample. It rims on three wheels, one of which turns on a swivel, and steers the course. The others are propelled by the feet of tfhe person riding. The owner informs us that an experienced person can easily ride twelve miles an h-our on it. If this be correct. saddle- horses bid fair to become things if the past."
serving in the armed forces would be de- scribed as the Honourable, Learned and Gal- lant member for .
Admiral Michel Ney, gen, Prince of Moskowa, shot this date 1815. He rose from the ranks to become Marshal of France in 1804. He won the battle of Elchingen, which secured the capitulation of Ulm. After the battle of Friedland in 1808, he received from Na- poleon the description “brave des braves":
Duke of Elchin
- Council. An attempt was made at launch- ing a community council for the 2,000 of a 7 population, but it didn't get very far. It was difficult to get them interested. The reason, as seen by the testimony, and there seems no reason to quarrel with it, is lack of responsibility because the people have no direct financial interest. There are no local taxes. The village is run and financed by the N. R. C., last year's deficit of $263,000 being met out of the parliamentary vote. There is no doubt but that its affairs are efficiently run by experts from Ottawa, but the failure of self-government provides a timely warning against local bodies and Provinces surrendering their taxing powers to the Federal Government and expecting people to continue to take an intuflt in their other responsibilities.
Oanailzrs Voice Abroad
Canada's participation as a major power 1n world affairs is reflected in the growth of this country's diplomatic service. Today I Canada is represented by diplomats and ~' their assistants in 33 countries. The de- partment of external affairs employs 1,248 persons at home and abroad. This is a far cry from pre-war days when Canada's external interests were handled by 174 officials, _and it is still farther removed from the time when Canada's affairs in foreign countries were handled by British diplomats.
Canada became of age diplomatically 3- in 1943 when our representative in Wash- ington was raised to the status of ambassa- dor. That step was probably "ecessafy t0
=¢ convince Americans that this country is as
r independent as any other. Since then the l’ Canadian government has established 13 l‘ other embassies. It has eight legations, six __ _ mars’ offices,_seven consul- ' Mates-general,’ five consulates and two United Nations offllfl-
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subsequently he won the battle of Borodino and led the retreat from Russia. He was shot at the Restoration, and a statue to his memory was erected on the spot. O Under the heading, “Help from Canada", a recent leader in the “Times" newspaper said: “No better instance of practical friendship could be found than the record of the Canadian Red Cross, which is now closing down in Britain after 10 years of splendid service. It leaves behind as a standing memorial, the Canadian Red Cross Hospital at Cliveden, which is, among oth- er things, a research centre for rheumatic- cardiac conditions in children. All this work had its source in thousands of local committees and small workrooms scattered throughout Canada, and, on this side of the Atlantic, thousands of men and women re- member gratefully the benefits received through this great spontaneous Welling-up
of Canadian generosity." I
Eight years ago on‘ December 7, 1941, Canada declared war on Japan a few hours after that country's brutal sneak attack on Pearl Harbour. Canada acted in advance of most countries. The United States and most countries of the Commonwealth did not declare war against Japan until Decem- ber 8th. Japan’s action forced the United States into the war in Europe, also. On December 11, both Germany and Italy de- clared war on the U. S. and the States ac- cepted the challenge. Canadian troops then stationed at Hong Kong were immedi- ately thrown into the thick of the fighting. Against overwhelming odds they held out for two weeks but were forced to sur- render on Christmas Day when the situa- tion became hopeless. In all, 555 Canadians including their Commander, Brig. J. L. Law- son, were killed ln defence of the island or died later as a result of malnutrition in Japanese prison:- I Ill‘ camps.
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The Bill Presented Brightly and truthfully the Montreal Gazette sums up New Zealands election: “It is often said, when speaking of Socialist governments, that ‘nobody will shoot. Santa Claus’. But a Sonia Claus who comcxs back with the bill and insists upon paymen- ceases to appear such ‘a right- jully old 01F."
New Zealands Socialist Santa Claus came back with the bill. For iilie promises he had put into stockings, shorter hours with more pay, all sorts of nlhcr things. including free medical treatment brought. to back doors, plus freedom from wani and fear, he demanded a 20 per cent. sales tax, other taxes the highest in the world. The dream of Utopia faded.
Clear as crystal lS uhe lesson.
It is not iihe idea of the “sc-r- vice state" in itself that. is wrong. One cannot quarrel with high humanitarian theories. What is wrong, though. and desperately, is the notion that there can_be multiplication of stale SCTVICPS witihout everybody having to pay; iihe notion that a government somehow has money of its own take care of the costs; the failure to understand that in this world little or nothing can bc "free“. but that costs, met by subsidies from taxes, with heavy burden upon enterprise and production. must in the cnd be paid for by all.
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--- The Examiner, Oct. 3, 1363
IVIIO WEIIE BEFORE ME
Long time in some forgotten church- yard earih of Warwickshire,
My fathers in their generations lie beyond desire,
nothing breaks the rest, I know. of John Drlnkwater 110W,
left in sixteen-seventy his roan team at the plough.
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And James. son of John, is there, n mighty ploughiman too,
Skilled he was at thatching and the DEFIPYCOTn brew.
And he had a heart-load of sorrow in his driy.
But. ten score of years ago he put it. away.
Then Thomas came, and played l, fiddle out of mellow wood,
And broke his heart, they say, for love that. never crme to good.
A hundred winter peals and more IIBNB- rung above his bed-
O. poor eternal grief. so long, so lightly comforted.
And ln the gentle yesterday these were but glimmering tombs,
Or tales to tell on fireside eves of legendary dooms;
I being life While they were none, what. had their dust. u; brig
But cold intelligence of death upon my tide: of spring?
Now grief is in my shadow, and it. seems well enough
To be there with my fathers, where nelbher fear nor love
Can touch me more, nor mite of men. nor my own teasing blame.
While the 510w mosses weave an end of my forgotten name.
qlohn Drlnkwater.
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There are services, to be sure. which iihe State may render. But when acceptance of that fact passes to the point where every ‘ort of aid and service is prom- sed to everybody and expected by everybody. with a benevolent‘. State undertaking to eliminate everybodys difficulties and frus- trations, then ahead are but two things: Crushing taxes which ultimately must bring bankruptcy and misery, and vrith it men re- duced to parasitism and servility.
And n-ot the least is the aspect of servility. The service state, taking over all functions of pub- lic service. operating through bureaus and with wide powers and little practical restrictions on such powers. and with systematic official propaganda and a system of subsidies. can easily be taking strides towards an absolute gov- ernment. although under forms of democracy.
There is. finally, the moral as-
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pcct, A government which re- gards itself as, under pretext. of UXiCIlClliIg a general welfare scr- vice lo the public. entitled to rob Prier io pay Paul, must have I bad effect on the morale of every- body. For if government is a de- vice for benevolent robbery, a would-be Robin Hood of today is not. liksly to see why his benevo- lcnily-conceived activities are re- prehensible. What is called the in- surance doctrine, the theory that misfortunes which are the lot. of human existence should be insur- ed against by some form of gen- eral social sharing of the burden.
may be in iiheory humanitarian. But the postulate that every loss to anyone should be shifted to someone ele bctier able to pay. however good ii may seem, is not I only not dofcnsible but is in fact a -fallacy. The burden, in the end, is lbornc by everybody.
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How everybody bears that bur- den dcpcns upon the measure of the wealth wihich the people of a state, collectively, produces. Production must precede distribu- tion; tihe cart must. not. be put be- fore the horse; and everything must be paid for. Finally, there is no way by which a government can deal with last things as thougih they were first. Roscoe Pound, hhe great Harvard jurist and philosopher, put IIIIG truth clearly when he said recently:
"A state which endeavours tn relieve its people of want. and fear without being able to relieve its individual citizens of the many features of the human make-up which lead to want and fear is attempting wihat the colored preacher aptly called unscrewing of the inscrutable."
Edith Taylor. 71-year-old recluse, believed to be wealthy, died in hospital Friday night from mal- nutrition and gene-ml ill health. Police are trying to locate rela- tives of the. woman. Miss Tayilor is rumored to have owned pro- perty ivcmih 8100.000, but. her wealith has not yet been accurate- ly determined.
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HAMILTON, Dec. 4 — (CF) -
‘l London i: Justified in joining other major cities in Canada in a universal protest to Ottawa against a government formula which leaves them unable to qualify for grants in lieu of taxatioti on gov- ernment properties. In London as in most large cities federal property assessment is less than the arbitrary four percent laid down by Mr. Abbott. This basis of calculation 1S considered unjust. in many communities where ris- ing costs re making civic admin- istration a heavy burden. -— Lon- don Free Press.
A report in the Buffalo Courier- Exoress stated that the Lackn- wanna Detachment of the Marine Corps League is making arrange- mens for a ball. That. item of news did not interest us at all. but what did interest us was the list of names nf the ex-Marines who are to carry out bhe arrange- ments. There are Ray L. Puchalski, Anthony Tyrpak. Frank Niedzela,
Matthew Spychala. Adam Kus- miercz. Joseph Pavacit-"i and Marlon A. Surowiecki. Nn d-oub‘.
they were all good Marines and are good Americans. -— St. Thomas Times-Journal.
Electric gadgets are not capable of looking after all the daily chores. They will not feed chic- kens, draw the water from wells, tend to that kitchen garden, pre- pare the poultry for market, keerp the house soic and span or do the mending. There is more to a big Monday's was-hing than a purring machine. It takes a good pair of arms to get the clothes on the
are dry. The hired man and a horse or two are still indispen- sable, dtxspite that imposing ar-
plement shed. The hired girl is just as essential. Not much is heard about her. Perhaps she is too busy to do much talking about herself. But the rural scene would be lost without her. It is time that her importance was recogn- lzeci-Hamilton Spectator.
Lorenzo Dow was n famous
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DECEMBER 7, 1949
Connecticut Ya“ died 1334. and nlifli“,.‘"l- nent itinerant preacher lllllolln‘ earl!’ Years of the 19th ccntu He crisscrossed this country ry. toured Canada, and the Bald: ‘Iilrgse fieacliing the wrath 1,, m . P around Romney, W. Va. e story is still told of how ‘h’ redoubiablc Dow at One Qilpl famous bush meetings aflu. careful instructions had hltldrne: Pol’ with a big dinner horn high in a tree under which he pa, holding forth. and then at ll] climax of his sermon when ht had whipped his listeners 1mm "P?" hy$l°fia by his (inscription of the final judgment “med 101151)’. “Gabriel, blow mu,- hornl" ‘wllfiffdlliflll the lad 1on1. ed a might toot and tho mnqnza. tion went into a frenzy of l: 1' After aw_hilc Dow quieted r11; crowd. explained his hoax hv callimz attention to the boy, hon} in hand now making his wav down the tree. and pointed this inevitable moral that if fhev were so scared bv a lin ll\"l_ what would they do at the sound of Gabriel's trumnet on th" last dayZ-Letter in Washington Post.
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