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l the immediate calculation of electoral votes. i'I'he next few months will show whether his assumptions about the economy are correct and whether the Congress is ready to ac- cept his advice.

nnd.-lildi-injring Director. llll 5- 3" Auocllte Editor, Frank w-um.

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Idldtlonary Education

There is a certain similarity between the inflationary process in economics and the stresses to which modern education is being itstibjxted. Inflation, whatever its original

'cause may be, is characterized by the w- - ascending spiral of higher prices resulting 22' ml--.in the necessity of higher wages and other iil'iCOillBS which in turn require higher prices 'in order to pay the increased costs. Unless there is simultaneously an increase ir pro- duction there can be no overall improve- ment in the standard of living. The larger pay cheques are exchanged for the same quantity and quality of goods as before.

As money is the yardstick in economics, so degrees and certificates are regarded as i iSian(i Radio Bmadcasiing Coniiiiini,-i Ltd., the measure of educational qualifications:

,The possession of a degree or at least a

and as one of the pioneers in radio broad ' i i i i ' casting in Canada. His interest in this fieidibigh sc-hooi certificate is obxiiousl): a flesh” able thing ill its ivay Just as bringing home

stemmed from his early training as an ' Army Signals officer. He read evcrytliiiig 3 lat DRY 0hV9l0D9 has 115 'cidV3hl'rlf19S- The difficulty is that not all students are

available on the subject, and experimented . I I capable of or interested in the kind of

indefatigably with the early types of rc-i

(-giving sets before embarking upon broad-iwork that is represented by the award of nasiinn an ii Cai.e,.i-i Gi-owing up with ihcithe degree or certificate. The temptation is, indnsiii. imni iis infant days, he became 3 therefore, to alter the requirements for its recognized authority on its mysteries, all'.liaii3iTlmClli- 10 DCl'mit it i0 U6 SW9" l0l' 3 a prominent architect of iis growth and dc. variety of qualifications sufficiently broad

velopment in the Maritimes. Recently hc:t0 allow all to attain the goal-

was engaged in preparing for a still morci There is much to be said ff-1' Eh'ihiI everyone the same number of years in

ambitious program of television in this sec- .iinn nie Canada, and iiiei-9 is no quesijoifscliool but it must be recognized that if the but tnai his knowiedge and experience fit.i0id certificates and degrees are distributed ied him admimbiy for ieadei-ship in thi5il0 all they will rapidly lose value. It would iiein as woiii ibe unfair to lead young people to think As president. of the insuraiice company 0ihG1'WiSe- ll. f0I' H time. the Public COW Of W. K Rogers Lid” Coioiiei Rogers iogkitlnues to accept the official qualifications prominent part in the business activitigs ofiat their old value then it is the public that the community, notably in connection with is being Sh0Fl-Changed and diS3PP0ihlCd- the Charlottetown Board of Trade and Rot- m---- ary Club. He was an able speaker and in-, teresting commentator on national and in-ii iernational events as well as on subjects ofl Gibraltar was ceded to the British local concern. He also maintained, through-lCrown by Spain in 1713 under the provis- out his adult life, a keen interest in mili- ions of the Treaty of lftrecht; a British 3 tary affairs and did much to improve theipossession and fortress it has remained to efficiency of the Signals Corps, which he this day. In no sense is it a menace to . commanded for several years. lSpanish sovereignty; on the contrary cir-

Colonel Rogers was zealous in boostlnglcumstances might very well arise which his native Province at home and abroad, lnjwould make it of invaluable assistance to developing Island talent and encouraginglthe security of the Spanish nation. the younger generation in every way. Hf. Considering Gibraltar's importance to contributed generously of his time and Britain's world-ivide responsibilities and, means to community causes of all kinds. indeed, to the military and commercial setting a fine example of public spirited strength of the wholefree world, it is un- citizenship as well as of personal enterprise thinkable that any British government and jnmativp, would seriously consider relinquishing title

The Guardian joins with all our citizcnsito it. This the Spanish people, who are in extending sinccrc sympathy to Mrs. Rog-i by no means lacking in military sense, must ers and family on this occasion, in the losslrealize. They must realize, too, that it is of one whose home life was a particularly only right and proper that the Queen happy one, who enjoyed and appreciated should stop off at this important corner of more than anything else the felicity itvher realms during the course of her Com- brought. and the opportunity for hospital- monwealth and Empire. itinerary. More- ity and genial fellowship it. afforded over, the Spanish are, by tradition, a grac-

.A,.A.A.A------ ious and chivalrous people. Eisenhower poucies It is, therefore, not easy to understand A.-- why they have allowed a few over-ambitious Tlirougliout the autumn of 1953, notes demagogues among them to incite them to he Winnipeg Free Press, various officials cheap and tawdry demonstrations which, of Mr. Eisenhower's Government and many according to news reports, are scheduled private economists were arguing that thc,for the day of Her Majesty's visit. Such gears of the financial system must be re-ldemonstrations could have no practical vcrscti to head off ii decline in business. The i value so far as Spanish prcstigc is concerii- proposed remedies included tax reducti6ns.:ed;.tliey might even weaken that prestige increased spending. larger (i(;)lliiCilS anid govA- in its relationship with friendly neigh- 'crnmcntal investment in pu ic ivor s. ours. 1: minor school of British economists coniri-, butcd the announcement that. failing a mas- sive reversal of policy along these lines, the United States would shortly encounter ii devastating collapse. like that of the nine- tecn-thirties.

It is apparent from the President's rcccnt State of the Union message to the Congress that he has rejected this counsel as being ' based upon erroneous assumptions and l i.dangcrous. Mr. Eisenhower docs n( be-

: lleve that the United States economy faces .5 serious pcril or anything worse than a small grdrop from the record production of 1953. 3: His conclusion is supported by such facts .as these: The gross national prcduct, i". though dropping slightly in the last days Ejof 1953, amounted to the almost unimagin-

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FRIDAY, JAN.

The Late Colonel Rogers

News of the sudden death last eveningi of Lieut. Colonel Keith S. Rogers will com? as a shock to all our citizens, and to thous- ands of friends and acquaintances through- out the continent.

Colonel Rogers was, of course, best

known as the founder and president of the

Tawdry Demonstrations

EDITORIAL NOTES

That the Federal Minister of Agricul- turc should have been put on vitamin treat- ments is perhaps a symptom of some of agriculture's difficulties. If Canadians took time out to eat wisely they would enjoy bet- ter health and the farmer a better liveli- hood.

New houses in Scotland in 1953 are likely to have reached a record total of 40,000, when the year's final figures are known, reports News from Scotland. In the past eight years over 200.000 new ,houses have been built and one family in every seven has moved into a brand-new home. The face of Scotland is changing.

i able figure of S-365 billions for the year, was ': four times that of 1939 and 175 per cent. The old pattern of grey, stone-built, high 7 higher than in 1946. Employment was tenement flats is giving place to one of :I over 60,000,000. Investment. though do-1 new brick terraced houses, with gaily col- clininz 50mCWh3l- W35 "1079 than five times, oured roofs and exteriors finished in 1 that of the prewar level. Mr. Eisenhowcrl variety of modern styles. ' i i therefore refuses to be "shaken by self-ap-j ' - 0 . pointed peddlers of gloom and doom". andl Lenin, or Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov, first to "deal in pic-in-the-sky promises to all. president of the Union of Socialist and nor in bribes to a few, nor in threats to Soviet States of Russia, died this date 1924. i any." -His father was a school inspector but Len- I Considering the pressures around him.i”in's early years were spent in an atmos- ths greoidenfs decisions, as stated definite-iphere of revolutionary protest. He was in the field of Government fiscal policynseventeen when" his brother was executed. courage, but they are dependent. i He came under the influence of Marx; par- Nurh. on the views of ll Congress great- i ticuiarly because of the horrors of the C - with its popularity in this'famine of 1891. He was essentially a olectionn for as fiscal policy is-realist and became a leader of the rev- .. .. - the FNNCGM puts the welfareiolutionary party. In 1903 the party split tpqntry. the soundness of' money and Lenin headed the majority or bolshe-

of free enterprise above' viki. "Pravda" was his personal organ. in

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open in tho discussion by currcspomicnts of questions of interest. The Guardiiin does not. neccnsim iiy endorse the opinion of correspondents.

A('Ai)i'.Ml(7 STANl)ARl)S Sir,-in Wezlnesdays issue The Guarrlian, the author of "We Our Nciglibours" drrhes Dr. v's avscrtioii tit-at "p:'o:i'r.rs-i l5 nimpaizt in U.S. piibllc

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.s. Frank's oozitention is noti supported by Arthur E. Brstor in his book "Educational Was-telands" 11953). On page 55, he quotes from the official report. of the National ASE'O3lt'lll0ll of Secondary-

School Principals, the following statements made by n schcol principal: "Tn-rough the years

we've built fl sort. of halo around lending, writing, and arithmetic. We've said they were for every- body. The Thrrc R's for All Chil- dren and All Children for the Three Rls!

"When we come to the realiza- tion that not every child has to read. figure, write and spell. then we shall be on the road to im- proving the junior high cuiu'icu- lum. Betwee-n this day and that, a lot of selling must take place. We shall some day accept the thought that it is just. as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on the violin."

The author himself declares on pages 57-58: "The classical lang- uages have virtually disappeared from the high schools, but the modem foreign languages have been buried alive with them in I common, unmarked girave-gram- mar itself has become an obscene word to most. )')l'(.lPSsiOllEli educat- ionlsts.

"We niiist. face tlie facts. Up- niirl-coiiiiiiz put;-'.ir school educat- innists are not talking about: sub- siltutliig one scholarly discipline for another. They stopped talking about that years ago. They are talking about the elimination of all scholarly dis-:iniiiie's,

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zccogn ed. is the firm establishing the digiizty of woman. Grcai. pagaii cultures have flourished anti still flourish. but a common bio: on the lustie of all of them is the tiegraciation of the position of no- man. In many culiurcs the hap- pineu and pleasures of man are the end of all. and all aspects of society are subordinated accord- ingly. The oondition of Roman society before the influences of Christianity were felt. is sufficient. illustration of the result when the proper place of woman is not un- derstood. Indeed many of the more unpleasant aspects of our own culture are directly traceable to the refusal by man to give,and the failure of women to demand. that respect which is more con-i sonant. with her purpole in life and conducive to the better func- tioning of society.

Because God chose A woman. Mary, to make possible His divine plan of salvation, and because Chi-ist.l:i.n society has since honor- ed her as the ideal of woman- hood, women in I true Christian culture enjoy I unique position. Not only has Christianity given a model whereby woman's true posi- tion is to be determined, but it has establlslied the realization

is not in time but in eternity. Also, a woman as a person is equal in human dignity to the pcsssssors of me earth and is therefore to be treated as B crea- ture of God desiring salvation while being of assistance to oth- ers on the same path. This is the legacy of womanklnd in I Chris-

tian culture.

Because of various cusioins in Hindu society arising either from original texts of sacred books, from the necessity of the moment. or from additions to and misinterp- retation: of the law books, Indian women traditionally have led very trying lives. Their position in the present day has betiered consider-

which the professional education- lsto are busily fashioning. Behind ii.. in slave-labor camps, are the cla:s.:'oom teachers, whose only hope of rescue is from without. On the hither side lies the free worlti of science and learning, menaced but. not yet. mnquerecl. American intellectual life iathi-ent.-

ably but it. is still far from what could be desired. Speaking of an Indian woman generally, it. may be said that as fl. wile she is shown some consideration by the family, as a mother she is obeyed. but as a woman having I human pemcmallty and human feelings

fatiicr is already iiiakliig plans for! She iilll not be.

t a new law says she must noti -but such affairs take a long, tznie in the amrangiiig and socinli custom demands that the father succeed in finding h-er a lliiEJnDti.

lien he fails to do so. C01ll'.7ll will be looked down upon by soci- ety and will be a burden for the rest of her days as snc is main- talned by her father.

The husband-hunt. s succus. both Comola and her father are not yet rid of their worries. First of all come: the problem of the, d-awry which is of great. import-, ance and usually the deciding fac- l

tor in determining whether or noti she does get. a husband. Besideal rediiciiig marriage to the level of ii financial transaction, the custom of a large doiv:y will in most cases spell permanent. 0 l l rulli for the bride! father. Butt because he may get someexchange from the father of the groom and he is rid of the obligation of maintaining his daughter. it father may not fare too badly, provided he does not have many daughters. The dowry on the outer hand sometimes tend: to make mor- riages more permanent. This is so because as long as the mar- riage lasts, t-he property given as dowry is shared by both husband and wife, but on failure of the marriage, the more of

noccnt party. This in most cases

is sufficient. reason for caution by

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of the young bride as pitiful. She may have been crying for joy but the oircunistances would not. war- rant that conclusion. Because girls have little freedom of move- ment. and are not permitted any association with those of the other sex, the chances are that the young lady meeu her husband tor the lust. time at their mar- rlnac or at most. knew him previ- ously as A friend of the family or as an acquaintance. Also the fact that oh: is leaving her home and village for the am. time to live in the household of her husband. does not add to her comfort no matter how pleased one may or may not be with her new compon- ion.

she, is not thought too much of. . . .

ened because the first 12 years of formal schooling in the USA. no falling more and more completely under the policy-making control of it new breed of educator who has no real place in the world of scientists, scholars, and profes- sional men."

It Ls fervently to be hoped that "progresslvlsm" has not got the same stranglehold on our educat- ional system as it has on the Am- erican. There. teachers are ex- pected to grapplewith ouch prob- lems as "improving the Chlld'l appearance", "selecting a family tlent.ist.", "making things", "tinker- ing hobbies". "developing whole- some boy-girl relationships". "cam.pinrg', "collecting art. ob- JCCU". "doing parlor otunu”, etc. American teachers are virtually condemned to play the ingloriouo role of undeistudlea to every health official except the pedicure.

Dorothy Thompson agrees with Dr. Neatby that the remedy to "to go all the way back to wroditlonall education". "Unless the West gets back to the real roots of its cul- ture, it will simply end in moral and intellectual chaos", Joya Dor- dhy.

If we have to lower our aca- demic standards to ouch a level that the. classroom becomes a congenial place for congenital duiiuda. chronic oluuum, and quul-morons. we then opoedily become a nation of "bowel of wood and drawers of water."

I am, Dir, etc.,

Perhaps I better picture can be had by following from birth the fortunes of one whom vieshallcall Comola. At. her birth the family ireioiced but little and her father was even disappointed. For both religion: and practical reasons they would have preferred a boy. -but,...Thingo would be worse for Comola. had one lived a few gen- eration: ago for she might in ion exposed to die or else be thrown into a nearby strum considered as sacred. Quite possibly in her later life Abe will regret. not bev- tn; met this fate. but right now an a. tot unconscious of her our- roundinu the is happy. nu mo. ther is very busy about the houoe but. Oomola in not looking care and affection. The family is large With, muiv aunts. uncles and OOUSLHI. and no they all share in the tub of caring for her, she to unaware of the existence of any- one she would regard u 3 mom. er. Soon she is able to do unnli Job: such an scouring pots, an-y. Inc brnaii Jar: of water or sweep- ing the floor. Any effort. 1. en. couru-ed for than in much to be done: The odds are against Co- "Wlll Rhine on education for there is Probably no ochool in the vicinity. Ind if there it one. either ner society does not approve of education for women or the am- ount. of work to be done in the "”"'9h0W l'Ni.llM.l her Instance.

W. J. HEIGHT.

Charlottetown

By the time she has reached the FIG of reason. moot likely her

After the completion of tho mar- riage ceremony which into about a whole day and the celebration: which may extend for I week, the young bride depart: for her new home and new life. uncertain of the future. For some time provi- oualy one has been prepared by her mother for her new ot.Itua,but. once outside her village wlila aha is at stronger in the world. Even than having experienced in-law troubles in our own society will. I am sure. have dintcuity in linu- mine the feelings of A young maiden suddenly placed in I mu- atlon where because of the joint- fnmliy system, the may have to contend with many dooem of in. law. If obs in liked. tho roodjun. ment. may not be too difficult. but with the least. amount of friction there are innumerable ways of making life almost. unbearable for her. She IIIIY becane I favorite or a virtual slave oubject to the abuses of everyonp.

Whatever her. condition. thug mun. be I reuon for the uylng that every young bride in India how Ibovo all for one thing- thot in that one day die may be 3 mother-in-low herself, I

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GANDH1. Nfid.. .10?)-Tho fed- eral tnnoport. ideputnient has solved the limo lone prohigm for oveeoeu at this big sir

PIIIOIIIVI . base. 'f1iree afferent deal now

the time in Ncwfoundianmin Lon- don and New York.

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: doing itltcrc be sufficient nursing services

ipcrate.--Windsor Daily Star.

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zhlotes Bx The Waxi.

The only time moot people will listen to both side: is when they're playing a record.-Hamilton Spec- tutor.

sunoaun; called the "Fnhlon Foundation of America" predicts that in 154 men's trousers will end four inches above the ankle. Is this a harbinger of a wet spring?-Edmonton Journal.