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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926

EDUCATION

in this issue we publish the last

of a series ot‘ itrtlclea on The Xa-ilalllu it ntuch larger PPOPOFUOD (‘Y Hon,“ Cuuuc“ or Eduumom by Mr-‘ltflfbtlll dioxide than the external Ne]; 31.4mm], K13, o; Sunnnerstdfl air and this material is incorporat- Mr.‘ MIJLEOIl. before taking tip theta" "H" 11w body of the tree. each “My o, hm.’ w“ (m. a’ number upQveat- forming a distinct ring or

years Ptlucipal of the suntmcrsltie l-llglt School.

tri-btttcd vcry largely lo tltt- vcryzilge 011116 tree mily be Ztlittflrlilllletlwbnes’ Firs, [hey gnu a pledge u, into the clinic one day, and the rttptitntilitufl! 11"‘- Wlllel’ 51'1""! "l1 "'0'" lllelittuke no material changes ttntil :i tirinfli, [gummy grottnd only a little is lost by evap-

creditablt- educatiottal

once etiloyytl by island and, uiticc titcn ltus taken 11 itttt-rest ill all

keen titattcrs put‘ -

taltiitig to our scltools. ilis opinion

oti cdttcittiottati tttatters is the-rt»

fore wcll worthy of scriotts con- sidcratioti.

l“ sttflld unaccountable way wo, who tint-e sIOtKl near tltc

top lll

educational progress ltavc lagged bt-ltittll. ttol [irritatis itt tht- matter of thc literal exposition oritht- cur- rlctilttttt hut rttthct‘ itt the spirit of education. Our system has bet-n i'i'lill'lZt‘(i. ttota-bly by lit". Wcltstt-t‘, hittiuclt‘ a Nlitritiitte tnau Mt‘.

hi-itisclf. who not many ycitrs ago,

and a

noted educationalist.

was wont to t-xtol ottr st-lttiols and their product. is ttot unite satisfied H»: dragging behind n.ti' sister lifflVlllCt-fifi and very tar

that all is as it ought to be. admits we are hchitul thc great educational lll0\'+-- ment which is now world-wide and participated world's greatest educationalists and aiithropists.

itt by the

pltil-

What are we going lo do about it? Are we going to look into the matter with a determination to find out whether the criticism is deserv- ctl or ttot. or, as m. McLeod pitta it, littry our heads in the sand anti let the world pass by?

The whole question is too large to be touched ttponitt the space at present available. ltt the tncutttiitte we commend a careful pcrttsal oi Mr. .\lcl.e0d's excellent opt-fling articles.

__.j<o->____._ OUR TREES

and ey

Charlottetown iuuy well be proud

0t’ its trees. Now tltat they are

almost in full slimmer attire they are ccrlillttly fair to look upon. Yet how few of us know what a tree really is! Of a tree it may as truly be said as of Tennyson's the crannied wall," if wc could tin- derstand what it is, "root and all atid all in all. we could tell tvltui (ind and man ls."

"flower in

llotv ls the tree fed. how does the sup ilttd its way to the ttpttt-r- utost leaves nl’ the How does it travel front the ottter- the

topmost tiny leaf-An tall trocstwo

tallest tree?

titost etidit of the roots to or three or even four httnllretl feet ttpart?

It capillary ilii-Pflflifllt. once a favorite cxtiltttia-

is well known that

titm of the IHIUDOIHGIIDH, ltas limits far below the tops of even our comparatively small SIPBOI-Sltit.’ trees. .A heart with its pulsations. pulsations believed ‘by many to be audible, offered an explanation that did not explain.

its

After all the pro- cess of nap movement is simple. Dr. D. T. Macllougal, Director 0i’ Plant Physiology, in Carnegie tn- nlltttte, explains the process hydrostatic. Water taken in by the roots is lifted to the top of tho tree and the farthest tips and the tiniest leaves. 0n a warm summer's day n large tree lifts a ton or more of water from the earth. This water percolutes through the innumerable cells of the tree, feeding and nourishing it.

as

to branch

' The. leaves are the pumps whose

auction draws this nourishment from the earth. and the process. al- dhough automatic. is similar to that ‘in an ordinary pump. The ‘body of the tree is covered with an air- tight material, the cam-blum or wood I lows the conduits of the wood with which the leaf pumps are connected. The body of the

.\lcl.cod'

older '

thus enabled draw through all the living cells.

air in the cylinder or trunk

l0

(EDI!

‘layer.

Al. a was“... m. can. these rings may he counted and the

oration irom the leaves. bttt ‘evaporation furnishes which works the pumps. 'l‘ht=sc wonderful tirocesscs arc Mil-

lions of pumps are at work draw-

uow at work all around us.

.ing into tlfe lives of trees and

plants the water stored itt the earth by tlte winter's snow attd tlic spring rains. Plant life is bitt

variety oi‘ the life which tiervadcs

i1

life ivliicit shares. bttt itt a different way. with

tbc uttlvcrse. a titati

‘the lret-s and the grass attd thc iiuvvcrs and the lower forms oi utt- itttals. Our kinship with the mar- vellous around

PPOCGBSQH llS

worth thinking over when we look

tner mnrttiligs and see the develop- ment of the great miracle of resur- rcctiutt from the whiter sleep. l'.'}ii'i THESE THREE Kennedy. Bureau and ‘Baldy; titcse three, and the greatest these is Baldy.

his vote saved the

the credit for his lieltig in

touts dogs which were driving

‘Liberals in a certain cnnstltuettcy ittto the (iotiservatlve told, and so

saved the remnant

the Liberal. But others had

done it. Baldy's was a work apart. lie made the votes, made them otit of whole cloth, made them Liberal

w here

have been handed out. Bureau

itt the Senate, Kennedy is in

in jail. lt would appear frotn

the allotment of htttnan favors.

40a EDITORIAL NOTES.

$40.00!] a year will help some.

beautiful week it has been.

an)’ ttnttsttal meteorological dent

onstration between now and cud oi‘ June will be called.

if people persist in across the streets while atitomo lilies are being driven nu ttt pre sent,

hurl.

some one is going in

Next thing in order, no doubt will be the claim that otir two bib

for railway taxes.

The 540.000 attuuitl payment

auintottsly agreed upon by the Pre mlerst of all the provinces.

Canadian National lllailwttys pro perty in this province.

La tMiherve says:

confidence in the Liberal admlniit

harm than good.

able little loaf pumps areiruth is suspected nythe people.

Vlco-Insllnd. I. I. ‘upon

the sap The

Witch thc tree is cut across

this the power

l3

abroad these beautiful carly sunt-

of While Kennedy by government front tit-feat in the hour oi’ its peril. the House at all belOltgs to Baldy. Hit- rcau, it is said, called oft‘ the (fits- tho

which elected done similar work, itt fact, any Liberal L" tttembet- of parliament could have

they were Conservative. And. for all these things rewards

is the House nf Commons, and Baldy is l! casual glance at the situation that there is a lack of discrimination in

Again the end of the week auda .

The next disturbance in order is the "sheep storm." by which name

the

running

get

oral ntembcrs were instrumental Eu securing the $40,000 annual grunt

3t‘- cttred for the province by Premier Stewart has tiothlng to do with the larger claim for compensation tin-

The 340.000 is an annual tax upon the

Appalling scandals of recent data have been disclosed in the Custotmt Service of such a nature ti. to destroy all

tration of the last few yearn. which unit. le thory material betwt-enthefln one and the same as the present the bark. The sap fol-pidminlstratinn. The efforts of the King Government and its ministers to hide the truth will at. them more‘ it in ‘bad policy d, ‘tree is simply In air-tight cylinder for ‘n political party to hide the _ ll of water and air. and the in- truth, however painful. when that

Notes liy tlie Way

Only one Conurvstivc voted tor the Old Age Pension Bill when it was defeated in the Senate. Sen- ator Robertson, formerly Minister of Labor in the Meighan Govern- ment, was the man. Only 20 Liber- al Senators -voted for the Bill. It was killed by Liberal votes. Such prominent Liberal Senators as Sir Allen Aylesworth and Senator J. of Prince Edward island, both appointees or the King Government, gave their votes to defeat the Bill.

,J. Hughes,

Broken promises as to what they would not do and what they would lo tttarked the record 0i tnittisters itt regard to the tariff on automo-

Tarlff Advisory Board was appoint- ed and had lteurd arguments on both sides. That pledge was square- ly broken. The protection on mot- 'or cars was out in two without coit- lsultltig the Tariff Board.

i

l_ Then came the big delegation to iOituwa to protest. .\ir. Robb, the Finance Minister, told them, “We will stand by our guns!" But lic didn't stand by his gunsh lindet pressure he gave way again attd ttgain until .\ir. dvieiglieit has pub- licly stated that the normal pro- tection 271.2 per cent. has been re~ stored. Thus the second protuise ttvas broken. True. a bad promise is sometimes bettct‘ broken than kept!

The manufacture of motor cars ttt (‘nuada will go oli. it was seri- ously threatened by the Govern- uteiit, which was “willing to wound" at first ‘but tit the last was "afraid Lp strike." Thtuiudustry suffered great loss by being held itt stispetisc tor weeks. The (loverntttetit added ‘two more to its list of broken tiledgcs and lengthened out its crooked record of deception and tinrcliability. Well might Mr. dleiglteii say, as he did, that the re- cord of the Government in this matter was "ntost tnalotlorous"!

If "the receiver in as bad as the thief,“ what shall be said of tltc retiresetttatlve of Pence ltiver in the House of Commons? The sent was stolen and tBaldy llobb is "in tho jug" for stealing it. lsit quite fair that lluldy should serve ilvc years itt the penitentiary and Ken- ttedy get a five years’ term itt Par- liament and an indemnity of $4,000 a year but of the saute transaction.’ is not iBaldy fairly entitled to a divvy on the monetary spoils of his atlvetitttre?

And the King Government. saved by Kennedy’: vote in Parliament. is it not liable as a receiver? it‘ Kennedy profited to the extent of $4.000 a year by what Baldy did. how much more has the Govern- uisnt profited? Do they ttot owe some return to their own rcturnint’. officer? The Government needed that support t'rotii Peace Rivet‘ very badly. Tn the Premier anti his colleagues in the (‘ttbiuet. nint- oi' whom went dowit to defeat on that October day, the trick that Buldy Robb playedwvas a life tira- servct‘ thrown to a drowning (lov- urnutcnt.

Politically they were defeated, beqqared, down and out. bttt lot‘ this one lust resource. lt saved their lives, restored to them power and pelt‘. tnude them bloated pro- fiteers in it day. And to tltlnktltut the man who wrought such merit- "orious work by the only nteaus . within his power, and because of what he did. is now cottiined bc~ hind prison bars! Surely every loyal supporter of the Government should be moved to heartfelt. sym- pathy for this mait.

Why talk of such trifle: as brok- en pledges and p- mines‘! ‘Who cx- pects a Government holding pottvel‘ by such tcnure, supported by such agencies and agents, to be mindful of the truth? While the reek from the tPrube Committee fills all tho land and and taints the air from ocean to ocean, and while men ari- today sitting and voting in (‘oin- ntons or Senate who would not, be there btit for a past connection with onn or nnofher of these lufnmles. let us still hope that the end nl Cuttadlrs political degradation is at hand!

It In often darkest jun before the dawn. and when affairs arc a! .their worst they begin to" mend- The plain peopldof Canada are 3'1" sound at heart. They still retain some love for public decency. hono‘. and truth. They are quite intelll gent enough to know that. there can be no hope for Canada if the mir- riiie of the past live years is per- mitted to continue, and if the roi- tennestt and base examples set iu the high places of theland are not ureduwa.. ..‘. " '

' THE onntbmrowu cottzomv '

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s"?

flfbat ' £0313» at

lit/amt W- Bilflflp, M._Q out: oassnvme pt-tvstcmus

Rellt-‘liilfl one of Conan Doyles stories about Sherlock Holms, his ttt-eat hero detective, you have been struck with ills powers of reasoning 0r deduction as it is called.

Doyle was asked where he got the original idea. He stated that his professor in medicine at college used it to a remarkable degree. Hc- cites the case of a farther coming

professor asking hint how every- thing was going along in the village of .\i—.

The farmer was astounded as M—-tvus some tett miles away, and he had passed through three other villages on his way to the ltospital. But the explanation was simple. The road out from tNh-was com- posed of a reddish clay, some oi which was still adhering to the farmer's boots.

Years ago doctors who lived itt tttalaria districts believed that ittalariu was due to datupttess and night air, therefore, tlie way to cure tttalarlu was to live on high grotittd or stay indoors at night. This really cured and tirevented tttalaria.

liut the real cause of malaria, as you know, is the mosquito, who was "bred by the dampness, and who became active and hungry at itight." Tints those research men who discovered the cattse of mail- aria uscd the two points, dampness attd ttiglit air. as a foundation on which to work. When Battling wettt to work to endeavor to obtain a cure for diabetes he was ln pos- session ui all the wottk that ltad been done by previous investiga- tors. They had learned that the blood iteeded a certain element in order to take in sufficient sugar for the tteeds of the hotly. These ittett worked upott the pancreas bttt were not successful in their search. liy painstaking effort and sell‘ de- nial, Battling went oti to success and has received the acclatnatiou he so richly deserves.

But Batttltig tells us that‘ by building on the observations made by earlier research men he got the itica, that if he could secure from an attiutal the secretion that the tiaucreas should be giving to the blood, ho could overcome the syntp~ toms of diabetes thereby. And he was sticcessfitl in his efforts.

tA doctor itt llavana, Cuba, tried for malty years to tell his brethren that the tttosqttltti causctl yellow fever. This was proven experi- ntcttialily tby Utiited lStates physic- ians later. attd yellow fever is now itliuost llllkilUWll throughout tltc world.

My point is simply that we owe our tprogress lu medicine. or in lteulth preservation, to patient ob~ serving physicians.-

'Q'Q"§OOO 0-0-0099

O O

. Dailv Selections

FOR

E . f Guardian lteatlers

0+0» June 12. 1926

THil-J UNDER 'Sllil~Jl’ll.ElliD— "And llfoses spake ' ' ' Let the Lord ' ' ' set a man over the con- gregatioti ' ‘ ‘ that the congrega- tloti 0i‘ the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd." Nu 27: l5. l6, l7.

PRlAYEll-O Thou hard. we bless 'l"lieo tinder situpltertls.

grout Shep- for faithful

June 13, 1926

GOD Wl'l‘.il U-S—“Delllc ttot ' ' ' thc land which yo i-tltall in- habit ‘ ' ' for l the Lord dwell among the children of lsruel." tNu. 35:34.

‘PlllAYlC —-God bless our nntlve lund with Thine own presence.

LITTLE CHILDREN

Spezuk gently to the little child.

So gulleless and so free,

Who, with a trustf-ul, loving heart.

Puts confidence in thee.

tSpenk not the cold uttd tliottghts

Which time has taught than well;

Nor Ibrentlie one word whose bitter tones

llistritst ttiigltt seem to tall.

careless

lf on his lirnw there rests u cloud. ilowever light it he,

‘Speak loving words, and lct ltlm

fectl

lie has a friend in thee; _

And do not send him from thy side. Till ou his face shall rent

The joyous look, the sunny smile. That mark a happy breast‘.

(iii, teach him this should be his

aim. Tn cheer the aching heart, To strive, where thickest tinrkneaa reizns,

Some radiance to impart:

To spread a peaceful. quiet calm Where dwells the noise of strife: Thus. doing imod nnd ‘blessing all. To spend the whole of lifa.,

To love, with pure affection deep. All creatures. great and small. And still a stronger love to bear For film who made them all.

The High Lights 0f The Conference

By Neil McLeod, K.C.

(Special to The Guardian.)

One attraction the Montreal Con~ ference had for me was the oppor- zunity it offered of meeting in the Body some notable men whom I had previously known through their writings. When one reads a book if specially absorbing interest one ‘a apt to form a mental picture or Image of the author, of his mental ind spiritual outlook, of his out- ward appearance-his stature, lila ‘aciul appearance. the shape. of his zliin attd nose, the color of his eyes. These latter are supposed to give some indication 0f his charac- ter and personality. As to Sir John Admits, for instance. l had read some years ago his great hook "The Evolution of Educational Theories." On that I bad fortued my picture-a distant, reserved. ox- cltisive man, not easy of approach. But l found the real man quite the 1pposlte—genltil, kind. approach- ‘tble, without the least slglt of self- conttilacence or cotidescetision. it was the same with Dr. Glover. l tad read only one boOk of his "The lesus of History." On that [could forut but a vague image—a tnutt of egular ieatures. refined and grace- ‘ul in appearance. instead l found t titan of medluut height, strong. rugged mould. square face, strong ‘hill, prominent cheek-bones, grey eycs-a typical-looking Celt. re- ‘etitbling a North Country farmer. athcr than a college professor. Bill lic scholarly professor he is itt .ruth and itt fact. Aitd that hi; is -qti‘tl to the part his classic ad- it at tha Conference gave ample proof.

iii". tllovcr is at present Classical i.ct-tttrct~ itt one of the Catnbridgc colleges. and was fortncrly Lectur- er itt Alatttral attd Comparative ile- ilglon at Oxford. ‘He is a fairly llrtllilic writer in Greek and Latin studies. l-lls late ‘books are tttalitly religious-tile "Jesus of History" that l have already twaferred to, and l companion -voluttte “Jesus itt the Flxpcrictice of '\lcti," atid "Essays ill ltcligloit." if they are all like tltc book iltut l have read.l know o! no one who can present in a clt-zirer light and in latigttage that a layman can utiderstatttt. tin- lttituatt side of the life of Jesus.

The subject of his address be- fore the Cotiferctitre was “The iioots of European Culture." These wcrt- Greek 'l~‘rccdotti and Greek ‘Fltotight. itt all the great move- ments oi‘ reform in ntodern history, whether itt religion or politics or art. it was a reaction to the Greek spirit that oriented tho ntovetitcttt. “Wherever the Greek spirit has tuuuifested itself in lilsttiry," ha, Hllill. “it has been life." "We are‘ living itt a very old world, made nud made over again by gentle and earnest men who put heart and mind into the great problems of govcrtititent, of physical laws, of the spiritual side of tliittgs, anti of (loll, and when we come to know their story we are not lung itt Bet-i tint: ‘back to the (lrccksif (ireck freedom was itevet- a tttere matter of irresponsible litreuce. lt was ever restrained and regulated by iorm. And whether itt this perfect tttiioti of freedom and form the (lrecks were guided by instinct or study or both they had a sure sense of the laws of metre and thin spir- itual values. _

There tuay have been other ad- dresses Elven at the (Yotiference with a closet‘ bearing 0n the aims and purposes of the National Coun- all ot' Education. but tltere was none of higher literary value. There was hone where the solidarity of the union of thought and language was more real. There was none of higher historical value. For if out‘ civilizntloti has been developed iti all its stages by the living tottcb of the Greek spirit and if our culture is rooted in Greek freedom and Greek tliotight. as Dr. Glover claims. then If. would seem obviotts that we should acquire some knowledge of the Greek latigttnge and literature. either in the original or, if that is not tiosslble. then through the mtttty excellent translations now avallablt- in our owtt language. This address struck me, lit iornt as well as iti spirit, as one of the "ltlgli spots" of the Conference.

There was yet another, though iu a department of knowledge dif- ferent from ‘Dr. Glover, who may wull be classed as one of the High Lights of the ‘Conference. not only for his eminent standing in science bttt for his power of clear exposi- tion 0f scientific sulbjects. The popular ittlerest of a lecture in any branch of science depends not so eitiuch on the literary qttaiity of ex- pression as on the significance of the facts presented. in the ad- dress of Thomas ~Httnt Morgan be- fore the Conference, botlt these fac- tors were of a high order. Dr. Morgan is now Professor of Ex- perimental Zoology in Columbia