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"'cli7i'n1.'oY'Fi:'F()wN, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1931

A Juvenile Home

The proposal to establish a home in this Province for juvenile delinquents is most commendable. That it will probably be a farm home, with stress on farm work and routine as an important part of the

tie and technical training, is most encour- aging from the point of view of producing good citizens instead of criminals.

It must be made unmistakably clear. however, that the home is not to be con- fused with or combined with the institu- tion for the care and training of retarded children which was earlier referred to by Premier Jones. Experience elsewhere, par- ticularly in the English reformatory sys- tem. shows that good results can only be attained by keeping the two completely separate.

Senate Reform

Senator C. J. Veniol, one of the New

supply of money would operate lrnperson- ally, affecting all alike. No great admin- istrative staff would be required. Incentives to economical production would be sharp- ened -rather than blunted. More important still, such a monetary policy would act as an effective brake on the spending of gov-

” ernment itself on non-essential, non-defence

projects.

Private borrowing is already restricted by moral suasion exerted on the chartered banks by the Bank of Canada. Public borrowing by governments, and in partic- ular by Ottawa, is utterly unrestricted eith- er in terms of interest rates or of amount. So long as the Bank of Canada stands ready to buy unlimited quantities of gov- ernment bonds at essentially fixed prices, so long will government spending continue and living costs rise.

Thoughtful citizens have been asking themselves ever since the Budget was brought down whether official Ottawa is. after all, not more concerned with the price at which the Government can borrow money than with the prices at which Cana- dians can buy goods and services

EDITORIAL NOI ES

Canvassers are starting their rounds on the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal-u gilt-edged investment in our fellow man.

I O I

There have been setbacks in the weather but the mosquitoes, at least, have enthus- iastically treated this as an early spring, and continue to do so.

0 I O

The deputy Chief Scout for Canada. Mr. Jackson Dodds, C.B.E., will be one of two Canadians invested with the Legion

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The Indian Int placidly NUAUIWCIWHI OIICIHD town. stepped up to greet hhr. tlve of these parts?" the visitor inquired. The Indian, with an in- scrutable face characteristic of his race. answered deliberately: "Christopher Columbus - be number one." he said. ”Mr. Hud- son Bay - he number two. Me -- number three." Fort William Times-Journal.

Jet pilots are not going back to "gee" and "how, but a number of airmen in Korea have reason to be grateful for the work of scores of plodding olcn, their drivers. and their carts. With these llow- moving. wood mcclcd vehi- cles earth has been moved to

air-field while motor-trucks were too few for the job and handi- capped by heavy mud. Such para- doxec in transportation are not altogether uncommon. Travellers in Latin America more than a dc- cade ago noted certain mountabl- ous areas where travel was either by donkey or by air plane; the railroad ago had by-passed mos; fegtona. -Christian science Mon- tor.

from the New Yorker": profile articles on President, Truman, dc- scribing his routine at the White House, one learns that he may spend I considerable part of any is working day signing his name, be- ing pushed about by news photo- graphers and presenting decora- tions to soldiers or their r.ext-of- kin. These are duties, which the head of the state cannot avoid. It would be unsuitable and per- haps risky to allow the use of a rubber stamp signature on docu- ments, he must attest. The public demand: a constant stream of

in a under this nrrnngenunt, Ilo'davoto himself to nodded grnvelyio the visitor wholnnd executive work. "Have think monarchy out 'of you been here long? Are you a nn- ponder on thin advantage” is

which the British people selves and those they invite to visit them would find it easier to enter into the spirit of the son, of celebration which Hi; Mnmy opened today. mean: carefree times. Yet Bx-imn

that ha: carried her troubled times before. The pm. ice: to carry out the Foalval nu been that Britain's attention should be on more serious matters. trim reasons for t is the hundredth nnnt

ofh the Great "M" T are are many cont:-ants, which the Festival will tend to 5

Then Britain hupem ing a tide of development and Prolperity which was the envy of the

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security. The 0 economic prcssion of has the ability to do 1:, can still draw on the lnitlgtlye and resourccfulneu that In a great. There will ' i 1'" pageantry, re-enactment of bright scenes of which Britain! long nu. tory is so full. Some furnish their quiet

Festival is an ex. confidence that she that she

be fascinat

of them will moral as Well

news pictures of the first citizen. Military heroes and their famil- ies are entitled to receive their honors from his hands. Yet it is arguable that such activities waste the time and energy of the man

as entertainment.

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(Montreal Gazette)

A good deal of spirited contro- versy has been stirred in Montreal recently by an address delivered before the Rotary Club by Dr. of t c

This column is open to tile tixouuion by wrrcopoudcuu of questions of Intereu. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of

: Brunswick representatives in the Red of Honour when the French cruiser Jeanne Chamber, has come up with an idea that dvA,c arrives in Montreal. should merit attention. He has advocated - - c that the numerical Strength Of the 0PP05l Summerside had the elite of politicians

"The Charlotte-Town Amateur Theatre was opened for the first

ready been adopted to curb inflation will

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ltlon In ihc Senate be n0V0I' 1055 than 0"e' and air force as guests Friday, the pity "aw" '" ” Allan Memorial Institute of Psy- fiat; se;-org 011:) the zndi nfglculnh: gfaig psucy K;-gglllggmhtlll gggngilgcult it! an .I1'Lroven to clu- u t Y of that bod or 25 of the total - r- Cos-ngy (;oNp-ygmggggs chiatry. Dr. Cameron's views have W e ,1" By In E ' I EXPO - cu able in

q ar e , y, bemg that the weather wa.s so unfmfou even been discussed on till! floor Mock Doctor. on Tuesday last gg;?ll9"-mE::rc5Y5I'5iem 9! Con-im1l' Vi-lit Britain this auxuner yym un. 102 membC15- able to outdoor demonstrations and slght- sirlayour .,.m.,,1,1 in Friday's of the Anglican Synod. and the "The Birth Day was repeated, 3' an-1W3" till! doublsdly have 1 grand time. They

Today parliamentary members are un- der a greater stress than ever before. The

seeing. A return visit in July or August would be appreciated. 0 0

issue "Conference Crazy", is right to the point and should help to show up the big foxes that spoil

Bishop of Montreal has undertaken to issue n statement. In his address. Dr. Cameron was

with the musical farce, The Devil to Pay! We have seldom enjoyed a greater dramatic treat than in the

problem

representative?

by giving ceremonial duties to the King or his personal

will come away with a deeper sense of Britain's past. and in all likelihood more confidence in her

It is he who

whole concept of the duties and l'GSPOI'iS' " . til; glues. E really repeating similar gtgtemgnu ?EffOl'l'lll1l'l(:c tot tThxe ulxairth u11)ntyl'.':E:5g:&C"l:':eIi-iktgs-510:1! armada: lflutufef from her people's hand. . . . . , , - , w o g lblhtles of government undergone great The raising of the 11'year embargo on Struozgalsiingimte: 11:5; our ushe.-Ed: tillzflezh 1l.l):l?i'l1B:P5 etslilelifionewfidilolilesl sgergerg The feeli(.)nss if p:ev;a(i ”m"3 men- The mime Minillef. - 1iro:3::1w1:i..-,mm' pres changes with the passing yearsl Come' the Shipment of EVE h0g5 to the United ”b”l'9 ""3 financial 5935- W3 "n come notably more emphatic. He were excited to tears - at least.

quently the demands upon the time of mem- bers of the House of Commons have grown by leaps and bounds. The Senate probably could be utilized to lessen this pressure somewhat. To function properly, however. there should be an assurance that the Op- position side had a hearing.

Because of Canada's political trend the Senate, within the next few years, may be occupied solely by members who owe al- legiance to the present Government party.

If Senate duties are to be expanded, and this is not beyond the realm of possibility, there should be some assurance that Op- position voices may be heard.

Frenzy or Adulation

it has been left for ex-President Herbert Hoover to express in one fantastic sentence the emotional frenzy which the debate over "General MacArthur has aroused in the United States. Speaking briefly in New York, Mr. Hoover said: "The Great De- bate has been replaced by a much bigger debate led by the reincarnation of St. Paul in the person of a great General of the Army who has come out of the East."

There was little more than languid in- t.crest in Washington, notes an exchange, when Senator McCarthy said it was an act of disloyalty for any one to criticize the General. Onc expected the Senator from Wisconsin to say things like that and a more intelligent comment would have been out of order. But. now Mr. Hoover has in- dicated that criticism of General MacArthur savers of original sin, that the General is a prophet of righteousness, and that op- position to this herois views is art offence against morality as well as a libel upon logic.

If a man of Mr. I-Iooverfs stature can succumb to this frenzy, where is the non- sense to end?

Money-l-ind Prices

A paradox of Government policy in the economic sphere lies in official Ottawa's manifest desire to counteract the raging forces of inflation and yet to refuse to in- voice the most effective of all anti-infla- tlonnry measures which is to make money itself more expensive by raising interest rates. So long as the Bank of Canada is dominated by thou who advocate a cheap money policy, such measures as have al-

be of little effect in curbing inflation.

. Cheap money, by which is meant credit

at low interest rates. is recognized by all

responsible econominta as an inflationary

duvicn useful only to offset depression and

AIIIIGICIICI to a cheap policy in at the present

States can hardly make much difference when we were unable to supply existing de- mands unless, that is, prices go up faster south of the border than on the home mar- ket. ' O O O The emergency-produced scarcity of chrome anmnickel may not be all loss. There are many things of which the de- sign is being or can be improved now that the easy shortcut of splashing brightwork everywhere is no longer an answer. I O O The principle of armed services unifica- tion has gone down before unregenerate human nature. It has been found too ex- pensive to have the Army maintain the vehicles for all three services and this country has gone back to charging the cost to the branch which operates the vehicle. I O O The Cunard liner "Lusitania" was tor- pedoed and sunk without warning this date 1915 by a German submarine. The 40,000 ton vessel was on-a voyage from New York to Liverpool and of 1255 pass- engers and 651 crew 1198 were drowned or killed. The sinking had a great infill- ence on America's decision to declare war on Germany. B O 0 Trade Minister Howels step in an- nouncing the 2.1 increase in the cost of liv- ing' index a day before it would ordinarily have been released by the Bureau of Sta- tistics and blaming it on the price of but- ter which was only one of many higher items, is extraordinary. The minister must be paving the way for a fresh attack on the dairy industry. 0 I I For the past week the City has been host to innumerable out-of-town children and other young people taking part in the Musical Festival. They gave joy and pleas- ure by their presence and performances and they and their parents who accompan- ied tliem, will be greatly missed now that the Festival has concluded. It would have done the heart of the late Mr. Blythe Hurst Sr. good to have realized how his suggestion of such a festival sponsored by the Women's Institutes had been thus-pract- ically realized.' 0 O O The 1951 tax rate of the City of Saint John has been set at 34.34. This, the highest figure in that city's history, is four cents more than the 1950 rate of 54.30. In 1949 it was 34. After considerable debate by thelmembers of the Common Council. the 34.34 rate for this year emerged as a compromise, and (according to the Tele- graph-Joumal) it appears to be a fair and reasonable one. A rate as low as 34.25 alnd as high aft:-i4!!! wa; proposed during e mm!!! t t0 know that the board of assessors considers

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that the finally approved figure-54.34- is feasible. .

insult to the taxpayers of this country to see certain individuals running to conferences all over the Dominion. They travel free. are wined and dined at the best hotels. and return home no wiser than when they left. Opposition Leader Drew hit the nuil squarely on its head when he says that official Ottawa is "Conference Crazy." He might have gone further by saying that Canada is conference crazy. I sincerely hope your able and timely editorial may be widely read and flint your paper will come up with other expose stories. I am. Sir, ctc..

F. H. MacARTl-(UR Cornwall. May 4th.

WEST PRINCE SERVICE

Sir.-In renewing my subscrip- tion to your paper I do so with great pleasu .. and thanks because 041' the excellent service of the de- livery of The Guardian every morning a few hours after rolling off the press. When one consid- ers the many years of being in the Jungle of Utopia as far as re- ceivlng a daily paper the morning it is printed and the present ex- cellent sorvice now given the reading public, wc wonder at our pntiencc of endurance of the an- tlquc delivery of former years. West Princc has too long been treated us the Iceland of P. E. I. There are mnny other things Went Prince is suffering through neglect by the doctors who can and must have the remedy applied. and at once. Our needs are great. We cannot endure obscurity longer. therefore it would seem impera- tive thnt our representative call around before there is an eruption that could not be easily soothed. There is no need to itemize the sores; the farmers, fisher folk nnd laboring pcoplc - they know them and are awaiting a visit. from their representative to en- fold them to his understanding and sympathetic heart.

What about Prince County get- ting a portion oflthe Trans-Cam nda Highway.

I am, Sir. etc.,

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loosed tongue, And to my pened eyes thy occ-

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says that it is unconstructive to focus attention upon what people should do. rather than upon what they actually do. This, he believes, is the great fault and error of the old "moralistic" system.

Dr. Cameron. who claims to pre- fer humanism to moralism. says that the effects of the moralistic attitude have impaired the vigor and healthy-mindedness of society. Mioraliam is weakening the Western nations in their struggle with the competing appeals of Communism. It is perhaps not surprising that these views have provoked some degree of dismay in those who still happen to believe that "what people ought to do" is of some im- portancc. It is also not difficult to understand the distress of those who also believe that morality is ultimately grounded in religion.

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But. it would be unfortunate if the debate should become one be- tween morality and science, or be- tween religion and science. For it is important to note that Dr. Cam- eron. on this issue, does not neces- sarily speak with the voice of science . He may not even be re- garded as necessarily speaking with the voice of psychiatry. What note that these views are not en- he is really doing is expressing the views of Dr. Cameron.

It is perhaps of some interest to tlrely shared even by members of his own staff at the Allan Memor- ial Institute of Psychiatry. Only a few weelu ago a distinguished member of that staff. Dr. Karl Stern. published his book. "The Pillar of Fire." It is an uutobio IIl' phy, in which he describes his re- ligious experience.

In this book Dr. stern makes n penetrating and valuable distinct- ion between science and "scient- ism." science is present. knowledge, held in a spirit of responsible caution. But. "sclcntlxm" is unprov- en dogmatiam, asserted with ar- .ogance. As Dr. Stern remarks: "It is this scientiam. as a form of human life. without God in the centre, which leads to a form of nihililn unequalled in history."

It must. be admitted that scien- tific dogmntlom is one of the chief dangers to which scientific workers are exposed. Without invoking I "moralistic ccncurc." it may still be said that it in 3 sin that easily be-

sois them. But nothing is more unscientific than scientific dog- mntiom.

O O I

The unscientific dogmntism of scientist: has two main sources. It is partly ' - by excessive opcclaliution. ,'rhe immensity of modern knowledge makes special- iutlon unavoidable. , But the specialist is prone to place an un- balanced importance upon his own particular pursuit.

A body of selected fact; only prove: what certain fact: prove. But all fun taken together may mm something quite different. Knowledle. to be scientific. can- not be one-aided. A scientific dog- mntilt to generally found to be stretching hil apecinlty beyond the limits of in scientific endurance.

scientific dogmntlsm has an. other important Iourcc. It als- clonu an impatience with the pro- vinional nature of scientific know- ledge. But. scientific dogma in only what happens to be current in 1': orthodox science of the day.

Most lcicnilfic theories enjoy a very brief authority. They "have their dv and once to be." They are likely to in referred to after. wards only ll example: of incon- clusive reasoning or over-hasty

we think we observed a handker- chief here and there in requisi- tion; and that, too, which is more

extraordinary still, among the male part of the audience. The ladies, tender souls. seemed to

stand it much better." -Prince Edward Island Regis- ter, Feb. 23, 1330.

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no after-glow on those who spon- sored them. ,

A very sound expression of the caution and humility of the true scientist is to be found in Sir James Jeqrs book. "The Mysterious Uni- verse." Wrote Sir James: "No scientist who has lived through the last so years, is likely to be too dog- matic .... ..science should leave off making pg-onouncemenu. The river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.”

The real censure incurred by Dr. Cameron has not been incurred by his views. The real censure has been incurred by the spirit in which they have been advanced. This spirit seems to have the quality of "scien- tism" in a particularly extravag- antfol-m.Ithaa neitherthc I .. ..- sible caution of science. nor the mellowed maturity of humanism.

scientific views expressed in this spirit are not on departure: from moi-nllam or rel ion. They

are. even more. I departure from science.

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