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toast to Coast delegates of the and Earl Taylor. chairman of

National Council of Y.M.C.A.ts met) Iflxl week at the Central Y.M.C.A.. itoniri-al. H.A. Kellington. Newt licstniinster. left and Arthur ll. liiivai-. CharTottetown. right point! out the scope of the national move-l iiiciit to John B. Frost of Montreal. iicc-pi'esldcnt of the National Coiiiicil. . .ti-tltiir H. Duvar. president tIii- Charlottetown Y.M.C.A. don Maxwell.

Gor- I general secretary

World Service for the Province have returned from Montreal where

they attended the annual meet-l

ing of the National Council of Y.M.C.A.

The feature of the meeting was the address by the national sccre! tary. R.S. liosking who said the. Y.M.C.A. must help young pea-i

oliplc develop a philosophy of Iife- of

adequate for an age of induced by unprecedented prosperity.

ISLAN DLEGATES ATTEND NATIONAI. Y couNcit.

Mr. Hosking said most of the world's anxiety was due to a de- cline in faith. "When faith growl dim, the heart and the mind falter and we fall prey to fear and anxiety." he said.

Delegates were in attendance from all across: Canada. The final meeting was addressed by Leslie Vipond. personnel secretary the National Council who spoke on ”The Program of The Future."

The Challenge And The Cost Of Modern Education Viewed

By Heath N. I"IflIIlIl'l'Ic. Victoria. P. E. l.

l-idtication is now a favorite sub- ji-ct of conversation. not only by ti-ncltcrs. trustees. and administ- rators, but by leaders of business. public men and citizen groups tlvllcfally. interest in Education week which in I957 marks its 21st year of observancei has been t:I'tlWlllg steadily. This is a healthy

hl..!ll. for education is. truly. "ercrybody's business". our country is in a great grow-

irii: period with tremendous devel- opment of our natural resources, mineral wealth undreamed of. in- dustrial development unpreceden- led. and a population of over 26. 000,000 in 1965 predicted by the Uortlon Commission. But Canad- ians will be judged and our nation- iil greatness tested. not by our oil Eilltl our hydro electric power. not hi otir Ungavas and our Kitimats. but by our human resources.

in the supply of intelligent. lit-althy. alert and well-adjusted citizens Canada dares not become I "have not” nation. Yet in com- iuon with much of the west rn world. Canada. from the Atla tie to the Pacific. faces a crisis in ciiiication which will not be met until the citizen body becomes aware of the immensity of the challenge and prepares to make the necessary economic readjust- ment lo meet it.

CHALLENGES

in Prince Edward island ivc have certain special problems. but there are three major challenges which we face in common with every other part of Canada. These are the provision of new and en- larged buildings. an increased IIIWIY of more highly trained teachers. and greater opportunity for students. Detailed examination of these problems will be made in other articles. Here it is oosnibll to deal only in general terms.

ti). Buildings and equipment.- The need here is great. The little red school house is gone and something much more costly has come in its place. in 1908 Dr. M12. Laserte. in a survey of Canadian education estimated that 18.000 new classrooms would be needed bv 1958. His estimate was not ex- ('t'sxlV('. tin the next ten years Canada will need 161110 extra class rooms at a cost of more than one lllfl a half billion dollars. This docs not take account of replac- lucnis or improvements of exist- "Ht equipment. Few of us would have much difficulty in discover- Inlz school plants that are already this for thorough change or dis- card. There are many children to- day attending schools which are finite unfit for classroom use Fwcotnng and widespread improve- ments must come.

In the extension of universities Ilene the Gordon Commission ss- "matcs that about a billion dollars will be needed in thqnext twenty too years. ltrthe matter of pro-

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Nor is this a temporary situation. Our school population will coiitin- ue to grow and may accelerate with any substantial increase in immigration. Therefore no tempor- ary expedients-will do. the prob- lem must be met by long range planning.

(2) Recruitment and training of teachers. But the most modern

lschool building does not necessar-

ily make a good school any more than the most splendid house can make a home. The quality of I school is determined by the type

of teacher it has. just as the qual- I

ity of a home is a reflection of the kind of family living in it. Today every province in Canada faces a teacher shortage. Within the next ten years at least 46.000 additional teachers will be required for the new classrooms. This will add to the educational bill about T150000,- 000 in salaries. These new teachers must be recruited and trained and so far the educational profession has not shown much skill in re- cruiting college graduates into the profession. Certainly it lags' far behind industry in promotion work. NOT REPLACEMENTS

This figure of 46.000 does not in- clude replacements. For while it is a problem to get teachers into the profession. it is often a far worse problem to get them to stay in it. indeed it is a number of "drop outs" rather than slim at- tendance at normal schools which poses the greater problem) There is something very appropriate in the special motto adopted in Sask- atchewan for this year's Educa- tion Wcek. It is "Hold That Teach- er!".

Why do so many young people train for the t '” profession and then leave it after a short while? Salary is not the only rea- son and the many other problems and discouragements contributing to withdrawal will be discussed by more competent contributors to this series. But the salary issue is important and there is nothhlng gained by pretending it is not.

While teachers' salaries have been improved in recent years, a look at the cold statistics shows that the teacher's economic posi- tion has not. United States Depart- ment of Commerce figures show that while some pi fessionnl and industrial workers' gmups increas- ed their buying Dower by so per cent and 48 per cent respectively between 1940 and 1954. university faculty saw their buying power ” study

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The decline was both absoluu and relative. in other words the teacher's salary actually bought

less than before and com

ticular advantage. in ms in a Canad teachers salary was . How far thla,rtudg above the Prince Edward island average can re be seen from I at the Act.

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plane in the sky was a novelty. causing people to peer upward ex- citedly. Now jet-propelled craft streak through the heavens faster than the eye can follow. in every walk of life. the farm. the factory. the office, mechanization and spec- ialization have had their effect. To keep abreast of the today. let alone the tomorrow which will probably be even more breath- taking, is a major challenge. BROADER ASPECTS

Our need of technicians. scient- ists and engineers is acute. but the broader aspects of education were never more important than they are today. Before we train a child to be a technician we must educate him to become a citizen. for even in an advanced age of s ' and automation man is far more than a trained robot. The L 's role in guiding the spiri- tual. moral. mental and physical development of the child is one of iiemendous importance. in our complex. changing. and sometimes confusing world. we must educate our youth so that they can make wise decisions as thinking persons. With all our media for mass communication it is so easy for the young. as the old, to lose his individuality and conform to the mass. to follow the crowd. Yet. as the great Emerson said long ago, the independent free man in a dBIn0CTnLy must stand on his own feet and think his own thoughts. ”Let him not forsake his belief that a popgun is a portion although the ancient and honored of the earth affi it to be the crack of doom." lrlstrong democ- ratic society is made up of such free men.

But in Canada today. not all our young people have a chance for the self - improvement and develop- ment which comes from higher education. A recent survey showed that while all children of profess- ional and managerial groups at- tended high school. only 20 per cent of the sons and daughters of unskilled workers did so. 50 per cent of the children of the first group attend university while only 5 per cent of the latter do.

i t would seem that higher edu-

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The first special meeting of the new Montague Town Council was held yesterday afternoon in the council bsmbers. Mayor Yeo pres- ided. and Councillors Vaniderstine. Hughes and Fraser were present.

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the matter of snow and ice removal and sanding of streets in the town. This has been a gig- antic problem in Montague where the many hills create extra pro- blems.

The council was of the opinion that under such conditions a good job had been done as far as possi- ble without spendint, a consider- ably greater nmount of the tax-

Snow, Ice Removal, Sanding Discussed By Montague Council

payers" muncy. it was found neces- sary to procure auxiliary help for the lone sander who could not be- gin to do the necessary amount

of work alone. especially when the Green, lcitizens all want their part sand-

ed at once.

i The problem of siden alk clearing

was brought up and suggestons were offered t - help improve the .situation.

After some discussion the meet- ing voted to purchase special crests for Il1( Legion Curlers re- .presenting the Province at Winni- ipeg at the Dominion Legion Bon- fspiel .These ciests would have a imap of the island with Montague marked by a star and the name :”Mnntagiic" shown IIPIOW.

cation is free only to those who can afford it and this is not good nough. No youth with the neces- sary ability and ambition should be denied a right to higher edu- cation because of his parents lack of means. But many Canadian uni- versities have found it necessary to increase their fees and this has made the situation worse for some deserving students whose only lack is funds.

MORE SCHOLARSHIPS

Canada tags far behind other western countries ill av-oi” scholarships and bursaries to de- serving students. Only anon. ccnt of our students receive such aid and often it is pitifully small. in the British isles 70 per cent of the students receive scholarships or bursaries of a generous nat- ure. in the United States the fig- ures are comparably high. But Canada's growing needs will re- quire a greater degree of training and education in its population and we cannot afford to neglect this preparation.

it will not do to have the benefits of higher education reserved only for those of wealth or who happen to live in the cities and towns where institutions of higher learn- ing are located. The boy or girl in the smallest community in Prince Edward island must have as full an opportunity as the child- ren of the wealthy dwellers of our greatest cities. As Prime Minister St. Laurent said: "There should be across Canada the greatest pos- sible degree of equality of op- portunity for the education of our young Canadians. the Canadians of the next generation."

FROM THE PUBLIC

Now the great question is. "How are we going to meet this chal- lenging national crisis?" In the fi- nal analysis the question will be. "How much is education worth to us?" it is an answer that must come not from the expert but from the public. The solution to our dif- ficulties will not be painless. As Judge Potter said; "The school bill has to be paid and there is no easy Way." But. happily. the prob- lem is neither hopeless nor beyond our capacity as a nation. As one of Canada's leading businessmen. James Duncan, said the other day: "Fortunately the problem is not an insoluble one. in the simplest of terms it is one of money. of vast quantities of money. of build- ings to house our rapidly expand- ing iequirements for more schools. more teachers' colleges. more and larger universities. more technic- al colleges and particularly. more qualified teachers. Of all these. the last is the most important."

Meeting our problems will re- quire vigorous and speedy efforts on three levels.

Ill Provincial. in canada edu- cation is the responsibility of the provinces and it is provincial de- partments of education which should give imaginative and ef- fective leadership. in some prov- lnces the first step was in the ap- polntment of a Commission to look carefully into all aspects of the problem. The improvements which have followed the work of the Hope Commission in Ontario and the

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JOEL Mc(llT.EA AS THE FABULOUS TEXAS HERO.

"THE FIRST TEXAN"

PLUS CINEMASCOPE COMEDY AND CARTOON

Scotia would seem to recom- mend such an initial course of action. Provincial governments must realistically rcappraisc their budgets to see if the proportionate allocation to education is suffic- ient for the needs of the hour. In every province expenditures on ed- ucation are higher than ever be- fore. but if we compare educa- tion”: share of the total budget with what it was some years ago the picture is not so satisfactory.

(2) Federal. But while the in- itiative must come from the prov- inces they cannot do the job alone. The rising cost of services has burdened proviiiciai governments excessively in the modern era. in Canada the great inequality among the provinces is most painfully ap- parent in education. Provinces like Prince Edward island do not have the tax revenuees to allow them to meet the growing costs as adeqiiately as some of the wcalthler proriiices. Yet the edu- cation of the nation's youth con- cerns thc whole country and the Dominion government must take an ever-iiirreaslng share of the grcat btirtlcii. Short of assuming full responsibility for public edu- cation - zi iiiovc which would bring powerful opposition - Ottawa can, and cvcuttially niusl. assist in other ways. it coiild grant gener- ous and adequate aid to the prov- inces wliosc burdens are now often beyond their rt-soiirccs. It could assist in capital construction and in facilitating the borrowing of money by school building author- ities.

A start has been made in this. The doubling of grants to univer- fsities was a most salutary move. The cstalilisltiitcntt of tlm long- awaitcd Canada Council will lteip greatly. especially if. as expect- ed. it will grant bursaries to needy students. Dominion government assistaiice in certain technical areas is already being extended and will doubtless be increased. There is no reason why Ottawa

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f"Utnnf assume I far greater share of the cost of education. Canada is not. by any measure. a poor lcountry and the greht budgetary

surpluses show that clearly. Ev- lery effort must be made to con- vince our political and governmen-

tal leaders that today's crisis in. A

ieducation is ational in charact- 'er and scope.

vidual assistance. the program Canada stands far behind the United States or Great Britain. We have nothing like the Rockefeller Foundation. the Cd!- negie Endowment. the Ford Foun- dation. the Guggenheim Trust and many other agencies through which American big business has aided education and welfare. Last year the Ford Foundation gave half a billion dollars to privately owned universities and colleges to aid faculty salaries. Nor have wealthy Canadians contributed as individuals by bequest or other- wise to the extent of their Brit- ish and American counterparts. But there are signs that the busi- ness leaders of the nation are taking an increased interest in the situation which is of great concern to their own enterprises where the need for trained personnel is great. Last year at St. Andrews, N.B. a group of industrial leaders spon- sored a conference on educational problems and a number of com- panies cooperated in forming the

(3). Industry. business and lndl-r in this part of v

industrial Foundation on Educa- tion. From this move great things may come.

in his annual report M.R. James Muir. President of the Royal Bank of Canada tand guest speak- er at the P.E.l. Canadian Club last fall! gave close attention to the

nation's educational picture. De- ploring the inadequacy of teachers' lsalaries. he declared that we are -falling to make the wisest use of Ikey human resources. failing to give teachers a reward consistent- either with equity or incentive and endangering the future wel- fare of our whole economy Bttt this prominent banker believed this situation is one in which we ail must take a part. p

He advised: "We as cilizensi must . through government. busi-' ness or individual action ensure that our schools and universities are provided with sources of funds sufficient to attract and to replen- ish thosc human resources of tal- ent. training and experience that teaching requires." Or. as the Ed- ucation Week slogan puts it. "Ed- iucation is everyhody'I business".

The needs of these great and stirring times make it imperative that we face up to our problems with courage. initiative and tinder- standing. could be high. Ten years ago H.G.

century would be a race between education and catastrophe. In this as in other things he may have been right. We dare not wait to find out.

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, 'l'he Guardian Page 5 Saturday. Mar.

Priest Burned In

Effort To Save if Invalid Father

BKTHURST ICPD--A Bathursl priest was badly burned Thursday night in an unsuccessful at.empt to'save his invalid father from their burning borne at St. Anne

' du Bot-age, near Caraquet.

Peter Dumaresq. 84. died in the ruins of his home after an oil stove in the kitchen exploded. The

blast knocked over Rev. Albert Dumaresq. 50, who struggled to his feet and tried I carry his

father front the kitchen. He had been giving the older man a shave when the store t-xplotlctl.

Another mcmiicr of the family, Alicc ilitmiircsq. litl. also

Dumaresq were taken to Caraquet hospital.

The IIS-year-ulti title of the dead man and her daughter. Maria. 42. escaped injury.

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The largest number of entries tliusi same k.1a..ii-mam," of ",9 term tar Submitted PFCSYIIICII the JUdE9- "Cliai'ai-it-i' Study" was attempted 301! H3"lbIY With. 3 Pwblcm III as this is the subject for the print 50'"? "l39'-"l'-”d9 '" "h005'"i1 "'9 competition at the next meeting.j

iwinners. Shown above is the win- Mawh mhg

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dam of Summewmm PIEIIH pas, emigrating to (aiiada. double the

sod away very suddenly at his.”5"3I "limb"

home on Thursday night, Februaryi

28th. He was in his 65th year. t The late Mr. Walsh is sui-vivedi

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MONTAGUE RINK TONIGHT

Playoff gaiiie for Montague Bakery Trophy Heatlir-rilale vs. Montague High