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"THE, GUARDIAN

Authorized on Second Clan Mall Post Uffico Demrtnienl, Ottawa The island Uuurdinn Publishing 00.

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-ITICTIGEIII and Aiiouclnte Editor. Inn A Burnett. Aooocllu Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew”

"Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest ink".

iidnuorruroiwh. ruusn-aijiottr. 1. 1952 -My

Canada's Minister of Finance

Visiting the Island today, on the occas- ion of the annual meeting of the Maritime Provinces Board of Trade, is Canada's Min- lster of Finance and Receiver General, the Hon. Douglas c. Abbott. Like a great many other Canadians, Mr. Abbott is aware that this country has high taxation, too high to be continued for more than a rel- atively bi'ief period.

The unfortunate practical difficulty is that, although many economies could be made, the amount of reduction which is recognized as desirable can only be brought about, except as a temporary expedient, by a very considerable reduction in govern- mental activity. More than half of Fed- eral expenditures are for defence. past. pre- sent or future so that any reduction in that direction depends upon a change for the better in the international situation.

About one billion of the T41; billion budget is required for .various forms of social security which people demand and which governments certainly would not think of withholding. Out of the tax rental agreements the Provinces received only some 3300 million, less than half the sum which the Federal Government itself spends in the course of its ordinary operations.

This scale of spending would probably have been impossible but.for the remark- able innovation of the "pay as you 30'' system by which both firms and individuals keep their taxes paid up to date througli- out the year, rather than being faced with a staggering bill at the end of the period. The system made possible the astonishing expansion of government activity which has taken place in recent years.

entrance classes "the fundamentals of frac- tions. how to print properly, sometimes even how to spell." The-schools have dis- covered that "it is'not that the girls are

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they have never been taught how."

The Canadian Nurse. recommends to the nurses associations that they make "reg-

ular and repeated appeals to the Provincial

Ministers of Education" which ”will draw t their attention to the apparently low stand-

ard of education in basic subjects" found iamong high school graduates.

l The Canadian Nurse also the

urges

inurses' associations to appeal to the prin-

icipals of public schools and to home and ischool associations. ”When parents real- ' ize”, it points out hopefully, "that a life may hang on their daughter's ability to calculate the correct fractional doses in medications; they will get behind a nurses' campaign for greater stress being laid upon these aspects of basic education.”

An exchange points out. however, that the disadvantage does not stop there. "This crime which is being committed across Canada in our educational institutions,” it says. "is not primarily a crime against schools of nursing education, or business offices, or universities. It is primarily, and ultimately also against the children of Can- ada."

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EDITORIAL NOIES

An American car is being produced which has only three doors, the back seat being open only towards the sidewalk. It would settle the whole conflict between good manners and highway safety if cars were

from the traffic side.

this date 1931. In 1896 he started the Vale

engraved illustrations.

Titian.

That Canadian women are not

incapable. of doing the requirdd sums, of writing or printing a tidy script, but that

made so that they could not be entered

Charles Ricketts, British, painter, died

Press, a series of octavo reprints for which he designed the type founts known as Vale, Avon, and King's. together with numerous He published ”The Prado and Its Masterpieces", a book on

repre- . . . td ' t b ' lit' 1 l'f While the Minister Wlii doubtless deallisgnmjt (Se i:?teifnS::1he;)SdiiJ;d5:1;lg:

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ordf S313 it-s See if lean

CATHEDRAL MUSIC '

I entered a. dim minstcr. where Aisles of praise and towers of prayer Fenced me round from all the strife

Of this illegible. blurred life: And. I put. from me. one by one, Riddles that bcmuse the sun. And deep into oblivion hurled The undecipherable world.

And through the rich and jewelled gloom ,

That rubied some crusaders tomb. There rose and rolled a golden

Almost every do)! the scientists leave us gasping. Now, in Montreal.' they have 9. microcaiorlmeter which can measure the heat of a fly's breath. Naturally, that is something we always wanted to know.-Ottawa Journal.

We refer to Canadian bilingual- ism. We are under-rating our- selves terribly. We're multi-ling- ual. In Victoria we have people who speak Chinese and English. Hindustani .and English. Greek and English. Ukrainian and Eng- lish. Bilingual? Collectively Cona- dians use many tongues. It would be preferable, of course, if more Canadians gained proficiency in the two languages which have of-

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big it had to be. In 17 minutes he looked at 150 paintings and finally picked ll. Dutch picture of 1 cas- tle on 3. hill-traditional. colors subdued, painter unknown. The picture I was about twenty by thirty-five inches-just tho glze the President. wanted.-New York Times.

Some architects no calling 3 ha” i0 the picture window fad. The U56 0! large pieces of glass, sometimes taking up entire sides of houses. is being overdone in many cases. they declare. Too many builders are installing picture windows in any type .of house, with any type of view. just. so they can say that the house is modern." But: the architects point out that

-that people everywhere are be-

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' . 'The pPapssiirig Scene

By Observer

l l A wool)” FOB. mil cuissics

Ira: some time now in the United States and Canada there has been at good deal of'contl'o- versy over the public schools. Al- most every first class periodical that one reads has something bearing on the subject. The con- troversy is not new. 1i: i in fact been going on fo many years. But in these days it is be- ing given more than its former emphasis for the simple reason

achieve 3. more balance . -my. and that in tuelrdi.f5;f"E. worth something. It...doesn't. matter much what .1 man does to make a living so 10.... as he has within him something which helps him to iive'ns distinct from the mere physical ability tn sustain life. It is a common prgg. flee to pick out certain ”pra,cuca1-. heme and skills and draw a circle around them. Whatever is not within the circle is assumed to be "impractical", that is to say of m. use for anything but ornamental purposes and designs. The dlfil. culty about this arbitmry at-. rimgement is that it is unwol-k- able, for no one is quite Wlsg enough to say exactly at. what point the practical and! the im. practical come to the parting of the ways. To one man a. great work of art is perfectly useless. To another it is the thing that Bburs him on to salvation. using the word in its primary not thco.

logical sense. I

coming more and more interested in everything concerning education of the young.

It. is well that it a mild be so. for certainly the sc ools offa country are 3 fair v index to its strength and stability. Perhaps it is not. too much to say that schools, not political institutions. create the essential patterns of any nation.

Controversy concerning the pre- sent. school systems takes many forms but chiefly it has to do with what. might. be called the classical versus the technical em- phasis in modern elementary and secondary education. The trend in many quarters seems to be in the direction of more intensive technical or vocational training, the purpose of which is to equip young people with the skills that are necessary for making a living. This. of course. is a plausible objective. As life becomes more and more complex and industry more and more mechanized it is right and proper that young people should. solto speak, be given the right. tools for what.- ever jobs they will be called upon to do. This applies to a. farming community as well as any other kind of society. .

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Who Will any that study of the great historical processes which have given life and energy to world civilizations is not worth while? Here again it is not the actual facts that count so much as the stimulus these facts pro- vide fot the over-all task of liv- ing. A pragmatic interest in the hero and now is doubtless of value, but the horizons of history, the there and then. are also worth considering. for there is come- thlng of tradition in every man. He is heir to all that has ever been. There is no denying that the study of Latin or any other sub- ject that helps one to think can be painfully dull and akin to drudgery. But it can also be in the nature of adventure and ro- mance. It all depends, I expect, on the kind of human touch that is involved, for the essential task is the clothing of dead. dried bones with living flesh.

My own acquaintance with the language of the Caesars began when I was about twelve. My teacher knew all there was to know about. Latin and practically nothing about the psychology of fl. twelve year old boy. About the only thing that really interested me the first year, I recall with shame, was the trim cut of the master's moustache which appear- ed to grow in size and glamour with. every oral lesson in Entran- ius. It never occurred to the learned man that any human be- ing could find difficulty with Lot- ln conjugation: and the sweet cadences thereof.

On my part. I was careful not to let on that it was all 3. very deep mystery never likely to be brought out into the light of day. so there were no hard feeling:

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The Premier was recently quoted as saying that "when I boy leaves high school he should be ready to go to work, and in this Province that means either farming or flan- lng". It would be cosy enough to find flown in 9. statement like that but. of course, the Premier was speaking in genenl terms. No doubt. if he were called upon to elaborate, he would be quite able and willing to point. out certain exceptions in his general premise. The statement does, however, em- ,hssize the necessity for a. meas- ure of vocational training and guidance. in our schools and per- haps that is what the Preinler hsd chiefly in mind.

Responsible criticism .is not, I think, aimed at: so-called "prac- Llcal" instruction in the schools but at the assumption that tra- ditional clnuicaiistudleo should be curtailed in order to make.more room for the tcchnlcsl.. This sort of assumption, it carried to its logical conclusion, might indeed make qualified technicians, but it would hardly produce good think-

witli the countryls finances,in his address at the Trade Board meeting this evening. it is to be hoped that his visit will also be

wave: surged revel-bei-ant down the nave; Ravishingly, with violence sweet.

ficial status. But at that, it might be better to concentrate first on fluency 4n one. Will all these who

Sybil Bennett, president of the Women's Progressive Conservative Association for

modernism does not. require in family to look out of 3 picture window into a. busy street when

between us. I will admit. though, that many of the intellectual de- lights of the years since then had

era. And who will deny that in the kind of world which is now itself upon us good

' t ' - Storm d th th if ' . thrusting in the nature of a brief holidav from the Canada now Visiting the Island.. Her gioup gem e ear rom heath my have u:ll'iL3lEl'E;lt Eli1iglish please cvely passei-by can also look in. mum; ghlnkmg 15 gurgly 3,, egsen- their embryo beginnings gn um, C ms ”of office NO one shohldexjs a heavier recognizes the fact that to Wield any ef- Swept me as in leaf abroad igii: ”t'ii:s nu I ands? .- Vic. glijduiiioesenf '35:: ttdmt the tlgmulyg H31 as good mechanical sum em-Ifv land hlalxiparenucyh hcopems a'- t t . ' ' ' ' ' ' f . - f 0 ll?-O DUB ill. is not. likely !.h t. 5 le W111 C0” "50" ' (3 W55 "15 "P0 lfoctwe Influence m polmcal me it IS neces In 3”” ud" "1 bmuwmg ”"d' - huge windows at A blank wall. I ever be able to perfeact if Iiigzhlnc me. W u

responsibility in the Cabinet than does Ni”! sary to be active between as well as before

Abbott, and stamina as well as ability in a marked degree is required for the. dis- charge of his onerous duties. Our citizens appreciate this fact. and would welcome

him here oftener if it were possible for

him to come as a summer vacationist.

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Immigration on Increase

According to the latest bulletin issued by the Department df Citizenship and Immi- gration, 16,687 persons arrived in Canada last July to make their homes here. Near-

ly 5,000 of them came from the British

isles. about 1,000 were from the United States and almost 7,500 came from l-fol-l land, Germany or Italy. The others. 3.590 letters with

those they left behind in lands as far apart

of them. will be exchanging , as Spain and China. "Included in Department. and 5,041 children ers, professional men and domestic vants. this "Jilly intake" Canadian scene from P. Yukon. For most of them, about the journey ended in Quebec or

the Marltimcs. We are still a lonli WELV the great days of

was the greatest since those days

be larger still.

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hose Fundamental .

Joining with business and other organ- ization in the complaint against present- Canadian

day elducational methods, The Nurse, magazine of the Canadian Nurses Association, notes that dents are being graduated unable to scope with the,clementary' jccts. 5 The Canadian "inabl 'ty of many .nursin to spell, write leglbly. simple arithmetic that is essential in com putlng quantities Grammar seems high schooltgrnduntes cannot "jump-" guvom-P schmhwltli tho wheels and the

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thc July imakcgv says the, the United Nations "were 6,124 men, 5,522 women' Casualties. 0 under the age of 18." Farmers. clerks. skilled and unskilled work- ser- is settling into the E. Island to the 12,000. Ontario; only a comparatively small number came to

from cquallingl immigration before the First World War when in one year Canada could absorb nearly 300,000 PEOPI9 frflm the Old World. But last year's irnmigrahon with 194,391: and this year's total bids fair to

far too many stu- from high schools sub-

Nurse comments upon the candidates to school: of or do the

in dpugs and solutions-. to be another hurdle many

at nurdng-in an analogous en- univenlties and the? nor- buslness offices!-have otulnpt to teaclft thiff

elections.

"Welcome to the delegates attending the annual meeting of the Maritime Provinces Their two-day sesdions

Board of; Trade. commence with a luncheon at The Char lottetown at which a welcome will be ex tended by the Lieutenant Governor,

It would seem to be in order, by the way

inccs Board of Trade.

British House of Commons at the end 0

the opening of the

tingents are not given.

you

throughout the world as

he wrote, was attempting to rally Sout

of the wounded human body.

motion Bulletin reports that a Spanis

' countries

tune, the humprist contended, consisted not having tdiommunistt revolution

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the Premier and the Mayor of Charlottetown.

to change the name to the Atlantic Prov- be 0bS9TV8d- By his ordm

Despite the armistice negotiations, the, Korean war continuesto exact a substantial toll in terms of life. Figures given to the

July show that in the year which followed armistice negotiations, forces suffered 80,000 f whom 16,00.)'were killed. Of the total, 48,000 were South Koreans. There were 2,500 casualties in the British Com- monwealth forces, of whom 400 were killed. The United Kingdommasualties were 1,300 but the casualties in the various other con-

South Africa's National Veld Trust hopes that one day its Green Cross will be used a symbol of soil conservation. Mr. T. C. Robertson, general manager of the Trust, expressed this hope in a letter which he wrote recently to Dr. Hugh Bennet, the famous United States ex- pert on soil conservation. The Veld Trust,

Africa by the use of a symbol-a green Cross-which' would signify man's deter-

just as the Red Cross stood for the healing

with some bitterness” the Spanish Infor-

humorlst recently wrote that one of the main assets which some, European coun- tries possessio having a strong Communist , party. France and Italy.-have been show- ered with continual donations tloiii the Un- ited States, precisely because they were where Communism i was very deep-rooted. The gretrhit Spanish. misfor-

party. -no.1. opll;ltldd,. 7''. Keri!-

And left: me, amid regions for, T Desolate - cast: upon a star.

-S-it William Watson

Old Charlottetown . it qina P. 1:. i. l

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GAME LAWS

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"We are glad to see that the Silpendlagy Magistrate is inglngl ; the game laws of this Province to this morning the police seized and con- fiscated for the use of the poor some 2'1 rabbits. The vrndors were severely reprimanded. and given distinctly to understand that on any further violation of the law. the fill fine of s5.00 for each ani- mal would be imposed. The 1st of March is, in our opinion, none too soon to prevent the killing of rab- bits. The breeding season has then already begun. Surely our people have sense to see that if these animals are permitted to be killed out this season. it. cer- tainly means total extermination in II, few years. There are. we be-

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” the year. But. road accidents cost.

The Korean war has reaped the lives of 3,000. American sol- diers in the first seven months of

the lives of 20,000 people, or seven times as many. Nobody cries out against this automobile liecatombl while there is pity for the fate of the soldier dead on the field of battle. In spite of safety mm- poigns and the vigilance of traf- fic police, accident losses constant- ly increase. and experts do not lorsec the day when the safety

of the road will be definitely lis- sured.-Le Soleil. Quebec. Hurry Truman has no prctcn-l

tions as a connoisseur of art. He refer: to modern art. ' as ”daubs": and says its all "nutty." Last. Tuesday the President went; to R

a painting for Mrs. Truman their home in Independence. Mo. He told the dealer he didn't. know what he wanted. hilt he knew how

ket.

This, plus the great mechaniza- tion of agriculture, brought the threat: that it. might be necessary to abandon to some extent the.

lieve. one or two establishments in the Island for potting hares. We trust that they are not violating the law. Magistrates throughout the country should allow no in- fraction of the law in this partic- ular. This species of game are 3 source of profit. to many it poor man, and are-now apparently I! source of revenue to the country. It is a criminal act on n magis- tratc's part. knowingly to permit the slaughter of these poor anim- als at this season."

-The Examiner. March 4. I881

Farming In Europe

(Service d'Informst.ion Francois)

The evolution of agriculture in Europe in the past two hundred years is typically illustrated in France. The early feudal days. when the land was divided among the relatively few barons and other aristocratic families. left the

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mination to heal the wounds in the earth

ways faced with a precarious liv- ing. The great. reforms following the revolutl divided A great deal of the land up among the pen- am and this independence hn con lnued as individual forms few, until it was the bout. of ram: thst there were nbcut..1o.- ooo.oop landowners in the popula- tlon, and the mortgage was I form ,of insecurity almost un- known ' ' The vernal of the trend. The division of ownership meant, in the nth century, that the peasants were locally Ilmost ulf-sufficient be-i cuuu they could call their our- plusu on the "local market and ntlsfy most. of their in . The phenomenal Jgowth of nduuizlul (roll and not change: in lo tun no I science have :3 used all this. Inntud of the 1qAt.ol.-famine.-new methods and

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goon of . '53; m 1,. gggdwucugnm whicil; Communlsttmrty W V upon I000 "ll 0- Wm lilttractloriifotl ihultii I ” -t !,','.'.?.””.:l.l.”,. '.f.,:,i..'”'”.....t.i'.”.,.'ll':.i"::.'b

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peasants whoworked the land nl-I

'2ol.h century has seen I fez.

small independent. forms an un- economic. In France, the first anxiety began to be felt among the independent "farmers almost. '10 years ago, and the first agricult- ural unions date back to 1884. These, as they grew. were grad- ually turned into co-operatives, buying the machinery and tools they needed in common. Today. more than .1,000,000 members be- long to such buying co-operatives They have spread into nli' types of production: Dairy. winc-gi'ow- iiig. fruit. grain and vegetables. Through this system the farmers believe they can retain t.heir'ln- dlvldunl sense of ownership and yet. by co-operative buying and selllng,meel. some of the problems created by mass-production in other fields today.

.roast beef days wili.soon be here

I . h ' Georgetown antique shop to buyla:?,yan1'is,:::f:e;?:,;c:e:r:t:gg' 102: I" try to cover too much ground, are

strong enough to govern the mar- recently reponed '. use

gas station. or out on acres of clothes hanging on linen.-Orilllo Packet. and Times.

'I"li'c"creamed chicken and thin

again as the Autumn days ap- proach. Unfortunately as equally indigcstible as sometimes is the food are many of the speeches which areserved. Even in the fields of specialised interest, us- ually lots of nodding heads greet the results of days .of research, nights of rewriting. It seems lm. DC!-Elble to put: across some com- plex idea in a clear cut and inter- CSUM; Wily. To find the "meal." in ll. subject requires as intensive at- tention as to fin the meat on the plate It should not be on. Too

too detailed, are poorly organized

that will be a satisfactory substi- tute for the stimulating processes of philosophical thought. And to encourage these processes is the sole aim. or at. least the basic aim. of classical studies and training.

some say that. a boy who in- tends to go into agriculture is only wasting his time if he pur- sues the study of Latin. But; is he? Is anything that opens up new bar sons of thought really 3 waste 0 time? For ii farmer is knowledge of practical agriculture is esentiol but, presumably, be has a mind to care for as well as fields to plow nnd hari-ow. soil to preserve. and seeds to nurture. An inwlllsent interest In the classics it. But the Lord is in his holy might not help him make more lompic: let: all the" earth keep money but It ought to help him silence before him.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

tine Age-Old story i L. 3-ace-at-co-Q-o.'

What profittth the grown im- age that the nialier thereof hath Rruven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies. that. the make: of his work frultsth therein, to make dumb Idols? Woo unto him that saith to the wood. Awake: to the dumb stone, Ax-lots, it shall tench! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there in no.brenth at all in the midst of

-in shorb-dull.-- Financial Post.

The British Medical Journnf

that strikes us as having a claulc sim- pliclly rare in medical annals these days. A iwent.y-elght-yeai-- old British housewife turned bright yellow. Her physician in- vestlgated, and learned that she had been eating a. pound of car- rots a. da'y for 8. year. He tug- gested that perhaps the carrots had turned her yellow. Ind sent

There she was taken of! carrots. and she quickly regained her nat- ural coloring. what we like about this is that it suggests a ofmple cause-and-effect relationship we thought. had gone out with Galen. No acquired tolerance, no toxic side effects. no endoctriuui im- balance. no psychosomltic disturb- ance. Just 3 clean-cut situation: eat. carrots, yellow; stop eating carrots, pink. we're going to speak to our doctor about t.hiit'..- New Yorker.

Protection Is It

once was essential to survival.

Ploneerlng 1n' the modern

t. vices.

Hardy pioneer: faced the primitive peril: of I volt Ind un- , l a known land. Protective measures were instinctive but experi-

. the added experience of various business yinfouionol ur-

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'Wlln over clgnlx. yen-I cirperloncrm Jinndllng all lines of Protection. we no glad to bop of-what service we can to than having Insurance problem: to solve. wluiilui obligation

mnmu.;tco. vim

liaturaI' lnstliict

world cannot Iucceba without

her to 8. hospital for examination. ,

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