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“Lying And Stealing”

The real problem in dealing with children who lie or steal is in "learning the motives." To help parents understand some of the more com- mon reasons for such behavior, the mental health division of the Department of National Health and Welfare has just issued an illustrated folder "Lying and Stoaling-—What Makes My Child Dishonest?" as the latest in its series of Child training publications.

Because it's hard for grownups to enter into the child's world, parents often deal unwisely with his fancies; the small child's ideas of amounts and quantities are vague and it takes time for him to be accurate in their use, the folder points out. He will use them indiscrimin- ately until he finds out what they mean. Witness the four-year-old who says he has "hundreds and thousands of dollars in his bank!"

Children who lack playmates often live in more of a fairy-tale atmosphere than others. The child who misses this companionship may use his daydreams to compensate for it, coming up with some wildly imaginative stories. Then there's the child who, failing to get attention, talks big to impress and win notice.

"Seek the why's behind the lies and remem- ber that your child develops honesty by the examples he sees in his daily living." The folder offers guidance to parents in dealing with the chronic liar and dwells briefly an the subject of punishment.

As for the child who takes things not be- longing to him, "how soon he learns the lesson of private property will depend on what he sees and hears in the family life. Your child should learn this distinction as soon as possible."

The folder then goes on to show how the parent can teach the child this approach to what's rightfully his and what should be respect- ed as belonging to others. lt points out that the child of school age rarely steals just to possess an article. "Usually there's a deeper reason, the need to satisfy some driving inner need." Most cases can be handled by the parents, say the mental health experts, and several "do’s" and _"don'ts" are given.

Like others in the series, the folder "Lying and Stealing" may be obtained free from local health units or through Provincial Departments of Health.

When Parliament Meets

lt is intimated that when Parliament meets on September l5 it will be a sort of "carryover" session, the intention apparently being to merely obtain for the members a full indemnity, as re- imburscment for election expenses, whereupon the real work of the new House will commence in i950.

It is to be hoped that this forecast is incor- lect. The new session will necessarily lack some of the tense political atmosphere that existed when the members were struggling last spring to get through their work and get out on the hust- ings, but there is no reason why there should be delay in bringing down important new legislation. Housing, health insurance, a trans-continental highway and Federal aid to education are cited in the Ottawa _Citizen ‘as matters warranting prompt attention in the way of governmental policy.

"lt may be argued that the St. Laurent Gov- ernment was re-elected without making election promises," says the Citizen. "But if that is so, the Government's embarrassment now will be that no one will know what measures to expect from it....The Government will be evading its re- sponsibillty if it does not use the ‘honeymoon period’ of the new Parliament for decisive action. an new problems."

linyal Commission 0n Arts

At a recent conference with parliamentary press gallery reporters, Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, chairman of Canada's Royal Commission on the development of "Arts, Letters and Sciences," laid down the Commission's objectives and in tnution to stick to its specific terms of reference.

Generally these objectives would appear to deal with Federal relations to national museums, libraries, galleries, architecture, scientific and social research and particularly with develop- ments ip television and radio rather than with what most critics consider the fundamental arts --painting, music and the living theatre. The Commission obviously wants to pick up no hot potatoes, an easy accident when dealing with the highly versatile and temperamental practit- ioners of the last three named arts.

Mr. Massey said the Commission would not deal with the little theatre movement except in relation tb the Dominion Drama Festival. Many Canadians believe the time is near when the Government should consider a national theatre.

lt would be difficult sometimes, Mr. Massey

admitted, to define exactly the borderline be- tween the Commission's objectives and what is outside its specific references. For ‘the Govern- ment's reference also instructs the Commission to look into "activities generally which arc d:- signad to enrich our national life and our awn consciousness of our national heritage and knowledge of Canada abroad." That seem:

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IEDJTURIAL NOTES!

The Highland Games at Uigg today.

Summerside is leading the way in the introduc- tion of parking meters in its business sections. . . ..

Election budget or not, the Government de- serves credit for its decision to bring it down un- changed.

Collection of arrears of City taxes will soon be the order of the day. Quite a number of citi- zens postpone payment, and then take it for granted they are exempt.

Lobster fishermen are busy again in the Strait from Crapaud to the North. The short and broken season is probably good for the catch, prices and certainly for the appetite.

Four more days to Old Home Week. Let us make a display of bunting and flag flying to create the holiday atmosphere. Old Home Week is worth emphasizing in this way.

"Revolutionary" well describes the innovations planned for a Royal Navy destroyer. Their Lord- ships of the Admiralty have approved such things as vacuum cleaners, electrically driven paint chippers, washing machines and potato peelers.

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The chief radio inspector for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island has issued his annual warning to owners of unlicensed sets. He also of- fered little prospect of the Department locating sources of annoying interference, leaving that problem up to the set owner.

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The Junior Farmers did themselves credit on their Field Day in the city Monday. The success of the event is all the more noteworthy in view of the fact there are plenty of chores to look af- ter between hay and grain harvests to keep the young men and women at home.

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‘Now Canada is worrying over decreased trade with Russia. The wonder is after the Russian spy sensation and consequent interruption of in- ternational relations that there has been any trade at all between the two countries. The new diplomats atOttawa arc beginning to realize tho boomerang effects of public indignation.

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Canada's refusal to assist in the last leg of Richards Morrow-Tait’: shoestring round-the- world flight was justified. The English girl pilot has provided headaches for Americans and other authorities and an Atlantic mishap would have meant a large scale search at great cost and no little danger to more prudent flyers than herself.

The Saskatchewan Research Council will spend $32,500 this year to subsidize scientific research work, designed to ultimately advance agricultural and industrial development in the province, with projects this year including a study of special irrigation pumps, and animal nu- tritian and genetics.

The youngsters in Jonquiere, Que, are learn- ing to save money early in life. Total deposit in penny banks of thrce schools during i949 reach- cd the sum of $l4,000. Here is an example that might be followed with advantage to all con- cerned.

The Western Provinces have never any let up in their aggression at Ottawa. A proposal that the federal government complete detailed en- gineering surveys and plans and undertake actual construction of the Buffalo Pound Lake Water project to provide an adequate water supply for the cities of Regina and Moose Jaw is being sub- mitted to Ottawa by the Saskatchewan Provin- cial Government. The more they get the more they want.

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Edward William Lane, British Arabic scholar, died this date i876. He wcnt to Egypt for his health and wrote Manners and Customs of Mod- ern Egyptians which was published in I836, and tended greatly to increase the interest of the British in that historic country and the Mediter- ranean generolly. H: noxt translated and pubv lished The Thousand and One Nights, recog- nized as the finest version of Arabian Nights, and still the standard edilioh. The author next compiled his famous Arabic Lexicon adopted by Cambridge University as a text,

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yMore _than‘36,00ll acres of new forests were planted rn Britain last your. This is disclosed in the annual report of the Forestry Commissioners recently published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. The area afforested was over 10,000 acres more than in the previous year. Last year was the second year of a big programme planned to restock Britain's woodlands to make good losses due to heavy felling during two world wars. Since the programme was initiated ll5 million young saplings raised in the Forestry Commis- sian’: nurseries have been planted out on hill- sides and open spaces.

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A special Providence is said to take care of helpless children, and this has been illustrat- ed at Clarksburg, West Va. A couple three years married fell out on account of the young hus- band's jealousy, and separated. He threatened il he saw any man visit her apartment he would "blow her to hell and back." One day he at- tempted to do so with a case of dynamite-ll sticks-with the following result: The front of the four-storey apartment building was wrecked. Windows blew out of Z5 nearby homes and front porches were smashed off some. Three houm caught fire. A high school was damaged. Pawn! and telephone service were cut off from 200 homes. Dishes rattled off shelves two miles away. Nina persons were given emergency treatment for shack and cuts from flying glass. The hus- band .l. Duane Secrnst, 4i, via: killed. His wife, DorothyMamic 36, was unconscious and on the intnrpolly. But-their two-yaar-old son, ,Gory

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FROM “GATES OI‘ DAMASCRJS"

This is the song of the South Gate

holder, A silver man, but his song is alder:

I am the Gate that fears no fall. the Mlhrab of Damascus wall.

The bridge of booming Sinai, the Arch of Allah all in all.

O spiritual pilgrim, rise: the night has grown her single horn;

The voices of the souls unborn are half adream with Paradise.

To Mecca thou hast fumed 1n prayer with aching heart and eyes that, burn:

Ab. l-Iajjf, whither wilt. thou turn when thou or there, when thou art there

God be thy guide from camp to camp: God be thy shade from well to well;

God grant beneath the desert stars thou hear the Prophet's camel bell.

And God shall make t.hy body pure,

and give thee knowledge w endure

ghost-life's piercing phantom-

paln. and bring thee out to

Life again.

God shall make thy soul l

Glass where eighteen thou-

sand Eons pass,

thou shalt. see the gleaming

Worlds as men see dew upon

the grass.

son of Islam, it. may be that

thou shalt learn at Journey's

end

walks thy garden eve on ‘eve.

and bows his heed, and calls

thee Friend.

*James Elray Fleckcr (1884~——l9l5).

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ATTACK 0N CONsTABLES

"James Warburtan, Esq., Sheriff of Prince County, has just inform- ed us that he has came to town for the purpose of taking legal instruc- tions respecting the parties con- cerned in making an assault upon his deputy and a party of constables on Monday last. It appears that, on that day, Mr. Warburtnfls deputy and a number of constables had proceeded to Lot One, for the purpose of serving Crown sub- poenas, and that, after they had succeeded in doing so, a mob col- lected and followed them for miles. peltlng them wllh stones and with whatever else the)’ wulll find 1° convert into missiles.

“The attack was of a most de- termined and atrocious character. One man had his skull laid open by a stone, which struck him with so much force as to rebound upwards in n considerable height. Mr. Sharpe at St. Eleanor‘: received n severe cut on the back of the head: and Mr. l-l. Green, Deputy Sheriff, was struck (also by a sionei and considerably bruised on the leg; and others were more nr loss injured by the missiles launch- ed against them by the mob.

“Such violent demonstrations of determined lnsubordlnntlon must— in justice so the loyal. "MW". peaceful and well-disposed portions of the community-be met with B corresponding degree of energetic firmness on the part of those f0 whom are entrusted the well-belief! and good government of the Col- ony, or we may at once bid fore- wcll to order and security."

—The Islander, May 31. 1344-

C ult Of Mediocrity

(Winnipeg Free Press?

The modern trend to mass em.- phggjg in various fields of human endeavor __ mags production 0f consumer goods. mass 1109"“ l" politics. mass entertainment, art one literature for the masses end so on _ an embodying carefully calculated appeals to the common level of appreciation and intelli- gence - was the subject 0f 50"" pertinent comment. by an Allilfe" llan educator recently.

Speaking before the Australasian College of Surgeons, Professor Jo- seph Burke of the University of Melbourne, emphaslzed'the dlhfl- ers inherent in the growing cult- of mediocrity from which no na- lion seemed to be exemPi- 5W1" Russia was no mean proponent of the moss cult. 1n his awn field of fine arts, he cited unong other strings, the present. glorification at Russian pointers. "who perpetuate the worst traditions of the 19th century. and are hailed no mast- ers of a modern movement." Turning to the United States and Britain, he saw second rotor: usurping the public npproclutlim of first rate artlstn; second rate actors, writers, crooner; "being mobbed as though they were na- tional heroes." .

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Dealing with the ‘ject of sur- gory ltaelf, Professor Burke had this to any:

"The history of surgery l: par- tlcularly-rlch in example: of great men whose discoveries have been thwarted and denounced the

contemporaries. It t: aurely n matter of some concern that. the broad tendenclea of noclety today are more favorable to nhnrnd mea- iocrity than thou of unlh =6 ax- cellence.

llow A Balance iviaylilo Achieved

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English In Russia

(New York Times)

Some Russian school children are gllowcd to learn English, dan- gerou: though the language of Milton and Adam Smith. Keats and Winston Churchill, Jefferson, Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Bunyan, Whitman and. Horatio Alger may be to their only part- lally fledged minds. So we gather from adverse comments on the way the language ls taught ln Russia. as reported to this news-

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Mia; T1. Basova. who apéliks for the party line in this respect, com- plains of "text-books filled with considerations of the usefulness of photography. of the generosity of the rich merchants of Britain, of

small shop-keepers of the USA. loaning all their goods to the poor, and so on." This sort of thing, she rays reflects "at best the ideology of philisilnlsm and reconciliation." It does not, as it should, show how "the science and culture of the bourgeois countries have turned to obscurantlsm. have become react/- lonnry and hostile to f-he workers and are utilized far aggressive dc- structlve purposes."

One hardly knows what to ad- vlse. The best books ever written in our native tongue contain ldens that. do not ordinarily fit into the party line. Some of them are full 0f a noble indignation against “man's inhumanity to man" - and the Communists can approve that. sentiment provided the oprpressor is by definition bourgeois and not by any chance a slave-driver in o. Communist paradise. But great llt- erature also proclaims the value of the individual human soul — and that f: blasphemy in today’; Runla. 0n the whole We suspect the Russian child can learn to Bbeak and write utilitarian English Without being contaminated by the “time”! ‘Principle of freedom. But. he can't learn great English that way - for in it freedom burn-r as an undying (ire,

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NOTICE

EMPIRE LODGE NO. 19 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS

A lpealnl meeting will be holrl ln the Lodge Iloolna, Friday night, Aug. l! at 7.80 ahnrp. There nro aavoral matter: of importance b be rllaouaood.

All member: and urged to attend.

KEITH BOYCE, 0.0.

officer: nro

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Take It Easy!

(W. L. Clark in Windsor Star)

Vacations should be vacations for people who are getting into their 40's

It is all right for the younger people to race and tear around and generally exert themselves on their holidays. But, for the older peo- ple lt ls supposed to be a rest. Ann. unless men and women watch themselves, they can over-exert themselves and finish up the vaca- tion ‘just about ready for a cot in the nearest hospital.

One of the troubles is that peo- ple do not like to realize they are getting old. They recall the stren- uous times they used to enjoy when they were young and they want to renew some of those plea- sures.

Men in their forties or fifties go out and decide they can play base- ball just as well as when they were in their twenties. Or, they think they can hike miles over rough terrain and not luffer from the or- deal. Or, fhey believe they can do swimming stunts that would be a stint. for younger men.

So many men refuse to appreci- ate that they can get tired doing anything. They think there is something shameful in growing tired. They hesltaterto show their weariness to their friends.

That can be true on the golf course, swimming, in tennl: or in any sport or pastime.

Some men should quit their golf after nine holes until they‘ have played a few days and then are in shape to go the full 18. But, some golfers have been waiting :0 ex- pectantly for thelrvacatlons, they jump right in and try to play not only 18 holes, but. 36 the very first day. .That ls a good way to en- courage an early death because the human body is not made to stand such n strain. ..

Another point to watch in swim- ming l: not to go into cold water quickly. If anyone too cold water the shock to the circulatory system is so areas the heart can stop. It happen: to some people every year, yet. every yea:- ottiers plunge right in or though l there never had been any warning l given.

Vacation: are for rest. Take ll. l easy and return refreshed and In- vlgorated. That is so much better l than being brought home in an ambulance. I