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THIE GUARDIAN

"Cavern Prince Edward Island Like the Dew“

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iltioraivhnd Ethical Teachihg

There always has been controversy over whether or not any kind of rciigious in- struction should be permitted in the pub- lic schools. In the United States where the division of opinion is especially acute. it often has come up in the courts; in- variably the ruling has been that the sec-1 lion of the Constitution which provides for‘ the separation of Church and State pro-i hibits any such religious teaching on either a denominational or inter-denominational~ basis.

At its recent annual meetin_; held in‘ Milwaukee the National Association of Sec-‘ ondary School Principals adopted a resolu-i tion to the effort that “even though public schools cannot teach religious doctrine they: should teach moral and spiritual values and’ the importance of religion." l)r. Clark I\'ueblcr. President of Ripon College in \\'is(-onsin. in supporting the resolution said that “teachers can let their pupils know indirectly that they themzelves are people of principle, exemplars of the good life as well as imparters of knowledge and skills." E

'l‘hcrc seetns to be no good rcason whys sonic systcniatic instruction in Christian morals and ethics should not be included in the regular ;\'ormal School training of prospective teachers. This would be of much benefit to the teacher in his class- room work for there is scarcely it subject in any school curriculum that does not have a moral and ethical angle somewhere or other in its structure. It still remains. however. that the teacher's good personal influence on young and impsessionable minds means more than any formal in- struction he might be disposed or permit- ted to impart.

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Laundry Lists Before Homer

Some. iwitiil clay tablets (lisco\'s‘t'ed- by Sir, Arthur Evans in Crete some fifty years‘ ago can now be read, thanks to twenty-five years of work by an English architect. Michael _\'cntris is disappointed that all that has come of his efforts at solving the, mystery of "linear script. B" so far have been laundry lists and household inventor- ies but his success means that new know-‘ ledge will be available of a civilization that preceded and was probably destroyed by Homer's heroes. ‘

The key whicit unlocked the script was the assumption that a certain group of syllaliics stood for “I\'nossos". the ancient capital of Crete. Applying those syllables wherever they occurred made it possible to “brcak“ the sct‘ipt as the architect had learncrl to “hreak" cncmy codes dui‘ng the \\ iii'.

“'0 know that there were kings before I200 B. C. in Crete who had wealth ‘to spend on buildings and ornaments. kings- rich in gold, who used and perhaps con- trolled the sea; but their names and stories none has ttntii now been able to tell. The ancient craftsmen wrought in gold, he carved stone. and he built ships. The mod- ern world had to re-d’-sco\‘t‘i' by rxperimcnt the trite curves for a ship's httli which the ancient shipwrights knew.

Much of this civili7.atlon was swept away. hy big barbarian invaders from the north,‘ the ancestors of the Homeric heroes, just: as Roman ci\'ili7.ation was largely swept a\\a_\ |)cl\\ccn 400 and 800 AD. i

An iiistoric issue '

in an excellent 40-page edition. the St.' John's. .\'cwfoundland, Evening Telegram? celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary as‘ a newspaper and in doing so gives many. interesting sidelights on the historic past of Canada's newest Province, on its busy: pt'esciit and promising future. Our con- temporary recalls that within a year of its birth the first Railway Act was passed in Newfoundland, and in 1882 the first line was opened to Harbour Grace. Overrvling the French Shore Treaty rights. the Gov- ernment in 188] for the first time author- ized the issue of land grants to the West Coast settlers, and for the first time they were allowed to elect members to the House of Assembly. Manhood suffrage was grant,- ed seven years later. In 1886 occurred the Bait Act dispute in which the United King- dom Government, yielding to the insistent demands of the local authorities. recogniz- ed the right of self-governing colonies to exercise their powers in such matters. In 1892 occurred the fire which reduced the greater part of St. John's. to ashes. followed two years later by the Bank Crash. But

the resiliency of the community was dem-

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pietion of the trans-insular railway. the in- stallation of the street car system in St. John's,-the institution of Municipal Gov- ernment, the establishment of wireless sta- tions, victory in the fight of nearly 300 years to eliminate French control over long stretches of the coastline. The open- ing of the Bell Island mines and, soon af- terwards, the creation of the newsprint en- terprise at Grand Falls by the Anglo-New- foundland Development Company marked the advent of new industrial fields. Major events in recent years were the

-Humber project in 1925; formation of a

Highroads Commission; the opening of a new drydock; the settlement of the Lab- rador dispute in Newfoundland's favour; the opening of Buchan's mine; the earth- quake and tidal disaster on the South Coast; the establishment of the Memorial University College; political upheavals \\'hich in 1934 resulted in the appointment of Government by Commission, following the suspension of the Constitution; four- teen years under that regime, during which occurred World \Var II when Newfound- land's sons once again played a notable part. In 1949 came the decision that New- foundland should become the tenth Province in the Dominion of Canada; and a strong note of optimism is sounded by The Tele- gram in dealing with this new era, and its possibilities for further growth and develop- ment.

Jurisprudence And Ethics

The day is gone when the words “Christ- ian vocation“ were used almost exclusively‘

to indicate a “call" to some distinctly re-i

It is being recognized more and more that any useful work can be classified as Christian service. If a man's (or woman's) heart is in it and if he does it to the best of his ability. having in mind the good of society as well as his own in- terests, he can claim to have a Christian vocation.

This explains why it group of faculty members and students at Harvard Law School recently met together and formed a committee for the purpose. as they put it. "of examining the relationships of juris- prudence and ethics and to confront to- gether the meaning of Christian service for the modern lawyer." In addressing the group a prominent ccclesiastic who once was a professor of law said in part: “You should have a zest for this task because it is a frontier in the intellectual work of the Churches and of the legal profession."

Should this experiment at Harvard be found workable—and certainly there is no reason why it should not be—it may in time become standard practice in law schools everywhere; it may even find its way into the training schools of other pro- fessions, much to the advantage of all con- cerned.

ligious work.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Newfoundland's new fisheries develop- ment programme will cost $100,000,000, ac- cording to Premier Smallwood. “We are going to launch into the deep," he told the Legislature, and the nautical and biblical expression seems highly appropriate.

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Charlottetown cannot complain too much about the “freezing" of the valuation of Maritime Electric Co. property for tax purposes. The company is thus given a pt'efei‘t'cd position but. not the completely tax free status of a Crown corporation.

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Prince of Wales College is to have it's board of governors or rather its Board of Trustees under legislation passed in the recent session and also a committee of ad- ministration for no apparent reason. The seven-member Board will consist of the Director of Education. the Principal of the college and five others who shall be mem- bers of the Government. The chairman will be appointed by Order-in-Council. The college is also to have a committee of ad- ministration made up of selected faculty

members.

The British press and radio arc intrigued by the claim of Barbara Woodhouse that if you breathe heavily down your nose at a savage horse, cow or bull it will immediate- ly become friendly. _It seems it South American Indian revealed the trick of tam- ing wild horses. The horse invariably. she says. snorts back. advances and blows on her cheek. She can then saddle the animal

at once. It seems likely, however. that it will not only be animal lovers who will snort.

The famous naval victory of the Battle of the Saints was won this date 1782. Ad- miral Rodney had accepted command of the Leeward Islands station but on his way encountered the combined French and Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, Domin- ice. The opposing forces were each in single line ahead but on-opposite courses. By ti brilliant manoeuvre Rodney divided the enemy into two portions which could not afford mutual support and thus secur- ed_n signal victory which secured the West

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PUBLIC FORUM

this column is open to the _ dloouoslon by l'0I'l’6ID0ll(l(‘IIl! ' of questions of interest. The 1 Gunrdlnn (loos not necettsnr- . Iiy endorse the opinion of I uuresponrl ..‘s. i

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GOOD SA.\l.AR.lTANS OF THE ROAD

Sir,—\\'e had bought a second- hand rar whose owner had tried to run it without water or grease. I suppose our dealer didn't. know that and sold her to me as in good condition. The next day we started for Sambro. near Halifax. and got, within thirteen miles of our destination when our car broke down. it was nine o'clock at night. and we had to find lodging. I knocked at the door where the light was shining and asked if they could put us up. After a little consultation they (Ic- cided they could. and gave its their own bed. They were good Roman Catholics and I shall not forget the kindness of that home.

A garage, recommended. was not far away. anti we found Yretl it good mechanic and his charges very reasonable. After some new parts and a day's repairs. Fredi put us on the. road again.

Bill. that was not the end of our troubles. At Sambro our car broke down again. and had in he towed

thirter.-n miles In the garage. Would Dick. the mail courier. do la? Yes. certainly! It was on

his way. and he kept a chain on purpose for that. Dick was the second good Samaritan, bill by no means the last. From the limo I left, home till we got back I had had seven flats rind one blow- out. nnd on new parts and service I had spent $116.60. However. it Ill seems worth it. because I had met so many good Samaritans. rover got stuck yet but along would come some one in help me out. of my difficulty. On one ne- cnsion I got stalled in the midst of heavy traffic in Halifax. when elong came a man and pulled me to a garage. I

Who has not played the good Samaritan on the road? Last sum- mer I was driving on the road toward Charlottetown and over- took three ten-aged girls hitch- h.king from Summerslde into lht‘ City. They had had no dinner. The Kensington eating houses were closed. I had a good basket n‘ lunch in the back seat and 4 big thermos of tea. which I did not need its a Samaritan friend inzri given me my dinner, and the girls were invited to help them- selves which the)‘ gladly did. When I dropped them off another good Samaritan came along and carried them into the city where their home was. ’l‘lmse Samari- tnns make one feel that after all il‘.t-re is much good In the world.

The Strange Spring

By Douglas Howe

How strange, the spring‘: coming, 1954. How strange, at least. to one who finds himself watching this miracle of the seasons amid the peace and the eternal things of a lovely rural valley. hearing all the while the turbulence and the fear: from an outer world that seems both remote and hardly credible. How strange n planet's contra5t.s....

There are tl1l‘t‘r: young lads on the neighboring farms and they've been ra.i.slng shorthorn steers. for a year or more. feeding them well. preening them. proud as punch of them and then came the day to take them off to Amherst. to the Maritime stock show and sale. The boys wEre scrubbed behind the ears and sent on their way to high adventure. sleeping that night in the great arena with boys and men from all over. and selling their steers the next day amid all the glory of the auctioneer-‘s eloquence. at 19 cents a pound on rthe hoof. 1-low proud they} were, how happy, Their fathers grum- bled about the price. as farmers will. but. the boys were happy.

(That. ii\'n.s the day it was an- nounced ln Washington that man has devised in bomb big enough to eliminate New York.)

When the weather warms, the farmers start. burning over their blueberry land. They do this

on though in Lryst. The auger-mob mg began. the tapping. the goth- ering of the slap. the boiling down lll‘lLli the woucien shacks were scented Kill) a sweetness from the Gods. When it. was time to sugar off, the kids showed up. hungry and lauglung. and the men who do all the hard work laughed with them. Such is the spell of the sugar woods.

(That was the day Lester Pear- son \\arned that we must be cau- tious about. the latest Russian over- ture because it \\'as likely Just, more of the velvet. violence of tlielr duplnmar ; >

The current from Lhe river is cutting like .1 small scythe into the great. corset of ice Lhilt. covers the lake we can see from the hill. Mrs. MacAloney. who for years has kept a record of the lce'a going, looked out one day and estimated that it would be another couple of weeks before it was gone as methodically. as inevitably as spring itself, gradually and in its own good time.

(That was the day France said one of its plant-s had flown from Montreal to Faris in a record 9% hours.)

In the game saiictuary I few miles from here six deer came out of the forest. magnificent things but. gaunt. from the winter. and stood grazing in the open even

thoroughly because blueberries are a prosperous crop in the Cabe- quid Valley. The smoke rises high and can be seen from all direc- tions, One night. from our window on the hillside you could see flames like vivid pockets in the darkness, straiigely comforting.

(That. was the day the papers had Lne picture of the mushroom

I cloud. hideous over the-Pacific.)

For weeks now wild ducks have been camping in the meadow on the valley floor, easily visible and content amid the reeds and grasses and the inflated river. One day .t p,rcat. Bald Eagle flew in. inef- fnbly majestic on six feet of wing. The duck: flew about wildly until the eagle seated himself high in I tree and then they went back to cntitiz. In time. he rose and circled, circled. circled, and then flew off with a monarch’: nonchelnnce. The ducks remained

tThat. was the day the papers

mlnstcr that Churchill. try to slot the tests in the Pacific.)

Down the valley one day it lit- tle girl found some pusnyiwllow: and took them to hot‘ teacher in the one-roamed sch lhouse. Stir was it little vexed the another l1ll'l had already brought mayflovicr leaves.

tTliat was the day thousands of

ir.any people who will put them- selves out to help it brother in distress. This has been my ex-.

perience more times than I have‘ fzngers nntl tors. I am. Sir. t'|l‘., W. I. GREEN.

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I Tho Ago Old Story i

0 lord. I know that the way of man In not In himself: not in man that wnlketh to direct his steps.

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THE EAGLE

He clugps the crag with crooked

hands: Close to the sun in lonely lnnda. -lunged with the azure world. he minds.

wrinkled crawls; He watches walls. And like A tnuntlerbolt he falls.

The sea beneath him

from his mountain

-——i.ord Tennyson.

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bcslegliig. screaming Reds were tearing at the heart. of Dlen Eicn ‘Phlli

Along the ridges the sliaggy old ‘maples yielded incongruously. and HS inevitably as the poets do, to their eternal urge to utter tributes

to the spring. Men went to them‘

when in car stopped and I man got out. to admire them. It. was ut- terly quiet. there in the forest. ut- terly without. sound.

(That. was the day there was more news about men's furious ef- fort.s to put. arrns back in the

. hands of Germans who have (0

often misused them.)

Granimle Potter was down in Parrsboro tpop, 2.000) doing her weekly shopping and she was happy to get. home again. she said she

I NOTES BY

hit. the open road--which you find closed for repairs. —,- Kitchener- wnterloo Record.

Have you got the hlcoupo? its uncomfortable. but the attack will pasa—-so-aner or later. If it persists all your doctor may be able to do is recommend the old-fashioned remedies used by our parents‘ par- ents —such well-known standbys like holding one’: breath, and blowing into 3 paper bag. We mow very little about hiccups. but for some strange reason persistent. attacks are considerably less coni- mon in women than in men. No one canxexpiain why.—St. Cathar- ine: Standard

It is frightening news that 100 tons of Roquefon cheese is cur- rently travelling back and forth across the Atlantic in the hold of the French liner Ltberte. The longshoremcn of New York. cur- rently on strike. refuse to unload it here. The owners of the cheese in France don't. want to take it back. so it plies the Atlantic while tongues hang out on both sides of

the ocean. Roquefort la a power- ful. full-bodied cheese, and 100 tons of it are not. to be taken

lightly. Surely the world can find seine place for this weary cheese to lay its head. Will not some one lend an oar, or better still. a balixig hook? Man. after all. does not. live by bread e!one.—New York Herald Tribune.

A teacher in a Fort William school was using a tape recorder as a teaching aid. The children were much interested. When the teacher was caued from the clue- room. he warned the pupils to stay in their seats and be quiet. But Jimmy. the outstanding un- ruly member of the class, did not head the warning. with one eye on the door. he tiptoed up to the front. of the room to have a close look at the tape recorder. When he had almost. reached it. the teach- er's volco came from the recorder. It. said, "Jimmy; get back to your seat and take out. your books." Jimmy went.—o trifle awestruck. The teacher had anticipated what would hnppen.—P‘ort, William Times-Journal. .

certainly wouldn't want. to live in A place where there was all that hustle and bustle.

(That. win the day they opened the subterranean artery to carry off the congestion strangling Tor- onto’: heart.) i In the woods behind our place the men finished cutting down spruce trees and the last. of the long. brown logs were trucked and dragged from the hills. Carl Ful- lerton’: small mill .started up, sing- ing lustily as it. cut them up into this size and that. The lumber piles of fresh-longed evergreen kept. growing.

(That. was the day they were pre- paring in Washington for the lat- eat. of the sordid episodes of Mc-I Carthyiam in his war with the army.)

Soon that episode would be on. the klieg lights gklerlng, the nbuse flying. But. by then the blackblrda

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Spring always bring: the urge to

THE WAYQI

Atomic oclontlntl announce nu, have discovered elomem No. rm whlch will be off no vslue 111' blowing up cities. Just. I one og love’; labour ioot?—Billinga. Mon, tam. Gazette.

Kirsten I-‘lngltod make; . ,,_ cording in which A friend sing. the high C's. It's nice to know that the two-platoon system, 0”‘, ed from us. football. hon found ; home in opoi-n.— Winnipeg Tm. une.

Montreal is reported to 1-,." cooked on eye at; Toronto’: new subway and decided to set. rid of its trams too. But. buses. not sub. ways will take their place. M'1c_ Montreal Transportation > Commi... slon—wlll need 1.300 buses to re. place the 868 tiams now operated‘ and 240 miles of track will hav. to be ripped out. of the city’: streets. Montreal. however, alum, has many bus lines. The removal of the noisy. clanglng trams will improve decidedly the big city an the St. Lawrence but more likely will be a gradual proceou.—5yd_n.,y Post-Record,