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l mental task than is required to ae- Pfiilglshsilirfitnaiii said he reaiiud tlie subject of religious life ir) the ‘schools was s "tiokiish one", but ti, was his opinion that any sull- ' ' if properly Liiillht, hlld 5011M- mhm]; Qt the religious in it. Delin- ‘, ant children and criminals were 3,150 products of the schools and mad been found to be suffering lirom spiritual starvation. ,

Educational Perspective

”. 14¢ recommended that the teach- ‘, strive for an educational per- FgpEClIVB with more remedial teach- mg and that a sense of humor in the children be encouraged. i-ie ieniinded the teachers that pupils iiiive a deeper and more imagin- allw insight into things than .,,dulls and admonished them ‘Wimp, (lull-lg anything which i-sould tend to stunt such a de- velopment in the child. irriith, beauty, goodliess, adven- ture, iirt, and peace—a1l are quali- lies or spirits which must be en- -couraged in the ohlld if a nation ,5 to be developed able to face and to overcome any or all of the great yioblenis of the present day. But before the teacher can imulcate them ln others. he must have them qiimself. Prof. Southam concluded. ilr. Daniel MacDonald. St. Pet- 5'5, president of the Federation. presided at yesterday's opening oi tlie three-day annual convention.

Mr. Shaw's Address

m, L. W. Shaw, Deputy Minis- Iter of Education, who addressed Jilie morning session, said those Fii-lio entertain the belief that aca- Yilemio training alone comprises the GWIIOIC oi education are labouring Ffniider a misconception. Mr. Shaw 5 .d he could not understand the ~mentsil attitude of those who per- sist ill arguing over the relative ‘iniporzniice of academic training {COIYIPliIIYI to vocational training. Each, Mr. shew said, is comple- iiientai-y to the other. Education. 5in the comprehensive sense oi tlie Ftei-m, is that process oi discipline and training which makes for a "_.’uliic.~s of living. "Let us think, gill‘. Shaw said. "oi education as ‘liens; that system oi training ‘ailiirli will make a full man.’

, Mr. shaw said he hoped none of _'1ils audience would interpret his iyeinarks as being derogatory w the fliiiportance oi academic subjects. “filiflh subjects were essential w the ontellectual growth and enjoyment oi all men and women. But the study oi such subjects was not sufficient to make the modern young man or woman an educated person. The boy, leaving his home for school, took with him more iIlllli his mind. His body went along also. And that body also re- qlllved development, discipline, and irdiuiilg.

. The vocational training school. contrary to the opinion of riianl’ peoplo unfamiliar with the work of the institution, did more than give its students practical training in carpentry, blacksmithing. farm mechanics. etc. Culture wasgalsq ‘obtained there. The mind was ek- ‘i-rcised in the study of theories re- lsicd to the trades being learned and a broad view was obtained of tlie various trades as they touch- ed upon each other.

.\Il‘. Shaw told the teachers the Dipartment of Education was ex- periencing difficulty in securing lcii books, Fraser and Sqdlli"! Frencli- was impossible to obtain; sirwas Smith and Robertson's arithmetic; and the geography text hook was not satisfactory. 1t was his opinion that the text books dealing with agriculture and na- ture studles could be prepared jiere by some of the professors at Prince ‘oigwales College. He saw no rea- son_'wliy such text books should not be authorised for study throughout the Marltimea.

Regional Schools

Referring-to the possibility oi building regional high schools in tlie iiear future. Mr. Shaw said t_li_ey_ivould servo the useful nur- pose of relieving the primary srlioois of a burden which had be-

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POLICE COUltT--At the Stip- Bndisry Magistrate's Court yester- dflY. four drunk and Incapablea ap- peared. one being sentenced to 20 days in Jail, another to 10 days ili jail, while the other two were fined $6 and costs or l0 days in jail. A person charged with reck-

less driving was fined $10 and costs or 20 days. and anothel c arged with operating a motor

vehicle while intoxicated ivas sen- tenced to seven days in jail. A man charged with shop breaking and theft was remanded for one week at the request of the de- fence. while a non-support case was adjourned for two days.

come unbearable, that of one teacher handling ten grades. No primary school can do justice to its pupils under such conditions, Mr. Shaw said. and one of the main reasons \vliy so many pupils failed in the entrance ‘examin- ations was not so much because they did not know the Grade 10 work well enough but because their foundation studies had not been sufficiently thorough.

M". Shaw said he had recently read a. statement by an education- ist who said that when a nation's civilization is threatened, its wiser statesmen examine the country's system of education. He would ask the teachers to feel free to send any suggestions for the improve- ment of the Island's present sys- tem to his department where they would receive careful study.

Mr. Shaw said many of the school districts appeared to be ull- aivara that the Provincial Gov- ernment had spent over $30.00!; mist year in the beautifying and im- proving of various school buildings and grounds and that it had voted $0.000 for the same purpose this year. All that the school district had to do was to pay dollar for dollar with the Government in order to ensure such improvements. l-ie urged the teachers to encour- aj|.- such work by imparting the information to their districts.

Salary Increases

Mr. MacDonald in his presiden- tial report warned teachers against accepting supplements which were lower than the minimum required by law. Some teachers, he said. had done so last year.

On behalf of the Federation, Mr. MacDonald expressed gratification at the increases in teachers salar- ies granted by the Government in i947. He said tlie Federation had been informed that the Depart- lnarit oi Education may recom- mend that the money saved the school districts by the abolition of the land and road taxes be spent for the increase of supplements to teachers.

lvir. MacDonald said the deduc- tions for pensions were high but that the deductions were for a worthy cause. Should a pensioner die, it was gratifying to know that his dependents would receive a pension.

For the first time in the educa- tional history oi the Province. there will be no fall vacation tAhls

n- othel- innovation will be that child- ren residing in a district where no teacher is available will be pro- vided transportation to another school district for instruction.

Instruction for teachers by groups began yesterday under the following instructors: Mr. Ll. W. Shaw (geography), Miss Frances Johnson (art), Mr. Wilfrid iiimdn (physical education). Mrs. Doris Worth (a two-weeks program in one-room rural schools), Miss Catherine Fraser (primary arith- metic), Mrs. Leone Ross (junior arithmetic), and Mr. Ralph Mc- Lean (films in leaching).

The evening musical program by Mr. Frank Johnston was ivariiill‘ applauded as were the two violin selections by Master Basil Phllllm, who .was accompanied by Mr. Jo ‘ '

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CRAIG -AttllaP. I Li!“ tsl on March 2'1, 1948. b Mr. and MN- illrlc Craig. (nee Jessie beard) a W11. Donald Laird.

KENNEDY - At Kings County Hospital. March 13th. ma, ‘to w. 111d Mrs. Rae Kennedy. Murray Harbour North. a daughter, Bar- bara Ann.

Mama’!!! - A-t the St. Frans-s ‘RUM. New York, on February ml- 1948. to Mr. and Mrs. John A. ilvGral-h. (nee Katherine Murphy) "silencer. weighing a ibl. a ea Koren Mai-y. ~

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QILLls - McNElLL -- 0n Mai-en U). 1948. at Ladyburn by the ltev. limes Dicksonvlaniel Victor GfllIl. eldest gen of ivli-s. Kate Gillia of lflrr. P. a. 1.. and the late Jam-i Qillis to Margaret Nicol, Home! lvNelll. fourth daughter M Mr. llld: Mi-a. C. McNelil oi Greenock. Qwtland.

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This morning's session opens at 9.30 with an address by Premier ‘J. Walter Jones. He will be follow- ed by Mr. George O. Ci-oakfl. secretary-treasurer of the Cana- dian Teachers’ Federation.

Today's program will end with e dinner at the Charlottetown Hotel at 6.30.

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ed by the railways.

5. aermlasion to l negotiate contracts with shippers ior fagraed charges" at “modifled"

l. "Miscellaneous" services llleh ll, the haulage of milk and cream. awitehliig charges and delivery aarvleablet the 21- per-eaut increase.

‘l. Tiia nllwaya are empower- ed 0o preserve recognised rate differentials beTween rail and water altlpllleni aa far as prac- tleabla.

Besides exempting grain in the

West. the Board ordered there should be no increase on these types of traffic:

l. Export and import rates to and from Canadian poi-ta which new are on a parity with raiaa to and from‘ United Claus ports.

S. Joint international rates between Canada and the U. B.

which. already have been in- mllid Ln the last nave years

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WORTI-IWS DBUG STORE will be open all day today. Phone 211. We deliver".

LEGION CARD PAR-TY - The Charlottetown Branch of the can. adian Legion held another we. cessiul auction-forty-flve card party lit thc Legion Home last night. Wll-li 18 tables participating in the Play. some keen competition was witnessed between members and guests before the final prize win- ners were declared. The following are last night's prize winners: - Lodics-l. Mrs. H.R.~-Vessey; 2. Mrs. N. Whltlock; Men's-l. Mr. Leo Dowllng; 2. Mr. John Baker; door prlze—Mr. Kl). l-iuestts- can. solatiou prize-Mrs, J, Mcéfagof and Mr. Charles ivlclnnis; freeze- out prizes-Mrs. M. Griffin and Mrs. Aline McEntee.

Personals

Miss Vodla. MacKay. student at Mount. Allison University, return- ed Tuesday morning to resume her studies, having spent, the Eas- ter holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur MacKay. Albany.

Y.M.C.A. Boys’ Work Committee Plans For New Building

At a meeting of the YMCA. Boys‘ Work Committee last. eve- lling plans iiverc made for program operations in thc new Y.M.C.A. building.

Les Vipond, Boys’ Work Secre- iury of the Y.M.C.A. National Council attended the meeting to advise on modern methods in Y.M.- C.A. Boys’ Work.

The Committee considered the formation of a, large nvmber of clubs, classes and interest groups for boys ranging in age from ten to eigiliteen, The facilities of the new building were reviewed with special reference to the needs of hc.\'s in Charlottetown.

RW. liianriing ls the Committee chairman. Other conuertltteemefrl are: Percival Simmonds, Stanford Downe, John Roach, Fulton Proude. William Crockett. Arthur Burns, Roland Taylor, Allison Jewell, Keith Cameron, WP. ilk-Lend.

Arabs, Jews Observe Geneva Convention

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JERUSALEM. March 30-—(AP)— The Jews and Arabs have promis- ed to observe the-Geneva Conven- tion rules of war, an International Red Cross spokesman said today-

The pledge paves the way for the mercy organization to start work ln the Holy Land, now torn by civil war.

In Jerusalem bread ratiofllfi was decreed for the city's 10.006 Jews for the first time since the outbread oi current hostilities. The move was made necessary appar- ently by the repeated Arab at- tacks on Jewish convoys and other interference in the moving of food and supplies to Jerusalem.

Jews said their food supplies are "dangerously low". No similar shortage appeared in the Arab sections. which are supplied over Arab-controlled roads in Eastern Palestine and neighboring Arab countries.

by the interstate Commerce

Commission oi the U. S.

3. Rates between U. S. points on traffic passing through Canada.

The Board also decided there should be no increase in demur- rage and penalty charges.

‘The new charges are effective on three days’ notice, but it. is ex- pected the companies will take about two weeks to put them into effect.

The SLOW-word maivflil/ N48’ nient was written by Chm 90m‘ missioner J. A. Cross and concur- red ln by Deputy Chief Commis- sioner Armand Syivestre, Commis- sioner J. A. Stoneman. 00mm"- sioner G. A. Stone alld Comm!!- sloner J. A. MacPlierson.

Assistant Clilef Commissioner Hugh Wardrope delivered a minor- lly judgment declaring the per- centage increase should have been 2i per cent.

Basing its conclusions on the fiscal need of the Canadian Paci- iic Railways after ruling out the Canadian National as a yardstick becuse of its debt-burdened struc- ture, the majority dBOISIOII NI-I‘ mated the Canadian Pacific ivould obtain about t~10.o00.000 from the increases.

Blame Jail Firs 0n _ Escape Attempt

OWEN SOUND. Ont. March 80 -(UP)- An alleged murderafs strange bid for freedom was biamed tonight for fire in a. cor- ridor oi Grey County jail.

Authorities said the fire was sat by Arthur Hooey, 25. awaiting trial for the knife slaying lut March 6 of his lifelong friend, 23-year-old Allan Crows. The blah lPMrant- ly was part of an involved plan to escape, they said-

‘rhc fire. discovered ,eaterday afternoon by ‘Thomas itarnaga. fall

governor. was easily extinguished b7 iell mica and Owe

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Attractive Scholarships For P. E. I. Musical Festival

_ The scholarship committee of the

Large Attendance At Little Theatre Studio Night

A lflfie crowd oi members and Buesl-B were in attendance at the ElmPI-Pe Theatre last night to wit,- neas three splendid one-act plays 59011507941 b! the Little Theatre Guild of Charlottetown at. their m1" 501510 Night performance for this season. v

‘MI ""99 PIEYB. which were vci-y W911 cast and directed, provided much humor and dram-a to the llrle and appreciative audience, which brought out rounds of ap. iilause in the lighter and more humorous scenes While in the dramatic scenes. as 1n the second vlev "Heritage of Wimpole Sheet", the audience were so lliripfped up in whet was taking place on the stage before them, that had the drooping of the proverbial "pin" taken Dllce. it would have been lireeard throughout the entire thea.

The first play entitled "Mariam; President" by Wallace Acton, and directed by Mr. J. A- Lawson, is a comedy in the forun oi a dia. IOZue which takes place d-uring the evefllll! in the Spangle Manor. Ph-IIIP 59BX18“ (Ralph MacLean) a successful novelist, has settled himself in his favourite easy chair W 1010i’ his evening newspaper, A quiet evening at home? Nol For his wife. Victoria (Bessie Con- lid). is the queen oi the women's clubs and has much to tell him. 511° ha-i Just been elected Presl- dent of the local women's club and there are few subjects, if any, that Victoria cannot discuss. But her lack oi knowledge makes hei- a. cotnlc without her knowing it. She tells the story oi "l-iamiet’ in her own way. asks the meaning of every clue In a cross-word puz- zle, interrupts her husband con- stantly when he ls trying to tell her happenings of the day and unconsciously keeps him from reading his newspaper until he storms away from her ere he lose iils temper.

The second play oi the night was "Heritage of Wirnpole Street" by Robert Knipe and directed by Mr. Bert Foster. centering around the former home of Elizabeth Barrett

Browning. After her death, her son tLelth Sweeney) comes to visit his grandfather, Edward

Mouiton-Barrctt lCharles F. Bent- ley). and his aunts Henrietta (Gwennyth Patterson) and Ai-abel iBetty MacPherson). ‘Through the sincerity cf the boy, Edward becomes softened in his attitude toward his two daughters at honie and to the memory oi Elizabeth. The part of the Barretts‘ maid, Jane was played by Mary Gordon.

The third and final play for the evening, "The Man in the Bowler Hat", by A. A. lVLiiine, and directed by Mrs. R. M. Scantle- bury. was a comedy which was centered around the quietest and most ordinary sitting room in the world. and John lMorton Dew) and Mary (Jean Giddlngs) "two of the most ordinary people, he in the early forties and she in the late thirties. They are sitting in front of the fire after dinner. he reading the paper, and she knit- ting. They engage in conversation, and are ruminating as to how they would long for a bit of ex- citement, when suddenly they are thrown into a series of events which completely upsets their placidneas, and practically wrecks their quiet home.

In addition to these fine plays, some very fine musical selections were rendered by John Stearns and his Brlght-On-Alres. and be- between the second and third plays, Judge H- L. Palmer, chair- man of the local Adjudicatlng Committee, reviewed the two plays of the previous Studio Night held last month. giving a general out- line of the Adjudlcating Com- mittee's findings, both pro and con. of the two plays presented.

The following are the casts oi last night's performance:-

"MADAME PRESIDENT" Directed by J. A. Lawson

CAST Phillip SpangleAA Novelist .. Ralph MacLea Victoria Spungle-His Wife Bessie Conrad

"HERITAGE OF WIMPOLE STREET’? Directed by Bert Foster CAST

Edward Mnulton-Barrétt, Master of Wimpole Street --C.l"- Bentley Henrietta Mouiion-Barrett his daughter .Gwennyth Patterson Arabel Moulton-Barrett another daughter .... .. Betty MacPherson Robert Barrett Browning. a. grand-

son ...........l.elth Sweeney Jane. a maid servant _ . Mary Gordon

“Till! MAN IN Till; BOWLER

IIAT" Direiaed by Mrs. R. M. Scsntlebury CA5’!

John .. Morton Dew Mary Jean Giddings Hero rsser Macmillan Heroine Francis Campbell Chief Villain .Fred Mcliearney Bad Man .... .. lid Osrnhum

Man in. the Bowler Hat Sam Vail Properties -- George Abbott and Wallace Bcantlebury. Stage-S. i-i. Bur-hoe. Bert Pat- terson. and George Abbott. - Maire-up -Dorls Downe, Hilda. Jenkins. Lillian Lewis. Mary Wrllht and Mary Moran.

Sound Fire Department. It was in a door at one end of the cor- rider.

Authorities said iioeey ripped apart a. Bible and a magazine and smashed a bench and a window sash to obtain kindling. He ap- parently aet fire to it with a clgaret lighter.

Musical Festival Association met yesterday end reported the follow- ing scholarships given to date: Kinsmen: $50.00 to Class 3'.l. "Nymphs and Shepherds" for l8 years and under (vocal). Hillsborough Chapter, I.0.D.E., $25-00; to Class 45. two-part pub- lic school chorus, “Beauty Lately.” Royal Ec-ivarii chapter, 1.0.0.13, $25.00 to Class 5i: a vwu purt scliooi chorus, "When Cals Run Home". 5H0 Clllbi A Medal to tlie ill- dlvidllal making highest marks in the festival, and a shield to tlie school making the highest marks.

‘keel-lion Ac To Freight

By The Canadian Press

Reaction across Canada to freight rate increases granted to- day by the Board of Transport commissioners ranged from ‘we don't like it" to "v.'e're glad it's no worse."

Western farmers were pleased enough that Western grain move- ments wcre exempt, but feared that increases in other freight rates would more than outweigh the grain concession.

The attitude of most industries was that increased costs would ultimately have to be passed on to the public.

Rises were specifically predict- ed in the steel, lumber, coal and automobile industries.

A Toronto dealer said the in- crease of 25 cents a ton on coal would be added to the retail price as soon as it was effective.

An official of the Western Re- tail Lumbermen‘s Association said increases in lumber prices would be about $3 a. thousand feet. He added, however. that "the rail- ways need the money if they are to pay the wages."

Ford Motor Co-. oi Canada, Ltd, commented that the most immed- iate effect from the pub1ic's standpoint, would be slight in- creases in the retail delivered prices of automobiles and trucks at points throughout Canada where ShIDntents are made by rail.

Provincial Novernmerit heads in general preferred to study the announcement before commenting.

Co-operative Minister McIntosh of Saskatchewan telrned the in- creases “quite unjustified" in view of railway earnings.

A. l". Blake, president of the Saint John, N. B.. Board of Trade.‘ regretted that "apparently no special consideration was given to the Maritime Provinces.“

Too Little, Railways Say

The railways themselves. in a joint statement, said the increases would fall far short of minimum requirements fibilt for thc iuipre- cedented traffic volume." '

Premier Stuart Carson of Mani- toba declined lmn-ledlate comment

At Saskatoon, N. MacEacliern, Board of Trade commissioner urg- ed that the increase be appealed to the Privy Council.

George Blckerton. publicity di- rector for the United Farmers of Canada, said: "The increase will change the economy oi the whole country. Nobody outside the Par- liament of Canada should shoul- der the responsibility of making such a sweeping decision."

Premier Byron Johnson of Brit- ish Columbia said he was vrith- holding comment until a study has been made of the order.

it is possible B. C. will seek a further review oi mountain-differ- ential rates to which the general eoost of 2i per cent will be added.