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- DISCUSS STABILIZATION -

EDUCATIONAL HORIZON

- Education Week Focuses

Attention On P.E.I. Problems

—_— Education Week is. one week

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@pecial. emphasis is placed upon education. .

Its aims are:

~1. To awaken a greater inter- est in the needs of education

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: K is questionable Whether this situation is caused by the latter district's inability to more or-whether it is a of “what was good enough years ago, is good enough Sow,” attitude toward educationd but whatever the reason such dis- should not exist in Prince Edward Island. FINANCE SURVEY _ et The writer was privileged to be spectator in the Legislature week when the Minister of cation, the Hon. Keir Clark, in his address that a com- sufvey of school finance is undertaken this fall by Dr. ME. LaZerte, Dean of Educa- tion, University of Manitoba. Sur- ely this study, together with the

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ties in regard to financing educa. tion will meet with the hearty al of all citizens as a step ard in education as one that is long overdue. j

The Prince Edward Island Tea-| @hers’ Federation has been ad-

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The benefit_to the boys and girls will depend."in the final ana- lysis, on the type of teacher

_ that will carry on in the schools.

vain,” so that a beautiful build- ing with modern equipment is not @ guarantee that the children’

contribute to the physical 4being of the chikiren. That angle, of course, thust not be - a comfortable “well

has its advantag- the rate-payer’s money wasted unless within that there is a well. educated well trained teacher at the

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enough of the right type of tea, cher to supply our schools should cause us concern. According to statistics we should get an influx of approximatély 200 teacher trainees to take care of the num- ber who leave the profession for one reason or another each year.. Instead, the average number who entered. our Provincial Normal School for the last ten years was 57 - this year there are 36 in training - 36 to look after the approximate 200 vacancies that are liable to occur. At this rate we shall‘never, get rid of the 100 plus permit te@chers, misfits and those who ‘are filling in be- Cause a teacher cannot be found. There is no aeed to gloss over the problem, it is with us and must be met.

Why aren’t more young people entering the teaching profes- sion in our province today? Many Teasons could be given -° suffice it to say there are many types of employment available today that did not exist twenty-five years ago. Business and industry, scientific research, the armed ‘services, all these, are drawing our top-ranking high school and university graduates almost everywhere one turns - work is available for educated young peo- ple - work that offers attractive beginning salaries and a promis- ing future. Teaching in compar- ison rates a poor second choice. WHAT FOUNDATION?

course, if on Prince Ed- ward Island, we have many who think as the person who .empress- ed the view in one of this week's Guardians," that any one can teach the junior grades - then our efforts to secure qualified tea- chers in our schools is waste time.

Would that person, ‘when build- ig a house, put inferior mater- ial in the foundation and top it

- |off with a first “class roof? His |

building as he knows ‘would be ust -as secure as the rotten beams in the foundation - so it: is with teaching - the foundati must be well and truly laid. Tr poor teaching is to be, endured and Heaven forbid-put “ the poor teachers at the top.

if the children are to follow through high school and uni- versity with any degree of suc- cess, we cannot afford weak plac- es in the structure. In Prince Ed- ward Island we have a core of excellent teachers but we haven’t enough of them - we must have more, and to get more we must make the teaching profession

amore attractive to recruit and re-

tain. Implementing a proper sa- lary schedule is one of the best ways to do this. The beginning salary for all classes of our tea- ers is too low. Over 500 of| our 840 teachers received, last year, a salary less than $2,000. That, I think, tells its own story.

Is there money in our province to pay our’ teachers a better sal- ary? We spent last year over three million dollars in liquorthe logical inference would be that

Standards ot teaching from) — Grade 1 up must be of the best}:

| other administrative changes, in-

We need teachers-

of good character to educate oky/ let us try — estabiish- salary scale that will at- to the profession young peo- of. promise to see what hap-

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Plan To Extend | War Veterans’ © Benefit Period

OTTAWA (CP)—A bill to ex- tend by nearly three years the period in which Second World War veterans may obtain re- establishment credits was intro. duced in the Commons Friday by Veterans Minister Brooks.

The present cut-off date is Jan. 1, 1960. This is extended to Sept. 2, 1962, except for veterans dis- charged after Sept. 30, 1947. They have 15 years from their dis- tharge to collect benefits.

The legislation makes a simi- lar extension in the period dur- ing which veterans can repay re- establishment credits in order to get benefits under the Veterans Land Act. ~~

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AMONG THE FARMERS

Federation of Agriculture Newsletter

INFLATION AND THE FARMER

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tion and at the same time the farmer is not in a very good posi- tion. Why is this so”? It is the

sult of some other factor? Cer- tainly if the price of what the farmer has to sell had kept pace

vto buy. # might be argued that inflation is not hurting him. Cer- tainly the relatively low prices of farm products are due in most

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cluding one allowing payment of te-establishment credits to vet- who chose to take benefits the Veterans Land Act but didn’t get VLA benefits equiv- alent to what they would have received in re - .establishment

About 80 per cent .of the popula- tion of the United Kingdom lives

| great war inlation reached such | a pitch that farmers paid off quite | . large mortgages by selling one

result of inflation or is @ the re-,

with the price of what he has,

e a a. a 7 paeipetiiennatintnesee cnc esata Lvaapmeainginnneeraediennens aie ate —cearntn ieee ng enone : ns sit pees a : Ae eis : : . s Rie’ : s - 1 Mar. 2, 1959. | amount ba per ete gree uy Sakend be = waaonade At a Raph nargae r % year Se seiems' | 190 tenet ont The nates mt member of both| ber the amazing number of of Wetoaday tying i a | the Hou the delegation dis-| thousand hogs per week went into| riousiy ii woman to a St. Joha’s cussal, them to considerable | domestic consumption—almost 50} hospital. She was finally wrapped length. This opportunity is wel-| thousand more per week than was in a sleeping bag lashed to the comed by the organization and/ the case in December-of 1957. | side of a helicopter and might in future lead to something | With greatly increased bog pro- to hospital.” er re ee lee eee eee ae , Fuse Mech etid be sean ote of en * : brief. happy _ circumstance » otherwise @ party consultant _ lecturer. nurs , Some two weeks ago the direc: | the Government _ would. hold Rlgedk teed Goce teas af Perl ak @t toocher'c Colegs. CAUE tors of the Camadian Federation | very great deal more than it9| gual Cove on the mainiand try-| bia University. i Seiier sad to Cubtest adians along with eating Itigh ‘on |e men had just been released|lists 26 speakers and conference : ee erels ot | have-money-enough to-buy-a-bot |“ es eart Disease beef consumption, A not | dog for three days. * oa y, Education in a very favourable Ba) facets iar Pat slept for the Prevention, Cure and © hs, FARM Costs. ae ound: 5a — "| Coninal-~sh-Heart It’s going to cost at least $6,- Matical Mansgqment 9.f pa 500,000,000 to run the U.S. Depart- Nurses To Stud Disease-in Children ‘en this industry not onty | meet of. Agriculture in the dext| © 1 ey . FEDERATION MEETING are oe eens TEOOeR Ei { snd fie vn Sanders Edgers ‘the Federation is planned for the | next July 1. | | from across the Atlantir Provine-|] ‘Weer Sealers and Varnishes night of March 17 at the Legion| PLENTY OF COFFEE - Hall in Charlottetown. The chief| There is ‘an awful lot of coffee speaker will be Mr. David Kirk, | in Brazil and in the world. secretary of the C.F.A. who will| Latest estiate is that total cof- be making his first visit to titis | fee crop for 958-59 will be 59.1 province. Mr. Kirk's knowledge | Million bags, a record high pro- of agriculture is held in high re | duction. The exportable portion gard by those who know him and | o this is 52.1 miltion bags, 15 per WILLIAM HAYWARD ee ee ek ol weer eo een March 17 can look forward to| Weather fas continued to ing her convalescence. something special in the way of | 200d for coffee growing and This week, the special mames/ , contribution to placing farm bumper crops are expected in committee im Chartottetown, problems in perspective. The bal-, many areas ; headed by J.C. Montgomery and ance of ttie program has not yet ECONOGRAM . Fulton Pierce, as co-chairman, | teen arranged but announcement | The farmer is en operator wh . will be calling on business firms! win be carried through the press | lives on the expense which he in the city. and other media. === We can now enter into March | ae ee eee coe McLean oe and blusters verging towards | --| the long’ Maritime spring. March From Bell Is. % | [Sod make a telling effect on feed| BELL ISLAND, Nad. (CP) - cases not to inflation but to over | supplies, even May. if the pas-| Mayor Dr. Walter Templemz | production. All of which appears} ture season does not start, at a/ said Friday the transport depar: to add up to the fact that over-| reasonable time can be the straw | ment icebreaker McLean is badly production is denying the farmer that breaks the camels back 90/ needed to keep open a channel be- the benefits which he has tradit-| far as the hay stack is concern-| tween here and the mainland jonally received as the result of | ed. x He said his request to the de- iain. AN 7 YEAR PLAN ~" |partment to keep the McLean There ave ethers who may cise Tthe ionishins aes unveiled a|‘hefe was turned -dewn. The ice- benefit from inflation, the urban) Jw seven year plan that seeks | breaker left Thursday after break- es tee a le hie te peabebly the larweet im|t2 boost agricultural production |ing a path through ice - choked| Fer Top Ratle service this is probably the largest Mls « least 70 per cent. |Bonavista Bay to deliver provis- 29.8 vestment that such people ever! “the big push wil be in grain|ions to the island’s 10,000 resi- WLAN’S make, will Mkely Gad % ensier to production. A goal for 1956 pro-! dents. . ‘Pay for that home in periods of] duction has been set at eround| Ferries have. been unable to | inflation than might be the case! 1¢¢ million ,tons. Besides boos‘ing | ——————————__— DIAL 9624 if good hard dollars were the or- the output, farmers are being ask- qa & Ge Oy. @d to concentrate on the most Towing Se ice FEDERATION BRIEF valuable hard wheat varieties and rvic The brief presented @ ‘he| the best varieties of buckwheat oe ae alle members of the Legislature by | and pulses. Night Phone 8048 - 8 the Federation has appeared im| HOG MIRACLE Member D.A A. the press and readers can form| During the last threé‘months of | MURPHY’S their own conclusions on the sub-| 1957 Canadians ate 104 thousand | SERVICE STATION

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Civic Employees’ Local 501. National Union of Public Employees

MONTHLY MEETING

AT UNION HEADQUARTERS

_ MONDAY NIGHT, MARCH 2

Executive meeting 7—8 P.M. Regular meeting at 8 P.M.

EDUCATION WEEK LECTURE Prince Of Wales College Monday, March -2:-- 8 p. m.

‘Lecturer: DR. J. A. MacMILLAN

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