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THE CHARLOTPETOWN GUARDIAN

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in tho ‘ _, from Ottawa that the Deputy Ministers have been instructed to revise and cut down their estimates for civil ser- vice salaries. rlt is to be lrorped that these late Instructions ‘will be car- ried out. Quite recently it was sta- ted in the Ottawa despatches that

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such Instructions looking toward retrenchment had been given by the Government to the Deputy

Ministers and t-hat the latter had declined to act upon them on the

out their ailments.

ing a severe touch of indigestion

-l have never been aoie to under- stand why people liked to talk ab-

Where the credit comes, in hav-

an attack of rheumatism, or un

ground that their

parlors ad could not now be chau- gcd. Which of these contradictory

OUR EDUCATION

We are paying fairly liberally for our education in this province al- though much less than is being paid in some of our sister provin- ces and in many parts of the Unit- ed States. Our total expenditure for education In 1922, from govern- ment and from the districts direct. was $428,869.21. The expenditure for 1923, the report of which has} not yet been made public, will pro-i bahly be about The amount, for a small province like ours with its limited

the same. revenue. isi fairly large. value for it‘!

Are we getting full

The cost per enrolled pupil is es- timated at $28.84 for Charlotte- town and Summerside and for all other districts $20.05. The cost per pupil In average daily attend- ance for Charlottetown and Srrm- merside is $35.36 and in country districts 830.76.

When we remember that for this amount, in addition to the unavoid- able ‘cost for clothing and keep, a cltild is, or may be, fully Bfililppefl; for any vocation he may choose as his life's work or for entering his studies for a professional career, the cost cannot be said to be ex- cessive. Yet, the question will ob- trude itself, is the child receiving the iull benefit of the opportunities placed disposal for this amount?

at his

Up to a certain point in any cur- riculum that may be devised there is, or there should be a common foundation upon which the child is to build whatever superstructure he may desire be it the profession of law, the church, medicine, farm- ing, fishing, mechanics or what not. This common, fundamental, prim- ary education is necessary to good citizenship in any and every call- ing.

Beyond this point we find some subjects added which, while cultur- al and no doubt desirable, are not‘ really essentials. The student, for example, who is preparing for a university course must take up the course of studies prescribed for the man or woman who is to make teaching their life long profession. The man who goes to Prince of Wales College to round off his ed- ucation as a farnrcr or merchant or tradesmen, mrrst take up all the studies prescribed for the teacher In training. The advanced grades in the primary schools have one goal, nameiyficntrance to Prince of Wales College, and the course of studies prescribed for that goal must be adhered to. In this way the stud- ent. other than the prospective teacher, is obliged to carry along a load of deadwood which may ro- ard for a ycnr or more his en- trance -to a university or. if aiming at any other course, prevents him from obtaining the kind of educa- tion that would be more useful to nim. It would appear that our system of education should have a broader aim than that of prepar- ing for the teaching profession

alone an but a small proportion of our young men and women take up ‘this coiling.

The question is a broad one and is well worth looking Into ni- though this is but one phase of it. In a previous reference we recom- mended n general investigation of the whole subject of education by a commission, not a Royal Com- mission on a highly remuusraiiv-e scale but a commission of wall in- formed, intelligent men and women in touch with our school system

5such a commission would he of in- finite value to our whole school isystem and that its assistance would he welcomed by our Board of Education.

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DISTRACTED EUROPE

it appears to be an easy matter at present to kindle fear in Eur- ope. How rnucb propaganda, poli- tics or credulity is involved in the present Auglo- French scare it is difficult to determine. Reference made in these‘ columns the other day to the fact that France was feverishly increasing its air which has created ii mild sensation in Eng- It is recalled that Great Bri- tain at the close of the, war pos- sessed approximately 22,000 air- planes, compared with France's 20,000, Italy's 5,000 and Germany's 15,000. The Central Powers were forbidden’ by the Treaty of Versail- lcs to retain any air services. Great Britain and ltaly reduced theirs practicallly to skeletij organiza- tions. France also reduced her air forces but immediately set about reorganizing them and providing them with modern equipment.

The consequence has been that Britain has dropped into second place among the-nations of Europe

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land.

IIIIDOII i5 to the truth we can only guess, in any case it seems almost incredib- ly late now ‘to be making up de- partmental mtimates usually made ready a month be- fore Parliament meets,

l0 ‘with the now promised cut in the outlay for the civil service the government would also abandon the projtetld construction of 1,100 miles of railways which if carried out must cost $100,000,000. we would have more faith in tlre “ec- onomy” talk. But this is not ro be. Political railway building must go orr if It sinks the country! Any cut in the civil service outlay will be at best a matter of thousands; the proposed railwir_v outlay is one oi many millions. Together this looks like attempting to “save at the spigot while leaving the bung op en." All wii join in the hope that

the Senate wil close the bung ag- ain as they did last year.

It was not our privilege to hear Mr. McKinnon, M. P., for Queens, or Mr. McLean, M. P.,1or Prince at the Liberal meeting on Friday night last. We have since read the authorized report of their speech.

es, They both appear to think themselves fortunate in having done great things for this Pro-

vlnce since they were elected two years ago and that Premier King has already proved himself to be "one of ‘tho greatest statesmen of the Enupire." That was ‘Mr. Mc-

in so far as uir power is concern- eil. I

ed that France possessed 140: squadrons of air craft while Great Britain had thirty-five squadrons; of which only seven were available‘ for ‘home defence. French squad- rons numbered for the most part nirre machines each, British squad- rons tweive machines euch- ln ad- dition, France had a civil air fleet oi‘ about 800 machines compared with a British civil air fleet of about 150. This situation restilted in assertions that Great Britah should place her air forces on an equal footing with those of France or, Iu other words, adopt a "one power standard” in the air as well This the Baldwin Government decided to do. As a first step in that direction, It pro- vided for the expansion of the Roy- al Air Force to eighty-two squad- droiis of which 52 were to bu for home Thirty-forrr nraw squadrons of 408 machines were to be raised by the end of 1923. Short- ly afterward, however, tho French Government declared its intention to increase its air iorcc from 140 to 208 squadrons. This enlarge- ment, It has been alleged, was due to a belief in the possibility of Ger- many developing an air iient and of cntcring at some future date Into an alliance with Russia which had been reported to be buying aircraft. Italy, too, by the mouth of Premier Mussolini, announced a policy of expansion of its air forces. It was this situation which prompted Sir Samuel Hoare, former Air Minis- ter, to ask the new Ministry in the House of Commons the other day for a statement of its air policy. He learned that the Labor Govern- 1119111 11101108611 to go on with its predecessor's construction pro- gramme, but did not learn whether or not the new Ministers would seek to establish the air forces on a one-power standard-

'I'he problem is a perplexing one. In a race for air supremacy, Great Britain, ‘with her great industrial resources, could compete but. lack- ing a system of conscription for military service, would find the contest more costly than would

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France. The prospect of suoh a tooth}! to m; gnbjggt gm- gh, _Q‘kQlC0nt9It is not relished in a country o! bettering on pfgylggg n4 u-‘whlcb is striving to reduce the liab-

.i.earr‘s phrase. Mr. McKljnnorr we

lure told lrr .'iiay,1.922l,il was oififziully stat-l

"highiy commended the splendid work of Ilon. John id. Sin clair." ThIs warm tribute paid .\ir. Sinclair while only on-e or two of the famous bungalows have yet been completed, shows that tire Liberal Mutual Admiration Society is still in good working order.

"Tire Liberals hold," said Mr. McKinn_on, “that the less Protec- on weohave In this country, the nearer we can get to Free Trade, the hotter It Io for the people." Iiowfltnany of his Liberal ‘hearers

really .believe that doctrine? We do not read ‘that this profound ut-

terance called rforth applause. No- body arose to give three cheers for making Canada and Prince Ed- ward island a slaughter market, and dumping ground for American pork, beef. mutton, butter, cheese Poultry and eggs, as it ‘would be under free trade. Our farmers are not yet bereft of common sense. Why are Canadians even now floc-

king In tens oi‘ thousand-s to the Fnited States where protection is

highest? Those who are going away surely do not believe Mr, Mc Kinnon'a doctrine that a low ter- ifi‘ is better than a high one. The Americans do not believe it, or they would be rpouring Into Canada which they are not doing.

As to the King Government's favor for economy w; may believe in it when they begin to reduce their own aaiarleo and stop creat-- ing new offices with stipends of $15,000 to $50,000 each, as they have ibeeu doing. It is a common report that the rfanners who make up half the population oi’ Canada, are not making money. With all the capital they have Invested In land, buildings and live stock, and with long hours of toil, the major- ity of them have to content them- selves with making a bare living after peyiq high taxes to give members of Parliament each $4,- 000 per session. Four thousand dol- lars for a four months session, is at the rate of 812,000 a year! Our

Big Four do not care to talk about that, and they are all for economy!

Wa gnzeupon tnoaa Parliament- ary naboba with nwo when they

coma once in awhile to no uoand talk to ua. Our soldier hoyq who

fought and ‘bled and died for a dol- lar a day to um their country- muot wonder what it was they real ly fought for. Thousands of them hove settled upon farms and I0 por- cant of them have made good, we

estimates had been already prepared under irrs- do it. zructfons from their ministerial su-

operation for appendicitis,

a variety of ideas

inns.

i With the man who is seldom ill, ‘ is almost wonse because an ill- 111855 with him is a rare event. No which Bmlorre could have the exactly same

set ot‘ symptoms that he had. They ‘just seemed to take a most unusu- .al turn. and he is very anxious to ieil you all about it,

Perhaps we are a bit proud of the way we came through it all.

And yet if you and l were to get right down to the root of things and got the physician's candid op- inion about the causation of our Ill rress. perhaps we would not be so proud nor so apt to ‘bore our friends by recounting our symrpt- oms. Because it‘ the truth were known In the majority oi‘ casm the cause of that illness was clue to our own carelessness. We have worked or played too long at a time, with no thought of the natural demands oi‘ the body in the way of food, sleep, and ex- ercise. lf we were to tell our friends that the physician said that it was simply over-eating, ac- tually stuffing ourselves that brought on our indigestion or ton- silitis, would they admire or sym- patlrize with us? Not much. They would say "It served you right." ' ‘Would you tell them that the real cause of tlre heart not behav- ing well during our recent illness was really due ‘to our masterful in- actlvity—laziness? I don't think we would. Don't misunderstand me. We are perhaps attacked by diseases or conditions over which we have no control, and that no thought on our part could prevent. Brit in the rrrajorliy oi‘ cases we are to ‘blame ourselves. Sn I've Ibeen thinking that if we were to remember this, perhaps we'd spare our friends a lot of an- noyance. and their sympathy could

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Daily Selections

FOR

Guardian Readers

A MODERN BOY

Ile has a bicycle, ofcourse, A camera and a racket,

And roller skates, a microscope, A banjo, and can whack It,

He paints a little, ‘writes a little, Takes four magazines,

Owns tennis suits and blazers, “Sweaters" and veleveteens.

He owns a shotgun, rifle, A lantern, set of slides,

A pony cart and pony On which he sometimes rides.

He owns a paper shell and rows, Plays polo, golf, baseball,

He has a lathe and scroll saw, A motor, radio and all.

A tool-box holding tools enough To build a railroad car,

A Pantagraph, a violin, Typewriter and guitar,

For Winter a togoggan, For Summer a canoe;

And if there's something l've for-

iwt. Be sure he's got that, too. But yet, amid h‘ any fads He leads a du ler life Than came to many an old-time

lad With just his pocket-knife. ——Ex.

a thousands dollars a month at far- ming any more than they did at soldiering, but they must help to pay at that rate, more or less to support an army of Mlnbters, De- puties, Commissioners, Parliament- urlans and other magnates who compose the aristocracy at Otta- wa. Is it, can it be to the benefit of our farmers, 012,;- soldiers or of Canada to continue the orgy of ex- travagance and waste that for years past has gone on a-t Ottawa?

We sand four" men to the Houoo of Commons. We pay thorn ouch a thousand dollara a month for tho aooolon. Tihey tell us pretty dairy stories, but we know just what they will do. They will vote for ev- sry measure the King Government proposes. l-f it Is to build a thous- and miles more railways they will vote for that. rlf It is to create more offices whether at $10,000, or .815.- 00, or 860,000 they will vote for that. They have shown “that they have large Ideal about liucli think! but they won‘t cut down their own salaries of $1,000 a month, Prem- ier King will not ask them to make any ouch sacrifice oo that.

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are told. That lbw “they

But some day the Canadian town! will go on otriho and when the!

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is be- yond me. And yet we all seem to

With ihe man who has always {something wrong with him. we get 1 about all man- jner of ailments, and rho ability or the nearest lar-k of fl-bilily oi‘ certain physic-|

be oinpcndcd on more worthy (IIlll-S-i‘ '

W. G. Y.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29 790 Kilocycles (880 Meters) WOY (Schenectady, N. Y.) General Electric Company. Eastern Standard Time 11:55 aim-Time signals. 12:80 port.

port. 12:45 p.m.—-Weather forecast. 2:00 p.m.—Muslc and

Robert L. Smith.

' 6:30 pan-Children's program. 7:35 para-Health urlk, Stare Department of Health. 7:45 p.m.—Radio dranta—(.‘oure- d_v, “A Tailor Made Man" (Smith) presented by WGY Players. instrumental selection "Intermez- " .................................... .. lluester WlY Orchmtra . Comedy, "A Tailor blade Man.” .a comedy in four acts presented by

‘thor. Harry James Smith. WGY Players The Cast .\ir. Huber .......... .. Chas. S. Baumes .\ir. Rowlands. Barrington Havens Peter .......................... .. Frank Oliver Dr. Gustavus Sonnatag ................. .. ........................ .. Jerome Lovenhelm

Tanya Huber ................ .. Rose Cohn John Paul Bart Edward H. Smith Pomeroy ...... .. Maurice G. Randall Mrs. Stanlaw ...... .. Helen Campbell

Corrine Staulaw

Margaret V. Smith

Doro

y .. . Lola. Summer's Bobby Westlake Harold Sunde bliss Kittie Dupuy Ruth Brown .\ir. Jellicott ...... .. H. A. Thompson Abraham Nathan .

.................... .. Edward . . u s IMiss Shayne .. Hjordis ‘Sandos Mr. Grsyson . Burton Anthony

-Mr, Whitcombe ........ .. John Loiitus and Labor Delegates Time —1916. Place-—New York

City.

Act I—T-he Tailoring lktaibllsh-

ment of Mr. IHuher.

iinstrumental selection, ‘iMarigold"

............................................ .. Rapper Orchestra

Act Irl-Reception room attire

Stsnlaws, the same evening.

Irrs-trumental selection "Minuet" ..

............................................ .. Puccini Orchestra

Act IliI—Tlre offices of the Amer-

ican‘ Oceanic Ship Building Corpor

ation, nine months later.

Instrumental selection, “Melodie

yAmqur" __________________ __ Tan Hurst Orchestra

Act IV.—-rSame as Act 1-

nrornl-ng of tlre folilowihg (lay.

Instrumental selection “Gavoite

rPopillalre" .................... .. Seeboeck Orchestra.

Tire

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29 (Late Program)

DJlL-SIDOK market re- 121-10 p.m.—-Produce market re- fashion tal-lr, "The New Spring Millinery,"

6:00 p.m.—\Produce and stock market quotations; news bulletins.

N. Y.

REBIPRBBITY UFURME

(W. L. COTTON)

drr this year, 1924, the economic and trade conditions of Canada ans relatively similar to those which prevailed In 1874——fif-ty years ago. Many persons are leaving Canada for the Fnited States and other countries In which wages are Irish- er and prospects brighter. Busin- ess is dull. Manufacturing indus- try is discontented. Prlces of farm produce are not profitable. Bank-

ispecial arrangement with the au-|

iuptcies and assignments are not uncommon. rit- is tn be hoped that the policy pursued by the hicKenzie Admiirris- tralion in 187i will not to follow- ed by the Government 0|‘ Canada in the next four years. if so tlre conditions of 187~t——8 will be in all probability ‘he duplicated. Throughout the period of stagna- tion between 1874 and 1878, the leaders and press of the Conserva- tive Party continuously insisted up- on the need of rParliameirtary nc- tion for the production oi‘ chang- ed conditions. Sir John A. Mac- Donald submitted to the House of‘ Commons a resolution in which it was declared that “ the welfare 0i‘ Canada requires the adoption of a National Policy which’ ‘by a judic- ious readjustment of Ule tariff will foster ‘the Dominion; that such a policy will retain in Canada those ui‘ our fellow countrymen who are now obliged to expatriate them- selves In search of the enrploy- m-ent which is denied at home, and will restore prosperity to our Sims gling industries, now so sadly de- pressed; will encourage an active inter-provincial trade; that its nro- tlve as such ought to be In lire dir- ection oi‘ a reciprocity oi‘ tariffs writh our neighbors, as frrr as the varied interests of Canada are concerned." '