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THE a GUARDIAN

there is one grave difficulty in attempting a solution through Federal channels. Under the

Morning Dally (Iotlndod ll llli) Authorized an tlecand Clan slut]. Poet Office Department, Ottawa.

The bland Guardian Publishing 00. Luiiur umi Managing Direct . J. l. Barnett;

Associate Editor, Frank Weller

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Welcome Naval Visitors

Since early colonial daysPrince Edward ls- iund ha; had many naval visitations, but none r.f more interest and importance than the ar- rival today of H. M. C. S. Magnificent, the 17,400 aircraft carrier which is the giant 0f Canada's Navy, and a symbol to all the world of our status as a sea power. Accompfliiylfifi the Magnificent will be the Canadian destroyer Haida, which is also a welcome visitor. The Magnificent, under Commodore Miles, O.B._E., R.C.N., carries a compliment of some 80 offic- crs and 550 men and is one of the most modern carriers afloat.

Suitable entertainment for the naval visit- ors while in port is being arranged, 0H4 ll’ '5 hoped that their stay will be a pleasant one. ‘This Province is proud of its contribution to Canada's senior arm of the service during the war years, and of those of her sons who are stirring at the present time. Charlottetown, as rho island capital, is a "home port" to all men m the King's uniform, but to none more cordially s: than to the boys in Navy blue.

___________--_--- Acaiilan Scholarship Drive

Worthy of every encouragement and sup- ucrt is the campaign which has been launched tar the St. Thomas Aquinas Society to raise funds izr the establishment of a permanent scholar- ship for deserving Acadlan boys and girls iii Prime Edward island. The objective is the com- pcratlvely modest sum of $50,000 and the ap- ceol is being made to the Acadian people alone, ihcuoh there is of course no reason why others do rag to do so should not contribute. The campaign has the worm endorsation of His Ex- - ncy Bishop Boyle and the Catholic clergy, o; well as His Honour the Lieutenant Governor, the Premier, the Leader of the Opposition and r-thcr men lfl public life. A canvass will be made on Sunday afternoon next of all Catholic par- ishes with Acodian residents excepting Char- lottetown and Sauris, where the press of other activities renders it necessary to postpone the appeal until Sunday, Nov. l4. lt is hoped and expected that the public response will be gener- ous, thus providing an incentive to the sons and daughters of our Acadian citizens to equip them- selves for positions of influence in professional and other walks of life, comparable to that en-

loved by other ethnical groups within the Pro- vince.

Serious Teacher Problem

The seriousness of the teacher shortage problem through the country was heavily under- lined in the report of a special committee sub~ untied at the recent convention in Winnipeg of “he Canadian Education Association. This com- mrrrae was set up a year ago and its report, in Ml mimeographed pages, reaches this sobering conclusion: "|t is unreasonable to assume that more than a minority of Canadian children are receiving or can receive suitable education under Filillflg conditions. Teaching as a profession is rclotivcly unattractive as a life's work. lt is not competing on equal terms with the other pro- fessions . . . Positive action on the port of the Canadian public is imperative if the schools are l: function effectively."

The teacher shortage as reported by Depart- rrcrits of Education in January, i948, was 7,276. T; this number the committee added those cer- flied after completing short training programs a ~»‘ iliose accepted for training upon completion . l Grade l0 schooling, the latter addition bring- >ng the "real shortage" at present up to 10,800. in the next ten years, Canada must overtake a potential shortage of 25,000 teachers. This figure is all tho more formidable when it is reo- lilid that the total number of teachers in all public and secondary schools stands at only 82.000.

The approach taken by the committee is

not that entry to the teaching vocation be made more easy, but that it be made more attractive. The profession needs higher salaries, better oc- commodatian, greater incentives. ln terms of i939 dollars, the average of teachers’ salaries ll Canada in i945 was $20 a week. Since i939 salaries in various types of schools have increased from 6 to 66 percent although the general wage level in Canada has increased 83 percent in the some period. Nearly l5 percent of Canada's teachers receive less than $l,000 a year. The sal- aries at the "top" in education are too low. De- partment of Education officials and university professors are, in the main, drawing salaries of only $3,000 to $5,000.

in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskat- chewan teachers are given continuous contracts, with all dismissals subject to review by a Board of Reference; but their security in Eastern Can- ada is not so formally acknowledged. ln Prince Edward Island contracts are signed for one year only, and these may be broken at any time on three months notice.

The survey revealed that the general edu- national background of trainees does not com- b pore well with those in the United States. l7 o per cent of Canada's teachers have had some university education; 27 l2 education, 30 per cent grade ll, and l5 per p cent only grade l0 or less. ln 62 U. S. cities reporting, 66 per cent of the teachers have had four years of college training. In certain entire states, some 50 per cent to 70 per cent of all teocliersof all grades hold university degrees.

The scope of; the problem indicates that it

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indirect "censorship" on the use of newsprint, but they have not been able to complain that opposition papers were worse treated than ernmei-it. ln Argentina President Peron's gov- ernment is more direct. Opposition papers have been singled out for newsprint restrictions. fi I i R

homes envious. After six

mother and I'll "and mixed butchering

Whippet mine at Tennant Creek for i100. Milnes hadn't i£l00 but he bar and bought.

vately owned butchering business in the North- ern Territory,

date I644, son of Admiral Sir W. Penn, he be- came a Quaker, and lisliing Sandy Foundations Shaken. He obtained

ation and founded ed the "Great Law" which made drunkenness,

prisoned for debt and was ing the colony.

in Britain as a result of a

year to increase farm produce by one-fifth in four years.

the winter before last, are up by nine per can! PIT CQHP llUVC llfld QYGdG 0" [qgf ygqh hqyg

couraging facts were given in ally bad weather but the average yield per cow

has risen eight per cent since output this year is expected

British North America Act, educational mat- ters belong exclusively to provincial jurisdiction. As the Rawell-Sirois Commission noted in its report on Dominion-Provincial Relations: "A free hand in something so important to the social and cultural life of the people seems to us to be vital to any provincial autonomy worthy of the name, arid it is obvious that any attempts to alter the existing arrangements would meet with powerful opposition and would provoke pro- found resentment." The Commission could only express the hope that provision could be made for the fiscal needs of all the Provinces, includ- log within those needs provision for the educa- tion of the young. "Once this position is estab- lished, it seems to us that education, like every other form of welfare service in a democratic community, should have to fight for its life, and that a generous provision for the education of the children of the nation should depend, not on any arbitrary constitutional provision, but on the persistent conviction of the mass of the people that they must be ready to deny them- selves some of the good things of life in order to deal fairly by their children." lt is for all concerned with teacher shortages and other problems hinging on the financing of education to work wholeheartedly in I; di- rection. j.

_i_________ . m EDITORIAL NOTES '

The overall potato situation,

to floor proposal,

siderable dispute. i

like the pota- seems to be a matter of con-

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lt is encouraging to note the absence of any new active cases of tuberculosis, as reported by Dr. Keeping at the City Council monthly meet- ing.

I O I I Best news for a long time from the Bur- eau of Statistics is its announcement of lower meat prices, based on substantial increases in meat stocks across Canada.

Q I I I H.M.C.S. Magnificent accompanied by H. M.C.S. Haida are clue to arrive this morning, remaining until the afternoon of the l8th. The great carrier and her escorting Tribal class de- stroyer escort will certainly receive an enthu- siastic welcome to Charlottetown.

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The City has properly acted to curb the dis- orderly and dangerous use of fireworks by draw- ing attention to the by-law forbidding such be- havior. As a concession to human nature, how- ever, particularly youthful human nature, it might be thought meet to authorize their use for a short period at this season. I i fi *

For a people who have vital interests in the Narthland, Canadians show deplorably little en- thusiasm for its development according to Col. e P. D. Baird of the Arctic institute of North I America. Of 43 inquiries about grants-in-aid ° for polar research offered by the society, only four came from Canada.

i f I i The science of government budgeting is at a very low ebb at Ottawa. Sa roughly were esti- mates made that the Dominion Government is now expected to far surpass the budgeted $489,- 000,000 surplus al the end of only six months. The comptroller of the Treasury who released the figures did not indicate what the surplus is expected to be by the end of the financial

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English papers have long complained of the resulting from restrictions

those supporting the Gov- it

Here is the pioneer luck that makes stay-at- years in the Royal Aus- ralian Navy, Ken Milnes in 194i, said to his "l'm going up north to find some gold get plenty." He went to Alice Springs with prospecting. ln the a man was offering a half share in the

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otel, borrowed the money in the B‘ ln May this year the mine was old for £200,000. He also owns the biggest pri- u

a cattle station and a hotel. i’ i‘ R i

William Penn, English colonizer, born this “r

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imprisoned for pub- grant of land in America as quit claim for rown debt, and became governor as well as pro- rietor of a new province, called Pennsylvania, fter his father, and made it a haven for per- ecuted Quakers; he proclaimed religious toler- Philadelphia, and promulgat-

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wearing, brawling, etc., punishable offences; °d

. . . . l.“Grdhlpul" was deprived of his governorship being suspected ‘alegwergncee “talkers” should of Jacobitrsm, but was later restored; was im- wake 11p and be ready for the next.

released on mortgog- eie

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The livestock industry ls rapidly increasing campaign begun last

to

in the lost twelve months there has eon a sixteen per cent increase in calves. Sheep, f which the nation lost hundreds of thousands M increased thirty-two per cent. These en- the House of Lords

er cent, poultry twenty-one

by tliefiovernmeiit recently. ln addition not only 51h; M” “refd a n”, d”, has milk production gone up despite exception- gn yguf m”, "Imp", m, pom,

the war. The beef to exceed the pro-

must be attacked eii a Canada-wide basis. liit

war output by nineteen per cent.

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sanltorlum for more year (lungs), I om trying to start a stamp collection. 1f your read- ers have any stamps to give (any kinds) they wioulrl be much ap- preclated.

My grandfather. Taylor, came to New Zeal-and in (approximately) three brothers in Prince Edward Island. Arthur, George and Hag- gen (C!) Taylor, with whose des- cendants, if on the Island, I would like to communicate.

Oxford: PlLD. ible position in Ottawa.

Slr,--Premler “better Wemperance law"! I won- der where in Mr. Jones’ Plflllmm

either; too many of our ire-called temperance politically even though they tried

Politics comes ahead moral issue that. might defeat. the Government with some Liberals and of course some nicely financially.

Has our Province really come

situation. quoting different people. none of whom ers’

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PUBLIC FORUM discussion by correspondents of questions of lnterelt. The

fly endorse the opinion of correspondents.

APPEAL FOR. STAMPS sin-Under

treatment than

I em. SL2‘, eta,

cooke Sanitarium, Trois-Rlvleres. Quebec.

____.__.._.____ SEEKS P. E. I. RELATIVES

Slr.—Gould any of your read- rs give me information that would sslst. me 1n finding the addresses f relatives who, I presume. are

living in Prince Edward Island?

Charles Ernest.

1881. He left

I am. Sirr. eta. (Mrsjr URiStTLA BOUG-EN.

Mangamulis Bridge.

eklanga. Nth. Auckland. cw Zealand.

May. 10. 1948.

crimes SCHOLARS

Bu‘. — Recently reference was

made in The Guardian to Rhodes Scholars from Prince Edward 1s- land. was a resident of New Brunswick when he was uppfllnlfld E Rlmdi-‘S Scholar for that Province in 1933-

Whlle Dr. Ernest P. Weeks

might be 1n order to soy the!

he was born at Mount Stewart, in this Province. 13mg;- iRev. E. s. weeks) was the Methodist Minister 1n that village So the Island can very Well Claim him. It is worthy of notice that

in 1912 when hls

won the folloivlng degrees from BA. BLitL, M.A.. and He now holds a. reslwm-

I am, Sir. etc.. ONE INTERESTED. deque. PEI.

anon STORES n POLITICS

Jones and his

any of his speeches will you

find where the liquor shops were

be kept open until nine o'clock Saturday nights. and not

even closed at. nine o'clock bu’. kept open until almost. ten o'clock

was the case last Saturday

night. Of course they couldn't Bel» the crowd out to close the doors. the next. change may be to have them open on Sundays, too.

If has been very danzervus l" drive on our roads on Satisrday nights with the booze shops clos-

bul. with them open all I can

cllon. But. no. that’; no good

people would vole sell it in the churches. of any

are dolnif

this disgraceful position? I em. Sir. eta. DISGUBTBIJ LIBERAL

_..________-.... THE POTATO SITUATION

expressed the ferm- point of view. -

first. there were severe! state- ments making the prophecy that

This column is open to the Guardian doe: not neoeeaar- l

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G. E. MARGIL

PATTERSOIVS BACKGROUND

"Walter Paterson. ESQ-l

granted by the Crown on July 23 1767.

about a year and a half later. on lottetown. brother John who acted as liis private secretary. Both brothers (proprietors jointly of Lot 19) hail seen army service, and it seems highly probable that. the Walter Patterson who as a volunteer was commissioned Ensign (1757) and Lieutenant (1760) in the 80th Regi- ment and served with this regiment in America was he who was after- wards to become a colonial gov- ernor. '

Vilaller Patterson was an Irish- man. and his father was known as “William Patterson of Foxholl," Co. Donegai, although his ancestors lived and were buried in the not far distant town of Raihnielton, on the barrier of the Fanad peninsula. Foxhil’ svas a leased estate of about 170 acres in the parish of Conivali, some thirty miles from Buncraria. William Patterson hm] five daughters, and four sons of whom Walter was the eldest and John, born about 1742, the third. The William Patterson ivho was appointed schoolmaster in Prince Edward Island in 1777, and WllOSC death is referred to iri despatclies of Nov. 19. 1781 and June 23, 1789, was doubtless the youngest of the sons.

Of Walter Patterson's education we know nothing except what may be inferred from his despoiches, covering a period of over twenty

o. large per cent of the crop would have blight rot, ivhlcli had the re- sult that all the buyers are scared to buy any amount of potatoes uri- til they see how they stand up in storage. The statement regarding blight. rot was very much exag- gerated; digging ls pretty well ad- vanced and there is very little rot. showing up; and with the careful inspection we have. buyers need not be afraid of receiving any bed potatoes.

I would like to commend the Summerslde Board of ‘Prado on their efforts to secure a floor

price, which dld not get any sup- port from other Island or Marl- tlme boards who do not seem to realize that potatoes are a

very important article of trade in the Moriiimes and bring in many

needed American dollars and also help to balance our trade with the Central Provinces. If the farmer has fin money to spnild, all bran- ches of trade will feel the effects.

One writer blames the dealers’ underselllng methods for the low price. If such is the case. the only one who can stop it is the Gov- ernment by setting is floor price.

In 1945, when potatoes were scarce and they thought. they might. go too high, there was a ceiling put on potatoes of 90 cents a bushel in November, with an trial-ease of 5 cents per month for storage. The Prices Support. Board thought. that u fair price at that time. Nearly everything else-lino advanced in cost. since then, also the cost of growing potatoes; so f think the price should be at. lens‘. that high today, which would bring our potatoes in line with the American floor price when they roach their markets and thus re- move the complaints from that. quarter.