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"The atrongeat memory In weaker than

the weakeat Ink

Elsewhere in P. E. I. 59.00. Other Prov-

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A c.ll.li. Exaiaple

Americans have lie" but it would be an example more announcement

hard impressive by Mr. Donald Gordon

to than the

about construction plans for a new T20,-

IX)0,()00

C. N. R. hotel in Montreal.

Iuing his statement immediately after the third reading of the Canadian National Fi-

nance and Guarantee Act by the Senate onl

Tuesday. Mr. Gordon said that work on the

hotel will commence immediately, for completion being the early fali' The entire work programme over

get date of 1957.

the far-

the next three years has been carefully laid

out and Gordon, name."

scheduled. "Everything," said Mr. ”has been decided upon except aim Demolition of structures

must he removed before the building can

be started is under way;

foundation work

is expected to begin within ten days and

erection of steel is scheduled to start by:

l

December 1.

35,000 cubic yards of

earth

rock will have to be removed from the area

Station and 6,500 tons of steel will be re-

quired for the framework of the

hotel

building. Once the foundation crews have

progressed sufficiently in the

Dorchester corner of the site, steelworkers will move in behind them and begin the task of putting together beams and girders.

For some months, excavation,

foundation

construction and steel erection will be pro-

gressing simultaneously on the site. Railway forces were able to move in on

the job so quickly, Mr. Gordon says, be-

cause they had taken advantage

of the

time given them while the Bill was before Parliament to plan and organize a Pre- cisely timed schedule of work. special committee in charge ofithe pfolect has beenimeetihg weekly during the Past fflVl months to deal with all aspects of planning and procedure. working from a synchron- ized program drawn up by the chief archi-

tect.

This is how people set. about big Pl'0'

jects when they mean business.

It was

hoped that we should see an example of this kind of activity in connection with our

Federal Building project this summer. years we have been marking time and We are now nearing the midyear deadline

For

at

which the work was to have started. How- ever, tenders have at last been called for clearing the site and erecting the building. Let us hope that there will not be any further delaY 8”" August 25' when the

tenders are returnable. Full

advantage

should be taken of the remaining Part Of the year to make some real DPOZTGSS 35 anticipated by Parliament when it voted

3.400.000 as an initial expenditure.

Key islands in china Struggle

The island-studded waters off the east

China coast have become the scene of ay

little known but prolonged conflict between Chinese Red and the Nationalist, partisans. 'A recent Red foray in the series of hit- and-run raids and small naval engagements centered on a key Nationalist station in the

Tachen archipelago. Formosa.

220 miles . . - 1 The main prizes are bases in ii

north of

500-mile chain of islands along the shores of Fukien and Chckiang Provinces, says the National Geographic Societyv These POIUIS offer stepping stones that could be used either for an invasion of the Chinese main-

land or for an assault on the

Formosa

stronghold of the Nationalists. So far the Nationalist islands have been used to harry Red positions. collect intelligence, and main-

tain a partial naval blockade.

Except for a short line from the port of Bwatow, no railways reach inland between

, and the small.

”

infrequent ' often climb in terraces to the hill tops. Thus

moat people of the heavily populated coast look to the sea for their food and liveli- Mahy live on houeeboata tied up in I ' They are sailors skilled. in it - with windatorma and torrential lat frequently better the gegion.

Britain's Hong Kong on the far south and :5-Iangchow and Shanghai to the north. .;gg:.,-aged plains are rare along this rocky

farms

reputations for "bus-l find I

which i

and : wou

, least, to whom time is precious. "(W formmg the north plaza of Cemmliin particular might well come over to the Island if they could fly their cars here, whereas they might well consider that time did not permit a visit in the more con- ventional way.

Businessmen too who wish to take ad- vantage of air transport ,welcome the chance of taking their cars 'along. They would thus be able to accom- plish far more in a given time and would be prepared to pay a premium fare for the opportunity.

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The business of ferrying cars across the I-higlish Channel has become a considerable enterprise in the last few years, according to the ICAO Bulletin. Civil Aviation Organization reports that Sil- ver City Airways, starting as a small oper- tator. has succeeded in building up what is rapidly becoming a major airline.

The company's 7,596,970 ton-miles flown I in 1953 place it among the world's first forty v airlines. cross - Channel services 96,625 passengers ,and 39,041 vehicles. .about I26 for a small automobile to about I15 for the largest routes operated across the Channel (47 to 91 miles in length) and one to the Isle of

W i

ght. ghts is only 84 miles-unique amongst fmajor airlines, at least on that side of the iAtlantic.

The development is of considerable in- .terest to this Province, with its much nar- rower water barrier and well-developed air service. An air ferry service

farther north, is on the approaenaa -to mainland Minhow, and the Tachen Island group spreads across the bay Linhai. Near the Tachens another Nation- alist island has a curious statue. "Traders' Island." it is a privileged spot ,to which merchants from the Red main- iland-with permission from both sides- bring pots, pans and watermelon seeds to be exchanged for fish.

The Korean War 1950.

The eclipse of the sun on June 30th should be a help to our map makers. Geo- desists cannot pin down the distance be- tween continents within an hundreds of yards but hope to improve on present measurements by finding exactly how long it takes the total eclipse to cross the Atlantic. I -

The House of Commons has given Sir Winston Churchill solidarity on the eve of his talks with Presi- dent Eisenhower. Leaders of the two min- ority parties applauded his statement policy and a number of their followers cros- sed the floor to shake the hand of the 3- Prime Minister.

The search for firm , bottom Northumberland Strait may well that commercial oyster culture can be de- veloped In that area as well as in Mal- peque Bay. conducted by the Fisheries Research Board proves successful it would mean in long term addition to fishery revenue on south shore.

Elgin County in Ontario is hoping to have the Department of National Defence approve the Bruce tartan for the Elgin Regiment. dicates that the Earl of Elgin and Kincar- dine, who is colonel of the regiment, has given his consent. will visit Ontario after their visits to Mari- time centres.

Less sensational but perhaps more im- portant than the Hydrogen bomb in the long run is the announcement by two U. S. Atomic Commission Scientists have made a preliminary design of atomic power reactor which would produce power more cheaply than from coal. Such a development would make industry inde- pendent of local power sources and a greater stress on communication facili- ties and a locailty'e desirability as a place

leading to

Called

Siieclallzeil Transport ,

The International

In 1953 the company flew on its Fares ranged from Four

touring cars.

The average stage lengths of its

for cars

in x-r

Discovery

hm

Id be attractive to some car owners, at ' Tourists

PUBLIC FORUM

rhla column In open to the diacuaalon by uirreapoudant.s of question: of interest The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

DEWEYISM DENOUNCED

sir,- Now that the investigation of Prince of Wales College has sub- sided, we should like to take up again the discussion of Deweyiam infiltration into our educational system. P.W.C. has been caught in what might be termed a "squeeze play"; that is between an increasingly poorer and less demandirg; educa- tion in the public schools and the more or less rigid standards which P.W.C. must meet. for university entrance. For instance, just a few years ago a definite number of Latin leasona was required for en- trance to P.W.C. The Latin was removed from the country achools' curriculum; naturally the Latin course at. P.W.C. had to be en- larged. It is little wonder then that people complain of overwork- ed courses at P.W.C. That institution is certainly not. without its defects; but the appar- ent chaoe in Island education, we feel, is due to the acceptance of John Dew-ey'a ”progre.ssivlst" prin- ciples, which are propagated by some Island educatlonaliats. It these principles be allowed to pre- vail it. will be the worse for Island education. , What is wrong with Dewcylsm? The brilliant Episcopalian echo- lar. Dr. Bernard Iddlngs Bell, says that modern education has these things wrong with it: 1. It ignores the basic disciplines. It train: students to expect success without effort. 3. It falls to train students for leadership, for it mixer technology with liberal learning. 4. It treats religion as a diver- sion, and thus roba the young of any greater loyalty that the love of country. It is this kind of educational system, with so many faults, that the ”prngre.salvi5t.s" are trying to force upon us. They tell us that Deweylsm in ii good system be- cause it "equips" students for life, but they reduce "equipment. for life" to a skill or craft; they ex- clude almost all the spiritual and intellectual knowledge man needs to attain happiness. is it not bet. ter to teach students to think rather than burden them with technological facts which may be outmoded when they "go into the world?” Dr. Albert Einstein has said: "It. is a miracle that modern education hasn't. completely stifled the anc- red curiosity of research." In the June 15, 1964, issue of MacLean'a Magazine, Antonina Vallentln writes of Dr. Einstein: "All his life he has retained in distaste for education when it. atuffa young minds with facts, name: and for- mulae . . . Education he believes should be devoted wholly to help- ing young people to think." Mr. Francis J. MacNamara, in- dustrial relations manager for Canndian Aviation Electronics l..td., denouncing Deweylam, aald last year: "In my present occupation I have first hand deallnga with ap- pllcatlona for employment. and can well aee what. in being done to the nation by this dilution of our edu- cational ayatein. I have alao a very direct connection with the R.c.A. S. and know about their troublea lth new recrulta.iThey mutt take

would probably

EDITORIAL NOTES

started this date

accuracy of

a demonstration of

of

the mean

in

If the search by echo sounder

the

O I O

A report from St. Thomas 'in-

Lord and Lady Elgin

that they

E11

lay

to "ve' . . . recruits and re-educate-them in order that they may understand Admiral Earl Louie Mountbatten of CV"! Whnlsll lW0b10W- Ameflcln

Burma was born this date 1900. He enter- ed the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1913 and served In a number of ahipa during the Firet World War. He specialized in wire- leea and communications. In 1939 he was in command of H. M. S. Kelly and the 5th Deetroyer Flotilla. After other commands he was appointed chief of combined oper-

tiona in 1942--the famoue commandos. With aubatantive ranlrof captain. he held igu min; rank of vice-admiral. iIeut.-gen- dial and ,air marshal." He was last Viceroy

at t.

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lndoatry. during the last couple of yeara. has begun to awing away from the use of technically trained people .In the tap administrative poaltione. Ironically enough, the waydthey -phrase it la they have found that the Liberal Arte gradu- ate la acme use aftc all." '

A Canadian. Preae dallhtch of last year rude at-follawl? "A aug-

-The Age Old Story

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Oid Charlottetown

and P. I. L ANNUAL RACES

"The Annual Races were held on Thursday and Friday last. and were well attended. On the first day, His Excellency Lieutenant Governor Ready and several la- dies. in a Barouche and four. ar- rived on the ground about one o'- clock. when the running com- menced. and continued. with lit- tle intermission, until five. when rain beginning to fall the com- pany quickly dlspersed. Next day there were fewer spectators. but the sport. upon the whole. was decidedly better. the horses being more equally matched. Great ex- pectations are formed of fine run- ning next year. from various matches already made amongst the proprieters of the stock of

Roncesvalles. the valuable horse imported from England by His Excellency in 1826, and unmatch- ed for strength. bone and beauty."

-P. E. I. Register. Oct. 7. I828 :

gestlon to aboliah all vocational and commercial schools was given by D. A. Lambert, auperintendent of production at-Ford of Canada's Oakville plant. He was speaking to Ontario's Industrial Council . . . He said the loss of skills by indif- ference to apps-enticeahlp threat- ens to nudermlne the industrial future of Canada."

This indifference to apprentice- ship arises from the high sense of their own technical worth which students trained in Deweylii.

” ' poaeeu. The ayatem has failed to achieve what. la act out to do. why should we adopt it here?

But. to our minds the principal wrong of Deweyism is its godless- neaa. Dewey's athieam stands out in hie writings. For example in the "New I-lumanlat" for May - June, 1933, he wrote: "We regard the universe as self existing and not created." Deny that God created, that God controls, and you deny that God la.

Some, no! doubt. will say that this was merely a personal opinion of Dewey. The truth is that his whole teaching in saturated with athieam. In his book "What I Be- lieve" (page 182) he wrote: "Faith in the divine author and authority in which Western civilization con- fided. inherited ideas of the soul and its destiny, of fixed revelation, of completely stable institutions, of automatic progress, have been made impossible for the cultivated mind of the Western world." These words might well be compared to those of Hitler in "Main Kamff": "I shall eradicate the thousand year: of human domestication. Brutal youth . . . that la what I am after . . . I want. to ace once more in its eyes the gleam. . . of the beast of prey. With these I can create a new order." Hitler was wrong; Dewey is wrong.

Governor General Vincent Mas- sey haa aaid that the primary and eaaentlal function of education "the care and preaervatlon of our civilization." Devteylau will not preaerve that inheritance. In fact. John Dewey advocated the over- throw of the bulk of our civill- nation.

Walter Llppmann aaid in mo in an addreu to the American Aa- eoclation for the Advancement of

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THE UNIVERSAL FRONTIER

Now that all peaks are conquered. and all seas

Foam and withdraw round man": victorious prow,

Little remains of earth's old mys-

terles

Save one, which still the sardonic fates allow.

For though we measure and dis- sect the stars

And plumb the ages. yet we gropc half blind,

Few men can thread the foggy island bars

That wall the wisest from n neigh- bor's mind.

-Stanton A. Coblentz in the New

York Times.

Smoking In Bed (Ottawa Journal)

The Canadian Hotel Association, which represents 5.157 hostelriea in this country. wants smoking in bed made a criminal offence, aaylng "145 Practice causes many deaths and much damage to hotel property,

The extreme danger of the habit doeanot need to be emphasized. A burning cigarette falling into the bed as the smoker drop: asleep can mean a horrible death. If the smoker is in a hotel room more than his (or her) own life.ia in- volved. and that is why the hotel- men are proposing that a law be passed. Presumably it would re- atrlct its penalties to hotels. hoa- pltals, rooming houses, tourist re- sorts, ahlps-to places in general where the careless smoker can be- come a menace to the public safety.

It would be a difficult law to enforce, but as its existence became known its usefulness might be con- siderable, and the proposal ought.- to receive serious study. The or- dlnary modern cigarette which con- tlnuca to burn when dropped or laid down can become a definite hazard to life and pi-operty-aome- times, even when placed in an uh tray, as one and burns its balance alters and the cigarette may fall on to table, desk or floor, and perhaps into papers it can ignite.

Cigarette amokera for their own and the public safety should take what precautions are necessary to prevent accldent.s.andwlthout the compulsion of a law. But if a law would help. would save lives, let's have the law.

jecta and exclude: from the cur- riculum of necessary studies the whole religious tradition of tilt West. . . . Thus there is an enor- mous vacuum where until a couple of decades ago there waa the aub-' stance of education . . . There in no common faith, no oral and intellectual discipline."

A prominent Methodist minister, Dr. Ralph Sockman says: "we cannot preaerve Christian demo- cracy by training our children I! pagans." Yet we have ahown that the "progreaalvlau" are endeavor- lng to educate our children to be Just that. Surely Deweylam la an explosive too violent for our mand- educatlonleta to fool around with.

We are, air, etc. - (I) rxnnrrm or TOMORROW

Science: "Modem education re-

Charlottetown

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2.-Ir ayeervlee

I Noiiesav

sheet at difvalry need to be the tliing. Now it's a etandlng Joke.-Hamilton Spectator.

TimaehaveehaluIllPeIIlIlOl0

tun th uaod to come In. ' ” Budbury em.

Kore and more annamer reeorta are installing televiaion ao that tourist: can see the scenery they travelled hundreds of miles to get away from.-I-Iamllton Spectator.

A member of the Britlall Hone of Common: aaya .wlre-tapping la not an tune in the United Kine- doin because the people there don't use the telephone much and when they do they never any anything. on this continent. only the latter grt of me eentencea appllea -

amllwn .Spectator.

The kitchen appuancee people are making excellent progress. They have produced a kitchen cab- inet the doors of which open and close with the wave of the hand, and before long, no doubt, the home-maker will be able to sit in the living room and do her kitchen work by pointing at pushbuttons. -Peterborough Examiner.

Report from New York: A team of thirty-six men will try to en- close a twenty-two-etory building with fabricated aluminum in one day, from 6 a.m. to B p.m. What. are our sidewalk engineers, who us- ually can depend on six to eight week.s' entertainment watching such a job performed with con- ventional materials. going to do about this? -Boston Post.

Each spring theee flat-talkllll salesmen invade nearly every On- tario mm: and Guelph la no exception, and walk off with some- one'a hardearned money, leaving behind a trail of false promises or inferior gooda. some salesmen offer, through an impreaaive apiei, special expert repairing at a low coat. If such a aaleaman should call. the household is well-ad- vised to check with established and well-known, dealers. -Guelph Mercury. .

The usual high aplrita of the younger generation are a bit less in evidence this week, for the year's final set of school exam- ination: has them in its clutches. Attitudes to examinations vary as temperatures vary. from the calm confidence of the children who feel sure of passing down through various degrees of nervousness, fear and despair on the part. of those who suspect. or are lure, that they won't. To some pupils examinations alwaya will be a source of terror. To others they serve as a stimulus to their best work.-Fredericton Daily Gleaner.