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TUESDAY. JULY 27, 1954

Salvage In lndo-china

In"the closing phases of the Geneva conference it was Premier Mendes-France who, with his unbounded vigour and res-I olution, played the most striking role. Ai United Kingdom commentary, however, points out that it was Mr. Eden's special achievement that he induced the Com-

munist delegates to recognize that the;

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ferent from the problem of Vietnam, and must be discussed and settled on a differ- ent and separate it-".5.

The weakness of the French position

seemed to offer small chance of successful? It seemed that there was lit-is

tie to be expected but a Communist demand ing in languages, mathematics, science and

negotiation.

for the total surrender of Indo-China. The concentration of Vietnam pledges the Com- munist powers to refrain from intervening in the internal affairs of Laos and Cam- bodia and to leave their peoples to live their own peaceful lives.

This may not, indeed, be fully honour- ed but it is at least a much more satis- factory solution than the surrender of the whole area. The non-Communist powers can still, by standing shoulder to shoulder on vital points, prevent Communist gains being unduly exploited. The shooting down of a British civil aircraft and the subse- quent Chinese apology are indicative both of the constant threat and the need for Eirmness.

"Brains linlimited"

In an address before the Ontario Edu- cational Association, published in the cur- 5 rent issue of Canadian Education, Dr. Syd- gney Smith, President of the University of Toronto, makes a striking statement. "This , country," he says, "is expanding in pop- -ulation but it is short of teachers at every educational level; it is determined to im- ,'prove the people's health but it is short ii of doctors, dentists and nurses; it is at- M tempting to develop and conserve its nat- .:ural resources but it is short of engineers; .it is deeply concerned with its spiritual 1., needs but it is short of clergy; it is con- fscious of a renaissance in the creative arts but it is short of creative artists; it is grow- " ing in its internal life and also as a mem- i, ber of the family of nations, but it is short -of public servants, in the sense that at various levels of government it is often '3” difficult to find able men and women who are willing to stand for public office. ii-ada needs iBrains Unlimited'-they are the most valuable 'natural resource' we pos- ;; sess, worthy of our best 'development and 7- conservation program'." i Dr. Smith referred to the well-known 7' organization "Ducks Unlimited, Inc.", the ; purpose of which is to conserve the supply K of wild ducks that fly down to the south- .ern States in the fall and up to the Arctic iCircle in the spring. "Ducks Unlimited" gpromotes international co-operation to en- " sure that the ducks are not slaughtered in- idiscriminately, and that they are protect- j. ed, particularly while they are nesting and is breeding. , "I realize," he said, "that the analogy -. between ducks and the brains of your pupils is, to say the least, ineiegant. Forl many practical purposes one duck is as good as another (although the ornitholo- gists might dispute that statement) but one brain is not as good as another. Any- one who assumes, in the name of democ- . racy, that for practical or other purposes one brain is as good as another is making - a false assumption. It is well to recognize ' frankly that no amount of egalitarian sentiment can make one brain as good as another, and that an educational system based on egalitarian principles is foredoom- ed to failure. -The true democratic prin- ciple is equality of opportunity, which is entirely different; indeed, it. is opposed to egalitarianism. Equality of opportunity means that the best brains must be af- .. forded just as great an opportunity to de- velop to their full capacity as the slow." And it is just here, Dr. Smith com- plains, that our modern cducationists are - falling down. In many schools the bright A boy or girl is the most underprivileged pupil there. He is in a large class, and the teacher spends over half the time re- i itlng. for the benefit of the average or into whlgh be has already amped. -bored. He becomes mentally lazy. not being enriched. one re- Mw of the but students leave ,G!!d.e XIII. now

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tnat nigh-paying jobs are available. 'f'hey' may get side-tracked from the basic men-i tal and cultural disciplines into vocationali and commercial courses, and waste yearsi of their school time acquiring skills that? they could pick up.in later life in a mat- ter of weeks or months.

One factor of the utmost importance, Dr. Smith emphasizes-particularly in the multiple-purpose schools that are on the increase-is to see that the gifted and su- perior students do their work in the col- legiate sections of those schools, and not drit into vocational courses. He was dis- turbed to note the evidence of this trend,-i in rural schools in Ontario; to see in the scholarship lists fewer names from the smaller centres, and to find that the uni- versity population is becoming more and

.The article on Scotland's

rustic so-nun

nus column to open to the dlccunlcn by v-on-reepunrlruiu of question: of inter-en. The Guardlt doee not ncceasah ily endorse the opinion of correspondence.

BACK TO P. I. L

Sir.-Allow me to congratulate

you on the general ensemble of

your paper; the editorial page in particular. It is strong in his- tory; I think hlntorlcal referen- ces embellish any literary effort. "Tartan Export" last week is an example. It: historical background adds glamour. "Notes By The Way" are a fine selection; Cardinal McGulgln. Rev. Dr. Pldgeon. "Ob- server", F. H. MacArthur, Dr. J. A. Clark and others are in a high category-besides the "free writ-

more urban in character. e,.,u who 0””, .d,,m The A5 a ti - g Forum with literary gems, both prac cal measure Dr. Smith sug Commmdmm, md d,:p,mg,n,'

gests, wherever possible, separate Ci8SSeSlas the spirit moves. for the bl-in t . Getting back to material af- ian, the aveiage, and the dull. M". mam, mm” may con,

Where this is not feasible, there should at

dents do not have to mark time while the slowest attempt to catch up. The idea that academic subjects are only "college-prepar- atory” he denounces as an insidious libel on our whole educational system. "It is a far cry from the ideal of democracy to reserve for those who are going on to further studies the benefits of sound train-

history, which should be freely given to all who are capable of profiting from it, and which produces citizens who can properly be called educated men and women. . . . Through history and literature, through the habitual vision of greatness, it is possible to convey something of the sense of service, the spirit of dedication, that has animated the finest and best individuals of every race at every time. Particularly in the story of those times and places when the human spirit has overflowed in great creative activity and great adventure - such as Elizabethan England or fifth-cen- tury Athens-there is a contagious en- thusiasm for living life in a high key, and the teacher who feels it can transmit-not

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to all, perhaps, but certainly to the best students-an inspiration, an enjoyment, an intellectual curiosity, and a yearning for excellence that will stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives"

IZUIIURIAL NOTES

The Duke of Edinburgh arrives in Can- ada on Wednesday. This will literally be .a flying visit. It is to be hoped that it will prove to be the prototype of frequent,i relatively informal, visits of members of

to know this country better than is pos- sible in a single grand tour.

The United States Congress has for- mally invited Lieut. Genevieve de Galard-3 Terraube, the nurse-heroine of Dien Bien : Phu, to visit that country. She is the first . woman to receive such an invitation and it! is an indication of how that heroic buti unsuccessful defence impressed the Amer- ican people.

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Premier Mathesonts appeal for the col- lection in one place of the trophies won by, the artillery of this Province should evoke" a considerable response. The exigencies of service have temporarily eliminated the artillery branch from establishment and it . is most desirable that the achievements of -Island gunners should be publicly com-i A memorated.

O O O .

Alexander Dumas, fils, was born this date 1824. Unlike his father whose life and work show riotous prodigality, he was essentially Parisian and his work shows minuteness and delicacy. His novels are not remarkable but almost all his seven- teen plays are masterpieces of construction and style. Each of them gave rise to wide discussion which he comments upon in his celebrated prefaces.

National and international power blocks, political systems and policies pro- vide the material for much of the news but none of them are probably as important as the report from Paris that the population of the world has more than doubled in 100 years. According to French government istatistics there were 1,160,000,000 of us in 1850 and 2,500,000,000 today. .'I'he pres- ent rate of increase is 30,000,000 3. year.

The United States awakened about a year ago to the desirability of investment in Canada. Now Britain has come to realize the same thing. At any rate the British magazine "Scope" has devoted an entire number to the part British industry and finance is playing and can play in the development of this country. In a Fore- word the Chancellor of the Exchequer stetu of such participation: "We are for li. We allow it as many dollars as we

can afford."

i-Foreign Office in

, Tito. will

sider themselves lucky. The crops

least be some division so that the best stu- fmk 190 P'”"” hm" hm "M H

any place from Edmonton East. Many of the prairie fields were "afloat" (pardon the para- dox). Much grain just coming up. Looks bad for prairie ferm- ers. The fnster growing season may help same; they have nearly two hours more sunlight each day. We noted a very few good patches of potatoes in Quebec. and the solid fields of clover

and luxuriant fields of potatoes;

on the run from Borden to Ken- slngton were glorious to behold. I am, Sir. etc., ' J. PENDERGAST Kenslngton, P. E. 1.

min ounvn AND run 17. N.

Sir,-There has been a far- fetched attempt to sell the read- ing public the idea that the Churchill-Eden efforts to obtain a U. N. membership for Red China are based on the hope of eventually divorcing Peiping from Moscow. What a hope!

Between the years 1921 and 1935 three such attempts were ruthlessly crushed by Russia. And now, Sir Winston and Mr. Eden are working on a repeat perform- fence. The English press is hew- ing socioseiy toihe llnelald down by these statesmen that it is withholding from its readers any information that does not fit in with the project. Dr. W. G.-God- dard, former member of the Canberra, re- cently nrrlved in England with the very latest information about Free China and found the "Paper Curtain" drawn in front of him. He said: "I have been forced to the conclusion that the daily press here does not want the people of Britain to know the facts about Free China."

Supposing Mao does become a that make the Red Chinese turn white? I-Ins Yugo- slavin's break with Russia help- ed the West? Mr. Budenz an- swers that when he says: "Should the West and Russia meet in conflict, Yugoslavia under

i will most certainly not be

on our side. Tito is the worst in-

the Royal Family by which they will conieisufanm Wk we we” C3" Wk"

. . . The Communist line today is negotiation . . . Any negotiation which involves recognition Red China is tragedy."

Mr. Eden may fete him in Lon-

don, Mr. Attlee may spend his holidays with him and Eleanor Roosevelt may weep on his

shoulder as she deplores little Joe McCarthy's nnughtiness. but Tito still remains an avowed

Communist, a fierce persecutor of Christians. U. 5. Senate leader Knowiand

?recently put in the congressional

record a document which he de- scribed as an outline of Mao T1.e- tung's memorandum on the new program for world revolution. One paragraph of that document reads thus: "Britain must be pin- cated by being convinced there is possihlllty'of settling the major issues between the East and the West. Opportunities for trade will have a great influence on the British mind."

Some of the things certain oh- servers Interpret as symptoms of an incipient estrnngement be- tween Pelpin and Moscow are so puerlle as to cast doubt on the good faith of the commentators. An ever-timely tip to readers is: "Beware of false prophets."

I am Sir, etc., TOM MIX Charlottetown.

Old Charlottetown

no r. 1 1. i7:".”;,

DELEGATES AT QUEBEC

The Island delegates to the Confederation Conference at Que- bec ln October, um, appear to have made a very favorable im- preulon, judging from the follow- ing comment whlch appeared in the Montreal Gazette at the time and was quoted in the local press:

"The group which cat to the right and left of Colonel Grey, the gallant chief of the Prince Edward Island deputation. fairly represented every class in that tight little Inland. Col. Grey himself, a colonllt by birth. and one proud and jealous of his birthright, connected by family and regimental ties with some of the first military reputations In the Empire, was. for his fine per- sonal qualities, and especially by all those who remembered whet an admirable presiding officer he made at Charlottetown and Hall- fex, looked up to with a feeling almost of veneratlon. Mr. Palm- er in all subjects connected with his own profenlon, Mr. Pope in point of general and varied in- formation, Mr. McDonald and Mr. I-lavilmd, Mr. Cole: and Mr. Whe- lan. compared favorably with the

' compccltlon of lhc'Con- fn-once. The letter gentleman, Ifr. Whelon, in said to be one of the but public speakers In the Lower Provinces: he certainly is one of the belt writers, as the pages of the Charlottetown lum- inef sufficiently testify. . .

The Neighbors .- I

"I bet my old man answers this-. I'm writing him I landed a seven foot shark!

Iv rim.-qt. C-lurk

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NOTES BY

The new streamlined dollar has certainly got a fast getaway - Brandon Sun.

Travel broadens all right. The problem is how to slim down after- wardn. -Hamilton Spectator.

Women certainly can keep I

"An authority on home problems has aptly ducribed telephonltis as an occupational dlneaac of adolesc- ence."-st. Thomas Times-Journal.

"Any time the Brltiah run chart. of something to worry about there's always Egypt and the Suez Canal." -Ottawa Journal.

The most used word in the lan- guage is "I" and the most philo- sophy is "Gimme". -London Free Press.

A Judge remarks that wives are: happier if they're always told the' truth. Seemingly, asking questions is the road to unhappiness. Caiham News.

Adam was I fortunate man in IL least one respect.-his wife couldn't compare him to other men ehe might have married. --Country Gentleman.

About the lnat mystery father holds for the children is when they wonder how on earth he heard the answer to their brand-new riddle

forty years ago. - Edmonton Jour- nal.

l"No" in never a pleasant word- .;and most especially not when it spears in front of "vacancy" on a motel sign at dusk on a hot day lwith a couple of wornout kids in the back seat. - Hamilton Spec- tator.

"Spanish - rpcuklng Planes Stop Here"- headline in Brownsville, Texas, Herald. we'll believe it when we hear a plane say some- thing ln Spanish. -Kingston, Whig - Standard.

Although we cannot speak from expert knowledge as doctors do. we are inclined to agree with the French Academy of Medicine that 3. quart of wine daily is too much for children -Peterborough Examiner;

A visitor has been making mer- ry with English spelling. One of his suggestions is that "fish" ought to be spelt tghoti." He argues that the 'gh' is pronounced ae in "rough." the '0” as in 'women" and the 'ti" as in "nation." So obviously '”ghotl" spells "fish."- The Labor Lender.

when an Englishman was knock- ed down by a blcyle, and loft his sense of taste in consequence, a judge awarded him damages of 34,500. Next time somebody ac- cusea you of having no taste, you will know how much you are out of pocket. - Peterborough Ex- amlner).

vmess caused in recent

THE WAY

"A church directly ncrou the highway from a country club dis- plays a large sign reading: 'Need exercise? Try kneeling! " -Guelph Mercury.

A survey shows that honsec with children are most likely to have television sets. Alwsys the beet ex-

secret. Look at how many hua- can too for grown-ups buying bands think they are base of the electric ti-ulna, -Humuwn family.-Toronto star. Spectator.

The only time I traffic light shows green in both directions is during the testimony or two drivers who have had A collision.- Cielt Reporter.

It's happened again - the Royal Academy hung a picture wrong- slde-up and no one noticed it for a week. The artist wasn't offend- ed, though. He admitted it looked just as well that way. - Cornwall Standard-Freeholder.

Guatemala in cleaning up the fighting. Can't very well have another de- cent revolution with things an un-

tidy as they are now. -Hamil- ton Spectator. Another '” mpede in over and

another record attendance in the book. The next attendance record should mean reaching the 500,000 mark. Half e. million people in six days in quite an impressive figure for a community of this size. Calgary Herald.

raincoat fabrics that "breathes" has been developed. It permlu pas- sage of air, but not water. In one respect. however, such a coat will be no improvement over present types. When it rains at 8 a.m. it will still be hanging in the office and the days it rains at 5 pm. it will be in the hall closet at home.- Detrolt Free Press.

Indications Ire that the famil- iar exhaust pipe sticking out of the back of present-day cars will be missing on some models in 1955. An auto exhaust system has been

developed which releases the gases

underneath the car near the cen- tre of the floor and thus does a- way with the exhaust pipe. There still seems hope for the automatic car which will overcome the hu- man element, and therefore prevent acgidents. - St. Catharines Stand- ar .

A visitor in Bolton explored the city afoot. This is to any the man from Sydney walked. In there a better way to become acquainted with a city? The Hub of New Eng- land has been Impacted of seeming the hub 'of the universe to its in- hebitents. Taken prowling to die- oover why they think no, if indeed they do. sight.-eeelng wagons take you on prescribed itineraries where one may not care to go. The rou- tine apiele of the guides are re- plete with statistics you promptly forget. The gawklng uenge are looked upon ukance by the mug natives as so many outlenders of

is peculiar species, as undoubtedly

they are. It's better to walk and pretend you are I Boatonlu al- though what advantage there could be in that might be difficult to explain. The pedestrian visitor stereo in a manner that identifies -him to every cop be peace as a. stranger in town.-Sydney Post.

Thu Department of External Af- fairs should seriously consider giv- ing priority in its appointments

' and ambaaeadora who have a bevy of marrlegeoble daughters. A triple wedding such an the Peruvian Euibeney staged re-

cently in Ottawa does more to est- ablish cordial relations between na- tions than any amount of more orthodox procedures. -Toronto Saturday Night.

from "rho Way We Live Now" by Honor Croome: "The rep ntailvo man of welfare economics woken ever! morning stark mked in n vecuum....end proceeds to conjure up, in suitable proportlonn. the components of whatever standard of living his total income makee poeelble at current prices."-Lloyd's Bank Ite- view.