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Education Week

The difference between democratic and t0- talitarian states is, at bottom, educational. With- out education, democracy would be impassable. The ideal democracy is a state in which all the citizens are highly educated, not only in prac- tical affairs, but in culturaland spiritual values- This ideal falls short of goal must always be kept in mind if progress, in any real sense of the \\'0I'tl, is to be achieved.

Tlis is a reminder of the importance of Can- ndian Education lVeek, an annual campaign put on under the auspices of the Canadian Teachers Federation, which riitis this year from Nov- 5 to ll. Co-operating with the Federation are the Provincial DCPJIIUIICIIIS of Education, the Prov- incial Universities, Teachers’ Associations, Pa!"- ent-Teachers’ Federations and provincial Teach- ers‘ Federations. Educational discources are be- ing broadcast in each Province during the iveck. In Prince lidward Island the programme opens with a broadcast this evening by Dr. G. D. Steele, principal of Prince of \\"ales College, who will he followed on successive evenings bv ltev. Gavin Monnghan, I'h. D., Mr. Norman hlziclhniiald and Prof. ll. H. Blanchard, M. A.

The purpose of Canadian Education Week. as tiutlinctl in an atlvertiscment in today's issue, is briefly to acquaint the general public with some of the objectives, achievements, and pos- siliilities of the schools of our Doniinion- Its primrir_v' OlIJCCI is to get as many persons as possible to visit the schools, to see them in actual session, and t0 obtain first-hand information of the ivorlc 0f our educational system. A general ll"|\'ll2‘.[l0fl is extended to all citizens to visit the schools and co-tiix-ratc in every way possible to make Education \\'ecl< a success.

There is no doubt as to the importance of this campaign, which has proved highly bene- ficial since its inauguration a few years ago This year it is hoped to cover a wider field of parent interest and thus create a greater con- cern in the work of our schools throughout the Dominion.

$22M Per Horse

An Ottawa despatch says that the Dominion Government hzis let a contract for the construc- tion of a St\-l)le for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near Ottawa to cost $106280. Now, the latest annual report of the Mounted Police shows that they have fortyciglit horses at Ottawa- This works out at about $2.214 per horse.

“It may be a small thing to speak about," says the Globe and Mail, “but it is one of a thousand other contracts that Parliament voted $100,000,- 000 for in the dying hours of the last session. How many of the farmers of Canada who are suffering under the burden of taxation are able to spend one-tenth the amount the Government is spending for the stabling of their horses? In- deed, how many of the taxpayers pay as much for a bedroom for themselves as the Govern- ment pays for one horse stall? _

“If these Mounted Police horses were doing useful war work the expenditure might be de- fended. But only the other day a story came out of Ottawa that the redcoats had no need for their mounts and that any one who would be kind to them coul”: have them for $1 a moriéii and their keep. About the same time there was the story-not yet denied—that the Royal Can- adian Mounted Police were compelling Czechs in Canada to register as enemy aliens. All of

hich suggests that the Mounties need a night

filOOl for some of their officers rather than a stable for their horses."

_Hitler And Stalin

' Lemuel F. Parton, of the New York Sufi, writes that he has just received from a friend in Paris, who was in Berlin until September 5; l letter with some interesting notes and conjec- ture about Germflflyi5 KY6“ “Yllalpflhtlkl, 995ml‘ ist and whisky salesman. It is, in part as fol- lows: _ .

“Von Ribbentrop sold this Soviet deal to Hit- kr-he and nobody else. Hitler aid. does we will hate Stalin like a rattlesnake.‘ Just how V011 Ribbentrop slickcd him ‘ltllO this combine n0- body knoivs, but in Berlin nobody doubts for i minute that that is just what happened-

“The Junker and the 0l_d RCICh-Swellf lwdfls hate Ribbeutrop the way Stalin and Hitler half each other. To them, the Foreign Minister is the head devil in all Germany’s troubles. The killing of (icii. von Iiritsch didn't help any- You can piit me down for a small bet that, when and if Germany cracks, it won't _be the 9809b? cziving in—it will be the old Reichsivelir gen- cmls prying loose the army and finishing Hitler- Aftcr thiitfiwith some thing like the old pre- 1914 (iuVCrlHllClll in Germany, England and France will be clear to work up their old four- pr)\\'(‘f policy and get Russia in the dog-house again. 'l'h<:rc is rcasori to believe that France and England are figuring this possibility ahead and thafis the reason why they are jLlSt inching along in the ivzir." _

Columbus, like Von Ribbentrop, was a travel- ing salesman and, also like Von Ribbentrop, got m; ma] start by marrying into the minor nobility. 'l'here the parallel ends, says Mr. Partori, “flill one discovering a continent and the other trying to grab one. In the pre-war years, V0" Rlblml‘ trop’s ioh wasto convince the world that Gey- many didn't l1ave as much as a bean-shooter m the way of fighting tools. He spread this idea in France and Iinglanrl. putting the finger Ofl Russir a: the great world menace.

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A new and up-to-date Y.M.C.A. building will be appreciated by everybody. The financing of the scheme may be safely left to the directors who are cautious business men not likely to enter upon it unless ESSI.LI'CO‘OI‘IIS‘UIIIIIIEIC success.

Hon. C. A. Dunning, M.P., although missing the appointment of, Principal of McGill, has been elected a director and a vice-president of the Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., Ltd.

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The total value of sales of products of the slaughtering and meat packing industry of Can- ada in 1938, according to a preliminary state- ment, was $174,982,357 compared with $181,- 419,311 in 1937 ang $;s6;971;64<> m I936

The export of farm implements and machinery in September W35 $414,630 as against $674,405 in August and $439,747 in September, 1938. Purchases by the United Kingdom were $33.- 1o7 and by the United States $58,324. Other leading purcQscrs were New Zealand, British South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay.

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The stocks of canned fruits in Canada on October 1 amounted to 1,087,106 cases compar- ed with 1,492,378 a year ago. Some firms have not yet to report but the amount they have on hand will not increase the reduced amount very

ned vegetables on October 1 amounted to 5,484,- 774 cases compared with 8,823,598 last year. The largest reductions were in tomatoes from 3,030,934 cases to 1,680,072, peas from 2,371,- 230 to 1,415.05; and corn from 1,994,992 to 1,426,293. The reduction was general.

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Sir Reginald Hildyard resigned the Governor- ship of Bermuda recently because the Legisla- ~ture would not allow him to use an auto touring the Island on his gubernatorial duties. The Government offered tc provide his successor, Major-General D. K. Bernard; a state coach with , four Canadian horses, tivo coaclinien and in- cidentals at a cost of $3.880 per annum. But Governor Bernard has declined the offer with thanks being “tierfectly willing t0 move about the Island in the usual carriage for governors.” He must be somewhat of a dem0crat_

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It is reported investigation of 2,100 properties owned by enemy aliens in Canada is under way.

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The ntuni o! Eellioland light to the new: I: further evidence of the Impossibility of a peace built on Nut pledges. The Bight was the scene of the British vtctorv over the German fleet In the first major navel engagement of the last war. just twenty-four days after Brit-um’! entry Into the con-

llct. It was the vtcwry which kept; the German North Bea squad- lrom buuinc cover toi- the re- malxuny four years of the war. An indentation southeast of Hell- goland lfid Dune Islands, the Bight covers the Jade River, lnsiiore har- bor of the Wllhelmsnaven worn. But It ls Bellzoland which la the real defense llne. Part of the Prov- ince of Schleswlg-Holstetn and 0R!!! Wfllly-elxhti miles from shore at the nearest point, It shelter: the entrance to the Elbe and West-r Rivers. Once u British possession- secured from the Dutch 1n 1807- It was ceded to Germany lii 1890 fn embnnge for Zanzibar. The is- lands then became t-he North Sea Gibraltar. Capable of sheltering the largest ships. Hellgnlnnd was taken Into custody at the end 01' wur along with the German fleet. But. try, the terms of Versailles the Islands, ‘ of which is barely a mlle. were left wIth oemiuiiy on| the oondltfon that their forts be] completely dismantled. never to, be rebuilt or l placed. Section 111.. Article ll5, of that treaty was one! of the first Nazl violet-Ions. Tw‘ce, prior to the Anglo-German naval agreement of I935, Berlin thought. sufficient of unofflclal charges

much. By far the largest amount of cannedWhat Hellgoland was belng forti- fruit was peaches at 453,339 mus, follmved by fled to unconditionally deny them. cherries at 119,440 and pears at 101,945. Cap-J

Once Baron von Neui-atli, as Foreign Minister. assured the naval powers that fortifications had not ,been “undertaken rior are they contemplated." since the suznnier of 1936 such assurances have been pointless and Indeed prior to the Sudeten crisis the Nazi aban- doned furtlier pretence to speed up the work on Hellgolands forts as pert of Hitler's "drive for peace." -'I‘oronto Globe and Mall.

For too long the historical ex- perience of Canada has been deprecated by immigrant profes- sors because its events were not of direct European importance. The result has been a tendency to repeat costly mistakes in public affairs that could have been avoided if Canadians had been more vlvldly familiar with tne record of tg-ielr past. If-Cariaclas history WQTC treasured as it dc- serves, our progress toward na- tional unity might be more rapid. Wlnnltpeg ‘Prlbune.

Four large concerns with offices in six cities are being liquidated, and three large-scale inaiiu- factoring companies are under investigation. The inquiry is believed to have disclosed Ger- man preparations t0 exploit Canada in peace and to sabotage her activities while at war. De- tails of sabotage are censorable now in Canada,

date been successful. The government has been as easy as possible on its German citizens and fewer than 1,000 enemy aliens are known to have been interned. Their families are being relieved 0n the same scale as Canadian citizens.

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What was the conference at Ottawa at which this Province was unrepresented by our Attorney General? we liaie been asked. hlerely for the purpose of ascertaining the willingness of the Provincial authorities to co-operate with tllc Dominion Government in enforcement of anti- profiteering regulations of the War-time Prices and Trade Board Department of Justice of- ficers attetided the conference with members and officials of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board headed by Hector B. McKinnon, commissioner 0f tariff. From the various provinces were: Alberta, Provincial Secretary E. C. Manning, and R. A. Smith; Saskatchewan, Attorney-Gen- eral J. W. Estey; Manitoba, Attorney-General W. J. lllajor; Ontario, C. R. Magone, Attorney- General’s department solicitor; New Brunswick, J. Bacon Dickson, deputy attorney-general; Nova Scotia, Attorney-General J_ H. MacQuarrie and Prince Edward Island, James E~ Wells of the attorney-generaPs departgierit, u a e w

Pity the poor Londoners and other British city parents, who have not only to endure separa- tion from their evacuated children but must pay for the privilege- The Government have or- dered that parents 0r others responsible for them shall pay $2 a week per child. But the Gov- ernment recognize that in many cases there will not be a corresponding relief to the family bud- get by the absence from home of evacuated chil- dren, and for this and other reasons of an ad- ministrative nature they have decided to fix the standard charge to parents at $1.50 a week. This means that parents will bear two-thirds and the State one-third of the billeting cost. The many parents who are well able to pay the full charge of $2. a week are expected to offer to do so. Those parents who cannot afford to pay the

to pay a smaller amount appropriate to their fin- ancial resources. i i i Contracts awarded in the Dominion of Can- ada during the month of October for all types of construction, as compiled by MacLean Build- ing Reports Limited, amounted to $I4,228.I00- This represents a decline of 26.5 per cent from the September total of $I9-379,10°- Tim dc‘ cline of $5,151,000 is largely accounted for by engineering proiects being less by $4,403,500, than the preceding month. Residential con- struction rlecliticd $800,000; business building dropped $2,1oo.000, while industrial projects in- creased by $2,167,800. In October of last year awards were valued at $18,111,000, the drop this year being some 22 per cent. Total construc- tion for the year to date amounts to $165,010,- 000, an increase of 2.1 per cent over the cor- responding period of 1938 which totalled $161,- 572,700. Ontario contributed fifty per cent of the October total with $7,033,000: Quebec, $3.- 257,o00: British Colitmbia, $1,618,200; New Brunswick, $948,000: Nova Scotia, $548,100; Saskatchewan. $345500: Manitoba, $298,500;

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Alberta $154,100; Prince Edward Island, $23,-l

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W. Ikt WIIO WEI! |e‘eeted Governor of Texas last. Summer because of hLs promise

of $30 a month pensions to all residents over 65 years of age, ls already learning that lt 1s much easier to promise than to perform. ;’I'he most. that the State ls able to pay In the way of pension: tar the present month works out u’-

an average of $8.24 -Calg\ary Herald. Many of the city firms who

three weeks ago moved their office staffs and equipment to the coun- try through fear of alr raids are returning to their London head- quarters. They do not regard the atr danger as being over, but. they have found 1t almost 1m- posslble to carry on their business and are therefore bound to take from the temporary headquarters, the risks. In some cases the trek bank to town In taking place at: the request. of the staffs, who re- fuse to stay away any longer from their families. I learn of one com-

pany which took a lease of a mansion standing ln wooded grounds. The rooms on the

ground floor were reserved as of- fices and the staff were housed upstairs, the managing director going to llve In the gardeners lodge at the main gates. The near- ‘est village 1s two nilles away. The staff saiw so much of each other lthat they quarrelled heartily. y Now they are all back in the cltv- and happy. — Manchester Guard- lln.

Worn Iilatenlny to print his story because one of the peo- ple concerned, a. doctor, is iin- doubtedly planning to use lt In his book. One nlght- the doctor's tele- phone rung, wakenlng 111m from a

u] poet-o ratfve slumber. It was one of ls regular ntlents, a young man now In a wld state of alarm. "My wife. doctor!" ‘he shouted, "It's her appendix. You'd better come quick!" The doctor sighed and told the younit men to go back to bed. "Give her some blcam or ginger ule, and I'll look In on her tmnorrtyw," he said. "she hasn't. got. appendicitis." The hus- band became even wilder, insisting that she dld too have appendicitis. "Well she can't ha. el" the doctor shouted. "1 took her appendix out. years ago, and I never heard , an having tiwo appendixes", "Ever heard of anybody having two I wives?" the young man asked blt- terly. The doctor went around rlglit e/wny, and It: was n. good thing he dld. because the second wife had upipendfcltls, all rlglit. —

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There may be [0011 and sufficient reasons for a further postpone- ment. In the construction of the pro- posed new bridge across the Misst- quash. but. lf there are such rea- sons they should be given to the public. ff this were a new concep- tlon the situation would be some- what different. But the need of ii new structure at the Border has been realized for years and early Int year It. came to a definite head 1n the announcement that the bridge would be 1n the course of construction during the year. The summer passed and came the fell and along with It. t-he announce- ment tliat on account of the late- nera of the season the work would be deferred until the next. spring. The next. spring came In regular process of time. but: nothing was

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FARM PRICES

Bl,1',—'l‘hg people of this province are entitled to an ewlanstlori by "“ ritual-st”. as to lust what be meant byz-“At the v Canadian proflteers were no prices. antlelpntlmz blmer prices

from the ‘.1101 fields of Btu-ope. prices were declining In th States.“

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must not be overlooked that he had already definitely deslamted our apltal city, In the following

:-"I have before me an ad- vertisement In the Boston Globe, uotlruz ereamery butter at 29c Der retail. as lnlrut. 36c In Char- lottetown." "

‘meielsnotawrdoftruthfn his statement that. our people "were jumplmr —rlces anticipating blinrer prlcm from the blood ‘nslds of Europe." and they certainly are not. proflteers as be claims.

In another lettenlie refers to them as "blood sucking" and says: ‘The Primary producer must sell tn them."

As a matter of fact, none of the 1111085 he chutes could possibly hwneu on Brlnce Edward Island, because practically all of the but.- ter sold for local consumption is manufactured In the pmvlnoe by v.11» irlmsrv producers 1n their own co-operat-Ive butter factories, such as Cmpaud. ‘Pryon, the Dunk River factory and the Cen- tral Creazrierv In Charlottetown, with a branch In Sunini side, pays t0 the primary producer as iiiucn for their butter fat as we can get by manufacturing and selllniz the butter direct to the consumer.

This ls not r.n oplnlon but a. statement. of fact, known to thous- ands of our People. who can and do send their crooks to the fac- tories to be filled and the whole of the money paid for the butter Is returned to the primary pro- ducer. less the cost of manufacture. so how ln the name of common sense and decency can Economist truthfully say, we must sell to the proflteers?

0n Ocl- 24th, he ssldz-"In my last. letter 1 asked why the price of butter was Jacked up 10c per lb, immediately after broke out?"

This was followed witliz-"Itiei-e was no economic reason for this, beybnd i119 Ilreed of profiteers."

This last of course ls the opin- lon of one person and a very poorly Informed person at that. if one can judge from what. he has mitten, because, regardless or who he ls or what. he thinks. the fact remains that this has been the worst season In my experience for the economical production of milk and butter fat, ‘bwlnpz to the cold backward spnng retarding the grass. Then the pastures dried up early ln the summer for lack of rain and We were forced to use larve quantltles of costly mill feeds. to get less mllk from the same number of cows the summer before, on pasture alone.

The hay crop was not over 50 tier cent of last year and turnips and mangals are not nearly its BBB-W a crop as last fall. In addi- tion to this bran took a Jump from $25 to $35 a ton on the outbreak cf the ivar. and pmteln feeds soared and have not returned to pre war levels. Therefore it Eco- nomlst Still thinks “there wag no economic reason for the advance, beyond the greed of the profeteers" then there is little we can do for him for there ls something radi- cally wrong with lils reasoning.

Mr. Gardiner advised cheese pro- duction as preferable to gluttlng the butter market and Economist approved by sayfngr-"I think such a conclusion wlll appeal to the common sense of any logical mind." Then almost In the same breath he followed with the fan- tastic idea. that after we make cheese to malntiiln a healthy but- ter market the Dominion Govern- ment should remove the duty and permit the importation of cheap butter iintll the price drops to lust year's level, which was away low the actual cost: of production on any Island fru-rn.