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Boy Scouts throughout the World ”' member today as the birthday of thi" founder and first Chief Scout fol t e World, Robert Baden-Powell, Baron Baden- Powell of Gilwell. Like Churchill. he Writ: partly of American stock, his mothers people being descended from CaPl- 30”" Smith of Virginian fame. L

Until he was nearly 12 he led an DUL- door life, then after formal schoollngphe joined the 13th I-iussars, with which hie served in India, Afgiianistan. and 50'”-if Africa. In the Boer war he won glori- brilliant defence of Mafeking. In spite of famine and sickness he held on for 215 days with his force 0 12,000 men until relief arrived on May 18. I900. .

His fame, however, rests on his remark- able work with boys after he retired from the army in 1910. Tile first experimoiiiol camp for Boy Scouts was on Battersea is- land in 1907 and the idea spread so rapid- ly that B.-P. found he had to devotei his full time to its leadershiP- He die 9'3 Jan. 8. 1941. at his'home at Kenya but his work will live while boys love adventure. honour a7id comradeshlp.

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In Full Accord

In his inspiring address at Rrince of wales College on Monday evening. the Right Rev. Dr. Vandry. Rector of Law” University. emphasized the spiritual values in culture and education. D0ihhhg Wt that the humanities are the -core of bothTthhi: French and English classical teaching. -

d d b note cannot be too frequently sounise sit:

- t I It our educational authorities. , . 1 ,. nificant that. in .thl:f Tlgigntghgisiderit 7 51 i port of the Unit er y ame limes.

S dne Smith SP0k9 almg me 5 y "Wye must endeavour to re-zfisiess Univcrsityls role amidst the" 0 Dr frenzy of the there-and-now, saih Smith. "From knowledge - and t rougt wisdom rooted in an appreciatloln 0: ual values there must come t e lrlg the day, , . The understanding, as wel as its maintenance of Western culture an the democratic institutions depend. flpmtlradit: transmission of the Judaco-Christian f the ion. strengthened by the Wl5d0") ” d classical period from both-o.fgwh.ich we (3. ,.-we the vitality of our ClVlllZI:l.tl0fla tradition should be communicate t 1- thomughness of scholarship and maduljiy; of approach, The University shgulicsntr produce adults "iv ff” fxamplh P 5'5 and psychology, who are children in ct ics religion." , ,, Both of these great educational lcaildfcii representing two of the greatest . 9Com- tional institutions in.the land. a&hiht they Dletc harmony '0” this sublectf Eahi heir- say in effect is that any system of idb-P education which does not rest upon ou 1: - tions oflreligion, or of reverence for re -39 ion, is bound to fail. Not only 50: but fberii is simply no hofie V” the demqdaclisin, spiritual values are lost sight of in oil stitlitions of higher learning- ,.gggg,g”,..,.

Tliussla In Default

From the first days of the revolution the Government of Russia insisted that, while it might differ in ideology from oth- er Governments, it always iielit. "5 Wm"!- Now Russia is asked by the United States to fulfill its bond. On lend-lease. account Russia owes the United States 310-3 b": lions for goods shipped during and aftei the war. The United States does not ask for full payment. It asks no payment at all for any military weapons, since they were used in common defence. It asks to be paid, and in part only. for 800dS that have been used to build up the Russiiiii civilian economy, including 672 ships which make up much of the Russian merchant

. marine.

Russia - never tired of boasting Of its .own wealth and the Sfhidlhl P0V"tV has offered only a token Payment: 55” t0 amoimt.to 2 cents on the dollar. And thli while it is using United States 99"lP'”9'" In its armed forces and United States ma- chines to produce munitions that have only one ultimate tur8Et- '

The United States Government may gt 1:; money, even the small fract- toitltultI.bt.itltIIProouln8ltI5""'M'

inst Rania may no tonovr ei-In to ho ooly.IionoIt,Iovoi-nrnoiit in the world:

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understand, which Russia's satellites, drain- ed of wealth to support Russian industrial expansion, already are learning to their sorrow.

Ontario's PI; Ilatolory

The Ontario Department of Agriculture has a plan for producing pigs in hatcher- ies much as baby chicks have been. The idea is to produce young stock for farmers who in the past have found farm losses of young pigs a determining factor in product- ion costs. Opening the first of these pig hatcheries in Western Ontario the other day, Agriculture Minister Kennedy said he hoped by this plan to save more young pigs from each litter, and turn over healthier young stock than farmers might be able to produce themselves. ,

. The young pigs are treated with infra- red llglit and get certain new chemicals and drugs in their food-to promote growth and health. Penicillin is one of these. The hope is t cventllally produce a breed of sows capa 1c of having more offspring, and oftener.

I-DI IURIAI. NOI ES

The Y. M. C. A. maintenance campaign has gotten away to an excellent start. 0 O 0 Dr. "Sammy" Robertson was well and appropriately commemorated by a fellow

classical scholar. O

The closing of some of our highways to heavy motor traffic does not necessarily mean that Spring is here.

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Mayor MacDonald;-5 appeal in connect- ion with the jobs campaign should be pro-

ductive of good results. 0 O

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Prince Edward Island agaili welcomes enthusiasts for the roaring game. The fifth Confederation Bonspiel is once more

the high point of the season's curling here. 0

Just when Canada is on the point of "standardizing" arms with American mod- els the Uhited States Army lets it be known that it is preparing to drop present small-arms for, among other things, a .60-

calibre machine gun.

The International Red Cross quite un-' derstandably wants recognition in Korea as an organization which knows no national sovereignty. The United Nations, apart from practical matters of transport and ready identification, has also a case to be recognized as truly international.

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In the fraternity of our war veterans, the nine Prince Edward Island survivors of the South African War hold an honour- ed place. Tuesday, February 27, will mark the fifty-first anniversary of the Paarde- berg Day which they have observed so faithfully in memory of fallen comrades throughout the years.

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Canadian bacon, lean, tender and al- tractive in appearance, is much in demand in Britain. During the war years it suf- fered by being confused with bacon from the United States which was generally fat and- not well suited to the English taste. The problem today is to get sufficiently long term contracts with the British Gov- ernment which is more preoccupied with the balance of trade than the state of the breakfast table. '

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John Henry Newman (1801-1890), Eng- lish cardinal, was born 150 years ago. In 1828 he was appointed vicar of St. Mary's. Oxford, at which period began his estrange- ment from the evangelical school. He re- turned to England from visiting southern Europe with the conviction that he had a mission to revive the Catholic spirit in the Anglican Church. On his way home he wrote the hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light" (1833) and started "Tracts for the Times" the same year. He later was received into' the Roman Catholic Church, becoming a cardinal in 1879. As a Christian poet he ranks high; the fascination of his style at- tracted to him readers little interested in the questions that vexed him. His Dan- tesque poem "Dream of Gerontius" is per- fect in expression.

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The British meat fiasco shows that., after eleven years of food subsidies and state trading, British government and peo- ple have no idea of what is a'nd'what isnlt a fair price for food (says The Letter Re- Argentine government is being loudly condemned Britain on grounds that it wants exo t price for its ment. Fact is that Argen no is taking only 17 cents a pound for prime chilled beef, about gone-third American and Canadian price. Meanwhile, British housewives pay 37 cents a pound for rabbit, 90 cents for chicken, SI.50 for French horn. Britain could have 70,000 tons of beef immediately. if her gqvommont were willing to pay Argentine prion. Become it Isn't, Brltmio now get

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PUBI IC FORUM

This column in open to the dlucuollon by correopondonlo of questions of Intorcut. Tho Guardian does not noooau fly Cllllflflu tho opinion of correspondents.

THE SANEB VIEWPOINT 1

Sir,-May I bring to the attent- ion of your readers an article from the Christian Science Mon- lioi- reprinted in my home town weekly newspaper. The truth of this message cannot be denied.

Although The Guardian is not a weekly newspaper. I feel that its contents warrant the tribute. 1 With to express In this way the sincere enjoyment I obtain from reading The Guardian.

I am. Sir, etc..

R. C. A. F. Station. Summerslde. (Enclosure)

"Turning from the city news- papers to the small town press exchanges that conic to the .,-d. if0r's desk is like stepping from the slums. full of vice. into an old-fashioned garden. sweet laven- dcr and thyme. and the scent of perennial flowers. The page: of the big dailies are full of murder. thlevery, immorality. and the self- ishness tllat lhe better news is obscured by the glaring shatter- ing of the Decalogue. One puts the papers aside with a feeling of depression and heartache that the world is so full of terrible and unhappy things.

"Then. picking up lhc papers

that record the happenings of the llttlc towns around us, one gains renewed faith of life. Here are set forth only that which upllfts R community - the activities of lhc businessmen. the church items. lhe ha-ppy social gatherings of lhe people. the marriages. births and deaths. far-mers' items and all the thousand and one daily oc- cifrrences that make up the slm. pc annals of the great; common PPOPIC. who are really the found- ation of this broad country of ours. "Some city peopiespeak lightly of the small town newspaper. but it Is one of the most potent and uplifting factors in our national existence."

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THE SCHOOLMASTER.

The village all declared how much he knew- 'Twos certain he could write. and cipher too, nds he could measure. terms and tides presage, And r.-'cn the story ran could gauge; In arguing. too, the person owned his skill. For. clcn though vanquished, hr- could argue still. While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustlcs rung- cd liround;

And still they gazed. and still the wonder grew

That one small head could carry all he knew.

-Oliver Goldsmith (1723--177-ti.

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JThe following advertisement ap- peared in the Prince Edward 15- land Register of January 27, 1829: "RUNAWAY from the Subscrib- er on the 29th December: Inst. JAMES WILLIAMS. an Indented Apprentice; he is about 16 years of age. full faced, about 5 feet high. and a stoop to his walk, is it native of England; he had on when he went; away, a pair of blue homesp trowsera. ii red flannel shirt over a striped cotton. 3 blue cloth jacket, and 3 scotch cap. Any person found harbouring said Apprentice will be prosecuted as the Law directs.

''If the delinquent will return to his service, and behave faithfully for the future, he will be forgiven. "JAMES H. MOORE. "Lot 49. January 19."

RUNAWAY APPRENTICE

A Picture Of Truman

(Ottawa Journal)

In the Muncheste Guardian, imd Lrom the pen of Mr. Alistair Cooke. the Guardian's New York correspondent. we come upon it fine study of President Ti-umiin's manner with Congress and the American public:

"After Roosevelt's sou-Ing I.en'or and unfnlllng sense of the proper mood there was bound to be an uncomfortable Interval before the new man found his own pact; and style. Mr. Truman has never real- ly found it. He is most impressive In his press conferences when he hung: back answers on the spur of the sincere or. angry moment without a thought of effect.

"He is talking to equals . . . But when the President ho: to imply tho proper emotional response. to loud his recital of facts he to loot oomovrhere between his native folk- otuou rind the doniondn of a form- ul ooculon.

"Ho .13 most rousing to I big and- ienco when he has no script and when he can sound off like it bumble Missouri farmer who liu been sold 3 barrel of rotten Ip- plu. But anger in I one-time tune: It to good for campaigning and for clapping down opponcnil. It was mainly one note in Roonvoltro repertory. what hll been needed and never supplied bu been the

ordinary Canadian hamburgers.

RICHARD MALo'r'r. r','c.I

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Children do as their parents do, I! deputy health com.ni.l.ssloner of the Milwaukee health department. told parents attending a school- communlty program. Unless par- ents eat: cereal and drink milk for breakfast they can't expect their kids to do it. she said. The young- sters eat and act like me. and pa. If this an absolute truth, there there are more kids than we ever lmaglned bi-eakfasilng on black coffee and rye toast. - Milwau- kee Journal.

A and incident is reported from Vancouver. where four families are tlireawned with the loss of their homes because they "went ball" for two men charged with a narcotics larw Infraction. The ball was 340,000. Three of the four bcndsmeli who ocvered that sum were hardly acquainted with the accused. but as a friendly gesture they put up their property. The two accused didn't; show up for trial. and the ball was ordered for- ' It. is a serious thing to de- prive three or four families of their homes because two sti-angers donlt want to face I court. But what else can be done? The ball system is a part. of the judicial set.-up. It puts 3 price cn cheating the la.w.- (Calgary Albertzin.)

There seems to be no limit to the miracles of science. The latest discovery to make this it better war” in which to live is plastic chewing gum. It will come In six flavors. Moreover, the new gum is aid to be moisture proof and ran- t.icZ:n”' This will present a parking problem to persons accus- tomed to sticking their gum undel- restaurant tables and theatre seats, but to every cloud there is a silver lining. At least it won't stick to shoes and clothing, either. If, in addition to its other re- markable qualities. the plastic gum has bubble-blowing charac- teristics, it might be used to allev- iate the shortage of ping-pong balls.-- Prince Albert. Herald.

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Public opinion in New Jersey appears to have focused resent,- ftllly on the motoring creep who delays long lines by driving too slowly. A bill introduced in the state legislature calls for a 850 fine or B fifteen-day jail sentence for the offense. The creeper makes himself a nuisance the country over, particularly in milder weath- er when traffic grows heavier. Slow to respond to a horn signal to keep to the right, he causes special trouble on roads .wldo enough for only two cars, making it dangerous for others to pass

That is a good thing to lack and ought to be the beginning of of- fectlve speech. It is a lack of mus- icianship, of knowing when to pause, when to paragraph, when to go slow and easy, and when to lift Into the big sentences. ,

"If the President cannot. do It, then the job should fall on his Secretary of State. But Mr. Ach- eson is possibly the worst broad- caster exfant. To the British this may sound like a footllng or mere- trlcloiis discussion. Mr. Attlee Is no Olivier and Mr. .BcvIn no Humphrey Bogart.

"But. the British are on the whole uncomfortable with dramatic clo- quence. The re noble House of Commons manner is their charact- erlstlc tone. Not so Americans. They demand tlon. and tend to suspect the strength and substanm of B policy that is not dramatically Bbibed."

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him. The vehicle he operates at it. snallls pace is gllkely to be danger- ously antlquuled. The creeper fig- ures prominently In the clan of motorists unpopulsrly known as "Sunday drivers.” No one should be allowed to impede highway traf- fic with Impuntty.- Buffalo cour- ler-Express.

This might. be the time to in- troduce a scale of barber-tng char- ges which would be based on the work to )3: clone; the cost of hav- ing 9. lawn trimmed, after all, is determined by the area covered by the grass. Using an area system barbers could set their fees even higher than a dollar for cutting particularly heavy growths. From this maximum the prices could be scaled down, reaching a minimum in the case of the customer who presents the barber with more of A problem in finding the hair than in trimming it. This would give almost every man something to look forward to: As the years and the hair passed away. so would some of the cost of having it look- and latter. - Toronto Globe and

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If Russian figures can be be. lleved, the Soviet Union is appur- cntly the place for people who want to live a long time. But. come to think of It, would it. be worthwhile to live for B long time in Russia? Anyway. the most recent issue of The Doctor's Gazette, a Russian Health Ministry publication, says there are more persons more than 100 years old in Russia than in any other country. The magazine cited the researches of one 1. 3. Shapiro, who reported that there were more than 19000 entries on persons more than 100 years old in the USSR. The oldest man was said to be Munsyr Klut. 154, liv- ing in Georgia (which is Josef Stalin's home, province, incident- ally). The oldest. woman was Ka- mazan Khanum. 127, of Turk en. Evidently Russian olclestera d n't live any life of slippercd case. One 114-year-old collective farmer Ls said to have worked 256 days last year, and It man. lll. is still ac- tive at fishing, hunting and cor- Doi'iti'Y- - Owen sound sun-Times

Algomnns were shocked last year to read of the inhuman neg- lect and abuse of horses employed in some of the lumber camps in the district. They will be still more shocked to hear that condi- tlons have not improved-that. if anything they are considerably worse, according to a couple of inspectors of the Ontario Humane Society. Charges of mistreatment of work animals made by these inspectors include ” ndonment of horses in the bush, lack of food and of blankets, choking collars, haywiriing of harness to the ex. tent of injuring the animals. Con- ditions apparently were bad on- ough in some cases that two hor- ses were ordered destroyed. and one owner is to be brought into court on a cruelly charge. Finan- cial limitations kept the Humane Society inspectors from visiting more than 28 camps. 'Ilhcy charg- ed that conditions in 11 of those camps were bad. If the some pro- portions prevail through the 155 bush camps in Algoma, the abuses must be, widespread l.ri- deed It is ti blot on the district's record that one of the Iriqoecton should be moved to Assert that "I doubt wheulier any other part of ihe Province has such a cnielty record as mmy of these l-umber camps."-Suult Ste. Marie Star.

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