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Authorised as Second Clnu nun Post Office Deputanent. Ottawa. The lllnnd Gum-dlnn Publishing Cm CIRCULATION Total City Zone Retail Trading Zone. All Others Total Net. Pnld ..

President Ind Associate Editor, Inn A. Burnett, Associate Editor. Frank walker.

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Ilr. Smith's Warning

In his annual report as president of the University of Toronto. Dr. Sidney Smith calls attention to the alarming failure rate at the end of the first year. More than a third of the students enrolled in engineer- ing either withdrew or failed the exams. In a single test of spelling, punctuation, vocab- ulary and expression given to some 650 stu- dents of University College, 65 per cent failed. These were only samples, and he called for a searching approach to this "il- literacy". High school authorities confirm- ed the sorry picture.

”This is shocking information,” com- ments the Hamilton Spectator, "but there is nothing new about it. Nor is it fair to isolate our schools and universities as peculiar victims of a universal malady. The virus of the 'short-cut'-the easy way- has infected too many people in the post-, war era. and its cure won't be quick or easy. No instructional techniques can help those whose creed holds work as anathema. and who dismiss the need of mental discipline as some old-fashioned fantasy.

”The ideal of achievement through toil has been displaced by a doctrine of the least possible work for the greatest immediate gain. In our economy it is disguised by in- flation-by more cash tokens for interior products. In politics it has been cruelly ex- ploited by men who find it more profitable to bribe and cajole than to interpret and lead. In education-and why blame the young?-it has been simply a reflection of the whole crazy pipe dream that we have reached a 'push-buttonl era where hard work is simply for dupes and suckers."

As The Spectator says. to lower stand- ards only makes the trouble worse. ”There is a harsher and more exacting teacher than a university and a more brutal task- mastcr. Life. with great patience and lit- tle mercy. finally demands its dues. And gets them."

In case of Attack

An enemy attack on any Canadian city in which preparations haven't reached the final phase-and there are none at the mo- mam .. would be a disaster of the first magnitude. As far as civil defence is con- cerned, Canadians are getting just about what theylre paying for. And they havenlt Ate date-been asked to pay very much. Total estimated federal spending for the past fiscal year fell far short o'f""310,- 000.000. And that. in terms of a national program. isnt much. Midway through last year. before Gen. Worthington. Civil De- fcncc Co-Orclinator. got the hang of the press release idea. he held two press con- ferences. At the first he startled newsmen by growling his entire dissatisfaction with Canada's civil defence program and snap- ping that official Ottawa should either do more. or else abandon the program entirely. The Government. for some reason. resented this kind of talk coming as it did, from a civil servant. At. a second Press confer- ence Gen. Worthington assured reporters that thcre'd been a misunderstanding - he wasn't too dissatisfied after all and any crit- icism he'd indulged in had been aimed at Parliament and the public, not the Govern-

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The Summerside town clock is stopped. The Charlottetown clock scarcely ever goes. We are not aware of the circumstances which make impossible their immediate re- pair. Our-only reason for writing is that the stoppage and attending delay has been noted by many with varying feelings-none cheerfully. In an age of countless pocket and wrist watches available to and posses- sed by all classes of the population, electric display clocks in many of the stores, cf- ficlent time pieces in practically every home. and time checks a feature of many radio stations, can it be that the town clock still holds inviolable its place in the hearts of the townspeople? We are not certain on this point, but in addition to the casual and often pointed reference on the subject by the townspeople. The Guardian happens to have a personal reason to believe the town clock does hold an honoured place. we do not miss the Charlottetown chief timepiece: but The Guardian Airlift checks each morning with the-Summerslde Town clock on its way west. Similarly a check immnde with the village clock at Tlgnlsh.

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manner and besides getting the information they want, they experience the same feel- ing of satisfaction as do citizens generally on checking their timepieces as they pass. Although merely a trifling matter, it is hoped that if it is necessary to await the election of new council, the repairs will be given high priority by the incoming fath- PPS.

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Britain is taking no chances of being surprised by air attack, and has re-erected its war air raid sirens in London.

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Skating for health is nothing new, but has become fashionable. Sir Charles Dal- ton up to the end of his life enjoyed skat- ing for skating's sake.

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Milk in Ottawa sells retail at 22c per quart, and it is announced this will be ad- vanced to 23c in April. By that time Lent will almost be over.

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A ll. N. truce negotiator reports that the U. N. and Communists are still 180 de- grees apart on major issues-in line at last.

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Now ”means test" and blind pensioners are anxiously looking for their 3540 pensions from the Provincial Government to put them on the same footing as the seventy- ycar-old recipients.

i' lo 0 0 A German socialist outbid a Soviet socialist for a Karl Marx letter to a pub- lisher, paying 35660 for it. It was Germany that sold Communism to Russia in the first instance. I D O This in Toronto, too! A reader of The Printed Word whose office is about 100 feet from the desk where the item is written reports that his January copy was received January 10. 1952. It was mailed to him last year, December 31st. 0 O O

The Agricultural Conference, which opens its fifth annual session today is a most useful meeting of experts, Dominion and Provincial, whose exchange of informa- tion is all to the good of agriculture in this Province. -

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There has been much said in favour of electoral reform by all political parties and various organizations. Now it is up to the Government to present a fair ahd'ivo1'kable alternative to the dual franchise for con- sideration by the Legislature.-

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Heroic rescues from fire are much more spectacular than making a practice of not- ing and removing the cause of possible out- breaks, but such simple alertness prevents life and property from being even endanger- ed.

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Power from peat is at length an ac- complished fact. The first peat-burning gas turbine in the world is now running in the engineering shops of John Brown and Company, the famous Clydeside shipbuild- CPS.

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T he new Governor-General. the Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, will reach Canada by steamer, then fly by air to his Ontario home, near Port Hope, for his first unof- ficial reception by relatives and friends be- fore his inauguration at Ottawa. It is pro- nposed to make an imposing, and deservedly lso. ceremony at the Capital of the unique 'cvent in Canada's history.

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The current issue of the lively monthly. The Postmark, is well up to the standard in contributions, illustrations and press- work. A feature is a two-page review of the post office for the previous year. The cover is a reproduction of a garden scene. ,fhc work of Deputy Postmaster General W. J. Turnbull. widely known as an amateur photographer.

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"In wars more boys tend to be born than girls,” says Mr. Gordon Hutton. economist over BBC. "People used to think there was some mystery about that, as though God or Nature were replacing the men killed in war. The explanation is much impler: in war-time there are youngegvmgggriages. and more of them; and young married women tend to produce more boys than older married women; in short, boys are easier to get in young marriages, whereas girls come at any time!”

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Christopher Marlowe. English dramatist and poet, was born this date 1564. He found English drama crude and formless and left it a mighty force in English literature. Commencing with the tempestuous and heroic "Tamburlane", Marlowe rilsed both the theme and treatment of drama by tak- ing great subjects that appealed to the im- agination and by converting the old stiff blank verse into a medium of delicate and plastic beauty. The song, "Come live with me and be my love", is his best known work. i "

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This column in open to ma ” i by um , J of questions of interest. The Guardian does not. necessar- ily ' the opinion of wucspondenfs. -

"0 UR DOMINION"-AND o WHY NOT?

Sir.-I have just been looking over a. numbcr of maps in a re- cent. Oxford Press edition of the Bible, and I was particularly im- pressed with one of these maps described as 5. map of the Do. minions of King David and Sol- -omon. l was equally impressed by 11 prophetic Bible utterance in reference. no doubt, to King David's Greater Son, which is found in the seventy-second Psalm, and also in the ninth chapter of the prophet Zechariah. in effect. that His dominion should extend from see. even unto sea.

The above mentioned map- dcscription. together with the prophetic utterance referred to, could hardly fail to bring to my mind the controversy now going on in certain quarters-especially in the Canadian House of Com- mons-in respect. to the propriety of the term Dominion as applied to our Own great. country that sl.rel.Clle5 from the Atlantic Ocean on the cast to the Pacific Ocean on the west. I accordingly turn- ed up a standard dictionary and found there the following mean- ings for the word dominion: au- preme authority; sovereignty; in- dependent possession: a. terri- tory or country subject to the control of one government. And putting all these things together, it now seems to me utterly ti- logical and absurd that a section of our Canadian people. both English-speaking and French- spcaklng. should passionately ob- jcct to the use of our word Do- minion on the alleged grounds that the word savor: of subordin- ation and dependence on an- other country.

Far, too. from conveying to the minds of our people the idea. of lnfcrioryty, I venture to say that the long use of the word Domin- ion in our school histories and geographies has cnobled and en- deared ii. in the minds of young and old, Patriotic school song has also done its part towards the same end: in such lines. for instance. as i'Our fair Dominion now extends from Cape Race to Nootkn Sound." From long ex- perience. indeed. in Canadian schools. both as pupil and teach- er. I personally have come in regard the very extensfvcness of the name Dominion of Canada. as peculiarly appropriate to the map of the country that now stretches from Cape Race to Nootka Sound. .

Let. it. be observed too, that there is an cuphonioua quality in our word Dominion that would be sadly wanting in any substi- Lute we can well imagine. .'rhls euphonious quality in eopeclally agreeable when lpplied to our national holiday, July lat. that is now proudly, observed yearly from coast to court. He would. it seems to me; be sadly want- in; in 3 sense of musical rhythm who could find the name Canada Day as agreeable to thdlcnr u Dominion Day

Canada, in fact. is fortunate in being in poueuibn of l. word that is not only agreeable to on. but one also that served well to designate the vast common own- Oflhlp of the people of ten dif- ferent provinces. It ll their great. dominion that stretches -from up even unto sec. and that in gov- erned by ill own Dominion gov- ernment. oi. Ottawa-0 govern- ment freely elected by the D00- ple of Ccnldm, Thll fact, how- ever, does not nullify our claim that Canada belongs to, I com- monwealth of has nutionl. hap- pily united under the British Crown. '

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,Voters, Beware ...- tThe Printed Word)

Rumors of an imminent general

I ” continue to emanate from Ottawa. rumors, and are more or less con- firmed by further rumors of com- ing that cuts and other measures designed to build up the popular- ity of the government.

Taxpayers. who remember how the Minister of Finance reduced the sales tax last year and, in the same breath. restored the reduction under another name, will not he too optimistic about what. is in store for them. It. is true that sur- pluses have been regularly appear- ing when the national accounts have been added up in recent years. In days when governments practised a degree of economy themselves instead of preaching it. to the taxpayers, B substantial sur- plus was A signal for a substantial tax cut, whether an election was in sight or not. Nowadays. the first problems that a surplus raises seem to be what new activity the government can launch and how it. can he made to appear as c benefit to the taxpayer.

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The policy of "giving" 3 taxpay- er something thot. he may not have asked for and may not want has some political advantages. Everything in government spends money on means more jobs and every job filled is counted on to tie down the vote of the job-hold- er. his wife and some of his relu- tlves. If the thing "given" is part. of a. welfare state programme. it also tends to secure the votes of all believers in mathematical mir- acles except the C.C.F.. who believe that more miracles can be worked and do not believe in mathematics at all. What voters should now view with suplcion is the prospect of 1 plan for national health insurance. As a device for collecting the tax- payers' money and spreading it among deserving supporters of the party in power. it would be equiv- alent to many juicy contracts let. without tenders, by the Depart- ment of Public Works. It has an advantage over building contracts in that the jobs provided by it re- main in existence and tend to grow in number. I O C

If health insurance is in the plans of the government. the trick will be to promote it. in such a. WBY as to disarm its opponents. Anyone who brings up the econ. mm

are those of the vast majority of electors in Prince Edward Is- ldfld. and that our representa- tives in Parliament should voice these sentiments in no uncertain sound-quite irrespective of the political party to which each of them may belong. Let. Canada proudly maintain the ilme-hon- cred name. the Dominion of Can- ads. I am, sir. etc. AN EX-TEACHER (Liberal' Voter)

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CANADIAN APPLES

1: bought 3 bag of apples in the town, .

Grown in Canadian orchards far away.

And took them home and laid my purchase down

And then forgot them till the close of

ay. Entering the room at midnight for

a book

I stood surprised and taken un- EWHTEZ

The iron grasp of Winter eased and shook,

A ghost of Summer hung upon the air

"Stealing and giving odor" from the fruit.

A fuint. fresh fragrance touched the bitter night,

Hlntlng of quickened earth and eager shoot.

And leaf and blossom reaching for the light;

Here, from the distant West, was sudden proof

That Winter's writ. shall not for ever run.

And here. beneath 1. snow-bound English roof.

The garnered wealth Ind beauty of the sun.

Here was the stuff of harvests and of dreams.

Of summers past and Sufnmera

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"And oroh-ards saturate with shift- ing streams"

Finding at last some for and kind- ller sea:

The creast of spring before the blossom 1c

The yield of Autumn and its rich-

er bloom,

All. for an instant, caught in that one spell.

The scent. of apples in a silent room.

-Lucio in the Manchester Guardian.

omic chaos of Great Britain will be labelled a. reactionary or I de- structive critic. The good work done by health and hospital plans in Saskatchewan and British Co- lumbia will be played up. and the ever-increasing costs of the plans in the taxpayers of those Provinces will not. be mentioned. The opin- ions of doctors. who in their own interests have been forced to study similar plans. will be written off as selfish obstruccloniun unless their opinions happen to coincide with those officially blessed by the Minister of National Health and Welfare.

The danger in the taxpayers lies not. so much in the biased present- ation of the case that the govem- mcnt may be expected to make. all in the possibility that opposition members may be afraid--to speak against it, The name of welfare in now no sacred that it. is blasphemy to mention arithmetic or common

some in opposition to it.

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some of the lakes in tho Drydon district are being cleaned out of all fish. which are predominantly plkg, pickerel. lake trout and vvhltefish, the idea. being to get rid of the whftcflsh which constitute- about. 60 percent. so that the game fish may have a better chance.- (Port. Arthur News-Chronicle.)

Joe Louis has turned from the prize ring to battle with racial pre- judice, as exemplified in the pre- sent instance by the U. S. Profes- sional Golfers' Association. The P. G.A. graciously invited Louis fa flue amateur golfer) to take part in a recent tournament, because he was obviously a. good drawing card; but. it banned a negro professional. The ex-heavyweight champions fight on behalf of his race, how- ever, has now caused the Associa- tion to give ground. Louis has not yet: won a complete victory. but he appears well on his way to beating down 1 foe more formidable than any he ever conquered with his fists.-(Ottawa Citizen.)

They say that when police were put on to the exits of the South Bank site to prevent thieving dur-

gm laborer was often stopped as e wheeled out. in barrow of straw. Determined to run no risks. the police always thoroughly scsrclml under the straw and found noth- ing. The other day one of the ,.ollcemen saw this laborer in a pub and said: "Well. the Festival is over now and whatever you got away with, you might as well come clean. What were you taking away when we searched your barrow?" Said the laborer: "Barrows, of course."- (New Statesman and Na.tlon.)g

On a party telephone out of North Bay. a subscriber formed the habit; of taking down the re- ceiver for hours at a time without doing any talking, thereby-wealb ening the line and giving other subscribers the idea. that somebody was continuously listening in. All the complainers told about hear- ing 5 clock ticking near the "open phone”. with this as a. clue the manager made an investigation and folmd that an elderly lady had

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collegiate: throughout! (")'illi.:-lizrrn turn to forms from whence th:y came. They choose agriculture as a career and. in these uayg, 1; 15 ' fnlrly promising one. The boy. 1, come farmers. and the girls famil err wives. Yet in the past the have learned all too little in hi schools of practical advantage them as farmers. Certainly :11? are all the better for the knot? ledge of literature. mnthemmc; history. etc.. they have obtained But. how much have they learned about soils and other topics funda- mental to agriculture? some ngrj. culture now is being taught or course. A conference of fa;-,,'m., teachers. agricultural representat- ives and experts met. at Lemming- ton to consider how the curricu- lum could be revised to the bencm of those students who intend to live on the land. such conference. 33" bi Mlnful. If agriculture is to be as useful a subject as it should be. this can be promoted by in. opinions of people who know some- thlnlr about it.-(Windsor Daily Star.)

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"On Wednesday last Whlll luv. erul 'children were playing at tho corner of Grafton and Rocmorrl Streets. they discovered I human skull below the bridge. at (hp crossing. A number of thigh nmi other bonu have also been found at the some place. The skull win brought to the lfpothecarlcs Hall, where it may be seen." '

-The Examiner. April 8. 1873.

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