FEBRUARY 4. 1952

rue GUARDIAN.

CI-IARLOTTETOWN

l-PAGE ELEVEN .

mpg" of Education Week

The 'f,c.,.,...ge Canadians to ex- their educational Bilwmn it and help in its develop- criticism by parents, rate- and teachers. provided it is

yen and based upon accurate

dncaeguon can make a very val- mwirmcontrlbution to our schools. "we aching methods and the ef- mgiveness of education in today”! ””””5!Kg..wti?.ig& of high taxes for aelfrcjnce and social security. and I

is t0 9 Imim discuss ment.

1 Read the poem silently several

um'a to make sure you have the I it.

"';?"f.".i..?. which part should he ma slowly and which rapidly.

3. Breathe dceP1Y-

4, Decide where

use for breath.

; speak all words clearly.

mt your tongue. lips and jaws more freely.

7. Watch the conductor so you

GUIDES FOR

lg W. sum you have a leader to Itart the discussion.

2. see that the topic has been tmttrn on the blackboard. so ev- .-ryollr will know what YOU ETC '.lllkllig about

3. Learn something about the jopir before the discussion begins.

4, no not try to do all the talk-

you should

with this statement the sponsors of Canadian Education Week pre- .wnt. their liJ.32 folder which eni- pliasizes again that Education is Ei'er,i'b0tIy's Business. Following Ill introduction explaining the nirposes of Education Week, this tears national folder presents )ri('il)' some pertinent statements in Our Students, Curriculum. School Facilities, Our Teachers. .nd school and Community.

in the case of each topic it poses no question: "What can we do tlzout it?" and suggests ways by lllli'il the general public may l'all5iOFm a passive interest into nirposeful activity in the improve- nent of education.

Plans for the 1952 observance of Sanadlan Education Week, March 2nd to 8th, are well under way all icros Canada. Provincial and local arganizations. business and indus- .ry. labour and agriculture. thea- res, radio and press to develop a tell co-ordinated programme that viii focus attention stimulate bought and result in action on 'lw needs of education in each and wery Canadian community.

The Canadian Teachers" Federa- tion is gratified! that the broad joint sponsorship of this project and the acceptance of the slogan. "Education-Everybody's Business". have played an important part in awakening doubt that year after year an increasing number of cit- icons from all segments of Can- adian life are taking an interest in what happens in school and in after-scliool educational activities.

iiaviiliz awalu-nt-ti the interest, it it is now very important to de- trim: a body of constructive criti-

A participle is said to bc loose or dangling when it does not modi- IN a noun or pronoun.

A participle introducing it sent- ence should always modify the subject of t-he sentence. Avoid dan- Kilng participles.

write the following sentences "C'l'?('CUl' by making the participle modify the subject of the sentence.

1. I fell and hurt my leg coming home from school.

2. Reaching the top of the hill, a beautiful sunset was seen.

3- Opening the door. the therm- zllncter was found to register above

ill. ' 4. Lost: A leather purse by a poor man containing three two dollar

EnUoA'r1oN.ws:EK

HINTS FOR CHORAL READING

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT EDUCATION

IMPROVEMENT IN EDUCATION

steadily climbing cost of living. it is easy to fall into the dangerous state oi taking education for granted. Education Week is a time for every citizen to clarify his or her thinking on the real purposes of education.

Your interest. your ideas. your active participation are vital to the improvement of education in Can- ada. The home. the church. V-ht! school, the farm industry and c- u:, management and labor. all have responsibilities in this continuing process.

will read in the correct time and rhythm.

some poems may be read by the whole class together; others are better if they are read in parts. Collect some short poems which you would like to read in class and ask your teacher to help you ar- range them for reading .in your speaking choir. You may wish to use prose material for your read- ing. too.

DISCUSSION

lng. Others have a right to express their opinions too.

5. Be polite at all times.

6. Do not interrupt else who is speaking.

7. A good 'discussion demands that you must be a 800d 11519001" most of the time.

8. Speak clearly

SOIIIEOIIC

cal opinion that willl strengthen our educational institutions through action programmes emanating from sensible discussion, intelligent an- alysis Df objective. sound evalua- tions of practices and co-operative planning based on tolerance and mutual understanding.

In the freedom provided by our democratic way of life. we always shall have the ranting of certain persons who support one "school or thought" to the exclusion of all others. ,

Professional educators as well as laymen. are guilty at times of making ill-conceived public state- ments about new practices in the educational process. Wise counsel through proper channels will more effectively bring about desirable adjustments.

Education Week aims to promote orderly discussion oi all.aspects of education, and to engender a spirit of partnership that will result in progress in the worthy task of de- veloping good citizens, aware of their responsibilities as well as their rights, and equippe” with the tools of knowledge and skills to enable them to enjoy full and use- ful lives. Let's Take A Look At Education and act with wisdom in the light of our knowledge. C.T.F. Newsletter.

The work of good schools does not stop with boys and girls. It follows them into the community qanriching every house-benefiting all.

"In a democracy. all the people partake of the role of rulers, and. if they are to fill that role, they. in their youth and in their later

THE DANGLING PARTICIPLE

years. must be educated for it."

bills.

5. We found those beautiful ber- rles walking lip the hill.

8. I heard a strange noise walk- ing over the bridge. '

7. We called the police, frighten- ened by the noise. '

8. The man was able to catch his hat running down the street.

9. Noticing a draft, the door was closed.

i0. The children look in at the open door coming home from school.

ii. The soldier saluted the offic- er raising his hand to his fare- head. -.

12. The automobile belongs to me parked in front of the school.

, Erlliah Iolldera canes out to . quell the recent rioting by Egypt-

l an terrorists are seen in Action to" '".1lmIlliI. one of hotspots in Mubled sues ennui sons ares.

mull result of the rioting in is- le I. has latar outbreak of vio- nm in halo. King hrouk has 3'9” 111 Eiypt und-:r martial . W 901' the next two rnonths until M? bu been restored to troub-

I led country. Further outcome of outbreak. which caused death of 02 people in capital, new the king oust two-year-old Wafdist gov- ernment of Mustapha Nobel Pulls-for failure to keep the peace-in favor of new indepen- dent government of Aly Meher Pasha. which lg rtlll dedicated to

It is the world's tallest "Obelisk." It is 555 feet high and weighs more than 31 tons. On July 4. 1848. the cornerstone was laid. Sixteen years later. when the monument had reached 156 feet, the project was

abandoned because of lack of funds. In 1876 Congress apportioned

3200 000 to complete the monument but an additional million dollars was needed before it was finished.

Each answer is a word contain- ing the letters (ai):

l. The postman brings me to the door( );2.Iam frozen ( ): 3. Children carry water in me ( ): 4. I am part of a railroad track ( ); 5. People sit on me ( ): 6. Men drive me into wood

1. What has a face but no head? 2. What has a head but no hair? 3. What has an eye but no nose? 4. What has two hands but no feet? 5. What has an elbow but no arm? 6. What has four legs but no arms?

Do not say:

You act like you were sick.

I didn't know as I had done it.

Neither you or I can go.

You can't go without you get an invitation.

I read where the Germans cross- ed the Marne.

Tell me if you or she can go.

It looked like there would be I storm.

I did just like I was told.

7H5 ED UCA TIONAL HORIZON.

PRESENTING NEWS AND VIEWS OF IN'I'ERES'1' T0 TEACHERS AND ALI. OTHERS SEEKING

ma WASHINGTON MONUMENT The aluminum tip was put. in place

during a howling gale on Dec. 8. 1884.

A million tourists visit the mon- ument every y r. An electric cle- vator ascends n 134 minutes to a room where visitors look out over the city. Many of them choose to walk down the 898 steps to look at the carved blocks, presented by in- dividusls, organizations. cities, stat- es and foreign countries!

snarwoax son PRIMARY GRADES

with a hammer ( on your hands ( ): 8. I grow on your head ( ); 9. I come from the clouds ( ); 10. You breathe me every minute ( ): 11. You feel me when you cut your finger ( ): 12. I grow in the fields in summer ( l

): 'I. I grow

RIDDLES

7. What has teeth but no mouth? 8. What has a tongue. but ot talk? 9. What has eyes but can- not see? 10. What has ears but cannot hear?

CONJUNCTIONS

You not as though you were sick.

I didn't know that I had done wrong.

Neither you nor I can go.

You can's go without an invita-

on. I read that the Germans had crossed the Marne. Tell me whether you or she can

go. It looked as though there would be a stem.

I don't feel as I' can afford it now. Try and come to the meeting. Say:

Marjorie L.C. Pickthall was born in a small house on Oxford Road. near Chiswick, in Mlddlesex, Eng- land, Sept. l-l, 1883. While Mar- jorie was still very young, the lit- tle family moved to a cottage at Knapp Hill, near Waking.

In 1889, when Marjorie was six years old, it was decided that the best interests of the little family would be sewed by moving toCan- ado. The Pickthails took up resi- dence in Toronto. and here Mar- jorie lived for twenty-two years. Marjorie was sent to the Church of England School. Later on she was admitted to the Bishop Stra- chan School for girls. Her attend- ance was irregular, owlng to fre- quent illness. She '9'! best in reading. composition, literature, history, drawing and music.

December, i899, marks the begin- ning of a new era in the life of Marjorie Pickthall. Only those who knew of her voluminous manu- scripts. her perpetual writing, de- stroying and writing again. were prepared for those events which" were now about to take place.

At the age of fifteen, that is in

The population of the world is C. 2.37s,o0o.ooo. The density of the world's population varies greatly among its rcglons. In Africa it is estimated at 7 persons per square kilometer. in oceanla one person per square '-ilomete. In Africa. however, large parts of the con- tinent consist of desert area un- suitable for human habitation. This is also true of some parts of Oceania, such as Australia.

In the United States and Can- ada and in Latin America the density is 8 persons per square kilometer. For Asia as a whole the figure is 47. but this is not a typ- ical figure. In the Near East it is 12: in South Central Asia. 100; in Japan 223 and in the remaining Far East. 41.

In Europe as a whole excluding the Asiatic part of the Soviet Union, the density is 22 persons per square kilometer. Within the region, however, there is also great variation: 78 in Northwest Central Europe; as in Southern Europe. and 12 in Eastern Europe. The population of the world has more than doubled since i880.

The progress of medical science. application of public health tech- niques and imrpvement of living conditions in some areas have kept people alive. The infant death rate has heen decreasing. and indus- trial casualties have been reduced by safety measures and improved working conditions. In the future these factors will influence popu- lation rates even more than they have done in the past.

of particular interest in the world population report is the fact the colored peoples outnumbered the whites almost three to one.

Juan Peron was re-elected for a six-year term as president of Ar- gt-ntina.

.The Foreign Secretary of Great Britain is Anthony Eden. WA

Koren. Truce talks still drag on at Psnmunjom. The U.N. dele- gates have been trying lately to get the Communists to a-vree to an exchange of prisoners. Gen. Ridge- way has insisted that there be no

Many irenu after a pupilthought that his lesson was properly pre- pared, Aguuil would send him back to the laboratory saying. "Look again at your fish; -you have not seen everything". That was the method of teochinglaulo Agassiz used; his students loomed from their specimens by observation and comparison.

Allllll himpoli wll taught at home untilhe was ten years of age. He was born in uotler. it- nsrlend, in 1807.110 studied medi- cine at the universities of Zurich.

policy of ousting the British from Burl-. '

Heidelberg. and Munich. While at

I did just as "I was told.

I don't feel that I can afford it now.

Try to come to the meeting.

MARJORIE PICKTIIALL

1898, she sold her first story to the Toronto Globe. Her story is en- titled "Two Ears".

While Marjorie Pickthall was preparing her first book of poems for the press she was endeavouring to solve the problem of a career. she finally decided to invest her time, and talents in writing. She did not doubt her ability. but she gravely questioned her resources of strength. and doubted whether she could undertake that stem applie- ation which such a. career must inevitably demand of her.

Accordingly it became necessary that she should at once make an effort to repair her health. and to this end it was decided that n r. ' to L W35 ry.

In 1912 she returned to England, where she was welcomed by her uncle, Dr. Mallard. of Hammer- smith, London. Receiving the best of medical attention, and being re- vived by the affectionate atmo- sphere of her uncle's home, she soon felt the restoration of her strength and regained her former healthy outlook upon life. (To be continued.)

CURRENT EVENTS WORLD'S POPULATION

agreement on a truce in Korea un- til prisoners are exchanged and full inspection behind the lines ar- ranged so that the Communlsts do not.build strength for a new at- tack.

Cnnnda. The House of Commons in Ottawa on Dec. 12 gave final reading to both the bills setting up an authority to handle the nav- igation aspects of the St. Law- rence Beaw-ay project and to a bill approving the Federal Ontario power agreement.

Pakistan. The new Prime Minis- tcr of Pakistan. Nazimuddin. is in favour of settling the Kashmir argument with India without re- sort to war. Dr. Frank Graham of North Carolina is acting as medi- ator between Pakistnn and India on the Kashmir problem. He is trying to get the two governments to agree on a plan for letting the people of Kashmir decide what nnvlnn th-v wish to join.

Hibok ilibok, on the tiny Philip- pine island of Camiguin. in a sur- nrise eruption. killed hundreds of the island's citizens. Hihok Hibok. I mile high mountain is said to get its name. from slag meaninct hot and bubbling. The Dec. 4th eruption showed Hihok I-Iibok true to its name for the volcano shot smoke and steam three miles hiwh. Fiery ash covered six square miles of Camlgu'n's 901 square mile area.

Libvn. The fon-ner Italian col- nnv of Libya became an independ- ent nation January I. 195?. Llhya thus becomes the first of Italy's former African colonies to achieve full sovereigntv under tha United Nations nroeravn outlined bv the General Arsemblv on .2.l November. 1949. At that time the Assembly named a United Natlonf Commis- sioner. Adrian Pelt of the Nether- lands. to assist the Lihmn people in preparing a constitution and in establishing" indecent!-nt govern- ment of their own. The new na- tion will be known as the United Kingdom of Libya. It will have a federal system of government with two leg' ' " ehambe .. a nu- preme court and a king, the Amlr of Cyrenalca. .

L. J. AGASSIZ (1807-1873)

of Brazil. He did this work so well that it won him immediate t.

He continued his study of fishes 'and gathered fossils of many vari- eties no longer in existence. His vvork on fossil: led him into the field of geology. and be carefully observed the actions of various glaciers. He lectured in many eit- ios of the United States. on "The Plan of Creatlon'. He taught soo- logy and geology at Harvard Uni- versity. and founded there the great Museum oi Natural History. now known as the AgusIaMuseum.

Munich he Wll asked to build up a

complete dqorfption of the 3!!!!

shortly before his death in 1873,

the island of Penikese in Buuard's Bay. Massachusetts-the first lab- oratory built close to the animals being studied.

The European countries offered him many inducements to return to the old World. but Agassiz would accept none of them. He was content with his new country. On

Asphalt is I black. waterproof binding material . used in road work and in industry. It consists chiefly of ” ' l combine” of hydrogen and carbon, called bitu- mens. and is closely related to pet- roleum. Asphalt may be liquid. semisolid, or solid: the two latter types turn to a liquid when heated.

Asphalt is found in nature. and in this natural form it is some- times called pitch. At present natural asphalt is little used com- mercially, having been replaced by artificial or oil asphalts manufac- tured. from petroleum. Rock Is- phslts are limestones or-sandstones naturally soaked with asphalt: some of the rock nsphalts are sult- ahle for road work.

The most famous natural asphalt deposit is Pitch Lake on the island of Trinidad, off the coast of Ven- ezuela. It covers an area of about 114 acres. to a depth of more than 100 feet. and is apparently fed from underground sources. for the level of the lake has fallen only 3 little although enormous quantities of asphalt have been removed.

The asphalt is dug out in chunks

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Dec. M. 1873. the end came. and all the world mourned for the great. man who had brought the learning and culture of the Old World to inept the 'hought and aims of the new.

The new Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario will be Louis 0. Brelt- hsupt.

ASPHALT

with mattocks, loaded into small cars which carry it to ships. to be taken to refineries in Europe and the United States. Although qr parently solid, this asphalt is I plastic substan which flows slow- ly, so that excavations gradually fill up and the surface of the lake constantly shifts.

The Bermudez deposit on the mainland of Venezuela covers an area about ten times larger than Pitch Lake, but is only I few feet deep. Valuable fossil remains have been found in some of them. such as La. Brea pits near Los Angeles, California.

Enormous quantities of asphalt are used in the manufacture of rooflngs, paints. and varnishes. for waterproofing, sealing storage but- teries and many other purposes.

This Department In con- ducted by the Prince Edward island Teacherv Federation. C....:vlbntlons are welcomed and should be addressed to Millar Marrndyen, 8 I 2 Fol- ling St.. Charlottetown.

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IN MEMORIAM

THOMAS A. MILLAR

fllerily in the midst of life we

are in death"; thus so it seemed when it was learned that on Mon- day, Dec. 10th, 1951. the gentle spirit of Mr. Thomas A. Millar. Murray Harbour North. passed peacefully from this earth to that city which, we are told. has no need of the sun, neither of the moon. to shine in it; for the glory of God lightens it. and where His servants shall serve Him and they shall see His face. In .the death of Mr. Millar the community has lost an outstanding citizen and the church a valued member.

son of the late William A. Millar and Mrs. Millar, he was born at Murray I-Iarbor North where. with the exception of last winter spent in Charlottetown, he lived his en- tire life and successfully carried on the occupation of farming.

On September 4th, i906. he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Reid. daughter of the late William Reid and Priscilla Llewellyn, who, with an adopted daughter Lilla, Mrs. Louis Diamond of Charlotte- town, are left to cherish the mem- ory and mourn the loss of their beloved husband and father. He is also survived bv one brother John. of Cehasset. Mass.