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pros spun , THE GUARDIAN

Authorized u Iooond Clul Moll loot Offloo Dopuhhont. Onion. The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

Editor and Managing Director. In A. llurnott. Auooloh Editor. Frank Wnlhor.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Ifdwudiuldnd like tho dow"

"Tho olrongut memory is woakov than the uoukoo Ink”.

CHAlIl.0TTE'.l'0WN SATURDAY. SEPT. 12, 1958

Rural Electrification

The need for a Province-wide program of rural electrification has been em- phasized repeatedly by our agricultural organizations, and the announcement by Premier Matheson of the Government's policy in this respect will be received with great interest. The chief difficulty in the way has been the financing of such a pro- gram by private enterprise, since the sections most in need of this service are least likely to afford substantial returns for the heavy initial investment in line construction. The Government now pro- poses to solve this problem by building the necessary lines, with the principal sup- pliers erecting plants where required.

The policy will necessitate a great deal of detailed planning, and will undoubtedly involve a large expenditure of money. But the alternative, of failing to provide the services required, and continuing to mark time while other Provinces are forging ahead, would prove a much more costly pdicy in the end. Our future depends lav.-,ely on developing our agricultural in- ri:c.ry, and the first and foremost problem in this connection is retaining our younger people on the farms. We have lost far too many of them already, and this exodus will go on at an accelerated rate if vig- Ji'0l.ll measures are not taken to offset it.

it is to be hoped that the time is not too far distant when a system of cheap electrical power will be made available for the whole Maritime Provinces which will place us on a par, industrially, Zvith other sections of Canada. In the mean ime, rural electrification cannot wait for this long- talked-of development. The Government has legislative authority for making a start on the program, and there is no question but that in principle it will have the full support of every member of the House and every responsible farm organiz- ation. It 'must be prepared to meet criti- cism with regard to the details of the scheme, and be on the alert to correct ad- ministrative errors which are bound to occur in a project of such proportions. But the main thing is to get the policy under way. This is what the Government now proposes to do, and we can think of few government measures in recent years which are of , more far-reaching impor- tance.

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A number of 4-H Clubs held their achievement days at the Souris Exhibition this week and attracted much favorable comment. The activities of these fine organizations are now Canada-wide and it is pleasing to note the success they are scoring in this agricultural Province.

As far back as 1924 a 4-H Club team from this Province participated in swine judging at the Royal Winter Fair at Tor- onto, 'he member: being Messrs. Harold Smith, f Pownal, (newly elected member of the Legislature for the Belfast Dis- trict). and Edmund ,Robertson, of Mount Mellick. ,This was seven years before the clubs became organized on a Dominion- wide basis, and since that time great pro- ';.ess has been made provincially. Today m Prince Edward Island the organization has 22 dairy calf clubs, 3 beef calf clubs, 2 mixed calf clubs, 5 poultry clubs, 1 grain club, 11 garden clubs, 5 food (domestic cooking) clubs, and 75 clothing clubs, rep- resenting a total membership of 1,700 dis- tributed widely throughout the Province.

These clubs of young farmers between the ages of 12 and 21 years are sponsored in collaboration with the Provincial and Dominion Departments of Agriculture. The origin of their title lies in the pledge which all members take:

"My Head to clearer thinking

My Heart to greater loyalty

My Hands to larger service

My Health to better living."

The club slogan is: "To instruct one- self is to enrich one's life." The program '1: aimed particularly at encouraging a wide variety of junior activities designed to'de- velop personality, character and leadership and tr foster community spirit and high ideals of rural citizenship. A

The clubs are now active in all the Provinces with a Canadian council at Ot- tswo to coordinate the work ondtomonine tlto notional competitions. Corollim, judg- inc of. ind. wine. poultry. min. on-dun. form mociiinory and on birth on prknory if It'll

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boys and girls numbering as few as ten. This is a worthwhile project which adult agriculturists would do well to encourage' in every way. It is one very practical ap- proach to the important problem of main- taining our younger farm population. All interested, therefore, should make a point of attending the Rural Youth Fair at the Exhibition grounds here next Friday, when the Club Finals for the Province will be conducted.

Educational Bottleneck

Prince of Wales College entrance exam- inations have been for-Jaars the goal to wards which the greatest efforts of pupil; and teachers have been directed in this Province. Teachers were judged very large- ly by the proportion of their students who successfully passed that test. The students themselves were thus set apart as being capable of profiting by higher education and few there were who did not do credit to their teachers and their Province.

Today, however, people are not willing to accept the winnowing process but ex- pect all young people to have a taste of higher education. The Minister of Educa- tion himself, the Hon. Keir Clark, has re- ferred to the examinations as a "bottle- neck" and indicated that the old name will be dropped in favour of simply Grade 10 examinations. He expressed the' hope that all might pass from Grade 10 to 11 and then to 12.

It would, indeed, .be ideal if all students could take and profit by all that the ed- ucational system has to offer, but it is well known that abilities differ and that while some students could go on to advan- ced work at an earlier age there are others who need more time for preparation or whose abilities can better be developed along non-academic lines.

The Departmental Reports in recent years have stressed that the entrance ex- aminations are not ruthlessly applied to keep out students of average ability but that there should be an ordinary passage from one phase of schooling to another. The difficulty, in part, is due to the auto- matic grading of pupils in some schools and the giving of too high marks in others so that the entrance examinations come as a. shock of hard reality after years of illusion.

The Minister is right, that Grade 10 should not present a stumbling block to large numbers of scholars; but the answer is to be found in more careful grading, particularly from Grade 8 and the appli- cation of suitable remedial teaching in the schools. To simply knock down the barrier to further advancement would mean a low- ering of standards which would cost all students much of the value of the years they are devoting to attaining an educa- tion.

EDITORIAL NOTES '

, Tomorrow, the 15th Sunday after Trin- lity, 16th after Pentecost.

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"There were giants in those days" is a fond thought about the pioneers but times have not altogether changed for the worse. It is difficult to imagine anyone today entering imported produce in an Exhibi- tion as seems to have been done in 1879.

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It might look like an easy solution of the problem of plenty and hunger existing side by side for Canada to give away 50,- 000,000 bushels of wheat. It has long been observed, however, that it is much

It is doubtful if our wisdom is a 'match for such a task. 0 This date 1609 Henry Hudson, English navigator in the service of Holland, enter- ed the river which now bears his name. The following year he discovered Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait. Early in 1611 his crew mutinied, and set him, his son,

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O This Province is standardising on grade twelve as the requirement for university matriculation, following the practice which is being adopted in the Atlantic Provinces. Although High School students will re- quire an additional year to matriculate they are not the losers thereby. The extra year should be as valuable educationally as any other course they might go into. I I 0 Hospital insurance should theoretically divide the cost of hospitalization amongst all subscribers instead of having it borne by the particular individuals who are vic- tims of ill health. . In practice it has been found that it also results in greatly in- creased hospital costs as members try to "get their money out of it" by unneces- oory stays in hospital. The New Bruno- wick Mcdioolsoclcty is toldnglotcpo to cor- roctthoobuoowhichloootlmatedtocoot Morltimo Blue Cross-Blue Shlold subscrib- ers on additional 52,000,009 a year.

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ssrrsimsa 12. 1953

The Passing Scene

Iy Observer

SCHOOL DAYS!

SCHOOL DAYS!

The lath century Robert Blair wrato of "tho schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, whistling aloud to hear his courage up." Well, I suppose hcolboys still carry satchel: of a sort and on proper occasions they whistle but not, I think, to bear their courage up.

Times have changed for the schoolboy, as for everybody else. since Blah-'s time, and in no social relotionshlp is the change more noticeable than in the relationship between the boy and his school.

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According to the social historians school-going in the early part of the lath century was a pretty gloomy business especially forboys from the poorer families. Perhaps the happiest boy was -the one who had no chance to attend school or Ill. There were very many in that category.

I was reading recently about conditions in England at that time and, if the reports are only half authentic, they reveal I situation of misery and non: slavery which seems almost incredible. Moot of the "schools" were in reality noth- ing more than back sheds in priv- ate houses, always ill-kc-pt and often unsanitary.

The teachers were for the most part "half-starved and holf-ll- lltofctc." About the only teaching technique they knew was the some- whot dubious art of bludgeonlng the heads of the pupils on the chance that. through the bruises and scan some small bit of know- ledge might seep in. The strange thing was that sometimes it did.

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In the main, however. school- golnc must. hove been pretty much

the sheer lay of anticipation. Nev- or was there to. time in the history of youth when boys bod loss to fear and more to exultv about in the matter of school-going. some say that so far as discipline of any kind is concerned the present gen. enllcn is in 1 slate of camping ignorance. -

Most schools. I am told, do not, even possess any physical instru. ment of correction. Even the smooth little strap which only ; few years ago was almost sure so be hidden in the teachers desk to be taken out only in times of 59;. lous provocation has been thrown into the discard.

In one extreme case which I read about recently school officials were reported as favouring the dig- clpllning of the teachers by m. pupils. For lnatlnce, if in the opinion of the puplls' council the tenche -proved to be unsntinfacz. cry in any of her duties and re. Inonsoblllties (these, too, would be prescribed by the said council) lhe might be required to "ally um Bchool." none and unbefrlendod, u punishment for her inefficiency,

AK!-ln. if the said teacher lhould fail to show proper respect for the "self-expression" practices of hu- pupiis (such as kicking my in um shins from time to time), she coma be summarily dismissed from her post At. the request at I. slmpin, majority of the school membership.

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I shouldn't im ine - sort of thing wiuwbewm.m.::M?,',f procedure in the near future, but you can never tell. There are strange ideas at work in tho edu- cational field and teachers in mgm. regions are being tied and bound

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more difficult to give wisely than to sell.

and seven others adrift in a small boat.-

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THE VANTAGE POINT

Ill tired of ti-eeo I seek Ml-lll mu”

the lawn.

There amid lolllna Juniper reclined Myself unseen, I see in white de- fined

For off the homes of men. fame: still.

The groves of men on an opposing

Living 0!" dead. Whlclwwr "9 to mind.

And I by noon I have too mum .1 thue.

I have but to turn on my Em- lo, ' The sun-burned hillside set: my face oglaw.

My breathing shakes the bluet like It hreeu. I smell the earth. I smell the bnllsed plant,

I look into the crater ol the ant.

-Robert Frost.

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- NFWSTAPEB ITEMS

From Tho Islander, April 3. 1864:

The first annual meeting of the stockholders of the iinion Bank was held in the Court House, in the Colonial Building, on Tues- day last, when the following gen- tlemen wero chosen directors for the ensuing year: Messrs. Owen Connolly, Charles Palmer, George Davies. W. W. Lord, Henry Has- zud, Thomas Dodd and William E. Dawson. We understand that Mr. Palmer is to be president, and -James Anderson, Esq., cashier. The Bank is to be held in Gat.es' Brick Building, north side of Queen Square, which is now be- ing fitted up for that purpose.

A highway robber, sentenced at the inst term of the Supreme Court, in ilieorgetown, to three years” imprisonment, and 39 lashes at the commencement of the per- iod, and 39 lashes more at the termination of his Imprisonment, received the first installment of his sentence at Georgetown on Monday last, .':l the presence of I in-go concourse of people.

On Wednesday, the 16th last. Mr. Georgo R. Mayhew, tanner, of Mnrglte, New London, discovered that his tnn-vats, not very far from his dwelling house, had been opened, and some i200 worth 'of leather stolen. The leather was ready for dressing. The thieves obliterated every trace of their operations, having returned the ton-bark to the you and re- placed the covers.

Sometime between Saturday eve- ning lost and Sunday morning, the store of the late Mr. James Peako was burglorously entered. and money to tho amount of somo twonly-five shillings stolen. with : bnco and bit the thieves cut away sufficient of the back well of tho building to snow I mu-r to cntor tho store, whence they entered the counting room, and finding ono of the decks locked, with tho bnco and bit out out o. largo pioco of tho stout. hardwood covor, and, through the hold thus mode, rummogod the dolk, in one port of which wore the few shil- lingo" token. it woo n bold affair, and the not is not-fling in vlow of tho foot thht bots, boltlvlnd ohuttoro ore of littlo consoqucneo when buriinn con so readily on- to: promlsoo Jhrougb tho walls.

A public muting of tho ion- catty on Township No. I ,-wu oonvonod oi Crnpoud not school- room on llondoy, tho luh.ult.- of main: int:

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conoidonilon tho plouoibilloy of forming an Tonnnt booguo, or otherwise of adopting o modo of

mind map: toll n motorist ovary- thins he wants to know except how to fold them up again. - Niagara Falls Review.

Scotland hu niuiod cnulo nil- ing western stylp. We don't: think

kind. mp M W h; m. , in those cowboy songs will sound any Wm 1”" dvgwyh re e la: moumful on the bagpipes than To I slope when me am, nap (ml. the gultar.- Edmonton Jour- nn

Two profocoio:-o-Thnv ruched the point on this continent whore

ma desperate measures soon will have

to be taken if they tree to provide the number of graduates demand-

ed. They are the twin occupations of physio-therapy and occupo.tlon-

al-therapy. -- Windsor Dolly Star. Winston Churchill. that vnlfnnl.

knight, was I and drone of Harrow and although he enjoyed reading books.

Parents and teachers on this sol- emn day may look on him no I traitor, but we due to quote his words: "Naturally 1 un biased in favor of boys learning English; and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor. and Greek as a treat." - Ottawa Journal.

Farmers and orohlnllsk every- where-who know the zombie of pitting time, work and money against the chance that Nature will prove unfriendly -- will read- ily sympathlze with the Annapolis vguey Lpple growers who found forty-five per cent of their intend- ed 1953 horvm lying on the Imllnd after the wrath of I hurricane had passed by. such misfortunes ore

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proceduro tending to their eman- cipation from the shackles of the proprietary system - the Lane Commission having failed to se- cure 101" them the right to pur- chase the fee simple of their re- spective lands at I just and reo- scnnble role. The meeting was numcroully attended; and a. ban- ncr was to be seen floating in the breeze bearing the words "Vox Popull, Free People; United We Stand. Divided We Fall."

That Charlottetown, the capital of this agricultural Island, should in the year 1864, be without a

deep in filth, and they will ply, "the fault lies with House of Assembly."

Free Land for a

season of the year, be witnessed wading toward the City Hall ankle re- the The House

ono of tho risk: of the buninuo. o.- long with such boards as too much cold weather, too much rain, too little rain, insects and discus, not to mention the unpredictable foc- ion or markets and prices. --saint John Telegraph Journal.

A Spanish girl is making n nnnll fortune selling reproductions of the old masters she make: on her typowritor. using the standard keys and 1'! differently colored ribbons. Modently we claim that some of our two-finger typing epics rosem- ble I Picasso masterpiece, in black and white.-Ottawa Journll.

Moot turtles, Iaooordlnx in the Owen sound Bun-Tlnries. spend their lifetime within on area of 250 yards, do not move any tutor or further than necessary. If so, an interesting exception in Perry, me Sand Lake turtle, spotted nt various times this summer between the rolls of the Algoma Control and now reported in the Blind Riv- cr division. Saul: Bte. Moria Star, surmislng that Perry may have ridden the rods of a freight. com- ments: "Perhaps that was his in- tention in the first place. We were

boys was houndlnc

smaller ones was houndlng and boating one mother. For the tax..- sensitive ind life was

recorded cases it was literally un- bearable.

vague and which received official sanction as being in "the national interest," was bore-flsted fighting. As soon on o youngster enough to run around he was con- sidered old enough to fight with his bare hands. special inducements were ttpcomioc" in this skill. -

have any greot aptitude for bully- in; and who did not possess the H0080!!! strength to beat down his adversaries, including his teachers, did not have much for look for-word on his way to school. No wonder he won in the habit of whillling to bear his courage up.

school-ward bound must do so for

period were a. bit better for, those lucky enough to qualify for ad- miuion, but not much better. Their chief Aim apparently was to propa- uto the snobbish temperament which woo than of its highest his- torlooi pack.

The chief "sport" of the bigger and beating the smaller ones, while that of the

just one persecution after another. In some

Another school "sport" much in

was did

offered boys who showed All in oil, the boy who did n

which to

Present-d-1 boys who whistle.

with regulations and :- counsels and instructions, 3.f.i."lI”',' am sure must at times make them feel like Whistling to be” their coumae up. And those who for some reason, ph sloal or g icol. are unableyto whi.stIle,,m:?elo?,, 3 3!"? l,1.rodlcii;.lrIncnt indeed, are no n new

that everybody kxlowo ohm-:1: more about the art and ptlgtlgg of teaching than those who are let. lvely named in the work. Tm; ll" 5 WHY! been the case. The bug Wlchlne skill has never yet. been ound in a classroom.

The only new thing ghoul, 1, 1, that nowadays the fact is gcneujlv and officially admitted. whereas in less enlightened times it. was usual. 13' only presumed in silent fashion.

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only guessing about his heading for Hunt, not being familiar with the workings of a mud turl.le's mind. -Toronto Telegram.

And the ' in like, , thin, Thou shall; lovo thy neigh- bour so thyself. Thorn In none other cmninnndment greater than those. And the scribe sold unto him, Well, Mbstor, thou but said the truth: for there in one God; and than in none other but ho: Ind to love him with all the hurt, and with all the under- standing. and with all the soul, and with oil the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, In more than all whole burnt offer- ing: and clorlflooo. Am! when Joous uw tint ho Innwerod dio- crcctly, he sold unto him. Thou art not for from the kingdom of

Market l-louse other than the G .

miserable little edifice,' which F nearly half A century ago was

erected among the stump: on Queemsquarc, and which is now

only fit for I bonfire, is n to

pronch to our city. and highly discreditsblo to some parties. Who

are to blame? Ask the City Fathers, those grove levers gen-

tlemen who mny daily. at this um PART;

Write or Phone

ALIERT J. ZAKEM

having lnounnco problems to

Allison P. Iloboon. 0.1.11. 0.1.31.

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Will! SOUND AND ADEQUATE INIDIANOI

With over oighty you-o oxpcrionco in handling All lino: of Protoctltin, we are glad to in of what Iorvlco we con to than

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nnnonsmn - xoxnoul nuu-an Ilodocor at oummilidp. totivo.

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Money to boon Onnndlln Bank of Commerce Bid;

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A. ll. PEAKE. II.A.. LLB. JOHN P. NlUll0I,si0N. LL: Ilurlnoro. Etc. Oollootlonl - Money To boon I'll Grafton Street

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