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British itossorvatlvo Policies t

Perhaps there is a moral for old-line parties in Canada in the news this week from London, to the effect that the Conservatives in Great Britain are streamlining their policies to provide a clear alternative to Socialism. Here are the basic planks, as outlined by the Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative leader in the House of Lords:

l. They want a "property-owning democracy." It will be "a society of independent responsible citizens, working together for the public good, owning their own houses, having some share in the control of the business in which they work, not slaves but free men—the true masters of their country."

2. They disagree with Socialists who "think of the state as a sort of divine institution, run by men of more than human ability and with their own sources of income."

3. "The fact is that Socialism is killing itself by trying to do too much. That would not matter so much, but it is killing the country as well."

4. Conservatives support the conception of employers and employees as partners in industry and production.

5. Conservatives approve of House of Lords reform so for as membership is concerned. But a certain power of delay in the hands of a second chamber is an essential safeguard for the people's liberties.

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Business Prospects Hopeful

Though in the latter part of last winter there was some slight apprehension as to the

seems more sure that the continihng Jrigh rate of activity is likely to be maintained, says the current Monthly Review of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Contributing to this expectation is the passage of ERP, the rising business optimism in the United States, and the spring expansion in construction. All round, fears and worries con- cerning the possible approach of d business re- cession appeamagain to have been thrust into the background.

Significant points are that the Canadian economy continues to operate close to capacity, continues high. Moreover, employment seems to be stabilizing itself, and there has been a lower labor turn-

sumer goods are mounting, while the rise in liv- ing costs is tending to restrain purchases at pre- vailing prices. This may ultimately operate to decrease present prices. The strongest sustain- ing factor in the business picture is said to be the great program of capital investment which gained momentum as the winter ended.

Anothensignificant section of this report, however, is that "though the high rate of eco- nomic activity may continue for some time to come, the business structure is becoming more dependent on continued high capital invest- ment and on high exports, and is therefore some-

' what vulnerable to any unfavorable turn of

This paragraph might be taken to contain a warning both to government and to the public alike. Any governmental action which tends to discourage the use of adventure capital

y. could seriously restrain business expansion. There may here be seen some veiled animadversion on certain clauses of the recent budget. On the

‘ other hand, since Canada depends so heavily on the maintenance of her export trade, it must be seen that any further unnecessary raising of

“Canadian prices might turn eventually to our own serious disadvantagef

Forest Regeneration

The Dominion Forest Service of the Depart-

teen parties this season to carry out field in-

jossist in the research work in forestry and for- est products, according to on announcement made by Acting Minister James A. MacKinnon. One hundred students, chiefly undergraduates . in forestry, will be assigned to these parties and

"vision of the research staff. ' An important part of the work will be a Ysurvey to determine the extent to which logged rand burned-over areas are reproducing naturally, __ and to develop means of improving forest regen- '_eration. Five parties will be engaged in this Ywork and will study reproduction conditions and r=means of improvement or representative areas H‘ extending from the Maritimes to the Rocky ,' Mountains. These parties will operate in Alberto, - Saskatchewan, the Cochrane district of Ontario, »’_ St. Maurice Valley of Quebec, and in New Bruns- ',wick. One party will operate in the valley of ' the Montmorency river, Quebec, to establish per- rnanant sample plots on on cred recently logged over for balsam and spruce pulpwood. These h plots will ‘make it possible to remeasure natur- gally regenerated stands at l0-year intervals in ‘order to trace their development and record the Womount of growth. Similar work will be car- ried out in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick. In co-operation with the Manitoba Forest Service a party will establish a forest-fire research station in the Whitshell Forest Reserve. Meteor- loglcol records, fuel moisture measurements, and fire liorard tests will be mode in a number of eiiee typical of the Precambrian forest condi- ..tions, to determine the modifications necessary Jo slitting iforeist fire danger tables used in tins

ancefto persons f¢$|50llSlDll:“f;l'_ the_p|$tectibhwof the forests. A number of provinces have in- stalled the system of fire-weather forecasting dc- veloped by the Dominion Forest Service. Studies will be continued this year of forest fire data, fire

danger records, and the standards of forest fire

protection in Canada in order to develop morc effective methods of fire control. _

- EDITORIAL NOTES -

Tomorrow is Air Force Day. Summerside in- tends to make it a memorable one.

The price of English cars here should drop very conside ably if Finance Minister Abbott re- moves the dumping duty as he will probably have power to do in the near future.

‘I I i i The four-week Palestine truce is a triumph for the U. N. even though not itself a solution to the problem. At least conditions are being pro- vided in which a solution can be sought. i i I fi

Canada's stand in refusing to develop the export trade in arms is made at a real dollar sac- rifice. Wor potential can only be maintained by finding a market for the products of munitions plants, and the obvious course in time of peace is to sell the bulk of munitions production abroad. i fi i i \

Justice Minister llsley has accepted another thankless task in relieving the Postmaster Gen- eral of the problem of crime comic books. Any attempt at censorship is a touchy matter. Per- haps classifying material as suitable for certain age groups, as is done with motion pktures, would be a solution. i fl fl i Col. T. L. Kennedy, Ontario's Minister of Agriculture states that he has a letter from a high British official stating that the British Gov- ernment anicipates a "world food shortage with- in l0 years" and wants to be ready for it with essential food crops. it looks as if they inteno to take a leaf from the book of Joseph in Egypt. it i l‘ i’

Man's only peer now is his fellow-man, sans title or other privilege. The British peerage will no longer have the right to be tried by their ranking peers in criminal proceedings. The House of Lords has abolished this ancient privi- lege in a judicial reform bill. ln future a peer of the realm will have the same trial as the man in the street. I W I

Sir John Franklin, English Arctic explorer, died this date i847 during an ill-fated expedition for the discovery of a N. W. passage to the Pacific. The ships were last seen on July Z6, i846 by a whaler in Baffin Bay. Within the next twelve years thirty-nine expeditions were sent out in search of Franklin's party, birt without suc- cess till i857 when McClintock discovered traces and 'records of the expedition sufficient to show that Franklin, before his death discovered the N. W. passage, though he had failed to traverse it.

Premier Duplessis has decided to go to the country for re-election cn Wednesday, July 2B. This should prove a more than ordinary elec- tion, as Duplessis heads a distinctly new party in politics, neither Liberal nor Conservative, but "betwixt and between." The Liberals, under Mr. Godbout, have been strenuously reorganizing for the past two years, and have succeeded in in- ducing several Federal leaders to come to their aid, including Hen. Mr. Power, who, it is re- ported, will organize Quebec City and vicinity for the party.

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The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church meeting in Toronto dealt with a Mari- time Cause Celebre in connection with the Rev. Frank Lawson, Halifax, who was Moderator cf the Halifax Presbytery at the time Rev. Perry Rockwood, Truro, N.S., resigned rather than carry out the Presbytery's injunction that he must burn his sermons, alleged to be constituting a "Divisive Course" in the Church. -The support- ers af Mr. Rockwood followed this up by an ap- peoljand‘ on additional charge that Mr. Lawson had denied the Virgin birth of Christ. Both ap- peals were thrown out by the Assembly, which heard the evidence in the latter case in camera.

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Four years ago, on June l5, i944, thc Germans unched“ their first robot bomb at- tack on England, and before the sites from which the bombs had been launched were overrun by the Allies, mostly the Canadians, more than 3,000 missiles had‘ been directed across the English Channel. Although one-quarter of this number failed during flight, some 2,300 reached thc London area. Canadian troops played an im- portant part in the war against the robot bomb. Anti-aircraft gunners, before leaving England for the continent, pounded away at the bombs as they winged erratically over the southern coun- ties. .On the continent’, the Canadian Aimy fcught a series of bitter battles for the Channel Coast ports from which the bombs were being launched. Le Havre fell on September l2th, Boulagne on the 20th, Cap Gris Nez on the 29th, and Calais, after several days of stubborn, vici- ous resistance, on the fi0th.

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Good news for both dairymen and house- wives. A butter that will keep indefinitely without refrigeration has been developed by the Council for Scientific and industrial Research in conjunction with the Queensland Dairy Board. The new process yields o butter fat practically devoid of water. natural nut oil and a highly purified salt. ~The butter produced in this way is transformed into "normal butter of excellent quality" by adding one~fifth of its volume of water. Research in- volved in developing the new process led to the theory that butter mode by other means goes bod because of the presence of microscopic cav- ities which hold water. The Queensland dairy industry expects that the new process will prove of great value because of the probable demand for a butter that will not deteriorate, especially

y , gnducted, to de- terrains. ~_ Mre V_ nger presantot l . ‘is ‘of ‘great ‘assist-

glroprd ships and in countries throughout the For as

lt contains a little casein and.

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-liotos By Tho Way-g

We are about ta witneee the an-

nual ‘ of the ‘ ‘ man who is‘ too tired to mow his 2 x 4 lawn. nevertheless welklnu miles ln pursuit of s golf ball and llklng it - Brockvllle Recorder and ‘limes. ' -

Southern Alberta. ian't the only sugar beet area to get more than lts share of spring moisture. Wheat- lond, Wyoming, an important beet centre south of the border, was al- most flooded out; by a cloudburst. -—I..ei.hbrldge' Herald.

A columnist says we will wake up some morning. and find high paices have gone. We hope it. hoppers that way. We should hale to think that. hlgh prices would wake up some morning and find us gone. — Kingston Whig-Standard.

A typical New Yorker ls a man who can argue against a ten-cent. subway fare whlle ordering a sev- enty-five-cenf. cocktail for a fellow who is getting him seats to a musl- cal for $0. each plus tax. - New York Sun.

Kilt: are ont. for good ln the Ca- nadian army. Defence Department officials declared. Let this trend continue and we are liable to lose the bagpipes. A bagplpc player can- not do full just-ice to the instru- ment. without the accompaniment of the jaunty swish of the kill. - Fort. William Times-Journal.

Why don't we quit fooling our- selves? The wicked packer is out to clear as much as he can: and s0 ls the pious farmer: and so l: the honest. workmgman. Old Sam Gompcrs, the president of the American Federation of Labor was once asked what. the unions want- ed. He replied: ‘More? And after that? "More." He was an honest man-Calgary Herald.

The Air Transport Association pOlilbS out that on the basis of 1946 accident rates, a passenger could fly around the world once e week for 62 years before anything hap- pened w him. These are American figures. Canadian figures are even better. Trans-Canada Air Lines holds the world's safety record. In the whole period from 1939 to 1946. it. flew 63,188,200 miles for every passenger killed. It has had, in fact, only trwo accidents fatal to passengers ln its whole nlne years of operation. - Edmonton Journal.

Aboard a Trans-Canada. All‘ Lines “North Star" which left London Airport last. week for Man- treal were Siovenes, Slovaks, Ger- mans, Greeks, Swiss, English, Ca- nadians and Scots-nationals of eight countries. These alr travel- lers, many of whom speak no Eng- lish, were guided through lmml- gration and customs difficulties by a staff of linguists at TCAKs book- sp-ur street office. - Canada's Weekly (London).

During the past l0 days or so, wheat seeding has called for a 24- hour day on many an Alberta farm. Men, and women too, have worked long hours with no thought of sta- tutory labor codes, 40-hour weeks or overtime. This was an emergen- cy. and the farmers and their helpers have risen to meet: li.. A drlvc through the countryside at. night during the past week has been a revelation. Lights could be seen moving across fields, where obviously no road ran. Tlgey were night-lights placed on tractors drawing seeders. —Edmonvon Jour- nal.

A capitalist has been quite pro- perly defined u one who foregoes immediate enjoyment of his means for a future gain through risk; ivhcther this is with two hundred dollars or two mllllon. It. to only through this form of saving that. there can be any progress in inaus- try whatever; Just ea the firs. "capitalist" was the land cultivator who old not. consume his crop but kept. some of ff. for seeding. If this is a crime, we have to revise our ideas. - Hamilton Spectator.

A capital city needs a. parliamen- tary first lady w brighten and lighten its diplomatic and bureau- cratic dullness, to give it grace. femlnlnlty and the New Look. We look forwardto a revival of the drawing roam with its curtseys and courfesics, its trains and its fash- ions, its glitter and decolletage. The Liberal convention ln Ottawa this summer will be watched both by politically-minded males end social- ly-consclous women, for not. only will a new prime minister be nom- inated but e. wife who will be ar- biter of teas end dinners end, we hope, of fine fashion. — Peter-bor- ough Examiner.

Many people are afraid that city living conditions and our modern educational system are aomblnlng to produce a situation unilcr which young Canadf are no longer learning how w use their hands. However the London Hobby Fair, which staged the most. successful exhibition in lbl history last. week, was a splendid demonstration that traditions of craftsmanship are being kept alive by the rlelug gen- eration. London service clubs and the Y.M.O.A. which sponsored the l-lobby Fair, have done a good lob. and the fact. that 14,000 Londoners young and old. visited the fair end examined lu more then-Lino ex- hibits shows that. their work wee appreciated. The co-operatian which made the Hobby Fair possible went. much farther than the actual stag- lag of the exhibition. lervlae oiube provided funds for the training by the YM.O.A. of a large corps of instructors who helped boys and

girls in various church, school and

community groups. - boirdon tree Press.

ee+o PUBLIC FORUM

‘Ihle cellsan to elea to the rlreoleion by NIN- eponaenta ul aleaslona ll enter-eat- ‘Ibe Uhariattetowrs a “ door not neoclas- a, enrloree the eptnlelt ul eorroepoadenll.

501100], ‘IIACIIEI METHODS

Sin-Now that. the school year ls drawing to a close, I would bring to the attention of all interested an urgent educational problem in the hope that. a great effort. will be made to have it corrected be- fr-r’ bne beginning of next school term.

The problem is the lack of a uniform method of teaching, which is the weakest link in our element- ary school system. and with your; indulgence, I will by outlining sct-' ual facts make that evident. I Wlll also show cause and effect, and make suggestions how if. could be easily corrected. ‘ '

While there are nearly as many methods as there are teachers, the two extremes that. make lack of uniformity most evident, are what ought be termed the slaw-speed teacher who sets such short. les- sons that pupils scarcely cover. without. any time for revlew, the work of one grade during the term The other extreme is the high- speed teacher who has the pupils race through the studies of two grades with no time given to con- centrated study, in fact. it ls sim- ply o. series of reviews. ‘There is no use ln the excuse that the above may be due to the different l/blll- tles of different WP“! “PP-u” I will show that. both methods have been used by different. teachers on the same class. '

Some text-books are studied by - more than one grade. On l-ht Si!“ any and date I have known B grade in one school to b! one hundred pages more advanced l" the same text book, than its sen: for grade in rm ndl°lillfll s¢h°°l and the teachers in both P4110015 were recommended by the Pepi-PP‘ ment to be fully trained and full! qualified. Both oould not be r1811!- Then whet use supervisors that did not discover this abnormality?

I have known Grade 10 PUD“! “.110 11nd s. go-slow method tench- er. foil to mass the entrance exams because they did not comiile" "m" studies and so had no review: l!" the supervisor on his last. visit t0 this school, near the close of the term, did not even enter the class- room. lnstead he had the teacher- and pupils go outdoors that. he might. determine their efficiency in physical training. Should that. be considered of 8198M!‘ BTWDOTYI- once than the fact that grade l0 would not complete their studies and so would not pass the entrance exams?

The foregoing are but a few of the manv similar incidents that are happening every day of every school year but they should be suf- flcie-nt to prove my contention that there is lack of a uniform method of teaching. Hawevenln case there are yet. some who are not con- vinced, I shall ln apother letter record the actual experience of one child in studies from Grade 1

to Grade 10. - I am. Sir, etc" “PARENT.” Forgiveness

(The Printed Word) Perhaps it. fa as well that men's

Ancny, Cancer llampaign " Workers Meet To-night 7 o’clook Sharp in Whalen Memorial nun

THE AFTERTONE

The harpfst spreads her hands along the strings Caressing them to silence, and so

mutcs The music that she wave. The oboe

slings

Among the violins; the flutes ~ With throstle sweetness flee the threat of dr-ums

Up the harmonic zenith, and then fall

To be extinguished as the trumpet

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Out of the forest sounding a final c l.

All but the harp as hhrough a single th

root

Cl’r.nb to a chord and cease, but I can hear

Between the hands of silence. one faint note

That. etlll eluded them, pulsating clear.

As in the dark a Jewel may ensnnre One ray or light we did not know was there.

--Robert I-llllyer tn New York Herald Tribune.

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memory is longer and more last.- lng than his hate. Hale can re- memner only the weakness: ii. for- gets the exalted hours. There is a. movement on loot ln France to relieve the aged Marshal Peteln, once as reviled s traitor as Laval, from his sentence of life impris- onment. Only o. short time ago France restored to Marshal Wey- gand the property and clvi. rights he had forfeited by his collabora- tlon with Vichy.

France is remembering now that once General Petafn came close o immortality when, tn the face of superhuman odds, he clung to the battered fortress of Verdun mutter- ing through eel: teeth, “They shall not pass." It is remembering. too, that. when Marshal Foch was fac- lng Germany's last. desperate gamble with Fate and men's lives. 1t. was Maxime Weygand who stood at his side as Ctief of Staff. Ii. was, perhaps, clue as much to Wey- gsnd‘... stubborn eteadfastness as to Footie fnsplred courage that victory emerged from the very fringcs of defeat. No one knew that better than Foch. When the im- medlncy of that threat had passed, he said. “If France is ever in dee- perstn need, let. her look to Way grind." "