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CBAILOTTETOWN VVEDNESDAY.-J-AN. 31. I951 Everyllodys Business

Federal statistics reveal some disturb- ing facts in connection with education in Canada. They show that of every 100 chil- dren who start school, 32 drop out before they even finish their elementary training. That leaves 68 who reach the level of the eighth grade, which is only the first mile- stone on the road to an education. Only 53 of the 68 start secondary school. More than half drop out and just 22 achieve junior matriculation or equivalent standing. The ranks are further thinned during senior matriculation; only 13 of the original hun- drcd complete this last step before univers- ity. Nine of the 13 senior matriculants go to wozik, one takes other training, leaving a mere three to start university. During university years two more take employ- ment. Of the 100 who began that exciting first day at school, only one takes a un- .iversity degree. -

An appropriate time for the assessment of these and other problems in connection with education will be during the week of March 4-10, which is being observed as Canadian Education Week. The movement was started in 1936 to stimulate public in- terest in education, and until 1950 was car- ried on exclusively by the Canadian Teach- ersi Federation. Then his slogan "Educa- rtion-Everybody's Business", was trans- lated into action through joint sponsorship by a number of national organizations, in- cluding the Federation of Agriculture, the Canadian Legion, the Chamber of Com- merce and Trades and Labour COHEFBSS of Canada. No other project in Canada has brought into effective working part- nership such diversified groups as are rep- resented in the dozen or more organiza- tions listed. By turning the spotlight on education and its contribution to Canadian life they are performing a service in which all our citizens are vitally concerned.

Niagara itlver Prolect

Engineers are again considering a plan to erect a dam across the Niagara River at a point not far to the north of the Peace Bridge. A similar project was proposed fifty years ago. but at that time its pur- pose was to make the river more navigable; the present plan is recommended in the in- terest of Niagara power redevelopment.

The advantage of such a dam, say its proponents, is that it would control the river's flow, thereby making possible a more efficient use of the water available to power plants and at the same time ensuring an ample volume to preserve the scenic beauty of the Falls. The Niagara is said to have a basic flow of 200,000 cubic feet of water per second. By the terms of the United States-Canadian treaty a minimum of 100,- 000 cubic feet of water per second over the Falls is provided for during the daylight hours of the spring, summer and autumn months. For the remainder of the time the minimum is 50,000 cubic feet per sec- ond.

If Niagara's basic flow of 200,000 cubic feet per second were constant, American and Canadian power plants along the river would thus have from 100,000 to 150,000 cubic feet of water per second to divide ' equally. The difficulty is that Niagara's

basic flow varies with the weather and sea- .sons; the daytime scenic demands of the

I - cataract mean that power plants down riv-

er would receive their largest volume of water during the night hours when their - needs are considerably less. Engineers be- lieve that the proposed dam would correct that fluctuation and go far to equalize the basic flow of the river. Lake Erie would, in effect, become a. reservoir, but its pre- sent levels would not necessarily have to be

; seriously disturbed. Much of "the hard,

limestone ledge near the river, and the entrance of the river itself, would have to be removed. .A depth of about 21 feet would be required to provide sufficient hesdwater behind the dam. Its 0081 is estimated at 530 millions. 8 large 901,410" of which would be expended in the dredg- flng-for the duo's basin. The Proiect Wtillld

t be an fnoemational one.

g l A , heldnext t1Io.lllIl'P0I9 of con-

problclnsoonceroinz the rehabilita- Porhsps title 0;:-procint. coco - the lack of division of fur-

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municipal authorities on the one hand, and officials within each of the various govern- ments on the other.

The present rehabilitation program is piecemeal. On the national level the De- partment of Veterans Affairs deals with disabled veterans, and will alsohelp para- plegicsxiviilans provided they can pay for the service. The Department of National Health and Welfare, through provincial grants-in-aid, such as the annual b500,000 grant for crippled children, helps the prov- inces in rehabilitation work. The natibnai Department of Labor helps through the National Employment Service, by trying to find jobs for disabled persons. On the provincial levels, the work of rehabilitating disabled persons is divided between the Education, Labor, Health and Social Wel- fare departments. Then there is some municipal jurisdiction, especially in social welfare work, and finally a number of voluntary services whose workers help re- habilitate disabled persons are in the field.

What seems needed is a program that will integrate the rehabilitation job. This program should include medical rehabilita- tion, vocationai guidance, vocational train- ing, vocational placement, and the solution of social problems that arise out of dis- abilities. At its Regina meeting this month, the Canadian Welfare Council suggested that a division of the Department of Na- tional Health and Welfare be established to perform the job of integration. It could give grants-in-aid to the provinces, specify- ing what the grants should be used for, as well as advice and technical help.' But since three Federal departments are con- cerned in the work of rehabilitation, valu- able experience might be "wasted if this task was turned over to one department alone. An inter-departmental committee might handle the job better, making use of the knowledge gained in the Labor, Vet- erans, and Health and Welfare depart- ments. But some sort of program should be worked out if many of the 140,000 per- sons now disabled, and the 24,000 who be- come disabled each year, are not to be neglected.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Waste paper may not now be exported to the United States or elsewhere without

a permit. '

Discussion of plans for the annual meeting of members of the Council of Maritime Dental Associations, to be held next June in Charlottetown, highlighted a council session of the New Brunswick as- sociation in Saint John over the week-end.

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"What are statutory riddles?" asks a correspondent. They are the mesh riddles imposed by the British Potato Marketing Board for regulating the output of potatoes of the right dimensions.

Stealing the ration is something new in crime in England. In Welling, thieves on Saturday deprived everyone in that little village of their last week-end joint before the new meat ration cut became effective next day. They broke into the butcher's shop and made off with 15 whole lamb carcasses and 360' pounds of tinned meat.

Ben Jonson, English dramatist and poet, born this date 1573. "The Alchemist", published in 1601, is his masterpiece; Sir Epicure Mammon is a gem of character portrayal-the situations are good, the story absolutely coherent, the umlnor parts worked out admirably. After the produc- tion of this his works grew inferior in quality. Of his songs, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" is still popular.

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An early morning fire, such as that in Water Street yesterday, calls for arduous work on the part of our volunteer fire- men. The manner in which they dis- charged their hazardous duty was most praiseworthy and calls for the highest commendation. The City Council should have no hesitation in complying with their request for additional equipment. It should be borne in mind that had there not been a dance on Monday night which lasted into the early morning, the probability is the outbreak would not have been discovered in time to alarm the occupants.

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Eight years ago, on January 31, 1943, the German 6th Army surrendered the be- leagured city of Stalingrad to the Russians after many weeks of bitter fighting under almost impossible conditions. A few days later, on February 2nd, the historic 162- day seigo ended. It was on February 2, too. that the second detachment of Cano- dlan troops landed in North Africa, hot on the heels of the first such -detachment which had gone in less than a month be- fore. On February 6, 1943, General Eisen- hower was appointed Allied supreme Com- mander, Africa and the Mediterranean Theatre. Although it was not fully real-

ized then, the clouds were beginning to break. ' -

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THE WORLD'S GETTING WORSE. IS IT?

sir, -. I have been hearing this pessimistic say again of late. "'I'l-lc boys are less respectful than they were in my day. Now. they call their parents the old man and the old woman". "the girls are less modest. even have the toes of their shoes opped off so the boys can admire their painted toenails." And these people sign for the good old days when a man knew what he was drinking. Then again. wars were more humane. soldiers fought. with soldiers. Now they are ruth- less. No one escapes. Even the cradled infant gets less milk. On the face of conditions as they are today. the u1)I'ld does seem to be progressing backward. But, we must take the long look. As late as the lotah century in Brit- ain a slave could be bought for s linen shirt, and white slaves were the largest class. By 1838 slavery had disappeared from the British Empire, in spite of strong protests from the church. based on script- ure. The common people kept up the struggle for a wider freedom, and in 1789 the bloody French rev- olution swept. feudalism from Eur- ope, and vassals got their land. Now. in our day. the struggle is for economic freedom. dalpttallsln. which is identical with Communism in its material basis and its denial of God, is taking the rap of his- tory. Throughout, it has been the urge of the rank and file for a wider freedom, and always opposed by the people in power. It used to be believed that the principle of evolution carried with- in it the power of inevitable pro- gress, but scientists now, no longer believe this. However, there is a cwer beyond the material that. in spite of the ups and downs of his- tory, is making for progress toward a better world. A personal faith in this power, above, can convince a man, oven in his worst experience. that the world is, indeed. getting better, and for him the signs of progress multiply. I am. Sir, etc-..

W.I. GREEN

Stanley Bridge.

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EACH DAY IS NEW

In looking back there were a host. Of things that worried me. But those I thought about the

most.- Llke bombing of our Western

so now I do not fear at all

Or even speculate

About the things which may be- full:

Antlc-lpations that appsl, '

or even petty hurts that gol

tine. For lovely things can still be seen, And heard and felt; I know.

The sun comes up each single day, The roses"bud andlbloom. Birds warble in their happy way And even humlble msntes pray So why should I do less than they And steep each day in gloom?

-Laura M. Tennyson. (formerly Miss Laura Mitchell. of Charlottetown) Alhambra. Csllfornla.

Old Charlottetown 6 (And K. I.)

TOTAL ABTINBNCI SOCIETY

"A public meeting was held in the Temperance Hall on the 8th lnst., to take into consideration the expediency of organizing in Total Abstinence Society, uncon- nected with the order of the Sons of Temperance. several persons addressed the meeting in fovour of the movement.-pointing out. in what respect the efforts of the Sons of Temperance had fallen short of their desires in the spread of Temperance principles, and the necessity of forming I Society having for its sole object the sup- port nnd -dvsncsrnent. of Total Abstinence--and urging its claims on the attention of the public. A committee was appointed to carry out the intentions of the meeting, by whom a. number of resolutions were drown up and agreed to. The following persons was appointed office bearers: John Lawson, no. Prelklmt: Capt. Orlobof. R. N., and George Beer. hq.. vie. nag. dents: George and Tremurcr: committee. Mes- srs. Mchuolund, John Rider. Sun- ucl Westsoot, -Tholnu Williams and Willflm Malay. As smugg- rnenu have been nude to procure lectaners for the session. it in con. fldontiy hoped that the meetings of the society will be sufficiently interesting to ensure the cordial

cooperation of the community it large." , -HasIud'o Gnetto, Dec. 11, 1051.

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MAI l." DEUVERY

A Farmer's Creed

By G. P. Martin in The spectator

Here is another practical farmer who has decided that he is on the side of the ancients when it comes to making farming pay. Although Mr. George Henderson states that this book has been written not only as a companion to his earlier work, ”The Farming Ladder," but to advise others in the future, it is much more than a collection of warnings and pieces of advice to those about to farm. Nor is it a mere chronicle of the achieve- ments of a. self-muzle man, re- deemed by the obvious sincerity and sense of dedication of the author; it is a convincing vindica- tion of farmln methods known and practised y our grandfathers and long held in dlsrepute by the scientists and "modems."

In writing of the three facets of farming, as an art. a craft and

a business, he comes down to earth in no uncertain fashion. avoiding all sentimentality and

counting the way for the future development of agriculture in this country by testing the discoveries of agricultural scientists with the traditional craftsmanship of our farm1ng.forefat.hers. He says that "it never seems to be realized that

the scientist can make no allow. once for what he does not know. and that it is the cautious prac- tical farmer who saves the indus- try from one colossal blundelsl which would otherwise be made." In this he is right; as many prac- tical farmers, especially the suc- cessful ones, will agree.

Although his com is harvested in the usual way, he keeps a flail in the barn and uses it. on the threshing floor to get thatching

coast, straw from six-foot sheaves. That

0; which 1 was too much en. in the kind of wisdom which has grossed, helped to carry him througll the

Just, never mm, to be, slumps of the past quarter of a

century and change his farm from It is one with his farming philosophy which he has acquired entirely from his contact with natural things and with those who have spent their lives in natural. yet far

And soon exsaperate. from humdrum surroundings, and activities. This springs in the

I take each day "5 "9" and clean. main from his firmly-held faith Like freshly fallen sncrw. in the principle that farmers Then try my best to be serene "should leave the land for which VVhile following each hour's rou- they 3,5 ,e,,po,.,s,b1,,' 18,. bane,

than they found it," and from his love for the land. a love that is

deep indeed and which has brought him more happiness in return than the majority of .men

can hope to know. In these days of the -frenzied search for the "efficient farming unit," which it is fiercely advocat- ed by agricultural economists, can

only be one of broad acres farm-

The Age-iilti Story

Rejoice not against me. 0 mine enemy: when I fall. I shall urlue. when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be u light unto me ... who is I God like unto lines. that pardon- eth lnqulty. and paucth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retalncth not his ung- er for ever. bcoouso he deltghteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our inlquitlcs. and thou will out all their sins into the depths of the sea.

ed in the manner of the prairie nnd the ranch, it is a joy to find someone who is ready to quote his experience in s-uppport. of the small mixed farm-worked by family labour of the owner-as by for the most productive of all kinds of farms. Added to this 'heresy" is another in which Mr. Hender- sctl dcrrollshes the theory that artificial fertilizers are all that is necessary for on ever-increasing

agricultural production. He says simply that, although he once doubted those old farmers who.

in his youth. told him that "there is nothing like muck," he has now long known them to be right. and that highest production is obtain- ed by the use of organic and arti- flclsl manures together in the proper proportions. And to this end he is convinced that the four families of farm livestock, fed al- most entirely on home-grown fodder and grazed in the tradi- Llonnl order, must be kept on every fnrm; there is no place in his pat- tern for "specialized farming." Whether all will agree with his intense dislike and distrust of the Agricultural Ctnnmlttees. the Advisory Service and all sgricul- tural colleges is a question: but mllny- working farmers will be with him in his demand that of- ficluldom shall leave them alone.

The author is now travelled and well-read. It. is a. pity that he had not more time in early life for re- laxation, for this might have soft- ened his sense of superiority over other men. The ancients always made room in their farming for the play of pipe andtabor.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 - (AW - The Federal Reserve Board said today this month's industrial pro- duction will hit the highest point since the end of the Second World War. It estimated the increase as a. gain of one-tenth since the Kor- ean wsr's start and one-fifth above a year ago.

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The United States cannot look upon Korea in precisely the some light as do Europeans. For one t.hing,i1.s military and political commitment is greater. For an- other, lying between the Atlantic nnd the Pacific, it must watch the shores of bull oceans and weigh the consequences of any sign of weakness in either urea. For I third. it bears the heavy respon- its economic and military power chtail. It cannot simply acquiesce-it must take its own position. The problem Ls to reconcile that position with the legitimate interests I America's allies, wiLhout jeopardizing either the men who are fighting in Korea or the basic needs of the free. world.-New York Herald Tribllne.

lard llucwood has announced that he is reluctantly compelled to sell Goldsborough Hall. This was the first home of that Princess Royal after her marriage 00 the late Lord Hnrewood, and the pre- sent curl and his brother spent W91? boyhood there. The sale of the hall and its surrounding 1,800 acres is made necessary by death duties. The agent's letter to the Goldsbcnough tenants announc- ing the sale states: "Lord Harel wood is anxious that I should let. you know of the trustees pro- posals at once and tell you that he will feel the severence of his family with the estate". In June, 1950, 8.600 acres of the Hsrewood estate were sold by auction and realized 257,000 pounds. In Novem- ber Lord I-Iarewood announced that 6,000 acres ill the West Rid- ing-of Yorkshire would be sold to raise an outstanding balance of death duties. It was stated at the time that. this would reduce the estate to about 1,000 acres. - Lon- don Tlmes. 9

Resins have been written llbot garden plants. From sunflowe 8' to violets, they've had their praises sung, their pictures paint- ed and their blossoms picked. Even moss comes ill for stt.ent.lon, and alpine plants have fought. their way off the rock pile into the choicest corners of the Jandscape. But who ever gets lyrical about grass? It. is because lawn grass is only the background for the rest of tabs show? Is it because it's so common it rates no admiration? Let's face a stsxtllllg truth It's a fact. that grass is the John Smith the Joe Blow, the Sad Sack of the front yard display. Lawn grass is us. It's the sad-looking goofs

JANUARY- '31". ';,19si”'

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crowded behind the movie quge in the news photo. It's he uni: numcd, unnumbered citizens who stand in rows at mass mggun” We the John Q. Public, the urn; Guy. the men-in-the-street, the "average consumer" of the floral world. How else is it like us? am, 53383195 "D Where nothing use would want to grow. It fills in thi- between better. more glam- orous creatlons. It gets an gm", to size roguhsrly. It gets raked over, backed up and walked .0" without end. It's thrown out when. ever anything better turns up, 1,-S cursed b cause it. won't 11., awn And all be time, slowly, qujemf mcckly, but with a terrible uni quenchsble power. it grows and spreads and lives its tremendous little life. surely here we can re- cognlze ourselves. Grass is us.-.- Victorla Times. -

Although there are minyl women whose financial circumstances an able to take them from the drudg. cry of housework. there are even more women who spend day arm day right in their homes in A constant state of doing an,-hep. getting meals, washing windows: picking up after the children getting the laundry ready, au5,.' mg. and e. myrald other house. hold chores known only to an housewife herself. If it wasn't for the fact that they can turn on the radio and listen to a few dramstlz. ed stories, whose characters race problems much worse than incl,- own, many of these -women would probably go mental from the monotony of their work. In spite of what those who condemn them claim. these radio "operas" form a definite rest period in the day- of the busy housewife. although many of them continue with their won. while listening with one eann Brockville Recorder and Times.

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