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,-- m oMl'ETl-INT Comllletq - mice service. W. Boyd Beslrsto.

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-p0sTPONED Kenslngton area in sports, Kensington,rink. 7.30 pm. Friday, March 7th. Open to ghouls in Kenslngton and sub rounding districts. Competitors ad-

nittrd frce.

.-THE FUNERAL of the isle mm llenry Grady, which was to have been held from his home at 1pm. on Thursday. hold from Trinity United Church, Summcrslde, at this time. semi-final playoff, tonight. Wednes- Kinkcra vs.

-JUNIOR Bedeque rink.

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Drank Weeks. lepreaentauvo. Q-I Office and an llouse.

-THE ALBEIITON ice sports are postponed until March 11th

owing to the condition of the roads. -BINGO - Canadian Legion

Home. Every Thursday at 8 pm. usual good prizes. Proceeds - charltible. coffee and doughnuts will be served by the Lad1eI' Auxiliary.

-OBSERVES BIRTHDAY Many old friends and business as- sociates are extending best wishes and hopes for many happy returns of the day to Mr. M. L. Frank MacKenzie of Summerside, who yesterday quietly observed his birthday in his usual way, by be- ing at work. Although the gen-

day, double header. gcdcqilf; Albany vs. Admismtn 25 cents.

-HOCKEY PLAYER HOME - Mr, syl Bernard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Bernard, second street, has returned home after pigyinlz for the winter season with the Pictou lifaripacs in the 1l.P.C. League. The Maripacs were eliminated in the semi-finals but my pushed the New Glasgow Bombers to the limit before bow- mg out. This is the second sea-

Freetown.

,I(.P.C. League.-S.

-CAlil) l'AIlTlt' - The regular weekly rard party of the C.W.l.. was held at the home of Frank Murphy, Augustine Cove. on Feb- ruary 26, There were seven tables in play. Ladies' first prize was won by Mrs. Harry Dawson; men's lirst by Mr. E. C. Bell, and con- ciation prizes were awarded to

rs. Gus Peters and Gerald Mur- my. The freezcout was won by lira. Thomas Keough. A dainty lunch was served by the hostess, issisicrl by the ladies present.

-ll0Al) REPORT - Last. eve- ning Government. officials at summerslde announced that the only roads open out of Summer- side were from Summerside to Richmond. The road cast out of Bummerside toward Borden was reported open for a distance of about five miles. The trains are again pretty well back on sched- ule. Employees of the C. N. R. depot at Summerside stated that on Monday they received 353 telephone calls during the day from citizens inquiring with re- gard to the arrival of";the trains.

-rosr x11-TIAL, snowr.n D Mn. Upton Fraser vrai guest of honor Monday evening. March 3rd at the home of Mrs. Howard Clark when members of the Dock Wom- an's Institute entertained at apost nuptial showrx. Mrs. Lloyd Wllkie and Mrs. E3'sl;ine Clark carried in a prettily decorated basket eon- tsining many lovely gifts and pre- sented them to the bride who was sisisted in opening them by Mrs. Clark. while the accompanying verses were read by, Mrs. Wilkie. The gifts were arranged by Mrs. George lrvlng. When Mrs. Fraser had expressed her thanks, all join- ed in singing "llbr She's A Jolly Good Fellow." Two solos. approp- riate to the occasion. were render- ld by Mrs. John H. Wells and teveral contests were enjoyed.

-SOCIAL EVENWG - A well attended on-ioysble social evening

was held last evening by the Lad- ies Auxiliary of: the Canadian Legion in the banquet room at the lesion Home in Summerside. In Idditlcn to the regular members 0? the auxiliary. many wives and mothers of munbers or ex-mem- bers of the armed forces. who are W let members, were in attend- Ince. Lunch was served during the "Wins. (Ind hope was expressed that similar social evenings would kitheld in the home from time to ant The regular meeting of the killer Auxiliary is held on the m” 'N95dai' of each month. and 9 Pmideni. Mrs. R. L. Molli- Iwn; extended an invitation to the Ditties present and any other wives ”: mothers of veterans to attend waft meetings, at which they be most welcome.

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Personals

mmllr. W. 6. Ellis, of R. T. H01- 53!" Ltd.. left Summersida on ,' "day morning for Montreal '" the interests of his firm.-S.

lr7he Misses Kathleen Murphy. Emne Murray and Lorraine Gal- lhl. students of Stella Maria M tuoi. North Rusticc. spent the i Week-end at their respective "1" in Ausustlne Cove.

-Messrs. Wm, A, uifnch River. and Wm. Maclfsy ::' Mundny evening, returning was four months visit with

"I in bless. Texas. Mexico "Id Csillor-nl.,.g

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Bernard of B

Bmklcy. arrived in summer- h

ial ”M. L.” has filled a prominent. part in the business life of the community longer than most peo- ple can remember, he is still hale .and hearty. seldom misses a day In his store and shows promise ,of remaining one of the leading .business men of Summerside for many more years.-S.

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-- DOC'l'OI?.'S OFFICE -- Ari of- fice is at present being prepared in Fred White's store on Main Street for Dr. J. P. Kelly who recently ar- rived ln Alberton to set. up a. med- ical practice. A door is to be in- stalled so that the office can be entered directly from the street and alterations are expected to be completed this week. Dr. and Mrs. Kelly and their small child arrived in Canada about two months ago. first going to Newfoundland. They are staying at Russell Bonyman's until a. house can be procured.

--TO SHOW PICTURE - Mr. Clarence Mercer. supervisor of the Summerside High School has made arrangements for the show- ing in the school auditorium on Friday. March 14th of the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" which stars Miss Norma Shearer. The

picture has been obtained for a

ishowlng to the pupils who are studying the Shakespearean drama. 'nnd Mr. Mercer said that any one llnterested in seeing this splendid 'drama.t.izaiion are welcome to at- tend.

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ftifnliuiiinii Continue-d-from page 8

1880 and 1917, the developmen of schools under the Tsar was phenomenal. through the efforts of the provincial governments or zemstvos. In 1915. the number of elementary and parochial schools in European Russia was 122,123. with an attendan of 8,146,832 pupils.

In 1914. as reported later at the Tenth Congress of Soviets, the number of literate per thousand of school age was: Urban boys 918. urban girls 899. rural boys 710, rural girls 616. Universal elementary education for all parts

sight. The Bolsheviks simply took over a rapidly expanding process and then vltiated it by exterrninatlng most of the train- ed teachers as politically unre- liable.

Thus nearly twenty years after the Revolution an official report (Kulturnoo stroitelstvo. 1935, p. 16) noted that almost half the teachers in Stalin's elemen .y schools and nearly a. third of those in the secondary schools had nav- er gone beyond Grade 111 them- selves.

Apparently the main reason for this has been the continual purg- ing of the teaching staff, decade after decade. on political grounds. It is not surprising that as late as 1948 comparable defects of teacu- ing staff should be found in col- leges and universities. In Sep- tember 1848, Comrade Bukhaiu, director of the Board of Higher Education for the Ukrainian Bo- clalist soviet Republic, reported that of the 18,000 tesche . in the institutions of higher education in the republic only 4.483 had de- grees. somo had had no scientific training whatever. At the very same time. however. it was an- nounced: that the faculties were being thoroughly so-staffed, not

in order to introduce men with higher training but in order 1:0 .. .. . . a. W 0

' teenth store there were still

of the Empire by 1925 was in by

I'll GUARDIAN. WN

Shdvm above is the model of a high school. .5; nasinm. and civi

' on display in Summersdelligh so

This model is one of many most Interesting and well prepared class projects that are on display to the public each afternoon In the High School audit-

orium from 8 to 5. and each evening til Sunday.

while thci remaining schools were running three shifts a day in or- der to accommodate the pupils. Over three years later, on June 28. 1951. lzvestla reported again. that the foundations of nine schools had been laid in 1949 in Kemerovo but not one of these buildings had been finished.

It also tells of similar condit- ions in the Riazan district. where at least eight schools were forced to run in three shifts, because bureaucratic officials had confis- cated the other buildings. 'Cor- ditlons were even worse at Erevan, in the Caucasus (lzvestla, No. 1'19, 1950).

The schools actually in oper- atlon. moreover, are not properly equipped. Pravda (August 2, 1949) declares that many schools. es- pecially in Russia proper, operate in unrepnired premises, without fuel or teaching supplies: and goes on to beivall the lack of clothes, shoes and stockings for the chil- dren. In Llteraturnaya Gazeta for August 17, 1949, there is a bitter complaint from the Knlmin region that their schools have no textbooks and that the regional department of public education has not even enquired as to their needs. '

The lack of clothing is em- phasised again in Pravda for Aug- ust 4. 1949, where a father from the city of Kirov reports that he had tried in vain at twelve differ- ent. government stores to buy shoes for his son. The stores had some shoes for women but none at all for men or children. At a thir- no shoes for children but. he was able to buy the little fellow a pair of men's shoes and rubbers' to keep his feet from freezing in a Russian winter.

The quality of the school work, done appears to be very poor. lsvestla for Sept. 11, 1950, reports. as follows: "More than half of the participants in the zootech- nical group at the Kolhoz named for Comlntern are half illiterate, while in order to attend the courses successfully one 'must. have gone through at least ithlee or four grades of the elementary school."

Party J ingolsm

The reason for unsatisfactory progress is inadvertently revealed A. A. Voznesenskl, Minister for Public Education: "The teachins at our schools must be steeped ill Communist ideology, in the Dol- shevik party spirit. must contri- bute towards the formation in the pupils of the Marxist-Leninist outlook, must educate them in the spirit of the policy of the Bolshevik Party and the soviet State, in the spirit of the lofty ideals of soviet patriotism and boundless devotion to the cause of Lenin and Stalin" (lsvestla, May 5, 1949). Where party lingo- ism takes first place over all oth- er subjects, it is not strange that there should be a defective sys- tem of instruction.

In view of the incessant soviet denunciation of the Western democracies as "war-mongers", one cannot stress too much the fact that the U. S. S. R. is the most belligerent and warlike coun- try ln the world today. Nowhere- else is there so much public par- ading of troops and weapons. The chief public holidays are military holidays. The official soviet cal- endar for 1949 listed the follow- ing great.' occasions for sabre- rattling: February 23, Day of the Bcviet Army; July 24, Day of the Soviet Navy; August 18, Day of the soviet Air Fleet: September 11. Day of the Tank Corps; No- vember 7, Anniversary of the

had been guilty of ideological lapses. (Newsletter from behind the Iron Curtain. Nov. 19, 1948,

pp. 252-3).

A t” specious claim makes much of the declaration in Article 121 of the Stalin constitution that "education, including higher (university) education, isfvse of charge" in the Soviet Union and dwells much on the vast number of well equipped schools. Here again the propaganda is false. y a decree of October, :. 1940,

or

dredacf thousands of 3:" parentshadtotaketheirchll

'11 ists and other traitors - they will

, .. . 19, Dav of the Soviet Artillery.

As the illustrations and speech- es in the Soviet press make clear, these are military festivals, giv- an over to a. boastful display of armed might and a bitter dc- nunciatlon of potential enemies As Comrade P. N. .PoIDG10V tia- clared at a Moscow Katharina: "Let the mad dogs and pigs of the old world, to use Marx's words, console themselves with the illusions that with the help of their lackeys-the rightist social-

be sbla to preserve the doomed world of capitalist slsvery" shevik, No. 2, 1850, p. 24).

Doliberateiy lncalcated This warlike spirit is, deliber- ately tnculoaoed in the children in all countries under ,Communlst rule. It is not merely in Russia that. children with rifles (relrysta

These displays have been painstakingly prepared ii! the Pupils as their contribution to the schoorsl

Interesting Discussion On Education At Siside .

lsisltoffrspsssl Imsrslls Ilgt Isisol

proposed modern auditorium now I auditorium.

every expectation.

from 'I to 9, un- the supervision of teerlng department

An unusually interesting panel

discussion was held at the regular meeting of the Summerside Home and School Welfare Group last evening in the library of the High school. The discussipn was under ihe.chalimanship of J.R. Murphy and the following members or the association took part: Mrs. Henry Noonan, Mrs. Deior Richard. Mrs. James Peach, Mrs. Jack Scott. Miss Ruth Croken, Rev. W.A. Harper. Ray Miarrison, BJ. Beck, and A. S. Hopkins. ,

The questions discussed were as follows: 1. What are the aims of education? 2. Should teachers be expected to take a part in commu- nity activlties? 3. Do children ben- efit by homework? 4. Are report cards detrimental to child's wel- fare? 5. Does the attitude of the general public discourage young people from entering the teaching profession?

It was stated that the chief aim. expressed generally, was to teach the child to think, and to direct his thoughts in the right direction. The co-operation of the church, school and home was stressed as being important.

In answer to the second question Mr. Hopkins believed that the teacher should take part in com- munity aciivities depending on the time available to him, but should not sacrifice school work for this

Ipurpose. This summed up the gen-

eral consensus of opinion.

The third question started a lively discussion. Mrs. Richards raise the point that students were sometimes assigned more home- work than thcy could accomplish successfully in the time available. This was particularly true where the student had a number of tea- chers. each teaching a different subject. Mrs. Peach said the new system advocated allowed for M minutes out or every hour as a study period in school. Mr. Harper though homework should involve a little interesting research. The

consensus was that children need-

partlclpatlon in Education Wcelt, ind hundreds of people who have already visited these exhibits are alnaaed at the excellent display which exceeds their

This model of the proposed high school. gymnas- ium. aad civic audlinriu... is credited to the grade 10 nubile. Ind was desllllld by. and constructed under

Mr. Gordon Welsh, of the engin- of the M. F. Schunnan Co. Ltd. - Photo by lleukbert.

ed homework in moderation, and carefully assigned. . The fourth question was also vigorously discussed. The 0-S-U Ontario system was assessed for its possible value here. This system has pupil competing against him- self rather than his classmates. some felt that as individual com- petition was inevitable in later life, it should also be in the schools. After the panel discussion proper was over, Mr. Leuiy mentioned the English system. which took cog- nizance of the different levels of competition existing in the work- a-day world by instituting such competition in the classroom.

that the teaching profession was not respected as it should be. He said that people you met were in- clincd to raise eyebrovrs hen they discovered you were 9. teacher.

Young people were being advised every day not to go into the teach- ing profession because of small pay and other disadvantages. Mr. Morrison said. Garbage collectors in Ottawa were getting more sal- ary than the average Canadian school-teacher.

Mr. Clarence Mercer stoutiy de- fended the status of the teaching profession, claiming there was no need to feel inferior because of be- lng a member of the profession which was one of the best.

lln the regular business meeting with the president Amos I-lubley in the chair, Mrs. Alex Home was appointed chairman of a. commit- tee to secure improvement prizes

A nominating committee consist-

school age. All their toys should be military in character. In re- buking the backwardness of Sov- iet Latvla in this matter, the Communist writer testifies that. on a visit to Moscow he had found pupils of seven and eight sur- prisingly competent in military affairs.

In an official Soviet handbook for teachers issued in 1946 for use in all teacher training-schools. continual emphasis is laid on linking up the subjects of the school curriculum with a con- conscicus preparation of" war. Geography must be treated as a military study. The uses of mathematics in war must be stres- sed. Even the organized games of the playground are to be given a warlike character. The teacher is instructed, moreover, to inculcate in each pupil the "most burning hatred" for enemies of his coun- try. He is to realize that he must not only hate his enemies but in due course struggle with them and destroy them. ("I want to be like Stalin", from the Russian text on Pedagogy by B. P. Yesipov and N. K. Goncharov, translated by George 5. counts and Nucla P. 12091893 .

lnculcatlng Hatred

The identity of these enemies is not left in doubt. In a history textbook for elementary schools

illlorll sssn. Vol. III U hpedgi ,

oscow. 1946). we find (fl: page 268 a lurid picture of a capitalist band of robbers-America, Britain and France-urging their dogs in Tsarist uniforms to seize Com- munist Russia by the throat. The same textbook for little children declares that in 1989 "Finnish troops'. . . incited by anti-soviet circles in certain impetislist coun- tries. attacked the soviet Union" (p. 345) Pravda of August 5. 1990. goes on to insist. that plays for Soviet.chlidren should be "about the strugtle of the democratic forces against the dark forces of reaction”. the exposing of the beat- ial and rnlssnthropic nature of the bourgeois democracies". This

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some warlike spirit permeates all soviet school manuals. all fiction for the young. and all periodicals for young people. The young Russian must hate belligerently all nations and countries not yet. under Soviet control.

Over against the perfidy and rottenness of the Western dem- ocracies, soviet education exalts the wisdom and perfection of the Communist Party and especially of that shining paragon of all the talents and virtues. Joseph Stalin. In a book called Zemlys Russkaya ("The Russian Land." 1946). pub- lished by the Central Committee of the Young Communist League, we .find the following tribute: "Stalin. Always we bear in our souls his dear name. And here in the Kremlin, his presence touches us at every step. We walk on stones which he may have trod only recently. Let us fall on our knees and kiss these holy foot- prints" (p. 6).

(To be continued)

KEIISINGTON RINK

THURSDAY, MARCH 6th

Second game finals Eastern Prince County Girls Cham- pionship. I Borden Girls

s. Summerside C. & B. Gets Game 8 sharp One hour skating

rnrnsv School Sports

(it iualag

we

Nl'0RSE's QTEAS

Seed Sllille

lty of the seed that he produces.

fail. a sample of 600 tubers was taken from the

The mm question '1”-ought, These tests which were com- fourth the greatest cleavage of Plated on February 10th. Show opmmn, Mr. Mm-rimn thougm that the over-all purity of Island

for the several grades at the High Tuesday night when the Cape

School. '13-averse juniors tied the Tryon The committee which had Arrows 3-3 and the Cape Traverse

charge of putting on a dance Rover Sisters defeated Crapaud

sometime in the spring, were in- Hear-tbreaker sisters 4-1.

structcd to bring in a report at the In the junior game Bob Mac-

next meeting. Williams, Wayne Gardiner and

ing of J.R.. Mt.1rphy. A.S. Hopkins, Traverse. Blair Delaney scored and Mrs. Lorne MacFarlane was twice for Tryon and Raymond appointed from the chair. -5 Thompson 0110!-

Potato Disease

Mr. Harry Dawson. A ” Cove. received word recently from the P. E. 1. Potato Marketing Board that his sample of Green Mountain seed potatoes that un- derwent the Florida test is com- pletely free of all virus disease. It is believed that of the thir- teen Island samples found free of disease. Mr. Dawson has the only Green Mountain seed that passed the test. The other twelve samp- les that were successful includ- ed Cobblers, Sebngoa, Katahdin and Cansc.