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Montague High School

The new Montague lligh School has .iIi'ca(iy given more than half a year of scrvlcc prior to its official opening today. That. perhaps. is typical of the way public- spiriteci citizens of that Town go about tliings. No effort was spared to have the school ready for use and there was not a moment's delay in making Lise of it when ready. The formalities could very well wait.

There is a place. however, for the for- malities. A school has far more signifi- cance to a community than its physical stiitcture might indicate, although in this case the appearance is well in keeping with the importance of its purpose. The school has a very large share in the making ef the men and women of the community. The community. reflects the school as ac- curately as the school reflects the coin- munity.

it has been said, with some truth, that a university could consist of a leg with a teacher sitting on one end and a student sitting on the other. The great objection to such an organization is that it would be too expensive to provide enough teach- ers to make it work. The object of mod- ern school organization and construction is to enable the teacher to be as effective with a whole class as the unaided teacher would be with a single student.

The object of extended facilities is to make the teacher's work more effective. Sometimes we are carried away by en- thusiasm and introduce "improvements" for their own sake. They should, if we are to get value for the effort put into educa- tion, be put to the test of whether they make the teacher a more effective teacher or merely provide something to do to while away-the long hours of school.

tlhiect tlf Eduction

Dr. Robert M. HUICIIIXIS, former chan- cellor of the University of Chicago and one of the noted scholars of America. has re- cently written a book entitled ”The Con- flict In Education In A Democratic So- ciety”. In it he suggests that "the prime object of education is to know what is good for man." By that he means that erlucation, from the elementary school right tip to the university and beyond, should be based on ethical considerations. He feels that unless this is done it can actually develop into a moral deterrent.

It may well be that in stressing educa- tion as a means of helping the individual "to make, a living" we of this generation have somehow lost sight of the fact that knowing how to live is of infinitely great- er importance. For some time now the trend has been in the directionof more nnrl more technical training and less and less emphasis on the need for hard intel- lectual discipline which, while it is not :-i cure-all by any means. is at least a help to proper ethicalunderstanding. Learning by doing has become a virtual fetish, and learning by thinking has been relegated to the attic of forgotten things.

Within proper limits technici-'i training in its various forms is a very fine thing. There is much need for it in this highly in- dustriali7.crl age. But what does it profit A man to know all the mechanic.il answers if. in the search for them, he has been neither trained nor encouraged to seek an intelligible philosophy concerning the funda- mental issues of life? It cannot be stated too often that for the tradesman in his shop, as for the farmer in his field and the scientist in his laboratory, life is essential- ly a matter of moral and ethical adjust- ment, not of mechanical know-how.

The Fraiikiiig Privilege

Again complaints over an alleged abuse of the free mailing privileges of MP's is being heard, says the Ottawa Journal. This free mailing right for MP5, known as the ”franking privilege". was established many years ago when postage was more expens- ive than now, the idea underlying it being that there should be as few barriers as possible between it member and his con- stituents.

As often happens, abuses crept into the right. The Journal states that, up to the beginning of World War I. it was well nigh impossible to find anybody around the Parliament Buildings who was not "franklng" mail; MP's threw about the right to use their "frank" as generouslypas the Department of Railways issued passes

ing rights to send his laundry home, while another "franked” a bag of seed oats all the way to his farm in the West.

Those were the days, of course, when the perquisites of MP's were much greater than now. For example, up to the second or third parliamentary session of World War I, all MP3. senators and members of the Press Gallery received expensive leath- er trunks (usually filled with stationery) at the beginning of each -new parliament. More, the members receiving these trunks had the right to take an equivalent, and one farmer member once exercised this privilege by taking a harness instead.

After two years of World War I and its costs, Sir Robert Borden's Government eliminated the leather trunks (none came with the new Parliament of 1917) and later the practice of boxes of embossed station- ery for members and the Press Gallery at the beginning of each session disappeared also.

Whether and to what extent the ”frank- ing” privilege is abused now. the Journal admits that it cannot say. It hazards the guess that it is used more honestly than 20 or 30 years ago.

LDITORIAL NO-I ES

The ”grass-roots” or school district meetings of the P. F2. I. Federation of Agriculture are being held throughout the Province this evening. On the extent to which these meetings are attended and the character of the delegates elected depends the effectiveness of the Federation.

Early next year Nova Scotla is to have a survey made of the Provinee's industrial potential by a firm of industrial research consultants. With the knowledge so ob- tained both private enterprise and govern- ment encouragement can be directed to- wards practical development.

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Zostera marina, eelgrass to the uninit- iated, disappeared in the 305 but reports have been coming in for some time of its renewal in Maritime watei's. Formerly used only for fertilizer and to bank houses, the product is now being dried and made into quilted sheets as a fire and insect proof insulating material.

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A visiting Hungarian soccer team has defeated England's national team 6-3 in a hard-played game. It is .notable that the English crowd cheered almost every Hun- garian move, particularly those of the vis- iting captain, an army officer whom they promptly nicknamed the ”galloping major". Sportsmanship is no respector of political

allegiance.

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The advance of medical science is il- lustrated by a comparison between the Second World War in Burma and the fight in Malaya against Communist terrorists. While hundreds of allied and Japanese troops died of scrub typhus, the present campaign under similar conditions has not resulted in a single loss of life from that disease.

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The Treaty of Locarno was sigiici this date 1925. It was to come into effect only on the admission of Germany to the League of Nations and guaranteed the frontier of both France and Germany in the west. Later attempts to extend the. frontier guar- antees to the east failed and the treaty was

. ., . denounced by Germany in lfiob. She then Opcnlv mmmd troops into the rlcmilitarised

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A Fredericton, New Brunswick, magis- trate has ruled that, control of the sale of fireworks is I(0VCl'il9-(1 h.V U19 EXPIOSWES Act of the Dominion Parliament and that Provincial and civic legislation on the mat- ter is consequently ultra vires. T1115 18 3 ruling on which it is important. to have higher authority and it is to be hoped thgit either by appeal or reference it can L brought before a superior court.

The belts of St. Clements. a church built in 1681 by Sir Christopher Wren. were badly cracked in the great fire raid on London in 1941. Only the oldest bell escaped damage. It was made in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada. It is hoped that the bells can be recast and sound again over London. They have been re- turned to the firm that made them to see what can be done.

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Deploring New Brunswick's lack of 3 Provincial motto, the Fredericton Gleaner notes that "only two Provinces of Canada are without. floral emblems, British Colum- bia and Prince Edward Island." We hasten to assure The Gleaner that the Lady's Slipper, icyprlpedium I-lirautum, is the floral emblem of this Province and, as they are probably aware, our motto is "Parva sub Ingenti."

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T!!! BEAUTY AND STRENGTH OF INDIAN WOMEN

Sir,-I have been amazed nnd delighted by the fact that Madam Lakslirive Pundit. was chosen as chairman over the Eighth General Assembly of the United Nations. It in a. tribute to Indian womanhood. She is now in her early fifties, a handsome, slight woman with soft waved white hair, large brown eyes, olive skin. and delicately moulded features. Her dress is the simple white yacket. and flowing pastel sari of her native land. Her voice is low. She speaks rapidly. and clearly in perfect. English. She pre- sides with grace, dignity and good humour over the General Assem- bly sessiam.

May I tell you that I-ndln has thousands of such women. They have a natural grace and digiiity. especially when dressed in their native costume, and can take their place beside their educated white sisters in any amambly. In the In- dian Parliament there are more women proportionately than in any other parliament in the world,an.d this is the more reniarkable when only about two per cent. of the women are educned.

Indian women are beautif-ul.,but their beauty is never paraded be- fore the world. That would not. be dig-nifled. They have queenly looks and queenly ways but one never hear: of 3. beauty queen. That would not. be tolerated in India. The glamour aspect of womanhood does not appeal to India. They say that is American and we are Indkin.

Indian women are ambitious to serve their eountnn Madam Pun- dit has served three prison terms in Erttlah jails for the part. she took in civil disobedience in the Cvhandt campaigns for independ- ence. Her husba-rid, Sonylt. Pundit. the lawyer-scholar was imprisoned for to total of ten years for his part in the civil disobedience cum- paign.v,an experience which caused his death. That. suffering has brought the beauty of quiet self- control into the life of Mme. Puti- dit.

I have been amazed at the n.m- bition and courage of young East Indian xirlii who leave home to no to college in strange cities in Am- erica and in Britain and stay away for four or five years until they are doctors or teachers and return to give their services to their country. And those girls have made a splendid impression upon all with whom they have come in contact. In the greater future of mankind when the World Parlia. ment iii organized. East. Indian womanhood will play ll leading role.

I am, Sir, etc, W. I. GREEN. Stanley Bridge. i

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he offers cheap for Cash, or (It Cattle. only." --Royal Gazette, Jan. 13, 1835.

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The his that nation love to tell of seals that. follow It chip for milea when music is being played on deck seems to have been less of on old saitxb yau'n than in gen- erally supposed. At. least. the bench onicinls at mimtantorn us begin- ning to think so. Recently they were wondering why their custom- ary invasion of seals had increas- ed. and why baby seals chose to come a. are on one particular stretch o the foreshore. 'Il-hen. they discovered that on electric organ, newly installed on the sea.-front, was directly opposite the beach where the seals gathered. The im- sweir, it seems, was music, as any old tar could have told them. This is certainly one up for those who still believe that music can soothe the savage beast. ii theory which has had such eminent supporters as Shackleton. who charmed pen- guins with a. gramophone in the Antarctic, and Thomas Hardy, who owned a musical dog.- (From The Manchester Guardian.)

It in highly desirable that Can- ada should be better known in the United States. So it 15 ii hearten- ing development that the Univer- sity of Rochester, in New York State,l.s initiating something bound to be of benefit to both iiationn It is an ovation in niatterrs edu- cational. University of Rochaster plans to become H. cohorts of in- formation about all aspects of this country and its people. A Camd- ian studies program is being set up under the direction of Dr. Don- ald W. Gilbert. and it is hoped that this will lead in time to the creation of an institute of Cana- dian affairs iit the university. A further step would be an annual conference at Rochester of experts in various aspects 'to Canadian life. Although the two countries share .1. common boundary and ii good deal of history and have almost similar cultural roots. them are few who would maintain that we know enough about one another.- tMon':ton Transcript.)

It iii almost. inconceivable that deep down in the mysterious tiieptiu of the ocean there are inn lurking it few survivors of that legendary age of underwater ser- pents, but it Danish ocea-nogrn.piie:r has' evidence that an eel larva, live feet. in length. has been found. If the parent could be located, isairs the Copenhagen scientist. it would prob:ibly be A creature very

similar to the sen. monsters of ancient times, Our imaginations have been turned to the sea in

rec:-iii. months. and we are not only willing to accept. the theory that the sen once teemedm-lth serpents and the like-lust as the land was populated with mons- trous dinosaurs--but. also that there may be some of them left. in the dark water of the ocean floor, beasts which were almost. entirely

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duimwd by dluuo and the pod- uiil evolution of the earth and which during all these years have hidden out. in underwuter caverns. -(Saint John Telegraph Jmimeil.)

Vnnoouvoriteu no observing the largest. migration of birds in many years. The bank are heading south in record numbers, and some people who have an inclina- tion to mnke long-range weatihnr predictions, forecast. I. hard, old- fashioned wintair. Whatever may happen in British Columbia, an old-fashioned winter here in South- ern Ontario would be 5. change. True, it would cost. us more to heat the house, but. it would be refresh-iiog to have bright, sunshine. and sub-zero nights. and "sun dogs" again, and cutter rides and jingle bells, and to see our breath on the air. We might all be stimulat- ed and healthier.

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GOD'S ACRE

I like that ancient Saxon phrase. which calls The burial-ground God's Acre! It is just; It consecrates . its walls, And breathes I. benlson o'er the sleeping dust,

each grave within

God's Acre! Yes, that blessed name

imparts

Comfort to those who in the rave have sown

The seed that they have garnered in their hearts,

Their bread of life. slut no more their own.

Into its furrows shall we all be cast,

In the sure faith that we shall rise again

At the great. hu-vest. archangel! bloat

shall wlnnotw. like I. fun. the chaff and grain.

when the

Then shall the good stmd in im- mortal bloom .

In the fair gu-den: of that second bli-t

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If it. isn't. one thing to keep Anglo-American relations in I. state of uncertainty, it's another. Fbr some Dime now there has been a good deal of serious and hull-serious difference of oppln- ion flying back and forth be- tween London and Washington. scinietlmes stopping at. Ottawa. en- route. All very healthy, no doubt, and perfectly understand-able since

tries are going to see eye to eye on every little tzhlng that crops up from time to time. Or. on the big things either, for that matter.

Al. the sonic time we can be sure tho: the Conununist, leaders are watching every little disagree- ment as it comes up and chuck- ling over it. If they could only get. the British and the Americans into 9. really bitter family feud they might, in the resulting con- fusion, be able to get. on with their own game, whatever it is. without. too much interruption. They are not. the first. by my means. to try this strategy, It is in fact, one of the older diploma-

tic games in the history of mi- tions.

. . . We in the Englinh speaking

world like to believe filial: nothing could ever: dilvlde Britain and the Ukilted stataa or weaken Lhcir wills to resist. it need be. 8. com- mon foe. Common sense would seem to juaoify that belief. His- tory, however. which has not al- wnys run in common-sense grooves, given no actual guaran- tee that friendly nations will for ever remain that way.

I suppose it. could be mid, with- out carrying the analogy iarther than is aoemly. that two power: on much like two neighbours. so much give-imd-take. especially if they halppen to be on good terms generally, is alright. when it puns I certain point. and be- comes m'ut.u1ll.y inritutlnz there 1.! lilbely to be trouble. Nations, like individuals, ought. not to count too much on common aims and a more or tea ccunmon heritage.

. . It in no secret that Prime Min- ister Churchill's succutimi that no and Prasldient Eisenhower should sit down with Premier. Mnlenkov for heart. to heart talks was well received by the people of Britain regardless of party of- fililitzions. It in just. an obvious that most. people outside the United. States could not under- stand why the American authorit- lea felt. obliged to throw cold water on the proposal. Whether or not. it. would have done any good ll 1 question for which even sir Winston himself. iippa.i-ently, had no ready answer. It was the dramatic approach more than any-

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ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER

Now comes Premier Malenkovs iiiinouiicemem that the Soviet un. ion is ready to take part H, R Four-Power Conference on me Foreign Miiiist.ers' level. Britam and the United States have been it-ym; to at-mnge that kind at R iiieetiiig for some time. in tap. they sent. several notes to Moscow about. it. Out: would have thougm, that here was .1 subject on which the two countries would agree Mm n.lacrity.

But. not The first reports We”: any thing but encouraging. Am o:-.i:iing to Lite suutish powlm Oftice "Her B131:-SL315 (iovenm.,.,,L welcomes the acceptance of on proposal for E meeams wmch mC'

Western powers Lin a renewed several times." Aocordiing to Wasliingtoii officials "the State

Departmyelli. views the note as M, obvious effort to slow uown wash erii efforts to unite Europe",

There is more than an em, cahnce that the Amman, sum Department is coznr-ect. in 11,; ID, pi-aisal of Russia's lntenuom There are many thiiigsabout. ll-lei tinriing of the note that would in- dicate that. And we may be M,” that the British Government u no being hunibigged by my um word: tlh.o.t. are coming out M Altfosoow at this time. But. after. lull. If YOU have been trying W months to get. a fractious iieigh. bour to talk things over with you. and he finally comentn, you 4.3,” go around ascribing all '03-” .4 bad inotitiea to his belated gesture of co-operation. That. would ta. rudeness. Things might. even be . lot worse. But, at. least, you wm have had the satisfaction N K-DOWIHK that You kept. your good malnners. In ordinary Aoclsl re. lotions that is considered to 5. Lniportant. It cannot be leg ,0 in relations between natiom,

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elsewhere the Russian leadem hav been charging nu ugh; um Am flcan Government officials

do not wimt. to come to an under. standing wiuh Ruinia. This, or l'0l1P58. 18 Plain nonsense but Ha may be sun that hundreds of nillions of people in commum" dominated countries, u wen ,. other millions in countrleg whm, are. now on the Communist. Irina.-. believe every word of it. The seep. tlclmi which the State Depim. ment. is now expresnlm no n-"L.- will certainly provide Cammimiu leaders with H. ready-made excl... for shouting: "We told you so!" More serious than that is H); plain fact that on still mother issue the strength of Axulo-A. merican friendship to bang 9,,-M in a. somewhat. irritating mum..- and- or so it wpears. a little un- necessarily.

thing else which appealed to the British people.

Despite American criticism that the time wu not. ripe for it. to. criticism which no one could say was uiiiiiatifiedl it was hard to see how any great harm could have isued from a ineeting at the highest. level. l-Iowever. Md". Eisenhower md his advisers thought otherwise Ind, for the sake of peace in the fI.mlly. the matter was diiiein.-ed. one Illngiish newspaper commented editorially that "were Sir Winston ten years younger he would not have taken no for an answer."

Well,'on this view there will be differences of opinion among Sir Winston's admirers. Some will

is perhaps just as well that he in ten yenm older than he used to bo. Others will any that it in n real pitxy.

any that, all thvlnzgs considered, it ,1

For thus saith the created the In-nvena: God htmsplr that forI'Ile(l the mu-th iuui mull, It: he hath esitiililiniii-ti it, he ere- ntetl it not in vain, he. formed it to he inhnhitecl: I am the Lord:

Lord that

and there in none else. 1 how not: spoken in secret, in I dnrl. place of the earth: I said not im- to the need of Jiicoh, Seek ye ms in min: I the Lord spank right- eniiqneiis, I iicclziro things that are gilt.

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