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     THE GUARDIAN, 
     
    
   
   
    
     - Morning Dolly (Founded in 1881'». 
     
     " Authorized no Second Clue Moll. Post. Office 
     
     Department. Ottawa. 
     
    

    
     President. Inn A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. R- 
     
    

    
     luruett; SCCL-TICEL. G. M. Barnett; Editor and 
     
    

    
     thnaglng Director. J. B. Burnett: Associate Editor. 
     
     Frnhk WalkerJ ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than 
     
     the Weakest fnlr." 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHAALUTJTETOWN, FRIDAY, MARCH l2, 1918 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Scientific Approach 
     
    

    
     Many of the annual reports tabled in the 
     
     Legislature are now of less public interest than 
     
     formerly, before the changeover from Dec. 3i to 
     
     March 3i in the fiscal year took place. The 
     
     reports now are post history. Nevertheless they 
     
     contain much valuable information to those who 
     
     patiently go through them. Reference was made 
     
     in this connection recently to the report on _san- 
     
     itary Eonditions in suburban areas by the Deport- 
     
     ment of Reconstruction. Another example is 
     
     provided by the report of Dr. J. H. Show, director 
     
     of the laboratories division, which is contained 
     
     in the Public Health Department report tabled 
     
     this week in the Legislature. 
     
    

    
     In the early months of i946, as construction 
     
     neared completion in the new wing of the Pro- 
     
     vincial Sonotorium, Dr. Show explains, space 
     
     gradually became available for the new site for 
     
     the Division of Laboratories. In the planning for 
     
     reorganization it was decided that broader sor- 
     
     vices would be made available to further assist 
     
     in the control of communicable diseases; in 
     
     other words a laboratory of hygiene and sani- 
     
     tation, providing services similar to those obtain- 
     
     able in the other Provinces. It was further de- 
     
     cided, that as an aid to the hospitals and to 
     
     medical practitioners in general, laboratory 
     
     assistance in clinical diagnostic problems should 
     
     be made available. A third feature of this divis- 
     
     ion was to provide assistance to the Attorney 
     
     General’s department in medico-legal problems 
     
     in the investigation of crime. Also a provincial 
     
     analyst for the purpose of investigating contra- 
     
     band seized by the Prohibition enforcement 
     
     branch was required. 
     
    

    
     These five laboratories were to be estab- 
     
     lished, each with distinct types and methods of 
     
     investigation but all administered by one central 
     
     office. Early in the year, and before the space 
     
     became available, equipment was ordered and 
     
     plans made for operation. Although priority was 
     
     granted by the supply houses for the greater part 
     
     of the equipment, long delays in the arrival of 
     
     these necessary supplies prevented the full oper- 
     
     ation of some of the laboratories during the 
     
     entire year. 
     
    

    
     Another problem which impeded progress was 
     
     difficuly in finding adequately trained person- 
     
     nel. As no school for the training of laboratory 
     
     personnel had been previously established in this 
     
     Province, it was decided that such a school be 
     
     brought into being. Application was made to 
     
     the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technolog- 
     
     lsts, an affiliate of the Canadian Medical Assoc- 
     
     iation, for the establishment of such a school. 
     
     Permission was granted and trainees are now 
     
     receiving courses in training which extend over 
     
     a period of one year. 
     
    

    
     One of the first of the five laboratories to 
     
     Institute routine work was the serological labor- 
     
     atory, the main function of which is the exam- 
     
     ination of specimens of blood and cerebrospinol 
     
     fluid for indications of syphilitic infection. Con- 
     
     siderable work was also done in the bacteriolog- 
     
     ical laboratory where examinations were mode 
     
     in investigating cases of tuberculosis, typhoid 
     
     fever, diphtheria, gonorrhoea, undulent fever, 
     
     9ft: 
     
    
   
   
    
     _Emphasized in the report is the importance of 
     
     sanitary problems involving all of the milk sup- 
     
     ply, together with recommendations for their 
     
     solution, which were made by a group of trained 
     
     sanitation: from the National Department of 
     
     Health and Welfare. This report, tabled last 
     
     year in the Legislature, has clarified any sani- 
     
     tary problems which may exist regarding our 
     
     milk supply. The enactment and enforcement 
     
     of regulations, of course, is another matter, with 
     
     which this report does not attempt to deal. But 
     
     in itself it is an inspiring record of achievement, 
     
     and one hlglily [creditable to the Health Depart- 
     
     ment and to its capable laboratories division 
     
     dircstor, Dr. Shaw, 
     
    
   
   
    
     flee Prices Prohlen 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Worth more than o casual thought are the 
     
     following excerpts from the reported testimony 
     
     of_Mr. K. W. Taylor, chairman of the Wartime 
     
     ‘Prices and TradeBoard, before Special Parlia- 
     
     mentary Ccmmittee investigating price increases; 
     
    

    
     l. High prices today are not confined to 
     
     one country. They are a world-wide phenomenon. 
     
    

    
     2. TshO fact that some articles have doubled 
     
     in price does not necessarily mean that they are 
     
     being sold at excessive prices, 
     
    

    
     3. There is o world-wide scarcity of many 
     
    

    
     "commodities but present shortages and high 
     
     prices could turn very quickly into surpluses and 
     
     falling prices. 
     
    

    
     4. Money, of the internal domestic var- 
     
     lllY. is about the only thing of which no coun- 
     
     try in the world is short. The abundance of 
     
    

    
     ti" llimr "PPlY is merely the obverse of the 
     
    

    
     iljollortsngew of goods. l‘ 
     
    

    
     *7 . here there is a reater mane u 
     
    

    
     illthen the availablflgoods the solutioyi is, dnpsyll 
     
    

    
     ~ ponsicn of production. i=1‘ 
     
    

    
     .1 6. Had ‘tho government continujd its price 
     
    

    
     fillies retinal-i full effect o eonbfdoroblq rise 
     
    

    
     in prices would lievo hod to. be permitted. 
     
    

    
     - ‘ ‘7¢1n!,l~'","l|tll Ill“ Mfehi- in which prices 
     
    

    
     .. , "W"? flglilvlljoccordliig to up- 
     
    

    
     _y dhddlflfld ls es essential portot tho soc. 
     
     “on which Ceiledlonrplooo so mach store. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     -- fiDllURlAl NOTES - 
     
     One cause of inflation not generally recog- 
     
     nized is the great debt reduction program _ 
     
     the United States which has cut Federal in- 
     
     debtedness by 25 thousond million dollars since 
     
     i946. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Amherst is going about its anti-mosquito 
     
     drive the wrong way. The offer of a $5 reward 
     
     for the first child to bring in a mosquito,»"deod 
     
     or alive" is more likely to encourage some of 
     
     the youngsters to start breeding the pestswoth- 
     
     er than exterminotiiig ihem. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Island formers have long realized the ad- 
     
     vantage of quality as against mere quantity. Our 
     
     fishermen and packers are taking o lcuf out of 
     
     their book on how to supply the demand, not for 
     
     standard fish products, hut for high quality "lux- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ury" lines. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The members of the Diocesan Society and 
     
     the Women's Auxiliary of the Church of Eng- 
     
     land hove not had very pleasant weather to 
     
     spend at their annual gathering in the City, but 
     
     they have attended in large numbers, and thor- 
     
     oughly appreciate their visit with happy reunions. 
     
    

    
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     Construction of o marine slip here would 
     
     be a decided advantage to the city and to ship- 
     
     ping men. To be of benefit the slip must have 
     
     repair facilities and it would seem that the most 
     
     straightforward approach is to have it near the 
     
     present plant of Bruce Stewart and Co. Ltd. so 
     
     that men and equipment can be used for general 
     
     work when the slip is unoccupied. ' 
     
    

    
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     The call to the Rev. R. D. McLean, B.A., 
     
     Montague,by the church at Huntingdon, Quebec, 
     
     will create the first vacancy in the Presbytery 
     
     of Prince Edward Island in the current year, all 
     
     parishes having been reported supplied at a 
     
     recent meeting of that ecclesiastical body. Mr. 
     
     McLean will be a great loss not only to Mon- 
     
     tague but to the Presbytery, of which he is Mad- 
     
     erator for the present‘ yegr. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An American mission to Germany hos re- 
     
     vealed vast quontitics of scrap steel available 
     
     in that country and recommends measures to 
     
     acquire a portion of it for use of American 
     
     mills which are still desperately short of scrap. 
     
     The German owners, howcvcr, are reluctant to 
     
     part with the metal as they regard it as one 
     
     of Germany's few real assets. 
     
    

    
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     Most housewives get their ideas on what to 
     
     eot by reading the newspaper, Miss Jean Hend- 
     
     arson, public health official at Washington, told 
     
     the Dominion-Provincial Health Conference. 
     
     Chief of the United States Olficp of Health 
     
     Information, Miss Henderson reviewed a report 
     
     prepared by market research experts of the 
     
     United States Agriculture Department and based 
     
     on o survey of Richmond, Va., housewives. Ask- 
     
     ed their greotest source of information on foods, 
     
     56 per cent replied newspapers, and maga- 
     
     zines for ideas on new dishes to serve the fam- 
     
     ily ond advice on nutrition. 
     
    

    
     Politicians may change, but their ways seem 
     
     to remain unaltercible. lt may be recalled on 
     
     a memorable occasion in tlic Legislature, when 
     
     Senator McIntyre, then Minister of Public 
     
     Works, was asked to table all correspondence 
     
     regarding the ordering of $100,000 worth of road 
     
     machinery, his reply was "There was no corre- 
     
     spondence, the order was given by telephone." 
     
     Now history repeats itself. Premier Jones on- 
     
     nounces there is no correspondence to table in 
     
     connection with the taking over of the Canada 
     
     Packers plant and business, everything being 
     
     transacted by word of mouth. There is there- 
     
     fore no record for filing in view of any subse- 
     
     quent legal proceedings. 
     
    

    
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     The League of Nations collapsed (says Mr. 
     
     Sumner Wells, former U. S. Under-Secretary of 
     
     State) because the major powers then members 
     
     of the League supported the League only when 
     
     it suited their own cnds. They failed to sup- 
     
     port the League when it seemed that their 
     
     selfish interests might be prejudiced. We are 
     
     seeing exactly the some trend. The Palestine 
     
     question is a test cose. Should the United States 
     
     persist in its present blind inaction it will be 
     
     preparing the way for the failure of‘ the new 
     
     international organization. And if the United 
     
     Nations fails, the oyne hope humanity today 
     
     possesses for the rule of law rothcr than the rule 
     
     of force, for the freedom and progress of mon- 
     
     kind, and for the establishment of a peaceful 
     
     world order will vanish with it. 
     
    

    
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     Sun-Yat-Sen, or Sun Wen, Chinese states- 
     
     man, born i867 ‘and died this date i825. Hu- 
     
     manly speaking, the present situation in Chino 
     
     and Japan is largely the outcome of his states- 
     
     manship. After practising medicine for o short 
     
     time he become o member of the Young Chino 
     
     party and on active revolutionary whose main ob- 
     
     iect was to drive out foreigners and have Chins 
     
     for the Chinese. He took a prominent part in 
     
     the revolution of l9ll, and was elected provis- 
     
     ionol president of the new Republic, resigning 
     
     the following year in favour of Yuan Shih-Kai. 
     
     But he headed another revolt within a year, and 
     
     to escape arrest fled to Japan, which was fol- 
     
     lowed by trouble in Manchurio and .,Korea. Dur- 
     
     ing tho troubles of I917, Sun-Yot-Sen returned 
     
     to China and set up a military government at 
     
     Canton, declaring n state of war between North 
     
     and South which is still proceeding, notwith- 
     
     standing friendly foreign advice urging e basis 
     
     of settlement. For convenience sake, and slde 
     
     is declared Rod or Communist, and the'other 
     
     Nationalist or pro-Christian, but actually there 
     
     is little or any difference. between them except 
     
     politically. According to Time "the Reds’ suc- 
     
     cess has been dazzling. In a few months they 
     
     would be able to go wherever they wanted north 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Yangtze, end oven South Chine was 
     
     rostlve." 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     We like what. Io laid to be the 
     
     shortest sermon on record. It was 
     
     preached by Dean swift. The text. 
     
     was "He that hath pity upon tlie 
     
     poor leiideth unto the Lord; and 
     
     that. which lie hatli- given will llc 
     
     Pa)’ lllm liilslnf’ Tlie sermon pon- 
     
     sisbed 0f flwelve words: "Now, my 
     
     brethren, if you like the security: 
     
     clown with your money." -C:iuad- 
     
     laii Churchman, 
     
    
   
   
    
     J. Natallcio Gonzales rnn for the 
     
     presidency of Paraguay. He was 
     
     the Government candidate. The 
     
     bullet form. Prepared by the Gov- 
     
     ernment, carried only one name - 
     
     lils. Nu space was provided to wrlze 
     
     in e competing candidates name 
     
     Names appearing in other than the 
     
     proper spaces automatically voided 
     
     a ballot. J. Natallclo Gonzalez was 
     
     electrl. Thus triumphed democra- 
     
     Cy PHYRZ-Zuiunll style. -_ Victoria 
     
     Times. _ 
     
    
   
   
    
     "urine the um few u", the 
     
     notional flags of Estonia and Lith. 
     
     uanla. have flown from The Free 
     
     Pres-i bulldlllk- one course, os 
     
     the proper oecolon, the flag of 
     
     Latvia will Join Lliem. These flags 
     
     are bolus flown as n tribute to 
     
     three small nations which are a: 
     
     much the victims of aggression 
     
     as were the countries over-run by 
     
     Hitler and hls Nazis during the 
     
     war. They lost. their independence 
     
     as s result. of the infamous deal 
     
     betrween Stalin and Hitler in 1939. 
     
     -Winnlpeg Men Press. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The birthday of Abraham Lin- 
     
     coln. recently observed in the 
     
     United States, brought, out a short. 
     
     list of important. events in the life 
     
     of the famous man, which in 
     
     themselves tell o powerful story. 
     
     Here they are: 
     
    

    
     IBM-Failed in business. 
     
    

    
     mill-Defeated for Legislature, 
     
    

    
     lead-Failed In business agolu. 
     
     l835—Sweettiesrt died. 
     
     l836—Nervous breakdown. 
     
    

    
     IBM-Defeated for elector. 
     
    

    
     1840--Defeated for land office. 
     
    

    
     low-Defeated for Congress. 
     
    

    
     INS-Defeated for Senate. 
     
    

    
     l855—Defeat.ed for vlce-pfiesldeiit. 
     
    

    
     1360—Elected president of Urill- 
     
     cd States. _ Fort. William Times- 
     
     Journal. 
     
    

    
     There is a tendency to regard 
     
     even reasonably pure speech as an 
     
     affeetatlon. Another difficulty i: 
     
     the herd instinct which provides 
     
     calcliwords, usually senseless, and 
     
     always transient —not the change: 
     
     which come to ovlniiguage contin- 
     
     ually ln a state of flux, but omply. 
     
     more or less meaningless, phrases. 
     
     which for a time are on every 
     
     tongue. There seems to‘be no read, 
     
    
   
   
    
     cure for this condition, unless ii. 
     
     lies in teaching o respect: for the 
     
     mother tongue, and n (lesirc u. 
     
    
   
   
    
     kccip ll. us far as possible, airs. 
     
     without. descending bo Sbllbtrdlitu 
     
     in its pristine purity. Tlic funda- 
     
     mentals are fairly well taught 1.. 
     
     the lower grades of school. P - 
     
     liaps ll. ls ii problem with wing, 
     
     the high schools and Ilia collcgts 
     
     must deal. — (lllflbllflm tloixs. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A dentist. lias urged lilo col- 
     
     leagues lo use commercial sale; 
     
     technicians as a. method of encour- 
     
     aging patients to ziccepl; tic-iv 
     
     mrlcutlflc advances. Instead of 
     
     hulking to patients about demure: 
     
     (false teethr In technical terms, ‘re 
     
     said, dentists should refer to tliem 
     
    
   
   
    
     as "svrlnkle gciriovcrs" or "an lrl- 
     
     vesbmenl: in youllifulncss" of 
     
     “bloodless facellftiiig." Porcelain 
     
    
   
   
    
     jackets could be the “purchase of 
     
     is glamorous smile," lie wld the 
     
     mlciivinter meeting of the Chicago 
     
     Dental society. The dentist, Dr 
     
     Cecil H. Bliss of Sioux City, lows, 
     
     said the hardest 10b today ln den- 
     
     tistry is to get patients to ncee,t. 
     
     some of the newer developments 
     
     in the field. Tire fault, lie lnslsl- 
     
     ed, lies with the schools, failure t; 
     
     teach the dentist salesmanship. - 
     
     From Chicago Tribune. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Nero fancied n sort of sires-bet, 
     
     made of snow, honey and ffllll 
     
     pulp. Marco Polo returned from 
     
     the court of Kublal Khan wlili u 
     
     recipe for fruit Ices that. included 
     
     milk, which Catherine de Mldlil 
     
     later introduced iiilu France, and 
     
     from which French cooks develop- 
     
     ed something like lcc cream. Cniir- 
     
     lcs I of England tried to keep lil- 
     
     cookhs formula for ice crcnm is 
     
     royal secret, but less than ii cor‘.- 
     
     tury lutcr Gav. Blsdeii of Mar‘,- 
     
     land, served teem-cam uud stiiiiv- 
     
     berries in his guests. Gen. Georgi. 
     
     Washington had pcivtcr ice creari. 
     
     Puts at. Mount. Vernon, bought. liini- 
     
     self "a cream mnclilne for making 
     
     ice" in Philadelphia, and, wlici. 
     
     living in New York as pTESldCflb, 
     
     ln tlir, summer of I790. lie bought 
     
     himself about $200 worth of ice 
     
     cream from one denier. The ice 
     
     cream industry nus graduated lllld 
     
     the billion-dollar class and the 
     
     American people consumed, 1.". 
     
     i046. three billion quarts of it. - 
     
     Saturdny Evening Pool. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It costs £1,000 n year to run l 
     
     cor for u senior minister or offic- 
     
     ial. Whitehall is full of such ve.- 
     
     hloles today, whereas in 1089 the; 
     
     were very rare. It is notorious trial. 
     
     some members of the present Gov- 
     
     ernment move everywhere, even 
     
     to lunch in largo motor-cars. Sinus 
     
     January 1, 1047. the Government 
     
     have bought, 1.355 cars al, o cart 
     
     of £406,000. They have another 
     
     1.390 on order, to cost. £824,000. rlic 
     
     new curs are not for mfnlrpers but. 
     
     for Government officials. Bo rnucti 
     
     for the facts. Our first. comment 
     
     is that the dignity and well-being 
     
     of ministers must be maintained. 
     
     Also the sum involved ls small i: 
     
     relation to notlonsl ox disuse. 
     
     But there ls I point at which dig- 
     
     nlty becomes arrogance and com 
     
     fort becomes opulence. Our rulers 
     
     have displayed both of o time when 
     
     Britain can afford neither. ~lon 
     
    
   
   
    
     don may suit , 
     
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     PUBLIC torture 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘Ihll oolnlnn fl open to 
     
     the dloolnlon by corre- 
     
     A _;l a 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ir of . 
     
    

    
     inherent- ‘Ihe Charlottetown 
     
     Guardian (loco not neoeonr ' 
     
     ll; endorse the opinion ol 
     
     correspondent!- ' 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
     ruauc Accounts 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Sir, -- Interest on bonds in 5.1". 
     
     is n credit to the interest account 
     
     and a charge to cash when the 
     
     cash" ls received, directly or Indir- 
     
     eclly by coupon, and New Brune- 
     
     wiclc that, sold the bond to P.E.'I. 
     
     when it. pays for coupons will 
     
     charge interest and credit cash. 
     
    

    
     Oh, but. that. W55 a PJS-I. bond o!‘ 
     
     debenture in the slriklnz fund- A5 
     
     above, coupon or interest is a ci-edll. 
     
     to the interest (revenue) account. 
     
     and a charge to cash if the coupon 
     
     is handed over to someone and 
     
     cash received. Then "someone" 
     
     looks at. that coupon and says, 
     
     What, ls to be done with it? "Some- 
     
     one" goes to the treasury and gels 
     
     his money for the couipon and the 
     
     treasury says that ll expenditure, 
     
     for interest. The coupon ls pBld for. 
     
     Cash credited and interest (esc- 
     
     penditliel is charged. The Jollrhfl-T 
     
     entries would be cash to interest 
     
     (revenue). Interest (expenditure) to 
     
     cash. Now Just, leave cash out o! ll. 
     
     and what have you? 
     
    

    
     Interest, (expenditure) to inter- 
     
     est (revenue). Oh, that's all right, 
     
     just make one transaction of it. 
     
     put the coupon in the fire and nslc 
     
     yourself what. was done financially. 
     
     For bonds put out. or: sold, we are 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' liable for interest. (on expenditure). 
     
    
   
   
    
     The coupons that we took from 
     
     the 5F. are interest (revenue) and 
     
     credited to interest (revenue). Oh. 
     
     what e headache! This Sinking 
     
     Fund ls p, nuisance. If we ere mak- 
     
     ing B per cent. on some o; the 
     
     bonds therein we are paying 6 per 
     
     cent on tlie same bonds. 
     
     When-bonds come due and are 
     
     to be paid for, money cannot be got- 
     
     ten from 3.11‘, easier tlmn from 
     
     other places. Issue new bonds or 
     
     debentures when and for whet 
     
     needed. That Sinking Fund is only 
     
     a snake-believe, a nuisance, Throw 
     
     it: overboard. I don't assert that in- 
     
     terest on Sinking Fund is neither 
     
     o. debit or a credit. How does "An- 
     
     onymous" know that. bankers and 
     
     chartered accountants know differ- 
     
     ently from my conief-ilions? - 
     
     I don't, flunk that. the members 
     
     of the Government dictated or are 
     
     responsible for the manner in 
     
     which the accounts are put. up. We 
     
     llvc in a beautiful democratic 
     
     country and the great aim of our 
     
     rulers is the welfare of the people. 
     
     We respect and love our rulers when 
     
     we cmrpni-e our conditions with 
     
     the Cammuiiistic liell o1 eastern 
     
     Etirope, and if this accountancy ls 
     
     thrrshczi out to a solution the gov- 
     
     ci-rment will be only too glad to 
     
     make some (HIZIHQCS, 
     
     I zm, Sir eta, 
     
     ACCOUNTANT 
     
    
   
   
    
     HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM 
     
    

    
     $ll',——~/\D'r1l.lly in n changing ivorlil 
     
     is fatal to progress nnti present‘. 
     
     conditions rlu not, justify com- 
     
     placency over the past. recently 
     
     stated Co]. L. '1'. lsowitlier, Princi- 
     
     pal of Prime Street. School. 
     
    

    
     ‘hvo ncvv factors, he pointed ou‘... 
     
     confront, us lu the field of modern 
     
     education: (l) a highly complex 
     
     environment. This demands more 
     
     training for good citizenship than 
     
     we arc providing. Today the ac- 
     
     cepted standard for applicants io 
     
     business or industry ls n high 
     
     school education. 
     
    

    
     (2) Science has entered into our 
     
     dolly lives to such an extent that 
     
     without some scientific training is 
     
     boy or girl is greatly handicapped 
     
     throughout llfe. 
     
    

    
     Our school system caters only to 
     
     those who are academically mind- 
     
     ed and allows others gradually L0 
     
     drop out. of school. This needs in 
     
     be adjusted as people vary lti their 
     
     interests and aptiludes. Rather 
     
     than pointing with pride to the 
     
     few successes of the past, ll. b:- 
     
     hooves us to consider the many 
     
     who fell by the way and hail to 
     
     g0 through life untrained end par- 
     
     tially undeveloped. 
     
    

    
     0n every hand the evidence is 
     
     piling up to demonstrate the need 
     
     for a more varied high school 
     
     curriculum -- one possible only ‘ii 
     
     the regional c-om-poslte lilgh school 
     
     recommended. 
     
    

    
     During the war ll. bccurne pain- 
     
     fully apparent. that the product of 
     
     our Island schools could not take 
     
     the courses lu qualify for proniov 
     
     lions to Wlllllll their natural liuall- 
     
     tics of leadership entitled them. 
     
    

    
     Industrial leaders iiaw tell uu 
     
     that. our mm i-aiiiiot. be trained 
     
     for positions available right hero 
     
     in Charlottetown because their 
     
     educational background is lnadc- 
     
     quiite. 
     
    

    
     Our agricultural experts are tell- 
     
     ing us that. soil management. has 
     
     been faulty in the past. and that 
     
     the fertility of our forms ls threat- 
     
     ened. Does this not; suggest a necrl 
     
     for some training In scientific agri- 
     
     culture? - 
     
    

    
     This ldee of broadening .t.lie 
     
     high school curriculum is not a 
     
     turning away from the traditional 
     
     emphasis on the humanities u 
     
     the best basis for the dev ‘opmeui. 
     
     of culture and morality. It sim- 
     
     ply means that. for those who have 
     
     not the interest in, nor the apti- 
     
     tude for s classical education, some 
     
     more practical courses must be 
     
     added in order to maintain thclr 
     
     interest in school and provide 
     
     them with the scientific basis fo: 
     
     the technical training they will lai- 
     
     er require. 
     
    

    
     Finally, this school is not for 
     
     those who seek to do owoy wttu 
     
     discipline and hard work, (for no 
     
     .new type of school, no better- 
     
     trolned tea ‘ . no broader cur- 
     
     riculum will mske the ‘acquisition 
     
     of on education on easy or rnpla 
     
     business) but thoee who are learn- 
     
     fng the leuon that. any worth 
     
    
   
   
    
     while thing in life must. be psia 
     
     f0!‘ ll OD! II)’ OI‘ llfilvhll‘. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tithe grout austerity of our boys 
     
     and girls m willing to poy one 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I Lenten Meditations 
     
     (From The Timed) - 
     
    
   
   
    
     mrrorinw‘ snnvso: 
     
    
   
   
    
     By common consent. to dle "on 
     
     ootlve service" is to dle honour- 
     
     ably. To win u responsible. poul- 
     
     tlon in the Foreign or Colonial 
     
     Service Ls considered n matter for 
     
     congratulation. To be a Minister, 
     
     or servant, of the crown ls. in the 
     
     old phrase, “right honourable." 
     
    

    
     In other contexts, the word ser- 
     
     vice has e leseyhnsspy connotation. 
     
     Domestic service is thought t4: 
     
     sound more attractive when ath- 
     
     crx". I: described. "Betvitude" and, 
     
     "sei-villty" have o. bad sense. in- 
     
     dicating o. crlnging, slave-like re- 
     
     latlonshlp to is dominating master. 
     
    

    
     Why is some service considered 
     
     laudable, some. servlle? Apparently 
     
     men thought service honourable 
     
     when given to l. cause pt n. person 
     
     great enough to merit whole-heart- 
     
     ecl devotion, the full exertion of 
     
     one's powers, and if necessary the 
     
     making of any sacrifice. If, how- 
     
     evcr, the servant's free activity 
     
     ivas altogether restricted, the ser- 
     
     vice rendered of necessity. and 
     
     spontaneous loyalty sQPlBOBd by 
     
     fear or flattery, service had ceas- 
     
     cd to‘ be laudable; it. lied become 
     
     servlllty. 
     
    

    
     God gives to "his faithful peo- 
     
     ple" ability to render laudable 
     
     service euggesllng that. service to 
     
     God, like human service, depends 
     
     on faith. Every true servant. — 
     
     Cabinet Minister or errand boy-- 
     
     must. have faith in his employer. 
     
     faith in the value of his work. The 
     
     servant or! God must have faith 
     
     1n the Cvod he serves. 
     
    

    
     Christianity lies its own inter- 
     
     pretations of service. Where the 
     
     English Bible uses the one word 
     
     service the Greek Testament. uses 
     
     various wards, each expresslnl I 
     
     different shade of meaning. 
     
    

    
     Not all these words had hon- 
     
     ourable associations in the ancient 
     
     world, but all come to be use-l 
     
     honour-ably in the Christian 
     
     Church. This was due to Jesus 
     
     Christ. He claimed to llve "u on: 
     
     that serveth." He taught those who 
     
     aspired to be great to be "servant-l 
     
     of isl .” 
     
    

    
     The lpltll. of service is always 
     
     needed, but. ft. is urgently neces- 
     
     sary today, at every level of na- 
     
     tional life, if we are to win n 
     
     worthy position in the post-war 
     
     world and preserve the dignity and 
     
     happiness of her social life. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     price in study and concentration. 
     
     and for them n Composite High 
     
     School in Charlottetown ls long 
     
     over clue. 
     
     We are sir. etc, 
     
     THE SCHOOL IMPROVE- 
     
     MENT LEAGUE. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     "EDUCATION" IN ALCOHOL 
     
    
   
   
    
     SU,—AS the liquor question is o.- 
     
     gall] under review, it. is well w 
     
     conslclcr the tactics that. are bang 
     
     employed u; perpetuate the traffic. 
     
     One is the plea for rnodcrabe 
     
     drinking; it has its effect Elli! 
     
     there are others as you know and 
     
     conditions in our Province are uct 
     
     as we Wullld like them to be but 
     
     we shudder when we read in the 
     
     Guardian. Jan. 26th.. \vtiul. Ls g0- 
     
     lng on in British Columbia iviiere 
     
     the Government. is financing 
     
     schools to give whet they call ol- 
     
     coliol education. These schools Lo 
     
     be opened at the beginning of the 
     
     next school year in September, o 
     
     regular course in alcohol ecluca 
     
     iloii will be offered w ell lush 
     
     school students. 
     
    

    
     This was announced by Eddcs- 
     
     Lion Minister W. T. S. Sbraith. 
     
    
   
   
    
     K. C. under whose direction the‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     program, the first of its kind lri 
     
     Canada, is being formulated. Mr 
     
     Stralth also ‘announced that a 
     
     mes-ting to svhlcli representatives 
     
     of brewers, distillery, service dubs. 
     
     temperance groups. educationlsts, 
     
     and any others who wished to el- 
     
     tend would be invited. would bJ 
     
     held in Victoria on the afternoon 
     
     of Sunday. Fob. 8. The meeting 
     
     slmllut to one held last year in 
     
     Vancouver, will be held in the 
     
     Empress Hotel ballroom.- 
     
    

    
     The Education Minister mode it 
     
     clear that, the Province was adopt.- 
     
     liig the position that It. was neith- 
     
     er prohibitlonlst, nor a promoter o! 
     
     the use of alcohol in the course. 
     
     Basic principles of the program 
     
     were that. the use of alcoholic bev- 
     
     cragcs by society has existed fur 
     
     more titan a thousand years. 
     
    

    
     In answer to such an assertion 
     
     1 would say it. is a wicked claim 
     
     to make for the Justification ol 
     
     sucli an evil as the liquor traffic 
     
     Bin is older than a thousand your: 
     
     and time don't lustlfy f-m- T “'35 
     
     in hopes that. someone _m0l'8 cup-V 
     
     able than I would have take: 
     
     this up when it appeared in the 
     
     Guardian. January 26th. and no. 
     
     allow. MlCll a irienlsce to lie unchar- 
     
     lengeri before us. We don't. ivnnf. 
     
     education in alcohol taught to our 
     
     boys and girls to enable them to 
     
     drink alcoholic liquor either m 
     
     moderation or excess. _ 
     
    

    
     You will notice that to til-la 
     
     meeting which they were to ha"! 
     
     on the stir. of Febi-uisfy the first 
     
     that. were to be invited were the 
     
     brewers and disilllers, now their 
     
     interest and purpose is not. to save 
     
     our boys and air-ls from the M116 
     
     This matter was supflllfl! l0 i“ 
     
     Guordlsn by Matilde B. Ross, 
     
     Burden Apartments, Victoria. 6- 
     
     and onye "I hove an interest. in 
     
     my fellow Provinolsls and desire 
     
     to have thorn 'use oil things with 
     
     moderation." Poor thlfll ll l" l‘ 
     
     ginger-Q we pity hes- but we don't 
     
     want. her hen. 
     
    
   
   
    
     si w. 
     
     I m? r’ e ' TIITOTALEB 
     
    
   
   
    
     ________ 
     
     HARD-BEADED — noon - 
     
    
   
   
    
     coucsml, Booth Africa - (OW 
     
     _. A fruit farmer stood wstchlni: 
     
     e native employee lillh l" l IP17" 
     
     tree picking fruit. Suddenly o 
     
     branch snapped end the worker 
     
     piumemd to (no. ground. “rm 
     
     tumor noted u lie was hurt. " o,” 
     
     sold the Ipbllll’ "! was lue . f 
     
     fell on my hes-i!‘ ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     HowTo Dig Oil 
     
     Wells On Other 
     
     . Peoples’ Money 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     (Kingston Wl-ilg-stsndnrd) 
     
    

    
     We came across o awry recent.- 
     
     ly about. s Texas oil man who 
     
     needed funds to drill o well, He 
     
     proceeded, to advertise for 
     
     thousand investors with $100 eacrr. 
     
     He guaranteed‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     one - Trust not the 
     
     all 
     
    
   
   
    
     5A4 "i!- 
     
     ‘i... 
     
    
   
   
    
     "=1.- - 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
     f’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     WARNQG 
     
     1168b; ill we)“ m 
     
    
   
   
    
     unconditionally T0 15989 s lovely thing yo, 10"‘, 
     
    
   
   
    
     that. they would get their original 39¢’! what whose CODY-hum w, 
     
    
   
   
    
     mvestment back in ten years, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     if the well became an all pro- 3°11" "l6 hell-PW riches in; 
     
     ducer they would, ad course, shore A VH5“- °Y ""3311!!! M. oll 
     
    
   
   
    
     In whatever profits were mode. 
     
     Before very long. the oil nfan 
     
    
   
   
    
     had received $100,000 through the‘. 
     
    
   
   
    
     not; fall; 
     
     m8. 
     
    
   
   
    
     That owns the spirit’; hum“ 
     
     For flesh is weak its - 
     
     fall, ' "m" “Y 
     
    
   
   
    
     mails --nncl this attracted the ut- And l" W! "soled to roe-sou 
     
    
   
   
    
     tentlon of the United States pos- 
     
     isl authorities. They (lion's like 
     
     the set-lip, and they 
     
     launched nu investigation. 
     
     According to the story. they gave 
     
     the oil man e clean bill ot opera- 
     
    
   
   
    
     quietly Alid you 
     
    
   
   
    
     l 
     
    
   
   
    
     Vlllll be as last or broken t, 
     
     So capture beauty with g my,“ 
     
     will see 1t h ’ 
     
     wings s p 0cm!‘ 
     
     Rise brig-Billy from the shard, d 
     
     ‘Plane. 
     
    
   
   
    
     tlorui. As soon as he receive/l $100 __pau1|ne Haven-L m rywmto at 
     
    
   
   
    
     from an, investor. he sent. in re- 
     
     turn s. U. S. War Bond of the 
     
     some denomination, which would 
     
     mature iii ten years at. the face 
     
     value. Since he could purchase 
     
     these bonus for s75 each, he liad 
     
     $15,000 in cash left over. and he 
     
     proceeded with the business of 
     
     drilling his well. 
     
    

    
     We'd be inclined to dismiss the 
     
     story as a rather amusing exam- 
     
     ple of human ingenuity —if it 
     
     were not for the fact, that we 
     
     lsenrd something almost too much 
     
    
   
   
    
     like ll before. It was back ln the. 
     
     ‘valor will at every step have N. 
     
    
   
   
    
     days when Canada was climbing 
     
     out. of the depression of the early 
     
     ‘thirties. and the scene of the 
     
     tale was British Columbia. 
     
    

    
     It concerned two young mining 
     
     men, and they operated in the 
     
     million-dollar bracket. They g ar- 
     
     arileed that. ninety-five percent. of 
     
     awry dollar subscribed for shares 
     
     would be repaid. in five years, 
     
     naming a bank or trust company 
     
     as n. backer. The other five per 
     
     cent. would be spent on develop- 
     
     ment, and if gold or what-not 
     
     was found, everybody who invest- 
     
     ed would moke n neat. profit. 
     
    

    
     The schedule was followed so 
     
     the letter, according to the story. 
     
     At the end of five years, devel- 
     
     opment hisd uncovered little or 
     
     nothing. The investors got. their 
     
     ninety-five percent. back _ and 
     
     the two ingenious young men 
     
     walked off-evith the accrued inter- 
     
     eet for five years on $950,000. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Our Chance 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Public Opinion) 
     
    

    
     Perhaps the Liberals were too 
     
     clever for their own good last. 
     
     your when they railroisded the Re- 
     
     distribution. Act through Parlia- 
     
     ment, gerrymandering the cou- 
     
     stltuencies of many leading Pro- 
     
     gressive Conservatives and ridding 
     
     eight. seals lo whnl. they tliouglto 
     
     was, solidly Liberal Quebec. 
     
    

    
     The evidence is piling up that. 
     
     the gerrymandering did them-lit.- 
     
     Lle good. because 1t was so obvious 
     
     that. it. aroused the resentment. of 
     
     voters of all political pnrtlcs who 
     
     were transferred without. legitim- 
     
     alo btiuso from one riding to an- 
     
     oLlier-and Quebec does not look 
     
     at. all solidly Liberal any moi-c. 
     
    

    
     ‘Fhere is deep iuid profound dis- 
     
     sails-friction in that, province Wll-ll 
     
     the Liberal administration fedor- 
     
     islly. Provincially it has received 
     
     such o. beating that it. ls doubtful 
     
     wlietlier it. will return to power 
     
     in this generation. 
     
    

    
     Liberals have lost. strength ilicro 
     
     and rite continuing lo lose ll. rlny 
     
     by day. For t-lie French-speaking 
     
     Canadians have realized that. the 
     
     Liberals preach free enterprise and 
     
     practise restriction and regiment- 
     
     atlon; that. they preach national 
     
     unity-arid have retained Lham- 
     
     selves 1n ‘power only by emphasiz- 
     
     ing racial and, religious differen- 
     
     ces. They are sick of hypocrisy. 
     
    

    
     Even tlso choice of Rt. Hon. 
     
     Louis St. Laurent as the next. Lib- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘effil leader will not, continue to 
     
    
   
   
    
     hold that province for Llicm. In 
     
     this very issue tlicre ls e report of 
     
     revolt against. Lhe Liberals even in 
     
     Mr. st. Laurentfs seat of Quebec 
     
     East. itself-the riding flint seiil. 
     
     Sit Wilfrid Laurler and Rt. Hon. 
     
     Ernest Lopolnte to Parliament. 
     
     On the other li-end the Progres- 
     
     sive Conservative ilcle is running 
     
     strongly in Ontario and ll. is a 
     
     certainty that at. Lhe next, general 
     
     election many of the 34 Liberals 
     
     from Ontario will lose their seat-s 
     
     to Progressive Coriservativcs. 
     
     Strength ls slipping from the 
     
     Liberals. who cannot. afford lo 
     
     lose any seats uiiyivlierc. Thur. 
     
     strength ls draining away because 
     
     tlic Liberal administration ls tlrcd. 
     
     lacking lii courage rind lll vlslon. 
     
     Its only chance of maintaining ll.- 
     
     s-clf iii power is if ll. mini-ties the 
     
    
   
   
    
     lillcklos 
     
    
   
   
    
     urday Nlghh 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     '<KR">C7L'%‘3\Q\JQ\. 
     
     Old Charlottetown 
     
     " (And r. I. I.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     FARMING POSSIBIIJTIB. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ibis much to be regretted (m; u 
     
     few of the inhabitants come hers 
     
     from countries where agriculture 
     
     is understood; an intelligent cultl. 
     
    
   
   
    
     cuslon to remurlc how much man 
     
     might. have been done by (he sum 
     
     number of people had they been 
     
     acquainted with husbandry n y; y. 
     
     practiced ln England. When I slats 
     
     that not one farmer in twenty, 
     
    
   
   
    
     lever thinks of either raising q- 
     
    
   
   
    
     purchiisfng grass seed of any k1n¢ 
     
     my readers will be able to m“, 
     
     ceive how little our coil is indebted 
     
     to our present system of manage. 
     
     merit. At. present I firmly believe 
     
     that the shrnple alteration of every 
     
     farmer in the Island seeding pm. 
     
     perly such land es he lets out n» 
     
     EH58. would have the effect 1n e 
     
     V"? 10W Fears of doubling the 
     
     quantity of agricultural produce of 
     
     every kind. Indeed the conduct of 
     
     our rural affairs in most respecu 1| 
     
     extremely defective; there are fern 
     
     cultlvators among u; who theorize, 
     
     and still fewer who read; peg 
     
     RBTlCIIlh-"e 1!. Ind must. lung con- 
     
     tinue to lie the chlef pursuit at 
     
     thcvlnhabltants of this Island l: 
     
     1-1103’ attend to their true Interest. 
     
     Every tree which ls cut. down in 
     
     the forest opens to the sun e new 
     
     Sim o! earth. which, with culllv- 
     
     ation, will produce 1eed yo, m" 
     
     and beast: sis the country became; 
     
     more and more clear, pflglufp y” 
     
     cattle will increase, and ti" 
     
     T-‘llllllllre of our stocks will cnalrlo 
     
     U5 to ciirlcli our lands, and extend 
     
     our cultivation. It. is impossible t4 
     
     conceive what quantities may bi 
     
     produced of beef, pork, mutton, bee. 
     
     l" DOUIT/TY. Wheat. barley. oats end 
     
     pause, articles which, from on; 
     
     maritime sitllulloii and llll.‘ would 
     
     of uur sic-iglilrnuvs, will always; (ind 
     
     a ready and profitable market. 
     
    

    
     ——Fi'uu1 an Account, a! Prime. 
     
     Edward Island, arc, by John 
     
     Stewart, Esq, 1306. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CIJJ". nflrr the next election. 
     
    

    
     'l'l'lC C.C.F., with its hall-baked 
     
     Socialism and lbs Communist. allies 
     
     who vlll be pushing the party 
     
     furthoi- nnzl further to llie lefh 
     
     suiricis no chance whatever of 
     
     forming a government. It. liasorily 
     
     2-‘l member's new, 18 of them com- 
     
     lilg from Saskatchewan, when 
     
     Canada's only Socialist govern- 
     
     ment has already disgusted so 
     
     many voters chnirit. is certain 
     
     there will be grove casualties 
     
     among the federal representatives 
     
     of the party. 
     
    

    
     The Progressive 
     
     Party offers bald leadership fei- 
     
     the future. Ill; offers the only prec- 
     
     tlcal leadership that. will maintain 
     
     the rights of individual enterprise 
     
     without. taint. of Soclnllsm or 
     
     Corruriiiinism. 
     
    

    
     It stands the best chalice of 
     
     forming the next government-Al 
     
     we all gel out and ilrorlc for ll! 
     
    
   
   
    
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     "Those lob: offered In tho Guardian Wont Ads sound so fl 
     
    
   
   
    
     trective -- it gives me the creeps!" 
     
    
   
   
    
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