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CJIABLOTTETOWN. I"Rl.”DAY. MAY is, loo: Tito Grows Troublesome

Time was not so many months ago when it was fashionable to talk in glowing terms of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia as one of the bulwarks of the west against the threat of Soviet imperialism. The fact that Tito was himself .a Communist of deep- est dye seemed to matter not at all. The whole love fest with Yugoslavia is singular-

ly reminiscent of the days when the un-'

comfortable proximity of Herr Hitler en- abled people to conjure up the ruthless dic- tator of Russia in the benign garb of 'Uncle Joe".

The trouble with Tito, it seems, is that lie is being downright nasty about the lit- tle matter of Trieste. ' Trieste, it will be recalled. is one of those political anachron- isms which occur after every major war. Formerly an Italian city, Trieste "for stra- tegic considerations is now an international anomaly governed zonally by the British, the Americans and the Yugoslavs. Cause of the fuss is the Anglo-American proposal to let Italy have a share in governing their zone of" the city. -

Neither London nor Washington is particularly anxious to have the Italians give them a helping hand in Trieste. The whole move is a political one designed to give a much-needed fillip to the de Gaspari regime in Italy in the face of the forthcom- ing general election. The Yugoslavs, whose dislike of the Italians is based on nothing so recent as Communism or Fascism, but has its roots deep in the historic feuds of the Adriatic area, say that if Italy takes. a hand in the administration of Trieste, there will be trouble.

It looks as if Trieste presents the sort of diplomatic dilemma for which there is no ready-made solution. Everything de- pends on time-and Tito.

criminal code Revision

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llt. is not clear from reports of the pro-'

posed legislation amending the Criminal Code whether common law offences are to be discarded or not. The present Criminal Code of Canada is not a complete catalogue of offences in this country. Many statutes, Federal and Provincial, carry penal provis- ions and could well form part of the crim- inal law.

In addition there has always been the body of the common law to fall back upon. The common law is at the same time the most ancient and most modern parts of Canada's criminal law. Statutes do not have the same capacity for development and change which we are accustomed ' to from the common law. Prosecutors have from time to time been able to extend common law principles to cover modern situations but a statute remains always what it was, perhaps because it is always simple to go back to the exact words in which it is expressed.

Worse In Australia

From the figures made public in Sask- atchewan it is evident that the total num- ber of cattle destroyed or immediately to be slaughtered for foot and mouth disease, is less than 1,800 head. Other outbreaks, notes the Winnipeg Free Press, would oc- casion little surprise but it cannot be said that the disease is out of control. The sit- uation is, of course. serious and the tempor- sry loss of the U. S. market, or much of it, s discouraging setback to prairie cattlemen. But by past standards this is certainly much less than the catastrophe'which might be imagined from some alarmist talk.

Prior to 1937 the cattle population of Saskatchewan had been rising steadily but

between 1937 and 1938 it dropped by 350.-

300 head. The drought which destroyed the food supply and forced this wholesale slaughter was a real disaster. Even if to- day's prospective loss should double, there is a big difference between 3.600 and 350,- 000 "attic.

Aumufm reports make it clear that ranclieri down under are now facing sim- ltiil:-gj tions to those which prevailed in in 1937 with losses appar-

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another 200,000 are dying and another mil- lion will die unless heavy rains fall soon- and in 60 years, only four times has this happened after early April.

"Most of the calves dropped since Oc- tober are dead and the rest can't live with- -out rain. There will be no heifers for breeding next year and therefore no beef for markets at home or abroad until the areas are restocked. There have been

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in heifers and in calves that in three years would have been prime bullocks."

Last year Australian beef exports were worth 518 millions in sterling credits. For next year, the hope of this remunerative trade has gone. It is highly unlikely that the British will get any beef under the terms of their agreement with Australia which probably'means that Britain of nec- essity will be back in the open market.

EDITORIAL NOIES

Soult, devoted favourite of Napoleon, was defeated at Albuera, Spain, this date 1811. He had surprised and outinanoeuvred an Anglo-Spanish. force under Beresford but the day was saved by British infantry.

Our smart Sea Cadet Corps made a favourable impression on inspecting officer Admiral Bidweli, who emphasized the maxim that "basic training is the most im- portant part of a seaman's life," and the Cadets were getting that here.

Canada's non-farm weekly pay average of 5:53.19 looks rather good to the farmer. If he had the same average earnings and a reasonable profit on his investment and operation there would be few indeed to complain.

O O I

Festive Week promises to be a great reunion of Islanders, despite being reduced to the period of a long week-end. The end of June and beginning of July should see nature at its best as well as being made attractive by the entcl'pl'ise of local spon- sors.

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Senatorial complaint about the high cost of government delegations must appeal to most people in a position to compare the outcome of such delegations. It is so easy to run up bills travelling, guzzling, talking and passing resolutions, and in the long lun having nothing concrete to show for it.

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The Presbyterian student choir, here this week, visited the Experimental Station an Supt. Parent showed the members around just as he did Princess Elizabeth, and they were very favourably impressed. As not a few of these students will be lo- cated in country parishes the experience should be a distinct advantage to them.

The managing editors who gather in Winnipeg today are the individuals who have the greatest part in determining what shall be in the daily papers and how it shall be presented. They will undoubtedly discuss many problems of newspaper pro- duction but the meetings wiiivbe also a well-earned holiday and treated as such by the members.

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For a long time QUCIJECJIES eyed large parts of Labrador and nsidered that they should be within her own boundaries. Now a 200-year-old globe has turned up at The Pas, Manitoba, showing Labrador to be far more extensive than even its pre- sent size. Newfoundland may well be con- sidering taking over large sections of the older Province.

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What is good for Ontario cheese mak- crs should be good for Islanders, so Agri- culture Minister Gardiner's announcement of a floor for cheese should apply all round. The shutting off of the British market for our export business warrants the Govern- ment paying the difference between the domestic market prices and that of export by way of a special subsidy. The alterna- tive would be the closing down of not a few cheese-factories, which is not a pleas- ant prospect. ' ,

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Senator J. A. McDonald is pressing for an investigation into the price spread in food costs. He argues (says the Gazette) that the Canadian farmer isn't getting V a very big slice of the high price which the consumer is paying. For the raw material going into a tin of canned tomatoes for which the housewife pays 25 to 27 cents.

only 3 3x4 cents. From an 18-cent tin of tomato juice, the farmer draws 1 N4

the consumer pays 14 cents, the farmer dc- consumers and produoci-s.iSena,tor Monon- lnquiry: Particularly if the probe oztunlned

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of lntcrost. The Guardian does not necessar- ily cndorsc the opinion of correspondents.

EDUCATION

Sir,-So much is written and talked of today about our educa- tional systcm, that one wonders just how much progress has been milde. shall we say. in the last ten years. I should like a better understsrldlng of some things. In the first place. what is the value of a School Unit. such as they have in the suburbs of Charlotte- town and surrounding districts? Has it lessened the number of teachers employed? Has it given children of one room schools any greater advantage? As I under- stood, tbe object. in view is, or was. to get better teachers for higher grades and give teachers it better chance in primary or junior grades. No teacher can do justice either to herself or the children when they range from primary to Grade X, with maybe forty children.

Then again. is it. fair to our children to place in any school any person just. leaving Grade XI work (or sometimes Grade x work) without. any training? To me they are only children them- selves. not knowing even how to d t " themselves and maybe only in their second year from being under discipline in their own homes.,z

We go from one extreme to the

J. Notes

Lou thln 50 years ago, the beau. tlfully landscaped Legislative Building grounds were the sum- mer range for Robert sinton's herd of 100 -pedigreed I-Iercfoods. which he sold for sioo each when he disposed of the land to the renltors who in turn sold it to the government for its present pur- pose. Robert slnton. Regina's old- eat pioneer. now in his ninety- clghth year, is justly hooui-ed by otockbreedei-at associations and all interested parties for what he did, and for his forethought in getting capital into this part of the coun- try in the first place, and for rais- ing thc standards ever afterwards. -Regina Leader-Post. '

Cuffs on trousers long have been I feature of men's apparel. What utility they serve. other than to catch dust, is not. easily apparent. During World War 11. under the guise of saving material. they were abolished. It. is doubtful if this MV- ed much cloth. if any, as most. ready-made trousers had to have ll blt. uimmed off to make them the proper length in any event. Where and when did the idea of cuffs on trousers originate? One theory is that late in the last century youths at Oxford University were found to be turning the ends of their trousers up. Another is that it. start- ed at. Eton. It was doubtless done just. as 3. fed, but we suppose most fashions started as fads. whoever originated the fad certainly accom- plished something. Suoeeedng gen- eration: of men, in their many

other. We engage teachers who have been out of the , for years and'who in bygone days

had only what was then called a third class license or a few months at. P. W. C., and in view of the teacher shortage are given A two weeks' course of training in Char- lottetown. Does thh make for qualified teachers. I should like to know? Hon. Mr. Darby may be right. in many things, but I wonder if ever he would have been so successful if conditions in his home were as they are in general today? were his parents not. much more inter- cstcd in both home and children and made sure that work given them by the teacher was learned and ready for the following day? We may blame the teacher to A certain extent. but the biggest factor in a successful child's life in school is the interest. and co-oper- ation of parent and teacher. The home life has gone in so many instances, and many are only home to sleep. and that only for a few hours after midnight! I am 1 parent and I feel that nothing is so important. as the eiirly years of our children, and respect for our teachers in the homes. There should be less oom- plullitng about them before our children. (No child is an angel). It seems to me the time has come for something to be done. Composite high schools did not mstcrisliui and for that reason we should now have enilrled schools in many centres. taking care of the higher grades and giving all, teacher. primary pupils and oth- ers. I fair chance. If this could be done. eventually the first mon- tloned school might come into ox- lstenoe and would ehcourllo many to qualify and stay in the pro- fession. ilhulgtuwn iswslxudy bet-Mr Git we i-hm "I'll school. so why not bolas-go some such control. teaching up to and fncludlnc Grade 1!. thus making ready students for P.W.O.'l , True roads and travelling ooh-

Senator McDonald says the farmer gets mm

cents. For ii pound of rolled outs for which may

livers the raw materials for 2.66 cents. Both and

the prlcetsllcu tslvenlby wholesalers, retail- hel-Isndothermiddlenien. .1. ... ,-

Books Received

LION IN THE CELLAR by P1- mela Branch (Hale, f.nndon-Ryer- son. Toronto 224 pp. 33.36). All Bukie's family were charming and murderers, sukle herself irrespons- ible and subject to lapses of mem- ory. when she found herself stand- ing over in gentleman who had been murdered with an axe. sukle decidcd to ' ', to - herself. The result is, to My the least, as-

toriishlng.

SHOULD WE ALL THINK ALIKET by W. P. Percival. M. A.. Ph, D.. LLD. (Gaze. Toronto 1-1! pp. 01.26). In this third series of Qunnce lectures the Director of Protestant liducqtlon and Deputy Minis of Education for Quebec einmf es the differences between education in French walking and English speaking Canada. Educa- tion in the great national states had tended to become It-Indlltilh ed. Dr. Percival sees the diversity of culture in this country as s sov- ing grace which protect: education from being used to pl'omotA.lnel-o- iy national interests.

ANTONIA by Judith F-on (Rich and coho, London - nyerson, Toronto 20! pp. am). when shel- ls Muyhew learned that her cousin Antonia had died in a car amuh. her thoughts wont. to David. who had been driving his wife when the on skidded. For him and t.on-yesr- old Jenifer thore was only one another for comfort and shells at first suspected that Jenifer was be- lug made bitterly resentful of her father by-Antonin mother. Sheila. however. was led into dsnurous and strum company before

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millions and in most parts of the world sllivlshly succumed to ft.so much so that to wear cuffless trous- ers now would mark one u on oc- centrlc. Why it should be eccentric we wouldn't know, except that it would be : counts to I fad that became s. fashion. - Windsor Dally sm.

These fake convertibles that have more or less taken the country by storm may start. a trend which may prove disastrous .fn the long run. After all. if automobile manufact- urers csn sell the public cars which look like convertibles but which Eren't. why can't the manufacturers of other goods try the same mint? As a matter of f ' t, some of them already do. Jewe y. for instance. is often made to appear for more xpenslve than it is. and so are fur coats. None of them; however. are as big as a convertible. We don't obltct. to fake convertibles, mind you. We u. mind , one ounelf. Nevertheless we stul won- dcr whether the fad is going to be catching. Are we going to have frlsldnl . for example. which in in reality stoves? And will we soon be seeing toothbrushes which look like tooth to tubes? This is com- pletely r culous. we'll sdmllx but, all the same. you never can can what. u. manufacturer will do once he gets a bright idea. - Lethbrldle Herald. -

while males have become viiorc prominent in the food, mark, it is doubtful that they ever will devel- op the enthusiasm for the Job which has become .chlii-scterlstlc of women shoppers. To most males ”opping is a. chore to be complet- ed as speedily as possible. Brows- ing and close scrutiny of countless items for which there neither is need not I desire holds no fascina- tion for them. if it. serves no other good purpose. the increasing influx of males into food markets should result. in I reduction in the time spent in stores by customers. This will relieve the congestion. but. whether it old: digestion or the economics of the family apex-mung depends upon how much authority housewives retain in the preps:-g. tfon of shopping lists. Tilers is I vast difference between bringing home the groceries and planning what is to be done with them. - Moncton Transcript.

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ON CRITICISM

But I! the slightest sketch, if justly traced,

in by oil-coloring but the more disgraced.

so by false learning is good sense defaced:

some lira bewildered in the nine of schools,

And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fooll.

In search of wit then lose their common sense.

And then turn critics in their own

defense. . . .

All fools have still on itching to .dCl'id9,

And fnin would be upon the laughing side. . . .

Alexander Pope.

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,Now that unlveultl and schools have resulted the loss of suot.beryear.itlIszoodtimot.o point out that learning never ends continuing education is one of the most important needs of our day. with the most far reaching con- sequences. .

Life is not simple. The number of things that we modern people would have to know in order rul- ly to understand what son on around us has increased more rapidly thgn the number of things we do know. How can we take our bearings? What are the landmsrlu which will enable us to find our place in our own time and with reference to other times?

so long an we were slaves to nature, we could allow ourselves a slave mentality. and leave to mt.- ure decisions which now must be

ours.

The significance of continuins

” ” -u is that it. ruwes men and women from slave-like in- significance. from the sense of be- ing powerless and alone. - The funny, alas! rely wholly upon science. the marvel of this ago. science can not. by itself. solve our mslor human problems. It can not impose upon people the co-operative, give-and-take rc- lations we should like to see bo- twecn individuals and between nations. What we need. in con- tlnulng education, is cnnoblemcnt of individuals through philosophy. the arts. religion-what we refer to usually as the "humanities." This brings adults into the edu- ciitlon picture. It is adults, not children, who set the tone of n Itv. Adulthood is the six- nlglcant period toward which life leads. in is I stage of life which has a meaning and an importance that no other stage can possess. It is not enough to have learned to read. write and figure. Olnnds has so few lllltcrntes that they are not worth counting st census-time. Skills do not give wisdom. though they and ' . technology and businus management do prepare the my toward wisdom. - There is no easy formula by which we can suddenly grow met- uro in matters of the intellect and the spirit. Every year that is given to the effort after graduation is well worth while in the return it gives us in happiness, satisfaction and achievement. -

Continuing Eduution

The title "adult educsti " doesn't. at all describe what. meant by "continuing education." There is something attached to "adult education" which convey: to the popular mind I catching up with arrears, ii making good after forty, or some such notion.

The truth is that the person who quits learning upon lenvine university or school is giving in to an idea of limited usefulness. lim- ltcd --" ' " Ind ” ' hula- plnsss. He is contributing to his own bewilderment antrfcellng of lnsecurty in I fast-moving world.