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i Imaging Director, J. B. Burnett; A-oclnte lldlhol. hank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Wfldlrfl‘ Till ~ the Weakest Ink.‘

FRIDAY, OCTOBER- l. 1946

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Teacher Shortage Problem

The tardy opening of our public schools finds the teacher shortage problem still with us in this Province. Perhaps it will improve as time goes on, but there is no indication that it will do so. With twenty-five out of some 475 schools reported unprovided for last Saturday, and with some 60 students taking teachers’ training this year where there should be lOO to make up for normal wastage, the situation is by np means promising. Actually, reports the Dir- ector of Education, Mr. Shaw, it is slightly bet- fer than this time last year, with the prospect for the immediate future about the same as last year. In the calendar year i945 practically all the schools were in operation, except a few small schools which were taken care of by transference of pupils elsewhere or by corre- spondence courses. What seems to be needed is more progress in the direction of consolidated schools, and this can only be achieved with the full co-operation of the districts.

As noted by Mr. Show, the problem of teacher shortage is by no means confined to this Province. The provinces best supplied in previous years seem to have been Ontario and British Columbia; but in British Columbia to- day, though the school term is well under way, l00 schools are closed because there are no teachers for them.

This is regarded by the Vancouver News Herald as "a disgraceful situation in a prov- ince which prides itself on its educational curri- cula and facilities", and it diagnoses the case as "the accumulated result of long years of apathy and neglect." The minimum salary for B. C. teachers today is SL200, but not so many years ago it was $78 per month; and in addi- tion, according to our Vancouver contemporary, when teachers were comparatively plentiful in depression years, local school boards tended to make the condition of work, for meagre sal- aries, decidedly unattractive. This remark is applicable to more provinces than British Col- umbia, as all will admit.

From a combination of such factors the teaching profession came to be avoided by many who would have made excellent teachers. They found better conditions in more lucrative fields.

Not only in Canada but throughout North America teaching has always been one of the poorest paid of professions. Fortunately for our children, there have always been a number of "born teachers"——those with a gift for impart- ing information and a love of their work-who would be willing to teach almost regardless of remuneration. But that is no reason why we should penalize our best teachers, or discourage large numbers of others who wo--'d be good lead- ers of our children.

Election Prospects

Mr. W. Eggleston is a faithful supporter of the present Administration, says the Letter- Review. His recent article in Saturday Night, ad- mitting that the real trouble with the Liberal Party is that it has no convictions and no plat- form, is therefore quite important.

No better description can be given of the present domestic political situation than to say that it is a case of failure on the part of both the major Parties to realize that the public are no longer interested in hearing about Sir John A. Macdonald or Sir Wilfrid Laurier, about conscription or no conscription. The public want to know where each party stands about general economic policies in internal affairs, and the public could be interested in intelligent discussion of external policy. Up to the mo- ment, neither Liberals nor Pro-Cans have offer- ed the public adequate reasons for supporting them. '

Public opinion throughout the country seems to have come to the conclusion that the likely outcome of an Election, as things now stand, would be a Parliament in which the Pro- Cons held the largest single bloc of seats, but not a majority. This is on the assumption that the Liberals will experience considerable losses in Quebec, and thus Mr. Duplessis’ course be- comes a matter of great interest to all Can- adians. lt is rumoured that he lo quite pre- pared to nominate Union Nationale candidates in most Quebec seats, provided the Pro-Cons are willing to leave him a free hand.

The Premier of Quebec is anti-Liberal, anti- Socialist. He will not, however, formally join the Progressive Conservatives before an election, even if it is quite possible that he might be willing to join in forming a coalition Govern- ment.

ln an election in the near future it seems improbable that the Pro-Cons could carry more than a handful of Quebec seats. In that event, an organized campaign by Mr. Duplessis might produce enough anti-Liberal, anti-Socialist seats to guarantee a Pro-Con Government. Failing this, the pattern set in Pontiac‘ might be quite aneral in that Province, the Members elected

ing anti-Liberal, anti-Socialist, but not pre- pared to make any working arrangement with the Pro-Cons from other Provinces.

Should dn election be delayed for some time, the ambitions of the Pro-Con organisation to build up e campaign capable of giving them majorities In a large group of Quebec seats might be realized. A majority of French-Con- adian opponents of the present Administration et Ottawa seem to refuse to agree that the Pro- Cons can win more than a handful of Quebec

Duplessis supporter, supposed to have the con- fidence of the Premier of Quebec. lt is gener- ally believed, however, that he has not the con- fidence of the official leaders of the Pro-Cons in that ‘Province. I

The situation is an interesting one, which differs entirely from that in other parts of the country, and which will bear close watchingl

.- EDITORIAL NOTES .-=

Subsidies to keep the cost of living down, from the outbreak of war to March 3lst, I947

consumers’ subsidies, now seem to amount at least $900 million. O Q i

It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The unfortunate steel strike in Sydney has re- sulted in a welcome influx of potato-lifters to this province. May work be found for them the year round.

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Mr. Bracken struck the right nails on the head when he declared the Mackenzie King Government had failed disastrously in two re- spects, viz., its handling of industry in the re- construction period, and on the provision of house accommodation for the returned men and their families. Employment and homes are the requisites for a contented progressive commun- ity, be it large or small.

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Mr. Frederick C. Crawford, former presi- dent of the National Association of Manufactur- ers in the United States, recently said: "Shake- speare wrote, 'all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.‘ l want to add, all except newspapermen, for they must look on and report events."

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Lord Beaverbrook has proved the fairy godfather of education in New Brunswick, en- dowing its university and providing innumerable scholarships for students. His friend Lord Ben- nett, who regrettably is in poor health in Eng- land, has also contributed scholarships to New Brunswick for the encouragement of ambitious youth. We also once had a millionaire patron of education, Mr. Macdonald of lamented mem- ory, but, alas, the Government of his day did not appreciate his generosity. A later Govern- mcnt of a similar political stripe also turned down flat another generous Islander in the per- son of Sir Charles Dalton, returning to him with- out adequate thanks, the T. B. Sanatorium he provided. They know better in other provinces how to handle and encourage the benevolent. and benefit accordingly.

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Speaking to the Russian people on Febru- ary l0, Premier Stalin had this to soy: lt would be incorrect to think that the war arose acci- dentally or as the result of the fault of some statesmen. . . Our Marxists declare that the capitalist system of world economy conceals elements of crisis and war. . . Thus as the result of the first crisis in the development of the capitalistic world economy, the First World War arose. The Second World War arose as the result of the second crisis. In his words on Sept. 24, however, Premier Stalin greatly limited the sources of the dangers of war. The warmongers, he now emphasizes, are not really the capitalists as such but only the "military- political intelligence agents and their few sup- porters among civilian officials." Premer Stalin stated his conviction that nothing more than a "friendly competition" need divide Commun- ism and capitalism. He repudiated the possi- bility and even the tendency of the "capitalist encirclement" of the Soviet Union. On thc_ other hand it is always well to bear in mind the old saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar." Similarly scratch a Soviet Russian and you uncover a Red Communist.

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Henry Carey, musician, died this date I743; his two almost imperishable compositions are Sally In Our Alley, and God Save The King; the latter is also credited to Dr. John Bull and James Oswald, but a gentleman named Town- send reported in I794 that his father heard Carey sing the song as his own composition when he heard of the capture of Portobello. About the some time, Dr. Harington, the celebrated phy- sician and amateur-musician of Bath, took down from the lips of John Christopher Smith, who had composed an opera for which Carey gave the libretto, a statement, which Dr. Harington had often heard from the old gentleman himself, that Henry Carey came to him with the words and music of God Save The King, "desiring him ta correct the base, which was not propcr"— a reques‘ which Mr. Smith complied with by writing another base in correct harmony. In e General Reply D the Libelling of Gentry Carey wrote:

I envy no mortal, though ever so great,

Nor scorn l a wretch for his lowly estate;

But what l abhor and esteem as a curse

ls poorness of Spirit, not poorness of Purse. I I Q I

Gander airport, big Newfoundland air base on which Canada spent $5,000,000 during the war, has been returned to Newfoundland, but Canada may regain control in case of emerg- ency. Foreign Minister St. Laurent made this disclosure in the House of Commons last May in announcing that Canada had assumed great- er peacetime strategic defence responsibility for the North American continent than ever before under terms of an ‘agreement among New- foundland, Canada and Britain. Officials re- called the agreement after a St. John's dispatch recently reported that Newfoundland had ac- quired Gonder airport from Canada for $1,- 000,ll)0. They said the sum would be paid in instalments, but in the event of outbreak of hostilities Canada might take over control of Gander for the duration of hostilities. Other points in the agreement included: l. Canada has a 99-year lease on the $20,M0,000 Goose lay air base in Labrador for defence purposes.

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The great bugbenr which hnl In be destroyed is that a nurses‘ train. course ls pure drudgery. there are stlll those who. that t-hc coveted co of a

crnl years of scrubbing floors and doing unpleasant. work nroonld o. hospital. This is oertalnl not the case, and we lzope to lspcl the rlldcigé -Oomwall StendardJkce- o r.

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l9 ‘ease, formers who work in haying. ‘who move amid ragweed in potato,

punches and cornfield: are rarely, victims of a malady which tlnds so meny sufferers in asphalt flelds.| Hay fever". under one name or an- other. has been known for almost, 400 years. And ragweel. ofaourse, ls a lot older than that. It re-. mains to be seen if 2.4 D can re-' verse the long-Pstubllshed trend of cause and effect. If it does. many a Manhattan hay feverlte wdll bless the Health Demrtment an its spray guns. -New Yirl: Ht -

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Eavesekoppllsg on bread talk ls not. all as reassuring as our oor.I respondent finds it at his holiday hotel. There are grlmmer accents on the local buses»as witness two. housewives or. the some subject the other day. Wlthou‘ stretching an ear too far, much o! the oon- versation was lust, but voices were raised towards ‘.119 end and there was no mLsslnsz the last dark utter-l once: "'I'here'll be a revolt. that's, what. lhere'll be. love. That's whet started the French Revolution. ykrow - bread, y'khow and cake.’ —-Manchester Guardian

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98 ( t eggs) to Britain this fdll wlelifaii: a complete shlploed.

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drove to each other. Th9)! W6?‘ the cerlfeet ehtpe on uoord. u de- tfnct frun lane canoes and boots. ‘men came n steady procession of war vceocll. all offering some lm- vemcnt-over their prcdcoeaore. he Phoen-telnns and Greeks favor-

thc trlrmnc with tluec banks. and. later the quodrfreme, the qufnquw- emcopdoomup tovcesele with sixteen be-nlks of oars.

‘these ships were 9m raved by the Romans and Vikings. n the Mlddc Ages huge rowing ships, eooh 50- foot. oar manned by five, six and seven men». were not - ommon.

Introduction of gunpowder in the fourteenth centur and consequent

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motive power. The penlah Armada. (1588) boasted 132 sue-h craft, of which the

to 1 high artistic level. 08H One describe the a mm who direct! or indirectly beesed over thlrt mlllfcm dollars for his hospitals. It was ggllllltglle "flgrglfnglt: London ter with’ the Pepin;- "y °'"' the full extent of no guilds be. came Bvlmren: He was an admin.

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was 130138 tghne. DIn this‘ Exit‘; .sh eetoppae e onste r Royal, flngsalbljp of the British od- rnlral. was tons and carried 55

guns. It is lrontcol to rcollze that both of thoec proud fleets. the most. for- midable tn the world of their day. could now be chewed up methodic- ally by o. single cruiser at long

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mindless? After all. 1t Ls too much to expect us to ruin over to Buff- alo when we want a pound of nails or to Bennuda. when we need a shirt. —Sydney PosLRecord. y

Judson A. Maya of Plttebursh signed up in aha Merchant Marine and travelled 36,000 miles to visit the grave of Ernie Pyle. When the famous columnist. “was shot. on Ie Shima. a tiny Pacific atoll of! Okinawa, llfayo. a 56-year-old elm.‘ trlclon, decided to enlist and "keep going until I had a chance to visit. Erodes grave." His pilgrimage took almost a year. Army officials at. Okinawa however, stopp-m Mava and refused to let hlm cross the narrow channel tc Ie Shlmo One night, at low tlde. Mayo waded across and completed his mlsalofl- He .f he traveled one.and-, a-helf times aronr-tl the world be- fore finally visiting P_‘."le's grave. —Brlt1sh United Press.

The Soviet L-‘nlon has l tre- mendous network of rivers which cu-t, across the cou-ntry 1n all dir- ections. Them are alkali-Ethel‘ 8B0!" 108.000 large and smell rivers in the Soviet. Union. The length of: navigable waterways exceeds 323.- 000 miles For length of its rivers‘ the USSR occupies first place lnl the world. Flowing on the territ- ory o,f the USSR. are some of the; world's longest and deepest rivers. as for example the 2.860 miles larr, Lena, the 3,200 mile Ob wit-h ltsl tributary lllf! Irtyish, the 2.800 mile long Yenisel in Siberia the 2.900 mile Amur ln ‘he For East andi Europe's greatest river, the Volga.‘ 2.300 miles in t.he European part of the USSR -USSR Bulletin.