' should the Government decide’ te
| railway purposes which probably _ would require much more time and
| ¢reasing demand for automobile
| tional 60 auomobiles, - gome four years before a new boat
_ this asssurance that our needs will
_ because all the evidence points to the fact that the “Vacationland”, ‘even under the most favorable con-
here before next year.
_ Provincial Government, dealt chief- ly with the carrying capacity of ' the Michigan boat and its adaptabil- _ ity for docking at our piers. He gave fo estimate as to her condition in- _ ternally, or the time it would require _ to refit her; but he did say that the | Vacationland, “due to having been im moth balls for a year and a half and not having been in drydock since 1954, will require close inspee- ‘tion by marine surveyors.”
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Parliament by Transport Minister Hees puts our car ferry prospects | in a new light. This was to the ef ' fect that a new boat would be ready for service sometime in 1961. It will be built so that it can be used for
Mr. ‘States that major changes would be _ Trequired, involving a complete con- _ version of machinery, which could _ fet possibly be made before 1960, | even if other objections to the boat's suitability were disposed of.,
‘had acted two years ago, when it
_ which was urged three or four years
| was ever mooted.
_ but that is no unusual thing in the Tong history of our Province. Every- fight for,
United Staves $22.0
the weakest ink.” .+,
Mr. Hees’ Assurance _The assurance given yesterday in
service other than to the Island,
build a causeway on the basis of the survey which it is now consid- ering. It will be designed, not for
expenditure, but to meet the in-
transportation. We understand also that the piers are to be widened to permit freer flow of car traffic. In the meantime, it is proposed to re fit the Scotia 11 to carry an addi-
We had contemplated a delay of could. be designed and built, and
be met within two years, and with- out prejudice ta our causeway pro-. ject claims, removes much of the grounds of -our grievance against Ottawa on this subject. We say s0
ditions, could not be put in service
Mr. Scott, in his report to the
The federal report, however, from which Hees™ quoted in Parliament,
Thus there would be a difference of only one year in the delay per-
were acquired, and the new boat which has been promised us. In the we think this ar- rangement is the. best that could
without further cavil by the ma- jority of our people.
There is, of course, a political Point involved. If. the Government
came into power, we might now he enjoying the service of the new boat. But this criticism applies also te the former Liberal administration,
ago to provide an additional ferry, and without avail. The emergency has been snowballing ever since, and is now apparant to everyone; but
forestalled all the trouble we exper- fenced last season with the existing ferries, before the causeway project
That project, inadvertently, pro- vided an alibi for inaction against which we protested on many. ocea- sions. It took a change of govern- ment at Ottawa to get our Liberal friends really interested in the ferry problem. Then it was the Conserva- tives who kept telling .us that toe much talk about a ferry might spoil our Causeway chances. Now it ig conceded, even at Ottawa, that there is no conflict between ‘these claims and that both must be con- sidered on their merits.
It has taken a lot of hammering to bring this ferry “issue to a head,
thing we got in the way~of trans- a had to
th’and nail. We believe EB occasion something
._cursion to Lausanne at the end of
_Arising from the Montreal Confer-
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Still Flouting The U.N.
After nursing President Nasser ‘along for years, the United Nations is agaify having trouble with the ‘Egyptian dictator and his manage- ment of the Suez Canal. It seems. that when U.N. Secretary-General Hammarskjold went to Geneva to open the Big Four Minister’s Con- ference, he made a little noticed ex-
Lake Leman for a talk with Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, Foreign Minister a the United Arab Republic. His purpose was to discuss the increasing
from Israel. Some days later, in a thumb-to-nose gesture at Mr. Ham- marskjold, Egyptian authorities stop- ped a Danish freighter as it entered the Suez and confiscated its cargo of cement and potash, bound from the Israeli port of Haifa for the Far East. The same thing happened earlier this year to German, Liberian and Greek ships carrying cargoes to and from Israel.
It will be recalled that Egypt’s denial to the Suez to Israeli shipping was one of the provocations for Israel's attack in 1956. It was estab- lished as far back as 1951 by the U. N. Security Council, and acknowledg- ed by President Nasser in a number ‘af official documents, that the canal should be free of navigation to the‘ shipping of all nations. The searching and seizing of any Suez traffic is therefore quite illegal. The violation of this pact in 1956 was convenient- ly ignored by the United Nations, and it has evidently been going on ever since
Today, it constitutes a_ serious threat to U.N. authority. Israel has embarked on a program to develop trade with the Far East, and the use of the canal will be vital to this pro- gram for some time to come. Must it be subject to Nasser’s arbitrary in- terference indefinitely, or is there a limit beyond which the free world ig* prepared te express itself in terms the Egyptian ruler will understand?
EDITORIAL NOTES
A last bequest from John Foster Dulles leaves his private island re- treat in Lake Ontario to the Can- adian people.‘ This is a fine and gen- erous gesture from an American stateman who had many close as- sociations with Canada.
. * « ‘From London comes the word that the exhibition of Sir Winston Churchill's paintings at the Royal Academy is so successful that—with the artist's permission—it has been. extended a full nine weeks. Origin- ally it had been intended to take down the 60 Churchill paintings at the end of May. -
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The largest Commonwealth edu- cation conference ever held will meet at Oxford from July 15 to 29.
ence of Commonwealth Ministers last September, it will formulate a new program of Commonwealth scholarships and fellowships and re- view the existing arrangements for co-operation with Commonwealth countries in all aspects of education. President of the conference will be Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Sir Philip Morris, Vice Chancellor of Bristol University, will be chairman. A * a *
The second volume of Great Bri- tain’s official history of the Second World War reveals an incident in which all Canadians will take satis- faction. The book, just published, says that the Greeks faced starva- tion in 1942 when Germany refused to supply. food; the Italians were un- able, and other supply lines were blocked. Finally, Great Britain put forth a plan whereby neutral Swed- ish ships would carry Canadian wheat into the occupied country. The book adds: “The Canadian Govern- -ment agreed to make a free gift of 15,000 tons of wheat a month from Canadian stocks. This monthly con- tribution continued to be the basic element in the feeding of the Greeks for the remainder of the war.” In commenting on this story, the Daily Express in London refers ito the Canadian gift as “the Jargest single
number of seizures in the Suez Canal | of ships and cargoes hound to and —
MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOLS Sir,—Some time ago, Mr. Mal- colm MacKenzie, Deputy Minis- ter of Education, in an address on the value of music in “any wise system of education’, an- nounced that great progress has been made in the feaching of this subject in the public schoo's of our province.
The credit for this progress, he attributes to the influence of the annual P.E.I. Musical Festival. He announces that it is largely through this influence 'that music is now being taught by qualified Visiting teachers te 180 school classes outside ef those in Char- lottetown.
This announcement, a the bare mention of it, certainly sounds good; but it, is quite impossible for music-minded readers of The Guardian te fully evaluate the announcement until they learn just what this teaching of musie by visiting teachers really con- sists of. In the case of several rural schools that I have know- ledge of, it consists simply ef teaching pupils to sing by rote, or air as it is more commonly called; and perhaps the best that can be said for this sort of teaching is that it is - certainly better than none at ail.
But while i that sing- ing by air in our publie oo ig much better than none at all, it should. surely be unnecessary ‘here to point out at the same time that a certain amount of ability in the art of reading mu- sic is absolutely necessary before pupils can be eonsidered as in any worth-while degree proficient in the art of singing. This is more especially true in the case of boys, who when they attain adult age should be able to take a ten- or or hass part in choral sing- ing, especially in rural church choirs. This they will hardly do with any degree of confidence un- less they have some ability in the art of reading bass or tenor along with an apt ear for follow- ing these parts on. the organ,or piano. 3
That the art of sight singing ts at a very lew ebb in Prince Ed- “ward Island is a statement that, I believe, most every widely-ex- perienced musician in this Pro- vince will agree with. Pranf of this statement could, I believe, he found in the choral singing at the recent festival by anyone whe wished to examine -the choirs for proficiency in sight singing. The question arises—what is the remedy? More emphasis hy the annual musical festival on the importance of sight singing would, no doubt, serve as a re medial measure, but only a com- « paratively minor one. The major remedy must undoubtedly be g proper and effective system of sight singing in our common pub- lic schools; and the most effee- tive system in vogue up to date is undoubtedly, I believe, the time honoured combingd staff and to- nic sqal-fah system.
This system admits of a wide variety of method and device in the teaching of it, and is in some form more or less in vogue in practically eyery country in Eur- ope and America. It is in prae- tice, I understand, to some ex- tent in Prince of Wales College, but not enough to provide the pro- spective teachers there with g gtasp of\ it sufficient to enable them to teach it effectively te their future classes in the publie school room.
It is greatly to be desired that in the near future, a thorou training in this tonic salfah sys- tem of. music should he includ- ed in the teacher training course at P.W.C. This having heen a¢- complished, we may then expect ia find good teaching of music in most every schoolreom in our Province, even in the remotest school distriets, where it is sur- ely most needed. ~ en, and only then, will the annual music fes-
offer st be accepted in
humanitarian gesture of the war.” *
tival at Charlottetown be an event
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HE SAID A NAUGHTY WORD Latin American Neighbors
By Joseph MacSween Canadian Press Staff Writer
Recurrent troubles in Latin: America take: a political form and give scope to well - known cracks ahout banana republics. But it's generally recognized now that the unrest results mostly from feelings of economic wrongs —a simple thing of dollars and cents, pesos and céntavos.
This hasn't always come through to the rest of the world. It seems that university students are invariably the ones te initiate the protest—a protest taking an emoional aspect, clouding basic issues.
Students have rioted in Ecua- dor during the. last few days. Last week student riots in Para- guay forced Dictator Alfredo Stroessner te put tHe country back under a state of modified martial law.
It's not just in Latin America that students take an important role at times, as was shown in the Hungarian uprising of 1956. Many of Latin America's present leaders, including Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela, started their fight against die- tatorship in their student days.
Students were prominent in the crowds that heaped scorn in vice- President Richard Nixon of the United ; States when he visited Latin America last year.
That visit has led to great soul- searching in the U.S., where it
Latin American neighbors might be turning away from their tra- ditional friendships in the north, lured by Communist blandish- ments.
But the U:S. government hasn't managed to get far past the theory stage of hemisphere co- operation. Such things as restric- tions on lead and zinc imports ir- ritated the South Americans as much—or more—as it did Cana- dians.
Last year, for the first time. ‘the U.S. made what appeared to be an honest effort to interest itself in Latin American prob- lems, with particular reference to mountainous coffee -surpluses and falling prices—a problem of crucial interest te 15 countries. GUN TO HEAD
In a diplomatic way, the Latin leaders have been putting the gun to the head of their northern big brother. Last June President Kubitscheck of Brazil proposed to President Eisenhower of the U.S. an “operation Pan-American” de- signed to end what the South American called the ‘festering sore of underdevelopment” in this area.
- Cuba's Castro — noting that Latin America has never had aid of the nature of the Marshall Plan or, Asian projects -—- shattered sleep in Washington by demand- ing $30,000,000,000 for the contin- ent during the next 10 years. He
suddenly was reglized that the
New Aid To Braille System
National Geographie Society
Electronie wizardry is the new- est aid to Louis Braille’s 130- year-old system of pranting. for the blind.
A high-speed computer has heen adapted to convert English into’ Braille. The giant mechani- cal brain transcribes g 300-page hook in an hour. ~ “
Cards from the computer ae- tuate a machine which punches the familiar dots of the Braille code into metal plates. The plat- es emboss the raised dots on the hook pages.
BIBLE TRANSLATED
The swift operation is a far ery from the Herculean labor required for the first transla- tion of the Bible into Braille. Qne man worked fram 1877 to 1890, hand-punching each dot into sheet metal.
Braille, introduced in 1829, was a refii.ement of earlier meth- ods of reading by touch, the Na- tional. Geographie Society says. The ancient Peruvians devised the quipu, a set of knotted strings that indicated simple words by varying knot sizes and intervals
hetween them. In the 17th. ntury, many techniques of outlining letters for
the blind were tried: engraved letters on wood blocks; patterns of pinpricks; pins inserted into pads; wooden and cardboard auts; and cast-metal letters.
It was Francois Lesueur, & blind boy rescued from a life ef street begging, who by chance laid the groundwork for Braille. Francois had been befriended by Valentine Hauy, a Parisian inter- ested in training the sightless. One day the boy was sorting pap- ers on his master’s desk when his fingers touched a card strong- ly indented\ by type. Francois showed Hauy that he could deci- pher several letters with his fin- gers. Hauy, with mounting excite- ment, traced. some signs on pap- er. The boy read them, and print- ing in relief was born.
Soon after in 1784, Hauy open- ed the Institution Nationale des
of real interest to residents young and gid in every section of our Province. Then, and only then, too, ean this great annual event at Charlottetown be appropria- tely ealled the Prince’. Edward Island Musical Festival. I am, Sir, etc., M. MacKENZIE
didn’t get it.
Jeunes Aveugies to teach blind children. Hig. system of embos- sed symbols resembling capitals could not be easily written hy the blind, and it was difficult for many to read. But the Hauy prin- ciple was employed by another Frenchman, Charles Barbier, to devise a system using combina- tions of 12 raised dots to represent the letters of the alpaabet.
12 DOTS REDUCED
Louis Braille, 3 blind teacher at Hauy's Institution, reduced the base of 12 dots to 6. - They proved sufficient fer the alpha- bet, punctuation, mathematics,
of the dots in different combina- tions stands for letters, syllabl- es, and abhreviatians.
Many modifications of Braille | have heen developed, but the tendency now is toward a univ- ersal code. In 1932, Great Britain and the United States agreed on a standard system for English. In 1951, under the auspices of the United Nations, linguists formula- ted a standard Braille alphabet for the Middle Hast, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The alphabets af two major African tribal lan-
ages, Zula and Xhosa, have
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However, our weapons against leukemia have become much more poient in the last’ eleven years.
TURN OF TIDE
The year 1948 saw the turn ‘of the tide with the introduction of antifolic agents. By blocking the use of folic acid, which leukemia cells need to live, these antifolic agents literally starve the dis- ease cells.
With these the previously mentioned cortisone and ACTH and other drugs—the survivel time has been lengthened cansid- erably. In a recent study at a Boston hospital. half of the 800 children treated for leukem- ia were still alive after fourteen
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suggested for increased use in the schools of the nation.—St. Cath- erines Standard
Despite the still another season of poor pri- ces for their crop, New Bruns- wick potato growers have been busy planting, still another crop, which agriculture officials esti- mate will take up only eight per- cent. less acreage than last year’s As in the past, the success of this year’s efforts of potato grow- ers lies concealed in the unpre-: dictable vagaries of one of the world’s most speculative mark- ets.—Fredericton Gleaner .
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son Bay Company, the cargo ves- sel was built in 1942 at Launen-
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months of treatment. a
The battle has not heen won, but we certainly are gaining ground. i _QUESTION AND ANSWER
Mrs. C.: My finger nails break off and then my finger tips be- come sore. Can you tell me about something that will correct this condition? :
Answer: The condition you de- scribe may be due to a vitamin deficiency, especially a lack ef vitamin A.
OUR YESTERDAYS
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June 6, 1934)
A meeting of the Teachers’ Study Group was held in the Kensingtoon High School on Mon- day afternoon. The President, Miss Miriam Profitt presided and there were eight teachers pre- sem. In the absence of the ec- retary, Miss Edith Hogg, Miss Ellen Harrington was appointed temporary secretary. The meet- ing was addressed by the schol supervisor, J. A. §. Williams.
A fire from unknown cause completely destroyed the house and barn owned by John Larkin of Alberton yesterday morning. Mr. Larkin had left home earlier and on his return found the fire bursting through the roof. In a short time the flames sPread to the barn and both buildings were a tatal loss.
TEN YEARS AGO (June 61 1949) Mr. Ross McEwen, recently re-
Tuesday.
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tired chief train dispatcher, local CNR Division. was presented with a well-fillad purse as a fare- | well token by a gathering of tele- graphers in the Chief Despatch- er’s Office Saturday evening. The atktress was read by Eldon Camp- bell and the presentation was made by Harny MacKay.
For the coastal trade with Newfoundiand, the M.V, Es- kimo has been turned over to the P. E. I. Industrial Corpora- tion. Purchased from the Hud-
n put into Braille.
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