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W. U. ROBERTSON ° GEO. L. FLUS
THURSDAY, APRIL 5th, 1051
4 SORRY STORY
The Financial Post last week
•uncovered the record of UEFB,
United. Emergency Fund for Bet-
tain, a campaign ostensibly for the
'relief of ,Britain which milked the
Canadian public to.-tlo''extent af`
,over half -a -million 'dollars of which•
only $880 was used for the purpose
for which it was donated:
Of the $583,000 collected,•,$185,000
went ,for salaries, a slightly 'larger.
amount for adveitieing and publi-
eity, and other amounts for pr"o-
motion, while less than one thous-
and dollars was spent in sending
food to B •itein. The scandal was
brought to •the attentiore• of • the
'Legislature and. Premier Frust has
promised a closer c'beels, on such
organizations. There may also be
criminal proceedings, -
UiiFB was one of the schemes
whose publicity "literature" was
distarded'by. The Signal -Star while
the drive 'yeas•• on. As stated in this
column a few weeks ago, this paper
in the absence of any local organ
passes such publicity matter into the
wastepaper basket. We fancy that.
"the item of $188,533 in. the accounts
of ULFB for 'tad ertising and
Publicity" - represents largely the
.: cost of preparing tincls sending out
"free', publicity" matter to : news-
•pttpers. Some part . of it • may have
been spent for paid advertising in
the daily papers; but , for some
.time the .weekliee were bombarded
with articles for which free public-
entxon - was' nought. 'It • seems that
enough . of these appeals (whether
paid for, or not) 'reached public
attention. to' bring in a `total of
$593,000.
As
,Thea Financial 'Post sass,
"Revel'atione of this kind 'are full
'of instruction.' for . •prominent and
• .well-meaning people who 'go,'on
charity• • boards of directors, com-
mittees, etc., First, they should find
?tit very Clearly the origins, per;
s.,
• Ronnel -and- ptirpases -of the charity
wanting them. `:Secondly, if they
accept, . they should see to • it that
.they really know now -the business
•• affairs are being.•conducted•"
An 'unfortunate. result of the
revelations regarding UEFB is that
• many •people will be reluctant to
• support . genuine' campaigns ' for
charitablepurposee, fearjng that
their, money will not be rightly
used -Something sheYu-ld-beed{3e-te
counter such effects.
A ,PROIVIOTER'S DREA1VI
A. London Free I ress 'correspond-
ent ,.at Ottalwa, who is - quite a
booster for the deeper. Ster,Lee rence.
.seaway,essays to tell of some of
tile. developments . on *the Great
Lakes that might follow • in the
wake of the Project. °-He, says it
"would ,mean increased movement
•of grain by boat with increased
activity, for Owen Sound. and Boit
McN:icol, incl-, perimps _._ Godeeieh.
Nobody who .kno,vs anything about
the ",grain traffic would make such a
statement. In the 'initial etages of
the promotional campaign for the•
'deeper seaway it was held that its
Chief benefit vvoald be; the trans-
-:porta+tion ,of Western' grain in one
vessel from the head of the Labs
to 'British or other overseas ports.
Later this, aspect of the scheme
-was dropped by .the promoters as
of little importance, or possibly
because' there was a 'backfire In
the way of. injury that would be
dare to the .railways and to Great
Lakes shipping. At any' rate, little,
is Beard 'now of any expected
• y ibeiidfit tie the grain trade froth the
."''it*hefaet ° , osvetlie=nTtre�=•1�reee�eiree-
gets the • • idea that Owen Sound,
Port McNiea1, Goderi'eh or any other
• groin -receiving port on the Lakes
could benefit from a project de-
signed to, take `,grain direct" from
the Lakehead tothe ocean is more
thail We can fathom. As a matter
of fact, the •grain coming -et
odericif-gerea•u ostly to- : mitis In
Ontario . and this traffic , would be
libtle affected. The export of grail
tiriicougl Georgian Bay ports would
- strip --that . , ,. if the pronloters'
dream of carrying the .grain direct
:Crtan FO't .William to the ocean
Materialize. •
Vs . If the project goes through; • in
• the , grand style ; pictured `by' the
promoters; roost . of ,the lake and
railway grain traffic{ would be de-
stroy, with injury .both to lake
,o1ripping and to tie• sailvviys which
leo* tato ,gralirt; eastward .froth res
etying pouts ott they lakes. This
soffit 1 estrefurlly avoided by the
p!rorn $te!ts: „-
With the tt, .41vre4lee frozen
o er r or ilw'e 1nepVtb tYf
he, year, the SeaWay project can
� ,a never realize the a iVantag held
v e4 oat for it by trios who. ad voelate
• it. A few . the targe cities along
.,..... 1t�.. -... .; _, Te otttok _I1at 'liter,
Windsor on the Canadian side --
might-, reap some benefit, but
this' would be .at the expense
of the ritilwlkys t; and exist-
ing Lake `shipping, and with an
additional heavy load placed upon
the taxpayers of the %sttole country,
EDITORIAL ry -N7TES
April. 10th is the day we, are to
hear • t•he 'bad neves. Mr. Abbott
brings down his budget at Ottawa
that day. '
*' * *
. The weather man, played fhe big-
gest April First' joke of the year
when he prevented, the ladies froin
parading their Easter. ineesiOn'Sun-
day. • Only it wasn't any ,joke. •
* * *
The -Dutton. Advance agrees with
The Midland Free Press in its state-
ment that the' public shows little
interest in public school board meet-
ings,
eetIngs, despite the facto that a large
part ,of ;the, ratepayer's dollar is
spent by the' school board. There
are' probably- more than one reason
why this is se; but is not one
ittYi,,..
so largely controlled ' by , the . Pro-
vince that tbe,,school board has'
little of public iutereet to discuss e
* •
If goveremeetal affairs in Canada
are not conducted economically,
this cannot be .said .at least of the
Poston -ice Department.. The in-
crease in postal' rates carie- into
. T
soues
. at the-
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CotintrM h . �
)Dear Friends,ee sere -fire devices for . attaining
no u
For . thousands vyf teachers told tite objectives of education; the
Ontario task of the school le becoming more
trustees, Puas�er, Week ° lu difficult all the time, Teachers,
'means, Ontario Educational .AssoGi- =,supervisors, "trustees and parents
ation, so 1 'decided toesttend several are: all ' ghillie . more thought to
sessions and tell° " u about, Liam. their attainment.
I went'over the program very care, Modern educational,* trends, are
f lis^ and tried to choose speakers really far removed from bewilder-
irho might interest 'both you tinct meet, but uuretlecting• optimism is
me- Since most of you are Iry ing one" great . danger., Optimism must
in the rural districts -dr small urban ee tempered. by 'realism. Stark
areas, I went first to a " meeting
of the Trustees' and Ratepayers'
n
department.esti
• were
!Their • meetings vryere
held in dig - crystal balliepra of the
Ring Edward Hotel, I remember
being thore• •laet year and thinking,
the crystal needed some. lsrightening:
It looked much better this year,
realities inn$ be faced. School
;finance is one of, .these. Education
i
e since 1843 and
coats have' doubled
aree;eausingti grave concern. The
present building program must.
coutinue, bit it must not take
money which should be used for
adequate instruction., Another real -
or at least it didn't appea}• so ding! ., ity is that of .recruiting teaching
The first epeaaier I heard there I staffs. The increase lir teachers
was Or. Aithpuse, chief director of ;being trailed is not keeping pirce
edttcation for the aPro'vince. His
subject 'was Education Today,"
Education today is' full of intense,
bustling Activity, with . • building,
i uses, revised, . courses, Houle and
School clubs, and school board.•' tion are attractufg more young
work. All this activity leads to a people to the teaching profession,
with the increase ins school mule -
tied. For , instance, there will be
30,000 more pupils Irl public schools
next Year than there ere now. Better
salaries. and improved superannua-
certain amount of confusion, but
confession seems to be characteristic
of these pei.'pleaing days in which'
we are -living, and this- confusion is
one reason that totalitarianism.. is
gaining strength in so many parte
of the world.. Totalitarianism.
"promises" an answer to the per=
plexi,ties. Educators in 'Ontario
have ideas of their own for solving
the educational probleiiis and their
ideas are not. •totalitarian, .but
democratic. - Gonfusidn is of two
kinds. One *conies • from disagree-
meat about, principles and this kind
is very discouraging. ' The other
kind comes from general eagerness
to apply principles which have been
agreed on and. to attain objectives:
-This • is. encouraging ,fond _ lis the
kind we find in the •Ontario• educe -
As Dia. Althouse• outlined: the ob-
jectives, they are; Equality of op-
portunity,; development of the in-
dividual; mastery of the :tools of
learning; the: 'democratic way of
life based on Christian ethics. There•
are many ways of 'attaining these
objectives. and • that is one reason
for • the confusions , Teachers and
the general public are all participat-
ing
articipating .in solving the problems,
Teachers' .curriculum :committees
effect on Monday with little or no, have, -beers- sets up and their response
notice to the public—certainly nerlies been very gratifyinng to the
such. •notl.ce as would . have been
given -by ;an. ordinary- busine s--con-
ctrn,• Although its operations close:
ly, , affect. -the ''public, •the Depart-
ment spends •practicfally •noth,iiig in
17e1ertment of Education. , .Local
school 'boa'eds and las • . committees
have been asked their views about
'eduecation. All --these have caused
the wholesome canfusiQU, Trustees
and- ratepayers must make „use of
but efforts to attract and keep them
roust, • not be • relaxed. Suitable
teachers must be selected. • They
must be sincere, zealous teachers.
•Then Department of Education needs
help in' solving 'all these—problems:
. t}ne of the 'duties of the Trustees'
and l ,atepayeeei Association is to
make the peeblen s . clear to the
.public.
As soon as'Dr, Althouse finished
his address, ;I rushed off to the
rural teachers' meeting to hear
John Fisher. The program said he
"would deliver an address of par-
ticular interest tq every rural
teacher." I was too late to hear
the -beginning• , of his talk and the
room where he •was speaking was"
;crowded past the 'door,_ • However, I_
snooped . around' until I --found, an-
beside- the chairman and secretary
and they •could, not tell' me ` the
subject 'of his address, .He was talk-
ing about spoken English. and
spoken French iri Canada, and the
Many varieties we hear.. He feels
it is his mission to interpret the
various parts • o Canalis to one
another; He. ,mentioned a trip' to
Newfoundland. and •the • many, signs
of. poverty in the , counteye Many,
of the faces were chiselled into a
iChristlike dignity, but -there was a
warmth And • friendliness.. in the
"codfish rens" of the Province. He
•also.f1nde a • keel: burner in ''1'ew
fountllancl. and Quebec. Some of
the characteristics he has • found
of ',Canadians are that we. are
cantioue, `stable,. ' we ,demo 'abuse
ntivertising beyond • putting .. up all reports, end school boards eati ming, or"get .excited„ and we
should adopt and adaj►t them as far are 'probably- the best -run nation
.notices- , in its offices which are
is possible. The„ new courses circ � hi. the world, but there •is room for
ravels read by the public. 1\ev\s- 'just a guide. and'• a:' start in the." improvement. Re Ends in the
paper advertising is "studiousl3-,.right dirention. Educatio'ii must: be• •
avoided, 'altlioiugh•on occasions sifehl made 'practical fo'r hll different
as a general 'increase in • rates
something spent in newspaper ad -
.districts and .Wv ays•. of, life.
Rent' ' high schools with stress
on the- t.eaching of agriculture- is
erasing would avoid a great deal. -one 'example of this prac;ticelity,,
of'• inconvenience to perscns 'using ! thneedsof , u se is. adrrPted' to suit
the mail services. • . • the' students attend-,
(e ing. There - ere now , seventy-eight
*' «"* � of these •schools , In Ontario, with a.
It is a' pity. that the Ilrinsard rise in their enrolment -of 40 per
'reports of Parliamentary 1iiocecd-cent: against an overall increase of
ing.4 are not 'generally avail•Zble' 15 per cent. in' school isopulatlon.l
A parenth flies are fillini, a• need
•States a peculiar savagery° in what-
ever they are • •doing., particul arl .
y
in the use of. machines. But they
have a curiously naive approach
to politics and international: affairs,
They are panicky and jittery, but
friendly,..and, generous. We Ctin.
adians with .our British traditions,
French, sense of values„ and knew,
ledge Of Annerioa must mean more,,
at the United Nations. We have
'the solid foupdation, but we must
get more culture, frith, poetry, etc.
This .winter'. of 1951, shows' • how
'Canada has changed. .Ontr'streugth
and resources• are, becoming known.
We, are away at last ! "
•
Nor Ev, if you lied my aep
ort of
Mr.' Fisher's 'addrees rather into-
herent, that is just 'the way I felt
at the time, probably because I was
not there tet the lfeginnnig, ' • We all.
know him as a radio speaker and
I have enjoyed hiss broadcasts for
years, , Be isl qu Ite,.w•ell known as
a public ,speaker `fond. Was on one.
of tide series [ut Eaton ,,auditorium
,this year --the, Roman Catholic
Series, I thilele Ile speakis • very
quickly; with what seems to me an
unnecessary wealth of• gesticulation,
and . L still do not know the subject'
of his talk." I stopped him at the
door and apologized for being late
and asked his exact 'topic (with
peneil•'.anct notebook in hand). He
turned and said quite'. flippantly,
"Oh • yes, the text., Where is the
texei" ,And went on to speak to
a personable young woman!
My. e next . destination was the
supervising and training section. I
wanted to hear a talk on conserve:
tion. I was not sure I should be
welcome in a 4 neethig f of inspectors
and Normal',School masters; but no
one put the out and I enjoyed the
address very much.. ' I saw .Mr.
Beacom,, a former inspector in,
;Huron, and also.. Mr. F. S. Rivers,
director of professional training lot.
the Province. Mr. Rivers was wel-
cemed back after some months of
semi -retirement. • I heard 'another
talk on conservation the next day,
►u a irrelirI`1teeke"
future letter. I' went frock to the
Piing, Edward to hear a talk on
"Co-operation, the Need of the,
World." Instead, I heard a trot
and interesting debate about unfair
taxes.. ,At that time, they were
discussing the1p comparatively low•
taxes :paid by-iieople on small hold-
ings in ' \ural areas, while. tile•
farmers • living beside thein, have
very high taxes, often: paying the'
major part of the educational costs
of the families of • the others. I
enjoyed one man who got up and
told, about • €i speaker• wh'o was
talking about the saiue thing last
year. • eHe Was slick -tongued and
knew ail the ansswders and reminded
the rural trustee.r csf the immense
taXes • industrial • concerns line
Massey Iiarris pay — p'artly for
education,, of course. This farmer
said he knew there wets an answer
to that, but he couldn't think of it:
at the clime, but''he just reminded.
liis lioteners •this year that. they
were; ale paying those taxes every
,, „
for public reading, Perusal , of in the country districts.
these reports frequently ;ices one.- "The Department has been favor-
1,quite'.a different "slant" from that ably .impressed with the reports of
presented by the Ottawa despatches the co-ordinating. committees Local
in the daily* papers. In one of thee cotnniittees • are clearly determined
--to give -care to . the individual 'cliffOii,
several'' discussions --oft the' vote of ences among: children—without.let-
865,000,000. to %the •Western svCJieat- ting ,,the children discover the im-
growers, • a Nava Scotia memUQr portalice of it !' • The traditional
objet -ting. -.oto -the yote..was brought barriers „between elementary, and
secondary education are '' being
up short by 11Ir., Gardiner's reminder broken down and there is great
that Parliament had given import- enthusiasm of effort and unanimity
ant aid to the fruitt'growers of this .of sentiment among schools. School
member's' own constiteency. An programs are being planned to, pre-
mote , a sense 'of social obligation,
objector, from Tiritisli. Colninbia . re- niorail duty and individual ret;pons-
ceived• .a similar reinincler, and fie. .ifiility: .,The pupils are learning,
Minister might have gone the not' so much "about" them,• but
'rounds and 'recalled epecial'beneits are actually experiencing them in
that had been_ extended to many 'their• school activities. There are
other groups... In. circumstances of
this loran tire.. objector should do
some. thinking ,before casting" the
first stone.
h.
time. they bouieht tt piece of farm:
machineryand
such things.s.
The next aftereon I visited dthe
same depart oe .t, hap ng►to hear
a speaker taut about the 'kiope , re-
port: Again. T watee dieePPointed„
11e spoke for only a short time, and
made only ` a few rather, indefinite
referenaCes ° to the report. The
speaker was Charles Couquergootl,
a iuexnber .of the' Hope 'C'onunssion;
and a former member of the Tor-
oeto •Board 'of Education. I•Ie said
that the Hope report provides a
,new, charter for education'and one
of the first requirements of a
school trustee is an interest in the
report, wbieh is, soon to be published
.in readable form. Trustees of I051
;ore going to face decisions on the
report. It is nbt ` unenimous ; in
fact there Are two reports., majority
and minority. • It is ,'very. large,, be-
cause the Department of Education
is the larget department of the
Peeebeeiai Government.. There are
over 250 recomnrgendatiope :,in the
repolt,_ ,on 'education 'in .general and
also on subjects•,of special interest
to .trustees. Mr. Conquergood then
ir nch.e
d -off to
quotations
from
I'PoorRichard's Almanac published
in 1757 and finished with au appeal
to trustees to keep a Proper sense
of valaaeia and they will fulfil .their'
trust as trustees:- Prone the mut-
tered ,Comments I 'heard on the way
out,° 1 Wass not 'the only persons who
was disappointed.
Earlier in the aftiirnoon, Mr.
Justice Hope was presented with.
a 'fru ued'picture_ and also a framed•
cartoon which is appearing ,fn.soree
educational or trttstees' magazine.
Ile spoke for a few minutes about
his co-workers , on the Commission,
and mentioned hMr. Rivers for one.
He, said he would make no apology
for the five and d;}ialf years re-
'quired to study thesubject and
xnake the report, antd • he also gave
the official cost es less than $300,000.
The rest of the afternoon -was spent
,in, discussion of •.theresolutions,
and I found that gather interesting
too, The subject of unfair.taxatin,
came up again. A , member of the
Timmins School Board said he be-
Iieved In getting the money,
Tie e. 'I3 el•
oir sa
where there was m . do .6.e
of
the wealthy mines there R
Pay any . municipal tact And .'the
Board gets buck from the Gopern-.
ent• onlY, $1700 for education, out
of government tares the mines pay.
Their Public; School budget ., alone
i 'about $2441,000-0.- year. ,_It ,doesn't
round fair; does ii¢? e
, I think 1 ranted B. bit about
'goings-on at conventions some time ..
ago,. 'I must lily that the papers
have had nothing irregular to say
about the educators who have been
here this last week. However, I
overheard one man" (a trustee, I
suppose) invite the. lady beside ;hiin
to go down and have a. snort,
She refused! I guess education Is
in pretty ; safe hands. •
Sfnderely,
THEE, COUNTRY MOUSE.,
Ilbronto.,
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REPRESENTATIVE OF THS
GALLOP POLL IN GODERiO 1
Mr. I).: R. E. Harrington,: 32
Regent street, .town, has been, ap-
pointed Goderich representative for•
the famous Gallup poll,,;the Can-
adian Institute ;of Public Opinion'
This,' , Mr., Harrington states, is a
purely . faetetinding organization,
whose only purpose is to measure
and report, ' through its member
newspaper, public •:sentiment on
issues of the day. It has no con-
nection with Governments or
political parties.
To measure public • opinions the
Institate•.ap'plies the sitimpling pro-
sseniikif r �;
r � tzie-ailei1ts^«sl'ly...su .re
etliat=.�:.�
all'tvpe 3 and, groups of the *muta-
tion, ai'e represented ere its sample
in their true proportions. •
• To maintain 'this sample, the
t'anlltlian Institute has a staff .of
335 interviewers located in• strategic
cities, towns and• villages; and in
farm areas from St. John's to Vic-
toria. The ."Gallup. reporters" in-
terview ofr the same Wee simultan-
eously: They -are, not allowed *to
intervieiv the same, person twice,
although, of oout•se,,athe seine types
are interviewed -Won on each ballot.
When pieced together • at the Insti-
.tete% head office, ' the 'results of
these thousands of personal inter-
views make up, like a giant jigsaw
puzzle, a picture Of opinion through-
out all parts of Canada. '
Thus, if one$Eluaste,r of the
population •of 'Canada are f ixtteers,
one-quarter of the total number
interviewed miiust be farriers'; • if
50 per cent. voteld, Liberal in the
O-li)
l'electit)fi4,• 50 per cent,. of triose
interviewed must come from those
ranks -and ,so on.
•
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