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The Signal, 1911-10-26, Page 2_ 'Itisam i, OCT mI tw iR 11111 aotdalca ustT•Itaa. PURL/SKID s.VEBT THURSDAY sr THE 8RUNAL MMINTINO CO.. Lanai: ea 'hMehsee (lea tow ts Terme et ss.seneONe : �esslvsweretba rete, emisemaers •til eu a home ryS��uab1as,e�e�tbses wb. taO Se asesevs Tut amYat etas b as will .mater • horse b mo- e us the tot at se sacly • 41e as t s sad Mi : s k `..re ale Amar lis Seen : Po sl amts ���� ailvertaiemenie. loo gams wMsesiet 'e rsr �tor •i ssavm_LL renin, tees teek- Burmem sada et dx Nam meld %Mee. es pr „Sr. ar Iia (ton. .elt�ersy ate 'ewe lies" lde eastiolea ase tel rites ; et let t 71s leis huhs la t moo Larselts�ely iAlso- cele w Ilea N melee lees them Siat'V' We Any w.otat notion, the eltysot of which I. the pecuniary Aeneas of nay iadivWaal or aseod- d u dreeUm eeeelt and Raton tor display and content advertise- ments will be given on a ,pllostto.. address Mt eou-nashatieas'or THE SIGNAL PRINiINti CO.. Limited. Oedericb Out OODERICIL THUatsuAY. OCT. S. tall. a— WAS THERE A PLOT ? The (lobs baa on several occasions asked an explanation ot the circum- stances attending a aeposit of $36.000 of Provincial: funds made by the Pro. wincing Treasurer of Ontario in the Farmers Bank some time before its Collapse. It is charged that this de- posit, or loan, was roads at the in stance of Dr. Beattie Nesbitt, now twiny* from justice, and W. F. Mac lean, proprietor of The Toronto World, and that at or about the same time Nesbitt got 124,000 from the Beek ani Maclean got 810,000. The Globe's Latest reference) to the matter is as follows: i1u!rd/efe/ ir Hee. --�.—..r.�.v�...., will not ve the the duty of explaining the loan of $36,000 of the people's mosey to The Toronto World and Dr. Beattie Nes- bitt, Conservative boss, through the Farmers Bank. The facts as they ap- pear on the surface are on public rec- ord. The Farmers Bank was short of money and the Province bad abund- ance, Dr. Beattie Nesbitt wanted money to buycontrol of the Keeley mine. The World wanted money for its own purposes. The Farmers Bank could not meet the demands: in fact, it was approaching the inevitable col- lapse, There was an increase in the Government's special deposit in the Bank from 810,000 to 836,000, an in- crease solicited by the mauager of The Toronto World. There was also a loan of 810,000 to the Toronto World and 896,009 to Dr. Beattie Nesbitt. These two events are not a mere coin- cidence. Without the one the other would have been impossible. The Bank would not have made these ad- vances without the aid of the Govern- ment. It is not st all probable, 'or even possible, that the Provincial Treas- urer would have made this most pecu- liar and improper disposal of Provin- cial money without consulting his colleagues. With him they are equally responsible and possessed of equal authority. They must have known all about the influences or mo- tives abroad in the matter. Such large sums are not handed about promisceously. It will probably, be declared that the Ontario Ministers knew nothing about the ultimate des- tination of the people's money when they gave it out. If that is true, their innocence and simplicitycertainly disqualify them for ther positions. If they knew or suspected the destina- tion of the people's money, it was a glaring breach of trust. But no one should be condemned without a hear ing. The public money is gone. Gov- eronrental explanations will not bring the Beattie Nesbitt loan back, but it may give the affair a lees ugl aspect. The people await the explanations. a 7HE CASE OF VIOLET SMiTH. The body of Miss Violet Smith, .ft young school teacher in the Parry Sound district who had been missing for .-tome days was found in the river near her hoarding house, and the coroner's jury brought in a verdict of suicide. The case has attracted wide- spread attention, and The Toronto Globe in an editorial article makes the following comment • "The young school teacher whom body was found in the river at Dillon's Port on Thursday may have Dome to her death by her own act or at the lands of some assailant, but in either Dace her tragic fate ahouid he laid to heart b the people of Oatarie. A timid slip of a girl nineteen years of age, she west oat from Toronto a few "reeks ago to teach school in a thinly settled 9urtbn of Parry Sound dis- Met. Writing to her sister* after she hook up _her duties, she said she had heard Were elating to Dillon's Port that it wee a rough place, and the =whew elayoi the more *be real- Ihs Ovando oto salmistoday who are gassed N but ted with the slights and naisseeefiet fist Violet Smith evi- tM O erose maned in Dub.'. Peter All them are decent. good ten. e slow �m'o their home* sad hearts, while the seams and ignorant sod too often tel .intoes mak, bet We .tremble. Cleuslag he iteddertien ef worseneem near the bho h her pprie- by a yegaiw ldil". tae ears et Iwhich educational work is cooduoted on the edge of ttlemeal. "And the tact standing out tuo. clearly is that it is man's work and not woman's. There is no mien just' enation for smiting out pomata tomb ere to fronthe esesmtmilies stem -tor sending out woman engineers er sur- veyors. Attie all. man is fashioned and termed to do the world's rough work, end while teaching on the out skirts of civilization is not rough work in a physical sense, it requires tb robust speciality of a man to one. with its dhoorragements and its handicaps. Canada today needs rev oral thousand male teachers than it needs almost anything else men who will snake a iifework of profession, men by whom the oondi lions that overwhelmed Violet Smit would be overcome speedily on physical -force basis. The return, of the Normal schools of Ontario prove that teaching has be- come almost exclusively a woman's profession. - in sympathy and insight, find in the desire to influence those *abs them for good, women teachers we dash excel, but there are other gwalltAr that count. The strength aid virility and the wore rigid disci- pline of the tale teacher mean agrett deal in the making of child character. The children of Ontario are getting out of band largely because of the absence d male teachers from the schools, in dealing with rough growing lads es- pecially, the pleas, of the woman teacher in not likely to be so effective es the "moot" of the mate. "No greater service in Canada could be rendered than to resters the male teacher to his former place. It might add several million dollars a year to the cost of education, but it would be worth far more than it would cost. Why should not the Ontario Depart - meat of Educetioa devise means of stimulating the employment of male teachers even to the extent of boatus- ing them if necessary in the case of frontier settlements?" The Toronto Mail and Empire makes a somewhat similar comment. and adds a criticism of the policy of the Toronto board of education. It says : ME 811i►N AL : (ODBRICH, ONTARIO iedideial prosperity for the tows. In the tads of building up this Iles l comer of Hasty, we must all week . *otdd.r to shoulder, without any - ' p�yn. jealousies between the dit- fe•sst towns or between town and country. Principal Petereos of Mcdiil Cal- e varsity, relerrisg to newspapers as Outsrb Moo. A. 0. Mackay, leader ed tJ Sin Mackay on Education. Abolition q/ the Model Schools A Yfstihe-'•-Fundus G7�ftlti School Text.bolis Jiod trial E�cation. In his address to the electors et more shale • a "Kind' or indifferent, or even hos- tile, though her new acquaintances might be, the young girl of eighteen is seldom sufficiently- indurated to with- stand the fits of dreadful homesick- ness that come to most young absen- tees. In many cases these periods of profound depression may become black despair, to be followed by the single determination of escaping at fast as possible from such a situation. yRoutPpr e tly, luck hqw *r, tame most of tN. y!' concur themselves to their' lonely lot and go through with it, but when they return to their own people they are no longer light-hearted girls. "Much as these conditions are to be deplored, it i, difficult to prescribe a cure. It is not difficult, however, to point to one factor that makes the battle of life harder than it might otherwise be for young teachers trained in this city. That is the pol- icy of the Toronto board of educa- tion. In the first place it insists that the teachers it employs shall be ex- perienced, and where else shall they obtain their experience if not in some remote school district ? So it simply drives Violet Smith and hundreds like her to Dillon Port and a hundred other lonely outposts. Now the board is considering the idea of re- fusing to employ any teachers who apply to join the staff after they have reached the age of thirty. So Violet and the othere must hurry back if they are not to be too late, and their places taken by another lot of tender girls. The tragic `history of the girl whose body was found in the She- bashekong River ought to teach us that in the case of the young girl who goes out to earn her own living among strangers there is something of the beroic and the sublime that ought to make its appeal to the least seo- eitive of those among whom she fights her lonely battle." EDITORIAL MOTES. Have you looked to see if your name is on the voters' list for 1911? The price of hogs continues to drop, but there is no corresponding reduc- tion in the price of pork products as they reach the consumer. Every time a farmer sells an animal off his term these days he ought to figure out bow much be loses by not having the United States market open to bin. Lord Ro.ebery confesses himself de- pressed by the sight of the enor- mous collections of books in the great libraries. The noble earl should re- flect that the books will not hurt him if he doesn't reed them. The Montreal Witness is informed that three-quarters of a million was subscribed in Montreal alone to the Conservative campaign fund for the recent election, some firms contribut- ing as much as 136,000 each. An far about the only declarations of policy we have bad from the party in power haws cons* from the Bouraesa wing. Is the country to psrwume that the Bourewaitss are the whole thing In the Bordet Cabinet ? The Liberals of South Wellington have nominated James Issas Melo toeb, proprietor of The Guelph leer - eery. as their candidate for the Legis- lature, it kooks like a name to win by. and we sspeet to see South Wel- lington is the Liberal entente when the votes are counted. Tbs people of (`Hama are showing a revival of the progressive spirt whish has usually teen ■ enWest among them, and It is hoped that the nervy - Ian et the inhntrial bylaw voted up - ea last week will mark a fresh see d one of the •'.ymbeis of rivilizatloo in this country," mays "we never cease praying for their improvement." No doubt the newspaper owners ars duly grateful, but praying will not be ac- cepted as a satisfactory substitute for Paying. George Tate Blackstock has publicly expressed his regret that University insuentis in the city of Toronto is much leas than it was twenty-five years ago. But how can Mr. Black- stock expect a few thousand students to exert much influence upon the mul- titude of Philistines who dominate the comssarcirtl, political and even the social life of the city ? The public accounts for the last fiscal year, ending March 31st, show that the last year of Hoc. W. S. Field- ing's administration of the Dominion's finances was the best on record. The 'tiepins of revenue over ordinary ez- peoditure was 830,000,211. Next year should be better st111, judging from the returns for the six months April to September. during which the country's trade showed a large in- crease. It is noteworthy that his increase of trade took place „tarring the patio.' of discussion of the recipro- city pi peals, an evidence that the commetriul interests of the country did not fear any evil results from the policy of free trade with the States in farm products. The Signal last week stated its be- lief that the falsehoods circulated by opponents of reciprocity in the recent campaign had much to do with the re- sults. It was not only in Ontario that the voters were misled. In the Mari- titpe Provinces„we ars ieformed, t set instrumedts. Among the falsehoods circulated among the people down by the sea were these : That if Laurier were re- turned the fishermen would lose the bounties paid them out of the interest on the $5,000,000 paid by the United States in settlement of the fisheries question ; that if the Liberals suc- ceeded United States fishermen would be allowed to fish in the bays all along the coast ; and that there would be conscription for the navy. All false- hoods; and there were others. A vic- tory gained by such methods cannot be permanent. Some wiseacre, described by The Toronto News as a well-known Con- servative trom Eastern Ontario, states that the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa, was warned two pears ago that 88,000 Canadians wereleaving for the United States every year and that something should be done to prevent the loss of population in the rural sec- tions. The Minister of Agriculture did not require any warning as to the decline of the rural population : the facts were patent to everyone who had his eyes open. Mr. Fisher and the Government of which he was a member introduced a policy which would have secured wider and better markets for the farmers and would have done more than anything else to increase the rural population of Eastern Canada, but The News and the Conservative party would have none of it.. The question now is, what will the Borden Government do in the face of the fact, revealed more clearly than ever by the figures of the census, that all is not well with agri- culture in Ontario and the Eastern Provinces? Albert Sevigny, member for Dor- chester, Quebec, has been invited by Premier Borden to second in French the address of the House of Commons in reply to the speech from the Throne at the opening of the new Parliament Mr. Sevigny is another of the Boureasa-Monk erowd whom Mr. Borden delights to bona. During the resent campaign he was one of the most violent opponents of the navy, and, It is said, wept (in public) over the poor Canadian children who were to he sent on warships in the Chinese or African seas to be used as gun flesh for the benefit of the Ling aBngland. A few days before the election. be said. in an iatarylew published in La Petrie : "The Liberals shall be de- feated, and Mr. Borden that be called as Premier, and Kr. Borden shall re- peal lbs navy set. if be dose not re- peal it. we shall turn heck agaimt him." The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons under the new re- gime is to he P. S. Bkmdls. mem►sr for Champlain, whose anti-Seesish speeches have made bins seeefi*us- The people are baginnies to aerie who ie ruling the roost at Ottawa. Dr. Clapp, of YWmay. and Jobs Joyst, ofLiteenow, went to the Whet at the (kaservative convention Is South Brew fire the selection of a ass - &data toe the iraidature. Dr. rsaMred twrli the Mess east sod per he the Mrisis.R the lbs Opposition, speaks ot educational matters as follows: "The inezppl1ioable bungling of the Education Department has its Hest serious effects in the rural districts. Owing to the stubborn attitude taken by the depaand rtment nt against allplead- bbeen larneetehkr scarcitytois f qualified teachers, with the result that a large =tare of our schools are Ii the hands of wtrairasd and unqualified teachers. Years ago the Opposition made it perteotiy plain that if the model schools were wiped out at one blow this would d necessity lead to the scarcitynow experienced in the rural distrcts. It was then pointed out that numbers of our normal - trained teachsrs go to the West, where, without further examination, they are qualified to teach. Six hun- dred of such went west last year. A plea for even a survival of lbs fittest of the model schools was in vain. The Government were deaf to warn- ing, impervious to knowledge, with such deplorable results that last year we find in the riding of East Peter- borough, for example, that 42 per cent of the rural schools were in the band, of untrained and non-qualified teachers,holding only what are usually called 'permits.' From Inspector Til- ley's report submitted to the counties council of Northumberland and Dur- hem urham we find that in 1900 there were seventy rural schools in this inspector- ate, in which schools there were two file, -class, twenty-two .cooed -class and forty-six third-class teachers, and not a single teacher holding any kind of temporary certificate or permit - In 1910 in the same seventy schools there were two fleet -class, twenty- seven second -char, twenty-two third- class and not less than nineteen teachers with no regular qualifications whatever. Thirty-one unqualified teachers in Eget Peterborough and nineteen in the west inspectorate of Northumberland and Durham see but specific illustrations of what is prevalent over the whole Proyince, Tb. Text -looks. "The deliberately false claim of the Government that the public school Readers oat but forty-nine cents is now pretty well understood. The facts are that the Province employed and paid a large committee to collect and select all reading matter for the Readers, paid for all illustrations, such as cuts and lithographs, and, ,sit is said, actually set up the type, and then handed ail these over to a de- partmental store to run the books off, fpaying forty -sine cents for this week, ret tie sense time telling the people of the !torture that this was the w bole met of the &leaden. in other re*snts the nature of tie bargain made with Ws departmental store is extremely It is expressly pro - that a parsec in any wt of the Pro.iase may mess direct trees the departme.M1 stop at meetly the sate pees that he pays is his ewe house 'Mall soore, The smolt of is evident. It sande to plans heartiness in the lend our the lag list of • Toronto depsrtms store. to the great disadvantage only et the retail bookseller. big otherthe he Pm*. ism What t e Oposit foasNtended was that, if decided thus to cut out the retail tirade, the Provisos should have pub- lished the books and given demos to the people of the Province at petusl coot, Technical Education. "What the Opposition desired and moved for was the appointment of • competent commission who would not only as ertais all facts, but who would be competent to, and would actually, conduct an educational cam- tingn throughout the Provinoe In of industrial evening classes in all our factory towns- Such a com- mission could and would have inter- ested civic councils, hoards of trade boards of education, employers and citizens generally in favor of a move- ment to give a quare deal to the lad who at an early age leaves the school for the workshop. The demand and the necessityfor such schools are evi- denced by te fact that it is estimated that about 81,000,000 annually is paid by ambitious artisans and mechanics anxious to improve their position to schools of correspondence south of the line in a vain endeavor to get some general knowledge of the principles that underlie their chosen yooation. In 1900 this Province assisted educe tion as follows : $1.38 for every public or separate school student, 84.06 for every high school or collegiate in- stitute student, $11343 for every model or normal school student, 8126..86 for every university student. Against this expenditure no complaint is made. But bas the Province no financial or ethical duty to perform with reference to the lad who cannot afford possibly even to enter the high school hut who leaves school at an early age to enter the workshop ? The bare passing of an act dealing with industrial alucetion is the Gov- ernment'sng answer last ses- sion to the emend of the Opposition for years." 'To a Friend.' If the wide world stood row on row, And stapes at yea began to throw, I'd boldly out with them to fight. Saying they were wrong and you were right. It every bird on every tree. With note u loud as loud could be, Sang endlessly in your dispraise. One graceless thought It would not raise. It all the great. and miss. and good, Upon your sins in judgment stood— They'd simply waste their valued breath. For' I'm roar friend through Life and Death. If i were wrong, and they were right. I'd not believe (for all their might.). Not even If all they said were true. For you lois me and i love you. —Desmon. Mountjoy, in "The Hills of Hest' FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Voted for It. Stratford Beacon. Canned goods are dearer, but the people voted for this, and we shall have to make the beet of it. A job for G. T. B. SimeonReformer. A report comes siren the water to the effect that the Unionist party in England is greatly in want of a new leader. This is a bit careless on the part of the Unionists. Surely they know that George Tate Black- stock is not very busy at present, Was It just a Dodge? Vancouver Times. Any way you look at it, there is something fishy about the way Mr. Borden and Mr. Monk are able to get together after the election when for two years before it they were not, so far as the public could see, on speak- ing terms. Was it all a put-up game t Longfellow Up to Date. Farmer's Adveeate. Were half the cost bestowed on need- less fences Given to redeem the farmer's fields from weeds, There were a double beoedt and a maeb-improved appearance On many homesteads, Not Amiens to Catch Him Stratford Ilssess. Premier Whitney and his Govern- ment are not showing any great Anxiety to bring batik to justice the chief wrecker of the Farmers Bank —Dr. Beattie Nesbitt, if they had any regard for the sdminietration of hustles on broad non-partisan lines they could have aaptared him months age. The inference to be drawn from Noe Government's Inactivity is that they have something to tear from the exposures he might make. Here Are the Posses. Banti— Ttmsa We all rue-.boehew Whitney wed to pose sad attitudinise nu the sibql querarn, and bow he tad adjsaNvge ea the Manse at starches the wigs ssh*ele at w M per eget. to fe Ms MIh wheal, and (adversities of the 8 esg Wel, we have bad eves i Walt ay role, and the Prowls - omits are vuMss rural and erelsi esimis, 1243: collegiate le - Whom KM I bite and sspare,/e 'sh�,sys�with • evengeance,I nlet It , the Signal trona sow to mammary tat, IMS, to new wenmibww. $1.011. NERVES Young and old have them. Some abuse them. They get tired. starved. 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