Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 13 to 24 free Jim of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights of text april 15, 1925 e. It. Mack let. President and general manager. it the general Post Otyce in Doti kne., through the oils in the British Isles at Iii ludic Revenue rates. Railway economics favored in parliament during the past couple of weeks a number of members of standing have strongly advocated that ent of the National railways and the Canadian Pacific railway should be induced to get together in order to agree upon a plan the elimination of wasteful duplication of railway service. Or a. K maj master believed that we could save in. The tens and twenties of millions by the adoption of such a policy. Amongst the other members who deplored the duplication were a. B. Hud son w. D. Euler Robert Forke and a. F. Maclean. It is quite probable that the subject will be further discussed when the Esti mates of the National railways Are presented to parliament and considered by the special committee which deals with them. And there is a Prospect of a Well defined and insistent movement t look to the removal of the duplication and the saving of millions for both the big railway systems. It is quite natural of course that these keenly competitive Aih Vays should each want to maintain a full service throughout the country so As to attract to itself the greatest possible amount of traffic and to Lay the foundation for future business. But if these services Are. As alleged in Many respects away beyond the event of the country and if the expense of maintaining them is a Factor in keeping railway rates up then the subject is assuredly one that wills for thorough consideration. It cannot be stated too often that transportation charges Are i Handicap upon the development of this country and that it is necessary that railway rates to kept As Low As possible. The existence of i lie two railways systems must be recognized. The of government. Is not going to take Over the c.p.r., nor is the National system going to be handed Back to private interests. In time there will be plenty of business for both railways with full services Between All Points. But in the meantime and until the population and the railway raffle increase considerably it would n. System of schools that will make for Good citizenship and that will promote a High Quality of human life. The real on for this expectation lies in the deeply rooted Fath of americans in education. To one can come closely in touch with. The schools of English speaking North America in the United states and Canada with out a. Firm conviction that in Herent desire for education and the sound common sense this people will in time find their Way to sys tem of schools which will serve for the development both of intelligence and of character. The widespread discontents touching tha weakness and the mistakes of the past years Are themselves indicative of a sound attitude. Slowly but none thu less sure we will As a people our faces toward an idea of education which rests upon simplicity Slicer Ity and thoroughness. To in this direction is the beginning of True in the welter of criticism which characterizes the times doctor Pritchett considered that the three great organizations of society Are under fire government religion and education. The remedy for thin unrest lies the discovery of. The fundamentals upon which Progress depends. Is Well to recognize the daily saying of Sara Slough a free press produced a free press staff writer. It May be that the country is suffering from a two things depression and expression at the outset that Progress begins from some definite of truth Root Iid in experience and reason. It floes not begin in no Man s further Progress depends upon the direction one travels rather than on the Speed at which to travels. Enormous Advance in fifty years organized Public education in the United states has made enormous Advance since the civil War and the president undertakes to Survey this Advance and glean the suggestions which it May have for the future. Public education has not come into existence by logical Progress first the elementary then High school and later the University. Universal education through a system of popu Lar schools is a distinct achieve ment of modern he Dis covers. The University on the other hand is the child of the Middle Ages the i offspring of the revival of learn ing. In both Europe and America therefore some adjustment had o be effected Between the com Mon schools instituted for Universal education and the already a jointing universities. No Small part of the difficulties and perplexities of educational Progress has Arisen in the Effort to adjust the democratic sys tem ,3f common schools to the older institutions of higher most satisfactory Massachusetts made first for schools in 1647. The plan spread Over the continent. In these schools it was provided that every child should learn Reading writing and arithmetic. The re sults says or. Pritchett from these elementary schools with their simple and meagre courses of study constitute the most satisfactory achievement of the american Publ i school system. The initiative and the ability to think for himself manifested by the typical american of the first half of the nineteenth Century Are due in a Largo measure to thu fifty years which followed saw Fin Effort to articulate the Karl Ous vehicles of education. The jut come is a system of Public education made up of an elementary school demanding the attendance Oil a child from his sixth to his four teen Ali year a secondary school for Liberal education from fourteen and eighteen to Twenty two my verily for professional study trom Twenty two to Twenty five or Twenty six depending on the profession to be followed. To Complete them Alt upon a typical programme requires a longer time than is demanded in any other civilized country. In Europe the system of Liberal Educa Tion includes an elementary and i secondary school at the age of is or 19. From the e secondary school the youth enters the University some younger than the american who graduates from College. If this expenditure of time As compared with that demanded in the european meant a corresponding in intellectual Power it would be justified. No such justification can be or. Pritchett. However does not deny to the fifty years since the inception of Public schools their Mead of Praise. The the Zaat fifty Advance of he argues Shona magnificent results in Broad ening the Means of culture Anci of training. In bringing the scientific subjects into the curricula in leak ing education available and attractive vast numbers who before had 110 inclination towards education. It has provided lab Ira tories and Library facilities for study such As the know ii of recent years the Haj her institutions Are going still fur user and ure providing for adults the opportunities for higher complications and by pro duds thin quantitative Progress Tho pros went thinks has brought ,1 pith it certain complications among Vliem. The danger of attempting too much the i school system that Doss Pittes its Energy in the Endeavor to Jim social activities will in time forget or primary intellectual purpose which it exists. The Currly Ulaj of the eld time common school Ivas mean a the classical programming of studies in the colleges of fifty Iiara ago was narrow but they both stood for Trie Conception that a. Liberal education Lay in training the and Powers of the mind. In the enormous expansion of the course study in making the High school a Vestibule to the College in adding the Ever new activities that now overshadow the intellectual purposes of High school and College Ameri cans have come to look upon a. Lib eral education the acquiring of knowledge. To learn to observe to marshal the facts of observation and to think out the Correct answers to be drawn from thase facts constitute the foundation of a Liberal Edu cation. To recognize once More that a Liberal education does not consist in imparting knowledge but in training the habits and Powers of the mind must be the beginning of any freshening of our school sys position of secondary school another complication he discovers in the subservience of the secon Dary school to the its courses Are planned not so much to educate its pupils As to enable a minority to pass the requirements for College Entrance. True a pro gramme of vocational studies had been included to enable students to gain Entrance to certain vocations. These two tendencies the Public High school has to a. Consid Erable extent lost of its orig Inal Ideal As a people s College again the High school when it a the people s College and the american College of a generation ago conceive themselves As intellectual agencies such activities As Lay. Outside the classroom debates oratorical con tests prize essays partook of Thi intellectual life. Today the outside activities in the College overshadow and run counter to the intellectual life. No reasonable Man will object to the employment of these activities example athletics in their do perspective. But when they Are Al Lowed to dominate the intellectual life of the colleges they become t is secondary school or. Pritchet holds is the determining Factor the educational Structure. This school has been dominated by the Entrance requirements of the College and yet the situation is not Satis factory to the colleges who find themselves with a Large number o those who have not Learned to use their minds. The result is that a Large number Are eliminated in to Reshman year a process not whole some for the College. Or for those summarily College Entrance requirements the College of today is thus faced with the necessity of framing Entrance requirements in such y Ash Lon As to secure fit preparation or its own work and at the same me to leave the secondary schoo i Large measure of Freedom to do to distinctive work of Liberal Edu cation. The one sure Way of thinks or. Pritchett is to follow he path of intellectual sincerity and o go Only so 1 a and so fast As we can do with certainty. The present College Entrance requirements Pur port to furnish a test of the fitness t applicants to enter College. As a Natter of fact they admit a. Large proportion of students not ready Foi College whose happiness and useful Ness would be found along other paths. Some sincere test of in Teller Ual training Independent of the secondary school teacher and so planned As to leave to the secondary school its Freedom to offer a Liberal education to the great mass of its pupils Wilt serve alike the College and the secondary these Entrance requirements should be in the do9tor s opinion a est on a few fundamental subjects on which will be demanded a High order of performance. These sub acts must be those that make for the training of the mind Ana he sub mits the following Correct writing and pronunciation of the English language. Reading of 25 selected books each year not with a and a discussion their contents y each applicant. Mathematics including arithmetic plane geometry and mechanical drawing. Constitution and govern nent of the United states with reference to tie duties of citizenship. S simplification of educational machinery discussing the length time con ume d in the american As compared with the european schools. Or. Ritchett makes a plea for intellect Ual sincerity which he is he test by which simplification he educational scheme May be be ured. An elementary school covering in years a secondary school to Over three and an undergraduate ollege of three years All addressing themselves to the work of a Liberal education in the sense of training be Powers of the mind can be made far More fruitful than our resent diffuse and time consuming courses of pro digested e argues. To serve the great body f the children and of youth to satisfy the Universal or the exercise of individual skill we must open up from the Elemen. Ary school and from the secondary school leading to technical schools in the trades in agriculture and in the arts. Our school system of to Day Falls Short in two fundamental Liberal education in the sense of training the Powers of the mind and a technical training for skill in. The arts and crafts. University of . On foundation other sections of the report Deal with a Legal and of dental education pension systems discus Sion of the establishment of old age annuities by universities and col Leges and of teachers insurance and of occupations for retired teachers. It is interesting to note that the University of British Columbia has been admitted to the associated j4st of the foundation and has adopted the contributory plan of retiring allowances for its faculty. Other Canadian universities entered on this list Are Dalhousie Queens Mcgill and Toronto. Politics the reduction came late. Edmonton bulletin it Cost the provincial government to land Worth Al Berta cattle and horses in Japan. Even for a. Trial shipment made in. Hope of uncovering a new Market fur Alberta. Products in the. Orient the Experiment seems to have come rather High. As the government does not appear to have trouble in getting the shipping companies to Cut the Ocean freight rata from per head to per head after the trial shipment was made there is room to with a Little More urging the. Companies could have been got to Cut the rates before the Stock a was shipped. Birthday congratulations to Peter Thornton c.a., Winnipeg born Edinburgh scot., april 15, 1850. Bliss Carman poet and author born Fredericton n.b., april 15, 1861. H. P. Albert Hermanson jll.a-, Buchanan sask. Born Harjo Sweden april Xgo. 1ss1. Hon. Charles St Warvin West Edmonton Hon. Charles Stewart minister of the Interior will accept the Liberal nomination for West Edmonton it is offered him by the Liberal convention. That Means that he will be the candidate according to the Calgary albertan which also thinks he will be elected. It says or. Stewart regarded West Edmonton his Home constituency be cause he had Long been resident of that Riding. He has also been some what sensitive about running in any Riding where a member of Parlia ment has been sitting in the pres ent House. In the present House sir. Kennedy represents West Edmonton but that big Riding has been divided peace Kiver being added. The is a resident of peace River and will contest that seat. That leaves West Edmonton without any number. Or. Stewart should. Win in West Edmonton. Whether the liberals carry another seat in the province. Is the albertan says that Atha Basca should be a fairly certain Liberal seat except for a dispute within the party Over the Nomina Tion and that Liberal candidates in any other Alberta Ridings will Start under a decided opposed to farm credits entire opposition to or. Tory a recommendation in favor of farm credits is voiced by the financial Post which says that that is its conclusion after considering Tho interests of the Farmers Banks and mortgage companies. It says in part we believe that the revival of the idea that the government by using the Public credit to get the Farmers easy Loans can avoid the inevitable which Fol lows such a period of inflation As was experienced in Western agriculture is Likely to have regrettable consequences whether the plan is adopted or not. The conviction of experienced business men who have examined into Western conditions is that the difficulties which Are now being surmounted Are the result of too much credit rather than too Little. Farmers unconsciously Are poor Bor rowers from standpoint. The sound business the Aid which the governments. Render is in taking Steps to remove the present prior lines which Are undermining the position of the mortgagee and keeping capital out of the country. When Confidence is thus restored there is no reason Why the Western provinces should not find capital As readily available and at As attractive rates As in the Eastern provinces. If. When Normal conditions Are restored there Are definite indications that there is. A real need far some form of credit not now Avail Able we believe that such a need can Best be supplied by some joint plan Between the existing loaning institutions perhaps with the co operation of the and employing the financial machinery now available rather than the organization of eom.-3 new govern mental system based on the credit of the redistribution in Ontario the redistribution Bill introduced by the Ferguson government and passed by. The Ontario legislature just before prorogation eliminated nine Rural constituencies and added ten Urban constituencies the total number of seats being increased 111 to 112. Toronto gets five new seats and now has fifteen in All. One additional sekt each was also Given to London Windsor and Ottawa and a new seat was added in. South York largely Urban. Since the conservative Strenz Rolv is in the cities in the Rural. Districts the government stands to gain considerably from increasing the seats in the former and reducing them in the latter. It Lias also lessened the Force of opposition which May have been Cre ated in the province by its Legisla Tion providing for 4.4 per cent Beer the redistribution still leaves great inequality Between the constr turn Russell Lang s Western Canada s oldest and Bert bookshop Somerset bide., Winnipeg. Bookshop news our Busy bookshop is the rendezvous of Many teachers this week. Notice they Are very keenly brows off around the big clearance Book table on the Mezzanine boor. Naturally members of the teach Init profession Are Book lovers and a Book Lover dearly loves a bargain. Our London buyer to Bend i us us a Jot of very delightful these Days. Tember slip in the Book lovers Library is now Uway Over the will be 1.500, and such Nice things Tho enthusiastic members nay about it. One nne big Rood looking englishman who takes out eight books per week avs. Our Library beats any English Library . Ever subscribed clean books ure always we add 2uu new Voli Nues each week Aud take out an Many so that Trio books Are clean Recti copies. The Joys and girls Book club u also sailing la membership Dally. We intend Makins it one of the Best juvenile libraries i Canada. The first Complete sets of the new edition of tub Clell. Dren e those wonderful books of knowledge edited by Arthur Mee. Have just arrived from London. To arranged Over two years Ait for these sets and Are thus Able to save our customers at least Twenty dollars to have a very attractive dollars cosh and the balance in Small monthly payments see in our West window. 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