Principal Urges | Lift For History CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) History teachers must take the is as interesting as George Washington, about whom every fullness out of Canadian history|American school boy is well in- ind lift it from the bottom of|formed, Dr. MacKinnon said. the school boy's ponilarity! The country that. Macdonald iscale, Dr. Frank MacKinnonjand other fathers of Confodera- Jsaid Monday. tion founded has one of the old- ' Dr. MacKinnon, principal ofiest governments in the world, 'Prince of Wales College in Char-|having watched the downfall of ' lottetown, speaking at the Ca-\most European, Central * nadian Association of Professors|South American countries tha' of Education annual here, said Canadian history is|time. too dull. Canadian history With rare exceptions, history|try to hide all the textbooks are "dull and unin-things" about Confederation, teresting," and fail to "satisfy|public life and history. Macdon-|{ completely any lingering ambi-|ald was not the dull, stately i and» meeting) were in existence during their/% "shouldn't |i unusual) tion" the school boy might have|politician the history books por- a had toward 'studying Canadan'tray, but for many years a} history. : "real rooting, tooting drunk, and He said better history instruc-jhe was proud of it." tion-is--the-first' step in Cana-}~ If history is made interest-| dians understanding their coun-jing, if school children. are told| ry try's Confederation and each/some of other, "Ask any Canadian child what| more willing to "try to remedy) he knows about. John A. Mac-|some of these when they grow donald. Nothing." Yet John A.'up," Dr, MacKinnon said. 'John A. Beats Devil' Brings Frowns, Titters CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) --,eral power in the 1878 election, An audience that was largely although he was personally de- comprised of teen-agers and/feated in London, Ont. younger ehildren greeted the) The play was. a combination| world premiere of John A.of comedy, largely induced by| beats the Devil with appiause,|Sir John's bottle-born sarcasms,| laughter, warm acceptance andjand serious history in its effort a faint air of disapproval Mon-|to bring John A. and his times day night. ito life. The Neptune Theatre com- a pany, led by a strong petform-/ TWEED WATCHES ance from Ted Follows as Sir| Author is Tommy Tweed, who John A. Macdonald got off to a'was in the audience watching slow start because of the titter-|his first stage play the weakness2s of federation; they will be much! F SINGING SEPARATIST Shortly after Richard Bizier | finished four months in jail for separatist terrorism he started singing in a Montreal night club. Bizier, who served four months of a. six-month sentence for his part in the Labor Contract Demands Become More Complex DETROIT (AP)--One of De-| =. \tend their stay--illegally. Pq | wealthy. oe 4 planting of a bomb at an RCAF centre, says singing gives him a chance to pass on a message and "to work for independence democratical- ly."* --(CP. Photo) jjand a hurried sun tan. Others) @ \stay several months. : {ing south, They get to | IME OSMAWA TIMES, Tuesdey, June 9, 1908 } 1 Canadians In Florida Sometimes A Problem MIAMI, Fla. (AP)--When the snow in Canada is knee deep, the warm, white sand on a Flor- ~eliaaaiag becomes most attrac No VISA NEEDED Thousands of Canadians head| Canadians don't need a visa or for Florida each winter. Some |e ee rhe to fe wr Be. anes yo-week vacation! *4tes. Iney ist be 'prepa: come for a two-week vaca as don oa Commtlon ey zenship, A six-month stay is per- And a small number try to ex-|™itted without any paperwork. "But it is a fact chat looking This group has become the/for and catching Canadian vio- No. 1 case load for the U.S, Ber-|lators is the Border 'Patrol's der Patrol, far surpassing any|chief job in Florida," Ahrens work which resulted from the/said. Cuban situation, It is so, despite, 'We find that the sneaky ones Florida's nearness to Latin|"sually have previous immigra- America and distance from Can-/tion records or criminal records. ada. ' Some are deserters from the "Every winter we have an in-|Canadian Army," flux of this type of Canadian--| Ahrens said American author- we call them snowbirds," saidjities have close liaison with Ca- Edward P. Ahrens, district im-|nadian officials, including the migration director. 'They come|Royal Canadian Mounted Po- down here to be with thellice. Information on persons fleeing Canadian justice is Tor-/duickly passed to law enforce- look-|ment officials on this side of the border. "no actual record of Canadian visitors is kept at the entry points,"" "When it's below. zero in onto, you can bet they're Florida and then they forget their visiter|IN THREE GROUPS status. The Canadians who cause | Ahrens emphasized that the|trouble were diyided into three offenders are few among theé/major categories: | great number of-Canadians who) 1. Those who come down to} visit Florida each winter. fleece the wealthy winter Flor-| "As a class, Canad pre-|ida visitors, ; sent no problem--they are fine 2. Those who want to live in people," Ahrens said, adding|the United States and try to get) that relations between the two'Jobs here. leountries has been so good that, 3 Those wanted for crimes in acai Canada or elsewhere. The multitude of contract He was troit's most respected labor re-jitems mentioned by the UAW/)to negotiate 54 weeks pay for ing of the school crowd, largely pleased with the production, but porters said rather plaintively| councils pointed up the involved brought on by a spectacular en- could see changes that might be trance from George Sperdakos made. as Belial Burns, the devil recently: "Wouldn't it be nice|negotiation picture that if. we could go back to the days U.S The play was less than pleas-| hon the unions used to ask for)sentatives who will face each faces industry and union repre- Burns entered amidst thun-jing to several clergymen in the a 15- or 20-cent raise--some- other across the bargaining ta- thing we could all understand?" ble this summer. der, lightning and brimstone tojaudience, who tended to be bring the audience up to da'e on|shocked by the reality of John Sir John's early life and the/A in the first act. devil's sneaky efforts to get in| He hoisted nine filled liquer his clutches. glasses, and downed seven mory) Two and a half hours later,'shots in the second. This was John A. won the bargain with in addition to several solid the devil by leading his Pro- swigs from assorted bottles and gressive Conservatives to fed- flasks. | Industrialists An innovation was a Hear Pope Rap System the scene's setting. cast changed the furniture,|t |the audience's attention from the| 'operation. i lsessions of the Ford, G j 'Motors and Chrysler councils of|Pay 1s. the United Auto Workers. tele-' there His comments came during a lull at press headquarters reporters covering the Practically every reporter nodded in supplemental benefits, annual as ivity factor, |lighting effects on the sign drew ment' factor, cost-of-iiving ad- justments, 85-factor and other;\company front and at UAW| UAW headquarters made several tems. for|that recent|ments do not eneral What the worker's present base The picture is so complicated the UAW and manage- even agree on MANY FACTORS There are so many factors agreement. involved in this year's negoti-| prompter 'for the audience--an/Thy had come from press cOn-/ations and interpretations of} overhead sign working on the|ferences at which union repre-\current contracts, that you can same basis as a television tele-|sntatives had tossed off such' get differing views on prac prompter that at all times gave| phrases While: the| employment un- tically any question you ask of produc: the improve-| UAW. auto companies or the Recent events both on the VATICAN CITY (AP)--Pope Paul told a group of industrial- points Working conditions and "We haven't a record of a sin- gle Cuban who has sneaked into the country during the present Castro situation," Ahrens said. | By contrast, he reported that |231 Canadians were sought out |and arrested for deportation in 11963, | Arrests of Canadians taper off in the summer, build up in the fall and reach.a, peak Jf Janu- ary. practice. 'We never intended 52 weeks work,' said UAW ----s President Walter P. Reuther. CORROSION IS COSTLY "We think our people are en-; The estimated cost of cor- titled to take some time offjrosion to British industry {s from their jobs to relax and $1,683,000,000 annually. rest up, not to spend what! should be their vacation. time at their job in the factory." | 3. Company managements are| going to be relying on economic guidelines set up by the federal) government to keep th UAW| sttlement from being inflation-| ary. Practically veryone agrees that in a year of big) automotive 'profits and substan-| tial salaries and bonuses to top automotive management, it will not be possible to offer the just token gains. The UAW's contracts with the big three run out Aug. 31. ists Monday there is "something, deeply wrong" with the modern, industrial system. } In a speech described by Bat- fean sources as "explosive," the! leader of the Roman Catholic) Church warned against attempts to use religion as a way of al- leviating resentment among the working classes. He said religion must show up "the fundamental deficiency of the system that pretends to con- sider as purely economic and automatically controllable the human relations deriving from the industrial phenomenon." Addressing members of the Congress of Christian Industrial- ists and Business Managers at t | early retirement are~ going to) ibe the big issues this time jaround. That does not mean the; Birth-Bar Pill UAW will not ask for a wage jincrease; it does mean that the Review Child's Report With Care, Experts Urge ists iss tty' For Men Seen é f . _isur on them as the U.S. autojtraceptive pill for men is just cards and examinations can be ee lit industry heads towards a pos- around the corner, & physiology damaging to a child's ment "ince this is now impossible|sible 8,000,000 car year. proredanr #4 Cambridge Univer.) health if his parents and t -|because patents seem wedded| The workers want more rest|S!' 9 i the nternational| DP . | sin las : : ' +|Planned Parenthood Conference! ers fail to put them 'In |to report cards (complete with time during their shifts AMC Manaay - | proper perspective, says a for-| percentages), the only practical/workers, for example, now get y. ' | mer dean of education at the|alternative would seem to be 10/44 minutes a day while the big Professor A. I arks told dele-| University of Saskatchewan. (try to reduce the harm done to\three contracts call for 24. ; gates that at first the pill had} Dr. SR. Laycock, now ajChildren's self-concepts and to) 2. The UAW top leadership is|toxic effects similar. to those of special lecturer in education at|their relationships with parents\committed to the idea of auto alcohol. | the University of British Colum-| 4nd teachers." workers taking yacation time} Now this had been eradicated| bia, writes in the April issue of This could be done by using off, rather than vacation pay asjand the pill was going on to} OTTAWA (OP) can bel Bz" PLAIN . Or FILTER Tip CIGARETTES the federal health department publication, Canada's Mental Health: "There is little in education that can be so damaging to the self-concept and to relationships with pupils as most types of report cards "In our society 'where success in moving up the socio-eco- nomic scale is a' major criterion of an individual's worth, chil- dren who do not receive high marks (on a uniform curricu- lum for their age group) are apt to receive severe blows to their self-esteem from their middle-class parents." In an article .on Promoting Mental Health in the School, Dr. Laycock says if "pep talks, scoldings, exhortations sure. punishments or could solve the problem of low marks, it would have been solved long ago." A host of factors are involved in school failures, including emotional and character dis- turbances, personality factors, home conditions, cultural. stand- ards and environmental situa- The festival was held in Oril- tions. lia last year and police were un-| Dr. Laycock believes most a private audience, the Pope said: "Ts it not said about you that you are the capitalists and the guilty ones? There must be something deeply wrong, radi- cally insufficient in the system itself, if it originates such so- cial reactions." Vatican sources said the pon- tiff was speaking against ef- forts to misuse religion to dis- courage legitimate labor pro- tests and was advocating the use of true religious principles in matters of conscience. "Folk-Fest Men Must Post Bond ORILLIA (CP) -- Organizers of the controversial Mariposa Folk Festival will meet with Medonte Township officials Wednesday to discuss the feas- ibility of holding the festival in the area this year. Organizers Randy Ferris and Martin Onrot of Toronto would be required to put up $200,000 in bonds before the festival is staged not fewer, ex.a min ations in| and growth." "intelligently conducted" par-'has become the fairly general'chemical tests, ent-teacher conferences to sup- plement report cards. | "At such conferences teach- ers and parents could search to- |gether as to how they can co- operate to help the child | achieve his potentialities and at his own rate of learning." | Dr. Laycock feels examina- tions in themselves are not a} danger to students' mental health. "It is the undue emphasis| termDlan loan placed on competitive examina-| | tions by parents and teachers ess mon that may cause damage | put "Actually, children continu- ° . ally seek to test themselves in| eee | into financing d int But in testing, teachers should move away from too great an| emphasis on fact-getting, to- e Car wards ways of testing pupils' other ways. 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