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""hFariiiifiiT'iiil. with}: moderate till))! N Q I _ _ t the vernmen -2" .r--r-t"e"th- ' , 2ti2tttt, New Ontario, and the "ttther, and 493:1": a"? 1t'u,tit there should be no restriction of. new book. " 0 e east inn settlement of New Ontario and the, that can be the, is that such condi- Government should remove irritat-g lions cause irritation and they do ing clauses in its "ggltt2'1' .33313; . at): lead to bigger and better l and ms I " l ngs.' 3231;13:311le work together harmo-. - _ niously in this 'great '2ie,vt,rohndr,, Little Information in Reports. concentrate e r energ T t ver Ger- aking up the last annual statemen Se,', t,l,"gtg'lel.t crutut fore l, of the Minister of Education. the Mr. Henri Morel (Nipissimth', speaker said the reports "Misap- taking notice of the previous Speak- pointing, .and they give very little er's remarks about fish, said Gov- idea of higher education throughout f ernment fish could He obtained at, the Province. There are five inspec- Cailender and North .Bay cheaper; tors in the English-French schools. than in Toronto. He denied money; and there are no reports. He asked was squandered on the roads in New if that was because there was noth- Toronto and ad.d.ed that the over-: ing that could be given to the public. sears were working for the wages; "I believe that whatever our views 'of common laborers. Referring Pl, may be on this vexed question. if it the new settlement gi'tg,lttio,g"i,.e'.)ft'i is ever going to be settled in this , understood ai',,";,,,,',)'"':,','?),,..",' Sign]?! Province now is the time to settle Icould get "flaws mgre'ln II', get the." it," he continued. All the members .settlers "1:? and it was: to protect' know the situation. and somebody is i f],',,','?,',',,'; lea timber sharks that the suffering all the time, and "we should . l 'lf,av'S.hl'lii't' had amended the regu-' uphold the principles we can in so far _ lations ' as giving a good English general . . education to the pupils of the Pro- _Centralization is overdone. vince." t . Mr. Marshall duo ed English an- Arr: Thomas. Marshall (Lincolnll thorities as to what is being done said it was 'g,,te,"iiai,1,Ule,tt t,.2,gglr there. In the very forefront is . a 'ere/it,,",,",',',",,,',','.!,'"),',, :kmrzgtm: iiiir movement looking to the health of ta,1o,,u,e,1,"t'.t iii; did not wish to in-l the youth of the nation. Military gill e in .captious criticism or par-l education is closely allied with this, . "my; attacks in view of the poli-; and when a Government sees that itical truce, but he wished to call; both the mind and the body are de- attention to what he considered too; veloped it does much for the nation much centralization in the Educa-l in peace times, and it is better pre- tion Department. In the last tent pared to meet extraordinary calls in _ iyears there had been a great In-l the time of war. In England it has Icrease in the headquarters staff of, been suggested that the school age -the Education Department and thel be raised to eighteen years. How- results were lun. greatly improved-l ever. it is not intended that a child He found thet Itt 19.1} itshtip, were! should remain at school constantly _ 25 J,,eeTi""'adl "it /,H,i,satg?,u?oei,i' until that age, nor that he should at- ipar me . . - Ci tend a night school after a hard - . ver $50,000. as com . " ' - 31% (it1in'holif the Minister's ofo! ' day S world Instead. the idea is to . lice and 6 on examinations. costing; shorten the 1""ka hours so. the less than 320.0(10 in 1905. The: child fan take up educational ,Education Depaitment had been dis-g work ill part time, and. thus fit him- itating to the Schools "f, 'ith/trt',',),'.) Sh]; better for the duties of citizen- nto and Queen's nivers ies.. .S l . lit: Eggady had direct autocratic; , - N, Icontrol ot 90 per cent. 1of the ecitiIl-'i Must Change Whole system. b la, . institutions an: apparen y, I . . r (:'i.,t,'i,oenftoi get control of those which I " think the system. without doubt, were left. Then there were inspect-l is all wrong. declared Mr. Marshall. tors over inspectors over .o.ther In- :We cannot change it by changing the spectors, and so on ad infinitum. regulations}??? fauna; change it by . , (-ianging o cas. , e w ole sys- ' Cancellation of. CAsrtmca,tes. tem must be changed. It is too nar- ' . m row and autocratic. We want some- ' cuihrathv1a,'ii'i1erl1n,'y'.,oihtfiu'iuntgte {he thing higher and greater for this regulations, students in the lowerl Province. The. reasonable way to do . schools have to rewrite their Normal this is to call in a committee of ex- School t'tt'J1tt,i/,',"sg hNew he hasl 'etr,t/'t,.'y.'"th" have done in the old ned that High c ool teachers, coun . , 33%: are not university graduates, Mr. Joseph Edgar (Parry Sound)§ have to send in their certificates and said that there are many unorgan- F get endorsed certificates He said ized townships in 'his part of the that it is a breach of faith for thel Province. It is a matter of regret department to cancel certificates. to many living in organized town- The Government pays between nine ', ships that people living in these un~ and ten per cent. of the local up- organized parts are not compelled to; . keep ot schools. but so far as the control is concerned it is in the inverse ratio. . The text books used in the schools . were. next touched upon by the member for Lincoln, and he said he did so not merely with the idea of "t , criticizing. He gave a list of the books required in the public schools up to and including the fifth form. ' In 1898 only 18 hooks were requir- ed and now 44 are authorized. The total cost at the present time of books is $13.44 as against $5.27 in 1.898, Deduct optional books and you have a cost of $10.86 as against $4.22 before. "I don't believe that . the work resulting throughout the - schools of this Province warrant such an extra expense upon the . people," said. Mr. Marshall. Juggling of Text-bodks. , Added to the eosf, of text-books it _ the coat of the Text-book Committee. In 1916 there was $22,000 for this committee. and in 1 17 814,000, or $86,000 in two Jew, spent "in juggling these textabooks." If these books have been satisfactory this , ' year and other years\ why should i' they be changed now He followed . the course of the tin primary, 'tolytintr out that five itrerent books [ fl,",", been used in twen y years. some _ , . "of which merely had \the binding lchanged. "We are ba k now to a 'Latin book very simila to the one _ Iwe started with," he sai . He point- ' ' led out that the geograph being need i ' to-day costs 65c. It hit: few maps, 2 y 'and an atlas has to be bought. too, " V V .. F it cost of 50c. 'Thia year ths history we ordered to be bound in one vol- _