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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBQRNE, ONT. THURSDAY, FEB. 24, 1955 3 CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA IF THEY CARRIED SIGNS. It would be interesting to know it motoring behaviour on the part of drivers might not be considerably improved if the offender, in addition tc a fine, were required to carry a glgn op bis car for a week, stating tctat b* had been, found guilty of negligent driving. Very few negligent drivers would like to advertise their own incompetence in such fashion.--Calgary Herald. IN TRANSIT Like most sizeable communities, Kitchener has its quota of stray or homeless pigeons. One of the birds has become a practical hitch-hiker. When tired, he alights atop a moto-car. 'les a few city blocks,, then «o; )ft and rejoins his mates. The les .curesome pigeons consider his action rather "flighty" but it ran-not be said that the creature is dumb In the full sense of the word--Border Cities Star. NEAT AND TIDY. It is difficult enough to keep residential premises neat and tidy without the constant trouble of picking up and disposing of a number of unwanted handbills every day. The greatest objection to the handbill, as we see it, is the method of distribution. If it is mailed in the proper way, then the householder can either read it or put it in the furnace, as he wishes. But when it is thrown in his doorway, it usually blows out on to the lawn and, by the time he gets it, it is" just a dirty mess--Kingston Whig-Standard. PROMISES. Critics of Prime Minister Bennett's startling economic reform policy are harping much just now upon his 1930 promise to end unemployment in Canada and claiming that he did not keep that promise, for which reason they doubt whether his present promises mean anything. It may be that thoughtless people in 1930 assumed that Mr. Bennett proposed to perform an over-night miracle when he made that promise. It is certain that he had no such ronto coroner's jury added a ridt their verdict recommending "that dealers in second-hand cars b< quired to get a certificate from the police department that a car sold is in fit mechanical condition to be driven on the highway." This suggestion calls attention to the fact that not one province in Canada calls for an examination of automobiles before licenses for same are issued.--Peterboro E CAN BE CONTROLLED Diphtheria is essentially a disease of childhood, and it is most important that all children, especially young children, be immunized. The records of cases and deaths in Toronto afford ample proof of the efficacy of toxoid.--Toronto Mail and Empire. THE BORSTAL SYSTEM One of the most interesting a nouncements in the Speech from the Throne was the statement that the Government was considering the option of what is known as "Borstal System" in connection with youths sentenced to penitentiaries. There has been no previous intimation that the Government had under advisement this reform. The Borstal system, so-called, an effort to segregate youths from 16 to 21 from hardened It gets its name from the village of Borstal, Kent, where the early experiments on youths were carried out in an old convict prison, prior to the passing of an act in 1908 carrying into effect the principles of those urging that youths should not he sent to penitentiaries with professional and older criminals. The rules and regulations under the act are based on the principle that up to a certain age every offender may be regarded as potentially a good citizen, that his lapse into crime may be due either physical degeneracy or bad social environment, and that it is the duty of the state at least to try to effect a cure, and not to class the offender off-hand and without experiment with the adult professional criminal. As a part of the system there have been founded in England Borstal Associations to provide for the after care of all persons discharged from Borstal institutions. This is a vital B^t' 1 ^,^°a'*t*St tW0 out of tllree ored □siderable : jntly and sfully cope with the unemployment situation. True his approach to the problem was not as spectacular as was that of the United States President, but there is good reason to believe that ultimately his methods will be productive of more permanent results than those of the "New Deal " Making the federal authority in generous measure responsible for maintenance of the unemployed he obtained sanction for cash contributions to that end immediately upon assuming office. Those contributions have continued to this date. Widespread distribution of this government money has certainly prevented the unemployment situation from assuming catastrophic proportions. Another of his moves that also saved catastrophe was Government assumption of. the wheat export situation at a moment when nothing short of a move so radical and unusual could have prevented complete collapse of the economic structure of Western Canada. That move was of as great, benefit to urban Canada as it was to the people of the farms. But the truly scientific move made by the prime minister to end unemployment was in his successful negotiation of the much discussed Ottawa agreements. It was evidently clear to Mr. Bennett that only in a revival of trade In export fields could there be any hope of permanent re- lief from une upon the pass The Ott ing good. Canada's E creased ov a decided ploy ... To t of Govei for ttpli employment th and that he h then to implei 'ed. In . is that Can-__ - peak of 750,000 unemployed has been reduced to about 450,000. Yet there are those who would have us believe that Canada's prime minister forgot hi- promise to end unit he made it nothing since -Calgary Her- ald. THE SPEED-CRAZY. Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist, industrialist and president ol the executive of the London, Mid land and Scottish Railway, utters a word of caution when so many people everywhere are paying tribute to the god of speed. It is refreshing to find a man of Sir Josiah Stamp's expert knowledge refusing to pay unqualified homage. As one who is primarily concerned with the economics of the subject, as applied to railways, he said in a recent address that he would not' be excited by any additional acceleration until he knew the relative cost of obtaining it--and what sacrifices there might be of other amenities of comfort and safety. To the ordinary observer the question often arises: Why the hurry, anyway?--Halifax Herald. THE ^EMPIRE TELEVISION. This much is certain, however. One company in Greai Britain and one company in Germany are now in a position to provide a service of "high-definition television" of real entertainment value. The features and movements of speakers or of one or more artists in a studio, events of the day or other film subject matter, and certain indoor and outdoor events can now be transmitted either instantaneosuly or within a few seconds (depending on the subject matter) for clear and faithful reproduction in the home on a by so --Lond 'Man' The Sails Rose Pase (front) and Elizabeth Price raising the jib and 1 of their trim little scooter in which they will defend their Pacific Coast championship title during the mid-winter races on the Pacific coast off Los Angeles, Cal. The Inventors Path Seldom, Says a German, Does He Profit From His Ideas. i the Spectator. The path of the im straight, stony and beset stacles,. according to Dr zinger who signs himself ■ .Managing- Chairman of thi 1 tional Union of Invento gloomy article published Umschu. He tells us tliE 700,000 patents granted annually the world, but a vanishing small-number are of any commercial value. Amateurishness on the part of the inventors, inability to praise industrial needs correctly, general insurance of what has been done in the past in similar field; what patent attorneys call "the state of the art" --*are responsible for this poor showing. Although German chemists class are probably the best informed technicians in the world and therefore less likely to rush in where angels fear to tread, their successes are numerically no more striking than those of inventors in general. According to Autzinger, some 7,000 chemical patents are annually applied for in Germany. Of these the German patent office, the most efficient and exacting in the world, grants about 2,000. Not more than thirty or forty are commercially ploited. Suppression Demoted Successful patents in any field by > means disclose the most i rious inventions, if Autzing< to be credited. He charges that -e bought and suppressed , if "worked," they would paralyze established industi' How much truth is there in this oft-repeated tale of patents that ght only to be pigeon-holed? Time and time again bills have been introduced in Congress which, if enacted in law, would make it compulsory to "work" a patent in a giv-period. Failing in this the patentee would forfeit his rights. The proposal seems sensible en-gh. Yet when our legislators take ART AND INDUSTRY. British industry has been slow to employ designers and artists. Determined and successful efforts have lately been made to remedy the weakness, of which the Exhibition of British Art in Industry, at the Royal Academy is the latest. The tradition that beauty is just a matter of trimmings and ornamentation is dying. Simplicity and the fashioning of articles to do their job as efficiently as possible are producing things beautiful in themselves, and proving to be good business as well. --London Daily Herald. THE ROADS. it is really time to examine critically the measures which the responsible authority, the Ministry of Transport, is taking to deal \vith this terrifying loss of life. The real test ot that department's success or failure lies in whether it can bring about a drastic reduction of this tragic sacrifice on our highways ...... For the security of the public it is essential that the three kinds of traffic--motor, cycle and pedestrian --• should be separated and provided each with its own track. This task should have been taken in hand a decade | ago, but its cost will be immense, -- - should be no illusions on 'id- lead. ife i sver, testimony in committee meeting; and learn how inventions are conceived and developed, they decide that the case for suppression is I too good. It turns out that a loom, a linotype machine, a printing press, any complicated mechanism can -achieve its end if modified in a doz-,A different ways. Each is a good invention. About twelve patents are (therefore obtained for as many (mechanisms. Naturally the in Jtion that meets industrial the the Public this "suppression" usually understood? manufacturer to "wc tKese less perfect inventions pain of forfeiture is cleaily an justice Nor does the public suffer. It loses nothing *hy the introduction of the single invention that presents the simplest solution of a technical problem. A patent in the* U. S expires in seventeen years.*" It is rarely indeed that the patentee earns royalties for the complete' term. If he sells his patent as soon as it is granted, years must be spent in further development. What the public could acquire in the form of a forfeited "suppressed" patent would therefore be little enough. Can't Have Haircut Until He Pays Up Alimony Arrears Willard Sanborn, of Chicago, a piano tuner, can't have another haircut until he pays up his alimony arrears. So said Superior Judge Desort, after counsel for Mrs. Nina Sanborn asserted her husband squandered $5 for a haircut with all the trimmings but couldn't pay her $85 in alimony. Commented the court: "five dollars is too much for any man to spend in a barber shop at one time. It is worse in the case of a man who owes his wife money. And it is especially worse in the case of a piano tuner. Anyway from the pictures I've seen in the funny papers, I thought all piano tuners had long Day And Night Day, a spendthrift, rich in treasure, Spills, with lavish hand, Golden largess without measure Over all the land. Sends his wanton loi On another ride. --Ralph Mortimer Joi York Times. APPROVES LAM AS ENGLISH AID Provincial Education Body Officer Sees Advantages HELPS VOCABULARY Windsor. -- Champions of thi teaching of Latin and Greek in tin schools have been digging around for material to bolster their They have discovered a statement written some months ago by Charles M. Ewing as president of the.Classical Section of the Ontario Educational Association. He said: COST IS LOWER In the first place, the teaching of Latin and Greek is, relatively, not eostly. It costs less to educate student in the academic high school than in the vocational school. More-•, in the ordinary high school the teaching of languages and literature costs less than the teaching of My second point is that the teaching of the classics is not useh has been estimated that at leagt forty per cent, of the words in the English language are Latin origin, and tweve to fifteen per cent, oi Greek. In the case of medical and general scientific terms the proportion of classical words is much higher, probably nearly eighty per cent. Anglo-Saxon is the only serious rival of the classical languages; but the Anglo-Saxon literature is of relatively little importance to the ordinary student, while the value of classical literature cannot be over-estimated. Moreover, while a very large proportion of our Anglo-Saxon derivatives are smiple words (e.g., as he, there, good, child), Latin and Greek derivatives are the harder and less obvious words in general use. REALLY PRACTICAL Does it ever occur to my severely practical friends that the acquiring of as complete and accurate a knowledge of the English language as possible is essentially practical. It is just as practical. to give our students a mastery of words as of hammer and saw, typewriter or dynamo. Do we realize that the tools we most freqi ways using, ntly use, in fact are al-" Words are ehicles by which thought is conveyed from one mind to another. 3 few and unskill-shall have but a ng others ingle week Mail. If such vehicles fully handled, \ poor chance of influi by our thoughts. The person who has studied Latin has obtained a mastery of the En-lish language which few, with no SurelV nr»,ne will Dc i". :'*;)• q'J;i:li ; acquired a rich store of words, and uses them with accuracy and discrimination. Every properly conducted Latin class is a laboratory in which many English words are examined, dissected and their significance understood. Why then should it be considered more in keeping with modern educational requirements to analyze chemicals or dissect botanical or zoological specimens? HEARING WORDb One often hears it said that the study of Latin and Greek is valueless because few pursue it in after years. As a matter of fact, an intelligent teacher makes Latin useful to his students from the very beginning. For example, in the first few weeks the student becomes acquainted with such words as: hiberna a winter camp, pugno I fight, gladius a sword, specto I look. With delighted surprise he awakens to the fact that here is the origin of such English words as: hibernate, pugnac-us, gladiator, spectacles. Properly taught, he becomes an plorer in the romantic realm of ords; words become familial-friends. Before they were dead like trees in winter, now they come to life like trees in full leaf. A good classical teacher can add almost daily to the students' English vocabulary. In the course of a few days one teacher taught the following Latin words: integer whole, renpvo I renew, relinquo I abandon, iter a journey, corpus a body; then from these he enriched their English vocabulary with such is as integrity, renovate, relinquish, itinerary^ corporal. NOT DEAD LANGUAGE Again, there are many English ords of classical origin just on the fringe of the students' conscience. In the ordinary wasteful course of nature many of these slip away and forgotten. But if they are linkup with their classical "ancestors" in time, they are pinned down and the student ever after uses them with confidence and certainty. He may never read Latin after he leaves high school, but he has laid up a treasure which not even the most reacherous memory can dissipate. Very frequently we hear the uestion asked: "What is the use f teaching a dead language like ,atin?" As a matter of fact Latin till has marvellous vitality. In lodern forms it is in constant use ver more than half the surface of The Catholic University of Rom« is attended by thousands of stud< ents from all over the world, whe have no common language but Latin; Japanese, Brazilians and Filipinos exchange ideas in Latin; the lecture; are delivered in Latin. MAGAZINE PRAISE In the May edition of the Canadian School Journal, the official organ of the Ontario Education Assoc-iaton, an "articles entitled: "Th« Engagement of Teachers," contains the following extracts: "There is a high correlation between the study of Latin and teacher success." "Students who in secondary schools have shown their stamina by passing more than two units of Latin and mathematics, and have had an interest in teaching from the upper elementary grades through the secondary schools should be given first preference in training for elementary schools-" NOT FAST RULE In conclusion may I say that advocates of the classics do not seek to impose the study of Latin on every pupil entering the academic department of our high schools who has a vague hankering after some dignified calling. But is is surely not too much to ask that every student who seriously contemplates entering one of the learned profess-ions, or proceeding to the B.A. degree, should have some knowledge ol a language which is so intimatelj bound up with our own language ami literature. Lest any of my remarks be misunderstood by my vocational, mathematical and scientific friends in the professions, may I say thai nothing is farther from my thoughts than to underestimate the value of the work done in their departments. MAN IS UNSTABLE Evolution Held To Be Partly The Result Of Crisis Probably no biologist doubts the validity of evolution. On the other hand, natural selection and the survival' of the fittest, the very core of Darwin's theory, are no longer pted as the sole agencies at work in the creation of new species and varieties. Since the days of Mendel it has become apparent that the mechanism of heredity is both delicate and complex. Moreover, there are the endocrine glands, with their tremendous potentialities for modifying the organism. Lastly, the lation of that organism to its en •onment is not nearly so direct d simple as Darwin assumed. How i more imaginative biologists^ sets forth It is generally agreed- that life first developed in the sea. How, then, did the first amphibian evolve? What was the bold animal that first ventured on land and adapted itself wholly or partially to life under entirely new circumstances? When we ask such questions it is apparent that natural selection and the survival of the fittest do not meet the Dr. Brown holds that physical structure, courage, pugnacity, efficiency were not solely responsible for the transition. There was something unstable about the first adventurer that came out of the sea. He was like an unstable chemical compound that changes into something else--something out of which a reptile could evolve, something that was the result of a crisis. Examine all the other anlmais, and the transition from an old to a newer form seems always to be the result of critical instability. Despite the convincing array of fossils that shows plainly enough how the one-toed horse of today evolved from an ancient five-toed equine animal not much bigger than a St. Bernard dog, the jumps are marked. Between five toes and four toes there is no gradual transition, nothing like a digital diminuendo. Crisis, everywhere crisis, whether it be fish or amphibian, reptile or mammal. With man it is the same --one of the, most unstable creatures ever evolved. In a state of something like fermentation, he has always been in a critical turmoil. Unlike the ant or the bee, he is not highly specialized. If he ever does settle down, his hisotry will be like that of most social creatures--a repetition over hundreds of millions of years of the same biological events and facts. He will cease to evolve. King Replies to Woman's Letter of Good Wishes Dean Lake, Ont. -- Mrs. R. Maitland has placed away for safe keeping, a letter just received from the King along with one she got from Queen Alexandra many years ago. Mrs. Maitland listened to the King's Christmas Day message over a telephone from a neighbor's home, and wrote a letter to Their Majesties wishing them a Happy New Year. The prized letter is the reply.