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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DECEMBER T, 1927 1 HARMONY WANTED BY ONTARIO PREMIER Hon. G. Howard Ferguson Issue Statement Re the Contentious Regulation 1 7 and the New System WILL REVIEW AFTER TRIAL Ferguson's statement i omits to comply with the departmental s follows:-- " j requirements. That was the limit of ~ "I have read with interest the re-j the department's authority under the port of the Legislative Committee of j law, but it had little or no effect, the Orange Association respecting! The law of the province requires Regulation 17. It expresses beyond i that every child shall be given an doubt the honest opinion of sincere education, but it does not and could men who are naturally disappointed: not dictate to parents the type of that the Regulation has not satisfac- school in which the child is to be edu-torily accomplished the object for cated. It may be a public or separate which it was,framed. It was designed school, or a private school that gets in the belief that it would succeed in no state assistance, enabling the French-speaking children The province, therefore, found itself to learn the language of the province. in the position where there were a The disappointment expressed will be la'ge number of schools attended by shared by everyone interested in the F. ench-speaking pupils receiving no problem of teaching the English lan- aid from the province, which we could j guage to pupils whose mothar tongue | net inspect, and over which we had is other than English. The members | no control. That is the reason that of the Committee were aware that sim- j Regulation 17 failed to accomplish ilar disappointments have followed the what was expected. Such a conditi efforts of other equally earnest men j must make it apparent to everyone to solve this difficult question that j that the decisive factor in solving the have been made through a long series : problem is one of attitude. Where the Where Peace Was Signed At The Cenotaph of years, and those Orangemen who had their doubts of the efficacy of Regulation 17 at the outset are now justified in their view. Both English-speaking and French-speaking people are agreed that every speaking people that child in the province must have the endeavoring to give thei best possible opportunity to equip himself with a knowledge of the English language. When all are agreed upon the object to be achieved, the sole question to be dealt with is what is the best way to bring this about. The history of this problem goes misunder- department's position stood, and its efforts opposition and resistance, it cannot satisfactori'y succeed. If we can convince the French-are earnestly ii the advantages, they all desire to acquire the nglish language, and thereby secure the'co-operation of school boards and teachers, there should be no difficulty in achieving that end. The committee indicate in their report, that close personal contact and a sympathetic atti- back for forty years in this province, j tude on the part of the directors ap-No less than four Inquiries into this; pointed for that purpose should solve same subject have taken place, and our problem, after each Inquiry a course has been MAY SOLVE -PROBLEM, adopted that was confidently expected suggestion is that the course to improve conditions. When one meth- fa ^ committee,g report and adopted by the department should be i has failed, something else has been tried. Each failure has, of course, meant disappointment to those who were convinced that it would be effec- Every citizen of the province will regret that Regulirti with the success expected from it. The educational authorities were convinced that the method provided by that Regulation was the best way that could be designed for the teaching of English. The general public, includ-1 ^"'^ ing the Orange Association, accepted | fMirt the opinion of those in authority and confidently believed that the means provided under Regulation 17 would afford an acceptable and successful plan of securing for French-speaking children a knowledge of the English language. It will be remembered that he Regulation was passed after an exhaustive study and report by the Dept. of __Education by Dr. Merchant. REGULATION 17 UNSUITABLE The recent inquiry carried on by Dr. Merchant, associated wi " Honor, Judge Scott anc Mr. Cote, was equally exhaustive, a vinced him that the policy ; fifteen years ago had not ac! success. That being the case, h done what any honest, courageous man! should do, who is interested solely in j S Z^^l^tl^- Many Following Orgy in Min- unanimously found that Regulation 17 is unsuitable, and have recommended changes, which in their opinion will, be acceptable and successful. | Cochrane.--"They're crazy," said A perusal of the committee's report Noah H. Timmins, president of the shows that this want of success is due HoUingei-Consolidated Gold Mines in to a number of causes over which the' a recent interview, referring to people Dept. of Education had not control, i participating in the frenzied scenes of The French-speaking people unfor-: the past two weeks on the Toron tunately misunderstood the motive' stock exchanges, that actuated the Government, and! "Many people are going to have looked upon the Regulation, r.ot as a sad awakening pretty soon and they means of assisting in learning English will be the very people who can least but aa. an effort to suppress their \ afford it. That's the most tragic part mother tongue. For this reason they of the business." refused to co-onerate with the Dept.! On the question of the real value of Education. School boards afid [ of the stocks on the mining board Mr. teachers declined to accept advice or, Timmins stated that "for every one assistance from the department. They that is gcod ten are not." even refused to permit th.» inspection : "What about Rouyn? Surely some FOCH SIGNS AGAIN i Marshal Foch is seen signing t e same spot he signed the Armist THEIR MAJESTIES The King, Prince of Wales and Duke of York bareheaded a ring the two silent minutes. CRACK C.P.R.. FLYER CRASHES HEAD-ON INTO FREIGHT Four Are Killed, Over Thirty Injured in Worst Train Wreck of Years at Dockrill, Ontario FIRE ADDS TO HORROR Enterprise, Ont., Nov. 28.--Four known dead, others believed to have perished in flames and beneath wreckage, and around 30 injui ", casualties which resulted at about 2.15 given a fair trial, and my earnest this afternoon at Dockrill, 12 miles hope is that it will be accepted by the «g* S^raTitTjastbound general public m that spirit. crashed head-on with the crack C.P.R, The suggestion that further mvosti- chicag0 fljers, approaching westbound t gation at a later date may be advis- at a mile-a-minute speed. 110 able, is not unreasonable in itself, and j The tragedy was the worst that as time goes on, the necessity of such' has ever occurred in railway annals course will be determined as the situa- Ln this vicinity. When the two engines ticn develops. | struck together they reared up like May I repeat that the commission horses and then rolled dow gated and studied the situation j foot embankment. Four coaches of avery angle, and has had the the passenger train were carried je to propound a remedy which . them, and, to add to the horror, fire set recognizes the failure of all previous (;n. There is little doubt but that sc attempts. Their recommendations, | 0f the passengers have perished bassd upon actual personal knowledge the flames, furnish the- strongest reasons for be-' lieving that we have i.„ last discovered a permanent basis for improving the schools. The committee of the Orange Association, in allowing reasonable time for the experiment, show an intelligent insight into the working of educational institutions. The effect of time and efficient supervision will be to dopted: . _g. Meed Timmins Warns Wild Speculators ing Stock Due For Shock of the , and found t1" irge ma i'.hin them. G its withdraw! vhere a school of those are good." "Yes," he replied, ority of "but the-e are many yet unproved.' whose; The opinion strongly left with the ,. Such | interviewer by Mr. Timmins was that sible to, the whole mining market in Ontario opera-1 was being injured by a boom capital-eaching ized by unprecedented unscruplous-■rnmentness and manipulation in which a is done1 great section of the public were in toe 'uses or, deep. Naval Limitation by 1931 Great Britain's Objective of Washington Treaty or Amendments Thereto Then Due of smaller tonnage, will be dropped : from next year's building program. | Mr. Bridgeman also said the Gov-j eminent did not intend to build any mora 10,000 tenners "at present," declaring the Geneva discussions "led to the hope that limitation may be reached." The expression of this hope, the respondent learned, implies the belief that negotiations between the three governments will be resumed before the Washington treaty comes up for renewal. * It was strenuously denied, however, that any negotiations or conversations between tthe three powers has yet taken place since the Geneva breakdown, v 1.--The British Government e Tri-Power negotiations nitaiion will be resumed it reached before 1931. t year the signatories of the ton treaty of 1921 will have s renewal or amendmei ty. Consequently the British t before that time this coun-Jnited States, and Japan, will ided on a policy, despite the f the Geneva Conference last according to the correspon-t'ormant, is the correct inter-of the First Lord of the y's announcement that two one of 10,000 tons, and one At the time of .writing (midnight Sunday), work is still proceeding the recovery of the bodies, and it expected that it will still he eight hours before the line is cleared again. The injured have been taken to the hospital at Smith's Falls, and the Ras- sengers who were able to continuiPII travel, have been sent to Toronto ovei the old line of the C.P.R. There were about 140 passengers on the train, DEAD AND INJURED. Only one of the dead has been identified", W. Burnett, eigineer of the passenger train, whose home was at Smith's Falls. The other dead are described as two men and a "foreigners." The seriously injured are: R. POST, fireman of the passenger train, of Trenton. J. L. BRADFORD, engineer freight train, Smith's Falls. K. KHANS, a passenger, address unknown. An UNKNOWN MAN, who had his legs broken and suffered, other In- The list of the less seriously injured contained the names of both men and, women, and railway officials here said most of them were riding in a colonist car, which apparently bore the full force of the impact. The seriously injured were removed to temporary quarters after being given first aid and the bodies are said to be at Enterprise, 20 miles north of Napanee, Ont. Coroner Dr. G. H. Cowan, of Napanee, will conduct the EUROPEAN UNREST CAUSED BY NEW DIPLOMATIC SHUFFLE Realignment of Powers is Causing Press to Hav of Nerves Attacks SITUATION DISTURBING Sir Michael Sadler, master of University College, Oxford, is reported to have placed but one city on the entire American continent, uebec, among the twenty most beautiful cities in the world. Sir Michael has evidently overlooked the abundant literature of "Cfar Town" md dis not to attack Lithuj sions of the situation there between Miaxim Litvinoff, Assistant Commis* sar of Foreign Affairs, and German Foreign Minister Stresemann in Berlin, are regarded here as moves in the diplomatic game. The Russian Foreign Office, in th« hand of the Moscow Moderates, wants reputation for working for the ARREST IS ORDERED OF FUGITIVE VESSEL STEAMING DOWN GULF London.--All over Eruope in the last few days big and little diplomatic ises have been reported. Sections of the British and Continental press have developed nerves and are headlining war scares without being sure what the trouble is all about. Europe suffers from chronic diseases of militarism, ingrained hatreds and the dozen serious and menacing griev- ances left by the peace treaties. Of peace of Europe and at the same time late the patient has been resting establish its continued interest in thfl quietly, exhibiting signs of returning affairs of countries which before the health due to generally improving war were under Russian rule* economic conditions. i Germany, smarting under the griev- MOVES IN DIPLOMATIC GAME | ance of former German territory an- The Russian note warning Poland "efed^y £o!and' is not u«™"j»S Jo _ . help the Russian game in order to ! show up Poland as a potential aggres- All these moves are preparatory to arbitration of the Polish Lithuanian disputes over the frontier and the language in Lithuanian schools. These points will come before the League of Nations Council next month. ■"ilot Says Captain Ordered Him to be Locked-up in Wheel L* House But He Escaped by Diving Off Bridge-- 1 Charges of Breaches of Canada's Marine Law May Be Laid Ottawa.--With the Government yacht's captain refused and he leaped steamer Montcalm giving chase to the j overboard with a lifebuoy and was New York owned yacht Vidor in the picked up by a pilot boat. Lower St. Lawrence and the National Meanwdiile the Montreal and South-Revenue Dept. being importuned to | ern Counties Railway and other inter-have her intercepted in the Gulf by ests seek to libel the vessel in the Ad- the cruiser Margaret a sort of moving picture drama is being enacted. The Marine Department authorized the Marshal of the Admiralty Court to board the Montcalm which was going own the river and to libel the Vidor i a damage action. MARGARET IS ORDERED OUT The yacht ran into the bridge at the Lachine Canal the other day and caus-a lot of damage for which the own-put up $25,000 to the railways and canals department. Thereupon, she started down the river carrying a pilot. When the pilot sought to get off at Quebec, the end of his district, the British Family Plan to Continue Arrangements for Settlement of 3,000 Homes Being Made in Alberta Calgary.--Arrangements have been made to continue the 3,000 British miralty Court for damages sustairfld families settlement plant for 1928, ac-but she got away before the papers cording to information received by W. could be served. The Marshal of the \ S. Woods, superintendent of the Land Court is to board the Montcalm and ] Settlement Board, here. Mr. Woods serve the papers if the yacht is caught.I declared that a survey will be made The railway claims $5,000. j immediately to ascertain the probable The customs department is asked to number of farms that will "be avail-intervene because of the allegation able for the families coaling out next that the vessel left without clearance' spring. It will hot be* possible to esti-papers and, in this connection the ] mate the number of families to be Margaret, it is suggested, should inter-; brought to Alberta until this survey cept her. The allegation as to lack of, has been completed, clearance papers is not admitted here j It may be necessary for the Calgary nor have instructions been sent to the office to send a representative to pending "inquiry into the^ Great Britain to assist with the selec- The Day of Remembrance in Paris THE FAMOUS ARC DE TRIUMPHE Erected to Napoleon's honor, this magnificent arch is now associated with the Great War known Soldier is buried there. The scene above was enacted on Nov. 11 this }'( not forgotten her fallen heroes. that the Un-and shows clearly France has ticn of families for this district. Woods declared, how-aver, that most of the selection would be carried on by the representatives of immigration already in the Old Country. It is understood by local authorities that the settlers will begin to arrive in April and That nil methods followed in former years with regard to their welcome in the new land and their settlement upon farms which have reverted to the Government will be carried ovt next year. Magdalen Islands Fisheries Good Optimistic Report is Made by Inspector Gallant Charlottetown, P.E.I.--Fisheries Inspector S. T. Gallant, who has just returned from a tour of the province and the Magdalen Islands, presented the following optimistic report: "Marked improvement in smelt fisheries in Prince and Queen's counties, this province. Gcod catches of herring and cod have been made at Souris. The oyster fishing, which ended Nov. 25, has been most profitable tb the fisherman and shippers. | Ready sales of Prince Edward Island j oysters at remunerative prices. The i catch about the .same as last year. "Smelt bag fishing stars Dec 1 at j Magdalen Islands. The season's fish-i ing there was about normal. Residents ' are now getting in their winter sup-! plies and are very much pleased with prospects of a weekly air mail service which is to start about Dec. I. The. 'plana will carry about 150 pounds, of mail and freight and will provide; regular means of communication duri ing isolated months of winter." ■