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THURSDAY, FEB. 13th, 1958 THE HAILEYBURIAN AND COBALT WEEKLY POST Founded by C. C. Fare in 1904 Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. JOHN HUNT, LEIGH DAY Cobalt, Ont. Haileybury, Ont Publisher Manager Issued every Thursday from The Haileyburian Office, Broadway Street, Haileybury Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. In Canada----$2.50 per year, in In United States--$3.50 per year in advance advance The Conservative organization in Temiskaming seem to have decided that it is "dirty politics'! to say anything unpleasant about the Liberals or CCF. As a result, Mr. Rice has scrupulous- ly avoided any opportunity of making political capital, even when he had the chance of doing so. At the recent meeting ot tar- mers in Karlton, Mr. Rice could have blasted the Liberals for the fact that the contract forme used by Trans-Canada Gas Lines were drawn up under their ad- ministration. And he might have blasted the CCF for making political hay, while at the same time not doing too much to help the situation. And, he might well have asked, what kind of arrangements were made for the farmers in the CCF province of Saskatchewan? But Mr, Rice did none of these things. He made a fair, but vir- tually non-political speech at Iarlton, and in the meantime the extremely effective CCF pub- licity machine, managed to get itself two headlines in the Kirk- land Lake paper, and a modest but fair amount of space in the North Bay paper. Then the Conservative organ- izors decided they had better do something, so they held a party meeting at Englehart. After laboring mightily the Conservat- St. VALENTINE'S DAY 1958 NO HEARTS AND FLOWERS IN COMIC VALENTINES duce an innocuous mouse in the form of the rather dull and meaningless statement reprinted elsewhere in this paper, And while Mr. Peters got two head- lines in Kirkland Lake, Mr. Rice got the bottom left hand corner of page three. Now, we do not doubt that Mr. Rice has been working sin- cerely and quietly on the far- mers' behalf. And Mr. Peters de- serves to be congratulated for some extremely astute and cle- ver politicking, But in the minds of the general public who don't look beneath the glaring head- lines, and who don't take the trouble to read between the lines of Mr. Rice's rather dull state- ment, Mi, Peters is the boy who got the action. The only way we can see we're we're done smart... having It in the winter Wise householders, like wise businessmen, know it pays to get those jobs of renovation, decoration, repair and maintenance done during the winter slowdown in the building industry. Small jobs can get better attention and can be more economical. Home Improvements Gan be Financed by Home Improvement Loans under the National Housing Act, available through your bank. Why wait for Spring? Do it now aa For advice and assistance, call your Local Employment Office, Issue d by authority of G The Minister of Labour, Canada an Foster winning this election is < if he first of all has a_ really good organization. all, the child. Our educational system will And this he be very frankly discussed when seems to be getting. and secondly the Canadian Conference on Ed- if he and his organizors smarten ucation their ruary 17 to 20. We cannot all at- up and beat the CCF at own game of getting favorable publicity, and taking advantage of every opportunity to win votes and influence people. As a famous hockey coach once said, 'Nice guys don't win," Are We Getting Soft? The following commentary on a question that is often discussed was taken from the editorial pages of The Farmers Advocate. Are We Getting Soft? Do Canadian parents care about what sort of education their children get?. K. R. Swinton, chairman of the conference committee of the Canadian Confeernce on Educat- ion to be held in February, sus; pects that they don't. 7% "T sometimes think," he said in a progress report on the con- ference, "that the Canadian family is becoming so eager in the pursuit of soft living that it is in great danger of turning out a generation whose most intell- ectual pursuits consist of watch- ing TV serials and reading the comic papers you to a recent report in Can- ada's leading national magazine, which claims that even after Sputnik, the biggest question in education is: should driving be taught in our high schools?" The arguments with which Mr. Swinton follows up this point are good and cogent, But all the responsibility cannot be thrown on the parents, Educat- ors have to take their share. In the past ten years, many parents have protested -that their child- ren are not being taught to read properly. Books have been pub- lished about it, and the evidence that the system used was in- adequate was overwhelming: Phonics had been tossed out, and word-recognition was used al- most exclusively. Many children simply did not learn to read ana many of them read badly; re- medial classes in reading had to he instituted. Parents who protested were snubbed, and snubbed heartily on this matter. The educatirs knew best. Parents who wanted to take a hand and help Junior by teaching him his "sounds" were requested not to interfere --it would only confuse the child and emake the 'teacher's task more difficult. As soon as this "we know best" attitude appears--in what- ever context--it usually indi- cates that someone is trying to defend the indefesible. If your system is good, it will stand up against scrutimy and criticism if it isnt good, you cannot conceal its deficiencies by trying to tor- bid scrutiny and , criticism. Ed- ucatian isnt » something that begins at 9 a.m., sharp and ends at three or four in the after- noon with a break for lugch. It is continuous, inescapable, whe- ther it's directed toward a good end or a bad. Teachers and par- ents simply must work co- operatively and understandingly together, instead of carrying on little undeclared wars. Tf they .---1 would refer meets in Ottawa, Feb- tend in person to present our views as to what we may con- sider needed reforms in our ed- ucationa] methods. Among the sponsoring organizations, how- ever, are the Canadian Federat- ion of Agriculture. the Canadian Home and School Federation and the Parent Teachers' Federation We can use their organizations to place our views before the Convention. SQUARE DANCE CONTEST For the first time a North American Square Dance Champ- ionship is being attempted. These Championships will be held in conjunction with the Rotary Spring Fair, May 5th to 10th. 1958, at North Bay. 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