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INTERMEDIATE KCDEBOAKTt>
IX ONTARIO
After about sixty years of adher
euce to a system that imposed up
ou the primary school the task cf
learning to read and write and fi£
ure, to grasp those elementais
known as tho "three t's" or read
ing, "riting and 'rithmetic, the edu
cation department of Ontario, Can.,
has taken an inter taring and im
portant departure. The kindergar
ten, of course, is an. institution long
since adopted by local educational
boards is many communities, and in
Canada it has been raised to, and
maintained at a high point of effi
ciency, but experience has taught
careful observers in Ontario that the
kindergarten does not wholly or
satisfactorily perform, as it has
heretofore been employed, the func
tion for which it was Intended: that
o preparing the child pupil for
1-rimary work. The transition froai
the kindergarten to the first grade,
that is to eay, haa been found to be
too abrupt. Something to span an
apparent gap has been deemed nec
essary.
It is now proposed by the edu
cation department of the province
mentioned to introduce a kindergar
ten-primary course, a course be
tween the kindergarten and the fiiot
la^communiUes 'where a ki.i
seope than those common at present
where no schools of this character
are now in operation. According to
the supposition of a writer on tho
Toronto Globe, the effort will prob
ably result in so adjusting aud
grading the work that the pres
ent abruptness of transition will l>e
u holly obviated.
To undertake to pac3 upon this
•net hod at the present stage would
;.remature. What strikes us as Da?
' rularly praiseworthy Is the evi
dence of devoted painstaking on Uie
] art of Ontario educators. Nothing
iould be easier than to accept '-he
existing kindergarten primary sys
tem. The children make no out
cry against it Ordinary teachers
have accepted it without criticism,
t arents, and especially mothers, may
have 6een its defects, but if s.>
'-hey have regarded them as passing
und perhaps as trivial, yet the
•veil-trained educator has not beon
content to take things for granted.
He has searched diligently until he
Sas discovered, in all likelihood, wuj
so many little ones, content and
progressing up to the hour of leav
ing the kindergarten, are restless
and seemingly backward for some
lime after admission to the pr'an
-»rv school. The Ontario Intermedi
ate kindergarten may solve more
problems for school teachers and !
varents in all countries than it is
possible to imagine now.
HEADS OF NATIONS
Power of Our President Versus
That of Royal Rulers.
THE EXERCISE OF THE VETO.
i
A Right Which May Be Freely Used hy
Our Chief Executive, but Which
Might Shake the Throne of the Mon
arch Who Dar«d Assert It.
It has been said that the president
of the United States tins more real
power tbiiu most mouarchs of Europe.
I do nut kuow that I am able to Insti
tute an intelligent comparison, because J
to do th:it one ought to be quite famil
iar with the extent of the royal or Im
perial power to be measured with that
of our presMent. and I have not suffi
cient knowledge on the subject.
1 know something with respect to the
real governing i>ower of the king of
England and except In an indirect
war the president's power far exceeds
that of King ',Ieorg< and I think it to
il
verv considerably more than tnai at
the president of France. N^cn. hov^
ever, one examines tlie Iiupe:rial p<
,n Rovernments like Germany. *■"****'
IU.lv and Spain the question
aore difficult. ami » presume no one
would say that the president s power
Is equal to that of the czar of
W ith us a president is el^ for
four years, and nothing cau ge blm
out of office except his death or his re*
Ipnation—which never comes-or Ms
Impeachment. The certainty of his
tenure for four years makes our ex^u
Jve administration « little more rigid
1 l^s sut.je. t to quick chances of
public opinion thau iu the parllamcn
tarv countries. I am Inclined to think
that our system is a g"°d <hln« for
I cotiutrv however much parliamentary
government may suit the countries
where it is In use. ,
Of course It has this advantage In
a parliamentary government there is a
union betwceu the executive and the
legislative brunches. and they there
fore work together, because thosewho
constitute the executive lead and dt
I rect the legislation, whereas In the
I separation of the great branches of thf
I government with us the president rep
resents the executive, congress the leg
Eve and the courts the Judicial
EU and the pla> of the men who
framed the constitution was to pre
| a»rve these branches separately
I Hie president Is able to recommend
legislation to congress. and he may lo
U, person to argue the wisdom of It li
he chooses. Mr. Wilson restored an
old custom of that sort, which <\as
abandoned by President J^crson and
I think he was right In doing so. it
•jinphas.zes «hepn.Went-S^omm»
faVm tlJ.e. •?;
puts a greater res|K»nsibiilty on cod
gress to give attention to his sugges
tlons.
The British constitution gives the
l>ower of veto to the king, but it has
oot been exercised for more than two
centuries, and were it attempted It
would shake the throne. The exercise
of the president's veto always rouses
eloquence <>n the part of those who are
much disappointed at the defeat of the
measure, and the walls of congress not
Infrequently resound with denuncla
tlon of his tyrannical exercise of a
kingly prerogative.
But the fact Is it has come to be a
more frequent characteristic of a re
public than of a modern monarchy.
Kor a king or nn emperor to interpose
a veto to an act of the popular legisla
ture is really to obstruct the people's
will, because he was not chosen by
their votes, but inherited his royal
power, tie must Indeed be careful In
exercising a veto lest he Incur a pro
test aud arouse a feeling dangerous to
his dynasty.
The case of the president is very flu
ferent. The constitution established
bv the people requires the president to
withhold his signature from a bill If he
disapprove of it and return it with bis
objections to the house iu which It orig
inated. for the president is quite as
much the representative of the people
as are the members of the two houses.
Indeed, the whole people of the Unit
ed States is his constituency, and he j
therefore speaks and acts for them
quite as certainly as the members
elected from congressional districts or
the senators from the states He is
not exercising a kingly power in a
reto ne Is a«-ting In a representative
capacity for the whole people and is
preventing a law that he thinks would
work to the detriment of the whole I
countrv. On this account the roar of
the young Hons of congress against n
veto never frightens the occupant of
the White Honse.—William Howard
Taft in Yale Review.
Going and Coming.
A struggling maker of humorous
quips tried to break into a leading pub
Mention.
He sent the editor one of his favor
ite mots.
It was returned with this comment:
"Too original to be good."
He sent another. This time the
comment was:
"Too good to be original."—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Power of Contrast.
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for a couple of months. Bill. Hank—
What shockingly bad taste! Are you
retting looney? Husky—No. But a fel
er can't really enjoy porerty until he's
lad money awhile, you know!—New
Pork 'ilohe.
Thrifty be. but not covetous.—George
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man at the crossing holds up his Hand
peremptorily?"
"It means thai he puts his foo:
dowq "—Haitiwore American
Cause of Hilarity.
"Wbat are you laughing about?"
"Blinks has moved to Great Neck.
Cj. I."
"I don't see anything particularly
■tinny tn that"
"But be wears a serente?'. collar."—
"•hlladelphia ledger
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