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OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
•Ifott. Dr. Cody Plans to Make the Public School Pit the Needs
of the Masses,.
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The reasons which led Boer. Dr. hortitioill" or a helpful Suggestion, let
Cody to atieuMe the Office of 'Minister ,hini rie,:"Ul in Meeting and give it to
of Educatien, and enter polities have las, and we shall welcome it.' The De -1
naturally heenemuch diseueeed, Hon, 'Pertinent of Education i3 not a GEM-.
Dr. Cody said in .an. interview with , eminent De rtment alone; it is the
Themes Berigough, in the Canadian Department f the whole peeple; it
lionie Journal: ' [touches. us al arld On the policy and
'I feel that in these. great days management 4 the Departhient, of
,•OVeryorie is -called On to serve his course, will tremendously d6pend. the
country to the best a ide ability; not progress pg onir Province and a our
only to do 'hid bit,'—that inay seem to. Dominion', What IS done in Ontario
% the Minimum arneunt that he on powerfully affects all the 'other proe,
110 --•blit more than his bit, his very vines in Canada. Sp far as Canada
earnest, Probably at to • ether time, at large is concerned.; the public school
under no other circumstances, would system may be gad to have come from :
• it have been possible for ,,the Prime' this Province. All over our growing
:Minister toltave invited eh to. under- , and wonderfullye-hooyent provi ees in:
. ' "take this work, tn'' for me to attempt the west you will Aug* .1 ame 1
, to undertake in." Bnt I am trying to from Ontario—most of them, i would!
,
do this in all homility as a •plece of '4ein to me, either , from Brece or '
public service to thy native Province eHuron county' The educational and
• 'and this Doininion; which I SO dearly legal fetindations of these • Provinces
love. • Believe me, I am undertaking were, in many oases, laid by men from
" thie task riot from any . ambitious old Ontario, SQ that what we do here is
-----e-einotives; clet-thinkelemay. honestlye-titaleaseaffectingrtineleliele liponunibne
add fro any eilfish consideration, in the way of exarople.". N.
•1
'but solely and wholly to try to render I 'remarked on the effects of the
'''.a .service. in this day and generation .war in reducing the number of going
„ 10 the cause of 'education in Canada" men who were training in science,
••"But your entri.• into public- life,• thus causing difficulty and delay in
.*Itile still retaining your position as deheloeink Canada's natural resources
rector of •St Paul's church, . puzzles to eneet our war debts; also the fact
•:Some People."' .. •th# we would not be able to get from
tent aft a, critical point. rallitOrlid W
Add thet the "relent curriaulum might SC
be improved by condensing, say, the
•thus intensifying and hnproving that
teaching. of English into One subject, FOR DEFECTIVES
study, and at the same time leaving
room for more innadwork. I then ask., -
04 Dr. Cody wbat plans he had pro- BRITISH WOMEN WORKING FOR
jeeted for the improvement ot teach. ,
nIEIR ESTABLISHMENT.
Ors". and for stirring trustees and
the public.
"No democracy is •safe fop the
I world," he replied, "Until it is led hy BetWeen 37A" and 40" r117*"4117
hOnest intelligence. Up and down the Defective Children in ° Need
length and breadth of our country I
the public explication and vindication ' British women eEdn h"C:vte"n'e .t been eon -
believe we =mot have too much Of
of the great polieies of the country, tent to waitIor the day then they can
and of the great problenna that lie he-lexercise the franchise before dealing
fore it It is my hive to be able to go with the question of the education of
through the Province, as Minister -, of mental and physical defective school
Education, and meet the teachers face children, says a despatch MOM Lon -
to face, meet the trustees eand meet don. '
the school constituency, and get into A special subcommittee Of the Joint
os,efose touch as,' can with the People Parliamentary Advisory Counoil,,eom-
of the Province, and Kea. the educah posed of women social workers and
with„things in the abstract." . The report, while paying a high tri -
added, "it -is theeponeopality e v
view. Perhaps I may be able to serve sued its report upon the existing per -
the Province 'far •hetter in **erne such missive e notional provision; made
way as that than 'tneeely ' by dealing fear these defective children.
tional problems from their point of imi erabyers of the QPnadroliamenc has just hi -
"In the matter of ‘' teaching,'" he bute to the, good work done .voluntar-
t
n-Countee-Cuncilaind.-
izing power of the teacher that connts other bodies,. callsattention to the
A.. comparatively poor • system will
work well .if it is administered by a
great soul, while the best system will,
not do much good if a tin -settled i -
"it as a Somewhat unusual step, I the old lands the Malarial designers
'know," replied Dr. Cody, "hut under on whom we had 'largely depended in
,our political constitution .memberehip the Past.
-in the Legislature is the only 'way "We all feel," replied Dr. Cody, "and i
•• -through which one ean exercio the we know, that we are living in a won- i
uxecutive power in c.oneection with derful 'country, that our Canadian
• 'the Department of Education: Ample people are worthy of the most splen
proyision. is being made for the carry- did opportunities that can be pre -
Ing on of the work at St.. •Pauts, so 'sented to them, and that they can pro -
that I can devote 'myself, as I intend, fit by every educational facility that is
• with fullest energy to the Department presented. It is -my hope' and wish
• .of Education." • ' • •• •. that our people Should be trained to
"What is the •chief feature of the take the fullest advantage' of those
'many-sided Work of your Department boundless opportunities *We use the
' „Abet has most impressed you ?" r phrase, .`Boys will be boys,' but it is
talked. • ' • well sometimes to repeat part �f it in
' "Three things' standout in great a different sense and conclude: 'Boys
:prominence in my mind," replied •the will be men'? But the kind of men
„they will be depends 'entirely on the
• the turn .• given them while they are
boys' • •
ROW ENGLA740 SAM STER/e-T
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Substitutes Cardboard Fur Titt-Plats
in Makin Containeis.
To save ateel for the. nianufaettire
of ships and munitions, tin-plate
Manufactiere in England has been Ot
down as much as possible, says Com..
menial Attache Philip IL Kennedy in
report from London. He quotes
the le e n er-Secrehery for Wei',
MePhergon, as saying that sub..
s eardheard gontamere , for
those of tin would save about 60,000
tons of steel a year.
Already all sort 9f substitutes are
being. used for tin-plate in manu-
featuring containers. • At the present
time, according to Mr. Kennedy, tin
containers are used practically for
meat and processed foodstuffs only.
Since last September Official. regula-
tions have prohibited the packing Of
fruits, dried foetetare and semi-
liquid 'foods in tin -piste. The use
urgent need of making the acts of
Parliament dealing with thee chil-
dren compulsory, and not permissive:
According to authorities op child
dividual manages it The 'teacher life there are to -day in the ceuntry
bears the great burden of the physie between 87,000 and 40,000 children
cal, the intellectual, and in no small who are crippled or -otherwise physic -
part the moral development of _those ally defective, the greater number of
whom are being deprived of the edue
cation that they are entitled to re-
Idle:wen be the future citizens of our
city and Province and Dominion, But
how On we expect a teacher to teach ceive.
n any inspiring fashion if he or she •The difficulty in providing schools
a in low spirits? 'There is nothing for these 'children has been largely
that Will produce greater depression of owing to localfinancial conditions, in
spirits than financial worry and titian- the case of a scattered 'district with
chit strain. We ought to raise public few defective children the question of
opinion steadily in our whole Province the cost of transport has been a vital
so lhat our people will be ready to one, while to run a special school for
•give larger slime; not so' inich feria few" children would have increased
buildings, whichare secondary, , but considerably the local education taxa -
for the living 'agents whoteach their tion. In the case of ehildren residing
children," in districts adjacent to a special .
We discussed the position, through- school the difficulty has been over -
out the whole a Canada to -day, of come in a measure by providing . a
the question of Education, and I gave conveyance and paying a share of -the '
Dr. Cody various views as expressed costs of school maintenance, but these
to me, which made comparisons, be- exceptions have been rare. •
tween aifferent systems and Provinces . Residental Plan Favored •
•. • Minister of Education;: ."first, • the
:great importance of keeping public
• .opinion in ottr Province so strong on
education that great and progressive
ineasures may be projected and sus-
lained as was the case with the Fish-.
• ur Bill•in England; .next, the great
-need of heartening and properly eup-
_everting teachers of al/ grades with
• -public sympathy and substantial. re -
'Cognition in money and influence; and
'thirdly, the special value in Canada
• lo -day of the growing.boy.s, who must
-be trainedso as to be able to dis-
charge the double responsibility which
-is new Upon them—that' which they
"would have to bear under normal -con-
k,
•.ditiops, and also the extra. burden of
*trying to ,do part of the • work that
•would have been done by the gallant
-Allows who will not come back to us
• ;in Canada.- Therefore all that we can
-do for our boys of to -day in the way
• .of sound education is a patriotic' ser-
vice of thehighest possible .charact-
. •
_ %pr." , -
'•• 4.1. feel," said , *Dr. Cody, "that I
:have a .'brief' for teachers, -trustees,
and all who wish . to see educational
interests pushed forward; and I inteod'
personally to visit. teachers, schools,
:and the general public and not -only
'keen what is going op, but do wbat I
.can to show my sympathy with every'
. effort to 'advance and improve educa-
tion in this Provinee.I do not pro-
- • pose to be merely an office man; I in-
tend to let the officials a my Depart-
ment attend to the routine matters,
• , while I keep in 'touch With those who
• • •are doing the everk of traitiing; push-
-big their local projects for the im-
provement of education, and paying
• -the taxes for schools and educatioztal
property and appliances. We should
• aim to inform and arouse the -people
, •-on educational matters so that i when
•
• 'the tiniehaiiiirife finny advanced
, •„measurea they can be properly spro-
*,.. jeeted and successfully*. carried
..-..-,through."-" • • . : • • 1
,
"No doubt foil will' find the peoplel
•ready to hear:you," I remarked, "for
• '., ihere7is'agreat dealt hi Many' dire&
• tiOns for information On various
• phases of education" . •
• "Yea, nonctobt..• Aiready„though..I:
imee not been in office 'three weeks I
"have receiyed.literally hundreds of dif-
• ' ferent suggestions ..fot, the improts-
• meht of onr educational system and
,• - -outlines of educational reconstruction.
1. venture to say that practically the
whole community -is prepared to tell
the officials of the Department of gap,-
• cation how they ought to run the eche.
•eatiOnal machine of the Province'," he
.. added, with. a senile. "But there is a
• ' reason for. that, and it is not a dis-
:creditable one. • It -,is because educa-.
'Hon tooches every one �f is. Into ale
' . most every home the 'boy or the girl
"tornei with e tale, of weal or woe from
sehool, s� that education reaches and.
affecti every nook and coiled- of our
therefere natural and
--••• tont try. AV'
right that everyliZ, 4-A31d halt.° an
gtfe , int-
Opinloo ori what is of
portance, and should be trioVed4O
' press that opinion.
. 6W..11.at will be your attitnde tower
•• •Criticions•ond suggestions?" I Oked.
"I ani czar," replied the .1V1in-
, . ister; rI ant not. •Omniscient; and,"
(with a smile) "honestly, I don't think
that tire officials 'of. the. I?epartment
really believe-11nd they ere omms,
• .eient, Or do not wish to receivaltelpful
and Suggestiv.e and coitstruptive criti-
• kism. Indeed, I might paraphrase the
• **orb of Holy Scripture and say, 'If
inky one lao.i a natant, or a word of
•N
. •
"You Spoke about the special value
'of boys of to -day; haie you any spe-
cial plane for them, Doctor?", '
, "One point has greatly impressed
me. in regard to our Ontario system,"
Dr. Cody said "You Will .remember
thaiDr.vEgertori Ryerson had two fac-
tors in mind in peojecting the'system;
the first was to bring' the opportuni-
ties for eduertion Within the reach of
every child in the 'Pro4ince; the sec-
ond one was what I might gall contin-
uity of advance.". That 'is,the public
school was linked to the high school,
which in turn was linked to and led up
to the university. The system was
what might be called a 'chain with .its
various links. Tlfbee two leading ideas
still remain in the system, and it is
not claiming too much to say that our
system has been kept °very fairly up to
the, needs of the times: But now we
are ni new times, and almost. .every
system needs readjustment and needs
lubricotion. Now, it strikes me that
our readjustment might he made on
this line—I am not speaking dogmati-'
cal!y, and hope I shall never so speak;
but, this is what occurs to me:—
Ninety per cent. of ',onr children get
-no further edireation than that given
in our public schools; • only ten, per
of this Material for lining Packages
for the export of textile and Other
goods has also been forbidden, and an
attempt at economy was made by in-
sisting -that meat be packed and milk
canned in larger ceeetainers. Oil cans
Wge-ehnibledeinesizarandetinnedeiron-
drums were used for petroleum pro-
ductain India. •
Mr. Kennedy continues: "Further
efforts have been made to introduce
substitutes for use in the alloy, Card-
board, wood ,and fibre are now sub-
stituted for tin-plate in the mann-
facture of such thing as card -index
boxes and workmen's checks, while
earthenware bowls are used instead of
the old puddling bowls. Salt; suor
and tea, which formerly were packed
• in soldiers; rations tins, are now pack-
ed in paper bags. Recent regula-
tions of the Ministry ot Munitions
have put the civiliantrade upon a
very .strict ration, so that there will
only be a bare -minimum supply of
essential articles, such es domestic,
utensils, .stove% meters and lamps.,"
The 'report, attributes' the' use of
cardboard ;containers in England en-,
tirely to their success in the 'United
States, and says that 80% of the ma-
chinery noW,p.sed for this•purpose in
Great Britain has been supplied by
one Ainerican' manufacturer. One
London manufactuieer • sainv that 5,-
000,900. cardboard Containers were be-
ing produced, in England. every week.
Up to the. present the paper. contain.
ers have been chiefly what is known
as composite containers; e ih °thee
words, their tdps and •hattom were
tin. It is now the hope of the manu-
facturers to be able in the very near
future to make them eptirelen of paper
as to their progress, On thie point
Dr. Cody said: •.
"In these 'critical .times ,our people
must be made ft for the immense op-
portunities and responsibilities win h
are now before us, and • new o
•which will face us after the
those ,problems reconstruction, ad -
war— traordinary to the King, favors this
plan. He says:.
Justrnent, development that will call
for all the skill and expertetraining "The 'suggested 'amendment . to the
education bill, which. aims at the .coin -
we can command." ' •
' pnlsory supply Of schools for physical -
He quoted Dr. John R. Mott, who ty.
recently told an English audience, "I . defective children, he based on
sound policy.. Those Who have care-
evoidd lather l* living to-do, or.
the next ten years, -than at any pre-
vious period in the world's history."
"The great- thing for Canadians,"
added Dr.: Cody, "is. to fit themselves
for their great task." He hoped it
might not be said of. us, as was writ-
ten of Henrietta "Maria, the eonsort of
• Charles the First,' 'She lived at a
.great time, but had no greatness of
soul with which_ to meet it:
"In the days after the war," he cone,
tinuedi "the • problems of , education
will still remain, and human nature—
the raw'material on which we work --
will be much the same, though the
conditions , may differ, and the de-
mands may be somewhat changed in
consequence. One thing, however, is
sure; we all realize fo-day, as we nev-
An attempt is to be Made to extend
aeclause of the present education .bill
to .provide for openitg special aesid-
• ental schools for ehildren who are un-
able to obtain education otherwise. •
• Sir Thomas Barlpw, Physician Ex-
sehoole are satisfied on two points.
The first is that the physically defec-
tiVe children are often foued to be ex-
ceedingly quick at the 'uptake,' The
second is that experienee shows' that
with praper provision Air fresh air,
conveyance .from home to school and
sme other amenities the health of
these children can not only be cell
-
served but generally improved.'; '
• , The clerk of the Glasgow School
Board reports: • - ....' . ,
• "The total number of physically de-
fective children at present on the roll
bk the beard's speci*school is 1,790.
last year 570 children Were passed out
cent of them go .as far as the high er did before, the tremendous power as fit for the:ordinary school." •
6011901. May it not be advisable, then, and 'value of education. We have e There are at present in : London
for us sometimes .to 'view the •public seen a false ideal taught to genera- thirty-seven school! far the physically
defectice; withan attendance of
'school ' not as. a Mere link in a chain tions- of Germans in their , public - •
schools, their gYmnasia, their real- abeut 3,700 children, the total school
which . is .. never • completed, 'but as
rather a -distinct and complete entity sehule, and in their universities; and 000
population being' approximately 740,-
—a thing byitself—atleast as affect- we have seen the .very soul of that
ing the masses of.. children? Might nation i
poisoned. - sWe, have seen *he ' There are fifteen districts in Engn
results of this pernicious teaching in land and Wales which possess these
not that ninety per rent Who,. from
the bestiality, the savagery, the ruth- schools and the approximate attend -
family necessity, trnist'soeen earn their'
living,..be trained in pnblie schools o ance is 5,900, leaving from 32,009 to
lessness, of.many a battle field and of 37,000 children for whom no special
The sues e that has attended' our ef-
fort will be evident from the fact that
though they would.neVer • get .a more many a devastated realm. We. know '
complete education? The question then
would be how much education can we
give- in the oublic. schools that will
provide not only • a general mental
training; but Some. measure of voca-
tional training and .handwork some
kind OfVocational guidariee into Useful
and ,suitable occupations as well as
the great inspirations of morality and
-patriotisak,1 • Perhaps:aim,. might-cl
.well to rnake more of our public
school-system'in the light of the ac-
tual fact that the public 'school, and
it alone,reaches• ninety per cent of
'our total, school' „population. e The
ideal, of course, would be to secure
for as many as possible of this ninety
per cent. a further period of training,
with a special view to their life work.
We mut striveto make this ideal' a
eeality!' .••
I took the liberty of assuring thet
Minister of Education, on behalf of
the public bodies of progressive citi-
zens with•whom / kept in constant
toileh, such as the Manufaeturers'
Association, the Trades and Labor
Boards of Trade, Rotary and
Advertising Clubs, Neighborhood
Workers' Aseeciation, Home and
School Council, etc., that such an
tensifying and extension of the 'work
in public schools would beiobked upon
r as a most important step in the right
ehrection: • It would prepare thegreat
btIllc a bop and girls for their life-
wo k; Would interest them in further
snit.y in -part-time classes or technieal
Ahok le after e they went to work;
wOuic turn the thoughts of some In
the d1irection of scientific investiga-
tions, and *Old guide them into occu-
pntio4to in whichthey could earn sat -
Wad ry wageg and do good Werke in
fact t Would vitalize the whole sys-
. ' .
that it- dos matter what people .are
taught, and what they believe: What
people really. believe determines their
cenduct. • More -than that, we have
learned by the war that it is possilile
to use education with tremendous ef-
fect, ein-developing- and organizing
commerce and industry, . We have
eeen Germany, by her system. of re-
search fellowships, by her. aprilicas.
tion of pure science to industry, •• to
agriculture, and to. manufacturing,
capture one market alter the other..
We dee what is possible to trained
and organized Industry and coinmeree.
It is lawful to be taught by our ene-
Mies; let us learn that lesson from
• them, Let us never forget; however,
• that efficiency is in itself no more a
meted thipg than is electricity; it de-
pends ' altogether upon the end to
which it is directed. Heoce the per.,:
petual need of threeting•.inoral ideas, .
and of 'Moral training, • The schools
pf Ontetio can and should be macie the
training -ground for,the ineulcation'ef
true and intellig•ent demoerao 'that
1. helpeto keep the world safe, and
that will make Ontario the banner
Province of a great, free, intelligent'
and skilful nation." ••
i 'aril s_rn d
or cardboard.
•
WHEN PEACE c9YIE:
Not :Until Militarism is Crushed
• to Death.
. •
Peace will come when the world 16
ready for it, • And the world will not
be ready foh peace until the German
militarY autocracy is erushed.to death,
and the world can make a lasting
peace with a self -governed ',German
people:• , „
• Mani times we have heard that the
•present offensive is'the Germane' last
deeperate 'effort, and if it ,fails they
will be ready for peace. Possibly
this is so. The Gerthans have been
ready for peace ever since they began
'the war, and are ready for peace to-
'day—on German terms. •
•
Anyonek'Who believes that the War
will'end when the German offensive is
stopped is going to be disappointed.
The Germans would be glad to have
the Allies believe they are near ex-
haustion. They have spread this
tale many tithes before to find that
it pays unusually well'
Nothing would suit the Germano
better than to have us believe our
work is .done after the present Ger-
map drive is stopped. The Germans
themselves have no eueli belief. • If
the .present drive fails, •the ICalser
gindenburge_ond_Ludendorff
busy shaping, German ;mien.: opinion
and gettirig'rertiy for the net one.
Peace will come not by stopping a
German drive, but by the Germans
failing to stop an allied drive.. The
less ta/k about getting: .peace by
itopping the Germans • fifty' miles
front Paris the better prepared We
shall be for the big job ahead after
they are -Stepped. There will he no
vpeace until the Germans have been
driven out of France and Belgiurn and
back of the Jthitie, and kept there.
• Peace will' come when the world is
ready for it. And the world will not
be ready for it until the German mili-
tary autocracy is crushed, to death,
and a lasting peace can be made with
a self -governed German people.
• BEHIND MEAT SCHEDULE.
_ • __nee,- • _ _
Great Britain . 'Unable .to Supple the
.• 'Amount Required by France. `
SERVICE
BEFORE ATM
WAR RUMS
JOB Wan
WHEN THE TROOPS :00 OM DUTIES ARIVI4ANY AND OPTIIN
THE TOP AT DAYBREAK. DISAGRIERARE,
in ThChesirplaensein 119InitiolUedirraePirrheepaThiretr$4
"In th• re"hiTal:eltlil:s*sytal tTliheanlight one
tmy flanie quivered at the doorway,
of what had been, a nindera home war is the military acrgoOtt No ratan
4ut was now just three wane and ; has been bander Worked In Oa tr..-
hit The tinY siauie was that of a -meadocrirezetseissnfugthrtti:rgGthme:ifiaerithoone troleemaxit feuslr
IY arid flickered. in the throbbing deeke nioAte
burning candle., •lt inmped nervous- Mouitha. and his work has hoes is
.ness "under the concussion pf .the
r
artillery"which WAS thUladerin stin111114sfothe medical Man that
message . the , Gerinan trenches," 'there 15 19r" the 1441147 •VtilhuT
1ne thing to d
•isah *boa
wrtes 4. M. in the London Daily officer. • It is o
Mail.
came men in twits and threes,
.".Prom varioua Points of thaendnilfohwt:kurieedr; nreit' linstiwttotigterkini1111911: °tor t4daskiNg
and then a sma1l. squad would march riabsougut wuhniterea'31rmeiyaanidterdkinge thtoe'thssoome
'door' °
towardes4t4cihetiisanyppe4lighrtin, genteinritongo;aet,titt..
;with won*** from which all other
taeitm:ir-Oe.f-thAe.-Ilmla:neAelhaadtilinad.-0, ionneeg-heeeasn„ithil-iiiirc. 44,04,71--4118 -nliorta r
an officer who had been detailed to In
doctor," 4
sock and white sleeves came tahluda
the little flanne. liniect a number of lmprovised vaginal- •
• "'There are no Lampe and no oil,1tY clearing stations along the front
boys,' he said. 'All we have is this during a recent attack.
candle. What shall we do"
"'Carry on,' replieW the boys: tisTriTrnaryginie
hasniti sili
hisrgmchaergie:tbtheeriwBell:
being of more than athousand men
r . `
"But someone discovered a band-
fu l of candles, and these were served When there is. no fighting on he has
out, the boys sticking them on the top plenty to do, Ile has to strike a hap,
'py
of their helmeti3, where they burned medium in discouraging the faint.
hearted, who COMO to as a means
fitfully, At the end of the poor al -
of obtainlita fortnight's rest and in
most roofless building, amid, the pile
ofi
holding out a Itelping hand to those •
mereuitbibeine !)aonxdescl,usotv,ewr awe haiephilea, oal
uf whet are in real distress. If he Is too
nal°n- lenient, the Commanding Officer heentt
Jack heel been draped. On the top to ask Whether he intends to deplete
lay an open book the .whole regiment: if he is too
"The. man with the cassock began harsh, the .juneor,oilicers and men ihse
to read, droning his words as he bent patiene"
over the book, beside which a candle
•
Soldiers and Fren9h Civflituni
At* His Responsibliltlein
One of the •unsung heroes ot tbs
MultifariOus Duties.
had been placed. • Be read for about
five 'minutes. The only background .. The doctor Is the only officer in tbe
wail of the missiles as they hurtled rumble of exploding shells and the nate
of sound to his droning voice was the regimepntetoe, 0,heoenewileernaveerone,f;ahpecoaismr, twhibecifttootrhintui,
through the air. The candles,gave ft theTl e: de There ee g ia are e neto.MaendthiertaYoh-ociodnecifilorceruisenala .
ghostly radiance to the scene. .
•
ammunitipp boxes. . „.,
to drone and 'knelt beside his .alter of '
"The man with the cassoek ceased
has kaet 8 *e thein,ularc:. te• the 'If 'et he
1' cell re sisifiWwileValCeher.101. nellatidoseut4ghoe and
to
before long breaks down and precious
time he spoke louelly..` . • .
"A few minutes later he rose. This
medical stores ' have in)* -abandooed.
"Old Hundred." Let us sing.! •' Pwesllt-- '
" `Bola'. he said in his Seottish bur-'
ItironileinCIteuseoffis cte°rSamkeessthirctitahjses'
ring tone, 'there' nothing like the ni
gh unbearable. . , .
. The dOctor doesn't ride, but ltfoOt-' ..
.t "so' -they Sang ,the ',Old Hundreci,'
slogs" it with .his regiment thronieh
hen another hymn. . A crash not far the same mud, the same wind and vita,
ff shook the. building and made the and the
same perils. His ditties' ate . .
'o .
.earth heave Some of the boys stop -
net confined to caring for the ill and
nl singing. ..
Injured. Ile must supervise the said-. .
•. "Bore' carnet the voice /from
the tenon of camps and billetseinsiire the
ammunition' boxes, 'Brother Boche is
getting the range.. ,Let us disPerse;
'out for outbreaks and epidemics,
purity of chinking water; keep a look-
nAnd let each do his'clainnedest in the maintain
ext five hours. God bless us all.'
oculations and vaccinations and till
a contintlouS centreline of in.
the hos came °tit of the -wretehew forms. He - bas lo de his
!`,The candles were extinguished an. ed out a long series of records and army
building. In two's, and threes they the ,ii.ght of his special knowledge to
utmost in ,
disappeared In the blackness The maintain the health of his unit, and .
man with the cassock was last to any remisiness on his part may, lead
leave. As. he came through the 'door-
way' he bent and blew out the candle. 'M. billets he has the added duty ,,of
to a serious diminution of its Strength.
Then he too went into the night • playing the role of, edical attendant •
-"What' was it? you may ask.
to the villagers, as - r the French doe.=
attack at daybreak,"
- ' hit' was e' night service before tli...e tees
. ... .• gone. i • ' ' ;
in the cop. districts have• -
. ,
,, • Do dhlldren Help or Hinder?.
IS.$10,000 an insignifiaant sum to be
donated t� any undertakingV Can the
sionor be considered -as 'or little homer-
gitanvecee thinatthseumthr .eDmaeynt.afttoerwdh,alchy
the
world expresses itself emphatically
against any ahiiIVOT but fine." • That
• being the case, childree (at least the
children in one Cattadian city) are
among the greatest backers Of our
Med In France. • The 'children *of the
Protestant schools-, in.. Montreal con-
tributed during the two years ending
,tune, nth ;11,665.15 In money for the
Red Cross. Their busy fingeisse and
• 'untiring devotion produced Red .CtOss
supplies; to the num.ber of: 96,790
pieces, • Among these were 1,787
pa of socks, 61 erectu e shirts, 183
cothfort, bags, 16 pajamas, 25: pairs Of
Slippers 139 surgical dressing cap's;
1,480. inuffiefs,- .69/ pet) caps, 293
wristlets, 1,664 pillow, slip% .48 sheet%
393 eye and Chin bandages, 406 mane
-
tailed bandages', 788 triangular band-
ages; 87 abdominal, 55 head and S,241
of' the 21/2-inon bendages, This Year's
corlettion, up to. May 1, ainounta to
$6480.89, with no falling -off the
pieces of hand Werk.' This truly a
recor0. Of whith to feel proud. :
THE SOLDIER'S CHANCES.
ee
Physical Training Lengthens His Life
, By Five Years.
Great as the danger and large as
the losses in the aggregate; the
diVidual soldier has plenty of Chancei
of cOrning out of the Warunscathed,
or at least not. badly inkired.
• Based on the mortality statisties of
the allied armies, a soldier's chances
areTwaesnfty°1-inpiwnes: chances of coming
home to one ellance of being, killed.
Forty-nine chances of reetivering
feom wounds to .orie chance of ,dying
from them.• •• , •
One Chance is 800 o.f losing a limb.
,Will live live years longer because
Of physical training, is freerfrom dish
ease in the army.than in civil life, and
has Aetter -medical care at the freed
than at home..
In other 'wars fron 10 to 15 men
died front disease. to One front bullets;
In this war one man dies. from disease
to every 10 from bullets,
prov s i a e_ beyond_thaLs- 137 -
plied by voluntary effort. •• -• , .
-The committee is asking for. cont. '
pu)sory Powers under the Government
• education bill, and express thernselVea
confident that at this stage of the war,
with the _present interest of the public
in: 'child -life, the amendment Will•re-
ceive due consideration. ,' •
•
. •
• He Gave His Life For a,Frleitd.
• A British sergeant •major, 'in -id-
dressing the. recruits at a training
• station, spoke of the soldierly duties
that they would be called upon to per-
form, and concluded by saying: Be
proud of your regiment. .It's your
home for the war. SQ, stick to it,
and stick to.your cothrades. I never
tire •of telling recruits a.stery of tw�.
men of our second : battalion in the
Dardanelles ekpedition. A. blizzard
and a. washout swept away It lot of
our chaps. • 'The:two T•int talking
about struggled on and found some sort
of shelter, and there they sat down to
rest. ' The younger could have get
away and come to camp, but he
wouldn't'. leave his pal alone in the
storm, and darkness and itio*. The
riext morning they were found•togeth-
er, asleep for good: --frozen stiff. The
Younger, had his arms round his pat
Ie held a bit of broken biscuit. in each
hand, and there were • niscuit 'crumbs
. .
roaen
into the moustache of the older
niam' That's the whole ?tory. I
don't know What their regimental
umbers' and names were, hut there's
book where their names are put
own all right told forever.
The dishcloth is A poor thing with
which t� wipe pots and pans; it is not
ree from soap and grease.
The war -winning gnartette is wheat,
meat, sugar and .fat. They are need.
ed abroad; don't impose too much „
home performanca open them.
Thousiihds of persons *every • year
are crippled or killed because they fail n
to pines a *One upon their own safe- !•11
ty. . Id
'"Phe hest conduct a min Can adopt
Is that which gains him the esteem'
of Others withoutdeprivieg him ethis
ow."-e-Talmude•
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•
,
•
,The necessity for c.inervation of
Meat on. this cOntinent, in order to
meet the very heavy ettb.orlds front
overseas, is emphasixel by the fact
that • England • is • still unable
to „furnish regularly the 20,000
tons of, refrigerated meat which was
.prothised France under an ,agreement
r ode in 1Vlareli, 1910. Because of
sibrnarine activ'ties and deniands
ripen shipping, Great Britain fell be-
li!nd 10,000, tons in 3017, and for 1918
the deficit is already about 25,00
tom • • . • • •
- ,
The girl who knowas much as her
mother does hasn't anything on her
brother who knows three times ti.S-
much as the "governor" ever (Wean,
ed about. '•" • • 1
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CANAL DRIVERS liAlth LIFE. -
Live and Sleep hi the Open—Travel
Trails at Night. • .
In China cemel- drivers are Iihret-
'elites who /owe little or nothing to do
with their fellows Through the .
twelve months of the year they
live'• •
and sleep in the open, and in this
life they acquire brown shins, -bulk of •
muscle and sinew and g tacturnity •
which repels advances Nine months' '
of the year they are on :the road, 'fel- .
lowing the long, faint trails that lead
to such places as Urgii, Uliassutal,
"KtieliefigtneeKarkuI, Sining'and ban •
-
gar. • • .
They never steep under roofs, but
carry their own tents and bedding,
food and utensils, and:camp wherever .• =•
there is free grazing. ,During ehreh
summer -months they are out with
their camels, during• the camel vaca-
tion, While the beasts are recovering '
their hair and the fat under- their
humps which Is there reserve or , •
strength and -eniergy on. the winter •• •'• • :
journeys. Most of the travel is done• .• '
at,night, for the camel does not relish ,
feeding after dark and will lie down ,
in his tracks aftee, having.nibbled an
Insufficient meal of Poor shrubs. .
—hhe
• Ey' travelling at night the animals ••
have the -whole day for their grazing, '
and therefore keep themselves *in
much better condition. In the Arc-
tic Weather Of the Mongol plateau
this travelling at night is ghastly- -.
business for all but thoae ;who have
bon bred,to.it, and when one sea at
• e?
midnight in a biting gale d camel
driver sitting calmly On his leader, e
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rocking along through the darkness '
at the exasperating slew pace of the •
laden caravan, One wonders howhu-
man flesh and bone can beer it. The
hot days under canvas are trying, too,
and all the tribulatieris of the road, go
to makahard, quick-tenipered men of '
the camel dtivers, feared aathey are. •
for their rough and violent ways.
•
Buy a small brush at the 5 and 10
cent store and When washing men's
or boys' shirts or* nure.h soiled Ada
lay article,to be washed on the rub
board and brush with tho soiip water.
You will .110 surprised hoW Much eas4
ler and how cleaner it will make your
waihieg.
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