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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-09-14, Page 2the 1117011 (Expositor Since 1860, Serving 41te Community First PUbliathed at SEAFORTIL,ONTARIO, every Thunday monaltig by MeLEAN BROS., Publashena Ltd. ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES 20 OEM'S EACH Second Class Mail Registration Numirce 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTI-I, ONTARIO, September 14, 1972 Education costs, but also pays +CNA r. Travel in Alberta In the Years Agone Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley 4 Has the educational system produced a monster? During the fifties and sixties, money was lavished on schools on a scale of generosity never before dreamed of. The theory was that if- students were given attrac- tive surroundings, the best generation yet would result. The kids were given. airy rooms, colorful decor better trained teachers, large reference libraries, prOjectorS, tape-recorders TV sets .and the best lab equipment. - Students were alloMed to work -on their own; student councils, got a voice in running some'. Schools; students even started setting up their own sc,hools.and courses. But then reaction star- ted to set in. Taxpayers groaned ,underthe finan- dial burden.',They wondered if schools mere realistic with the de-emphasis on competition and marks. . The:worst blow,pf all was the students. They grew long-haired and be- came vocal. Universities suffered student strikes and riots, high schools '.ha.d student protest over courses and freedom of assemblies. Kids took drugs. This was the. generation which forced the.U„S.A.to reconsider its attitudes towards the blacks and the Viet N'am war. It challenged adults on the quality of life.in-North Ameri,can,it hoMled so loudly about pol- lution that politicians were forced to listen. Whatever their - elders may think --- this gener- ation thinks for,itself and searches for its own answers. A waste of money? Perhaps not, they save 'the world from itself. . (Contributed) From My Window — By Shirley. J. Keller ..„ ti SEPTEMBER 17, 1897 Wm. Eberhardt, of the Mill „Road, Tuckersmith, has just completed a splen- did new stone piggery. The work on James Graves' new stores is rapidly being pushed forward. A steer on Robert Winter's ranch, near Goderich, was killed, by lightning. Thos. E. Hays and John Fowler of town left for. Winnipeg. Mr. Hays intends to purchase a lot of cattle therefor winter -feeding. Messrs. Broadfoot and Box, of the Seaforth Furniture factory, are busily engaged in getting up a large order of furniture for the Old Country. Master Fred Broadfoot, young son of J. H. Broadfoot, was thrown from a bicycle and had one arm broken at the wrist. Peter Dill of town, has purchased the grocery business of Thos. Daly. C. Hartleib, the general hardware merchant of Zurich, has now got com- fortably located in his new store. He has one of the neatest and handsomest hardware stores in the county. A pleasant social dance was held in Cardno's Hall and despite the warm weather the young people enjoyed them- selves dancing to the music of the London Harpers. Trit cement abutments for the 'bridge on the Hayfield road, west of Brucefield, are now completed and they reflect great credit in the work of the contractors. John Campbell, of the Bronson Line, in_Statiley,...has a mammoth cucumber, which measures twenty inaes In length - and IV' in circumference and weighed 4 1/2 pounds. - SEPTEMBER 15, 1922 Robert Bell of the Bell Engine Company left on a business trip to the west coast. T. S. Smith shipped a car load of very • fine heavy horses from Seaforth station to Montreal. This is the second shipment he has made in two weeks. John A. McRae has purchased Mrs. To the Editor Sir:' At the Huron County Board of 'Ed- - ucation meeting on August 21st, a del- egation from the Clinton and District Christian School was in attendance with a request to share transportation facilit- ies. Chairman John aroadfoot stated that he is not interested to provide 'free transportation" for our children. How- ever, the possibility was left open to share on a pro-rated basis. In other words ' we pay for the but space we use. This Is not, Sharing. The transportation we ask for is already" well being paid for since our education tax money goes to the Huron County Hoard Of Education While, We operate our own school With the assistance pl private simporterS; The operation' Of our ,school is saving the COUtifY Hard aroud $160,000., annually. Thiat• it perhaps appealing to the tax- r Thos. Purcell's residence on George Street. The price was $1750.00. Messrs. Harvey Burrows, Aubrey Crich, Everett Rivers, Garnet Chapman, Russel Bristow and E. Merner left to• assume their studies at the Toronto Dental School. The Seaforth Highlanders will provide' the musical Pro-gramme for Brussels Fair. F. B. Hall of Constance has sold out his business to Mr. Radford of Londes- borO. SEPTEMBER 19, 1947 A very., pleasant social was held at the home of Mrs. J. A, McGregor when the Egmondville choir presented Miss Betty Moore, bride elect, with sheets, pillow' cases and a bath towel. Gladys Forbes read the address and Anna Watson presented the gifts. The Dublin cucumber plant is the centre of almost continuous activity dur- icg a, very productive season. The manager; 'Albert Kramers, reports that approximately 20 tons of cucumbers per day are picked up by the plant's trucks. Eight employees work until after mid- nig weighing and grading the supplies. A a colorful ceremony held at the nurses' r sidence of Scott Memorial Hospital, fur nurses' assistants were grad- ted. Miss M. Dinning is the superin- tendent. Miss June Murdock has completed her studies at Parson's School of Design. in- New York, and has been ap- pointed to the staff of the International Varnish Company as Interior Decorator and consultant. There will be no girls to bother the teacher at S.S.No. 2 McKillop this year. Every one of the 14 'pupils is a boy. Miss Agnes Brundt, of Mitchell is the teacher. Mervyn Brown, proMnent Hensall resident, while tearing down the balcony of his verandah suffered a bad fall while walking from one rafter to another. He fell 12 feet to the floor below. . payers, but is it just? We have the freedom and the right to establish and maintain Christian Schools which we feel necessary and beneficial to the community; this freedom we fully appreciate. However, we are still for- ced to pay our public school tax -while value for this tax has been denied up until now. This is discrimination. Provincial education authorities have advised Us to approach our local boiti'd and ask to share facilities. The County Board therefore has authority to act on this matter. We left the board meeting with the assurance front chairman John Broadfoot that the matter would be thoroughly dis- cussed and the decision made known "to us. We hope that the final decision Will not be a decision which Wadi-75w customs and traditidna4 C. 13ruinsnia, Secretary • • Clinton and DistrietChristianSchool I'm in a- serious mood to-day. Don't look for anything light and cheerful from me this week. Not long ago we received word that an acquaintance from the past years has died. He wasn't an old man. He wasn't a burden to anyone. He was .a good husband, a fine father and a credit to.his church and his community. rm not, asking why he' died. I know that God has a 'purpose for everything, even this. -And 1 know that our friend's family will receive his death in the same spirit of faith. But there's something else here that prompts me to' write this rather mel- ancholy epistle. It is something which plagues most of us in this lfe and it is something' Which looms forth when- ever someone dieS. It is that difficult to overcome trait in folks to work like the devil while they are young... and hope against hope that the Good Lord Will allow pm to live long enough to enjoy retire I'm not advocating that responsible citizens drop everything and retire. That just wouldn't be practical. But I am suggesting it is important . ... no, necessary . . •. . that all of us put aside some time while we are yet able to enjoy life. I'm not old and I'm net young. I'm in-between. My husband and I' know 'all about scrimping and saving48 make That great big tf Who-o-o-o-sh" of air that is still reverberating across the nation; from coast to coast, is not caused by hurricane, typhoon or cyclone. It is the expulsion of breath from hundreds of thousands of mothers after their sigh of relief becauSe school has started again. There are many emotional reactions to the annual re-opening of school. Let's look at a few of them. First, the mothers who have had three or four school-age kids on their hands for two of the longest, most dreary summer months in decades. • •During the past summer, the sun has been as elusive as medals are for 'the Canadian Olympic team. Rain, overcast, drizzle, downpour, humidity. You name it; we've had it. So, mothers. You've had your brood underfoot •most of •the summer. Kids getting up at all hours, eating at all hours,- whinhig, "There's nothing to do." You've been making peanut-butter-and- jelly sandwiches until you gag at the sight of a peanut. you've bandaged cuts and scrapes, invented games, planned picnics Which had to be held at home, rained-out, and been driven to the point where the kids call you "Old Snarly. For you ' school opening was euphoria. Sure, you love your children, but love, like most things, should be taken with moderation. Admit it; When you got them all off that first day, you made coffee, sat down, put feet up, lit a cigarette, sucked- in your breath and .let it out With a "Who-o-o-o-sh". You felt a deep love for teachers, however momentary. You secretly thought you wouldn't care if they doubled your education taxes.• ' -Well, that one reaction. What about ,) your kids? Their obvious reaction is ends meet. We've known what it is like to wonder where the money is com- ing from to pay the bills, and even though we are presently blessed with sufficient funds to meet all our needs and some of our wants, we understand and apprec- iate it takes two-people working together to keep a home going and raise a fam- 113F. 'As most of my readers are aware, we have three children. Two teeriagers and a six-year. old is not a. large fam- ily, but it costs a bundle ,each year to keep five heads above water. It takes everybody knowing and understand- ing the family's financial situation to make, it through without too many, scars. My hnSband and I have made a pact, We've agreed on a matter which, I hope, will save our sanity right now and pro- vide us with 'some wonderful memories should one or the other of us leave this veil of tears before our three score and ten years are up. We've agreed, that once every, six weeks (no longer): we will proceed to enjoy life as though we had the time and the bucks to do so. Sometimes it is a dinner party. Sometimes it is just a quiet and peaceful day in some seclud- ed hideaway. Sometime§ it is an escape to anywhere. • But on -those jaunts, we are pledged to forget our work, our problems, our . „ . one of disgust and despair.; • school( Who needs it? Back to jail." But how do they feel behind the com- plaining that is second nature to kids? Secretly, they're delighted and excited. They are bored to -the point of depres- sion, wheth'er they're in elementary or high school. They are sick of "Old Snarly". They've had enough of work- ing, if they worked, or bumming., if they just bummed. Despite the constant criticisms of the "unreal" life at school, in my opinion many young people have far more "real" life there than they do at home., Opening day means seeing old friends, making new ones, exchanging lies about what they did all summer and sizing up, with a hard, cold stare, the new teachers for the year. Fey high-school students, despite their attempt to be blase, it means the end of that heart-breaking summer romance. But look! There are some new 'chicks, and some of last year's teeny-boppers have turned into real birds. And that greasy obnoicious Grade 10 boy of last year is now a sophisticated Grade elevener, after a summer pumping gas. And he has a motor-bike! Most of all, at school they are accep- ted by their peers. At home, they were children, were supposed to love and res- pect their parents, and had to obey orders, hoWever grudgingly. At school, they don't have to even pretend to love or respect their teacheys and disobeying orders benOtries- a game, as longasyou're not tagged. There's another species. These are the mothers who tearfully, with enough instructions and warnings to confound a Socrates, send off the first-horn to the fears. Enjoyment of each other and our good life together is the name of the game....and there's no putting it off or talking ourselves out of it. You're right. we haven't got a bank account of any' size. We have no invest- ments and no large land holdings. we have no funds, tucked away -in a matt- ress either. ' Hy 'all that is right and proper, I simpose we are,taking -,Iviarge chance by Spend* money we really don't have - and taking time we. really should use to make more money. To fritter' money and time away oil -Useless fun and frolic is leaving the way open for . disaster in the future. Well, our answer 'is that if God does bless us with a future, we are also sure that He will provide us with the ways and means to live comfortably in it. And if He sees fit to. call one or the other -of us to our eternal home before the normal age of 'death, the one left will not have to spend the rest of life wishing 'there had been time and money for doing some of the thinks we wanted to do. Someone once , paid that "today is the first day of the rest of your life". How true. How very true. The way you spend your life is your own choice, but try not to leave your- self prey to a lifetime of regret alone. There's no contentment in that. first. day • of school. Don't worry, 'ladies. Next fail you'll be so grad 'to-see little Tim or Kathy off you'll think there must be something hard and cruel under- neath your laire of the brat. And what is the reaction of that fine, dedicated, altruistic group - the teachers? A few of them dread it. They are the realists who know what it's going to he like in February. They probably should not be teaching. But, despite. the fact that they moan and groan just like the kids, frbm my -observations, 913 per cent of them are happy to get back into harness. And I do mean harness. They've had a long holiday. Theoret- ically, they, have ' recharged their bat- teries.".,They, too, have become bored. They have spent too much money, as everyone does on holidays. They will have 'new studenis, and there might even be a few 'bright ones. They are going to teach better this year. They have new ideas they want to try. They've forgotten how wilted they were last June. They've forgotten how ghastly it all is in February. Personally, my battery has run down 'during the summer, and have to re- charge it at school. This' will be easy. Just' attach your cables to 150 kids, and the sparks will 1134 Spring is supposed to be the time of rebirth, reawakening and such. But in 'Canada, we don't have any spring. Just some rain and mud between the misery of March and lushness of June. In this country, we all seen to come alive in September. And getting back to school is like getting back to reality after the dream-like duality 'of Summer holi- days. Let's go, gang! •