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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1973-04-19, Page 2f fxptisitor Since 1860, Serving the Cominunify First Publiehed at REAPORM, ONTARIO, laveryllkitirsday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Puhlishon9 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 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 History repeats itself +CNA • 1 HE IS4RISEN • "4 4-.7.. Except for Christmas, When the Christ Child was born, no single event in the history_ of life and death upon -this earth holdS 'such great significance- as Easter. ThiS is the affirmation of faith, • the confirma- tion of truth for those who believe there is • a God in the heavens and a. lasting, universal hope for mankind. The message of Easter: "He is risen!"— reminds us that the life of Christ upon earth came at last to .Calvary —where the message of love and sacrifice was writtth 'forever, for all time, for all ages. Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley ••. English is going down the drain, going to the dogs, or going up in smoke these days. Take .your pick. Maybe thiat first sentence is what's wrong with the language. There are so many idioms in it that nobody can speak or write, the real thing any more. University professors have expressed their indignation publicly. A couple of them recently announced that students who expect to graduate .in one of the profes- sions can't write one sentence Without fallipg all over their syntax. I agree with them. BUt if they think they have troubles, they should try teaching English in high school. There has been such a marked and rapid decrease in the standards of written and spoken English that teachers of the subject can be found almost any day in the staff John, weeping into the washbasin. This winter, a teacher in a city school decided to prove something she already knew. She drew up a list of forty words, most of them of one syllable , and tested ' several classes. Nobody ,could spell all forty. Many 'of the kids couldn't spell ten of the words. Her experiment and her subsequent 'ndignation were airily dismissed by a public school principal, who said some thing like, "Oh, we don't word/ much about spelling any more. They'll learn to spell when they need to." Hogwash. What employer of anything 'but brute strength wants a semi-literate lout foul- ing up his invoices order forms and every- thing he can get his hands one What printer, for example, will hire a kid who can't even spell "etaoin shrdly"' and doesn't even know what it means? I do a fair bit of gnashing and wailing, myself when I'm marking upper school papers and have to sort out something like, "The women nu were she was going, as she when they're everyday." The thought is there, but ther e• is something. lacking when it comes to felicity of spelling. Everybody blames everybody else for the sad state of English, but, as usual, you have to read it in this column to get at the truth. Let us establish the a priori fact that the high school English teacher IS faultless. And, some would add, that a fortiori, the high school English teacher is useless. So be it. NOw for the real culprits. They are not the elementary school teachers, much as we would love to blame theM. They are victims, too. First, English had been derogated and eroded for the past couple of decades until it is now down somewhere in the area of brushing your teeth and saying your prayers. Remember, you older and wiser people who went to school longer ago than you care to proclaim? You had spelling and grammar and compositiori and reading and writing and orals. This was English. Maybe you didn't learn much about sex or conversational French or how to copy a "project" out of the encyclope- dia, but you sure. as hell had English belted into you. Maybe you weren't given much chance to "express yourself", but by the time you were, you had some tools with which to do it. Nowadays English is practi Gaily crowded of the curriculum by such esoteric subjects as social behaviour, 'getting along- with the group, finding your place in society, and the ubiquitous and often useless "project". Kids,,one teacher told me, shouldn't have to learn to spell words that are not in their own vocabulary. *Now, i ask you. How else do they acquire a vocabulary? But, I repeat, it'd not the teachers of our little treasures who are at fault. It's the tinkerers, the dabblers in education. • They are rarely-found in a classroom. • They are more often haring after some "new approach" in e'ducation that has been tried and found wanting by the Americans or the Armenians or the Aztecs. . Thus, out went grammar and spelling drill. The kids are supposed to learn these basic skills, not through their eyes and ears,' but in some mysterious way; possibly through their skin. Daily drill is deadening to the spirit, so off with its head. Let the kids be creative, write poetry: "I saw the moon ovary the cloweds it was sooner." Doesn't that give yog a unique exper- ience? The freedom of spirit, the originality, the creativity? Fortunately, I am *able to shake this off, along with war and famine, death and taxes. It has it's moments. The other day, I threw this old chest- nut at a class, and asked them to correct the grammar: "Forty cows were seen, sitting on the verandah." There was total silence. It seemed OK to them. Then a pretty Grade Ii girl flung up her hand an d flashed all her teeth. 041 got it, Mr. Smileyl" "Yes, Bonny," I winced. Carefully She enunciated: ;een forty cows sit- ting on the verandah.P 5- • From • My Window By Shirley J. Keller APRIL, 20, 1923 The annual spring show of horses and cattle, under the auspices of the South • Huron Agricultural Society was held at Hensall, when there was a large atten- dance. T1 judge of the horses was, Dr. W.E.Baker of TOronto and for cattle Henry Smith of Hay P.O. The prizes in the Boy's Judging 'Competition were donated, by H. Q. Soldan, wm. Consitt and Oscar Klopp. Miss "Johnston of Exeter has taken 'a position in the J. MacTavish store. • • Olifftartt Lowery, esoirtotMft land Mrsai •qr/ ••.:,19ePtitrbeaveRYiloteet7.ntihistw unfortunatei19:)00 aceidqnit., Weans eigingobisopoey' Wheliflf M 11911i the animal shipped on the crossing and fell, throwing him heavily , with the result that his left arm was broken. Robert Bell of town has purchased a very handsome Hudson coach-, and Wm. Ament a Chevrolet Coupe. Mr. McLeod of town has, leased the rooms over his store and Mr. and Mrs. T. Daly will move to their residence on John St. W. E. Kerslake of town has purchased the old post office block on Main St. One store of which he has been occupying since his feed and seed store was des- troyed by fire. Gordon Wren of Chiselhurst had the misfortune while in The act of cutting off • a _ limb, it sprang back, Striking him in the face, breaking his nose. The ice got a good shaking up and- , was driven mile's from the shore, by the strong easterly winds at Hayfield. George Stewart of McKillop is making syrup on shares in the bush of Duncan McNichol. He retains, his share at $3.00-per gallon. • James Speidie and family, formerly of Belfast, Ireland, .have got comfor- tably settled in the old McNay home- stead in Tuckersmith. • Mervyn Coxworth of Hensall, left 're- cently for London where he has secured a position on the police staff' of that city. J. G, McMichael of town has secured the Clydesdale stallion, "British He 113' from the estate of the late Wm.' Col- quhoun of Mitchell.. APRIL 23, 1948. While employed in seeding on •his farm in Tuckersmith, Charles McKay • suffered a badly sprained knee as he slipped while operating a cultivator. The resignation of A. J. Calder from the staff of the public Utility Commis- sion was accepted with regret. Mr. Calder is opening his own business on May 1st. Unexpected car trouble reselted in Seaforth not being represented at a meet- ing of Zone C-1 at Kincardine. The delegation which included Geo. Hays, An- drew Calder, Jack Dunlop and Dave Netzke was forced to turn back when nearing Goderich. Lieut. R. J. Ivany of the local Sal- vation Army,---announced that James M. Scott of the Scott Poultry farms has agreed to act as chairman for the Annual Red Shield Appeal. The campaign,trea- surer will be E. C. Chamberlain. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Walker, highly esteemed Hensall residents observed their 40th wedding anniversary when a family dinner marked the occasion. H. H: Damm, of Kippen, has been informed of his appointment as a com- missioner for taking affidavits. Norman Long, rural mail carrier at Kippen, whose ankle is not as good ad was hoped for since his accident, has leased his farm to Ed,, Little and Wm. Schwalm of Hensall. The Minstrel Show presented by the Liman Choral Society in Cardno's Hall and sponsored by the Seaforth Fire Bri- gade was well attended. proceeds go to the Firemen's uniform fund. Lawrence Baynharna an employee of Fink's Tin Shop, Hensall, had the mis- fOrtune to suffer a fractured ankle, • • / The .printed word suf- fers from a traditional -enemy, the typog-raphical error. What this means is that. human beings,'when setting type, make mistakes.Their ,eyes skip over lines, miss tds, see'the.saWth-f or ores-0401m rdtter key. Gillen the typesetter sits looking at printed material all day,• the chances for error increase. The truly re- markable thing is that relatively few errors do get into' print. In book and magazine publishing, plenty of time exists to make corrections". Eyen so, a few slip through, even in high quality pub- lications. Newspapers operate against time deadlines, so the whole matter of setting• type, proof read- ing:it, and correcting it, is carried on under the pressure of such dead- Back in the days of. the French revolution when mobs of oppressed people in Paris cried for bPead, Queen Marie Antoin ette is reported to have said "Let them eat cake". History has a habit of repeating itself.. Today it is provincial treasurer John White who imposes a 7 per cent tax on light and heat and then advises the poor and lower income people of the province, on whom the -tax_falls heaviest, to put on a sweater and 'turn out the. lights during the bleak Ontario winters. The arrogance of Marie Antoinette contributed to her death by the guillo.N tine in 1793. The equally 'arrogant provincial treasurer pro- I've just come through an ordeal, the kind that practically every mother must face from time to time, Last weekend, the youngest member of our family had a birthday. • He changed from six' to seven in the wink of an eye . . and I got one more gray hair over it all. It was •on the eve of hisbirthday that he came running in from his game of driveway hockey to question me con- cerning the invitations. "What invitations?" I asked, getting that pit of my stomach churning which always accompanies disaster. , "For my party," he said, his eyes as wide as two giant saucers. I sunk into the nearest chair. Birth- day parties for little boys are about the worst thing ,that can happen to a woman. Between gudps of water and sniffles, my son explained he'd already told some of his claorifates he was hosting a birth- day party. He said there wouldn't be Many - maybe eight - and that the menu should consist of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, cabbage salad ( without the other stuff in it), mixed vegetables, pop and chodolate cake with ice cream, when I regained my composure, I exerted 'my mdther's privilegej I told him that as a working mother, there would' be no birthday parties through the week. I also melted when the tears began profusely and told him that a Saterday. theatre party with hotdogs and cake afterward would have to suffice. My Son was delighted. The next few Minutes consisted of making big plans for Saturday's event while I eniekly re- arranged my own personal plans for a leisurely thiyabff in the city. AhYWay# Tha'party was on a Saturday bably will be spared that fate. However, when the people of Ontario realize just what this added tax means in terms of their costs, (Seaforth people' will have -to pay out as much as $30,000 additional each year for heat and light) they use other means of indicating their . displeasure. Today we prefer to-use the ballot instead of the guillotine when our. lead- ers, by their disdainful . attitude, indicate they have lost touch with the people. ,And at times the ballot, while perhaps not as final,„, can be equally as effective as the voters in Huron and St. George's ridings re- cently proved. lines. Because of the way , some new machines space type, a single word error sometimes needs an entire 'paragraph reset. Then, alas, when •one error is corrected, another may , occur. esirit e 41174,t riVaro Ow effort , '4 al. typos ," as the ra e re- fers to them, some get by everybody. The worst feature is that they occur in the most embarrasing places, in headlines, in people's names, or similar things. When necessary, we ,run corrections. . The pain errors cause is at least .'as great among those who produce them, aS it is among those who read them. Meanwhile, we, labor to reduce them, and dream of the day when we all be- come perfect and errors' will be no more. (St.Marys Journal Argus at the appointed hour, eight little pack- ages of dynamite arrived carrying birth- day presents. ",Where 's your TV?" asked the first. "I can't eat chocolate," stated the • second. "My mother says I shouldn't go out- doors," announced the third. "I've got the flu." When eating 'time rolled round, I was prepared for the worst. The dieing table was set in festive array and within sec- onds after the howling hord descended on it, I knew my efforts at color co-ordin- ation had been wasted. It took only five minutes for one guest to spill his glass of pop, another to - get sick and need bathroom facilitie; immed- iately and one more to lose control 'of the ketchup and send It across the table onto another boy's new sweater. •As the meal progressed, I discovered the words to two new dirty songs; one ot the teachers wears support hose and false 'teeth; and the neighborhood may have an outbreak of jungle fever. The hotdogs were well received; the chocolate cake was fairly well acclaimed; but my choice of ice cream was way, way off. I had selected three flavor ice cream - you know, the chocolate, strawberry and vanilla blend. "Uch..ch..chi" exclaimed one little fellOw. "I hate that stuff." "What would you like?" I asked sweetly, hoping he'd tell me he wanted a punch in the head. "Anything but that," came his terse reply, "Funny thing," I muttered "That's the way I feel about birthday yties‘," APRIL 22, 1898, The trustees of S.S.No. 8 of•orvhave •engaged MISS ISabellaBln2P8OR,Of MCK1110p as teacher for the balance of the year at $150. There were 28 applcants. The barns of Thob. Tryce, east of Winthrop were destroyed by fire. Mrs. ' Pryce went to the barn to let out tie ' cows, when she notice d the-place...1p flames. There was an Insurance of $2000 op the barn and contents. Frank Wilson, the enterprising cheese maker, has secured a residence and moved Archibald Menziesi;40 they" well known into it. • ^•'h horse dealer of MCKillop has Made another extensive purchase, having bought from WM. Vanstone of Colborne, the imported heavy draught stallion Mount Says. The following persons were ticketed through to distant points by Wm. Somer- ville of the G.T.R.agency: Robert Blair -71• Hayfield and WM. Harrison, Goderich , Twp: to Sault Ste. Marie; Mrs. Cairns, Mrs. Martin and Ben Dorrance to Chicago; James Scott to Chicago; George Beattie to Owen Sound; Mark Patterson to Jackson, Mich. Word -was-received here from De Be- que, Colorado, announcing the death of Samuel T. Carnochan, grandson of James Scott, Roxboro. The deceaSed was 18 years of age. • Hert Williams of town intends erecting,' a neat new residence on his lot near Ogilvies Mill. Harry Edge has the con- tract. Peter Dill has leased the store on the corner of Main and John Sts. recently vacated by Richardson and McDones. Frank Freeman of town is in charge of the grist mill at Ethel. While working in the finishing de- partment of Broadfoot and - Box furniture factory, R. Foster met with a painful accident, A heavy wardrobe fell on him, fracturing one of his ribs and bruising the muscles. Morley Habkirk of town has purchaSed Geo. Murray's ice business and will supply the town this summer. Geo. Turnbull of town shipped a car load of horses to the Old Country. Miss Hallie Coleman of town"has been appointed nurse, in charge Of the new Jubilee Wing to the "Hamilton City Hos- pital. The camping season has commenced, at least for the "Indians as some have • pitched their tents on the mountain at Cromarty, where they usually go to gather herbs, etc. When errors will be no more ke• A