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History repeats itself
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HE IS4RISEN
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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
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From • My Window
By Shirley J. Keller
APRIL, 20, 1923
The annual spring show of horses and
cattle, under the auspices of the South
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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/
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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,
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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.
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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
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