HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-03-10, Page 3THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE 'J’Hl'I/SDAV, MAltCH 10th, toss
Summary of the New
School Curriculum
LETTER BOX
1. Pre-eminence is given to
health education.
2. Emphasis is .upon health be
haviour, not knowledge.
3. Physical training is largely
folk dances and games — outdoor
and indoor.
4. Health information is included
under science.
5. The English .course is greatly
enriched.
6. .Special attenti-on is given to
supplementary reading.
7. Literature as a separate sub
ject is omitted,
8. Oral language training is em
phasized.
9. Spelling and writing are' re
garded as phases of written lang
uage.
10. Print writing is used in the
Grades I and II.
11. Cursive writing is taught in
Grade III.
12. Legibility rather than speed
of writing is emphasized.
13. The arithmetic is reduced in
quantity and rearranged.
14. Geography and history are
replaced by social studies.
15. The emphasis is social studies
is upon social aspects.
<16. 'Science, including nature
study and agriculture, is taught in
all grades.
17. Singing and rhythmics are a
regular part of the work in each
grade.
18. The amount of art and hand
work is increased.
19. Art and hand work are re
lated to the activities in social stu
dies and science.
20. Emphasis is placed upon cre
ative phases of art and handwork,
21. Large group enterprises are
suggested.
• —Milverton Sun
Quidnuncs
The Heliograph'—an aparatus for
signalling by reflection of sun’s
rays used chiefly by military organ
izations—can send code messages
200 miles or more under proper
conditions and with the right eleva
tion.
The tribal drums of Africa and
those used in the territory of the
upper Amazon in South America
have been heard distinctly at a dis
tance of more than 20 miles.
.Smoke signals used by the North
American Indians' have been visible
for ten miles and is considered one
of the Oldest known forms of code
communciation.
Women are the real beneficiaries
of the proceeds of life insurance
policies in North America. About
85 per cent, of insurance claims are
paid to women. Women also hold
about 65 per cent, of saving bank
accounts; 48 percent, of railroad
stocks; 44 per cent, of all public
utility securities; 40 per Cent of the
real estate and. an estimated 38 per
cent, of all other corporate wealth.
When a person yawns it is an in
dication of t'lie insufficient supply
of oxygen in the blood stream,
In Cass County, Texas, there was
reported in 1933 a watermelon that
weighed 183 lbs. It was so< large
that laying on its side, it measured
nearly four feet high.
The larvae of a species of grey
moth developing inside the shell
causes the jumping of the Mexican
Jumping bean.
Only five cities in the United
States have a population in excess
of one million people. In the fol
lowing order; New York City, 7,-
428,135; Chicago, 3,632,701; Phila
delphia, 2,431,264; Detroit, 1,787,-
040; Los Angeles, 1,48(9,238. The
population of the United States was
129,257,000 according to census
studies released in November 1937
London, England, has as estimat
ed population of 8,201,818 and is
the largest city in the world. New
York City, N.Y., ranks second, while
Chicago, is the sixth largest city in
the world.
We are pleased to learn that
some of those who have been on re
lief, gladly accept all offers of work
that come to them and then refuse
to take relief until they have to,
but we are greatly disappointed to-
hear that there are others who re
fuse to wonk as long as they can se
cure relief vouchers. 'Should there
not be a way to meet this latter
class? One city in the United .States
in giving relief does not grant it as
a gift but makes the recipient pay
for all relief by working for the
city at the time or the following
summer.
Why should not our rulers de
mand the same treatment from our
villages who come with hands
stretched out for help, any of whom
do not need to be in that class be
cause they could find plenty of
work to do if they were willing. But
they have lost their independence
and are now willing to live on
others.
If this plan were adopted our
council would find they had plenty
•of help to do all our village work
without spending more money. The
Parks Committee could find .plenty
of work for scores of men in im
proving the ugly spots around town
that are fairly crying out for im
provement.
Many of those men who will not
work could provide their own fuel
during their idle summer days, for
the following winter. The good
Book tells us if a man will not
work neither shall he eat. No word
in this .communication is ’ meant to
apply to the deserving poor who
cannot work. (They should be cared
for.
A CITIZEN
LEAVING THE EABM
MOVING TO TOWN
(Burdened w.it'h more than ‘three
score years and ten, weary and worn
with long days of toil, the time ihad
come when we must leave the dear
old farm where we had labored
hard and faithfully for almost ihalf
a century. We knew and loved
every foot of it, and had sunk, a lot
of money in improvements. We
loved everything that went with it,
the splendid horses that bad shared
our labors, the cows and everything
about the place, not forgetting the
fragrant flowers. 'They were ours
and ownership under God is a won
derful thing, we are for democracy.
We must leave the farm and where
should we go, but to the town where
most of our earnings had been spent
and so we purchased a house and
iLot with one end to the town to
share its privileges, the other open
to the rising sun and free winds of
■heaven.
When our decision was made .we
ihad a welcome visitor from town
and during our conversation 'unwit
tingly he said, “well they have the
waterworks and the Arena complet
ed in spite of the old farmers. You
know the old retired farmers are no
good, in fact they are a nuisance to
a town as they oppose every im
provement.”
This was hot the first time by
any means that we had heard such
sentiments expressed, but it was the
first time it had a personal applica
tion.
We farmed the soil at a small per
cent, of profit, the town folk farm
ed us at profits ranging from one
hundred per cent, down, but when
the time comes that we are no long
er profitable except to tihe milkman
and coal dealer, we become a nuis
ance.
When the primitave indians mov
ed their camp a long distance they
left those unable to follow to fend
for themsedves. How high has civ
ilization lifted man?
iSo with limited savings we came
to join the ranks of the unwanted
and in a home whore the glories of
sunrise cannot be seen and the
winds of heaven are no mo-re free,
where the droning of cars and the
pounding of innumerable shoes
make night hideous and sleep im
possible till the wee small hours.
But we are quite content.
Old Retired Farmer
WINCHBLSEA SCHOOL BEPOBtr
The following is the report of the
Senior Room of Winchelsea School
for the months of January and Feb
ruary. The pupils were examined
in all subjects:
Grade IX,-—Htbel Rooley 91, Gra-
iham Bell 85, Arthur Hern 81, Billy
Brock 8'0, Roxie Doupe 79, Doris El
ford 79, June Coward 77 Jean Davis
76, Mildred Veal 64.
Grade V(HI-—Irene Dooley 84,
Ethelene Johns 80, Eilene Johns 78,
Laurie Stephens 78, Emerson Pen-
hale 74, Doreen CouRis 66,
Grade VII—Myranne Murray 78,
Leona Coward 76, Isabelle Cooper
64, Burdene Clark 63, Nellie Sparl
ing 57.
L. McCulloch, Teacher
Junior Room
Names in alplhabetical order;
Grade VI—Grace Brock, Dennis
Cornish, Shirley Coultis, (absent),
Carman Herdman, Shirley Murray,
Harvey Sparling.
Grade V—John Batten, Lois Cow
ard, Annie Elford.
Grade IV—'Patricia Johns, Mild
red Miller, Marion March, Murray
Stephen.
Grade III—Kathryn Batten, Mur
ray Coward, Gordon Ford, Geo-rge
Kellett.
Grade II—Joihn Cornish, Eunice
Penhale, Wilma Veal.
Grade I—'Gladys Batten, John
Hern, Wanda Stephen.
M. 0, McGugan, Teacher
Cleanses The Blood
Drives Out Impurities
Helps Banish The Boils
A T. MILBURN CO., LTD., PRODUCT
Apt Description
(Teacher, as general knowledge
lessonY “Can any boy tell me what
is gum arable?”
Boy; “Yes, sir, ft’s the language
old Arabs use after all their teeth
have fallen out.”
The family doctor says there are
208 bones in the human body—but
there are four principle ones: Wish
Bone, Funny Bone, Jaw Bone and
Back Bone.
A ♦
Englishman: “We have some very
large birds in England, Why, once
while I was standing in a zoological
garden I saw a man come in on an
eagle!” Yankee: “Brother, that’s
nothing. Once while I was watching
a ball game I saw a player go out
on a fly.” (
Staffa’s Old-Time
Industry Long Silent
(By J. MacTavish in the London
Free Press)
iStaffa was and is, but isn’t what
it was.
Back in the late seventies and in
the eighties activity prevailed in the
village. Knots of 'children, wend
ed their way to the weatherbeaten
red school-house over a mile north
ward, in which two teachers presid
ed; one in the big room the other
in the little room.
During the mouths from May till
October both boys and girls went
barefooted, with tile exception of
Sundays.
Owing to the lack of desks seats,
many students sat here and there on
backless benches, while others, in
cluding the writer, squatted in
hunched fashion beneath the teach
er's- desk on the platform.
Water to drink was carried by
(boys in a pail from the nearest
farmhouse a quarter of a mile away.
Everybody drank from the same cup
Approaching .Staffa from the
schoolhouse, the first building was
beyond “Hotham’s” bridge and to
the left. It was the Hibbert Town
ship Hall. A little farther, also to
the left at the crossroads was
Page’s hotel. Over the way were,
the village weigh-scales and to the
left on the side of the gravel hill,
Webb’s- flour and gristmill, and back
of this the miller’s house.
Huge piles of cordwood were in
evidence winter and summer.
' Then came Wm. Chubb’s (black
smith shop adjoining the stable with
the owner’s house a short distance
to the rear.
A narrow street separated Chubb’s
stable from Joseph Hambly’s home
and stable, after .which was Dr. Mc-
Tavish’s residence, in which his of
fice was located, with the stable
close at hand and back of this a
small orchard.
Farther up the hill were Duncan
W. William’s place, the English
church, Alex Ferguson’s and Hugh
Brown’s abodes. .
.The approach to the village from
Cromarty .brought to view Mrs.
Hammond’s. Near the graveyard.
Thos. John Livingstone’s the par
sonage, Joh'n Alien’s, back of which
was the Methodist Church.
IF'arther down the hill were Jas.
Hamilton’s, ®. W. Faiul’s general
store, George Herron’s, Dugald Me-
Wilyliam’s, Wm. Campbell’s resi
dence and carpenter shop, Thomas
Moore’s, A. C. Jones' with William
(Saddler’s Cider mill and sawmill
about a quarter of a mill westward.
.Staffa had its town hall, tavern,
flourmill, blacksmith shop, team
ster, doctor, clergymen, implement
agent, insurance agent, jack of all
trades, retired farmers, framer,
cobbler, carriage maker, veterinary,
general store, cidermill and sawmill.
But the passing years have
brought their quota of changes.
A new school has been erected in
which one teacher is engaged.
Today the town hall is a more mod
ern building than of yore and stands
at the crossroads front where the
tavern served the public. ’The tav
ern has been remodelled into a
creamery.
iThe mill was razed by fire years
ago; the weight scales have disap
peared.
(There is no doctor there now, no
veterinary, no- carriage maker, no
gobbler, no framer.
The English -Church has been
closed; the graveyard has been
greatly enlarged; the cidermill long
ceased to operate.
In the long ago, in season, it was
a very busy spot. Wagons stood in
line, day after day, waiting to be
hauled to the chute at the front of
the building to be emptied of apples,
which were ground to a pulp, then
shovelled into large presses, that
squeezed the desired juice there
from.
Every season /hundreds of ‘bar
rels of cider were taken by the vil
lagers and farmers from far and
near.
No more -do we hear persons dis
cussing the wonders of the Staffa
Fall Fair. The board fence enclo
sure, known as the fair grounds has
long ago .been removed, likewise the
tickets stand and tk-e most preten
tious place of all, the crystal .palace.
The ground is now used for grow
ing crops of grain like any of the
neighboring fields,
.Live .pigeon shooting matches are
an almost forgotten sport in the
village, while sawing matches held
at the foot of the hill are a fast
dying memory.
Huntsmen occasionally go afield
to bag a cottontail or jack rabbit
but little attention is given to the
black squirrel; yet interest would
rise again if someone returned with
the much coveted fox, icoon or mink
all of which were plentiful years
ago.
Gone are the days when apple
paring bees, corn-husking bees and
barn raisings were the prelude to
dance parties, at which music was
supplied by fiddlers, organs, har
monicas, jew's har.p and whistlers.
(Sliced apples no longer appear in
drying racks above the kitchen
stoves and boot-jacks are not seen
suspended by nails beside the wood
boxes.
What changes will the village
undergo in the next half century?
We wonder. *
MUNICIPAL fiKDATOTJOS OF THE
FOLLOWING TOWNSHIPS
Fuliairtoni
Population —— 1,638; assessed ac
reage 40,251; assessed valuation,
land $1,713,066, (buildings $561,725
business $2,350, total $2,278,141,
for public school purposes $2,274,-
141; tax levy, current expenditures
$15,379, public schools, $6,509, lo
cal improvements $1,502, other
$3,841, total $27,231; tax collec
tions $27,439, per cent, of 1936 levy
100.8; tax arrears $2,313, Taxable
debt, nothing; current surplus $12,-
023.
Usfrorae
Population 1,736; assessed acre
age 42,694; assessed valuation, land
$1,615,790, buildings $427,067, bus
iness $3,950, total $2,046,807; for
public school purposes $2,039,840,
for separate school $5,700; tax levy
current expenditures $16,889, pub
lic school $10,016, separate school
$18, other $3,463; other $3,463, to
tal $30,386; tax collections $3 2,525
107 per cent.; tax arrears $6,627;
taxable debt, general debt, nil; pub
lic schools $3,258; current surplus
$7,126.
BkWulph
Population 1,534; assessed acre
age 39,192; assessed valuation $1,-
692,500; buildings $461,013, busi
ness $9,000, total $2,162,513; for
public school purposes $1,647,513,
separate school $515.00; tax levy,
current expenditure $‘25,999, debt
charges, nil, public schools $5,959;
separate schools $1,66'2; local im
provements $1,212, other $2,551,
total $37,383; tax -collections $42,-
127, percentage 112.7; tax arrears
$9,907, taxable debt, nothing, rev
enue debt $1,730 light and power.
Current surplus $929.
Blanshard
Population 1,697, assessed acre
age 45,797; assessed valuation land
$1,538,721, buildings $560,500, bus
iness $4,500, total, $2,105,691; for
public schools $2,097,236, separate
schools $8,155;. tax levy for current
expenses $14,941; public schools
$8,735; separate school $40; other
. $4,385; total $28,111; tax collect
pons, $28,133 or 100.1 per cent.;
(total tax arrears, $2,379; general J debt, none; telephone debentures
1(1936) $33,967; current surplus,
[$10,8(78.
Hibbert
Population, 1674; assessed valu
ation $1,936,430; 1937 tax levy,
$27,294.12; per .capita tax levy,
$16.36; percentage of population on
relief, 1.1; no debenture debt; cur-
,'rent assets, $13,324.57; liabilities,
J $10,300;. revenue surplus. $3,024.-
57.
RADIO LICENSES ISSUI5D
IN CANADA 1-018,2313
A total of 1,048,232 radio licenses
were issued in Canada in 1937*
Transport Minster Howe told J. E»
Lawson, in the House of Commons.
Net revenue to the department, af
ter deducting commissions, was
$1,925,014. For the nine months of
the current fiscal year, trem. April
1, 1937, to December 31, the Cana
dian Broadcasting Corporation re
ceived from the department $1,-
870,000. Added to that amount was
$110,000, credited in May last year,
in respect of the fiscal year 1936-
37.
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can avoid doing.
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