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This newspaper believes this
right to express an .opinion in
public contributes to the pro -
gess of the nation and that it
must be exercised freely to pro -
serve and improve dernocratir
government,
Tribute to teacher
..too important to dismiss with a short observance.
We continue aur comments with a look at rural
school education.
At the invitation. of Inspector J. G. Goman, we
visited a number of township schools last week to
see the methods being used and the conditions which
'prevail.
Our first—and strongest reaction was one of
- admiration for rural school teachers. Their task is as
complex and demanding as any in industry.
Most of us take this public service for granted;
we fail to fully comprehend the effort involved be-
• cause it's been provided for a century.
We doubt if any farmer, .or merchant, needs
to be as well organized as the rural school teacher,
whose task is to keep children in eight different
grades busy for six and one-half hours a day,
Lessons in each subject in each grade must
.-be prepared and seat work assignments ready before
• the nine o'clock bell rings. Then there is the difficult
task of proportioning the time during school hours
-'to give each grade and each subject the attention it
'deserves.
Tests must be prepared, administered and
marked; seat work checked and corrected.
This schedule provides no time for coffee
• breaks or friendly chats because even recesses have
to be supervised. There's no way of avoiding the
pressure --even on bad days, There are always 30 in-
.-quisitive minds to satisfy.
'In addition, there's the problem' of dealing
'with 30 individual personalities, ranging from six to
14 -years, Urban teachers may prefer the grade ones,
the fours or the sevens, but the rural • teacher copes
with then all.
• Education Week is over but the topic is much
We are happy to see their salaries improving
—the: earn every cent their boards grudgingly pro-•
vide. Many rural school teachers are now receiving
as much a s those in urban centres and they should
be, because their task is more demanding.
We pay tribute to them—veteran teachers like
,Mrs. Hicks, Centralia, whose enthusiasm and energy
must have a lasting effect on her pupils; and new
ones like Miss Donna Oesch, Zurich, who completed
grade 12 at SHDHS last year, and following a sum-
mer course, plunged into the formidable task of
teaching 44 students at USS 9 Hay and Stanley, •
But while these people are doing marvelous
jobs, it becomes obvious that the sheer enormity of
the task prevents them, on the whole, from providing
the- standard of education available in graded schools,
.As the township school buildings become more obso-
lete, area boards should plan toward their„replace.
• ment by central schools, such as is being erected in
McGillivray township.
It is only through such central schools that
-the rural children will receive the same opportunity
'provided urban children. Farm children deserve that
chance.
Since world war two, millions of dollars have
been expended by the provincial government to pro-
vide new accommodation for students in urban
centres. Few townships have taken advantage of the .
grants available to give their children equal facilities.
Ili spite of these handicaps, rural children
have made remarkable achievements. Their resources
would be much more fully developed in a central
graded school, now not out of the reach of conscient-
ious parents,
Sincere sympathy
Tragedy abounds this season.
This community shares the dismay of all of
Western Ontario over the Listowel. disaster which
took the lives of seven young hockey stars and their
recreation director,
It also mourns the loss of two .outstanding
young people who died unexpectedly. Sixteen -year-
old Bill Ellerington of Usborne township' was one of
the district's promising young 'farmers. Raymond
Wein, 27, of Dashwood, was a• popular athlete tvho
competed in all community sports and who recently
had devoted himself to provide recreation and train-
ing for boys and girls.
Tragic, too, have been the untimely deaths of
RCAF personnel, victims of accidents on No. 4 high-
way,
The Times -Advocate joins in the expression of
sincerest sympathy to sorrowing families,
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o'cleelr~? . , .And what are you doing tomorrow night
at eight?"
•
With trouble in Africa, the Ar-
row cancelled, and the Berlin
situation looming up, it seems as
good a tine as any to give a
progress report on Playboy. For
those who came in late, Playboy
is the black spaniel pup we
bought for the kids at Christmas,
he was as cute as a Koala bear
cub. The youngsters were en-
chanted.
• * *
Christmas, with its sentiment,
is long gone from us, and we
are battling the bitter winds of
March. And that sweet, little,
roly-poly puppy is long gone
from us, and we are battling a
great, rangy, hairy, leaping
chewing animal whose mere•
presence in the house keeps my
wife in a constant state of near
hysteria.
• A. * *
We tried. Oh, how we tried to
bring him up properly. We'd
never had a dog before, and we
knew the first couple of weeks
would be quite a strain, until
we had him trained to use the
papers; stop crying at night,
and do everything he was told.
We thought it plight even take
a month.
• * * A
But I must confess that there
are a few complaints. For ex-
ample, when he eats out of his
dish, his ears hang down into
his mush and milk. After the
stuff dries, it gives him the ap-
pearance, of a dirty old man
whose tobacco juice has drib-
bled out both corners of his
mouth into his beard..
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And the smells, Thanks to
Feldwebel Hermann Muller, I
haven't been able to smell any-
thing
nything since October 15th, 1944.
But my wife assures me that
he stinks. We tried chlorophyll
pills in his food. We brushed
him. We gave him a bath (and
I don't even want to talk about
that). He- got steadily worse.
Finally we gave up, and new
the kids, from fondling him,
smell just like him, so we're
sort of used to it.
* 4 eh 4
We got a big shock when I
took him to the vet for his shots.
The pup had been scratching
himself wildly since we got
him. We'd sprinkled him with
flea powder, but he. kept on
biting and chewing and flailing
himself with his foot. My wife
said he was lousy: I scoffed at
the idea. Anyone knows that all
pups scratch themselves. And
besides, how could he be lousy
when he was a thoroughbred?
* * qr
Anyway, the Doc rolled him
over, parted the hair on his
belly, and pointed out as lively
a nest of lice as you'd want to
see. When I told the Old Girl,
she nearly broke down. T got her
calmed down, and we sat there,
nervously scratching ourselves,
It dawned on both of us at about
the same time, that one of the
favorite tricks of the kids was
setting the pup on top of their
heads, holding him there and
walking around the house that
way, pretending he was a fur
hat.
! k * *
The real problem, • however,
and we (night as well face it,
is No. 1 and No. 2. We spread
the papers down, and after his
meal, I hold him there for about
ten minutes. He reads the head,
lines With interest, When I -get
Sugar
AND
Spice
Dispensed By BILL SMILEY
a crick in niy back and release
him, he trots straight to the
nearest patch of bare floor and
makes a mess on it,
» a *
Oh well, these things can be
expected in the best families,
and we were still fond of him.
He had so many endearing little
tricks. Like running between my
legs when I was staggering out
with a big load of ashes. Or
jumping frantically when you
were putting down his bowl of
food, knocking his head on it
and sending it all over the floor.
You couldn't help but love him.
* 4*
But he nearly got the axe last
week. We'd been out somewhere,
My wife, as women will, had
worn snowboots, and carried her
shoes in her hand. They were
extra -special shoes. Those sleek,
spiky Italian affairs, the best
and most expensive she'd ever
had. She told me she'd had to
search for two days to find a
purse to match them.
* e 4
When we came in, she put
then on the floor, in the hall,
and was whipping around the
kitchen in stocking feet, making
some' tea and yakking. The pup
was playing around. She went
into the hall. Next things I heard
was a piercing scream, followed
by a yelp, then wild sobbing. He
had eaten both toes off her im-
ported shoes.
* * •
It took the combined strength
of Hugh and I to hold her, while
Kim scooped up the pup, ran
with him to his room, and shot
the bolt from the inside. For the
next 24 hours she alternately
wept over cher shoes and threa-
tened to murder the dog. She
didn't even appreciate niy sug-
gestion, the next day, that she
cut the toes of the shoes off
cleanly, knock the spike heels
off, and make them into toeless
sandles.
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS. J.M.S.
Planning your wedding this
year? In the exchange of Huron
County books on Friday morning
one of the books in your library
for three months is:
Good Housekeeping's Complete
Wedding Guide
This is a new and indispensable
wedding guide. No matter what
kind of wedding you have de-
cided upon --church (formal or
informal) garden, home—the oc-
casion is covered in this up-to-
date volume,
How should special situations
be handled? What is the invita-
tion wording for .second mar-
riages? Or for recalling the in-
vitation? These and other puz-
zling q•.iestions are covered thor•
oughly.
Special subjects iheluded are
25 shower themes, suggested
music for weddings and sug•
gested menus for receptions, It
is an easy-to-use reference book
to help the bride, the groom, the
family, the attendants and even
the guests.
Compiled by the bridal editor
of Good Housekeeping nmaga-
�Qttin�� By J,M.S.
4ounty.510.5/led salaries
when recession broke
I have just been reading an
account of the February meet-
ing of Huron -County Council in
1932.
Among the members of nun -
ell were B. Af. Francis, reeve of
Exeter; J a m e s ?Iallantyne,
reeve of Usborne; William
Sweitzer, reeve of Stephen and
Harry Beaver, deputy - reeve;
Owen Geiger, reeve of Hensel',
and L. H. Rader, reeve of flay,
who was elected warden for the
year.
It was in the early thirties
that a business and financial de-
pression had affected the econ-
omy of the country and this was
reflected by the cutting of sal-
aries of all county officials.
One resolution called for a re-
duction .of twenty per cent in all
salaries and an amendment was
made that the reductions be ten
per cent. The final result was
that salaries were reduced all
the way from five to thirty-
three per cent,
The warden'5 salary re-
mained the sante — $100 for the
year. Clerk George Holman's
salary was reduced from $1,800
to $1,200; the treasurer's salary
from $1,800 to $1,300.
Other reductions were:
County crown attorney, $1,100
to $1,000;
County engineer with car and
upkeep, for good roads, $3,400 to
$2,900; for county roads, $200, no
change;
Gaoler, with fuel and lights
$1,000 to $950; matron .of gaol,
11to $225, 850; no change; turnkey of
gaol, with fuel and lights, $950
Manager of the house .of ref-
uge, $800 to $720; matron of
house of refuge, $70, no change;
assistant matron, $400 to *$350;
inspector of the house, $800 to
$275; physician, $400 to $360;
chaplain, $200, no change;
Auditors of county accounts,
$50 to $45; .Criminal Justice ac-
counts, per day eacll $$.00 to
$4.50 and 10c per mile one way
tra veiled ;
Caretaker of court house and
registry office, $1,000 to $900;
Bounty councillors, per day, $5.00
to $4.50 and 10c a mile one way,
All members of committees
were to receive $4.50 per day,
141r, Francis informed me that
what he received from the coun-
ty council did not pay his hotel
bill while the council was in ses-
sion.
The grant to the North and
South Huron Plowmen's Associ-
ation was increased from $50 to
$100,
The salary of H, T. Edwards,
superintendent of the Children's
Aid Society, was reduced from
$1,000 to $600.
Wages on the county roads
was placed at 40 cents an hour
for man and team and 20 cents
an hour for man.
Teachers' salaries ranged
from $800 to $1,000.
As the
"TIMES”
Go By
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50 YEARS AGO Mr. Stewart Traquair takes
Messrs. R. N. Treble and Possession of :the farm tenanted
Richard Welsh left last week by George R, .Ferguson on the
Boundary next week, Mr. Fergu-
with a number of horses for the son is moving to London.
West. The former intends re- Mr. Alex Mousseau has pur-
maining some time, chased the shop in Kippen own -
Mr. William Burke has taken ed by Mr. J. Workman and is
a position as barber with Mr, having it fitted up as a service
A. Hastings. station and repair garage.
Mr, and Mrs,. George Hawk- At the March meeting of the
shaw left Monday for their West- Lucan W.I., 61 members were
ern home. present to celebrate the twenty -
A large citizens banquet is fifth anniversary of the branch.
being tendered by Rev. W. M. Cecil Laing left last week for
Martin in the Opera House prior London where he has taken a
to his departure from Exeter. position with the Free Press,
The Seed Show of South Huron Mr, Arthur. Paddon, field sec -
Agricultural Society was held in rotary for the Boy Scout As-
Brucefield on Friday. sociatioa, visited the Exeter
Rev, L. W. Wickett of London Troop on Friday evening.
was a guest of Rev, and Mrs, 15 YEARS AGO
Butt at Centralia parsonage on
Tuesday, Mr, Wickett is well Rev. E. Grigg left Tuesday
having been stationed here over
known in the Centralia vicinity morning for Lyons, Mich., where on he will be engaged for a mouth
40 years ago, a missionary tour for the
Baptist church.
25 YEARS AGO Mr, and Mrs, Peter Kraft of
The wedding took place in Dashwood on Saturday observed
Clinton last week of Lorne Chap - their sixty-fifth wedding anni-
nian, Con. 3, Hay, to Miss Len- versary,
ora Ellis of Summerhill. At a Red Cross euchre and
dance iu S.S. 10 Hay Friday
evening, a quilt donated by, Mrs;
Garfield Broderick was sold by
Dutch auction and realized the
sum of $73.30.
LAC and Mrs. Robert Elliott
have returned to Exeter after
holidaying for two weeks in
Strathroy.
A surprise party for Mrs.
Peter Frayne was held on the
occasion of her eighty-seventh
birthday.
The largest crowd that ever
jammed the local arena saw the
undefeated recjrd of the Cen-
tralia Flyers shattered in the
last 45 seconds of play in an ex.
hibition game with London army
team.
zine this book is authorative and
complete.
M * 4 4
The fore -going books suggests
one of your library's books
Complete Book of Etiquette
This is the foremost authority
on manner today—a guide to
gracious living written by Amy
Vanderbilt. Her extensive travel-
ing both here in America and
abroad, her years as a writer
and a mother of three children
gives her authority on etiquette.
This 720 -page book was four
years in the writing and is the
largest and most complete book
on etiquette ever written. Many
of our manners and customs
have altered since World War
II and these have all been care,
fully noted and an index of 30
pages adds to the usefulness of
the book.
* * *•
Another timely book from the
Huron County library is:
Lawn and Maintenance
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell,
Exeter, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary at the home
of their son, Percy, on March 8.
Hensall's new phone system,
now being installed, is expected
to be ready by the middle of
April,
How to Grow the Best Lawn in Preston Dearing of Stephen
Hour Neighborhood was appointed one of the direct-
ors of the Canadian Sheep Breed -
Here is . a wealth of down -to- ers Association at the annual
earth information oh landsoap- meeting.
ing and gardening. It shows you H. I•L G. Strang won top
how to plan your home grounds, honors at Huron County Seed
how to analyse your soil, how tb Fair in Clinton Collegiate Friday
get rid of weeds, how to plant and Saturday.
grass, trees, shrubbery and Pupils of Eden School with
flowers. their teacher, Miss Elaine Mit-
In the final chapter are in- chell, broadcast a varied pro•
structions on making garden fur- gram over CKNX Saturday
niture, barbecues, pools and flag- morning.
stone walks, Mr. and Mrs, Archie Robinson
Make your library work for of Kirkton celebrated their gol-
you by refering to the informa- den wedding anniversary at the
tion you want, hone of their son, Eldon.
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EASTER
SEALS
Help Cripplid Children
would
you ,.
GO TO A DOCTOR who
didn't belong to the Med-
ical Association?
GO TO A LAWYER who
didn't belong to the law
society?
THEN buy your insur-
once from your local in-
dependent insurance
agent who displays the
emblem of the Ontario
Insurance Agent' As-
sociation.
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