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serve and improve democratic
government.
Strict standards
Though it caused disappointment to many
local boys and girls, strict enforcement or require-
ments for Canadian Red Cross water safety tests is
warranted.
Many local children failed to pass the tests
here, and in other communities, because they didn't
know some of the fundamentals of safe swimming
and boating. Although this probably made the exam-
iners unpopular, it was a move which had to be
taken to show the importance of the program,
In view of this summer's mounting water toll,
it becomes imperative that youngsters learn proper
methods of coping with disaster and rendering Help
in the water, Obviously, the tests have not been strict
enough in the past because many who have reached
the higher levels failed on fundamentals which should
have been learned at earlier stages.
No one will be more thankful for this strict-
ness in standards than the children themselves, par-
ticularly if, later in life, they find occasion to use this
training to save their own, or other persons' lives.
Some children, as usually is the case, treated
their failures with an irresponsible "who cares?"
shrug. We trust this is a superficial attitude which
will be replaced by a challenge to meet the require•
snents in order to qualify for water safety awards.
Parents would be wise to ensure that the children
endeavour to pass the tests with flying colors when
another opportunity is provided.
Reil responsibility
Disturbing trend in education is to get rid of
the dullards, ne'er-do-wells, lazy and irresponsible
students who, according to proponents of this attitude,
take up valuable classroom space and hinder progress
of brighter pupils.
While we realize the matter of degree enters
into this argument, we suggest that the irresponsibil-
ity may, in part, lie somewhere else.
Might not this argument be used by school
board members, and others in charge of providing
adequate accommodation, as an excuse to relieve
them of their duty in making such facilities available?
With the pressure exerted on them to keep school
taxes down, their judgement may be colored by the
realization that space can be saved by chucking out
students who don't do well.
Might the argument not also be used by those
entrusted with the instruction, whose classes have
been swelled by rising enrolments and insufficient
facilities? Their task too would be lightened by the
removal of problem students.
If either is the case, then those in charge of
education are shirking their responsibilities because
the educational system should not serve the bright
and the ' average alone but help also those who have
difficulties.
If we leave the dullards dullard, the lazy lazy
and the irresponsible irresponsible, by how much do
we lessen our chances of elevating the standard
throughout?
Are these students not some of the challenges
which the educational system has before, does now
and must always face? Is it hot the responsibility of
the• system to give these pupils the opportunity and
the training to improve?
But if the administrators and the teachers are
shirking—or attempting to shirk—their responsibility
in this field, they may not be basically at fault? The
problem lies with the populace who provide the fin-
ances for education. They are the persons exerting
the pressure for economy, forcing administrators and
teachers to cope with insufficient funds.
The taxpayers are reluctant to provide as much
funds for education as they are for alcohol, for their
own personal recreation, for many other "frills"
which cannot be judged worthy of comparison to
education.
We suggest that education. officials, from the
Ontario minister,. Hon. J. W. Dunlop, down, stop
looking for such picayune excuses for economy as
expelling the problem children. W,e suggest they
start shouldering their responsibilities by attacking
the much more fundamental challenge of educating
the public to the financial needs of education.
We suggest board members stop looking at
every conceivable method of cutting costs and start
accepting the challenge of providing proper, rather
than adequate, .facilities.
We' suggest that teachers, instead of demand-
ing higher wages on the basis of insufficient supply,
justify their salaries because of the importance of
their position and the increased challenges they are
trying to meet,
Education is being regarded, in too litany
circles, as a necessary evil. If our society is to pro-
gress, it must be treated as a vital public service
for which the best must be provided.
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Disppnssd By BILL SMILEY
Sitting, on the front steps on a
summer night, listening to the
robins thrashing around in nny
cedar-cun-maple hedge, I got to
wondering why in the world they
don't make summers the way
they used to.
The summers these days are
not as long, they're not as hot,
they don't smell as good, and
perhaps worst of all, they don't
sound the same. And that's .not
nostalgia for something that's
gone. It's true,
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Why thirty years ago, 'I did
more in one day in the summer
than I do in a week now. The
days were twice as long. There
were interminable games of
baseball to be played. There was
the Sandpit to visit. There were
suckers to be. caught and sold
for two cents a pound to the
ancient and hcnorable ,Tew who
bought all our merchandise.
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There was gardening and other
work to be avoided, which took
a lot of time and ingenuity.
There was swimming for hours,
until your lips turned blue, the
sign it was time to quit. There
was smoking to be done at The
Cave, with swiped tobacco wrap-
ped in toilet paper. There were
kids to fight.
*
Don't tell me kids are the
same today. I know better. Oh,
they're fine, if they're playing
some ball that some service club
has organized for them. They're
happy enough if they're having
their supervised swimming. But
the :rest of the day, they just
1o11 around, whining that there's
nothing to do and waiting for
their poor, bedraggled father to
come home from work, so he
can take them swimming, or to
the Drive -In, or anywhere, as
long as they're being entertain.
ed.
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And take summer evenings.
They used to be long and warm
and leisurely. full of deep peace
and contentment. They were
quiet. They smelled good.
In the evenings, the men would
smoke their pipes on the veran-
dah; they would water their
lawns with relaxed concentra•
tion; they would go to the ball
game with their sons and walk
home through the dusk. beneath
the lush maples. content.
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In the evenings the women
would potter in their gardens,
they would sit and rock their
babies on the verandah; they
would make vast pitchers of iced
lemonade; they would sit • and
talk the endless, simple, com-
plex talk of women, content.
M M
In the evenings. the children
would pursue their eternal games
of Hide and Seek, Red Light, and
Run Sheep Run; they would re•
spond reluctantly to their moth-
ers` hooting on the third call;
they would stagger upstairs, sud-
denly exhausted, and limp as
wet towels, fall into bed, con-
tent. •
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Nowadays summer evenings,
like everything else, are short,
snappy and cool. Father wants
to•go golfing. The kids are deter-
mined on. a swim. Mother is
bound she wants the car to go
visiting, ;;y the time the fight is
over. so is the evening, and they
disgruntledly do nothing, except
all stay up too late,
Remember the' sounds of a
summer evening, each withits
special meaning — comforting,
exciting nr romantic — in the
warm, still air? The lazy chatter
of a man -pushed lawnmower:
the rhythmic smack of a ball. on
glove as two kids played catch;
the cries from the bowling green,
muffled in the velvet night,
K * M
And when the darkness came,
and the night grew quieter: the
murmer of voices from the ver-
andahs; the uneven click of heels
on sidewalks as lovers ambled
home from the movies; the
squeak of a hammock swinging
on the next porch; the lonely
whistling of a lonely youth; the
thin strains of a gramophone.
M M M
These sounds, each with an
intimate meaning, have been re-
placed by the snarl of the power
mower; the roar of cars rushing
nowhere in particular; the
scream of tires and shriek of
brakes; the blatting of jukebox
or television. They are not
sounds, but noises.
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, On second thought, maybe it's
not summer that has become
less pleasant, Maybe it's society,
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and Maureen Giverns and their
children. Megan and Patrick—
as told by them in "Mention my
Naive in Mombasa,"
They first visit Paris where
they feel "Nothing as good as
Paris is likely to be cheap." But.
meeting with people especially
students and sharing their prob•
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was on the southern coast. of
Spain where surprises and funny
things "seem to happen all the
time in Spain."
They found Iceland not the land
of ice as its name implies nor
did they find canaries on the
Canary Islands off the coast. of
Africa. After adventuring in
Africa they spent; their Christ-
mas in Dublin, Ireland.
Written with :intelligence and
humor you will enjoy this book.
Something Always Turns Up
The story in this book tells
with 'humor of a candidate for
lite Anglican ministry and his
young wife, and their struggles
to make ends meet while he com-
pleted two ,years of study leading
to ordination.* •
From the time when the young
student and a young school teach-
er meet and elope in northern
Saskatchewan to the taking over
of a parish in a small village
north of Montreal the story is
packed with human interest and
good humour.
Something was, indeed, always
turning up, and usually some-
thing extraordinary. Written by
Bluebell Stewart Phillips this
story is also one of pltick and
dedication.
Make your own choice of books
from the thousands on . the
shelves at your library,
Jottings J.M.Q.
Editors had JieId day
over GB conditions
The following item was taken
from the files of the Exeter
Times fifty years ago this Aug-
ust:
"Mr. Dynman. mayor of Strat-
ford, who 'vas here recently hits
the nail on the head when he
says the following:
"Somebody ought to say some-
thing about the Bend as a holi-
day resort. 11 is getting down at
the hell and if imprn"ement does
not conte soon will find its good
name diminished, As the vill..ge
is not incorporated. the town -
shins of Stephen and Bosanquet
in which it is located, should
take an interest in sprucing it
up,
"The bwnsl,ipe surely get
enough taxes from the Bencl to
warrant appropriation for good
concrete sidewalks each side of
the main street to the beach and
for maintaining a constable to
suppress rowdyism and preserve
better order. 'then the property -
owners who posess the park -like
areas which hold the.cottages
should show broader ideas of the
fitness of things. Real privacy is
impossible in the conditions that
prevail ever most of the place.
Picnickers from the country are
allowed to run wild among the
cottages, littering the grounds
and perpetrating smart - Alex
tricks.
"The picnic section should he
entirely apart from the cottage
section, and dilapidated fencing
should give place to something
modern and neat. An epidermic
of paint would be desirable. The
sanitary arrangements are coarse
and in some cases indecent. Too
evidently the ideas of people re-
sponsible for the holiday and cot-
tage grounds are starved,
"The Bend. however, has great
possibilities as a summer resort
of the best class in the' right
hands. It will take money to ef-
fect the transformation, but that
it would pay there can be no
manner of doubt. If matterskeep
on as at present, the Bend will
decline. But that fate should be
averted, and it easily can with
enterprising co-operation between
the owners and the townships.
The press of this section of On-
tario should take the matter up
and administer the needed prod,)"
A following issue of the Exeter
Times states: "Mayor Dingman,
of Stratford, editor of the Strat-
ford Herald. and Editor Dawson,
of the Parkhill Review, are hav-
ing a fine old time rubbing :it
into .each other about 'the .condi-
tions which prevail at the. Bend,
Editor Dingman says the present
sanitary arrangements and pre-
valent, odor are such as night be
expected in an aboriginal Indian
village, while Bro, Dawson says
the possible maintenance of one.
of the proprietors of a flock of
poultry running at large, sunning
themselves at times on cottage
verandahs or prosecuting re-
searchers in their kitchens, may
be intended for amelioration of
sanitary conditions."
Brenner Bern Destroyed
In the same issue the follow -
Ina item appeared:
"During the severe electrical
storm Monday morning the Bren-
ner House barn was struck by
lightning and destroyed. Several
horses were in the barn at the
time, but they were taken out
without injury. After heroic ef-
forts, the building adjoining the
barn and used for sleeping pur.
poses was saved from destruc-
tion. The loss at this season of
the year will be considerable to
Mr. Brenner. There was no in-
surance on the building. The pro-
prietor is fixing up temporary
quarters to stable horses."
As the
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50 YEARS AGO
The by-law to raise 522.000
for the installing of a better
system of fire protection was
last Friday carried by a major-
ity of 114. The expenditure is ex-
pected to cover the cost of the
old mill dam property, the re-
construction of the dam, the
laying of the water mains and
the erection of a water tower.
Ed Jones, John Walker and
Lonnie Heywood intend leaving
next Monday for Belleville where
they will attend college.
Miss May Gill returned to Fort
Erie to resume her teaching
duties and Miss Evelyn Gill to
Toledo to resume her position
as muse.
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Mr. Robert: Do vn of Bethesda
who spent the past summer in
the west returned home Tues-
day.
Mr. John Grigg has moved his
stock to . the building formerly
nccupied by F. J. Knight while
he is having his store remodel-
led.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. James Handford who cele-
brated his 95th birthday in July
is attending the CNE where he
has been an annual visitor for
30 years.
Motorists in Exeter Saturday
night were supplied with free
gasoline and in addition were
given a cigar or pint of oil in
the greatest gasoline war ever
staged in 'Exeter.
The Exeter Branch of the Can-
adian Canners started canning
corn on Tuesday.
Mr. R. E. Pooley of Winchel-
sea won the sweepstake prize
City lady: "1 would like to buy
a chicken to take home with
me,"
Fernier: "Want a pullet?"
. City lady: "0f course not, I'll
take it back with me in this
car."
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Garage mechanic: "What's the
matter lady?"
Mrs. Clutchbuster: "They say
I have a short circuit. Could you
lengthen it while 1 wait?"
"Now then, Miss." said the
lawyer. "Please tell the jury
exactly where the defendant
was milking the coin,"
The young lady hesitated, and
then said, "well sir, it. was "under-
neath and 'just a trifle back of
centre,"
et the CNE for producers eggs.
The Exeter high and public
school will re -open for the fall
term with Principal E. ;r. Wethey
in charge. His assistants will be
Miss M. E. Ross, Miss M. Bonin,
Mr. G. C. Koch and Miss A,
Brown,
The public school staff includes
G. S. Howard, principal, Miss
M. A. Horton, Miss W. A. Frain,
Miss M. E. Pridham, Miss M.
Rowe and Miss Reta Rowe.
15 YEARS AGO
Hon. George. Doucett, provin-
cial minister of highways, will
open Exeter Fair on September
21.
For the National Day of :Pray-
er Service in Trivitt Memorial
church next Sunday a public ad•
dress system will be 'provided.
On Saturday Mrs; Patrick
O'Connor and two children ar-
rived in Exeter from. London,
Eng. to ,loin her husband who is
employed as a hydro lineman
with the Exeter Public Utilities
Commission.
About 136 guests were enter -
lathed at a reception .held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. William
Sweitzer for Mr. and Mrs. Wray
Sweitzer, recently married.
The returns from the province.
wide linen shower for Russia
gives promise of reaching three
carloads. A carload will hold 160
bales and each bale contains
300 articles.
There were. 48 boxes packed
by Hensall ladies for Hensall
boys serving overseas on Mon-
day night.
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. Murray Stephen of Linden.
field's, Exeter. is holidaying this
week and is spending the week
at Doon School of Art, Kitchener.
Charles Jinks. who has carried
the mails to and from Hensel]
Post. Office to the CNR station
for the past 15 years has re.
sighed.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred .Dunkin,
Thames Road, returned twine
from their honeymoon on Sat-
urday,
Grand Bend Church of God
was officially opened on Sunday.
It. was built almost entirely by
donated labor.
The Exeter Public School
has decided to establish a kin-
dergarten at the beginning of the
year.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Skinner
and, Mr. W. C. Pearce attended
the London Laymen's Asaociatioit
at Alnia College, St, Thomas.
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NOTICE OF
Rurcd *ewer
Interns tion
Weather Permitting
Sunday, August 30th
from 1;30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. DAT.
affecting Creditor. and Centralia Villages, Centralia
R.C,A.F, and all Rural customers feeding from Cen-
tralia transformer station.
This interruption is necessary is replace damaged
equipment at Centralia :Station,
Your co-operation will be appreciated,
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