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TI1UltsBAX, NOVEMBER '20th, 1' a
A. TOU.0 OF ' `AUSTERITY" sleight-of-hand trick on the spur of
the moment to solve the U.S. dollar
This week's announcement from lit- problem. Last week in one of his
tawa of tariff changes and the effort ;brunt Page articles he again urged
to check the unprecedented. flow of the Government to lltiery- up and tell
goods from the United, States into the people what it- .intended to do,
Canada contains a mass of detail with even at the risk that somebody alight
which - a weekly tiewspatpet' "cailuot get some detailed ilifoi•11lation a week
adequately deal. Canadians have been ,n' t w\ o in advance' of his coulpetitors:. .
enjuving •,,,,,d times and have .been -111 this pretence that nothing is hap -
s r a peeing • parents, the edue•a1tors, 111e 1;)11111)s0-
spcutiiu;, furl t}'tcly in farce of the fact 11�1,`li• is :making the 1,,,4 eminent luul><'I phos of file dui, liuiv could a child
that Britain and other countries irr r „At'r a few pages 't 111 the be educated, they sale;, unless lie
not hi a nositi In to purc}1ase and pay•', 'routing 11 E, ' =
a .utiicient au:ourtt; .,f
Canadian ..sa141e issue of S:tturIl.l� \1gllt We 111111 1,'kti.4t111uut 111 t'' t�,llltlietl tigell,ulaud
for
goods to 1tlance the large trade with 11 _ ttt i'\1 letter „t' its reguli11 Capital trap Tuttle ;'hops horses. Scholatrly
the United States. '1'1, sleet this tun- ,'4 ntril,ut,�r• 1� 1lfri,1 1:t:;11'st(11, vvhl�•11 lura 4\er3lv'ltet'0 leagued these things
fortunate situation the Government ' deals with the two t•c„tl4 11111 problems 111el illil lahow
without11(1therethem1,e culture. r
finds it mrcrssai'y l curb lilt;„11'Ia114 11 411111'11 salt Isle li„\el'llln101, ..i. he 1'ls h
people were using bows nisi itrrowh
from the States and tt, taro mole us^ iu;,trtl,d of prices aural the 1'. dollar ito�v, travelling along deet, rivers on
far as possible :u1c s logs, and the more advtoutttrous were
+p of the two problems the more even planting pumpkins; but these
directions' 114111 t' is. /f course, the i°ttpitlly modern ways of life had little relatioil.-
Canadiaus will have to do without allriukil,; supply of .lulerie11t ship to edn(0(11)11 ttudition must be
sunue things and pay higher prices 'for dollars. 1"hat a .policy of. halting 1,11•eserved—after all, everyday life is
others until the present situation -is 1 the ;rail; --- or of de\ eloping new just everyday life, but education is
sources of supply --has been in the education and there need be no marked
righted. process of maturing during the c•onuectiom between them, su said the
philosophers of the
- past. few weeks is well known. 1 p day. .,
LETTERS IN, SHE PAPER. Exactly w•1rat is proposed is veryAnd so it was that the home took
. properly beii1ig kept highly “secret .' over the education of the child in the
"Citizen's" letter in this paper ;asst �----us carefully protected, indeed, • .
use of the bow ttud arrow, the prepar-
as the' details of the annual budget. , atioui of food, the use of tire, the making
This is as it shouts Vie, since of clothing, the religious cervmouies
fortunes could be made by un-• and all those things related closely to
scrupulous persons getting to know actual living. For centuries, so the
advance vz'hat 1\•as its the story goes, this condition obtained, the
THE GODS tIOI SIGNAL -STAR
THE PLACE OF THE ITOME
a
Lductation eelf- Address by Dr. R. day good-;elloWship and the pleasant
0. titaples in North Street United sharing ofjoyssins( sorrows are W3ua1;
4'hureli. — • - where crises eneotanteTed in -the out -
Long ago. when the world was young hide- wort; theaneelves out ; where Mary
and our ancestors lived in caves and can cry her heart out when '•'i11 takes
struggled for existence with the )kluge Joan home from the'school t anee,while
animals inhabiting the tropical jungles, an understanding mother restores calm
children were sent to school, an old and a sense of proportion; 'there John
story tells us, to learn how to catch who has run away and bates himself
ti$JL by throwing rocky in the shallow for it talks it out and coining to see
lakes, ;row. to hunt the. sabre-toothed the pastness of it rushes out again to
tiger, and how to dig holes to trap the do bravely ---and does. .
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little woolly horses. These were vital In ,tL changing world ---hi a society
things ---they embraced the whole of where values'ai'e unstairle and shifting;
lite. where every day old beliefs; totter and
Ages passed—the shallow lakes dried new gods appear ; where violence and
up, the seasons chauged and the sabre- 'dishonesty and doubledealirlg seemso
toothed tigers disappeared, the little
woolly horses became extinct, but still
children were sent to school and still
they were taught how to catch tish by
throwing rucks in shallow lakes, how
to hunt -The Sabre-toothed tiger; iiow to
often, to be the
tl - order of the day—
stability of the home—tire sirs; beliefs
----the constancy of its values -=-•provides
at tirul, sure base from which the young
may rush forth to do battle, and a
sanctuary to which they may return
dig traps `for the little woolly horses. in triumph or defeat secure in the
When:a rebel spirit arose and goes- knowledge that there tit least they will
tioued the wisdom of continuing these find understanding stud, peacae.
studies, ht: 1was laughed to scorn by the (Ii ee I 'visited at the home of • a
young lad 'wlto 'vas leaving to attend
al distant college. As his train carte
in to tune Trim away laic' parents said,
"flood -bye, lad, do a gond job. conte
back when you can; we'll be stere.”
;tight there, in those simple wordsr
T>i111BSDAY, NQAVEMIOk+ trxia, 1.0-17
the fuunctioua' Of the home is expressed
"Good be with you, IlaaI O a POI
job --•we'• interesteai in iotas tt art—
your success ,10 important to us—vve
(Continued ou Page 0)
1 de -irablt' i11 other problem'Mr. 1':g -111 t.11 11 gWA,
week stirred up a good deal. of com-
ment about town. Some of the persons
must interested members of the Town
Council — thought The Signal -Star - du , ' schools catered to the needs of Ohl -
Government's
hould- not have published it • and uluild.
Thi$ .is.as,..eaeetive_.a.. reply to the usuphers ruystics, traditionalists, And
w Wanted' to • know the- . ttame' °of” -the the -home •educated for everyday living.
writer, ''which was refused. We have Frorlt Page criticism . as could . be Finally one of the rebel spirits had his
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desired.
always irl'vited letters. bit matters -of
way and tlle;,curriculum was broadened
,, to include .picture'~drawing, stone -cut -
interest, and though 1we ihvariably iii A.�
EDITOIIIAE NOTES ting, grain -pounding, uninial shinning. 4 sist upon knowing the identity of the , •Things useful in everyday life.
writer, and would prefer that the name The satltford �, Sage would like to Students taking np these tie''' studies
\were ilut really among the, elect- who
be given for publication, we have not know why the girl •with the unpleas-' continued to study 11,111•11tching, tiger
made any rule against publishing .a ant voice is the one who dues the most hunting and horse -trapping, but with
letter over a 110(1 de plume, so. long
italkie • - ' . the passing of time- it became apparentas the leiter is not libellous or scar a a a that they were quite as competent as
others even 'when exposed to the
.• rilous and is of sul$cielit interest to I'lierci isn't going to be any 1\'ar• ancient philosophies.
warrant giving it. space. But over ill Nt-iv -'York- City they are 1 The process -of broadening the futtc-
Tu dastard a letter, irecaauae the Ilallle getting out blueprints fur -underground .ti))mts of the school has gone o11 at an
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of the writer Aas not given for public itce011:caned. lrx-ee ttte 1h turn at he—
bombprooffactories. ' century. until 11011' many of, -tire tune-
ation would have barred the letter * 6 , to tiulLi •ufhome and chuLCli hu1'1 been
signed "Interested Header" which y\'as ' Chocolate bar's are tu- go up irr price assailed by the -school.. -
-- - .. From the time - the-. chile;... is lightly
published last �=eels``lixitrf�dYn-t�lr brloiv. agalin;':uccurcling` to rn'lll•or.- 'i�lre'reul�an
"Citizen's" 'letter and which was anover furl years until •lie is .eighteen,
given is a big increase •in the Trice illtieteen, tw1'ut% O'� twenty -tour, it •is
interesting comment upon a matter of col 0 1 ' beans. Wouldn't - the generally Understood that itis education -
of immediate concern to the people of youngsters like to bean- the cocoa of is mainly its the hands 'of the schools
Goderich, namely, Mr. Knight's offer the people, who have cornered the
of a playground for the children of cocoa bean' :market !
the- town. We . are not prepared to -•
assume the position of a god sitting • P -
_ in judgment upon letters submitted to edulutiuli of its young lx�uple:;
II HIL U 4 41 OF LAZY MEADOWS The functions of the school are.,nany.
us in good fa,�tll and say, "d'i'e shall;
publish this," or "We $hall not publish Basically, it continues to tctaeh •the
that," .simply because one suits our By Harry 'I' Boyle three it's. Tilite \\ is \'hen parents
could • help their -children with their
.vilews and the other does not. People FELINE SOCIETY home work, but now Bill assures his
who 'write letters to the paper have f There's something comfortahle-look- -bad that -subtraction questions aren't
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and that this ediietition has -come to
eulbratc•e1' practically all phases cud
needs of the life of the child and "
adolescent. Ilut is this true? Is there
little lett for the' house to `do in the.
-various reasons for not wishing to Ing about cats around" afarm. As clone that 11(1 'any niur+e.
Bevoldl the teaching of these basic
• have their dame _ published—probably i far as Lazy :Meadows ' is concerned, Processes have been added many other
in most cases 11 'shrinking from public' there is quite a society set up in con- things ; the teaching of music --once
notice. At any rate, w see- no suf- rection .with the cats. There are° two exclusively home function ; the'
fieient r&ts s011t( 'epart from our ' distinct classes' of cats ground the teaching of sewing and cooking—elite
++ learned in a home kitchen and. a home
long-established "rule and we 'Will. con- t place. ' sewing rout;;, if at all; the teaching of
tinue to welcome letter's •from readers +Yin the first place we have. three barn carpentry and metal work,•plunrbing—
r , -with,' the- once learned in the faniil- w rksho
•s of public interest, insisting cuts. ;here is -.old Tummy n Y A p
on matters. ._ I
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the\\'ed-up ears and a face that has . under the guidal.lc;e - of the father;
always that' the •nnmc' 'of the writer
survived hundreds of nocturnal squab- t'tetiehing-of art, interior decorating, the
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be nlacle known to the editor, though 111es, lie's a:l•)it battered up and holds
not necessarily for publication, --tile reputation for fighting around the
• Now with regard to the contents 'uf barn. Every cat around here is afraid
-1 e
' •not -of burn. and yet lie dare
'l1not > et sur
Citizen's" letter. e do agree
- up to the- house. IIe knows lits place which you and I acgtfired in our homes
With the suggestion that- the voters
.as well. and Sunday schools, ..is- slow• a part of
should elect a. slate propu5ed "1,3' the Tabby is the house cat. She is a ! the regular program of the school. The
Board of Trade or the Lions Club. matronly Persian and sire .hares
.Members of the 'Council should repre honors at the house with Spot,. a small
black and white kitten that Patricia
sent the whole holy -=40f electors". - The ,inn favors.. Tabby- - 110W, and 'again
-.Board of Trade and the Lions might imeander.s down as far as the barn.
well encourage some of their mertiliers1�• he pays 110, attention to Tommy and
he responds as far as Sheis Concerned.
They .respect the rights and' privileges
of each other as leaders in two classes
of society. •
Tiger, is a small, wiry cat of strange
markings who also makes his home
around the barn.' Ile accents the gran-
ary as being his special preserve. Lady
Puss. is a venerable old matron at the
barn who keeps -on producing litter
after litter' of kittens. ;the has .."a.
strong maternal instinct and never
challenges Timmy 'except when she
has a litter of small kittens. She win
brook no interference and she takes
advantage of her responsibility to hurl
the occasional insult -at him.
At -milking time, Tommy, Tiger• and
Lady Puss line up for a feed of fresh
use of color—once learned in the hon•tes
of the neighborhood. .
Religion,. which used to be a central
pall 'of the life
of each home and
to present themselves for election, but
such persons should go before -the
electors as' citizens, not as nominees
of the lions Club "Or', the ..Board of
Trade. the Masons or' the Oddfellews,
or
c the Baptists, t
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the Presbyterians x
any other organization representing'
only a recti(?n of the electorate. Per-
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haps "Citizen". did not intend that his
;suggestion should be taken in the way
we Have indicated, hutthat is the way
• it sounds.
Another thing we should Sart. We
believe that only in exceptional cir-
cumstances should' any person who has
not had municipal experience be chosen. milk. This iP a privilege which Is not
as the head of the Council. For° -°the
direction of the affairs' of the, muni-
cipality Surely there can be no better
shared 1>iy either Tabby or Spot:• As
a matter of fact, Spot is not tolerated
at the barn at all. (111 the other hand,
hone of the barn eats would think of
qualification than' experience in muni_ I going near' the house When 'Ctrs. Phil
If ., You : Indulge
In Over Eating
Sourness of the -'stomach, biliousness, •heartburn,
headaches, belching or other temporary disfu"rbances
are often caused by over -indulgence. In such cases
Burdock Blood Bitters should give quick relief.
Bucock Blood Bitters is a pure vegetable
eompouid for minor disorders of the stomach, livers••and bowels. It
stimulates the action of the stomach and -digestive organs thus improving
digestion, and elimination.
You'll find B.B.B. on sale at drug counters everywhere. Accept no
substitutes. Specify Burdock Blood Bitters.
J7bta- T, Milburn Co.. Limited. Toronto. Ont.
health of the child, once regarded- as
the responsibility of the parents, be-�•
comes increasingly a • responsibility of_
the school. Ilealt11 instruction, health
surveys, vaccinations, inoculations,
health examinat'ion's; ' weight tables,
gy-mnastics, - remedial exercises, in
many arses.feeding_and in some cases
even sleeping periudti are prodded.
Recently guidance has:••appeared and is
expected to help young people under-
stand their own abilities and limita-
tions in i4elationship to the -' orld in
which they hc' • dive. Within the foresee-
able future, it is possible that 'schools
will .provide Sex education and studies
in family relationships. '
In face- of this imposing list of
school- functions, one may be justified
in wondering just •what the place of
the . home really is. If the parents
Provide food, clothes and tt place to
sleep, there -seems to be- little more
required of them.
Such is not the case ---indeed, on
closer exalnlnation it appears •that the
home becomes increasingly- necessary.
to the yoitTig person of today.
'Deep 'in the heart of every °chilli. gf
whatever age are some fundamental
needs ---the' desire for security ; the
need to believe in something; the de-
sire to belong, .to be .loaved : the desire
to excel. These needs the home alone,
parents alone, can best supply.
Amid the change, and excitement
and pressures of becoming a mature
social 'being, the home is an important
sanctuary of understanding and quiet
--ti place where one need no longer
pretend; where each Is known and
loved; abilities, limitations and faults
are i'ecbgnized and affectionate allow-
ance made for , them ; where day to
cipal affairs. Memlgers of the Connell = gets out a. meal for Tabby 'and Spot.
give a great dear of time to, the Town's
The -barn cats have 'favorite haunts.
At this time of year they usually bed
business --much more time than prob- down on the pile of chop bags in the
ably most people know. Irl addition passageway after having had a meal.
to the- regular meetings that are re-' The house eats on the other hand wait
ported there are conitnittee meetings, their chance and 'when the kitchen
door is opened they 'pop in and either
opeeial meetings from tithe to time, sleep under the kitchen rangel get in
and in between these , meetings Balls the woodbbx or ,try for a comfortable
for their attention to' this ':h'r that spot In the front parlor.
Tabby lies quite still but Spot is out
matter. It is a thankless job, and if for fun. She is just waiting for a
atI some recompense a councillor works tussle with a piece of paper, or a string
his way up to the•honor of the mayor -1 or the yarn ball. She will play and
alty It is' little enough reward for toss around and finally have to be put
,, out. •into the woridshetl. She meowr<i
' years off• attention to the''povvir s affairs. around for a little ''bile .but finally
Councils will make mistakes—who goes ofe to' bed. Tabby will remain
doesn't? ---but wouldn't it be better for , still . perfectly still, and occasion -
citizens to - titer cr~itieisnt of their I ally we forget to put her out and she
, misthkes•o teen they make them than gets to spend the night in the eoinfort
• A of the hitches.
to wait until the eyed of the year. to I think cats overman' and comfort -
throw bi<ielt3 at them? . able creattnres to iictve around a farm,
yyy�r.�,�j. *1� {� but ;;laves
always been pulled by the
'Vii + ° `L++ + tILLIt NOW? insulter that trinket; thein have two
roeletiea .... or dazes o +society . .,
hence and barn eats. •
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t:o° etlitor of Saturday Night .lids
been one of the erities of the )E''edtaral
v°et=nnlent for not performing some
Short stories that are best Genera
tire to be found: in the elaasified t eetion
of Th, Bignfil.St/tr.
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