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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-06-21, Page 17SUGAR 'N' SPICE on education don't t the Minister onee t g�s.around that hYP' t droning dards of education fining the standards n are not declining However, my views strike a cord or a open wound among fly other people. nt column on has attracted • more anOing I've written rued out, "Sex and " That was when 1 ber, editor,an and was e no leftover papers , You want me to Sorry, I'm- a school w, and as everyone ept a lot of teachers, chers must maintain' est standards of sobriety and taste. was ,harmless.`` Just a Il papers when cir- as slumping a bit. as I? Oh, yes, letters ation. Following are erpts from letters om ordinary readers, such creatures. I've met a person who himself ordinary. should I? We're an ary lot, If you don't take a good look at then at your neigh - n at our "leaders". be a lot of riffraff, s -not one who is or - merchant: "You have bticly what a great us think, but our communication is not yours. The Mickey d Donald Duck cour- ave in high schools lied colleges now big joke if they were harm to our young were not so costly appear from the the meetings that all I in education land om is heard a ng word. In our local • enomme OWER NOP Agent for 24 -hr. DEVELOPING lathE " Philosopher APAQinNG SPOT AN AREA ABOUT 1EYEN FEET WIDE, ' IWEVE FEET LONG ANp ON1UE UTA'I S SIDE OTHER F THE STREET ! PA. '1''p• E'S Bp ice 'ttition and Chita Shop ton Rd:, Goderich 5246871 tf y by BILI SMILEY brain factory, the students I'm too hot and tired to get ex- cited about much of anything. serum to be running the . sideshow. From seen the rapidly. year law her last managed students and spell and won the school. brought and rely She problem mothers. hate me teachers in a we mothers which mothers. From one who old way and u mar class ... My daughter, who is a Grade 2 teacher, says what terrible English the children use... I'm sure that the high school students of today who are dropping their language courses „ are doing it because they don't have the basic English grammar." From a minister: "Let me put in a word for poor spellers ... Teachers iwist that spelling laws are like the laws of the Medes and the Persians—un- changing, unchangeable, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be ... So generation after generation we persist in foisting (or is it foysting) the spelling quirks of the middle ages unto our children." It's foisting, but •1 agree. From a teacher: "I do not wish to needlessly send your blood pressure up another point, b,nt sorrow likes com- pany and your May 24th article was welcomed in our school as a most timely and healthy counterbalance ::to the irresponsible article from the Blank County Board of Education ... our board likes to be very avant-garde in the rush towards doomsday." Hey, teach;' -there's a split infinitive o Bening sentence. Well,, that's just a sampling of the letters, I don't agree with everything they say, but I'm pleased there is evident concern about the quality of education. • And 1 don't plan to keep hacking away at the subject. There's nothing duller than a farmer who can talk about nothing but farming, an editor who can talk about nothing but newspapers, or a teacher vyho whines all the time about education. It's near the end of June and I've just crawled out from a mother: "We have under an avalanche of 255 essays and short stories which I system deteriorate Y� We have a son in last marked in my "spare time" and one daughter in and I have almost ceased to year university who care how anybody spells to be outstanding anything. who could read, write And I must say that there's a and didn't have wise tremendous interest in wonderful sex education in education during that last week What has that or so. Guys and dolls who have us? An epidernic�f v.d. spent approximately as much ted social problems." time this year on their school goes on: "Another work as I have spent being a is too many working millionaire have suddenly lost Women's Lib will all their apathy. They come up t One of our finest to their teachers with the most told me he could tell appealing, wistful smiles and week which children had wonder whether they are going in the home, and to be recommended, or whether ones had working they'll have to write the exams. They're pitiful and pathetic, an ex -teacher: I am but they'll see that old' Smiley was educated in the has a heart of solid steel. Or used to love am- butter. . c.0 . GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1973 ---PAGE SA Northern Ireland visitor here on Jr. Farmer exchange It's a long way from Nor- thern Ireland to Canada and for Bertha Harkness, a Nor- thern Irish woman visiting here in Canada, it's a long way just from one town to another in Ontario. Miss Harkness has been visiting recently on the farm of Louis Phelan, RR 2 Blyth. Her hosts are Jim and Joe Phelan as part. of the Junior Farmer exchange program. Her home is a one hundred acre farm in County Antrim, about 16 'miles from Belfast. The average ' farm in Nor- thern Ireland, she says, is about 60 acres so her family's is one of the larger units. Land values are high' there, with farm land selling for about 1,000 acre :about pounds per ($2,500). Farming is more intensive, however. On the Harkness farm about 100 head of beef cattle are housed at the farm and, "We're building it up all the tinge," she said. She says her part of Ireland is similar in appearance to Huron County except for the hedges. In Ireland, she says, there are no fences, just hedges and everyone must have a hedge cutter. "Yctu can irnigine what a job it is 'to: keep the hedges cut when you have 100 acres com- prised of three acre fields. Then too, it grows sn fast due to one fast growing season." Another difference is that there are no maple trees in Ireland. She. says she's tempted to take one home but doesn't think they'd let her through customs with it. The suddenness of spring in Dear Ann Landers: Will you please say a few words to executive husbands who think repair work around the house is beneath their dignity? W -lien I married Jim I expected to be a mother, housekeeper, cook, nurse, psychiatrist and bed par- tner. I did not plan on being an electrician, plumber, carpenter, painter and ti.lesetter. A few weeks ago I asked Jim to replace a light bulb. What could be simpler than that? Well, he jammed the bulb in crooked and it broke. I suggested he get it out with or- dinary pliers, but he kept yelling, "I'm not going to elec- trocute myself to save a lousy few bucks." The electrician came (two days later), spent. three minutes at our house and charged $20. Inflation has us strapped even though we are in the up- per-income group. It costs too much money to call in somebody for every- #minor repair job. I'm not the only woman with this problem, Ann. My neighbpr tells me her husband couldn't figure out how to put on a new roll of toilet paper. (He's a lawyer.) My mother (now in her 60's) does all her own repair work because father botches everything. (another executive.) What - goes on in YOUR house, Ann Landers? Does your husband do any minor repair work? C'mor and tell us. --- Nosy But Interested. Dear Nosy: I haven't asked my husband to repair anything in years. I learned long ago that it's cheaper to call a repairman BEFORE he bot- ches the job. Some men are handy around the house and others think a screwdriver is for screwing things up. So, my advice don't ask your husband to do odd jobs unless he knows what he's doing. Do them yourself or hire them done, even though you'll pay through the nose. Dear Ann: Our ten -year-old son is a wonderful -looking boy but his ears stick out at right angles to his head. I noticed this when he was an infant and hoped he would outgrow it when his head became larger, but it didn't happen. In fact, it's become progressively worse. The kids at school tease him his life. Your family doctor can direct you. Dear Ann Landers: I read, with. more than a little envy, that letter about "my wonder- ful grandma." My little boy could have written this one:: My grandma is nearly 60. She the she's 40 and tries to act like 18. My grandma held me on her lap 'once—when we all posed for a family picture---pec.-has never held my little sister. My grandma never buys 'us presents, bakes us cookies or praises the things we do in school. My grandma thinks she is perfect so she will never see herself in this letter. ---Ignored G randchild Dear Child: One day, when you get older, you will come to understand that the real problem is between your grand - about it. (Children can be very'''Mother and your mother and it cruel, you know.) Last night he ' has nothing to -do -with. you:.. asked if I thought it would help if he slept with. a band around his head. He said it as a joke but I •know he meant it. rw I've bear ''stick -out ears" can be cora ected by surgery. Is it safe? Does it work? Is it .per- manent? Is it sensible? -- Sympathetic Morn Dear Mom: The operation is simple, safe and effective. The boy obviously wants to have it done and I hope you will go along with it. It could change Huron County Historical Society: enjoys bus t�tir On June 12, 38 members and friends of Huron County Historical Society took a bus trip to Brantford where 'they visited the Brant County Museum, the Bell Homestead, Pauline Johnson's home and the Mohawk Church St. Paul's. Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks, "''the only "Indian Chapel Royal in the world - It was built in 1785 shortly after the arrival of the Six Nations on the Grand. Birthplace of the telephone, Brintford• with its rich, historical back -ground and its many significant places'I•of in- terest, has always left a lasting impression on its many visitors. "Chiefswood" is a literary shrine and museum, which honors the memory of one of Canada's most loved poets. It .is the only Indian Mansion in OWER INTEREST RATES Now Available On . 13T. AND 2ND MORTGAGES Anyj here in Ontario On 'ENUTAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL ,and FARM PROPERTIES - Finencing For New Construction & Land nt For Representatives In Your Area Phone 'SAFEWAY INVESTMENTS AND CONSULTANTS -LIMITED ORice (519) 744-8535 Collect 56 Weber St. E. Kitchener, Ont. we dug! Existing Mortgages for Instant Cash-- • Canada of historic significance to survive from Pre - Confederation days. It was erected in 1853 by Chief G.H.M. Johnson, a distinguished leader of the Six Nations, as a wedding gift to his bride, Emily Howells, a cultured English lady of Bristol, England. The Six Nations Indians have been famed in history for their unswerving loyalty to the British Crown for over. 200 years. . This loyalty was in- strumental in establishing English Canada, for which fealty they were granted magnificent lands bordering the Grand River. The tribes still live on these few remaining lands in the County of Brant. It was upon this Reserve that Pauline Johnson was born in 1861. She became the voice of the Indian race in the English tongue. No book of poetry by a Canadian has out -sold her collected verse, Flint and Feather. The group is invited to the 11111111111.11181111.11.111111111111111110111111111111. Would Legalizing abortion at least eliminate criminal abor- tions? This is purely wishful thinking, and a _ completely false statement. Consistent ex- perience has been that when Taws are liberalized, the legal abortion rate skyrockets, the illegal abortion rate does not drop, but frequently also risen. The reason consistently given is • the relative lack of privacy of the official procedures. (Europe, Japan, Colorado). August ,J5 meeting of the Bayfield Historical Society.. At the last council meeting, those present unanimously en- dorsed the efforts of the Goderich Save the Jail Com- mittee to preserve the old jail its entirety, as what they are trying to accomplish coincides with the aims and objects of the Huron County Historical Society. For All Your Lumber b Building Needs seJOHN JEFFERY & SONS Phone 524-8171 Ontario surprised her. '1The trees seem to come out overnight," she says "and the grass seems to grow over- night." The violence in nearby Belfast has curtailed some of the social life of her part of the country, Miss Harkness says. It used to be that people she knew would go into Belfast for a show but • not anymore. Yet there is no•trouble in the country, where the Young Far- mers Club (a combination of our 4-H clubs and Junior Far- mers) has both Catholic and Protestant members and works' well. She says the problems in Ireland are not really, between Catholics and Protestants but more because of Communist agitation with the two armed sides getting arms from Com- munist and Arab countries. The religious argument was only an excuse to fight she says. She is saddened by the fact the violence will mean that no Canadians will be going to Nor- thern Ireland in the exchange this year. The Young Farmers group is doing so much to help the young people of Ireland she says, so she wishes Canadians could visit the farms there to make it a true exchange. She says there are many beautiful farms there she'd like to show off. - Miss Harkness started her visit to Canada in Brant Coun- . try then attended a conference at Guelph before going east to Glengarry, Lennox and Ad- dington counties. Then there was an enjoyable break as all 10 delegates from Britain spent a weekend in Algonquin Park fishing, relaxing, canoeing and travelling the nature -trails. Then it was on to l-,alton county. There was a noticeable dif- 'ference in the pace of life bet- ween the eastern counties and Halton, she says. Things were much more relaxed in the east but when she visited Halton, ,,the ,peopleti;were tense and rushing,. everywhere. She at- tributes this to the close proximity to Toronto. She says people in the area are very con- cerned about their farms being swallowed up by urban sprawl. From Huron they will go on _to Kent county to .end up the tour. Then the delegates, four from England, four from Scotland and two from- Ireland will tour the Canadian west on their own. They hope to drive to the west coast then hack through the United States. Again the distance comes into play. Miss Harkness points out that it is almost as far to the west coast from Toronto as 4'Ireland is from Toronto and it took seven hours to fly to Toronto. She notes that in Ireland few would think of driving 50 miles but here 'people do it as a mat- ter of course. No doubt when she gets home the people there will be as fascinated by her tales of this country as people tiere are about Ireland. the draft Corner 16 HAMILTON ST GOOIRICH CRAFT SUPPLIES. by • LOWISCf aft ARTISTS MATERIALS by Grumbacher STORE HOURS: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m PHONE 524-6815 = FOR THE FINEST IN - HUNTING FISHING & SPORTS EQUIPMENT 1 C —SPO R`fl NO GOODS —HOBBIES —CRAFTS • HUCK'S .1 SPORTING GOODS 73 Hamilton St. 524-698S THE REASONS for insuring locally through otr, Independent insurance agency • CONVENIENT SERVICE .• LOCAL KNOWLEDGE • CLAIMS & COVERAGE ADVICE All Types of Insurance I W.J. 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