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East Huron lnspect„aate
Thee are h;i rural ,,ehoole with F:.<
teacher; and six urban schachs Milt
•30 teachers; there are 17 mon ave]
101 women; there is t higher propor-
tion of men in this county than in
most of .the others. There are 27
teachers with First Class Certificates
which is a higher proportion of bet-
ter qualified teachers than in any
Preceding year. Por a nunnbee of
years there have been no unqualified
teachers.
Like last year the supply of taarll-
ors has ben in excess of the denncnul
This has resulted in a few cases of
lower salaries in one section on ns low
as $650, which leaves little if any-
thing over necessary expeneses. Gen-
erally speaking, salaries have kept up
well in the face of competition, ad-
vances having been made in several
cases where special ability has been
recognized.
With the beginning of a .two-year
course at the Normal Schools this
year it is likely that the scarcity of
teachers will again become acute as
the attendalnce this year in anticipa-
tion of the extra year's training has
been reduced in some of the Normal
Schools to about two-thirds of what
it was last year. The average exper-
ience of .teachers in this Inspectorate
is only four and a half years, so that
it can readily be seen that the attend-
ance at the Normal Schools must be
kept high in order to account for the
shrinkage due to marriage and en-
tering other occupations.
The attendance of pupils has var-
ied little from that of last year; it
would look as if it had reached its
minimam unless the raising of famil-
ies should become more unpopular.
Some rural sections, such as No. 8,
Grey; No .8, McKillop; No. 3, Tuck-
ersmith; No. 6, Howick; and No. 11,
Turnberry, still have a high attend-
ance, with others, such as No, 2,
Grey, U. No. 4, Grey, No. 15, Howiek
No. 5, Morris and No, 12 Morris,
have almost reached the vanishing
point, the last having only two pupils
at the time of my visit.
No new schools were built this
year though there are at least six
that from the standpoint of comfort, t
sanitation and appearance, are .tl- p
together unfit for school purposes.
The Education Department on its
side is doing everything possible in a
providing excellent training for s
teachers, liberal grants and general u,
encouragement for better and more e
efficient schools, but in the instances
I have mentioned the ratepayers are
failing to do their part. Generally,
but not always, the opposition to c
bettor aceoimnodations is strongest m
from those who have no children and
consequently are without a personal
interest.
I cannot help mentioning a unique
incident that happened in S. S. No.
16, Howick. Fifty -years ago Mr.
Doig, Port Huron, then a youth of
eighteen, began teaching in that Sec-
tion. On January 3rd he gathered
together in the school all his old
pupils remaining in the neighborhood
opened school with 'them, "heard"
classes and renewed the experiences
of a half century ago. The rest of
the clay was spent in social enjoy-
ment and in recalling past memories.
When Mr. Doig began teaching there
there was an attendance of 120; to-
day it is 13,
The grants for 1027 for rural
schools were- on the same basis ISS for
the preceding years and are likely to
continue for the present year. The
urban schools, with the exception of
Wingham patrticipate in these equal-
ly with the rural schools. Thele -are
also liberal grants for the teaching'
of Agriculture and Household Sci-
ence. Ten schools provide hot lunch.
eS for the children; this is an aid to
health and besides•provides a social
half hour and has an edueatlona'al
value to the pupils.
Scheel Fairs wore held in 1� ordwhah
Wroxeter, Ethel, Clinton and Wel-
ton and as in former ,years were wall
attendecd. I They and proving their
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worth se a stimulation to the pupil,
in their aetit it e,i at liolne and at
school. -
:1 Peerr' lank wn: e:.tablished in
September• in the Seaforth Public
School. It is likely that in thio, pz•rs-
ent yeau• other urban centres will
take it up, Its putpe.e :<i the culti-
vation of thrift and u habit of sys-
tematic saving,
The attendance at the High schools
and Collegiate 1nstitutee has been
well kept up, but it has fallen off
somewhat in the Continuation schools
due largely, I should think, to the
bogie of a two-year term at the Nor-
mal schools.
There is little cause for conplai
about irregular attendance in t
schools of Est Huron; in this Cour
most parents place a high value on
education and give their children a
good opportunity to acquire one. In
a few sections the attendance night
be more active, when the teacher
finds parents indulgent or indifferent.
The Teachers' Institute was held
111:.111 9 .11' 1 :II'.
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io tri war work at , br•oI.
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ntiul'ir' nt ante 1 tit 1.00110 011.1
t.r ;,chl•r:;. 'rl• 1h.r.. d I eel. ','ite-
tive and hi; iaoi-oteint0 are doing v: l
unbte work for the rominuniiy
tirougli tie, twelve .ihciol noire that
are held genua lly in this. inspetorarte.
Fifth Clara es,—The total tette-id-
;ince 111 the sr'vcn Bifth Choses this
year was 64. The Depaartme:ttal
grtints to these tic'hools amounted to
, 065,40. The grants from the coun-
ty amounted to $1,080.30.
The Teachers' Institute was held
at Exeter n
e tet October
n 1,t
tri and14 h.
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tit rids bring the fiftieth annual meet-
ing, ung, a banquet Wag given in the even-
ty ing of the 13th. There were about
160 teachers and ex -teachers present
to enjoy the supper and the program.
On the 14th the Institute members
visited London, where they were en-
tertained at luncheon by the London
Board of Education. The afternoon
was spent in visiting the principal
at Brussels and was unusually inter
esting and profitable.
In conclusion o T
n would say that th
conditions of education in this Coun
ty, both primary and secondary, ar
most satisfactory and would corn
pare favorably with those of an
other County in the province—Joh
M. Field, Public School Inspector
East Huron.
West Huron Inspectorate
In accordance with the regulations
of the Department of Education,
herewith submit my report on the
conditions of the Public Schools in
the Inspertoratc of West Huron fo
the year 1027. •
The attendance of pupils during
1027 was the best in the history of
the inspectorate, being 80.3 per cent
of the possible attend
public schools then in session and
!the Technical School and Sir Adana
e ! P.eck 'Collegiate Institute. Our tea-
chers appreciated the opportunity of
e I seeing the pupils at work in their
I class rooms.
y The Results of the June 1027,
High School Entrance examinations
--These results will show that at
sone centres the candidates were bet-
ter prepared than they were at other
centres. The standing and success
of a candidate depend more on the
I efficiency and the inspiration of the
teacher than it does on the efforts
and ability of the pupil. The papers
r of the candidates tell the examiners
the kind of work their teachers were
satisfied with during the previous
school year.
In many of the schools every pupil
was present on the clays of my in-
spections. All were interested in
their work and were anxious to make
a good record for their school.
In nearly every school the discin-
le°, management and quality of the
work were good to 'excellent.
The teachers are giving special en-
ention to neatness, accuracy and de-
ortment.
School Houses, furniture and dee-
oi'ntions-•-Most of the school houses
re eomfortable, convenient, well
Gated and heated. By tinting the
alis and ceiling with suitable buil
olore, and hanging proper pictures
the class rooms may be made attract-
ve. The schools in No. 2 and No. 7
('ol'borne, were repaired and redo -
(Mated during the summer vacation
eking them equal to new schools.
The school. properties of No. 1 and
No. ft, Stephen, are in poor condi-
tion. New schools are necessary.
Desks—The old double desks in
ninny schools are worn out. '!'hese
should be replaced by strong single
desks of four suitable sizes. it pays
to have single desks properly arrang
ed for the pupils.
Grounds—Keeping the dower beds
window boxes and grounds in good
condition is part of the work in Ag-
riculture. The teacher must be the
Ieader in this work, In a few sec-
tions no person seems to have any le-
terest in the appearance of the school
property, especially in keeping the
grounds tidy.
Equipment—Tho. equipment in
moat schools is ample and with a :few
exceptions is carefully kept, But it
is not used as often as it should be
used. •
The total value of the equipment
in all th.c schools is $20,074.00.
The number of volumes in the
school libraries is 23,842, valued at
$8,558,00.
Teachers' Certificates, Salarres,
etc.—The school in Bayfield has be- t
come a rural school, to be known as
Union School No. 3, Stanley and
Godorich Townships.
In 136,4 inspectorate there are now
28 urban teachers of whom 20 arca v
women and 3 are men. Three bold
First Class Certificates, 19 Second
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Centres- S ° ° o a ° • ei
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Ilayfield ... 16
Belgrave ... 25
Crediton ... 20
Dashwood 27
Dungannon 18
Exeter .... 56
Goderich .. , 84
Hensall .... 15
ICintaih ... , 24
St, Helens 18
Varna 21
Winchelsea 14
Zurich ... , 35
12
18
14
16
35
50
75
14
16
10
17
13
15
2 1 3
1 3 7
6 5 6
0 5 11
1 3 3
10 15 6
14 17
0 1
3 S
1 3.
0 5 4
1 4 I
0 2 20
9
8
3
Totals -368 285 45 67 33
Sixteen schools with one teacher
prepared 2.4 pupils for Lower School
0exams. These pupils wrote and their
pa pars were examined at Education
Department. They had a total of 70
Passes. One pupil passed on seven
subjects; 2 on 6; 6 on 4; 7 o11 3 sub-
jects, 1t seems to n10 these schools
should receive some reward from the
County and from the Department Co'
this work which was so well done.
Home and School Clubs — These
Club,, connected with our turban
schools are rendering valuable ser-
vices in many ways. Their memhecs
are specially interested in all the
&pHs. They know the cirrunrstmi-
cesof every pupil which often the tea-
cher does not know. What an ad-
vantage it would be to every teacher
who is just beginning in the school,
to have the sympathy and guidance
which a Mothers' Club could give,
'Phe teacher or teachers would attend
the meetings of the club and would
find the Mothers their friends, and
helpers, This would enthuse the
teacher, It seems to me that every
teacher in the inspectorate would be
benefitted if a hone and School Club
were formed 111 the section. Do not
neglect trying to organize one if
here aro only a few members to be-
gin, The membership will -increase.
The Gode1'ich Collegiate .instituter,
he Exeter High School and ilensall
Continuation School are serving t1,^:r
arlous sections well in the work. of
econdal ;y education.
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3,10111111 i ;p-.n•t1,1e lar' 1L•.
(enamels. ei n. t, uerien of 111,i smell
boats whieh every ,;lip talrrr'd, and
for all reputes on, the ve :,,I h. rsete.
Even to day no ship lei inaged at scat
eoald possibly 0:tub port it she did
not carry a bosun's it e leer.
The toe here vary Reseeding to the
craft. Windjammers, t Ino rio }arhis,
tramps, 11nt 1 s, and battleships.111;
have requirements of their own. One
ship may carry trawling nets or div -
era gar, another has In1.1 • slings for
ha elnig elephants aboard.
One Is given to think of ;h'• locker
as a dark hole stuffed with ropes,
sails, tallow, and lamp;, but that o]'
0 modern vessel is a Mg g llfair.
When anything S ing is lost the loser is
invariably chaffed with the inform-
ation that what he Is seeking will
be found in the bosun's locker.
Tradition would se -'1n to justify
the joke. Once a corpse that had
been Missing for several days was 1
found "laid out" among old coils of
rope on the for'ard port shelf of the I
bosun's locker.
MARRIED TO i1 TIU(E.
Peculiar Custom of Certain Tribes
In Inlia,
There are certain tribes in India
the male members of which some-
times contract marriage with a tree.
When a man loses two wives by
death and wants to marry a third,
the fear lurks that she too may die. line.
So before the marriage the man is ---o
married to a banana tree or some , URGES TAX REDUCTION
other plant. All the ceremonies per- I
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till• HF aithi rt 1.11 in ce-
eevelee.n,'t11o•i d„al a r;
til 331,,,•'iuI 1 uIL-'ht-t 'r a, i,t
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roi':;.er, ,:unity,
of 'reroute, he he l aertr' '11 . ••t'': r
1.111'1•1..1,r, :1 in,3 live r•e-ur„"I' i i ul ,.:'
the British Empire ;;tn„I 1•hrdoso
firm, an iir.,.vieldy and b _ Iiy la t t 1 ern
but poil•nti. 11r greet teal tetania
of coal. iron :Old .4.0..1 interests, The
retirement of President Roy AI. Wel-
vin coi'u'IL•d with the 1 tiraeve of
the H
nh: Gu t
n ly interests.
A giraffe's tongue is about two
feet long.
The great armadiilo has 03 teeth
--more than any other animal,
The total gravitational pull of the
sun on the earth would break a steel
rod 2,000 miles in diameter.
An egg weighing nearly six ounces
laid recently by- a hen at Cleves,
Prussia, contained a second perfect
egg weighing more than two ounces.
Seville, Spain, will spend more
than $1,000,000 on its new airport
for the Seville -Buenos Aires airship
taining to an actual marriage are
gong through, and at the enol the tree
it cut down and mourned over. Now
the way is clear for the man's real
marriage, the new wife being eou-
sidered immune from evil influences.
From Banibay comes news of an 1
extraordinary wedding ceremony at 1
Pardol4, near Ahmedabad, the prin-
cipals being a Brahmin .girl and a
pipal tree, the sacred fig of India.
The girl became blind through
smallpox at the age of six, and her
father, knowing that no one would
accept her al marriage, 'xpressed the
desire before he died last year, that
she should wed a pipal trent, Be
advised Ler to stay at hone all her
life, dedicating her spare moments
to the contemplation of
Providence.
A caste dinner was held in honor
of the marriage, .vhieh was celebrat-
ed with the prescribed Hincht rhes.
Sometimes when a suliable hus-
band for a girl cannot be obtained,
she is married to a sword, a bow anti
arrow, a grinding -stone, or other in-
animate object. She is thus freed
from the reproaches which would
otherwise be showered on her by her
caste people, for 111 !11,1;0 nuu'rtage
is regarded as a sacred duty which
must be entered into by every man
and woman.
Good Newt for Farmers.
A wet season usually means a had
time for farmers, but there Is hope,
however, that a wet season will not:
be s0 serious for thele in future, if
an invention referred to by the Mar-
quess of Lincolnshire at a recent
agricultural show in England proves
successful.
When seed end corn crops cannot
be dried out of doors, as is usual in
line weather, they can, by this new
method, be brought into a barn and
beeped around hot-water pipes,
which soon dry them with the aid or
an electric fan that drives- hot air
through the crops, Ten tens of oats
can be dried in eight hours by this
method,
Day Getting Shoa'ter.
Every hundred years the earth's
day gets shorter by a minute free -
Mon of ,L second, In a recent lec-
ture
eature on the eclipse of the sun, Sir
Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Eoyai,
told of investigations by two Cam-
brldgo astronomers,
They proved that the Earth's day
is getting shorter by one -thousandth
part of a secoucl in one hundred
yeaars, Tltis, it is said, is due to the
action of the tides, 'which form a
sort of friction belt and cause a no-
ticeable check in the earth's rotation,
1200-Ytvnr•Old (up.
A carp said to bo about 200 years
old has been caught by three boys
In the Long Witter at !Hampton
Court, England. It weighed nearly
16 pounds, and was caught with a
cheap rod and line with bread as balt,
Twelve Thousand Pat•ts.
When a motorist changes gear
awkwardly, he Is ill-treating between
500 and 1,000 parts; there are 12,-
000 paste in a plass-produced auto-
mobile.
(;row \VK(lo They Sleep.
A doctor says that the, growth of
children takes place entirely when
they aro asleep,
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name Cald to ho;iideI, etas' sits it Ile t r s lily
P, g,.-' fVe also do it ill, a way to save yet: money,
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TREATMENT OF NEW FINISH restore the threads of a bolt or stud
The modern car, treated with hew when no die is at hand.
1 body paint and polish, should be
!washed immediately after it has he 1 Never use cylinder oil for the
come dirty. If mud is allowed to re- 1 starting motor.
main on the varnished surface more
than a day, it is difficult to erndi- A clogged or dirty muffler will
eate it, For the washing, plain water ' cause loss of power from the en-
should be used, neither too hot nor a gine-
' cold, about 50 degrees Fahrenheit
being the proper temperature. A Never speed a car unless ac -
large ar a
sponge soaked in clear water . guainted with the road, and the oper-
and then sapped against the surface ation of the vehicle.
so that the waiter trickles down is
best. 'Never turnaytream of water Byus' g
the e Pro
Per size wrench
at high pressure on the body. This i on a nut, the possibility of stripping
will grind thick particles of sand and the thread is lessened.
other grit into the varnish to the de-
triment of the finish. The idea is to Linseed oil mixed with a little
float the mud or dirt off the surface. graphite is best as a Lubricant for
Soap should never be used on the door hinges and latches.
body except for removing' g'rr'ase or
oil spots. A small piece of soft cloth,
well covered with Castile soaps suds,
serves very well to remove grease
from the panels. The hood should
never be washed while it is hot, as
this will result in discoloration. In
cleaning the radiator, send a stream Unless the correct formula is
of water from the rear instead of the known do not add electrolyte to the
front to keep moisture out of the stowage battery. There is a danger
mechanism. In drying the body a of making the mixture too strong
clean chamois skin should be used, with the result that the life of the
rubbing being done in straight linos, plates will bo considerably shorten -
If spots of tar or read oil are found ed.
on the horny, it is bet to treat them
with salt, butter or kerosene. The The condition of a brake lining
butter softens the deposit so that cannot be determined by looking at
it may be wiped ell' easily. Kern its edge. Wear takes place more
in the centore, and a thin section of
Carry a small bag of salt in the
car during the winter months. Rub
the bag on the windshield occasion-
ally. It will break up the ice and
prevent it from forming.
Sir Joseph Flavelle, who at Teron- erne should be applied loyally- and
to Iast week said high income taxa- wiped off within a minute.
tion is turning capital away from in-
dustry. A small triangular file will often
the fabric or an exposed rivet may
only im found by removing the wheal
and brake band.
Canadian. Athletes Leave Far Olympic Game3
anada's representatives at the
glee Olympic Games at St.
Moritz,
Switzerland, now on their way
across the ocean, journeyed from
their homes to the seaboard via
Canadian National Railways. Most
of the party were photographed by
the Canadian National camera man
at Montreal en route to Halifax,
Photographs show: Lower left; The
Varsity Grads hockey team, of
Toronto; right, Lehan and Duptids
of Montreal and Ottawa respec-
tivelyslci-ing representatives. Tipper
right, the party aboard the Maritime
Express of the Canadian National
Railways; left, Ross Robinson,
Toronto speed skating champion,
who will represent Canada in the:
speed skating events — Canadian;
National Railways yll pheteerallhs.