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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-02-27, Page 4THE 'CLINTON NEWS-RECO1 JJ ThIURS., FEB, 27, 1936 O PER' TORE. 'NEWS COOPER'S S • FF 7n 1� 1p' F&rwyevi TAKE'ADVANTAGE: :See sir t, n ��, q• i , lff� y?. f•y �b.c. 17 Sttf .: F lf of •t '.4 b OF THE Details SPECIAL PRICES our Large Sale Bilis for A. T. COOPER Phone 36w. Phone 6j. Variety China Dept House and Men's 1st floor Furnishing Dept. 2nd Floor TRYING TIME From now till the warm weather, arrives, will be hard on the strongest constitutions, fortify yourself by 'using PARK -DAMS STANDARDIZED COD LIVER OIL ITS G.00n FOR OLD AND YOUNG IF YOUR NERVES ARE SHOT TRY Phaspho Lecithin V. S. t .HOLES PHM. D. CLINTON, ONT. 5 v'?•.R Scare' , PHONE 61 BARKER MADE - TO - MEASURE Spring Suitings Top Coats Samples Now In Priced x$22.50 to 05.00 DAVIS 8 HERMAN CLEANING, PRESSING . AND REPAIRING 1 11 A coo GRoNG PO IONS d he,alther ,1 aster b � chicks --stronger ro rin' boned,auger framed pullets ..and Lac¢cL,cac�c i With these results Farm Proven? why not let these feeds ilo the same for you -•• Ask your dealer today. nepresented locally by— BUSSEI.I. L. JERVIS, :%I°Air NT. CLINTON Spring, which are disappointingly few. "Isn't there anything Springy around your place Ellen?" we asked Ellen Charlesworth the other day. She reflected a moment and said "Well ell 'there's the beds." "What, have your flower beds atai:ted already?" we asked in pleas- ed surprise rrise snatching • out our trusty note -book to write 'down the glad news. "Flower beds? Oh'no!1 It's the bed in the: house. o Theyhave S springs," she said, 'while I turned a- way way in anger. "And then there's .lean Vodden she's the only, one who hasn't the measles . ." "What's Springy' about that?" I asked' -sulkily,:. but Hope was spring- ing up again as she recalled Tenny- son's-'words "In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love" . and if a yo{ing, man's,. why not a young woman's? and if a young woman's, why not Jean's? .."What's Springy in that?" I re- peated. "Don't tell me Jean's In love? Who is the man tri the case? Izzy Powell?" "Oh nothing like that," Ellen said, "She's' the only one who hasn't had the Measles, . so she springs out of bed every morning. And =springs (tee made of wires aren't they? Well Mainma says that Jean is so lively that she must be on wires ..." Here I threw a book at her and she etopped. , Cora Streets doesn't think that Spring is coming and hopes it never "zones. She is so torics ol• skiing that he wishes that' the 'winter would go on and on. In 'fact Cora insists that •it is still Indian Summer ... she went skiing last Saturday, and in- formed us poetically that everything was just a rosy glow. Tut tut • Cora that's rather absurd, you know; we suggest that you've been looking at the world through rose-coloured &s— se's. And speaking of coloured glas- ses . have you noticed them? AB the measle sufferers are donning them to safe -guard their eyes. They are about the only new spring fast ions we have noticed, .And nobody has quit wearing hats or has unbut- toned their. coats Gee it's a dis- appointing•'world. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE AFFAIRS INTERESTINGLY WRITTEN •UP BY A STUISE1' T "Why waseet:there any, school news bothering. Although it certain y nn, the paper last week?" we have Would' have maimed' the situation .been asked pn various occasions, The up nicely, don't, you think? In fact :answer is absurdly sihnple.; Obvious- there is little enough to tell' thre ly, you can't write news about school week, For the past days the -roads when you haven't been there yourself have almost all been closed, but we and neither has anyone else. We did have concluded (since Ruth Andrews entertain a few ideas about malting has been looking' happier and started ,a small reproduction of the attractive singing a little impromptu song '5- • purple emblem which has. garbed so bout "loving the open road tea la") :'much popularity as a front door ci•-'..that cons ennication with Londesboro reameitt in Clinton of late (in short, has •been renewed. We expect that . `ca measle .placard) arid'- putting it f t everyone will be back in flipfai•ee. the paper as School News, but -we ' again' by the end of this week thought that the, reading,pubtiq` buil lAnd now that February is almost EDUCATION ON,TIIE MAR.CII 1 f u.s Feb. 23rc1 to 29t r ut1 is a= E d boil • Week: SurelY with i1 ehe "weeks" devoted to this sand that, ib is not aniiss that such an important matter a • s the 'education of our • young' Y g people should have one devoted to t. ]radio addresses by eminent per- sons and even mention in our chur- cheson Snnday featUred this week.ek. It is time i or r people should become mole "education conscious:" Edu eational experts say Ontario' is very nsuch behind other countries in this reg'al'es and it is well that, some risen or group of ;:men and wonnen should ' 3. All English-speaking countr.'ies take up the study of the subject., except Canada and the United States, even a•few of the facts which educa- tional ,bodies 'in .Ontario are wrest.- ling with to -day? Het'e are Sorpe of the most significant. 1.ntr ri O azo sibs approximately 6,- 000 administrative unites operating schools, anti the other Canadian pro- vinces a Iike proportion. In 'comp- ar•ison—Eiz 1 is p gar 1 and Wales,with a population twelve times as great as that of Ontario, have only 317 school authorities or Boards. Scotland has bat3 5.• 2. In no r tlr oe . English-speaking country, except Canada and the UM - ted States, is the educational unit smaller than the country 'or large city. • And an ` investigating commission,, contribute at least half, and often appointed last smnmerby the Depart; the whole cost of' edudation from the Ment of Education, recently' received central treasury. a 35 -page pamphlet outlining the 4. Government grants in Ontario systems of financing and administrat- ing education in English-speaking ,countries and in all the provinces of Canada with concrete proposals for reforms' in Ontario based on the best in other countries and adapted to On- tario's special conditions. This brief was the work of a enmmittee of tea- chers from the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, working per cent respectively. voluntarily and at their own expense. 5. I.t is instructive to compare the How many readers are aw•are ,etlabove figures with those for other . states hi the Empire. In England and We have been Wondering How Mr. Fines would like it if, :tome day when he was thinking deep - !y, some person said: "Well can't you find anything to do? If you can't I'll get you something." What' Miss Brydone,' would do if Ken Cooke were to loolt at her the way she looks at hiin when:he talks In English period? Who was the suspicious -looking In- dividual who came to school cite- guised in a huge scarf and a heret pulled down on her cars and well ov- er her eyes, with dark -glasses hiding most of her face? Also she calleii herself Berry Vear ... obviously an alias. (Answer: Oh phooey we San tel you that . . Mary Fear•, and she's wearing glasses because she's just ..,s, average only 11.5 per sent of the to- tal cost of schools; Quebec 6.3 per cent; Nova Scotia 13.1 per cent; New Brunswick 14.7 per cent; Manitoba, 13.5 pet' cent; Saskatchewan, 17.6 per cent; Alberta 13.3 per cent; only Bri- tish. Columbia and Prince Edward Is. and approach other systems, with state support 32.9' per cent anet.59.1 merely a figure of speech, so don't ;et unduly excited. They put off dances for Lent; they :nit off parties for Lent; they do without luxuries for Lent; do you drink then, that it's right to have ex- ams in Lent? Un -Christian, we call it. Just one more thing. This is a warning to everyone at the C. C. I. but the teachers. Never, never, never, say that you are going to the AT Hlome; the eorreet. way to say it Is At HOME. Please note.' Well we have done , pretty well .onsidering that the school is so dead that it should be buried;, it is buried in .snow; and in Clinton,—but that's s common complaint in these parts .0 we 'shouldn't object. Here's hop 'ng that Spring is really coming. They say that a blue Iook around the horizon means Spring; we have seen black looks and red looks lately but there's nothing blue, much, ' except Monday. And of course people who are afraid of the cold look blue al- though they have a yellow streak. We are getting maudlin, so we shall close on this colourful note,and don't go pito a brown studytryingto mai e sense out of it. • That's pretty awful, I admit, but ive all have our weak moments. And considering that we have been pen - mad in for two weeks ... you might 'hake a joke out of that, es the gnat aid to Alice in Wonderland, Some- ;Itihrg about "week" and "weak" you know :.. . .That's terrible ... it's time w e stopped. Until next week;.Cheeriol got over the measles, and she bundles .up because of her sore throat. Anti as to the alias . . try saying Mary Fear while you hold your breath.) Oh darn! No mystery after all. Why isn't there a law to prevent the measlites from discussing their symptoms? When the At -Home is going to be held? It's been postponed again, you 1010w, until after Lont. What Leola Nott said when the measles same out on her the day she WAS to have her athletic trophies presented? When First Forms is going to grow up—and what they will be lute when (and if) they have grown up. • If it is tight that Cee Relines real- ly .spends an hour in front of his mirror every morning, and has a grudge against his god parentis be- 'ause they called him Cecil in:rtead oI Narcissus•? Why people will tell us things to put•in the 'school news and then say' "But for heaven's sake don't drag shy !mete into it", when their name is ab- solutely essential. What would happen if any unttsuha' happening should happen to happen at school?` Anyone who .wonders why they don't take up interesting- books at :school is just plain .dumb. Suppose, instead of tasting up "The Mill on the Floss"' or a nice essay out of Short Stories and Essays we did study,. things like "Cowboy Clarenee`s Cour- age" or "The Faceless Fiend of Mon- tana" why, everyonewould beso interested in the story that they might forget that this: was really work, and on the . off -chance they aright learn. something : and that would never dos But they do pretty well if you take the right attitude. After all what's MacBeth but a mux- der. Mystery"? If you meet Margaret Heard wan- dering tie -streets at midnight with a wild Iook in her eye, and holding wait looks like a noose in her halite and making hissing noises .'don't think that she, has gone crazy and 'is trying to suni up the courage to cent - mit 'suicide ont- i it'suicide . • because she will `be merely looking for her dog which :.: always either lost,' at being'brought home after it is found; the hissing noises are 'intended for whistling. O:ur Principal vows that he is get- ting writer's cramp from signing so many' absent notes; ht also'rernaricw that he has read "please• excuse Johnny as 'he has the niealees" sr often that it gives himspots before the eyes Did he really say spots? Then it 'pr•ovet that even teachers art human and subject' to measles.: Bus 'shave seen. enough 'of these 'without us over we are looking for signs'' `of i "spats before 'your eyes" is often: Wales over 50 per cent of school costs is borne by the national treas- ury, with special aid to needy areas; in Scotland the state share is 67 per cent; Northern Ireland about 82 per cent; Irish Free State, around 80 per cent; South Africa, about 75 per cent by the Union, 25 per cent by provinces, and no local taxation; New Zealand 'and Australia have central- ized administration with 100 per cent support From the national M. provin- cial treasury. 6. A11 the . above-mentioned parts of the Empire have national 'salary scales for teachers so that the best teachers will .not be confined to the wealthier districts. Since good tea- chers have more effect on the quality of schooling provided than any other single factor or combination of fac- tors attors in the educational system, it is surely of great importance that the general public should know where Ontario stands in this matter. 8. It is true that our boys and girls from poorer municipalities and school units are entitled to the same quality of instruction as others enjoy, it is also true that they are entitled to the same opportunities for higher educa- tion. As things are Ontario to- day, in day, only the children of the well-to- do, plus a mere handful who win the few available scholarships, go on to a university. Not .one provincial government, net the nationalgovern- ment, has made any attempt to fol- low the example of the other selt- governing dominions in the Empire to ensure that students of melted ability are able to develop their tal- ents after leaving school. New Zea- land, with a population .one-seventh of Cateada's spends as much money as we do on matriculation scholar- ships: Australia, Sbotl and, England ngland andI Wa es tike s sl en l a 'great deal More than.. Canada on scholar- ships and maintenance allowances, It. is estimated that the British Gov- ernment nein in 1934 -assisted over 140,000 students oe ability and promise who would otherwise have been unable to complete their education, It is also well to remember, that 'Russia and Japan''are forging a ng tilread to -day large- ly because they had the foresight to invest large sums in training' their brilliant students and in building lip facilitiesfor research. 9. From all the above facts one condlusion at least seems inevitable— th t a in those countries where edttea- tional advantages have been equalized there has already taken place a con- solidation of administration with greater central control and with no unit smaller than a county board. 10:. Coneolidetion is being discus- sed in every province in Canada. Al- berta seems likely to lead the way, as the .government has already 'circulat- ed'a proposal which is to be discussed at the next session of the legislature. The plan involves substituting advis- cry committees' for the 3,325 rural school boards now in existence, but all rural schools would be grouped in- to 43 or, 45 administrative divisions with five directors elected by the ratepayers in each division. Will Ontario follow Alberta's ex- ample, or will she gofurther and in- clude: the secondary schools in her reform plan? Whatever the plan, an informed and sympathetic public opinion will be the first requisite for its success. spent last week with her sister, Mrs., Wilbert Johnston of Goderich. Mr. and Mrs: Orne Dowson spent Friday evening with Mr, and Mrs. LloydHeys. s . Mr. and Mrs: Lloyd Keys and fam- ily spent Sunday with Mr. and Mi-. g Geos •e Reid. VARNA Mr. Bill Coltas has engaged with Mr, Lee McConnell for the summer months. Mr. and 'qrs. Coltas are Moving into Me. McConnell's house on the adjoining farm . The young men of the village pre ter walking these days for exercise as riding is eold. Miss Lillian Elliott is spending a few days in Goderich, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Hearts, The W. A. of St. John's church held their February Meeting at the home of Mrs. M. Reid on Friday .Inst, with a good attendance. Mrs. Wilmer Reid and Miss Mona, r_.;. 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