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THE SEAFORTH NEWS,
THTJRS+DiAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931
Increase Grants Next Year
PUB'LIC SCHOOL BOARD.
The following report of the Inspec-
ltor was presented to the Public
Scho'ol Board at their final meeting
this week.
Dec. 14th, 1931.
'Gentlemen:—I visited your school.
Nov. laird, 24th, and 25th and spent
three days in its inspection.
The classes are: all in excellent con-
dition' excepting part one class which
is below the average in natural ability,
but have been promoted from class to
class on account of their age and size,
The staff continues to do the same
excellent work as in the past and to
manifest the same interest in their
pupils. The Principal has made a sat-
is,fnctory beginning.
2t is not advisable unless in special
instances for pupils to write on the
Entrance Examination from the Jun-
ior Fourth Class: in most cases when
they pass, they have barely the neces-
sary marks and suffer a handicap
'when they enter the High School.
The progress the children have
-made in music is very noticeable_ : the
:full benefit of the course will be most
felt by those whose instruction began
in the lowest grades.
The attendance has been regular;
-there has been little or no sickness
among the pupils.
The caretaking has been quite satis-
factory.
For next year there will be a slight
increase in the salary grants paid to
your school. Yours respectfully,
Johnin, Field.
The grading of the accommoda-
tions: Mater closets (1; water supply
1; school grounds 2; school buildings
1; class roosts 1; halls 2; cap roosts
1; teacher's roam 1; desks 3; black-
board 2; lighting 3; heating 1.
Value of Equipment; Library $297.-
80; maps, charts, and globes. $109.90;
apparatus for teaching science (maga-
zines) $10.29; miacel•1aneous articles,
(including furniture) $561.25; total—
S978.34.
Teachers: \Ir. Peter Moffatt ap-
pointed Sept. 1931, $1400; .firs Mabel
E. Turnbull appointed Jan. 1930.
»L000; Miss Maude M. Hartry, ap-
pointed Jan. 1920, $1,000; Miss Ella
1I- Eider, appointed Sept. 1921;
$1,000; :Miss Mary .\I. Bell, appointed
:Sept. 1928, $1,000; '1iss Ruth E.
Thompson, appointed Sept, 1928,
$1.01.0; Miss Sarah T. McLean, ap•
-
pointed Sept. 1910, :1000.
List- of e a es taught by teacher in
presence of Inspector About half the
lessons of each class; list of classes
examined by Inspector: Half the les-
sons of each class; organization, a is -
factory, teaching and discipline. good.
Attendance—No. of pupil, enrolled:
Form I—Jr 24; Sr. 27; Form IL 28;
Form III—Jr. 30; Sr, 19; Form IV.—
Jr. 24; Sr. 15; Form V.-19. Total
No. of pupils enrolled—I86, Total
\o. of pupils present -180.
,Pails' Work: Proficiency, progress,
den•rttnent Satisfactory in all
classes.
Text 'soots Int nn authorized ,_ct—
r,-ii:; aubjeata in the genera: course
of stady not provided hr in the time-
tah!e—nt.ane; provision for supplemen-
tary reading in each grade — rather
payor condition of registers and cata-
:ogee — well kept; provision for Part
I o, the Entrance examination—satis-
factory; work of caretaker—well done.
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A POOR RULE
"If you want your hens to in-
crease, keep your. hen - house
clean," says a rule. No necessity
for it down here, remarks a Sou.-
thern poultry journal, 'Some en-
terprising darkey usually cleans
out the hen -house for vols, 'but the
number' of hens is not increased,
but rather`. on the contrary. That
rule won't work in this climate.
Belgrave L.O.L. Wins Cup.—At the
.December meeting of Belgrave
several officers` of the North Huron
!Lodge were present as Belgrave• lodge
had a team entered in the .coutest for
degree work. After judging the work
put on by the degree team it was an-
nounced that Belgrave 'were the win-
ners of the cup again this year making
this the second time they have won it.
Is Brother-in-Law.—The staff of
the University of Toronto tendered a
'banquet to Principal Sir Robert Fal-
coner one evening recently. Sir Robert
retires from the principalship shortly,
to be succeeded by Rev. Canon Cody.
!Sir Robert is a brother-in-law of Dr.
J. C. Gaudier of Clinton,
Educationist Killed. -The Rev. W.
M. Morris, Provincial Secretary of
the Ontario School Teachers' and
Ratepayers' Association, was fatally
injured when he was struck by a car
in Toronto last week, Mr. Morris
was known to many in Huron county
as he had often visited in this locality.
He was present at the recent tneeting
of the trustees' and ratepayers' associ-
ation held in Clinton.
Turnberry Man Wanders to City.—
Believed to have been a victim of
amnesia, a man who has been identi-
fied as Frederick G. Williams of Low-
er Wingham, is being cared for by the
police at Guelph. Willllants, who is
aged, is unable to remember his
whereabouts for the past few days. He
recalls leaving his 'home to post a let-
ter in Wingham, but it was not until
he was within the city limits of
Guelph that he realized he was away
from the town. It is believed that he
covered the entire distance on foot as
he was very tired and worn when he
appeared at the police station,
Lineman Injured, -When Mr. Lit-
tle, lineman of the Brussels, Morris
and Grey Telephone Co. was doing
'repair work at yodden's store in Eth-
el, the ladder slipped and he fell,
landing on both feet with such a jar
that he was laid aside for several
days .
Councillor Loses Rim and Tire.—
When Mr. Jas. Gilmour went to his
garage on Monday morning he found
that some person had entered it the
previous. evening and had taken his
spare tire and rim from his car:. The
thief may have thought that with Mr.
IG'ilntour being elected councillor for
next year, that with the "large'; salary
attached he' would be in a better posi-
tion ,than he to purchase a hew one,-
1\\T'ingham Advance -Times.
Wingham Men for 'North. -,The
following ten men left Winghant to
work on the trans -Canada highway
were chosen on Wednesday morning:
H. Schneider, R, Rogers, H. Aitchi-
son, W. H. 'Maullin, J. Clarke, J. Fin-
lay, A. Stokes, H. Groves. A special
coach was attached to the regular
morning train on Thursday and these
men along with those of Kincardine,
Southampton anT1 Listowel, were ta-
ken to Bonheur in the Kenora dis-
trict.
A Revered Lakelet Man Passes.—
The late Rabt,'Scott who was known
to so many of the young people in the
Lakelet district, leaves many beautiful
memories to the many who mourn his
passing. A cripple for over fifty
years as the result of going in for a
swim when overheated, he was de-
prived all these years of enjoying the
'beauties of nature as he seldom left
his room. His life, after all, was a
happy one, as he enjoyed, ministering
to the young people. ,He was a talent-
ed musician, could play any instrum-
ent, and his pupils and ex -pupils may
be counted by the hundreds in the
community. He was well read, a good
conversationalist, and it '.vas a pleas-
ure, to be in his company. His funer-
al. n-hieh w -as private, owing to the
illness of his aged mother, was held
to 'Wroxeter cemetery. His mother,
a devoted sister and a brother Wil-
liam, are left to mourn.
Won Many prizes.—Mr. Ephriam.
Snell of Hayen Barton Stock Farm,
Hullett, has been exhibiting his sheep
1 at the Winter fairs, carrying off sev-.
eral prizes as usual, Mr, .Snell had
'not exhibited for a couple of years
as he had acted as judge. At Toronto
he carried off second for 2 year old
ram, third for 1 year old ram, fifth for
ram lamb, third for yearling ewe,
third for ewe lamb,' second for flock
and first for wether, and third and
fourth for wool. 'He also carried off
championship for wether, and reserve
championship for lamb. He sold his
champion wether, ,which' also won
ch'aimpionehip at Chicago.,, At Guelph
he took second and fifth for yearling
ram, second for yearling ewe, third
for ewe lamb, second for, flock and
championship for lamb.
Died in Dakota. -0n November 30,
there passed away at his home in
Grand Forks, North: Dakota, a former
'I3uron County blacksmith in the per-
son of Mr. John E. Mero at the age of
81 years, a son of the late David Mero
who lived on the lake road' one mile
north of Drysdale. When a young
man he took up the blacksmith trade
at Bajffield, during which time he was
married to Miss 'Elizabeth Durand.
Later he worked for the Kalbfleisch
mills for many years and also had a
shop at Blake and Hensall, going frons
there to Grand Forks,. N. ]Dakota,
Where the was employed by the rail-
way until three years ago, when his
eyesight failed. Mr, Joseph Mero of
ISeaforth is a brother, and Mrs. Bart
of Stratford and Mrs. Gravel( of Lon-
don, are sisters.
'County Court,—The third case on
the jury list, Lyman v. Goderich
Mfg. Co., was adjourned and was set-
tled in the :meantime. William Lyman,
a saw- filer, asked $676.40 for being
laid off after having been engaged, ac-
cording to his claim, for eleven
months' work far defendant at 60c
an hour. Sturdy v. Jardine, in which
Thomas Sturdy of Goderich asks can-
cellation of an agreement for the sale
of lot 43, Reid's survey, Goderich, to
George Jardine, for $300, because of
alleged non-payment of amount due
on installments, was adjourned to a
day to be fixed- Watson v. S. S. No.
3, Morris township, in which Albert
'Watson claims damages for the death
of his daughter Phyllis as the result
of injuries sustained in the school -
yard, was adjourned to a day to be
fixed, Other cases adjourned were
Hay v. Awde, an action for datniages
for breach. of contract far the sale of
onions; Sanders v Ragier, an action
for damages for injuries sustained in
a motor accident (adljourned to Feb-
ruary 3rd nextt); an•d Whiting v. Cook
et al., an action for an accounting of
the proceeds of the safe of beans and
;damages for the wrongful conversion
thereof (adjourned to February Lith
,next). These three cases are all from.
the Exeter district, The action al
'George Beattie of W'ingha'ln against
The Wingham Advance - 'Gimes, in
connection: with the subscription con-
test conducted by the defendant newts -
paper last spring, was adjourned but.
has since been settled by the payment
to the plaintiff of $650. I. E, D'aneey
for plaintiff; J. H. CdawlEord (Wing
'halm) for defendant. Walter Alton,
of Ashfield, was. charged with stealing'
timber from Mrs. Ida Hackett, of the
same township, Evidence was given
that the value of the timber in gtres-
tion was under $50, and Judge 'Cos-
tello thereupon dismissed the case, his
Court having no jurisdiction w'he're so
small a stmt was involved,. Mr. Don-
nellytapgeared for the defence in this
case.
Two long-eared farm mules driven
by an aged negro '.pulled a rattling
wagon past a red trafficlight in Ala-
bama.
Traffic became paralyzed. Motorists
shouted. Horns tooted in swelling
bedlam.
"Hey, you," roared Policeman W.
H. Collier, trying bravely to untangle
the snarl. "Didn't you see that red,
light?"
.
"Yds, sub, boss, I
seed it long 'fore
I got here," the old' negro replied
with a disarming grin. "I been watch -
in' it flash red and green as I driv'
up the street. Aint no telling what
you city folks gwine do next for
Christmas decorations." So saying,
the aged one clucked to his mules and
was on his way, still grinning.
'The scene beggared description:."
"Never mind, borrow a few adjec-
tives and go on with it."
• Poor Golfer—Well, ho.n- do you like
my game?
Caddy=I suppose its alright, but 1
still 'prefer golf,
Want and For Sale Ads, 3 times
50c
DUBLIN.
Miss Helen Dantzer has returned
me after apending the pae; few
nrck., with friend, in Taranto.
Miss Anna Malyneaux of Kitchener
spent the :reek -end at her " i;.me
here.
Miss He:en Krauskopf, R:Y. of St
Joseph', Haapital, London, is visiting
her parent', Mr, and Mrs. James
Kra t , .nf.
Miss Mary Brennan 'af ,L'tdan has
-ecu: d a zcad position in Stratford.
_Miss
Rath Dillon spent Sunday
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Dil!an.
\L ..G: ser; Srnale ha. ,.en
Sara f,rl :he past creek actin, as
juryman at the : ,arta assize, there.
HURON NEWS.
Wingham Pastor Resigns. --A: a
recent Board meeting the \\'t -
ham United Churth, Rev. Sime. Da-
vison, pa or far his fiith term, tend-
ered his re ignatian to take effect in
June.
Underwent Operation.—)dr. SValter
''Laytan of the Lan -Ln
seized with an attack of appendicitis
on Sunday evening of Otat week and
was taken to the Clinton hospital
where an operation was performed.
iHe is improving a5 we:: as can he
expected.
Purchases Millinery Store. — Mics
Pearl L. Jacklin has purchased the
niifineery business o; Ifrs. Harry
:Champion at Brusels and will a:so
conduct a dressmaking department.'
Mrs. Champion has been in business
for the past twenty years.
The
Changeless Christmas
'rhe first Christmas we can remember remains with
us, whatever Time may clo. While other Memories grow
dini or blurred, this one stands out as distinct as -ester-
day, fair colored and sleep cart -ed against the background
of the years,
A kind of wonder last- over everything. The weather
was marvelous no matter what it slid. If Christmas Eve
ended in a flare of cloudless sunset, we were overjoyed;
if gray -white flakes filtered down from an ashen sky, we
caught them on our palms and cried aloud with delight.
\\'hen we trooped out to the woods to gather evergreens
every small ambitious fir tiptoed with reaching arms,
eager to be chosen for the Tree of Trees. Running cedar
made ani exquisite pattern on the frozen ground; the
crow -foot vine looked for all the world like the three -
toed track of a dark giant bird, There were jew-els in
unexpected places; diamond dust on pine branches,
rubies strung among the holly leases, little clusters of
silver -blue turquoise on many a bush. At each turn of
the woods trail we sttimbled upon some new, astounding
treasure.
As we tramped back through the twilight, we saw
the new moon dropping clown the amber west, as fray4 as
a little frosted feather. Above every chimney the evening
.smoke stood up in a pearl -colored plume. The windows
of home were sharp-cut'squares of glory-.
There was something wonderful about all the lights:
•crimson and yellow flames weaving in the black fireplace
turned the dusk to ruddy gold; the common old. kerosene
lamps glowed with beauty; the Christmas -tree candles
tapered to little points of pure, clear radiance. There
was a sort of shining, like haloes, in everyone's hair.
A queer fragrance filled the air. compounded of hot
tallow-, scorched cedar, pungent orange peel and the
splendid tang of paint on new wooden toys. Now and
then the kitchen door opened and let through a whiff of
Burned sugar and browning crust that added the last
touch to the heavenly aroma.
The sound! Hard -frozen twigs breaking with a
Christmas crackle; pine knots sputtering; the cheerful
jingle of pots and pans, clashing like cymbals; eager talk
everywhere. and quick, gay steps. A beautiful bustle of
noise. When we went into the front yard and stood still,
listening, everything w -as different; the whole of out-of-
doors was like an immense crystal filled with silence and
space. Then, at an unmeasurable distance, a faint sound
seemed to shatter the crystal—so delicate, so fine, so far,
that at first it was scarcely a sound at all. It swelled and
grew into a silver tremble an the air, the thin, sweet,
splintered music of sleigh bells drawing near across the
miles.
A strange, heart -shaking ring that music had, '
"Reindeer bells!" some of us said secretly, with a thrill of
joy. "Cannel bells!" some of us thought: that hard -
packed snow was desert sand; three tall. dark forms were
racking through the night.
Near bedtime a great star stood over the stable. It
was our own familiar stable. and there were no oxen in
the stalls, only the brindle cow and old Dobbin with his
shaggy inane. But there was the star, snaking sparkles
on the weather vane. The whole building was in sha-
dow; When we had looked a long while we thought we
saw forms moving near the door.
Later on we lay in the trundle bed and stared at the
fascinating fringe above the chimney arch; no twa stock-
ings the same size, and: all of them so flat. After a while
the night broke with a clamor of sweet voices somewhere
near. Downstairs a window was softly raised; some one
in the hall whispered that the carolers had "collie. Car-
olers? But that was angels on the hill—"Glad tidings of
great joy.!" Who could mistake the song? We counted
the shepherds' sheep—one dozen,twa dozen, three! Iiow
the foremost angel sang!
We slept and leaked. Midnight, now, and the house
utterly still. Up on one elbow, we peered toward the
hearth. The flat shapes in the fringe had growni mys-
teriously plump; there were knots and knobs, and odd
outlines were pushing over the top.. It was dark outside
—the star had moved along the ridgepole of the barn and
was slipping down a gable. \Vere Dobbin and Brindle
on their knees? Ah, this was the hour, We lay clown
quickly and pulled up the cover, tingling from heacl to
toe with ineffable joy.
Alt, well, we sigh now, remembering; those were the
days when dreams were as thick as holly berries and
fancy was like a fairy wand. No wonder we remember!
No wonder, in very truth;, but not because we are
looking back in our wisdom on soiree long -past time of
magic and miracle. Our grown-up hearts are more given
to futile fancies than our young hearts ever were. We
follow now many and many a flickering dream. But the
old dream that will not pass, that holds on In spite of
chance and change and still shakes our spirits With re.--
membered
e-membered loveliness—that dream is no delusion, It is
wrought through and through of the bright, imperishable
stuff of Reality itself.
OLD CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS.
'There is a rather peculiar tendcncy-
rwh'ich is perhaps, cotn'rron to every-
one who 'blas had any experience of
'life, at the Christmas seas'oat, v'iz,, to
look lbacicward and forward down the
avenues of time—forward to that in-
cleltreble, l 11lssd;l eolysumutation for
'w'hiaih all hope, as 'Tennyson. has ex
pressed it,
"Behol'd, we know not anythiin,g;
d can but trust that good Shall fall
tbt last -dal off—at,lasit, to all,
And every winter change to spring."
-.-backward over past Christmases,
past frien'd's, past joys, past promises,
until, for the majority of people, the
going backward stops at the manger,
with the won'drous star above it, and
within it, in the arms .of the Heaven -
blessed .mother, the Babe decreed to
be for all time the light of the .world,
do such, .quiet 'musings, and the
thoughts tlmt grow out of theist, the
true spirit' of Chrismas lives, rather
than in the outer rejoicings. Int our
gilt -giving exists still, perhaps, some
slight sym'bo'lism (but how' many
think of it?) pointing back to those
gifts of gold, and frankincense and
myrrh, And :beyond these our Christ-
mas customs have been derivefl front
many sources.
Our greenery, our little family
feastings, our Christmas -trees, our
bell -ringing, are they not innocent and
,picturesque, and above all things in-
teresting, in themselves and in their
history? Only let them mot obscure
the greater reeky. for t'he day.
The old Norsemen celebrated their
festival of Yule at this identical sea-
son, and from their ceremonies have
been derived many customs later as-
sociated exclusively with Christmas.
(Hilarious, yet weird, was tliis Yule-
tide festival of the Norse. 1 Deep in
t'he heart of the 'forest was usually
built the great arbor which was to
serve as the banquet -hall, its walls of
evergreen branches, adorned with tro-
phies of the chase, with an especial
garland of holly boughs and ivy above
the seat of honor, where sat the great
man of the vicinity. The feast con-
sisted of "oxen, sheep and goats,
roasted whole in pits dug in the hill-
sides and lined with stones; or joints
of these animals seethed in cauldrons
made of their own skins sewed togeth.
er and filled with water.".
THE PLIGHT OF GERMANY,
A desperate Germany, struggling to
pull itself up by its bootstraps, was
described last week before the Young
plan advisory committee at Basle,
Switzerland.
Count Schwerini von Krosick, chief
of the budget department of the Ger-
man finance ministry, kept the com-
mittee experts busy noting figures
throughout the d'ay while he explain-
ed what the Bruening :'Government
was doing to save the country, "The
last resources of the Reich have been
utilized," the count said. "It no long-
er is possible to reduce expenditures
or to increase taxes.
"The taxation yield is beginning to
diminish, .4. fail in revenue by 1;600,-
000,000 reichatnarks (about $400,00,-
000) is anticipated. It is (toped this
will be recompensed by the new turn-
over tax of two per cent.
But the 19312 "1933 ,expenses will tend
to increase—largely because, of the
enormous interest on 'the floating
debt. The feta of the budget depends
on the economic situation and on the
new emergency decree."
The German expert said several.
times that a .profound impression had
been caused in Germany by the Gov-
ernment's latest emergency measures,
promulgated to maintain the stability
of the currency, z�
The ,presence of even a slight de-
ficit would be more awkward for Ger-
many than for any other country, he
said, "because, in the present state of
the money market, -Germany would
not be able to cover it by an issue of
short-term treasury bonds."
Emergency decrees issued since the
summer of 1930 will have resulted in
economies of 4,000,000;000 reichs-
marks (about $L000,000,000), the Ger-
man said,
the pointed out that 5,000,000 Ger-
mans are unemployed, 30 per cent: of
then receiving the dole under the fe-
deral insurance laws and 70 per cent.
receiving aid from the "crisis scheme"
and local communities. Unemploy-
ment relief costs 1,000,000,000 reich- ,7;Y
marks, he reported, 7
The budget has been considerably
diminished since the economic crisis
hit .Germany in 1929, the Court told
the members of the committee: The
1931-32 income estimate was 9,1'20,-
000.000 reichstnarks, But it is now
clear, he said, that the total will be
leas than 8.000,000,000, with estimates
for next year falling to 7;200,000,000,
;Emphasizing that the Government
has last 12,000,000;000 reichniarks rev-
enue since 1929, the budget expert ac-
counted for it by a 50 per cent. drop
in the return 'Iran; the incoune tax, nit
30 per`cen¢, drop in the proceeds of
the corporation tax, a igeneral failing
off in all direct and lndireet levies, and
increasing cost of nnemployntent lief. re -