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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-06-01, Page 7l'. it is +THUIRISpAY, JUNE 1, 1933 a TI E' SEA3ORTi NEWS. PAGE SEVEN. • 1 t� It t e 1, th • tflitst W We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay .you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec= tional Post .Binders and Index, The Seaforth News Phone 84 1 z e v nn�nn�nn�os��'nn�.�mt�un�ti p D. H. Mclunes Chiropractor Electro Therapist — Massage Office — Commercial Hotel Hours—Mon. and ,Thurs. after- noons and =.by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by .manipulation—Saul-nay treat- ment Phone 227, Founded in 1900 A Canadian Review of Reviews This weekly magazine offers a re- markable selection of articles and car- toons gathered from the latest issues of the leading •British and American journals and reviews. 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The llpractice will ,prove of -greater benefit than ten eaniolade of liii"hefalutin' ,theory ' ' 'just now.. we ,have only, one ,duty before us, to deinlol'1s' the pedesba1 erected to Hlis;'Majesty the Child and get Che infant back. rto the solid ground at conmtvonpsenlse, and reduce en im- age that was entirely out of gear to the rational proportion's' laid down a courple of million years ago by :Moth- er Nature herself, When Uhat' shall have been accomplished we can, dts cuss the next step. I refer to the year 2033. mother attends to that part of the 'en- tcrtai'nntent,,but :it is our duty to see that the mother: diming ,those days is free from worry and follows the cor- rect diet.:Alli this, you may well argue, belongs to 'bhe 'nursery and medical, clepanlplents of child-re'arring. Very well. We shall now rproceed to the next step. And then we learn that' in order not to become a ntiis4.ence'either h itselfto I1 wonld general, the Co its orthe w o d tri e g small, morsel of skin or fur should' he (handled gently ,brut severely and albove alit things :should not be spoiled. No •poppy was ever made ho'us'ebroke dfy being told about its ilantlortal soul or the needs of its canine subconscious- ness. Yet, as every codepet•enit -breeder of dogs will tell you, mere violence accomplishes nothing, but strictness, lanes regularity are the beginning end end of all ailsd+o'm for they bring about the desired results ' without creating a feweling of hlatred anddis- trust ods the mire side and a sentiment of superiority and contempt on the other, I would c'.otvtinue along this lute for many pages, but it would be a waste of time. Those who under- stand what I am trying to say will have heard enough to convince then. and the others will never know what. I ant talking ,about anyway. They will merely 'feel hurt that I am comparing their own lovely little wee-uns to cats and dogs, and when not trying to re- fute ole withetevbs they will b'om'bard ire with profound sayings of our neo- p'sychologfcal school of pedagogy and they Will speedily prove that I am an, aibsolute sttck=in-the-mud who had butter devote himself exclusively' to history and leave the living su'bije0ts to those more upeto•clate and better informed, I ant sorry but I'really and sfn,cece- ly believe that there is consi'der'able method in my apparent madness. Alf - ter years of diligent searching and prayerful meditation I ;have reached a point where to me the entire subject of education has -become one ,of come neon ordinary horse -sense, devoid of too much sentimentality, devoid of too much, science, and .liberally sea- soned with good ,humor and patience. 1 am gratelful for all that science has taught us about feeding and about fresh air and sifiisihine and teeth and tonsils and hours Of sleep. Burt science should stop at the door leading from the nursery to the schoolroom and if, perchance, it should enter the latter it should not take itself so terribly seri- ously. Abol e alt things, it should learn to take ch'il'dren at nature's town valuation, as the young of ju's t an- other sort ,of mammal, not very differ- ent from the young of any other species and therefore to be treated as such and not ars p'dteirti'al little gen- iuses or the animated manifestations of immortal souls which should be reared as we rear a new species of very delicate orchids, Kids are cab- bages or sftdu'ld be. Orohidh are lovely ft'ut they serve no earhhly,punposeeued besides they colme too high. The old ,system of e'ducation is dead and buried and except in a few isolat- d instances where the patient has suf- fered too match to he atble to forget. ;t has slipped out of oar memories M completely and as thoroughly as the miseries and hardships connected with the picturesque stagecoach and the even more picturesque .attd`even less comfortable soiling 'vessel, We neer:not worry' our heads about the sort of things to which I referred in the first paragraphs .of this article. 'They will never come back. But the inevit- able reaction to the ,dull ,cruelty of the old drilleecho'ols has dotted the land- scape w'ith'certain barriers-,ancl pitfalls which ratty 1 set the :march' of prcg- mothers who just shivered at the ideas ,propounded by \4y Lord Bert- rand wh.o boldy suggested that most 'fathers and mothers were hopelessly unfitted for the task of bringing up their onvn flesh and blood. Of course Russell was right, .At least in that 'par- ticular aspect, Maternity is still most- ly a matter of accident. The old lam- ent that ninety per cent ,of all the children of our poorer quarters were conceived in original gin of course holds no longer good in a liquor]"ess age..But the neve incident of concep- tion does not turn a fool into a wise woman and the inet^itabie subsequent chapter of motherhood, while, a lovely subject' for the. Hollywood dramat- urges and soh -.sisters, is by far too complex and complicated to be handled sensibly by more than ten out of every hundred. Again, if you doubt my words call me up some pleas'ant afternoon tncen I shall have nothing to do (say in 1972 or:197,3) and WO Will' take a walk beneath my windows, iu Washington Square. And I will ask you to proceed slowly and to observe the mamas at their Gels -imposed task of tending their young. Within tend minutes you will be able to observe a greater and .more fatuous waste of time and misdirected energy than you had ever deemed possible, Tell me that these women are mostly "for- eigners" and I wilt pay for"the taxi and take you to Park ,Avenue and up- per 'Riverside Drive. Elvergwhere it will be the same story. I do not deny that nowadays there are •a few sen- sible . women who take hold o.f .this Ibusiu'ees of education as s'ound'ly and as intelligently as they take hold of everything else, Ittt by and .iange the "natural apdti,tude". of the average mo- ther' and father for bringing u'p their Immediate progeny ns still ninety-nine and •thn•eetiquatsters per cent below that of the worst mongrels of bo th the canine and feline ' divisions, of creation. Therefore I humbly as'ser't that no or•dittiary member of the human... race should he allowed to try his or herin- genuity at bringing up children until he or she ,thiols have at least had some ':experience with puppies and kittens. Those Of us whlo devoted part a1 our time to this .pcelpose (the best preparation For all subsequent pedago- gical gut -suits), have scanned only a flew, things but those.of such primary invportance that I sh'al'l ask you to listen to ahem in same detail, 1 What cloth, His Majesty ,the' Pup, d, coli-' need in order to' be ,.haan ha -P01 o1.P- o I. started' s'q'uarely. Its editors are chairmen; not com- batants. .Its articles are selected for their outstanding merit, 'illumination and entertainment. To sit down '1 your own home for a quiet tete a tete with some of the world's best informed and clearest thinkers on subjects of vital interest Is the great advantage, week by week, of those who give welcome to this entertaining magazine. "A magazine of which Canadians 'may well be proud," "Literally, 'a feast of reason and a flow of soul.'." "Almost every article is worth fil- ing or sharing with a friend,” Every one of the pages of World Wide is 100% interesting to Canadians. Issued Weekly 15 cts copY; $3.50 yearly On Trial to NEW subscribers 8 weeks only 35 cts net One Year " $2.00 kOn trial in Montreal and suburbs, also in US. add '1'c for every wee]: of service. 'For other foreign countries add 2 cts.) HOW NiOrr TO .EDUCATE CHILDREN I.H. W. Val -LIT -loon, writing' in the Sat- urday Review o:f-,Literature says: Last night Bertrand Russell and 'Sherwood :Andersen went at each other with the Sulit bludgeons of logic to. prove or disprove to theatise'1ve's and to their delighted audience that children A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE For ,teat lone(tnees commend Inc.to a tropecal forest at .noicbnight. The life of the day has gone and left only sitar - anew and silence behind, It is a dead world,' full of ghostly suggestion, op- pressive to senses and straining to•• nerves. Some time ago an adventure ,befell me„at such a ,•file and place, which, though it reacted in a laugh, was anion enough while it' lasted. II was walking back alone to my camp r in •tit Indian jungle, about mid- night, by a ,p4ath seldom used by nat- ives, none of whom went that way af- ter nightfall, and only in the daytinhe to scr•atc'h-a shallot•• hole in the, hill- side and bury 'same unfot'buruate coolie who was :generally dug up by hyenas as soon as the funeral Party turned its buck, Unpleasant things were said of the neighborhood and any Tamils would go many miles round sooner than cross these haunted woodlands by starlighlt, But it happened to be the shortest way Bonne for me that 'event ung, sor I fo'll'owed the gloomy track little caring whether it was canny or uncanny. e 'Profound dai^kness reigned in the shelter of the trees through which the yard -Wide path turned here and there. `H'igh un in the stey rode a big moron, whose rays, now and • then, came through a gap in the leafy screen'ov- enhead and made a rtehite patch on the forest floor quite dazzling by compar- ison saiith the obscurity around, The silence was as profound as the dark- ttess,' far dawn was yet far off and all the forest creatures were asleep. Now and then, the deep roar of a tiger echoed in the distance, a bull-Erog croaked in a stream, or an o'w'l (tooted dis'mally frdm a dead branch some` where ahead; but these sounds only Made the intervening silence more solid rand impressive. Through this midnight gloom, in- tent only on thoughts of supper in my camp th.pee .nniles off, 1 strode along, through inky shadows and across the silvery patches, and thus presently I came to an open part of the forest where grecs were bigger and scattered and more of moonlight consequently carte dawn to the ground between them. . :Striding rapidly over one of these :clearing -s, my ;path turned across to where a giant fig bree, a great thaclk pile of foliage Standing in the sur- rounding ,brigh.tntess, blocked the way. The path led right under its branches. 1 was within thirty yard of the trunk when, for the first time; 1f noticed something white reclining against the stern. It was low clown on the ground, looking curiously human even at first glance, and I felt an in- 'stiuetive thrill pas.s tdn•ongh me such as no common sight of the jungle would have caused. It was .'not' the outline of an an'inlal—1 knell' them all too well—and 11 could not have been fragment,of moonlight on the trunk in that deep obscurity. I went a little nearer; then halted suddenly; and ;,tared' -for the thing was nuoeingl imagine the sahib; armed with noth- fug more than a rolled -up umhrelle, less unless we, spot them in tame 1111(1 standing alone in the dazzle of moon - surround them with little red ieiices light on an Indian- hill -side, the black marked "dangerous. Children 1;o abyss mist allows swallowing up the 'ft s from Heaven, eeli'ophane.;wl rp- Hath, aid that strange abject in frontf Should he brought up in the tonne or tented and t n the road to ,perfect do'mestici'ty? In oro a f .table place in should be sent to boarding sichools vice -versa, and clueing that debate My Lord Sherwood puCled thevox.,puma l iia and elle tremolo of parental affection and the audience loved it for :the audied'c5 was inlosply •composed of the -first place,contl •r : '�.'. to 'spend its first few weeks, a Which and warm stable, lce;pt clean and dry free frail offending perils' stach as ail- crolbes. and visiting relatives and glace,dhos- tilep'rWWlers, fn. the second filtting about amon•gsit the branches or an occasional. fire -fly trailing i.'s weird speck of radiance acr'os6 the slope; nothing moved. We stood it reesolulte for a few minutes, Then a .big o'w'l flapped from the fig tree, and, with a rmost bloodcurdling hoot, dors- appeared into bhe darkntess. My supper lay beyond and hunger e , I urged nie: Spectre or s n 0 spectre, was goring on. I set my teeth; gripped ithe futile whiteumbrella, and ad- vanviced along the ,path another few yards. Proniptly, the stranger did the same. There was me mistaking hint. A fine anatomical study, he would have been, a welcome addttion, as he stood, to .the Royal College of Bur- geotvs. We were so close now that I could Study every detail of ,his frame work, outlined a+gairts't the ebony set- ting beyond. I noticed hpw artistic 11 was, complete and strong : flat - spread feet on the dead grass, long leg bones, great round knee joints, serried rib§s above, tilcely raduated in size, like the scaffolding., of a house, tpretl'datat arras, swinging mono,tonous- ly as he walked, and, to crowns ail, the .masterpiece of skull on top, with eyes in deep so'dkets that really seem- ed Mercian. I even thought I caught a. :flash of tight in them as he came nearer and nearer. What was he' go- ing to .do? Would he fight for the path? Hlorw,d.o you fight a disembod- ied bit of human scaffolding? You cannot kill a skeleton. Was boldness or flight tlie best policy iii such an emergency? We took a step or two closer together. ,A word of greeting 'was on. my lips when that strange 'thing stepped out into a row' of sil- very moonlight and carte to a dead :sto lWp.e were within arms' reach now, and the br•tght light ,brought him more 'clearly 'into' detail than at any time •before. I glared at hint, then started, stared again hard, and, in a flash, the truth burst icon tie. It was no wandering spectre from the cemetery yonder, no visitor from, an- other world—brut a living man. I had seem the same thing done before in other circumstances. It was a native fakir, or priest, on his wag to a fair in the lowlands, ,and, to make his sanctity more impressive,he had painted every bone in his body white. He wore nothing but a lo'in-cloth, and, in the shadows, his dark skin had been quite invisi'ble. N'obhing had shown but that grim replica of a hu- man structure. No w'onder I had been deceived. "odd! I said in Hindustani when got my breath, "that's what you are is it? What d,o 3011 want?" And the thing, covering his face with his bony hand's and bending low to bhe'ground in salutation, replied that "he wanted to bask in the sahi'b's magnificence' "Well, I answered, "1 wish you would 1101 bask at this time of night; you might have frightened me. What else do you want?" And the spectre, salaaming again to the ground—the queerest looking o'b'ject imaginable in lois glittering pool of brightness with black -shadows all about hili ana- wered that "the 'sahib was the main- stay of bhe poor, the font ori Plenty. and he wanted some supper. "Doesn't look touch as if it would stay inside"Tvhe.n you have got it,; said glancing at bhe shadowy void above '11i0 stip bones where his stom- ach ,ought to have 'been, But the wanid - derer derer shook his head arid s thought it would. "Very veli," 1 laug'hed. "Take my nmhrell'e and came along; I am as '1tundry s 3c u are," And the skeleton, tucking u umbrella obediently 'tinder tris arm, together we marched off, down the zig tug Path, through the dins black- ness of ,the trees, and ec:rosa the moon - 'its aces 11,0151 presently the way dro c r 1 in the hollow pped, steeply, and, below, the ekt tering'hres of nt Y 115110 shone like ted beads to the velvety dark of the nig'h't. singular ad - 'That Wars the end of a s into camp, vetttu.re.lWhcn we strolled dogs ,s banked and coolies ran in tem- - porary consternation at G the ,a sing'ulter companion. But the hubbub ended as soon as the troth wa1 seen, and, its a very short time, I 'eas seat- ed at supper in the glow of pleasant .and "the skeleton" was out- s siddeelamplight on the verandah. the centre of a grinnriing,rng of natives, a big bowl of bhled rice o',in. his bony ,tutees andandb it away its contents with a vig- our which putting sirgg esited he strove bo re- place, place, in the sh'orteslt .pb s i,ble time. all the solid flesh in 0111511 he was paren'tly SO delncient. WORLD FlAAAR AT CHICAGO :Depiction of; a cGtturydf progres; Chuclag Saturday. The. scene is 'startedtauteg, ofo and ,the mann who pressed the boltion is bully F'res'ident Ro'osevel't, of the iJintte'd States. 'rise event is the longi tic i ated Indm al -ballyhooed World's Flair of 1 d. It ,`40 years 'since he last one, held in the same Place: Then, as now, rt of an aeon- he world WAS in She .g p ld s Fair t ,dmlcal • depressio,n. The or red a per`io'd of uoex- apled wshe .1t . The world hopes anvpked prosperity. air H the same this 'Q5OnitPs lair will cl'o thing; s r.+ed little cherubs who must be treat- ed as. such and who must be worship- ped and glorified as t1157 formed a t ;ace apart. They are the pullples of humanity, nothing mere but ,also 110 - tilling .loss, They si etrld be treated vw•itll the utmost kindness and consid- eration. T+he laws Of the land should be in{f'nitely more drastic . about .p ro- eching our infants than they are to- day, but when we notice the improve- ment that has taken place clueing tate last fifteen hundred y'e'ars, ever since the Roman f'a'thers o cr•e deprived their unspeakable `rpatri,a-potelstas" we need root worry abo'u't the itnntecliate future as far as the abuse of 'parental authority is concerned. There is another peril that threat- ens the relation between the genera - :tons ,of today rand ,Chose of tomorrow. or was. everything; Formerly, the parentwas. and the child was us:eninlg. Them child went to the Other extreme, The became everything, the parent noth- ing. ing. S,onnewihere between these two exltrenves lies the road that 'm'u'st lead' to the ultimate ?ol:irtiiom of a pno'b s et been solved item that has never y blas been the ssulb'jleldt oi.. although it tons of literature than any otth- et' w exception sof theo- logywith the plassNibde e logy or the true Ordbiem; go on was to wa b circle: It is, I' fear me a grizzle, dbjeel in front. There the ctr- men and urlotrnenl'r'aibher tivani of :if theo� a human soul within three of, ghostly baits measurres, 'add ane ounce of sensible irides, arid, save a fewY g ethod orf squaring struggling slowly into reasonable shape.Staring', I went a few steps for- ^ard', then stopped agar Think of it y astonisiiniiera evhen. the thing, slow' ly got upon its knees, and, still more slowly- lose to its full height: the Y ,'.tear, p nfeetly-outlined skeleton of a tall„ v olt p.ttoportioned .n1an. IIs was the period of one of the great Incliains famine's and 1 had seen many dead natives lit nay jungles. I had passed poor gaunt w.reltch'es lying by tile roadside dead of starvation, and had hard t1em decently buried vthee •,possible; but I lead never s 4 a living s'kele'ton'beifore acrd this one v stanctiiig so_.grim and 'tragic ' In 1104 the shadow Pi the 59 .tree,- was a hair - raisin experience. art's II pulled ug about twenty Y away and took a deep breath, No; I was not dreaming, It was no play of 4. fancy, no freak of moonlight, stirred Y> •g, vine's in the foliage above. by- night t 'The thing had actually got oft its tees and. stood up; tend now as I a l.i danced cautirdtlChy, it responded by ,ing its long vvthiite legs, `coning mooing down,, the rpabh, still 111 deep shadow,. then halting ars I did. a Dace 6r two, turn back was not .to, be thought 'iTotu ride 4v'ould not ad'rnit it. Tiro of.—my P .lk rirhlt tiro the aunts Really a world's 'fair it is 'to be, s s .the webkly rnaga'zine, Tilnfe, P'riaince, .niewing it : as e ri0al to her summer 'tourist trade, is not merely' ignoring • the Chicago doings,. brut lass, week o'p- eined on, a ,grand scale her Parts m'dus- trial fair in oompetiltion. .` Germany, having 'declined to participate, was', last week'reported thinicinig' of send- ing rover herchief I ar cl ta( prapagaadrst, little P:aal J,osepllt Gioelbibels, Chicago, where '5'0,000 Jeu% demons'tra:ted .against iAl , - dodph ((litter, moose known 'that no German envoy ,would be received o£-" ictally. , Meantime at Orbetello, Italy, Gen. 'Italo Ba'lbo was tuning up 24 Fascist s'ea'planes to fly ,over iu style, Trian,s- i s'hip:ped to Montreal and reassembled, ;England's famed London-{E'd'inrburgh express, the R.oyai Scot, comiple1e with new ,paint, shiny brasses and fresh -scrubbed stewards, exhibited it- self to Toronto and Hamilton before touring le'i'surely out to :Chicago. Mex- ico City was polishing up Ia, special presidential train to bear the famed ii4'onte Alban jewels to Chicago's fair, 'From Japan to Chicago 5111 come a national exhibit filling Ii7freight cars. , Oldsters who first beheld a Ferris wheel and an electric ]light 'bulb at ,Chicago's Fair o.f 11890 will appreciate the "Century ni Progres'•s idea when they see the s'how's location. Within: view of one of bhe country's tallest city skylfnes, on the 'lake front fro'tn 121th to 39th street, the buildings sur- round a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when :the Columbian exhibition was held five miles south of the loop. Approaching this year's lair from the heart of bhe town, the visitor's first. sight will be two 6215•.foot steel towers joined by cables, soaring between the .Soldier Field stadium and Lake Mich- igan. This is the Sky Ride ,(40c a ,head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket" cars) whence the entire layout can be surveyed. 1From the 12,th street entrance a brilliant avenue of flags sweees the visitor down to. a great U-shaped hall of- science, hear of the fair. Like other fair'build6ngs it is long, low, ultra- ntodern, brilliantly painted• blocue:l :and 'banded in orange, red, yellow, white. Lt is windowless, because sun- light is variable, eleotricity constan;t and 'because Windows are too expen- sive for buildings w ii eh will start homing clown when the last g.,tseer leaves on October 3:st. an the - Hall' of. Science the C -tor will get his first taste cd the fair's keynote—aeltion. Here the. sciences ,will be demonstrated, not by dull charts anis lectures, but by experi- ments actually performed. The lay- man will see ]tow chemistry trans - mates coal, wood, oil, rubber, minerals into paints, dyes, soaps, explosives, paper, food. He will see laid bare the 'basic mysteries not only of his radio, telep bane, refrigerator, automobile, (but even his own body, Most amazing fact about the fair is that 1 should exist at a11. Prodigious, indeed, is a show- on which backers and actors have, in depresSior. years',. 'been willing to spend $:?7,000,.0'00. Nat one cent is a gift from any municipal state or federal treasury. \Wren Rufus Dawes and associates took over the fair ideaiii. 1927, they decided to snake a strictly private enterprise, hold out their hats' to no one, From the South Park Commission,: a public body in, but not of, the City of Chicago. the fair corporation got :ree loan of its land. One-fourth was under Crater, the rest barren lalte front. It will go back to the commis 5ia11 filled, landscaped, paved. Sale of 10000,01.10 worth of bonds, hacked by toren signatures and 40 per cent of anticipated gate receipts, ,paid for some of the fair's own hhildings. Oth- ers were financed by exhibit space sold in advance of building. On the midway, officially named ,for the amusement centre of the IIS93 fair, the visitor will fitul under new names most of the devices which amused the visitors of 40 years ago, Here are the Lindy Lon.p, the •Hey Esrey, Bozo, a roller coaster, Midget Village, captive balloon, shooting gal- leries, an Oriental village with danc- ing girls. - lBest feat of all is saved for those wiho will enjoy it most --small 11ys and girls. For then, has been created the five acre fairyland, guarded by mammoth w'ood'ed elephants. Children may wander past pleasantly fearsome ,caves and pirates' dens, meet a fairy princess, shake haavdls with a Bagdad giant 7 feet 7 inches tall. There is a ntiininalture zoo filled with baby animals which, by contract, must he replacers if they' show signs of grolwul•g le There is the world's largest rnarb , seven feat in dli�ameter,'in a gleaming houuse made all" df marbles. Fo'r'tty- seve'n at a 111111 the fair's 'youtlg visit- ors may o'pera'te'0 complete Miniature railroad system. Cr they may thread a hedge maze, speed over 15miniature amusement rides,'sec plays tna•r1on- altos,. animal .. slhldw''s, movies in Junior' e :Lea rue=run `theatre. Admission to the League -tate . fr, rounds is: 5r0e a dray.. For per- sonsg :sons living within 700 ,ii'lles of Chica- go 'it has 'peen estimated they can g (came, see' plenty and eget 'bonne for - X50 e'aloh, ul ±fu