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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1949-09-23, Page 21jshedr .$60 Lean, .Editor .. t Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ar 'afternoon by McLean ea. of Canadian y Newspapers Sedation. ISer tion rates, $2.00 a year in �t ce; oreign $2.50 a year. Single sp. .,6 ;cents each. Cvertising rates on opplication. Authorized, as Second Class Mail -Post Office ,Department, Ottawa ile poute aye d proposals oarCale• �. ,daa refo as ve beep. ad vamced threu,g' Ole tea 0« ' h,; rash simple and' practieal.at : believed to be that of the World Calendar Associa- tion an international organization in which Canada has long been inter- ested. Briefly, what the Association advo- cates is to make five one -day changes in the present 12 -month calendar and to add one or two "stabilizing" days. The year would be divided into four quarters of three months each. Each quarter would begin on a Sunday, (the two remaining months follow- ing as they do in the present calen- dar) and end on a Saturday. The "stabilizing" days would be two in number, one added at the end of June in leap years (just as F(ebruary gets an extra day then in our present calendar) and one taking the place of December 31. The suggestion is that, with a universal canlendar, this day should be known as "Worlds - day" and the Association believes that the celebration of this day as a holiday all over the world would be an additional bond of fellowship among mankind. There are certain manifest advant- ages in the proposed plan. Days and dates always agree from year to year, thus ending much confusion that now exists. Each month has 26 days, plus Sundays and each month has the same day arrangement ev- ery year, also a simplification. ' Each quarter has 13 weeks, making up 91 days. Holidays and anniversaries are stabilized on their regular days and dates. Calendar reform, designed to eliminate the more or less informal manner in which the days now fall, would be particularly important un- der modern conditions. It may well be that improvements may not be too far removed. • Some of the Glories of Farming .FORTH, Friday, September 23 'hen and Now When motorists decide to take a drip today—whether it is ten .miles Or ten, thousand — little if any thought is given to the tools and equipment in the car. The usual pro- cedure is to drive to the nearest ser- vice, station, tell the attendant to fill her up, kick the tires, perhaps wipe the windshield, and you are on your way. Thoughts of a tool kit and what might be in it never cross your mind. But it wasn't always that way, we were reminded recently when we - read of the Herbert A. Hovers. Mr. Hover, now 81, and Mrs. Hover, 72, were the first married couple to cross the continent by automobile. That was in 1908, and their car was a two -cylinder Max- well. This is what they took in emerg- _ ency equipment: 10 extra tires, 30 inner tubes, 300 feet of rope, block and tackle, shovel, axe, crow -bar, cross -cut saw, 20 spark plugs and, a half dozen five -gallon gasoline cans. The Hovers are starting out again this year from the East Coast on a 50,000 -mile trip. The only equipment they've got in their 1948 sedan is b, bumper jack. • Dangerous Conditions Should Be Eliminated For the second time in the past three weeks the condition of the highway at the eastern approach to Seaforth resulted in accidents, which could "easily have proved fatal. For- .tunately there were no injuries in either case, but the position of the ear involved Sunday afternoon was such that its passengers were lucky to have escaped. Always a dangerous stretch of highway because of the hills and poor visibility, the conditions during the past summer have been made worse by a drop of several inches from the paved road to the shoulder, caused by fill having been washed out. If a wheel of a car drops off the pavement, it is impossible for even the best of drivers . to bring the vehicle back on the highway without endangering not only his own vehicle, but also any other traffic us- ing the highway. A few minutes work by the Department of High- ways could correct the trouble. Another factor leading to the dan- gerous situation that exists is the speed at which traffic enters town at that point. While a stranger may not be aware he is entering the town, there is no excuse for those motor- ists who, familiar with the area, con- tinue to drive at speeds of fifty and more miles an hour. With the high pedestrian traffic at that point, par- ticularly during the summer months when the Lions Park is operating, it is 'fortunate that there have been no serious accidents or no loss of life. But luck may not always be with us. There will come the day when some innocent victim may be called On to pay the price of lack of main- tenance or lack of enforcement of traffic laws. • Calendar Reform An increasing interest in calendar reform is evident with the placing of he matter on the provisional agenda d:the nett meeting of the General ser'ly of the 'United Nations. If from provision - to e stl�b est assts aro the o 1 'to the permanent agenda,, it can en come up for discussion by a coal committee and may possibly # ilbn itted for a final vote. Thus he that some improvement: in eg rias sySte: , ' which has fla�lidl> red+ Sittee ,the 16th eentulry, be inlet std in date course. What would we de around the farm without cats. They keep the place free of rats and Mice, That's the first purpose of having cats aiound. Just the same they pro- vide us with amusement and veom- fort and there's also something soothing about their, preseeee. At first glance, that may sound- like a strange statement. laxamihe it, however, and you'll find how true it actually is. When I was milking to -night they lined up for the rite of get- ting fresh milk. The three barn cats, who live on a somewhat low- er social scale than old Tabby, the house cat, also have the added ad- vantage of fresh, warm milk. Squirt it at them and they'll dodge but a minute later after licking it -off their sleek coats, they're back for more. When you pour the milk out in the saucers they cluster around and 'lap it up. Later, when the chores are done you'll see them crouched comfortably on the chop bin, purring in a contented way and settled for the night. Tabby, on the other hand, has decided to move in from the back woodshed where she has rested during the summertime. The nights are getting a little chilly now and she waits on the veranda until you open the kitchen door. She dodges in nimbly and settles herself in the space, between the back of the kitchen range and the woodbox. Later on, when the work is finish- ed in the kitchen, she moves out and settles down on the mat in front of the stove. This signifies that she has joined the family cir- cle for the evening. The tea ket- tle sings and the cat purrs, and it's truly a comfortable duet. (By Albert Hines in The Nashville Tennessean) I am a farmer. Lam the mostinde- pendent chap on earth, being able to go and come when I please, and to stay a spell between if I, want to. I don't have to look up to anybody. I don't have to punch a time clock. I can sleep till breakfast if I want to. I can` plow by sunlight or moonlight or both, or not at all. - Mother Nature provides my every want, provided I cater to her whim and fancy. Daily I commune with her and she tells me all that I need to know. She lulls me to sleep with the pat- ter of raindrops and with the sigh- ing of the wind and the chirp of the night things as they come .and go outside my window. She wakes me with the rosy tints of dawn, stealing over the mountain and filtering among the treetops. When I feel the pangs of hunger, I go to the smokehouse and cut down a ham or I drop a handful of corn on the ground and gather up a fryer, or if I am a vegetarian, I go out into the garden and garner a sackful of cabbage and beans and beets and tomatoes and corn. I am the envy of all men, and at least 87 per cent of the women, and fully half tura small fry. I don't know how lucky I am, living out here among the birds and the bees and • the grasshoppers, sniffing the sweet scent of the wild flowers, secure in that peace of mind which the rest of mankind seeks in vain. Unlike the politician and the statesman, I am not harried by day and hounded by night. I can look the whole world in the face and smile that smile,,of superiority. My .heri- tage is one to be proud of. I feed the world. I clothe it. Should -- I go on strike, everything else would go to pot. My corn crib is more im- portant than a bomb plant and my pig pen more essential than silver and gold. My hoe handle and plow handles bring more genuine happi- ness than pearls and diamonds. I am a farmer, and there is nobody like me and I wouldn't swap places with anybody in any 10 other call- ings I ever heard of. I.S.: That's the way farm life is drummed up by the poets, the phil- osophers and the city slickers. Actu- ally, fa ming is a buntvh of hard work that will kill a man before his time, and leave him broke to boot, unless'' he learns early in life how to. avoid at least 89 per cent of it. By Harry J, Boyle. I like Tabby in the wintertime on a blustery day when she hops up on the sofa and, . then manages to make the window sill, She'll sit there for hours basking in the comfort of .the kitchen and still aware of the storm outside. She's smug about the fact that she is a privileged cat. Most of us don't laugh enough. Just the same, there are few Peo- ple who can ignore the anticsof kittens at play. 1 like it when two or three kittens are allowed to romp on the slippery linoleum of the kitchen floor- They wrestle and fight playfully, and they never seem to tire. Maybe, it's just be- cause of the natural show-off quail ties of a cat. Tabby, for instance, delights in the times when 'Mrs. Phil discov- ers a mouse in the pantry. Tabby is summoned. She. stands up, stretches and arches to get the kinks out of her system and then walks with a careful stance to- wards the pantry. She glances around to see if she is being watch- ed and then goes to work. She'll crouch and perk her ears up, walk around the pantry, freeze like a statue and all in all put on a real performance. It's a cinch, too, that sometime during the night when the house is silent and the mouse comes forth looking for a midnight snack that she'll catch him. Next morning you can almost see the smile on her face and she'll preen herself with smug satisfaction all day. Cats are an essential on the farm. ..Sometimes I'm positive that they are in many ways more in- telligent than humans. Just A Smile Or Two Husband: "You're not economi- cal enough in these times; you will have to alter or else you will ruin me." Wife: "Well, if you don't call a woman economical who haves her wedding dress for a possible sec- ond marriage, I'd like to know what you think economy is!" • A woman travelling by train was talking to a man in the next seat. In describing her holiday, she said that she had visited San Jose. "You pronounced that wrong," said the man. "It's San Mosey, In California you pronounce all the J's as H's. When were you there?" The woman thought a moment, then answered: "In Hune and Huly." No powder was ever invented that could make as loud an explo- sion as that found on a man's coat. • "How's your aunt today?" "She can't complain." "Heavens, I didn't know she was that sick." •, said a man' to bis wife ane fine day • our lawn stems to be mostly hay . if that lawn I must mow • lots of brawn I must grow . so fted me some meat every day • mita Of NATIONAL HIALTN AHO wl.•!•1- Two men were discussing a mutual acquaintance. "Nice fellow," said one, "but have you noticed how he always lets his friends pick up the dinner. bill?" "Yes," replied the other. "He has a terrible impediment in 'his reach." • Huron Federation of Agriculture Farm News Potatoes Useful Livestock Feed for the increase, as Western Can - While potatoes normally are not ada, although showing an upward trend, was still 19.7 per cent below grown as livestock feed, each year last year. Comparable figures for there is a considerable tonnage of the month of July showed Eastern small and off -grade (and occasion Canada up 10 per cent and West - ally surplus) potatoes that can be ern Canada down 28.5 per cent disposed of profitably through live - stack. However, if good results exercised in feeding. them. Pota- toes stored under favorable condi- tions can be fed raw to cattle and sheep but should be sliced or pul- verized before feeding to avoid 'nay damage of choking. For pigs the potatoes should be cooked. If the potatoes have sprouted, the sprouts should be knocked off before feed- ingaas they are often poisonous to livestock. Sunburned, frozen or decayed potatoes should not be fed to any livestock. Potatoes are about 80 per teat moisture, and low in protein and essential minerals. Frank Whiting of the Dominion Experimental Sta- tion, Lethbridge, Alta., reports they should be fed in .conjunction with high quality feeds like legume hay and gtain or protein mineral ;,up- plements added to the ration. Fa-- tening cattle or milking cows should not be fed more than thirty pounds per head daily while lambs and breeding ewes should not be fed more than two to three pounds per head daily. Pigs may be fed up to six pounds per head daily depending upon the size of the pig. If more than these quantities are fed, severe scouring may result, Experiments were carried out at the Dominion Experimental Sta- tion, Lethbridge, during the past winter to determine the compara- tive feeding value of potatoes when fed to milking cows and to fat- tening Lambs. Groups of lambs and milking cows that were fed pota- toes in conjunction with alfalfa hay and grain were cg iapared to similar groups of lambs and, milk- ing ilking cows that received only alfalfa hay and—grain. The cows were fed 30 pounds of potatoes per head daily while the lambs received one' to two pounds per head daily. The results of these experiments show- ed that between four to five pounds of potatoes were equivalent to one pound of grain. Some off - flavors were detected in the milk from the cows fed potatoes, even though the potatoes were fed after milking. Apart from this the pots toes proved to be a satisfactory feed. Trend is Upward in Hog Marketing' The upward) trend in Canadian hog marketings, noticeable in July, became more marked in Augdst, the first Month to show an increase over last year. Marketings in Aug ust Were 7.4 per cent above mar-` ketings in August, 1948, while lit Jtl'iy, they were six per cent bell& June, 17 per Bent) the sable menthe of 1948. The Aiigltst marketings in East ern Canada., --91.9 per cent higher;, than in • Attgttst, 1948—accottntth from July, 1948. While the Wiest as a whole was down nearly 20 per cent from Aug- ustt, 1948, the Province of Mani- toba had an increase of 10 per cent. Quebec continued to hold the spotlight in the East with 33.6 per cent increase over August last year and Ontario and the Mari- times were each up around 17 per cent. Nearly 74 per cent of the Aug- ust marketings were from Eastern Canada. The quality, quantity and strength of the fleeces of sheep are directly affected by the kind of feed ration used. Under -nutrition or sickness frequently cause weak spots in the wool fibre. To Keep Bacon Longer Bacon made from tired hogs does not keep as well as bacon from rested hogs. But the remedy is not more rest but more sugar. That may sound a little unusual, but food biologists in England re- port definite findings that bacon made from hogs that were fatig- ued at the time of killing develop- ed brown color on the cut surface. This was the result of fatigue and the attending loss of muscle sugar and has brought complaints on the British market. The researchers have concluded that, while resting the 'hogs is de- finitely a solution, it is not nearly as rapid as feeding sugar to hogs eight to twelve hours before slaughtering. Start in Fall to Control Squash Bug Now is the time to stop the spread of the squash bug, accord- ing to the Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Chatham, Ont. This pest goes after squash and pump- kins as well as other members of the cucurbit family such as canta- loupes, cucumbers, melons and gourds. One of the most important steps in the control of the squash bug is cleaning out and burning all remnants of the crop in the fall. This will destroy the insects in the field and, what is even -more Vital, will destroy the winter shel- ters. The squash bug is almost. impossible to control duringg the growing season, so, by doing away with all traces of winter shelter, much of the problem will be soly- ed. Other control measures, report's the . Chatham laboratory, inolude thbraugh cultivation and the pro (Continued On Page 7) Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- ty-five and Fifty Years Ago. Former Pastor Hospltallxcd Rev. Arthur Page, a former pas- tor of James Street United Church, is a patient In St. Joseph's o tal, Loudon. His many friends will hope for a speedy recovery. -Exeter Times -Advocate. Wholesale Slaughter of Pullets It has been brought to our at- tention by the police that dogs are running at large killing chickens. One man lost thirty-five pullets at one time and others,'lesser quart, tities. Unless these canines are kept tied up the officers of the law promise drastic measures will be taken.—Mitchell Advocate. From The Huron Expositor September 19, 1924 Miss Mary Calder left for Fergus where she is going in train- ing as a nurse in Fergus hospital. Miss Beryl Ashton, of Gorrie, Las re-engaged with Mr. E. Ronnie at Hensall as milliner. This is her fourth or fifth season. Miss J. Knechtel has taken position as choir leader in Pa erston. Reg. Kerslake and Arthur Deem are spending a few holidays in Flint, Mich. Dr, F. J. Bechel•y and Ross J. Sproat are in Guelph this week at- tending the Scotch doubles -bowling tournament, while another rink of Seaforth bowlers, composed. of J. M. McMillan, Harry Stewart, J. MacTavish and Jack Beattie play- ed in the tournament at Paris on Wednesday. Mr. R. Frost is erecting a new cement block bungalow on North Main .St - A large number of members of the Seaforth Golf Club turned out on Wednesday for the driving, ap- proaching and putting competition. The prize winners were: Ladles' approach and putt, Miss V. Graves, Mrs. J. C. Greig; ladies' driving, Mrs. T. S. Smith, Miss N. Hartry; gentleman's approach, D. H. Wil- son, W. E. Southgate; gentleman's driving, F. S. Savauge, J. C. Greig. The president and Mrs. Geo. D. McTaggart donated all the eight handsome prizes. Seaforth Highlanders Band sup- plied the music for the street dance with which the new street pavement was opened in Blyth on Wednesday. The new two -manual and pedal organ, recently installed in the Methodist Church, Seaforth,now complete, and will be official)' ded- icated on Sunday. The organ has 13 speaking stops, seven couplers and about 700 pipes. Miss Ria Hills, of Egmondville, leaves on Monday to attend Lon- don Normal School.. The family of Mr. Reuben Hart gathered at his home on Sunday in honor of his 57th birthday. Those present were Mr:' and Mrs. W. Saundercock and family, Hul- lett; Mr. and Mrs. Angus Carmich- ael, Grey Twp.; Mrs. Hanna and Annie, Seaforth; and William and Harry Harty He was presented with a gold ring with the Orange Order emblem set in red enamel. Business College Opens Goderich Business College open- ed last week for the new term with a fair enrolment of students. Any others who wish to join the day classes will be welcomed at any time and will receive careful at- tention. A larger number have en- rolled for the night school, with classes in bookkeeping, typewrit- ing and shorthand on Tuesday and Thursday evenings of each week. • From The Huron Expositor September 15, 1899 . One hundred and eighteen tick- ets were sold from the station at Brucefield on Tuesday of this week for London Exposition. Quite a number from Brucefield and vicinity attended the Toronto Exhibition. Among others were Mrs. George Baird and her son, James; Misses Aggie and Katie Hart and John Snider. A meeting for the purpose of re- organizing the Seaforth Collegiate Institute football team for the fall term was held Monday afternoon, when the following were elected: Honorary president, Dr. F. J. Bur- rows; president, H. S. Robertson, B.A.; vice-president, H. S. Stone, B.A.; secretary, A. S. McLean; managing committee, L. McDonald, H. Welsh, G. McMann, J. Blake; manager, R. C..Cheswright, Mr. Thomas Casey met with a nasty fall recently when he was picking plums at E. C. Coleman's and when some 14 feet from the ground the limb broke, letting him down heavily, causing some broken ribs. The electric . light company is placing lights in St. James' Church in town. Mr. S. A. Dickson goes to Toron- to on Monday to take a position IA' a law office there and to attend lectures. The Broadfoot & Box Furniture Company is preparing to erect a large addition to their warehouse on Main St. Master Frank Sills returned to Sandwich on Monday last to re- sume his studles in Assumption College, after spending 'his holi- days at his home here, .On Wednesday afternoon last Merrer Bros.' evaporating factory at Zurich was burned to the ground. It started In one of the rooms and in 20 minutes' was a total loss. Miss P. Hatton, of Owen Sound, has been engaged by J. W. Or't- wein, Hensall, as his milliner for this seasoifi. Mr, F. Gutteridge has a large force of men at work on the new granolithic sidewalk on Main St. The track on the new driving park is now com-pleted,. 'The work Was done under the hand of, Mr. Qeo. Murray and he has made a s»"sendid job of it. It Will be the bust halt -mile track in the province. W'eptek .'0100raity, irondon, when: t't Opens' til month, We wish her - continued aaceese Z.ur'ieh Herald„ Fell Devito Cellar -Steps Mrs. laeorge Grilehrlet, coneesaieni 4, Kinloss, suffered Severe injuries and facial illieeratioli a when she tripped and fell" down the cellar steps at her hgnhe white carrying a load of tireserving ueai$Fs• id's, Giilchrist upas taken to Winghanr General Hospital where 30 •etjtq es were required to close facial, outs;• She also suffered a. fractured nose,. fractured wrist and; broken fingers. --Wingham AtivaneeTi►ftes. Staffa Dairy Wins Prizes With most of the prizes going to Western Canada, Hibbert Co-oper- ative Dairy of Staffa, with Harvey Leslie as manager, maintained their record for the finest of but- ter when tey took the special prize for the best finished pritit of but- ter and prizes for quality in one - pound prints and 14,pound June made boxes at ,+estern Fair.—Mit- chell Advocate. Present Medal To Entrance Pupil Have Sold Farm Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Oswald of: the Bronson Line South, have dis- posed- of their farm to Mr. Roman: Meidinger of Kitchener, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Meidinger. Pos- session ossession will be given Nov. 1. Mr, and Mrs. Oswald intend, to have an' auction sale on 'Sept. 28 and intend' to reside in Zurich with the lat- ter's mother, Mrs. Makt'tin Wurm. We will welcome thexh and wish, them health to enjoy theft retire ment. Zurich Herald: Brie Honored Prior Iv Marriage^ Prior to her marriage on S•atur= day to Mr. Mackenzie Graham Hodgert, of Exeter, Miss Helen Howatt was the honored guest at several happy events to honor the' occasion. At the Londesboro Coma munity Hall the- neighbors of tlie`• 13th concession of Hullett gather- ed for an enjoyable evening of crokinole. Helen was the recipient of a beautiful electrical Aladdin ' table lamp and chesterfield table. Lunch was served. Helen was also the recipient of many -lovely gifts when friends and neighbors of tlie Boundary met at her home. An ad dress was read by Jean Glousher, to which Helen replied, suitably.— Blyth Standard. Chosen Miss Western. Ontario A former Dashwood girl, Edith Spicer, was chosen "Miss Western Ontario" for 1949 at a beauty con- test held in Windsor last Thursday night. Chosen from among a field' of twenty-two contestants from all parts of the Western Ontario dis- trict, blonde,. blue-eyed Edith won' the plaudits of a jam-packed crowd of nearly 25;000 who witnessed the' event. The shortest contestant (five feet one inch), she entered' the contest as "Miss Oxford Coun- ty," having recently received that honor as a native of Thamesford; (ten miles east of London), where her family lives. She works in London as a hairdresser. The Spic- er family, eleven in all, formerly lived in the converted hotel at Sar- epta, one and a quarter miles east of Dashwood. Edith attended Dash- wod public and Exeter high schools while she was' there. Her father, R. C. Spicer was a poultry rancher and market gardener. — Exeter Times -Advocate. A former resident and teacher of Wingham public school, Mrs. Marion Inglis McPhail, of Gode- rich, has arranged for an annual presentation of a gold medal to the pupil in Wingham public school receiving the highest standing on the year's work. The medal will be known as the "Marion Ing- lis Medal." — Wingham Advance Times. Hurt At Planning Mill Mr. Henry Flaxbard met with a very painful accident last Saturday afternoon at the Kalbfleisch Mills, While working at a saw a sharp sliver of a board hit him in the back of the hip, penetrating a nasty deep gash. Medical aid was given at once by Dr. P. J. O'Dwyer. Mr. Flaxbard is confined to his home and is progressing favorab- ly. His many friends wish him a speedy recovery.—Zurich Herald. Trip To Quebec Mr. and Mrs. Bert Klopp, Lorne and Lloyd Klopp hada most pleas- ant trip to Trois Pistoles, Quebec, where the former's daughter, Miss' Marjorie had been attending sum- mer school in conversational French for about seven weeks. She returned home with them and in- tends to follow 'her studies at School Reading (By E. K. Brown in the Winnipeg Free Press) As schools reopen I have been thinking of the meagre results of the literary study that goes on in them. Year after year a boy or girl is required to read books or parts of books that most people think valuable and interesting, and that some of us think as valuable and interesting as anything on earth. The teaching is done by people who have studied these works, or works sufficiently like them, un- der the best instructors, and have also studies how to teach. But does the boy or girl at the end of his years of schooling go on read- ing books like those he read in class? The answer is to be found in tae absence of bookstores in all hut the largest -cities, and in the selec- tion of books in the few stores that ccntrive to keep going. Hopeful people say that at leant the schools encourage the "read- ing habit." No doubt they do. The reading habit is so widespread that it can be regarded as a trait of our civilization. But I do not see that the fact a person reads is a result that anyone can crow over. Mat- thew Arnold was quite right—'and he spoke from years of contact with schools and children—when he said that perhaps no time was more completely a 'waste than that given to aimless hurried readiig. One of our mistakes is in not understanding that literature is an art. An understanding of a work of art can be imparted only by some one who feels it. No one should be permitted to teach literature unless he has shown his understanding of it as an art. No one else can make the teaching of a book an experience. Older readers will recall editions of Shakespeare intended not for research scholars but for school- children in which the notes filled more pages than the text, and the notes were not primarily aids to understanding the art of Shake- speare, but learned divagations on +amds, sources, historical allusions. Those editions were prepared by people who did not have much un- derstanding of Shakespeare's art. They were chosen byadministra- tors who had even less. They were taught by instructors who were better than the administrators, no doubt, and perhaps no worse than. the editors, but not good enough for their job. No wonder the boy or girl ex - Posed to that sort of approach to Shakespeare was turned against the "late Swan" for the rest of his life, or most of it. Recently there has been a turn towards books that are more like- ly to appeal to the student. But this is no certain gain. Often the books selected are not in any real literature, but merely ephemeral printed matter. What I should recommend is that we appreciate that this is an unpoetic age. The greatest writers of our century are not poets, but novelists, dramatists, biographers, historians. This is not a:n accident: and in choosing books, or parts of books for study in school we should re- duce the proportion of poetry and make sure that among the works of prose there are some of the- very hevery best things in the language, ancient and modern. , These great works of prose are no less artistic than' our greatest poetry, although anyone who is devoted to literature will probably draw nlost pleasure and insight from the poets. But a school course that finds its centre in the great novels, prose playa, biographies. and histories, some of them the• work of men still living, is more likely to persuade a boy or a girl to go on reading after he is on his own. Who knows? Perhaps we might have a book series of our own, and it might be profitable. The schools. have ,the key to the problem. But who has the key to the schools?' School Lunch Is A Vital Problem One of the most important items, of the fall school opening, and one of the countless worries it brings• to the homemaker, Is the prepara- tion of school lunches. Not only do the lunch-toters demand varie- ty, but they must also have nutri- tious food. The Consumer Section of the Dominion Department of Agricul- ture suggests each school lunch contain mills; some meat, fish, eggs, dried beans or peanfit butter; a vegetable or fruit, or other breads, fats, or sweets to round It out. If the school child cannot buy milk at school or where Iunch is eaten, include it as milk, soup or cocoa in a• thermos. The 'home economists of the Department sug- gest milk fit puddings can be taken along in a small mayonnaise Jars or waxedi paper containers, but be sure the lid is on tight! To handle the demand for varie- ty, praduce Odd "designs in sand- wiches—cut them with cookie cut- ters utters or like jigsaw puzzles. Try a' new tiller once in a while. The Mackenzie River is the' longest river in Canada, although it rands only fourteenth in the- sense he sense works of art. 'They are not,1>tolith 4 i • • .0 • • L• ., „ •t