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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1952-09-05, Page 54 d' CRO RQAD (By Jamb Scott) ' CHURCH- AND SCHOOL This year for the first time in my memory --and I suspect for the first time in the history of the town—a the youngest generation of school age will begin their education by going to church instead, of going to school. Yes, there's been quite a bit of talk about it. Everybody knows that the old schoolhouse is over- crowded and a lot of other bad ,things. The new .building is not quite ready, and so the kindergar- ten has been moved over to a -church basement. Much to my surprise, I have heard unfavorable reactions to this from the most unlikely places— from very good churchmen them- selves. Surely there is something wrong here. Surely anybody who professes to be a staunch adher- WANTED DOMESTIC and LAUNDRY HELP Apply to SUPERINTENDENT SCOTT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Seaforth a, tie could i ead and urate 044 0,7":944' er European, Canilitryi incltl w,lp, adnglenld, The reaeol4 is literal* lug. ntert t- ing. In ,Scotiand the majority religion atreaseed a 41eee iluiwiedge. of the .,Scriptures. Yoa cannot have this unless you • are able to read your Bible. It was obviousthen, if re- ligion wanted' its• people te..1011°w its teachings, if it wanted the men and women to read the Word, then they must be taught, Out of this grew the best -educated nation in the world, and the result, as most people know, was a race which has sent educators to every corner of the world. There has been no time in the history of this land when there were not more ,Scotsmen or men of Scots descent heading our universities than those of any oth- er ther nationality. It is Mill true to- day. Well, there you have it. In all our history, education and religion have been inseparable and the re- sults have always !been, good. Now I'm not suggesting that we forget our handsome schoolhouse Which stands right behind my back door, and instead start having school in churches. No, the way things• are these days that is not practical. But I cannot help but feel rather good about, for just this once, having a generation start their schooling in a church. It should remind us allS'f what the churches have done in past times to keep glowing the glorious light of learning. We all owe a debt to the great church educators, for without them we would have been •wf,y behind in our education- al ways. Probably the young ones wbo started ,in the church basement this week will not be any smarter or any better than the others, but their unique experience should serve to make us remember what education owes religion. ent to any 'church Imows something about church history. As fax as my own opinion goes, I'm all for this move. From earl- iest arliest times the education of the young has been associated with the church. In the days before the coming oe Jesus, the synagogue was also the school. Even in the great temple o2 Jerusalem the teachers were right there. ,Not in the •sanc- tuary itself, of course, but in the immediate precincts. Remember how Christ ran away to dispute with them when He was twelve? And in the Christian era it has been the samesthing. The two ven- erable enerable universities of Oxford and Cambridge began as church insti- tutions and to this day maintain that conncetion. Both in Britain and here in Canada, most of the private schools are sponsored by one church or another. In Ontario, Queen's, Victoria, Trinity and 'Mc- Master all began as church uni- versities. The tradition is very ancient and very valuable. Just take the case of Scotland. Right up to the end of the eighteenth century Scotland had far more people per .,capita who 6jeili YOUR FAVOURITE BEVERAGE KIST,7 7 ROOT BEER When You ThinkofLumber THINK OF Seaforth -- 47 SEAFORTH LUMBER LTD. • ••• WARMER ALL WINTER ...COOLER ALL SUMMER FIBERGLAg BUILDING INSULATION WON'T ROT • WON'T 'BURN • WON'T SETTLE WON'T SUSTAIN VERMIN PW Fiberglas between you and the weather. Use Fiberglas Building in- sulation to steep the heat of Summer out of your home ...and save you fuel bills every Winter from now on. MADE IN CANADA Ball -Macaulay Phone 787 BSeaforth uilders' SuppliesPhone97 Announcement. — Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Moore, •Seaforth, announce the engagement of their younger daughter, Margaret Eleanor, to Robert Julius Beuermann, son of Mr• and Mrs. Daniel Beuermann, Walton, the marriage to take place late in September. Bar U.S. Pork from Entry Into Canada CAkifg Voltage narvester you've always $A 11ne th& 7Q grandfather 7 lost iia anoney in th01 flaring Wet, axed that Year fatter never hall more titan hie pay°' "That's all true `Pint xny .gran.$- faV ter hada younger ibrotiteg, doll* etas Martyn. Niaii<ola�s went to. South Africa, and got in on the ground floor at ic.iznberley He made a packet, came home, and bought Coraton. Seemingly he and my grandfather had Parted 'bras* ragssoftly., for my father never .spoke of him and I didn't even know of his existence until after his death. It seems he left no will, so every- thing came to me." Peter whistled "So that'$ the way of It. Then Nicholas Martyn did not marry." "He did and had one son, Chris— topher. But he and his dad quar- relled, and Christopher cleared out. He was killed fighting in Spain, He was finished by a shell splinter in Barcelona. The lawyers have defin- ite proof of his death." By this time the car had reach- ed the top of the hill and Derek pulled up. "Look over to the right, Peter. That's Plymouth Sound. And right in front you can see Hessary Tor. Princetown lies in the saddle be- yond." "What—the prison?" "Yes, and the village. We turn off to the left here, past Crooked Tor." Peter's eyes roved up the massive slopes of the great blunt- headed tor. "Cloud is sitting right down on it, Derek. • Does that mean one of your moor fogs?" Derek shook his head. "It means thunder, Peter. We'd better shove along if we want to cross the water -splash. These moor streams come down bank high if you get a real storm." He drove on a little way and turned ,into a by -road. This was not tarred and the surface was bad He had to slow down for the sake of his tires. For a couple of miles the road wound between two tors, then suddenly dropped steeply in- to a wide and open valley. "That's the Clint"below us," Der- ek said, "and there"—he pointed— "Coralton's over there. But you can't see the house because the trees hide it." Peter gazed for a moment, then turned to dais core - "If I can't see your house there's one thing I can see. And that's one outsize storm. Look at it com- ing over the High Moor!" Effective immediately, all import into Canada from the United States of swine, uncooked pork, pork pro- ducts, pork offal and garbage is Prohibited under authority of the Animal Contagious Diseases Act, it was announced Saturday by Dr. T. Childs, Veterinary Director Gener- al enetal of the Federal Department of Agriculture. This action was taken because of the prevalence in the United States of 'vesicular exanthema,' a highly infectious disease of swine, which if introduced into Canada could cause serious damage to the Cana- dian swine industry. - Vesicular exanthema closely re- sembles foot and mouth disease, but it is entirely confined to swine, whereas toot and mouth disease af- fects cattle and sheep in addition to swine. o The happy bride and aroorn Mr. and Mrse"Donald G. Betties are pictured shortly after their recent marriage at Ontario Street United Church in Clinton. The bride, the former Helen Mary Rog- erson, is the daughter of elr. and Mrs. William Rogerson, Tucker - smith. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Theron Betties, First Instalment of New Serial Cloud Over Coraton Bp T. C. Bridges WINDFALL Peter Plews ran the fingers of his left band through his shock of red hair. Peter was really a very tidy person, and his bare little room on the top floor of one of these tall, narrow houses in Great Ormond Street was beautifully clean and neat. But nothing short ,oebrilliantine would subdue Peter's rebellious locks and there was no brilliantine in waatime. Anyhow In his rigbt hand he held a let -1 he hated hair oil. ter which he had just read. It was the most startling letter Peter had ever received, as was proved by the in.credulous expression, on his pleasant, unprePossessing face. He turned back to the beginning and erton, South Devon, waa the ad - "It's real, Peter," it began abrupt- ly, "Three hundred acres and a A young man bad asked per- mission from his girl's parents Lo marry her. The father agreed immediately but the mother was not taken with the idea and did not approve. The next evening the boy was discussing the matter with the girl. "I'm afraid mother is going to be a bit difficult," said the girl. "She thinks that because you're an actor, you're effeminate." The boy thought for a moment. "Well," he confessed, "compared with her, I suppose I am." • massie'e, old seventeenth -century farm house. And all mine! I have son, Alfred is bailiff. Also three men, all over fifty. Oh, I know You'll say it's a pipe dream, but come and see. Come and live with me and lend a hand. At any rate you'll get milk and hutter and fresh eggs. Also fresh vegetables. The garden is fine. Our station is Taverton. Wire when I am to meet you. Yours, Derek." "And the blighter has never Said a word till now," Peter growled. Then he laughed. "Can't blame him. Wherever it came from, I dont suppose he believed in it till he saw it.' He glanced at his watch. It was just after four., He raised his eix feet of lanky strength out of the ancient arnichair and picked up his hat. "If wire now he'll get it in the morning. 'Niere's a train out of Waterloo semewhere about 10 a.m. I'll be there before he has time to change lue mind." He walked down to Holberneeent his wire, then treated bimeelf to a cup of tea and a war bun before re- turning to his attic to paek and write a few letters. As usual sev- eral people stared at him. A young civilian, fit as Peter looked, gave cause for curious glattces. But Peter had got past caring for that sort of thing. It was impossible to explain to all and sundry that he had a lump of shrapnel below bis heart and that the doctors haa warned him againat violent exer- tion. He had been out of hospital just six months, and been putting in his days helping at a Red Crose packing station. Peter was at Waterloo in good time. It was one of the first bot days of surnmer. and Peter sighed with relief as the train swept east Woking and OM into real country. Like bis feend, Derek Martyn, Pet- er hated London. yet had not been away from it eince he had been carried out of Charing Cross in an ambulance nearly a year earlier. Peter bed been born and bred in Somerset But he had never been muela beyond Exeter, and the scen- ery looked good to bine as the train pounded steadily on around the Northern rim of Dartmoor. Great tors pushed their rock -crown- ed summits far up into the blue —acres of green bracken clothed Start Teaching Duties In Scattered Points Nineteen Seaforth men and women left for points across, the province last week -end, to take up teaching duties Tuesday morning: Ruth Joynt, Marjorie Bickell, Flor- ence Laidlaw, Laura McMillan and Anne Brodie, go to Toronto; Gladys Thompson to Niagara Falls; Archie Hubert to Osha.wa; Yvonne Bolton to Hamilton; Margaret E. Grieve to Oakville; Bess Grieve to Chat- .harn; Margaret Grieve to Dresden; Jean Brodie to Kirkland Lake; Mary Hagan to Essex; 'Mrs. Geeal-, dine Eckert and Miss Geraldine Eckert to St. Clements; Anne Eck- ert to Wallaceburg; Dorothy Eck- ert to Linwood; Jessie Finlayson, to Lorne Park; Roderich MacLean to Kitchener. New Dress for Little Girl's First School Days Important Starting school for the first time is a red-letter day in a little girl's life. It is one time when sbe loves a new dress. Mothers who make their children's clothes usually try to choose something to increase the child's confidence. This exciting day is often quite an ordeal for a six-year-old. Because a child's confldence de- pends on comfort, the dress should • Designed from the start for both row crops and hay, this machine makes the most of your tractor power. M shown it chops and loads green hay, cured hay, comL biped straw. With tont-crop unit it cuts; rrhops and loads 12 to 16 tons an hour of silage corn. Come in — get full information: • Rowdiffe Motors Phone 267 Seaforth be simple and loosely fitting% It should not be too unusual in deitign or material A six-year-old is often seleconecious. She could become embarrassed if other children were to notice her clothes too much. A little quilted skirt and weskit, like the one pictured here, is a sturda• hard-wearing outfit. The material, which sewin,g centers advise should be' ebosen from ve-shrunk, Waal. able fabric, can be quilted with very little time and effect with the quilt- er attachment. Instruction on the use of the quilter is availa.ble.in their sides, and here and there sewing centers, too. The machine were deep gorges down. which tum - rows add reinforcement and pm- bled tiny loamirig • brooks. Then long wear. The little blouse c,an the line curved to the south-west also be changed often. Pointers On Dressing Quilting ie something familiar to Yeung children. If they have been used to quilted bed coverlets or dressing -gowns, they will associate their costnme with the reassuring atmosphere of borne, when wearing 't in the strange, new school. Here are a few other pointers on dreseing six -year-olds. It is a good precaution to sew hems on tbe ma- chine so that the child does not catch her fingers or toes in the stitching when dressing herself. Of course, it is easier for the child in dressing, when clothes open down the front. Three-quarter inch but- tons have been fo'und the easiest size for a child to handle. If but- tonholes are also done on the ma- chine with a butionholer, they will resist fraying better when tugged at. Any torn hero or buttonhole worries a child and increases her self - consciousness. The regular home dressmaking courses at seva ing centres will help a mother make wider use of her machine in sewing. Points learned in making through tee left ankle that had cut an adult's dress can be applied to' short his army cereer. He had got problems in dresses for children.' that in Belgium, early on. If special problems in making chil- dren's clothes conte up, mothers may enroll in any one of tbe single open session classes theld from time to time in all sewing centres. Little girls, are also just as .sele- conscious about being too fat or Throwff i * tl ."t!P3<` The $.row wave, e1FA444 yellow team. was call et il9ar .` a. the speed of a, galloj '0 0{04 • Et i reached the 'tett of the-lona pppl at the sane° moment that Derek, reached Franco, Derek Sot 1a IXd him and helped hint along".. They were only thiree ntelteu. from the near bank When It hap-' pend:. Poor old 'Prance stun4bled and fell oft into the water on the ouch 411Vriin 1.411V,n ' w4.04,44 eVY,"rou9k►! the bag aa,, tell fce #tear. uMyer 1,9040A, ,pa4411 t4 tale iba}ent one gpod .thing aalput ways I Wd eldeee reef - TO -SCHOOL CLOTHES For the Boy PLAID SHIRTS New bright plaids in megtilar or sport shirt style; well made and full cut- Sizes 6 to 14. 2.19 and 2.50 CHAPTER II CLOUD BURST Derek looked and pursed his lips. "Gosh, you're right! It loo.ks like a cloud burst I'll have to drive like sin to cross the water -splash." "Is that the only way to, get to Your place?" "There's a bridge, but it means a three mile round. And I get on- ly seven gallons of juice a month." "Better he -slow than sorry. You'll only bust your back axle on a road like this." Derek did this best, but you can't drive fast on a narrow track that curves steeply 'down a long hill. Like a vast curtain the storm -cloud. rose out of the north-west. It was blue -black, rimmed with rolling white vapor. Its deep heart. was seamed with veinings of electric fire and the mutter of thunder be- came continuous. Not a breath stirred and, even up at this height, nearly a thousand feet above the sea level, the air had become heavy and stifling. Peter did not speak, for Derek needed all ,his energies to steer the car around the hairpin bends. The cloud covered the sun and a heavy shadow cut all color from the wide view. A jagged flesb leaped across the sky, and the thunder clap echoed and crashed from tor to tor. "She's coming," Peter said. "But the stream hasn't begun to rise yet." "There's old Prance fishing," Der- ek said. "He's in for a ducking." A very old man was walking slow- ly down the opposite bank casting as he went. His rod looked as ancient as himself, and his creel was a black wooden box strapped across his bent tack. "He's deaf as a post," Derek continued. "Spends all his time fishing, and it's wonderful the quantity of trout he gets. He knows every rock in the river.'' "There won't he many rocks vis- ible in a very few minutes," Peter told him. "It's • cloud -burst right enouge. No water -splash for us today, old son." Derek slowed and glance.d back. "You're right. It's going to be a snorter." Then he pulled up short. "Look at old Prance! He's going to try the stepping stones. If the flood comes down he won't have a hope. Wait here, Peter, while I run down and warn him." From road to river was a couple of hundred yards, steep, rough, boulder -strewn ground, with thick clumps of ancient gorse. And, though Derek got along quickly, he certainly could not run. Peter, who had got out of the car, light- ed a cigarette and watched. It was no use shouting to tbe old man Prance was too deaf to hear, and there he was actually on the first stepping stone. The stream here was thirty yards wide, perhaps not 13001.6 than two feet deep. The stones were huge granite blocks set fairly close to- gether, their upper parts smooth by the feet of men who had used them for centuries. In orainary times even old Prance could cross. with perfect safety. A blaze of lightning, a crash of thunder, that sounded like a bomb, made Peter start. He looked back up stream and saw a wall of wa- ter with a front a yerd high racing round a bend no more than three hundred yards away. "Derek?" he yelled. ckh.ad reached the river bank. He heard and ltioked. shOuted to Prance. By this time the old man was half way across. He, too. Raw the flood wave and Inn his best foot. forward. But he end, almost before he knew it, the 'Vain was slowing into Taverton. station. Grabbing his suitcase from bhe rack, ,Peter stepped out on to the crowded platform and almost into the arms of Derek Martyn. For a moment the two stood with hands locked, gazing each at the other. Outwardly they were very differ- ent. Peter long, lean, with craggy face and carrot -red hair; Derek, shorter, with brown hair, dark blue eyes, and a cleamcut, sensitive face; but between them was a rath- er wonderful friendship which thad begun :in September, 1939, when the two enlisted together in the Dev- on& Peter was the first to Speak. "You almost look as if it might be true," he remarked. "You wouldn't have come if you hadn't believed me" retorted Der- ek. "But we can't talk here. I'll tell you all about it in the car." "A car! The man's a million- aire.? All right. lead on." Derek went ahead, limping a lit- tle. In his. case it was a bullet The car rattled a bit as Derek drove down the hill from the sta- tion, but pulled all right when they began the long climb on the far side of the little town. Peter sniff- ed. "Something like air," he remark - too thin as their mothers,. Don't ed with appreciation. "Do yOU keep put a Valeck an the dr0S8 of a the same brand. at Coration?" thin -faced child, and don't length- "Wait and see," grinned Derek. en the skirt of an over -chubby "All right, but I'm not waiting child with wide bands of contrast- any longer to hear the tale of your ITT material. Ude a soft, round- windfall. Where end how did you neck for the thitefaced youngster, steal itr and put in tucks which can be let "I inherited it." down for the plump child. "I don't Want to be rude but "It's coming NEW urrEn "JEANS" Sanforized denim Jeans, zipper front and fully lined with sanforiz- ed suede cloth plaids. Sizes 6 to 12 years only. 3.75 REGULAR JEANS A special quality sanforized zipper - front Jeans with strong triple stitched seams. All sizes, 6 to 18 years. Special 2,95 New' Reversible Jackets Here's a new Fall Jacket for Boys. Fine corduroy one side, to reverse to club style. tom for snug warm fit. Assorted colors in satin jacket. Knitted collar, cuffs and bot - sizes 6 to 16. 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