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SEAFORT$, ONTARIO, MAY 254 1967"
Home Is Basis of . True Education
That the home continues to have a
most important place in the education
process despite suggestions during re-
cent years that the school is paramount,
was -emphasized by, D -r Wilder Penfield
internationally known scientist in speak-
ing to the Ontario E'ducatioii Associa-
tion conference in Toronto recently.
Education, Dr. Penfield said, begins
at home. It should continue there after
the, last diploma i$ won.
Not all people can, or should, go to
university, he said. Many who will
achieve success, even brilliant leader-
ship, -in the field of technology, might
have been fail`hres in university. Many
who will 'succeed in higher education
would have failed miserably had they
entered the world. of technology.
Highschool' graduation and 'univer-
sity degrees" are proof of edikcational
exercise but not. that a ;person is well
educated.. Degrees, said the world-re-
nowned expert, guarantee no valid cul -
w
' ture of the mind.
Intelligent conversation with read-
ing in the home, meeting people, travel
-with companions of wit and wisdom,
can produce a high degree of intelli-
gence and intellectual superiority -With
little or no schooling.
• The crisis in education today he
told delegates is that a considerable
portion of university graduates go into
adult life with no thought of continu-
ing education. Their attitude is I "know
it all" now = 'why bother!
He scored narrow specialization
which, unmodified by . other interest,
shuts a person away from friends and
family with a shallow' culture.
Science has. changed . the world we
"" live in. It's time man began to use
scientific methods to 'control his own
civilization, he told delegates. The
- place to. begin is the oldest classroom
of all — the home. • '
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Hospital Insurance Is Protection
Attention .is drawn to the fallocious
approach which too many of us adopt
when we contemplate government spon-
sored insurance plans such '.as . hospital
or unemployment insurance in a recent
issue of the Printed Word. We • thinl- of
i"the payment we make as being some-
pital, although he, is relieved to know.
that his bill . will be paid if he does go.
`But some people seem to. think that
since they have paid -the premiums .they
• should stay in hospital as long as they
wish. ,
thing different from tie fire insurance "The hospitals, of one Canadian prov-
premiums we pay. We seem_ to- trans ince are said to keep their partient's in
late insurance into savings and think hospital for .longer periods of time than
we, should get our money back in some any other• hospitals in the' world. This
-would be n wonderful record if they
way. were hotels.
In the case of hospital insurance this
attitude leads to increasingly high rates' "If citizens cannot -be convinced that
as the Printed Word points out in hospital beds in treatment hospitals
these words :-' are -for sick people and for sick people
"The citizen who pays his hospital in- only,not all the goodwill in- the world
surance should hope that he will re- will enable politicians to keep down
main well and not have to• go to hos- - rates land taxes- Even if they try,"'
Sugar . ' and Spice
— By Bill Smiley —
WE GET LETTERS
When you write,. "a column
likQ , this, you get some reae
tion. J you .,didn't it wouldn't
be worth. writing, because it
wouldn't be worth reading.
A ' recent column has pro-
duced • reaction. It dealt with
the load we heap on teen-age
kids generally, and contained a
list of what my 16 -year-old,
specifically, had to do in the
next few weeks.
Two "letters arrived smartly,
then ,a third. The first was
from K D., of Owen Sound..
"Your -column 'is not up to
your usual standard. Not quite
so frank. It might have been if
you had turned the X-ray on
yourself as well as on the crit-
ics of the young people of to-
day -- whoever they May be."
Critics? K. D., meet L. . E.
Taylor 'of Torontb: Admitting
that he has met a few -decent
teen-agers while on summer
vacations in a small town he
adds: "But not so in .this big
city . A great many of the
teen-agers here are the posh-
ing, impolite, immoral bores to
be shunned and avoided wher-
ever possible:"
K. D. Says: "Any sane person
would know your daughter is'
trying to do -too... much, Resua.
of having ' two over -ambitious
parents ... Each of you want -
.c
ing >to realize in each . of your
children your awn ambitions.
Selfish; I'd' say." '
Now wait a minute, there,
K. 'D. you can say what you
like about my wife. But by
gorry, you're all wrong about
me: All I want isfor my daugh-
ter to stop driving her mother
nuts; pass 'her school year if
possible, get married '(prefera-
bly by elopement; I'll spring
for a- 50 -foot ladder in -lieu of
a $1,000 wedding), have about
five kids, and get as much fun
out of thein as we have out of
ours.
Back to Mr. Taylor. He
doesn't blame the parents, but
the kids. They'. have it too soft.
Says they have more advan-
tages than we had but lack
initiative and' drive. And he
lists about 30 things he was
doing, while in high ' school.
Come' on, L. E. be sensible.
Sure, you . did• them. But how
many others of your age did.
There was darn little initiative
and drive during , The Depres-
sion.
. He goes on: "Metric had to
be studied and written off in
swelteringly hot June days,
with air-conditioning nowhere."
It still does, old boy, in most
places, and furthermore, it's
about three times more diffi-
dult than the metric you and ]�
%l atthe headof my y
'.,.So the teacher can Veep
ars eye oThnts14
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passed. And the universities
demand standards fair higher,
for admission. •
Back to' K. D. "Bet your
mother. would have had more
sense." (She didn't have time
Ed. note) "Whose .fault is. it
that your daughter and others
want to do so much in and out.
• of school? .Yours' and other's
like you. What kind, of train-
ing, advice, guidance have you
given her apart from 'strive,
strive, ' strive' and 'achieve,
achieve, achieve'?" •
& D. you are hereby invited
to .give my daughter some of
that stuff. Brit don't blame me
if you emerge from the confer
ence bloddy and bruised. •
There's more of .••the same
from K. D., and a lot of it good
sense. It ends: "Baloney to
Your sex, LSO and drinks
nrere fed herrings -to drag in
and show how up-to-date you
really are! Not stuffy at all!
Ho! Ho!"
Well, ..ho -ho • to you, K D,
You've been reading too many
articles aborit punk parents
and not enough about punk
kids. ' If" you think drink and
drugs and sex are red herrings,
in relation to teen-agers., you'd
better pull your head out of
that sand -pile,
• There your are. One eorre-
spondent says, it's the parents'
fault. The other says.'it's the
kids'. They're both wrong. And
both right.
And then came the third .let-
ter, balm to tortured nerves' It
was from an old friend, Edith
Rudell of London, Ont. She is
riga exactly an amateur com-
mentator. Six boys and a girl. I
quote: "i will frame it (the
column) and amen! The fantas-
tic amount of time and 'energy
and nervous tension expended
by my group is not possible to
describe, l+urjous? Anyway, it
erthausts .me just being an on-
looker. So bless you, Bill, for
.p'utting the• -•••thoughts into
words "
And bless you, )fear . heart.
And .Mess X. 1). ;and L E. •
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From the' Imperial Qi! Collection
La Salle on the Toronto carrying -place, 'ugust 1681. Rene .Robert •Cavalier, Sieur'de La
Salle, was one of the greatest explorers of North America and is ,best remembered as ex-'
plorer of the Mississippi Valley. This drawing shows La Salle at the beginning of leis most.
successful expedition. He took a route between Toronto and Lake Simcoe known as the Tor:"
onto .carrying -place — involving_a 28 -mile portage — and on through the lakes to St.Joseph'
at the foot'of Lake Michigan: During the winter of 1681-1682 he went down -the Illinois, using
his canoes as sleds on the river ice. He kept on down the Mississippi and formally took pos-
session of the "country of Louisiana" 'for France.
La Salle was a cold, ambitious man with many enemies. Had he not been so restricted by
opposition of his enemies, he may well have carried out his grandiose plans for colonization of
America. And if he had succeeded, it would have taken more than one seven years' war, no
doubt, to shake the hold of France on the' interior. Mut La Salle was murdered by one of his
own men in 1687. France held Louisiana..until 1762, when it was transferred to Spain and
then returned to. France in 1800. In 1803 Napoleon I sold it to the 'United States'for $15 mil-
lion'. (This historical feature. is one of a series readers may wish to cliparid save,)
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In the Years Ag�ne
From The Huron Expositor • Jeffrey; assistant, Mrs. • J. E. of ,Hullett, whereby he had a
May 29, 1942 o Keating.' miraculous escape from instant
An enjoyable evening was* * * -
spent at 'the home of�•Mr. and 6'a From The Huron Expositor death. Hi's father w;as•.rpic son
stones, using a team and wagon
Mrs. Joseph Grummett, when June 1, 1917 and the child was playing near
100 friends and neighbors gath- R. R. Chambers of Chiselhurst the -wagon, when the horses
ered to honor Cpl. Keith Sharp has material on the ground for moved catching him under the
who . is stationed at Mossbank, the erection of a silo. ••wheel and nearly crushing the •
Sask., -.and is home on leave. The whole community of life out of him.
He was accompanied by his wife Manley was shocked when the Mr. W. G. Glenn of the Sea -
who was formerly Miss Margar=.•aad news• was received of the forth restaurant was extinguish
et Robb of Mossbank. I fr. Johan death of Dr. Tho''mas McQuaid','
-11. Scott was chairman -for the He was the .school. teacher. here ing as large hanging lamp in
his shop, the" chain broke • and
evening and Mrs. Grummett, about 20 years ,ago. the lighted lamp fell down. The•
Mrs. James' F. Scott, Mrs. A,. As, we have been hearing a oil taking fire and .the 'whole
Crozier and Mrs. Ed Andrews good deal 'about large eggs, we
made them the gift of a cabin- would like to make mention of ;,place was afire in a moment.
et of silver, a gent's utility set, one shown to, your correspon- Mrs• •Glenn and the family had
a set of pietures and other gifts. dent by Miss Margaret Watson barely time • to escape in their
Four people were painfully which was Iaid by or _barred night clothes. The fire however
injured in an adticident twomiles rock lien and -Measured 7V4 x was confined to the one build
east of Seaforth on No. 8 9 inches.ing, owing to the efforts of the
Highway.. Three or four cars • Mr. Alex McMurtrie of Hen- fire brigade,
were driving west . and stopped salt, who recently; attended the The people of town were '
•
to let some. school children out. Collegiate Institute at .Seaforth, "'shocked to hear of the death of
MMr. MoClinchey Suffered alkhas secured a position as 'junior' William Sproat He was
bruised arm; Mrs. McClinchey with the Molson Bank here.' breaking in a young horse and.
'received chest -injuries and a Miss Helen Swan of Hensall, he was on his way home on the
fracture of the left leg. left recently for Rochester to .town line between Hallett and
Mr: Reid son of Mr. and Mrs. resume her duties as profession McKillop and near the residence
George Reid of Varna, was hon- al nurse. ._ of William McMichael, the
oied-at•a special melting of the, Mr. Thomas Stephens has had horse was frightenedrand bolt
Orange Lodge , No. 10$5' of Var- the 4 front of the Campbell ed from the road; throwin him
na, following 1%is enlistment for block painted, which adds opt -and killing. him instant'.
active service. An address was greatly to its appearance. Messrs. T. F. and E. C, ole -
read by Robert Taylor and pre- ' Mr. John Cameron has pur- man, •George Fitzgerald and-
sentation of a pen and pencil chased the old Elliott property. Kenneth Mclennan have gone
set was made by Lloyd Johnson, in Egmondville from Miss H. to Muskoka for a week's fish
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ward and will occupy it short- ing..
Victor Lee of Tuckersmith, was ly. He •paid $1,900 for it. • The twenty-fourth of May
the scene of. an interesting and An electric irotirleft burning passed over very quietly in
pleasant evening's entertain- in the work room of Miss Mil- town. Nearly every person -that
Brent. Group one of the Women's ler Johnston's m'iilinery'parlors could get away left for some of
Institute entertained at euchre caused' a small fire. • the neighboring towns:
and held a pie social afterwards. • Miss Harriet Wilson, eldest .Messrs. A. C. 'Winter and J.
The prize winners for kat ds,, daughter of Lt. Col. Wilson, who O. Rose carried everything be -
ladies' first, Mrs. %Michael *11- has,had charge of the operating fore them in the bicycle con-
liams, lone hands,I Mrs,Sohn room in the Presbyterian Hos- test • at Exeter; Messrs. James
Modedland, consolation, • Mrs. pital, New York, has just re- .Reid, R. Beattie • and William
James Brown, men's first, John ceived a cable from the authori- Reid Clive won laurels and num-
Modeland, lone hands, R. G. tiesof the American Women's
Parke consolation, Kenneth Hospital at Payntbn, England,
Doig. -offering her an appointinent,
Mr. Carman Whitmore of which slie 'accepted, and expects
Tuckersmith has successfully to sail afrom New York.
completed his normal term at In a 'private letter received
Stratford, and has takOn a 'posi- this week from a Seaforth boy
tion on the railroad until the at the front, the writer has 'the
school term opens in September. following to say about Corp.
,Mr. Pyette, teller- of the local Troyer, son of• Mrs. James-3'r0.-
erous prizes- in the athletic
snorts at Mitchell, while Mr. R, -
Roach took a•' good position 'in
the Brusselsr races with "Gussie
Pickard".
The Beaver lacrosse club went
to Stratford to play a friendly
game with the Club of that Lawn.
• The new blacksmith, Mr. Cam -
branch of the, 'Bank of Montreal er of Seaforth: "In my' previous .erbnof taffa, Is ili34ttg well and
in Zurich, has joined the army letter I forgot to mention about has bought the shop from Mr.
and Mr. Brow is taking his Corp. Troyer, He was wounded Chubb -
place. - • in the advance the first day, but Weregret to learn:of the ser"
Mr. Frank Upshall of Kippen carried on until'he was ordered ions illness of Mr. Robert Gov -
has leased the residence of Miss back,. His platoon commander- enlock d McKillop.
Mary Dodds in Harpurhey, wanted' me to tell you what • • Mr'• Stelck, leaner of the
Mr• 1. 1r. Mudmark has Leased splendid work he did that day." •Methodist Chu'ech choir, Hills -
the residence of the late Mrs. * * * green .was ,taken by surprise'.
Oscar gen and has moved, his From The "Huron -Expositor Miss L. Poster and Miss M.
family there. May 27, 1842 Coleman .presented him with
The annual meeting the the While two children belonging a beautiful •album. Friday was
Ladies' GolfeClub was held at to Mr. Apdrety Diehl of Zurich "the occasion of his birthday and
the hark gf Mra. J. E. Keating were playing in the yard, the the ..present was partly a gift z
and was followed by a bridge youngest one accidently, struck for the kind services as leader
game. Mrs, M; A: Reid was chair- the .eldest boy, about six years of the choir:
woman for the lnrsiness and the of; age, in, the eye. On examin- Mr, R. B. Jeffrey, station
officers were as follo'hs: chair- ing elesely the' doctor deelared aftertt at Londesboro, , has pin'.
woman, Nita, F. S. 'Brugger; the eye useless and likely to be -'chased the hoose •,_owned and
captain, Mrs, F. S. Sills; vice lost altoget?ier:. latest' occupied by. ir; *Mimi imi .
captain, Mts. T. S. Slnith; sec, .An acol ont happened to *a,: rtinsdelr,. at.* and , wilt move -
retary4tresauror, VisoNortn'a young•sari of Mr:'1'liotnas Noble i`nto':it shortly.
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THE STORY
OF THE CENTENNIAL TARTAN
From each of the' historic Coats lof Arms of the
Provinces, . an authentic 'coldr was chosen to represent all
10,1#rovinces and to blend their colors into the softly muted.
background, $aper -imposed. arethe• proud bands of the
altaple Leaf,. Flag; 'lending to the design' the unifying theme
to pitmen orate together the 100th BIRTHDAY of CANS;"
DIAl1T, C'ONFR
DA 'Iq,N. Wear and display your Centen,
n,ial,-Tar:tall=-with idesduring. _ErE -grearia7: -cele-
**ions as:.a badge of .affectionand unity with all fellow
Canadians.
See the Centennial Jackets't Shirts, Ties,
bats and Caps at
BILL 1 'SHE -A•
TENS -WEAR
Phone 527-0995 •
- Seaforth
WHEEL
BALANCING
Far smoother driving ,and added tire
mileage. .
- $1.25
Per Wheel, Parts Extra
0 D
Repack Front
Wheel Bearings
Includes free inspection
of brake. linings.
Seaforth
Motors-.
Digit 527-1750 — Seaforth
Children's
Shorts = Slacks ,.........
• Jeans - Tee Shirts
and . Tops ,.
Sizes 2 - 4 6 - 6X and .
8-10.12-14
Youth's and Ladies'
SHORTS BERMUDAS
STRETCH SLACKS arici
JEANS
1.98-2.98-3;98aind
up. , -
Sea tirth;'s &c to.. $1410 Stare
Sta;io erSIJ- .G1ft
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