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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO •
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8th, 1917
Editor,
Lucknow Sentinel.
Dear Donald:
WE 'MOST DO BETTER
—It is now quite some time
since I sent in my first article to
The Sentinel concerning the
• importance,of effectiVe teaching
of world' history in the high schools
arid 'universities of North America.
I had, a pleasant'surprise about two
years agio, in connection, with
these Articles, when I received a
letter from Colin Crozier. I, had
been out of touch with Colin since.
we 'attended LueknOw Continua-
tion School so I was pleased to
hear from him and I was also int-
erested in learning that he is now
a Supervisor of History in the
City of Hamilton, We, haVe •
exchanged a few letters Since then
and in the last letter Ireceived
from Colin he expressed keen dis-
appointment and ,Concern about •
the present situation in.Ontario
that makes it possible for a stud-
ent to go all through high school
without evenlaving to study our
own Canddian history. tonsider.,•
ing that when suitable and read-
able .books on world hiStorr be
me availa-blg
it meant that' national histories '
became easier to understand be-.
cause a person could'then more • easily see how. one's national•hist• -
, ory fitted into the over-all world
history story , the situation refer-
red to is another example of the
surprising stdpidity that seems to
have pos$essed our Ontario hist-
ory educational• a6thorities during
:the last few years.
This might be a good .time to
point' out that the most important
reason for students in. North Amer-
lea to study world history is not •
because it makes Lted States
c, and Canadian ,nistory easier to
• understand. I would rate the'
main reason is that it gix es them
a fine opportunity to beco.:ne
yer> familiar with )...-5at is mean:
• bk the term `1,kesterniz.ationw."
16ili Century explorers from the
westefa__World_made Some—
tremendous- voyages Of discovery.
While continents, unknown to •the
western world of that time ; were
revealed. A ship from one of
these great, expeditions was
even able to complete the rst,
voyage around the world .kin 1522.
It'rthe tithe the western world .got
the industrial revolution,un'der way
in,111.5 the age long riddle as to.
the land and water makeu'p :of our
planet had been pretty much
cleared up.
Two other important revolutions
took 'place in the western world •
at about the same time as the
start of the industrial revolution
these were the American Revolu-
tion in 1776 and the French. Revo,;-
lution in 1789. These three revo-
littions may hav•e had something
to do with it any case down
through the 19th and 20th centur-
ies the western world has proceed-
ed to make fantastic progress in
the fields of transportatiOn and
communication. This progress,
coupled with the demands of the
expanding industrial, revolution
for more raw materials and more
markets for our manufactured
goods, found th,e western world
playing the role of intruders in
tnany parts 'of the non-western
world.; The story of these intru
lions isn't all,. good, and it isn't
all bad either. Three of the •
-oaunirie4-,t-o-e-xper-ie-nc e-uph
in the last half of•the 19th cent-
ury as a result of these •intrusions
were Africa ; China and Japan.
If all goes there is' no doubt
but that this.mixing pf. the•wst-
ern and non-western'parts of the
world is going to result,,in a much
more universal type of civiliza-
tion in the future:
Since the students of to-di;
will soon become the citizens
of, tomorrow and ,sinc e' North Am-
erica has an itzport.ant patt fc
play in world affairs; st,dents in
North AMerica should be enccLr-
a...7ed to prepare th.-.7-s.1% for
these ch., nc-in times '2\
a Cit :f(r)CIA YeZ,4 C
IX
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:LC! 1:11SIO:\ 1:
ti `bel_ie.,e few
years, our Ozzar:c.
authorities e been sz. a e •
:71L", ec frct.r.
a to.: whei r. or nr.,,t
Local, History,
Includes Tales Of
Early Dancing
Mrs, Chas. Liddle liVes in the
old Presbyterian manse in Ripley.
It is a roomy home and this was
fortunate on February 29th, when
the Local History group to the
number of 45, gathered at her
home. Cards, crokinole and
Chinese checkers were played::
Some winners yiere Stewart Need-
'ham , Mrs. Donald Blue,Ivlrs.
Ramsay and Lettie 'Gawley. Mrs.
Lohnes had the lucky chair and
Mrs. W. J .. Mackay the lucky
bitthday.
The' roll call was answered by.
telling of the first dance each
person remembered. Many told
of dances held in homes, some
were wedding receptions or
following occasions such as a barn
raising, taffy pull or just a home
party. Some had learned to,
dance at school while the teacher
was home for dinner. Dancing
was not 'permitted in many homes
and the young people slipped
away' unknown to parents. Some
communities had more dances
than_others. Square dancing and
Scotch Reels were popular long
ago. Some dances were held.
following the Fall Fair or after a
Box Social, Hours. of 'getting '
hopes for world peace must cer-
tainly be that there is a close
relationship between World under-7
standing and world peace this lax-
ity on-the-par-t--af-our-eduatthnaL._
authorities means that we are
falling down ,in our support of
the world peace effort. One of
the unfortunate consequences of
this failure to support the world
peace effort is that less important
probrertE,su-cli as biculturalism ,
are apt to receive more than their
due share of attention. Actually,'
more alertoess in our support 'of'
the World peace effort might pos-
sibly help to solve some of these
less imPortant problems,'
ART ANDREW,
KAPISKASING.
LETTER T
•
THE EDITOR
The falling of Constantinople
to the ..t:Itton-lan Turki wa s
an important sp..: tO the western 114 5€
world to find es lc rt ha e
the Far tasta Towards the nt,'
• the 16th Centun •Anc earyt Ir. the Le:.
home were shocking - as late as
3.30 a.m.
It--w-a&-decided ro_ha_v_e,anOther_
meeting on the last Tuesday. of o
March. Mrs. Arnold will work.
with Mrs. Frank Fair, Mrs. Gord-
on Scott , Miss Ada Gawley and.
Mrs. Donnie MacDonald to 'plan
the next meeting. A suggested
roll call was, "A gift I received
as a child and treasured': Gift -
to be brought to meeting if it
still exists.
The meeting closed with 0
Canada and Grace. Mrs. Stewart
Needham qpressed the apprecia-'
Ition of all to Mrs. Liddle who
had read the account of a meet- ,
ing held at her home for the
older folks of Ripley on December
81h, 1960. This was-most inter-
esting. Lunsh was served by Mrs.
Lohnes, Md. Herb Farrell, Mrs.
Stewart Needham and Mrs. Olive
Young.
It was-a pleasant party .due to ,
Mrs: MerVin.Hooey, Mrs. Stewart
Shiells and Mrs. Sam Emerson
who were in c'har'ge of arrange- '
meets.
The Langside ciirtirnunit,v . _
extends its sympathy. to Afuis
.Stronie e esw,w r on 'the passinF
of his brother Erwin at Walkerton
-last Friday. Mr Stroinu f?im e d
on the' fourth concession
.r,oss before moving to Ti:eswater
-a. few years...ago.. He was tiler, ,—
ber,of the Langside Presbyterian
Church.
Services at the Lani:,:iLle Chu'rch
were called off. due to storfnv
weather Sunday;
Wybenga was on ilamtlton
teleVision Monday as p,,irt of his
studies. He was givin': the intro-
ductoiy.to a _sermon:,
i. MIRED IT .
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