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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1973-05-09, Page 7IDA MAY l,. 1913 THE. LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LOCKNOW, ONTARIO • LETTERS TO THE • EDITOR ppb Seed Corn A LIMITED QUANTIY OF 85 DAY CORN STILL AVAILABLE DEALERS RUSSEL IRVIN Phone 5294408 • ALLAN GIBSON Phones 315.5265 TO DAY'SCHILD BY HELEN .ALLEN r you might guess from Jerry's expression that he is a lively. ,and indeed he is. Joy is.alert, active and constantly on the go. Just now he is ild medication to quiet him down a little. This lad has too energy .to sit down witha book but he will . watch a few ite television programs. • ienyisln Grade Two and isfelt to have average ability. He is corking up to his potential, however — perhaps because he 0 active. TO and slightly built, eight-year-old Jerry has blue eyes, e hair and fair. skin. Information on his background is but he is probably Anglo-Saxon.. ferry's foster home is.. in the country where he loves the ree life and the open spaces. He is good friends .with dogs catsand is fond of hunting for frogs and snakes or 'whatever r smallcreatures he can find. Slice Jerry is accustomed to children' of all ages, he can fit afamily where he will have brothers and sisters. However,. Children's Aid Society hopes there will not be many other n in his adoptionhome so Jerry will get an abundance of To inquire about adopting Jerry, please write to Today's • Box .888, Station K, Toronto M4P 2112. HE'S FULL OF ENERGY APLOEN'F_OPPORTUNITIES nada Packers Poultry. WALKERTON, ONTARIO Rave vacancies for 2 maintenance aintenance engineers. Applicants ass papers and be willing to work shift work. Wier good Wages and excellent 'company benefits. APPLY IN PERSON AT OUR OFFICES AT 104. Catherine St. Walkerton, Ontario FDR P.ERTNER INFORMATION PHONE 8814550 i • PAGE SEVEN WHY THE SILENCE? I am somewhat surprised that none of our teachers , especially those who have reached retire- • Ment, have written to the 'Sentin- el giving their opinion as to the importance of effective teaching of world history.', As one who is convinced that there has to be a close relationship between• world understanding and • world 'peace I' am amazed at the timing of the • Ontario Department of Education in making history an optional sub, ject. Looking over the completed centuries that have come and gone since recorded history began a little over six thousand years ago, it isn't at all difficult to. give all-star rating to the 19th century. As there was.a good deal of activity in the latter part of the 18th century , this activity undoubtedly contributed towards making the 19th an outstanding century. Among those activities' were 1. The introduciton. of James Watt's steam engine.. 2. The American Revolution of 1776. 3. The beginning of the .Industrial Revolution around 1785. 4. The French Revolution of '1789. 'As the 19th century opened Napoleon Bonaparte was on way tobecoming the strong man of Europe. Napoleon's greatest years were probably during the years 1805-10. From 1810-15 the power. of Napoleon ebbed and . flowed until his eventual defeat at Waterloo in 1815. From around the 1820's all through the 19th and continuing into our own 20th cen- tury,, the . Western World made all sorts of progress in the important fields of transportation and ' . communications. This great pro- gress on the part of the Western World has resulted in the notable achievement of literally bring- ing,the formerly scattered peoples and cultures of the world under one roof. This much 'greater prox- imity facilitates the exchange of cultures thus presenting the oppor- tunity of a richer life for .all con- cerned. on-cerned. On the other, ha nd it is very unfortunate that - this great progress in the fields of transportation and communica- tions has ' made it possible for. the outbreak of war on a world wide scale. As we are all well aware this has ,occurred twice in the 2'Oth century -- in 1914 and again just twenty-five yeaarslater in 1939. . The 'terrible toll of -, World War I is said to beat least 10 million dead and 20 million injured with the colt in money being estimated to be about 215 billion dollars. World War II was the mightiest military ven- ture in en-ture'in history. In costs, casual- ties, participants, and effects dwarfed all previous conflicts. During the last five hundred years•.there ate two ways in which the Western World has played a leading part in bringing the peoples of the world much closer together and' these are 1. Making many important' voyages of dis- covery. 2. Being able to make spectacular progress in the fields of transportation and communica• tions during, the 19th. and 20th centuries. This outstanding leadership by the Western World has placed an obligation on its high school and university students to become informed as to how they can best help thenon -Western peoples of the world to feel at homein this new togetherness arrangement. .Considering the many counter- 'interests of our affluent society, I often wonder how many ,parents are aware of this obligation that our students have been born with. Art Andrew ,. Kapuskasing. VISIT THE SEPOY DRIVE-IN AND . 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