The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-10-28, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE thursd&y, octobeb astn, 1537
W. Huron Teachers Meet at Goderich
Zurich Teiufher Named as President HI A L4 LX
For the 60 th successive year
teachers of West Huron gathered in
annual convention at Goderich on
Thursday and Friday of last week
12'5 strong. The recently changed
curriculum was the chief topic of
discussion.
.Councillor E. D. Brown, speaking
for Mayor MoEwen, ill in hospital,
spoke of the teachers’ responsibility
in dealing with children at their
most impressive age and bemoaned
the lack of religious instruction in
the public schools.
“Too much attention is given to
the acquisition of knowledge with
out stressing the finer things which
are guides to life,’’ he said.
An instructive address on the new
courses ■ of study in the curriculum
this term was delivered by V. K;
Greer, chief inspector of public and
separate schools, Toronto.
Inspector E. C. Beacom gave a
paper on marking entrance arith
metic; J. Greech, of Exeter, gave
the presidential address, and a
chorus of Goderich pupils under
Raymond Player rendered several
numbers.
Victor C. Dinnin, of Zurich, was
elected president for the ensuing
year. Other officers chosen were: i
Hon. president, Miss I. E. Sharman,'
B. A., retired principal jotf Central
School, Goderich; vice-president,
Stewart Beattie, Varna; sec.-treas.,
R. .Stonehouse,. Goderich; librarian,
W. K. Thomson, Goderich; council
ors, Miss Esther Mcllwaine, Miss
Pauline McEwen and James Salkeld,
Goderich.
(Resolution committe; • Miss Dor
othy Webster, Goderich; Miss Jean
Long, Lucknow; Chas, C. Pearfce,
Exeter; Miss Lettie Love, Hensail;
Mrs. Lucy Atchison, Grand Bend;
Wm. Crago, St. Marys;. E. C. Bea
com, Goderich.
. Auditors: G. L. Pinkney, Dungan
non; Aldon Hasty, Goderich; dele
gate to O.E.A. Stewart Beattie,
Varna.
Many interesting facts, informa
tion and instruction were gleaned at
the sessions. Friday, morning the
convention was divided into- grade
meetings, where teachers could dis
cuss the work and problems of their
particular classes. This was a de
parture from other years and it was
so successful that it was decided to
follow the same plan next. year.
Improvements in salaries paid to
teachers was noted by Inspector E.
C. Beacom. Thirty-five teachers in
the inspectorate had been receiving
less than the minimum of $6’0'0-
This year only ten are being given
less than that amount. He urged
the teachers to strive for a mini
mum of $7010 next year as this would
be made possible by legislative grants
to boards and the latter would have
to raise very little to meet the in
crease in salary.
Mr. Beacom predicted that teach
ers would soon be able to pick their
schools. In the province this year
there are 1,000 students attending
Normal schools as compared with
2,500 last year, and many teachers
have had to seek other lines of oc
cupation owing to the scarcity of
schools.
Standing Creditable
The percentage of those obtaining
Entrance standing in West Huron
was creditable, and compared favor
ably. In 1935 the percentage was
87, in 193'6, 90.4, an all-time record; in’1937, 88.3. Very few criticisms
from parents have been voiced on
the system of recommendation on
the year’s work.
“There is nothing more valuable
in any school than regularity in at
tendance,’’ urged Mr. Beacom. Last
year the attendance in all schools
was good, retaining a standard ot
91 per cent.
Considerable progress has been
made in having the children started
in .September rather than at Easter.
Teachers are not required to accept
Embarrassing
Pimples
Caused By Impure Blood
pupils five years of age at any other
time than September, it was point
ed out,
Thirty-two rural schools reported
having no flag, “That -is a cause
for lamentation,” declared the in
spector, as he stressed the promo
tion of patriotism. He asked that
attention be given to religious in
struction. Many children will learn
the finer passeges of the Bilble who
would not otherwise know them,
“Don’t you marvel at the present-
day vocabulary of children-” asked
a tepcher in one of the grade dis
cussions. “It takes them longer to
write a composition because they
have to translate their language in
to one you will accept.”
The same speaker declared that
each teacher should subscribe to' a
good daily newspaper, and pass on
information taken therefrom to the
pupils. °
Other gleanings gathered from
the convention were;
Would Organize
The advisability of teachers or
ganizing in township groups in af
filiation with the Teachers’ Feder
ation was later realized when the
groups met at the close of the ses
sion.
That Day School Gospel League
will supply copies of the Gospel of
St. John to each pupil if applied
for, and when finished reading the
League will send a copy or the-New
Testament to each pupil free of
charge.
That Iceland has had no unem
ployment, no great wealth, no mur
ders in 10'0 years and has. many hot
springs was an interesting bit or
'information gleaned from reading
newspapers. The -capital Reykjavik
gets its central heating from a hot
spring two miles out of the city,
costing the householder $7.50 tor
eight months.
A suggestion that the new pro
gram of studies should contain the
story of the ‘‘Spread of Christian
ity” rather than the “Search for
Gold” met with approval in one
grade.
Only thirty-five out of eighty
eight rural schools in the inspect
orate have first aid equipment which
is a great necessity in case of acci
dents.
The teachers were urged to en
courage enrollment in the '‘Jpnior
Red Cross Society, and thirty rural
schools had special instruction in I music.
Reading diplomas will be given
to children reading 20 ‘books includ
ing the primary grades.
Discussion of the new program ot
study which took place in the var
ious grades included the following:
Grade IX — Chairman, S. . J.
Brown; English, S. J. Brown; math
ematics, V. C. Dinnin; social stu
dies, G. L. Pinkney; art, Mrs. L.
Atcheson; science, G. M. Keeler;
business practice, Miss' L. McCul
loch.
Grades VII and VIII—.Chairman
H. M. Shackleton; history, H. M.
Shackleton; arithmetic, M. Ham
mond; literature and readinng, W-
K. Thomson; geography, Miss J. A.
Long; composition, W. N. Crago;
grammer, D. Anderson.
Grades V and VI—'Chairman, Miss
I. Kirk; social studies, Miss W.
Ball; arithmetic, Miss McDowell;
health, Miss G. Pepper; enterprises,
Miss IL. Love.
Grades I and II—Chairman, Miss
P. Love; reading, Miss Love, Miss
B. Durin, Miss E. Martinson;
arithmetic, Miss M. McGugan,
Miss -E. Morlock; writing, Miss M.
Sheardown, Miss H. Hartwell; seat
work, Miss E. Kenney, Miss B. Mc-
Quillin.
Piano solos, exquisitely executed
by S. .Smith ,of Exeter and a com
prehensive report of the O. E. A.
given by Mrs. M. Steckle featured
on of the sessions. An address on,
“Germany Today” by Dr. W. W.
Martin was not given owing to -the
illness of Dr. Martin.
After votes of appreciation to
those taking part in the programme
and to the school board for the use
of the school the convention closed
with the National Anthem.
It’s difficult to secure a shoe that makes it easy for a sore toe.
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It looks as if we’re going to get rain sufficient to make the
plowing satisfactory.
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News about the British forces burning Arabs houses over there
in Palestine makes perplexing reading. But as usual, there are
two sides to the story. The Araiks were incited to various escapad- ■
es by foreign agitators. It is not Britain’s ay to burn any man's
home unless that home has got itself into the ranks of disturbers.
When folk keep the peace, Britain rarely disturbes them.
In this connection the following communique issued by the
Palestine administration is of interest:
The Palestine Government have been gravely concerned by the
existance of an organized campaign of terrorism and assissinations
directed against individuals in this country.
During the last four months this campaign has become intensi-.
tied in its activities. The action now being taken is a direct result
of this murder campaign.
On June 13 an attempt was made to assassinate Mr. R. G. B.
Spicer, Inspector-General of Palestine Police Force. There follow
ed. a number of assassination of both (Arabs and Jews, the cam
paign culminating on September 26 in the dastardly murder of Mr.
L. Y. Andrews, the District (Commissioner o’f (Galilee district, and
“ of British constable P. R. McEwen.
The Officer Administering the Government has therefore found
it necessary, to institute action against certain persons whose activ
ities have been .prejudical to the maintenance of public security in
Palestine and who must, thus, be regarded as morally responsible
foi’ these events.
Britain -is a master hand at determining when patience ceases
to be a virtue.
f b «• * * • » ? >
make haste slowly
Under present circumstances the Dominion government will be
well advised to keep her hands off Alberta, for the most part at
. least. Provincial rights is a delicate point at any time. Now that folk
are feeling their way to a better economic condition the matters
brought to public attention by the wetsern province is very delicate.
In an case when citizens get themselves into trouble, they should
be left to get themselves out of the trouble that is of their own
making. This is specially true of Alberta. The Westerners may
as well learn that the privilege of making their own mistakes
brings with it certain responsibilities that they themselves must
meet. Experience, they will .find, (keeps a dear school but her les
sons are well taught. . Alberta’s citizens called the tune. It is up
to them now to pay the piper. The West cannot play the political
game on the principle of heads we win, tails the Dominion loses.
It may be urged in this connection that some monied and man-
ufactoring organizations, unless the Dominion government comes to
the rescue of the province, that these institutions will suffer. This
they may tell us, is sufficient ground for (Federal interference.. A-
gainst this argument it may be urged that these institutions enter
ed Alberta under their own urge. Had they made money we’re
not at all sure that they would have declared a dividend in favour
of Ontario .farmers and shopkeepers and workmen, or other tax
payers. Now that a loss is in sight we do not see why Eastern
Canada should step in to save the Western bacon. Interference
With privileges is warranted only when privileges (become a nuis
ance to the rest of the commonwealth. We were impressed by
Premier Kings’s receiving a statement regardinng Alberta’s hobble
only to inform the petitioners that he had a purely social duty to
attend to and that he must defer the Alberta statement for one
week. Meanwhile both Alberta and (Ottawa will have time to think. ’
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INDIA AND OTTAWA AGREEMENT
The unofficial advisers from India in the current discussions
between representatives of the Government of India and the .Board
of Trade on a new trade agreement to take the place of the Ottawa
‘ Pact of 193.5 are leaving for India this week. This is in accord
ance with an intimation 'made to Sir Zafrwllah Khan, the Commerce
Member of the Government of India and leader of the Indian dele
gation, that the advisers find it very difficult to remain longer
.-.way from- their business and other calls in India. •.
Great changes have taken place in the oversea trade since the
War. The proportion of India’s0exports coming to this country in
1913-14 was 23.4> per cent, of which a substantial amount was not
consumed here but was re-exported. In 19’32-33, after the signa
ture cf the Ottawa Agreement, the pro-portion was 27.8 per cent,
and it reached 32.5 per cent, in the latest year. It is probable not
far from the truth to Say that there has been an increase' of about
50 per cent, in the utility of the British market as a consumer of
Indian exports, JjTearly one-third of India’s exports come to this
country, and the proportion seems to be continually increasing.
[Looking at the other side of the question we find that the pro
portion of India’s imports contributed by this country just before
the War was 63 per cent. It was down to 316.17 per cent, in 1932-
3 3, but rose again in the following, year to 41.4 per cent., from
which figure it has since steadily declined. Ill 1936-37 it was 38.5
per cent. The general .inference to be drawn from the figures is
that while the application of the British fiscal policy laid down in
1932 has been effective in enabling India to expand her exports to
this country, the application of the Indian policy has not yet been
attended by results of equal satisfaction to British exporters.
Hie London Times
MIDDLESEX FLOWING MATCH
)I Rain descended in torrents for the
twenty-four hours before the Middle
sex County Plowing Match on the
■farm of Clarence W. Westman, jjust
south of Granton. (Seme two to
three thousand persons witnessed
the plowing, One of the main at
tractions of the day was the tug-of-
war between teams presenting Bid-
dulph, Westminster, West Nissouri
and London Township. The idea
was that the teams had to pull for
three minutes straight and at the
end of that time the side which
had the most rope was declared the,
winner. In the pull-offs London
took Biddulph for a ride to- win the
$15 prize money. .Some of the win
ners in various classes were; Stubble
three-furrow tractor, Reta Cook, of
Granton; best team and equipment,
R. J. Scott, Cromarty, first; Vincent
O’Shea, Granton, third and Derwin
Beatson, Granton, 4th, Stubble trac
tors, open to residents of Middlesex
Neil McGill, 2nd; stubble jointer
plow, open to boys under 20, Currie
Sinker of Ailsa Craig, 1st; Stephen
son Stewart, Granton.
-Committee chairman, team com
mittee, Cecil McRoberts, Granton;
tractor committee, N. Gowan, Gran
ton; ground committee, Fred Wal
lis, Granton; trophies and donation^
committee, Wm. Chapman, Denfield
R.R. 3; publicity committee, W. H.
Porter, Farmers’ Advocate, London;
sports committee, Delmore Westman
Granton; parking committee, H.
Stanley, Granton.
A QUIET, WELL CONDUCTED,
CONVENIENT, MODERN 1OO
ROOM HOTEI—85 WITH BATH
WRITE FOR FOLDER
TAKE A DE LUXE TAXI
FROM DEPOT OR WHARF—25c
CROMARTY MAN WINS
TROPHY WITH HORSES
R. J. Scott, of Cromarty, taking
his team seventy miles to the 2 4tli
international plowing, match held at
Fergus, came home with the covet
ed Senator Frank P. O’Connor trophy
for the best team amongst twenty-
two pairs of the finest horses in
Western Ontario.
. In the competition for the Junior
Plowmen’ trophy, held last year by
a Perth County team the county re
presentatives, Anthony Allen, Cro
marty, Elmer Armstrong, Avonton,
and David Aitcheson, St. Pauls, were
in fourth placet with a total of 235£
points. Twenty teams competed
Waterloo, county with 258%> points
was in the first place; Haldimand,
second 243£ and York third with
23 8 % points.
Elmer Armstrong was the only
Perth County team boy to. Score a
prize in the junior ^individual com
petition, placing fifth.
—Mitchell Advocate
Banishes Bad Blood
Then No More Pimples
A T. MILBURN C0„ LTD., PRODUCT
The engagement is announced of
Mary Margaret, daughter, of Mr.
and Mrs. Dan McCormick, of Park
hill, to John A. Hall, son of Mrs.
Hall and the late E.Hall, of Mount
Carmel, the marriage to take place
on Saturday October 30.
You’re Always Sure when you bake with
PURITM FLOUR
Best for oll^your Baking
WM
THE LOCUST BEAN
Most Canadian youngsters exper
ience some difficulty in understand
ing the statement in Scripture that
John the Baptist lived on locusts
and wild honey. Instinctively the
Canadian youth thinks of those
clouds- of insect pests- that land in a
district of-the West and wipe -out
vegetation bare to the ground, even
clutter up the rails so that a giant
locomotive cannot grip the s£eel and
■is stalled. The wonder is not -les
sened by his knowledge that one of
the seven plagues visited upon Egy
pt was locusts.
Youngsters on the- other side of
the Atlantic, however, have no such
difficulty. In many .countries the
locust to them is instinctively; the
locust bean. With the ‘ smallest of
coins, such as our one-cent piece,
they can purchase quite a handful of
the dried locust bea«s. To them it
is a sweetmeat, as highly .prized as a
stick of bum to a young .Canadian,
The beans are dried in the pod and
the whole thing, pod and all, is
Chewed with immense relish. The
beans are small; the pod', which is
the chief delight, being long, broad
and flat and dark brown in -color.
John the Baptist ihad' really a rich,
Sustaining dish and with honey add
ed to it, a sustenance that makes for
muscular strength and stamina far
mofe.than most of the foods that are
our favorites in Canada today.
■ ILocust beans are not grown in
Canada but- we are importing about
20-0,0'00 pounds yearly of beans and
beah meal, chiefly from Greece and
other Mediterranean countries and
from the United States, according to
the External Trade Branch of the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics, De
partment of 'Trade and Commerce.
117 SENT TO HOSPITALS
FOB ALCOHOLISM
Number of persons .committed to
Ontario Hospitals for alcoholism
reached a 10-year high in 193'6, re
cords showed. A 'total of 117 per
sons from all parts of the province
were admitted, 62 with their brains
affected.________
FELL FROM APPLE TREE
When he fell out of an apple tree
on 'his farm in Blanshard Township
Chester Evans, St. Marys R.R. 1,
suffered a fractured left arm. He
was treated at the General Hospital
in Stratford and then allowed to go
home.
INDIA NO MORE ALLURING
THAN EASTERN CANADA
Bob Davis, the raconteur who has
been “covering the world” for the
New York Sun and any other news
papers for a dozen years, says that
he’d have to go far to find a country
that pleases him more than Eastern
Canada. And this after a five
months’ tour of India.
Interviewed at Montreal on his ar
rival by * the Canadian National
“Ocean Limited,” Mr. Davis said that
in the Maritimes and in Gaspe he
•got three times as many stories as
he usually expects.
As the publishers of his latest book
“Canada Cavalcade” say, Bob Davis
has been addicted to the Dominion
for years and knows it intimately
from the Yukon through Jasper Na
tional park to Cape Breton.
Try Salada Orange Pekoe Blend
TEA
MOORESVILLE
Miss May Boyle, of Holyrood, On
tario, visited with her aunt, ’Mrs.
Elizabeth Simpson recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Jaj- Whiteford and
daughter Anna returned home after
visiting friends and relatives in Wis
consin.
Mr. James Barry was called to
the bedside of his brother Jack
Barry iii“ Dteroit, who is very ill,
Mrs. James Neil, of Lucan, who
recently returned from her trip to
the West, visited last week with her
son Mr. Harry Neil.
Thanksgiving services were held
at Christ Church, McGillivray, last
Sunday. The Rev. M. A. Hunt, of
Exeter, was the special speaker. T'he
services were largely attended.
Clandeboyc W. I.
The October meeting of the Clan-
deboye Women’s Institute was held
at the home of Mrs. W. McWilliam,
with the president, Mrs. J. Hall, pre
siding. The Scripture was read by
Mrs. Harvey Dundas. A paper on
Thanksgiving was given by Miss J.
Hodgins. The guessing contest was
won by Mrs. J. Simpson and Mrs. A.
E. Hendrie. The meeting was clos
ed with the National Anthem. Fol
lowing, tea was served by the hostess
and committee.
Birthday Party
Silver Glade 'Flarm, the hospitable
home of Mr. and Mrs. James Paton,
Clandeboye, was the scene of a very
happy gathering on Saturday after
noon, October 16, when Mrs. Paton
entertained in honor of her daughter
Ida, who was observing her four
teenth birthday. A (profusion of
flowers were effective throughout
the rooms. At the tea hour the
guests numbering a dozen friends
and schoolmates, with the guest of
honor and the hostess, sat down to
the large dining table, very pretty
in pink and white and centred with
a two-storey birthday cake, topped
with fourteen candles. The after
noon was spent in games and music.
POPULATION UP IN GODERICH
Due to increased industrial activ
ity chiefly in lumber and salt, popu
lation of Goderich increased 151 in
the year ending October 18, accord
ing to returns just made to Town
Clerk L. L. Knox.
Population now is 4,488 as com
pared with 4,337 12 months ago.*’
Assessment figures also " show
slight gains, total assessment now
being $2,610,586 as against $2,|609,-
739 a year ago; business $321,355,
compared with $319,645 and corpor
ation income $20,781 this year and
$17,7'0-9 last year.
LETTER BOX
Reeve W. D. Sanders is In receipt
of a letter from Mrs. Russel Moore,
ol. Kenabeek, N. Ontario, Excerpts
from the letter are printed (below
and will be of interest to our read
ers.
Kenabeek, N, Ontario
October 17, 193 7
Reeve W. D. .Sanders,
Exeter, Ont.
Dear Sir,—
I thought mac maybe you would
like to know how we are navigating
up .here since we left Exeter. We
are just getting along fine and our
garden was real good considering the
time we have been up here, four
months on October 6th. Our pota
toes averaged about 45 bags from 7
bags of seed. Our turnips were not
'very large but were good and plen
tiful. Russell and Ross have (been
very steady cn road and gravel work.
Freida and Doris have been working
out and have clothed themselves and
have helped provide for the house.
It is keeping me plenty busy trying
to feed, clothe and raise my children
to be real men and women. I was
always thankful and appreciative of
anything that was ever done for me
and my family in Exeter and will
always be grateful for any help that
Exeter will or can give to me in
the future. A family like mine can
always make use of a neighbor’s
help. I wouldn’t leave up here with
so much -land and wood and road
work. We have 130 acres of wood
lot. There are many opportunities
up here for anyone who wants to
dig in and show that one is willing
to do his share. I have had several
orders done already for knitting and
today had an order for two more
pairs of socks to knit. So I am not
yet discouraged. There is a need for
200 men in logging camps, su as
soon as road work is completed Rus
sell and Ross will go down to camp
for the winter. Boo and Bert have
earned eight dollars the last three
weeks helping farmers to- take up
potatoes and roots and we earned
sixteen bags of potatoes by taking
them up on shares for another neigh
bor. I hope Exeter will never re
gret sending us or helping us get a
home up here as we know that we
will not regret it. We often ask
the children if they would like to go
back to the old home town and while
they would like to go down and see
some of the kids they would not like
to live there all the time.
Kindest regards to all my friends
from
Yours most respectfully,
Mrs. R. B. Moore and Family
KILL! KILL! KILL!
On with the dance! Step cn it, we
are late! Hello, there are a couple
of cars that have run into each otlher
head on! Hurry past! There are
dead and wounded people on the
grass. We might have to .go to
court as. witnesses, or carry them
to a .hospital! Give her the gas!
You can pass that truck before we
get to the top of the hill! Hurry!
Gosh, you almost lift an old lady!
Why do people allow women as old
■as that to get on the 'highway, any
way? They are all ken-minded. We
might have hurt her. There is a hole
we can break through in that line
of traffic. Give her tihe gun! Gee,
that was close! Did you hear that
guy swear? We didn’t hit him.
Blow that liorii and make that fel
low get over where he belongs! Why
the fool won’t give us the fight of
Way,! He cah’t foe going over forty- ’
five. How can he expect to stay
on the pavement at that pace?
PILOTS UP IN THE AIR
Trans-Canada Airlanes pilots are
now being trained in Vancouver and
Winnipeg in two new Lockheed
lOA’s recently delivered. Those big
machines, which will ultimately go
into service, have a capacity of 10
passengers, pilot and co-.pi'Iot. They
are more than 39 feet long, have a
wing span of 55 feet and weigh 10,-
500 pounds fully loaded. Maximum
speed is 205 miles per hour, with
cruising speed of 183. Fuel capacity
is 207 gallons.
Dates to Rehiembti’
Ottawa, Winter Fair-—Nov. 9 to
12.
Royal Winter Fair, Toronto,—-
Nov. 16 to 24.
International Livestock Exposi
tion and Grain Show, Chicago—Nov.
27 to Dec. 4th.
Guelph Winter Fair—Nov. 30 to
Dec. 2nd.
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