The Wingham Advance-Times, 1961-09-06, Page 2One of the most important an-
nuncements of the past week wit:,
that of the Ontario minister of edu-
Cation, whose department has out-
lined plans 1,>r drastic changes in the
Secondary schools' curriculum. Com-
mencing with the fall term in 1962
secondary education will be channel-
ed into three separate and, distinct
avenues—the first for those students
' who want to pursue the academic
courses, leading to university edu-
cation; the second for those who in-
tend to go into the world of business
and the,-third for those who prefer
to work with their hands in the
technical trades.
The change will affect only Grade
IX next year; in 1963-64 it will apply
in Grades IX and X, the following,
term in Grades IX, X and XI, and
so on until the new program applies
fully throughout high school. It is
suggsted that the work for • Grade
IX students under the new arrange-
nient will be 80 percent general and
20 perCent specialized in the field of
. the: students' choice.
We believe that the basic ele-
ments of the plan are sound. Certain-
ly itis a step toward a more praCtical
form of education which, at least in
theory, will steer some of the square
pegs. out 'of the round holes.
Thoughtful parents and educators
have long been dissatisfied with the
rather generalized form of education
provided by our secondary schools..
The key to the whole plan, how-
ever, is that the student, his parents
and his • teachers must be ,able to de-
termine with some reasonable degree
of -accuracy-what course of study he
should follow—and make this choice
by the end of Grade VIII, when the
child is leaving public school. We use
the word child advisedly, for there
are very few youngsters leaving pub-
lic school who are, mentally, ,any-
thing more than children. A very
peitentage of them haven't
even the faintest inkling what sort of
,work. they want to undertake as ad-
HUNDRED YEARS OF
SERVICE
, Congratulations are in order for
the Brussels ;Agricultural Society,
which onSunday will mark 100 years
of activity in that community. Stone
entrance (Yates to. ,the agricultural
park will bededicated to .mark the
occasion.
Fall fairs .are a common occur-
rence, ,throughout rural 'Ontario, sp
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conimon inn.fact, that. most of us. fail
to realizettht. tremendous force they
have been throughout the years in
-stimulating pride in the production
of our most important products. Set
up as they are, there is plenty of
room for every would-be exhibitor to
demonstrate his skill and the results
of his labors. There is no limitation
imposed on the man who is poor, or
who has only a few acres to work.
All may enter their exhibits on the.
same basis and receive the plaudits
of their neighbours when they are
merited.
Fall fairs, for the most part, are
run by the farmers of the district,
with the help of their wives, and it
is noteworthy that the basic concept
of these local exhibitions was so
sound that they have survived for a
. century on the voluntary assistance
and guidance of these men and wo-
men who are so deeply interested.
The Brussels fair has a fine tra-
dition behind it, and its plans for the
future indicate every likelihood that
it will successfully Survive another
century without too tc difficulty,
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Wise and thoughtful. parents will.
see the great importance of having
their children enrolled in a Sunday
School, for out of this school conies
the official ministry of the church.
The church, in its many branches,
Must supply the ministers for the
home front as well as abroad—
medical mispionarieS and nurses for
our .mission .hospitals, and teachers
for our mission schools, must
come out of the Sunday Sehool.
JUST THINK:. Our boys and
girls of 1961 will, for the most
part; he leading this great Domin-
ion and other Oarte of the world
by 108a, in its secular.. and re,
ligious enterpriee.
What a challenge is before them.
What an opportunity awaits them!
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atict mercenary attitude entangler-
04 in most clubs and restaurants.
And this old columnist, loggy
With coffee, groggy with lack of
sleet), totters into the• street at 4 tilts, and ‘yen, that few' are usually
mistaken.
The onus of decision will then
rest with the "guidance" teachers,
who will have to base their advice on
the aptitudes of the pupil as indi-
cated by the results of tests and ex-
aminations during the school year.
Such a program is already being fol-
lowed in some city schools, with
-.what success we cannot say.
There will be - opportunity for
students to change course, but the
plan mentions "limitations" in the
freedom to change after Grade X,
Graduates from this grade will aver-
age 14 to /7 years of age, and every
parent of growing children knows
full well that most youngsters are
not very clear about the future at
that stage.
We are not attempting to knock
that new plan of education. It has
great merit—hut it has also inherent
dangers to personal freedom, More
and more in our schools, as in all
other areas where government con-
trol enters the picture, we are being
told what to do. The decisions are
being made for us and we are ex-
pected to follow the path like a herd
of 'docile sheep. .
This is particularly true, we feel,
in matters of education, where the
parents of the children in our schools
are expected to obey all the 'edicts.
and where there is practically no
opportunity to discuss the problems
, involved with teachers, school
boards or officials of the department.
A glaring instance of this sort of dic-
tation occurred only a few ^months
ago, when the series of meetings was
being held at Clinton to determine
wheter or not a composite technical
school would be set up for this area.
The most important meeting of all
was closed to the press—and so to
the public. Asa result this news-
paper was left without any means
of accurately reporting to you, the
parents and taxpayers, on the validi-
ty'of the decisions which were made
as .a result of the meeting.
'The closed meeting was ordered,
not by your school board represent-
atives, but by the official of the De-
partntent of Education .who called
the gathering.
It's about time - that pul;lic offi-
cials, particularly paid civil servants,
awakened to their obligations to the
general public ; ..and -most certainly
the parents and public should show a
'little interest in the administration
of our ethicational _system.
DON'T COMPLAIN "
The announcement last week that
,the Ontario Provincial Police have
been ordered to get as tough as pos-
sible where violations of the High-
way Traffic Act are concerned will
probably cause some grumbling from
the motoring public, particularly
those wbb are convicted for various
offences. However, the entire pur-
pose of the stiffened campaign
against violators, is the protection
of human life. The increase in fatali-
ties has alarmed not only police of-
ials, hut the public as well, There
is no doubt at all that the dangerous
drivers have to he weeded out, or the
safe and sane ones will all be under-
ground.
None of us are happy when we
are apprehended for violating traffic
laws, but almost every driver has at
some time or other become pretty
annoyed as he watched some other
foolish or smart-acting driver en-
danger lives on the highway. It's
another case of the goose and the
-gander.
Of course there always were dart-
g-erotts drivers. They weren't neces-
sarily teenagers either. Many of us
who have driven for years have be-
come careless and over-confident.
The great difference nowadays is
that there are 86 many more,cars on
the road. In the days before the war a
driver could make a lot of mistakes
and get -away with it. Now, with
heavier traffic, the danger' to the
other fellotv has increased to such a
degree that stern measures are need-
ed to handle the situation.
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I Study to shew thyself approved
unto God (II Timothy 2:15/,
Eruditional opportunity opened
wide its door as. of Tuesday last,
when, thousands of children passed
through its portal, to begin, for
some, their elementary term, and to.
complete, for others, their high
school training.
When. fixing our gaze upon the
scene, what does our mind's eye
beheld? We visualize thousands of
boys and girls ranging in age from
five to twenty: a great company of
learners who, in a few years, will i
become the leaders of our country.
As we follow along with this mighty
army, we will eventually see them
I come to the place where their high ,
way branches off into numerous
IN THE LIBRARY
By DORIS G. McKIBBON
INCENSE TO IDOLS
by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
is reminiscent of her first very
successful novel "Spinster." In
both' books the central figure is
woman of great sensitivity and
intensity of feeling. In the first
she was a school-teacher in New
Zealand, who conducted a nursery
class made up primarily of Maori
children. The impact of that book
I shall never forget. As a teacher
she ,was a genius and the charm
of the children lingers with me yet.
In this second book Germaine de
Beauvais, a French concert pianist
is the main character. She has
come to New Zealand afteC the
death, sudden and tragic of her
musician-husband, Here she hopes
to take lessons from an expatriate
of her country, a talented teacher,
whoSe career has been ruined by a
murder trial, although he has, been
acquitted,
She. lives in a studio, outside
the city, set amid orchard land near
a riter, She paints a vivid picture
of the fdaming blossoms in spring,
and ,of the riot of colour in the
flower beds around the public
buildingS in the city, This city, un-
named, possibly fictitious, is in the
earthquake area of the island. All
its public buildings are -prudently
one 'storey in height. Towering
above them is a great church. To
her that symbolizes Faith. Driven
by the fascination of such trust
in God, she visits the building; used
its piano for practice; meets, be-
cause of that its minister and
thereby ensnares herself, ,r
She is an uncontrolled person
driven only by her desires and pas-
Sion's. A very peculiar upbringing
Remember, a couple of weeks
ago! I' was telling what wicked
place The City has become? And of
the dreadful pitfalls into which a
steady, reliable chap from a small
town can stumble, particularly if
he's at the dangerous age? I pro-
miSed to continue the confession of
my wild adventures that night, in
(he next week's column, but I
couldn't bring myself to do it.
After serious thought, however,
I've decided it's my duty to reveal
the perils and the purlieus that ex-
ists, in the hope that you may be
saved; should your foot slip from
the paths of riglitemisness, as mine
did.
You'll remember that, torn by
who knows what strange and way-
ward desires, I had already been
clipped at a honky-tonk piano
joint, And then been shorn at one
of those wicked foreign movies in
which the actors seem to think sex
is funny, not sinful, as we all know
it is.
0 - 0 - t.)
Well, I escaped from there, and
had determined to go straight back
to my room and read a pamphlet
called The Teachers' Superannu-
ation Act, in an attempt to pull my-
self together,
But I fell. It was a warm, seduc-
tive, summer night, remember. Just
as I walked past this narrow old
house, It happened. The door was
open, young people laughed and
talked in the dimly lighted hall,
and from the depths of the house,
faintly, came a sweet eons and the
tinkle of a guitar.
I couldn't -help it. I turned and
Walked straight in. I must have
thought I was in another inearna-
Hoe, as a sailor on a street in Mar-
seilles or Shanghai, rather thap a
staid thoroughfare in what was not
long ago the dullest city in chris-
tendorre
A darkly handsome young fellow
-barred my way and asked me,
pleasantly enough, if I was a
member. When I shook my hod,
mouth open, be suggested I might
like to join. It could have been the
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a.zn„ thinking maybe The GIty
isn't so sinful after all, and with
ten hours an the town behind him,
heads back for tie barracks, wist.,
fully wishing* he were twenty years
younger, and could twang a guitar, roads, From our vantage point we
now view this great procession,
dividing itself, and making Its way
on the highway of Its choice, such
as arts, Science, teaching, nursing,
medical, business, Journalism, in-
dustry and others. They are ad-
vancing to a career.
Hand-in-hand with this secular
education goes religious education.
We have our DAY SCHOOLS: We
have our SUNDAY SCHOOLS also:
Each is of equal importance to
both the cultural -aad social life of
cur civilization, for religion aims at
making a healthy citizenship. Secu-
lar and religious education are the
two great foundation stones upon
which our civilization is built, If'
either crumbles, society will fall,
has made her abnormally sensitive
to sounds. The 'first time she at-
tends a service ecinducteeLby.Brett
Guymer, she beconies entranced by
the resonance and nuances qf the
tones of his voice, She continues
to attend his church, endeavenring
not to absorb any of the content of
his impassioned sermons, She", is a
vain, wealthy, beautiful''WOman.
Her account of her wardrobe is
enough to set one's senses reeling.
'She knows her own charin and joys
in her power to 'attract,. The one
man apparently impervious to her
appeal is this minister, He Is' con-
scious of her only as a "proud
sinner,"
Tie book covers but a few
months in time only but .its, tur-
bulent activity is sufficient or a
normal life-time. Power to destroy
is inherent in her use of her charm.
Regardless of the consequences to
herself or others she always acts as
"she absolutely has to." The',book
is written in the first person
smoothly, swiftly, almost breath-
lessly. It could be a journal, a s'eries
of letters, or simply .a running in-
ner commentary addreSsed td; this
man of God, who dominated her
every thought, when not droWned
in her music, '.t
I did not like this novel as' well
as "Spinster" — there the children
enchanted me. Only a brief mention
of children is made in this book;
but for passion translated into
words I have rarely read its equal.
The style of writing is superb. The
delicate precision with which she
selects words and places them in
their :proper. setting delights my
purist's heart, This is a book for
those who like feeling crystallized
in consummate literary style.;
Foreign Legion', for all :I cared.
Forking over 'the modest lee; I al
most knocked him down as I
hastened through the door, antici-
pating mystic rites, cabalistic 'cere-
monies, exotic dancing girls and, if
necessary, a pipe or two of opium.
It was dark inside. On a 'Small,
lighted platform in the middle of
the, room, ,in the -centre of the
glooln, stood a very pretty girl,
with deep red hair and white skin
iind,iwhite teeth that gleamed as
she sang,
Sad songs and love songs and old
songs and funny songs she sang,
picking them out as daintily and
strongly as she picked out the ac-
companiment on her guitar. Artd
that was my introduction to The
Purple Onion, and the world of folk
Music, blues and jazz that comes to
life in The City when everything
else is going to sleep,
o - o
On the surface, these clubs—there
are half a dozen of them in The
City now—look like dens of iniqui-
ty. They are shabby, dimly lit.
There is exciting music, and in
some, home-made poetry. They are
full of kid's in their early twenties.
The atmosphere is intimate. They
stay .open late, late.
And yet, it's a curiously innocent
world. Let's take a look at The
Purple Onion. First, the audience.
Here; three pretty Japanese girls
listen intently. Over there, five
young fellows heckle the singer
good - naturedly, between songs.
Near them, two young-married
couples, supping Onion soup. A big,
sad.eyed blonde girl sits gazing Into
space.
What about the atmosphere?
Well, the 'wildest drinks served are
hot apple Cider and a youthful
nightmare called coke - air - hat,
which, believe it or not, is Cake and
m1240d. The entertainer* joke
With the audience, and there*e ne
SMUit. The waitresses sinekt on the
lob, and cash Coffee. A
fellow with a beard and a babe
With long black hair struggle
ily in the tiny kitcheti,- looking like
Ruth Michie at
Ont, Camp Council
Ryde Lake CGIT Camp, Graven-
hurst, was the setting for the On-
tario Camp Council, August n to
September 1. Camp Council' is spon-
sored by the Ontario Girls' Work
Board, of which Miss Ines Watson
is secretary, It is to Canadian Girls
In Training what the Older Boys'
Parliament is to teenage boys, and
represents girls from Presbyterian,
Baptist and United Church groups.
Seventy-four campers, age 15 to
17, were delegates fr„mn an area
stretching from. Windsor to Corn-
wall and Timmins to Niagara Falls.
The four, members of the provincial
executive,. elected by ,campers of
last year, assisted in the directing
of the program, which was planned
"to Inspire each delegate, through
fellowship, worship and study, to
become more nearly the girl that
God would have her be; 'to become
a living witness to others of the
real meaning of the Canadian Girls
in Training purpose, and to become
a vital member of the Christian
Church," The director of the camp
was Mrs. R. S, Hilts, of Exeter.
In addition to Bible study, the
girls participated in groups on
world missions of the church, hand-
craft, worship, sketching, Christian
drama and music and recreation.
An interesting visitor was Miss
Mary S. Edgar, of Sundridge, who
was a member of the committee
which organized CGIT over '40
years ago, Miss Edgar wrote the
CGIT hymn, "New We Unite," and
the campers' hymn "God Who
Touchest Earth With Beauty."
The Huron area was represented
by Miss Bonnie -Allen, of Goderich,
and Miss Ruth lVfichie, of Belgrave.
Twelve leadere and Miss. Gladys
Hamilton, of the`Christian Medical
College of Vellore, India, were pre-
sent, '
The executive for 1962 includes
president, Myrna, Clarke, Falcon-
bridge; vice-president, Jan Sun-
strum, Niagara Falls; executive,
Bonnie Allen, Goderich and Donna
Perry, Islington,
two people washing up after a
party.
Let's have a chit with that girl
singer, who's just finished a "set"
of .songs. There's no dressing-room
to retire ,to, so she sits down . and
drinks coffee till she's on again.
With her, 'is a 'nervous-looking
young, falfeve„.„„in; ; harn erinunad
specs.
She's Karen James, 21, folk-sing-
er by choice, Canadian by ,resi-
dence, Norwegian-Spanish ances-
try, She's poised, intelligent and
knows what she wants to do. Her
ideal of the good life would be'that
of a strolling singer, wandering
from town to town. But she con-
cedes that that is impossible for a
girl, especially one with an urban
background. , So she's doing re-
search on Canadian folk songs,
hopes to become a specialist in
them, intends to go on singing, and
has made a record with a U.S.
company.
The bird sitting with 'her, .who
dotes fondly as she talks, claims
he's the only real beatnik in The
City, -because he works, only when
he's starving, At what? He designs
surgical instruments, has the sur-
geons try them out on him, shows
the scare to prove it.
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Let's hale a 'Word with the man-
ager, He's the young fellow who
was at the door, Is he a night-club
operator, a gamblei, a promoter?
Not exactly. He's a chartered, ac-
countancy student, and so is his
partner. No beatniks they, They
like folk music, running the plate
makes a nice change from the
grind of work, and they even make
a little Money at it.
Another young fellOW, with a
little beard, sings while we ,-chat.
He's a bit nervous, but pretty gOod,
He Comes over and sits down. He's
Rick Smith, who has been singing
at the Black swan in Stratford. It
turns out that the songb he just
sang were an audititl. No wonder
he was a trifle 'nervous. hoes he get
a job at The Purple Onion? Yep.
It's all settled over a cup of coffee,
in a delightfully vague manner,
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