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^T' ^F<?vFC"t? g* pa|Zi . - ." ^ f4m»M ' r?< »/■-:. ??y. a year in advance ; $1.5° t° United States BOWMAN VILLE, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914. Vol. LX. No. 10 A. JAMES & SON, Proprietor*. DURHAM BOYS ANNUAL. Happy Company Enjoy Social Evening Evening at New Y.M.C.A., Toronto. A Great Stock The annual reunion of the Old Durham and friends was held Reducing Sale Our Stock of Winter Goods is too bigand must be cleared EFORE STOCK-TAKING Couch, Johnston & Cryderman will sell all Ladies' and Children's Cloth Coats at ONE HALF OFF the regular price. All Men's Overcoats at one quarter or 25/ below All Men's Suits the regular price regular price. FURS ot all kinds at greatly reduced prices. ' Also a lot of DRESS GOODS at about half price at one-fifth or 20 per cent off the HUGHES' LECTURE Modern Tendencies in Education. Our Stock of Winter Goods is too big and must be cleared Cou Johnston Cryderman Get Your House Wired At ONCE We Pay 20 Per Cent of the Cost 200 citizens of Bow- their m THERE ARE AT LEAST ^nanville who want Electriè Lights homes. To get these people regular customers of ours we are making THIS SPECIAL OFFER Get your house wired by April 1st, 1914, bring us the bill and we will refund 20 per cent in Cash of Cost No Better Time Boys Association -- this year at the New Young Men s Christian Christian Association Building on College-st., one block west of Yonge-st. It is an admirable admirable building for such a gathering arid we hope to attend several such happy evenings there. Mr. Thomas Yellowlees, Secretary, and Mr. Wallace Maas, Assistant Assistant Secretary, registered the names and issued the tickets for the refreshments in the first room where the ladies left their wraps. Proceeding down the hallway the main reception room was reached. Dr. James L. Hughes, President, greeted each one on entrance and announced to those in the room the name. The ladies then took them and introduced i hem. Among more active ladies in this part of the funo tion were Mesdames Hughes, Yellowlees, Keachie, Scott, Tailing, Mabel Tait Elliott, Elliott, Jeffery, Craig, Squair, McGill, W. H. Elliott, Mason, Trebilcock, Challener, Galbraith, Washington, Cobbledick, Heal Hutchison, Vanstone, Misses Id Wickett, Edith Hoar, Nellie L. Pattinson, Etta Tait, Laura M. Wickett, Bertha Doncaster, Doncaster, Waddell and others. After spending an hour in social greet ings and conversation guides were announced announced to show the company thro the beautiful building, going in groups o twenty or so. A half hour of inspection gave them a relish for. the refreshments and the large dining hall soon found them seated in fours, eights and twelves around the tables covered with snow-white linen. Rev. R. J. Fallis asked the blessing and another hour was pleasantly spent in partaking partaking of refreshments and chatting. The old familiar song " Home Sweet Home" was heartily sung with Mrs. Tait- Elliott presiding at the piano. Then a song "Good Company" was splendidly rendered y y Mr. Keachie. Mr. Yellowlees Yellowlees proposed a vote of thanks to the Board of Trustees of the Y. M. C. A. for permitting the use of the building for the annual function which was enthusiastically carried. I President Hughes expressed appreciation appreciation of the large attendance and requested all to form a circle round the large room and "Auld Lang Syne" was sung as Dur- hamites can sing 'it, after which the i National Anthem brought this exceedingly exceedingly enjoyable evening to a close about lO.JO o'clock. The more pretentious banquet of several several courses was dispensed with."his year and instead of a formal prograiy. vf songs, speeches, orchestra, etc., no fo^al program program was arranged, so that it was an informal informal evening socially spent and \ r as thoroughly pleasant thruout. Several members and participants of former years were much missed and some others were present for the first time. Mr. Thos.Yellowlees, 676 Spadina Ave., is still the Secretary and will be grateful if all persons from the "Homeland of Durham" resident in Toronto wUl send him their full address that he jnay send^ them notices of meetings, invitations, etc. The officers will be glad, too, if all Dur- hamites in the city will jomthe Durham Association. V The Canadian Club's monthly banquet ield in St. Paul's Sunday School hall Feb. 24, was addressed for over two hours yy Dr. James L. Hughes of Toronto, who was for nearly 40 years Inspector of Toronto Toronto Public Schools. Mr. W. B - Couch was chairman. After some local personal references, Dr. Hughes b^gan his address which held the very closest attention of his audience. Dr. Hughes spoke in part as follows: All the great vital elements of education are modern. Four men--Barnard and Mann in America, Pestalozzi and Froebel in Europe--revealed everything that is regarded as vital in modern education. Three of these men were living during my time. Pestalozzi is the only one who died before I was born. Froebel lived only six years after I came. Barnard and Mann were my contemporaries and gave to the world all that the world has now of vital school organization. Pestalozzi and Froebel gave everything that is vital in regard to the processes ot education. All modern tendenciês in education as well as all modern developments in _ education rest -on one great fundamental ideal, reverence reverence for the supreme value of the individual individual human soul; strong, true reverence reverence for the individual human soul, which places it infinitely above knowledge. Knowledge never was power and never can be power until it becomes an element in the human soul. It is the soulhood that gives it power. Get all the - knowledge knowledge you can so long as that you do not dwarf power in gaining the knowledge. The child is now placed above knowledge knowledge in modern thought. Forages men thought only of the storing of the mind in schools. Five men gave the child prominence. prominence. Locke in England, Rousseau m France, Pestalozzi in Switzerland, Herbert and Froebel in Germany. I am glad that Froebel happened to come on the thumb, because it is the only part of iriy hand , that touches all the others, and all the good in all the others is developed by the touch of the Froebelian philosophy. Those five men divide themselves naturally naturally into two groups. Locke and Herbert believed that character development was the highest ideal, but they thought they could develop the child's character and make what.thev chose out of him by knowledge. They placed knowledge as really above the child. The other three, Rousseau, Pestalozzi and Froebel placed the child infinitely above the knowledge that was to be communicated to him. We got one awful evil iiom England-- the examination system. England fortunately fortunately got free from that blighting evil about eleven years ago, and in the last ten years the elementary schools of England England have made more progress than they had made in the preceding ten centuries. Examinations never could have been developed developed as they have been in our country mouths of the children than you will in any other organs in their entire system. Not only have we medical and dental inspection, inspection, but we have large playgrounds. This is one of the great modern improvements. improvements. We have playgrounds for many reasons, one being to promote physical development. This is one of the fundamental fundamental reasons for having great play- grounds. Toronto leads the world to-day in the matter of large play grounds. Thirty-two acre playgrounds--every town in this country should get a big field now while the land is cheap. The plav - ground should be used, not merely during school time, but after school time. Children Children should play before and after school time under the direction of a supervisor. What for ? to boss the children ? Oh no ! To direct the children, and to give them the opportunity, the glorious opportunity, of playing under safe conditions. That is what a good, supervised playground is. We are planning in Toronto to have the regular teacher take her children out one-half of each day in these grounds in the first book classes to play with them. We never could have done that so long as people were blighted with the idea that knowledge is power, but when you once get rid of that false ideal it is wonderful how easil> you make progress along these lines. But we are going in the right direction; direction; in the direction of giving the children children power physically. We are establishing outdoor schools, imitating Germany, where they started, and England where there are a great many of them having outdoor schools beginning beginning with the early spring and running through as long as the children can go out to the woods. Children who are feeble by nature should get the opportunity opportunity at least of breathing God's pure air. Intellectual power we are trying to develop, develop, too; but not by storing knowledge from books mainly. You may load every child alive to the muzzle with knowledge, with the best kinds of knowledge, and they may have no power to do much for God or for humanity. When I began school work fifty years ago nearly every convention that was held discussed the powers of taking in knowledge, what were called the observation faculties. The main object was: How to get in knowledge. knowledge. First, to drive it in, and then to train the children to take it in themselves; it was the receptive powers that were discussed. A little later, about thirty years ago, teachers began to talk of the reflective powers. You know a great many men who have splendid power to take in knowledge knowledge from nature and from books and have good power to think when they have the knowledge, who might- just as well 1 have been grasshoppers as far as anything they are doing for God or humanity is concerned. The real vita' department of the intellect is the executive intellect. The greatest tendency in the world is the transforming tendency. Every child has it when it is born. Every child has it when it is able to creep the first day and MINISTERS AND CHURCHES if we had not believed that knowledge , wa ]] c the first day. We used to let is power. So long as we have that idea ■ ^ bem into our parlors, and they generally instead of the great ideal first given by | transformed conditions in a way which Pestalozzi, that not knowledge but power, we did not nke, and we called them bad skill, character, are the great purposes ot names because they transformed condi- education, we cannot comprehend the ti()ns They were responding to the deep- greater ideal. So long as we have the impu i se God put into their lives, and ideal that knowledge is power ' we Rev. C. G. Williams, Consecon, gave his noted lecture "From London to Cape Town" at Odessa Monday evening. Rev. W. H. Emsley, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Picton, has accepted a call to Pembroke, and Rev. W. J. Wood, pastor of the Pembroke Church, has accepted accepted a call to Picton. Rev. W. Elliott, Wellington, has accepted accepted the invitation of Brighton Methodist Methodist Church Board to become their pastor pastor for next Conference term subject to sanction of Conference. At St. Paul's Presbyterian church next Sunday, Rev. A. H. Drumm will take for his morning subject, "Deism, or the Absentee Absentee God" and in the evening, "What is the Kingdom of God ? v Everyone welcome welcome to these services. Rev. A. H. Going, pastor of Port Hope Methodist Church, will preach ia Bow- manville Methodist Church Sunday ia thé interest of Temperance and Moral Reform. Reform. Pastor Kenny goes to Port Hope to take similar work there. --Mr. Robert Knox, has resigned the Treasurership and office of pew steward of Orono Methodist church, a position which he has filled with great satisfaction-to the church membership for thirty years past. Mr. C. A. Chapman will succeed him as treasurer and Mr. G. M. Long as pew steward.--News. During Lent a special service will be held in St. John's Church each Thursday at 8 p.m. Rev. T. G. Wallace, Rector of St. Stephens' Church, Toronto, will give three lectures on Church History; subject of first lecture Thursday March 5, "St. < Patrick and the conversion of Ireland." Cordial invitation is extended to all. The Territorial Canadian Staff Band will visit Bowman ville Salvation Army Saturday and Sunday March 14 and 15th. A musical n : ght at 8 p. m. Admission l$c. Holiness meeting II a m Sunday in S. A. Hall by Staff Band, afternoon at 3 p m there will be a sacred concert in the Opera House also at 7 p in. Silver offering offering for admission to Opera House. Staff Capt. Bloss, Brig. Potter and others from H. Q, Toronto, will be present. Dont miss these special meetings. Tickets for Saturday Saturday mav be had from Lieut. Mac Swain, Officer in charge, or other Salvationists. The Mission Circle gave an entertain-, merit in the Methodist Sunday School Hall Wednesday evening which was well attended. Mr.P.C. Trebilcock discharged the duties of chairman most acceptably. About 100 views of China and the work being carried on by Methodist missionaries missionaries in Szechwan Province were thrown on the canvass by the lantern in charge of Mr. Ernest Rehder and Mr. J. C. Wilkinson,'while Wilkinson,'while Miss Rilda Slemon read the descriptive matter which was so splendidly splendidly illustrated. A chorus "Our Chinese Cousins" by 4 little girls--Misses Nellie Bounsall, Ruth Grigg, Doris Dayman and Helen O.borne, and a duet by Misses Frances and Alice Worden in Chinese costume, was greatly enjoyed: Misses McLean and Pollard sang a duet Sometime, Sometime, somewhere" very nicely, and Mise Kate Percy in costume recited "A Daughter Daughter of China". TO HAVE YOUR PROPERTY PROPERTY INSURED AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE THAN NOW. No better or safer Companies to take out a policy with, than those I represent. You may have much or little, it's worth insuring. See me about Fire Insurance Insurance TO-DAY. Harry Cann The Insurance and Real Estate Man Phone 50, Bowmanville Old Boys' Following are the names and addresses of all who registered on Thursday evening evening last: From Bowmanville: Mesdames Johr we did not know enough to give them the kind of material to transform. the condi- earlier de- M. have the examination ideal, and so long - as we have the examination ideal we can Trans f orm ing conditions are never make true progress. tions given to the child in its In Ontario we are behind every other yelopment in modern times, part of the civilized world in our rever- Froebel provided twenty different oc- _ . „ , , ., ence for examinations. We cannot rise CUDa tions for the children in his kmder- Lyle.andT. Hoar;F. A.Hadoyandwife above our idea ls, and while we have the Some silly people yet think it is A. James jind wife, Misses G. Young wrong ^eal that knowledge is power and , . but he planned in his kmder- that the prime work of our public schools _ arten twenty different kinds of operative of this country is to train for the entrance i processes by which the child may take examination, or any other examination, material things and transform them into we can never get the great ^ mg ^glorious j fiew relationships and new conditions in er gag This does not include fixtures or fittings. Place V our order with the electrician today, and when . -I Mi _£ ■ : no and he presents his bill for wiring bring it to us and in cash, for we will pay you 20% of the amount Act quickly as this is the slack season ^ectrical contractors and prices will be at their lowest. For further particulars apply to The Seymour Power & Electric Company Ltd. cAt Your Sefbicç BANKOF MONTREAL! ESTABLISHED 1817 Incorporated by eAct of 'Parliament Capital -- $16,000,000 Rest -- -- $16,000,000 Undiv. Profits 1,046,217.80 Savings b Department Phone 192 Bowmanville Head„Oflice, Montreal. J. A. McClellan, Manager, Bowmanville Branch. and Margaret Trebilcock. From Toronto : James L. Hughes, wife, 47 Dundonald St. Thos. Yellowlees, wife, 676 Spadina-ave. Wallace Maas, 428 Spadina-ave. John D. Keachie, wife, 66 Bismarck-ave. A. J. Hook, 153 Lippincott. J. Wickett, 367 Berkeley._ W. W. Mason, wife, 173 St. Clair-ave, E. Rd. Moore, Grand Apts, Queen &>Hambly W. T. Craig, 6 Dennis a >ave. Mrs M. J. Downing, 100 N Beaconsfield. Mr. and Mrs. W. Craig. Mrs. P. McGill, 80 Strathcona-ave. Geo. W. and the Misses McGilL Misses H. ynd B. Williamson, 21 Suffolk. J. S. Bond,*220 GerrardiSt A. Challener, wife, 70 Kendall-aye. E. Brittain, wife, 489 Markham-st. Rev. R. J. Fallis, wife and daughter, Blythwood Rd.. J. H. Copeland, 1424 Queen-st W. Mrs. S. Anson, 375 Ossington-ave. J. C. Thompson and wife. Principal W. Scott, wife, 576 Church st. E. and the Misses Fielding, 16 Earl-st. S R~ and Miss Wickett, 124 Isabella-st. Miss L. M. Wickett, 471 Queen West. Mrs. John Smith, 810 - almerston-ave. Mrs. llenry Sheard, 56 Grosvenor St. Principal S. H. Jeffery, wife, 449 Grace-st T E. Washington and vftfe arid Misses Rilda and Stella, 663 Euclid ave. Mrs. Ella Bastian, 212 Berkeley-st. Mrs W. A. Pope, 20 Maitland. Mrs W. F. Doll, 63 Charles. Mrs. E. J. Hannam, 695 E Queen. J. D. Hannam , J. J. Copeland, 160 Spadina Road Miss Margaret Hunt, 138 Galt ave. B. S. Vanstone, Mrs. J. C., Miss May Van- stone, I75a Westminster-ave. Miss Nellie L. Pattinson, Household Science Bldg. Mrs. H. Anson. „ . . . Dr. J. S. Somers, wife, 167 Westminster. Miss Myrtle Bragg, Remington Bus ColL Mrs. J. K. and v,r. D. G M Galbraith, 396 Sunnyside-ave. . _ .. ■ Dr. F.C. Trebilcock, wife, 722 Spadina. Miss M. E, G. and R. R Waddell, 59<> Rev. Dr. Tailing, wife, 265 Havelock. Miss Bertha Doncaster, 67 Alexander. Miss Ida Lang, 462 Roxton Rd. . Mrs. (Rev.) J. Thom, 54 South Drive. Mrs. J. W. McLaughlin. ^ _ Mrs. E. J. Camplin, Miss Eva, 250 Clinton Dr. Julia Thomas, 83 Isabella st. P. L. Tait, Miss Etta, 40 Boswell ave. F R Heal, wife, Miss Netta, 529 King W. Dr. G H Carveth, wife, College & Huron. J. C. Leggitt, 40 College. , Miss G. Young, 145 Beat ™. c ?, I Byron Haddy, wife, 100 Wells st. N. Bellman, wife, 89 Winchester. ideal that we should aim to develop power and skill and character in our pupils. We are learning that. We are a little behind the rest of the world in learning it, and it is not to our credit that we should continue continue bowing down to the one test of examinations. examinations. The world is not going to test educational educational power by book-learning very long. Book-learning is all right if it is associated associated with power and skill and used as the basis for the development of character, but not otherwise. Power, skill, and character are the ideals of modern education. Let us consider consider the revelation and the value of the REV. MR. GOING, COMING. TEMPERANCE attend harmony with the revelations God has giveri him, not in harmony with some plan I give him. "What 18 th jv having a plan of my own? the little fellow might say, "if I am at all times to carry out your plans?" The littleTellow planning the work that he wishes to do and doing that work is achieving, and he is developing the achieving tendency; and the development of the achieving tendency, tendency, and the transforming tendency, and the executive tendency is the real work of all advanced modern education. There are three stages: the receptive, the reflective, and the executive in intellectual intellectual development. If you ever develop ^Sunday in Methodist Church. A treat is assured by all who Bowmanville Methodist Church next Sunday Sunday when the subjects of Temperance and Moral Remrm are to be presented by the new pastor of Port Hope Methodist church. Rev. Arthur H. Going, B. D.,for- of Hamilton, Ont. Those who _ - ~ Ep- .0 f Quinte merly -- . _ were present at the Bay Convention in this town charmed "The worth League the first week in February were by Rev. Mr. Going's address on Leaguer's place in the business of life. This will be his ?tst sermons here and those who attend will be well repaid. Service at H a m and 7 p m. The Board is asking for subscriptions to amount of $115 for four or five regular schemes of the Church--General Conference, Special contingent. Sustentation, Temperance and Moral Reform. ST. ANDREWS' GLEE CLUB ideal of power, and first of physical power the lower stages, or lowest stage, in any related se- nnlv Tust think of the development of ; p roce ss of evolution, in any your time along that line that perhaps quenC e, if you develop the lower only, ^or you are not conscious of. Why are having so much attention paid to the velopment of physical power in but Why, medi- we demodern demodern times ? Because of the new ideal, not because because of the old ideal of knowledge, because of the new ideal of power we are paying nearly as much toi calinstruction in the city schools now as we did ten years ago for the whole teaching in our schools! Why? Not to treat one child that has any disease, not to treat anv child, oh, no, but to discover the physical physical condition of the child, to discover what are the physical tendencies of the child, to reveal to the parents of the children children throughout the city what ought to be done in order to to develop those children into truly strong beings physically. Physically, we are doing a great deal, more however. We have not mere y medical inspection, but we have dental inspection. If I had to choose one thing first, I should put dental inspection first, find more trouble 1 because we in the W. W. Jardine, Miss Flora, 574 O ntar J5j- Mrs. (Prof.) J. Squair, 368 Palmerston Bl. Mrs. H. Hutchison, H9 1 College Miss Annie J. Johns, 209 Concord ave Miss Eva Clatworthy, 31 Aberdeen ave. N. B. Cobbledick, wife, 1508 Danfo ^ h Inspector W. H. Elliott and wife and Miss Elliott, 124 Walmer Rd. Miss Ruby Tackaberry, 116 Albany ave. Inspector W., W. H. Stark,74 WalmerRd Miss Edith Hoar _ ,. -, Dr. J. H. Elliott, wife, H Spadina Rd. Mrs. Chas. Tod, Whitby. ; David Hambly, Peru, Indiana, U- S- \ Mrs. J. L. Rowe, 1813 7th st W Calgary the lowest only, you are dwarfing the upper, and you can never develop even the lowest to its best limit. To develop the subordinate stages to their best limi s I must work through the highest stage in the sequence. I cannot develop the receptive receptive powers to their best limits unless I do it through the executive or highest stages in the sequence. The opposite of that is equally true. If I confine myself to the receptive powers I then lose all trie vital development of the highest intellectual intellectual and spiritual powers. The development development of the highest stage is prevented when we direct too much attention to the development of the lowest stage o any sequence. So we are now trying to develop intellectual intellectual power through operative processes largely, intellectual power which is not merely receptive and reflective but is executive. executive. Then the boy or girl will be a vital agent in the uplifting °f the race and will be able and capable of doing the work that God meant him or her to do. We are trying to develop, not to store simply, but to develop the intellectual power as we did the physical, by opera- nrrvppcsps and not bv mere knowledge Opera House, bowmanville, Mar. 17* This organization was formed about two years ago with a view to giving a better rendition of the beautiful musical service of the Lodge, but the yo^ctor, Mr. E. R. Bowles, and his capah e body of ringers enlarged their field f work in taking up Glees, Madrigals, '""""'J field Madrigals, concerted pieces ; and to-d .. . conceded to be the fines' Male Voice (Masonic) Choir in Toroi lO. Wherever they have appeared their ^ork has'deceived has'deceived the highest encomiums from the rress and musical critics. _ Every member of the Club is a soloist. It may not be out of place to say that our esteemed former townsman, Mr. John D. Keachie is the father of the Club. Several of the members are organists of churches in Toronto and all are live members of the Craft. Coming from a musical Lodge numbering amongst its members the f T-v r a q Vogt, A. T. Cringan, " ame Ba=h J al: Tripp, H.M. Fletcher Mus. and many .others, it is the result of such tive processes and not by storing. , , . Studies are directed to the development of power, and not merely to of the minds of the children an atmosphere of musical proficiency that has evolved St. Andrew s Glee CiuD. These talented singers will give a Concert in the Opera House, Bowmanville, March 17th, under the invitation on and Sces'ôflerüÿfem Lodge, A. M., No. 31. G.R.C, the storing We are not trying to make scholars so much as we are trying to make executive men and women, capable of achieving the condr- tions that thev see should be achieved, capable of transforming the conditions in which they find themselves. (To be continued next week) >S >1 A •/I z M I m 2) >1 >5 z v •• i and in aid of Bowman- vïlîe Hospital. The programme will be worthy of the occasion embracing musical numbers of rare merit full of «he f ra« and the gay, comedy and fun m music. Plan of hall opens at Mitchell s Drwg Store, Wednesday March II, at 12 o clocx Tickets 50c. noon. Go to Peter coffees. Murdoch's for teas wxl j , -4 "4 m ;'~Ce-v'v4. :r ' Nr>- -fb:: isiihliÉÈÉÉ WÈÊÊÉ .