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Watch this label: It tells when Your Subscription Expires The Carpenter and the College Graduates. A Dramatic After inner Speech at a London Banquet, had never made!'a Speech, on the by a Man who Failure of Education to Educate. Does education educate? This pointed question was asked and answered under singular circum- stances at a banquet recently held in London, England. A man who had never made a speech in his life ad- dressed a gathering of college grad- uates, and he made a hit. The article dealing with this was published from the pen of Alexander Irvine in "The Teacher's World" and reprinted in Public Opinion. It is as follows: "About one hundred and fifty stud- ents who had just received their de- grees met for a final dinner, before they separated to go into various parts of the world, probably never to meet again. They had been so sur- feited with dignified drivel during the four years at college that they de- cided to omit the address at the final function. "Of two hundred professors there was one man whose criticism of eol- lege addresses was well known. He had never made an address in his life, and it was suggested, more as a joke than with any serious intent, to in- vite him to deliver the address. If they had imagined for a moment that he would accept the invitation he never would have been asked. He ac- cepted, however, and the committee decided to let the class grin and bear it. "The dinner took place in one of the world's greatgst hotels. The ban- queting hall was known far and wied for its artistic arrangements and luxurious furniture. The young men were dressed in conventional full evening dress. Most of them were future captains of industry. During the course of the dinner there was a good deal of joking and some specu- lation about the 'professor's address. When the dinner was over the chair- man rapped for order and introduced the speaker. «" 'Gentlemen,' he began, 'I never made a speech in my life, and I don't intend to begin now. I have some- thing to say, however, and in saying it I will follow Luther's three-fold rule; "Stand up straightly, speak out boldly, and sit down quickly." "'We are in one of the famous banqueting halls of the world. Bel- shazzar's Hall compared to this was a lodging on the third floor back. No such art existed in those days as we see around this room. No such viands graced his board. What there was there was elegant for that day, but we live in another age, an age of art, artcraftmanship and luxury. From the four corners of the earth came the things on this table. From the low- est forms of day labour to the highest forms of art, we have around us samples of at least a hundred forms of human work. "'Take this tablecloth, to begin with. It is of most exquisite work- manship. It involves weaving--to go no further back--bleaching, smooth- ing, designing. Tt is a damask linen, beautiful and most pleasing to the eye. I want to ask you a question; Is there anyone here who knows from personal experience anything about the labour involved? Have any of you ever contributed any labour to the manufacturing of table linen? I am serious, gentlemen. If any of you have, I would like him to say so.' There was absolute silence. 'I under stand then,' he continued, 'That the making of such a thing is beyond your ken. "'Let me draw your attention to the samples of pottery here. Surely the men and women who produce such beautiful things are artists. What a in itself. I will not detail the pro- cess; we see the result, but the various forms of labour involved are practical- ly unknown to us." I would be rather surprised to find a man among you who had ever touched this industry at any angle.' In this way he went over the silver, dwelt rather lengthily on the subject 'of mining and the life of a miner. Nothing escaped his notice. He drew attention to the carpet and rugs on the floor, to the curtains and drapery of the great windows, to the mural decorations, executed by the greatest living mural painter. There was a rich fresco around the room. He cal- led attention to it. When he had gone over most of the things in the room he turned again to the table. " 'There are cut flowers here,' he said, 'Most of you spent years in the study of botany, but I don't think any of you would undertake to give us a complete classification of what we see and enjoy on the table' There was a disposition to laygh, but he wiped the smile from every face around the table by quietly saying, 'Perhaps you are to be congratulated that you are at an age when a sense of humor covers a multitude of sins, but per- sonally I cannot enjoy that which gives me pain. "'I am a representative university man, seriously asking myself and you whether the system we call education educates?' The silence became op- pressive. The men were thinking. '" 'Perhaps,' he continued, 'I should have put you more at ease by telling you at the beginning that I have never experienced the joy of fashioning articles with my own hands. Nor anything useful for that matter. Here we are, then, a group of men on whom a university has set its stamp. We produce nothing we eat, we could not even lend a hand in the making of anything we see around us, and truth compels me to venture the suggestion that in ninety-nine cases out of hundred the chief motive of a college education is to escape actual partici- pation in just such work as given or ought to give joy to the worker. "'A time-keeper performs a useful function, so does a cash register but the function of education is not to turn out time-keepers or cash regis- ters. It has been truly said that if ten Bachelors of Art were wrecked in mid-ocean they could not build a pon- toon to save their lives! They would be equally helpless in any critical emergency. where practical knowledge of the ordinary things around us was imperatively necessary. A statement of the problem is not a solution, and we do not gain much by stating that the system is to blame and we are not. "'You certainly are not to blame. You are the victims of whatever system we have, I cannot say that I am blameless. I do not believe that a smattering of languages, of mathe- matics, and history is education. I believe the system of cra: these thin, to pass an examination is pernicious. So having been asked for the first time in. my life to make an address, I made it an opportunity to enter my protest. " 'Education is to prepare and equip for the duties and responsibili- ties of life--not o sun turn out industrial and commercial bosses, gaffers, time- keepers and cash registers, I would hardly be justified in taking up time with these observations 7 wi So, in addition, I want to say this: Most of you are destined to be masters of men. You will organize and mobilize their labour, you will oversee it. " 'When you see men around you actually creating beautiful things with their hands, I would like you to remember that it was my opinion that actual labour in the arts and crafts and industries B an infinitely nobler yiness of man- contribution to the ha; joy it must be for a man to hold such | kind than pi coupons and living a thing in his hand--complete--and | o1 the sweat of other men's say, "I made it!" Many forms of labour are involved here, also--the|understand that digging of clay, the carting, fashion-| hand is as ing, painting, burning, baking, snd|of the body. finishing. If there is a man here who bi idered has ever touched this form of labour, let him answer. No one! exquisite, and I know, costly, cut glass. That also involves much labour ante oy oul aud great ari. It ia wiique ingustey « men he wil wit opto our Say. but e worl to training EE the hy shoud Be on it be 'co education ? an consider ds University perpet- N iinet iy in Pini T PERRY 57a THE ADVERTISING MEDIUM OF PORT "PERRY AND VICINITY WAITING THE BOARD; A large delegation attended the sittings of the Railway Board held in Whitby on Thursday of last week. The case for the Whitby-Lindsay line was ably presented by three speakers--Mr. W. E. N. Sinclair, K.C., Dr. T. E. Kaiser, ex-M.P.,, and Mr. C. C. Jeffrey. Mr. Sinclair and Dr. Kaiser both outlined the grievance to the locality when the C.N.R. proposed the drastic cut of 75 per cent. of their railway service. This matter has been clearly set oht in these columns from time to time, and our readers-are quite familiar with the facts. The presentation by these gentlemen was clear and forceful and was duly noted by the Railway Board. Mr. C. C. Jeffrey, who has made a detailed study of the railway situation here (in com- pany with Mr. Taylor) presented a clear and constructive program by which he proposed to give to Port Perry a daily train service directly to and from 'Toronto. This he showed could be done without injuring ser- vice in other local branches of the railway, and with a saving of 148 miles in the daily run, together with the removal of one train crew. Mr. Fairbairn, representing the Canadian National Railway, claimed that the program suggested by Mr. Jeffrey would not effect a saving and declared that the Railway could not accede to the request of the people of this vicinity for a daily train service. SS TTS TT ev, TR This Letter Strikes at Te Heart of the Matter. Toronto, January 27th, 19381 Mr. C. C. Jeffrey, Port Perry; Dear Sir: Having read in yesterday's paper, where you were to meet the Railway Commis- sion in reference to the cut in service oh the Whitby-Lindsay line, allow me to take the liberty to write you and inform you, that if the C. N. R. really wanted to they could make the Port Perry branch pay; but as things stand now they won't do anything to the road to allow it to take the heavy power and the result is that heavy freight for Oshawa and points that way, that should go over the Port Perry branch, is being diverted and sent around via Scarboro Jct. 2 A wide sumber of enginsering four door sedan models. These . characteristically display the ex- ternal advances in styling, The chrome-plated screen conceals, and rotects -the radiator core. A curved fender tie-bar supports the are (<htome-ylated head lamps. Added and | passenger comfort a are seen in the im- Pontiac. The longer LE ot 112 inches lends it~ self to pore beautiful body Pro- aud a larger, he Vandana o shows, lower a) "DECISION issioner Norris pointed out that a 75 per Con reduction of service was very drastic, and reserved decision until a mote thorough study of the evidence is made. In the mean- time the service continues as usual pending the decision of the Board. et eee CAREFUL EXAMINATION NEEDED It is very evident that all the statements made by the Railway should be brought under close scrutiny. = Already Mr. Jeffrey has found serious errors in the figures submitted to the Railway, and the Railway authorities have admitted an overcharge as to their losses by some $68,000. What is to be remembered is that the peo- ple must look to the Railway Board of a fair consideration of local interests. Private citizens are handicapped for lack of accurate information. believe that the Board is composed of fair minded gentlemen, who will endeavour to give necessary railway service. This whole problem is becoming serious on the North American continent; and may give rise to a united movement for the protection of local interests. This is everybody's business, and any person who has a constructive idea along this line, is invited to use the columns of The Star to further the welfare of the people as to Rail- way service. There are hundreds of railway men that would be only too glad of the chance to go to work, if the C. N. R. would undertake to put that line in shape; but while our present Government is spending millions to relieve the unemployed, our Government owned rail- way is cutting every place they possibly can and laying off men every day, "men that.they really need to handle this work," and for no other reason than to take care of an excess load of officials and private cars. You would be doing the railway men a great favour if you would bring this to the attention of the Government members and have it taken up in the proper way. Yours, A fiery Man tained through the larger, roomier Fisher bodies and a better ventila- tion development. The whole body of the new car is practically cush- ioned on rubber, The 1931 Pontiac is being offered for less than the price at which any Trevious Pon- rt has been at-|tiac was introduced. will Oswald Love was tried by, last Thursday; and was indeterminate sentence, one year, after paying costs the near future. Prompt payment of subscriptions be much appreciated » a Ts a OSWALD LOVE FOUND GUILTY ON BOTH CHARGES Sentenced to Year at Burwash Herbert Tait to Pay Costs, and is on Suspended Sentence. before Judge Ruddy, at Whit- proven guilty on two charges of stealing live stock. He was sentenced to six months at Burwash on each charge--one year in all; with six months Herbert Tait was let out on suspended sentence for to the amount of $90, John Roberts gets Two Months, and Costs. John Roberts was brought before Magistrate Purdy for violation of the Liquor Control Act. guilty, and sentenced to two months at Whitby, together with the payment of costs, or thirty days more in jail, Hugh Nind's Face Badly Cut At the hocksy match between Port Perry High School and Cannington Continuation School, on Friday evening of last week, at the Port Perry Arena, Hugh Nind, Port Perry, had the misfortune to fall; and, his face on the skate of one of the players. his cheek was cut through, and two of his teeth were loosened. Doctor Rennie had to put in fifteen stitches, but you can't keep a good man down, and Hugh is about again, with every prospect of being "as good as ever' He was found in falling, strike As a result, in Port Perry High School defeated | Cannington in the Port Perry Arena on Friday, January 36th. This puts | the High School team in the play off | with Uxbridge to decide the winner of this group. The High School team have played excellent hockey this year, having only lost one game up to this time. | The Cannington players tried hard to make their score in the first period by checking the Port Perry players i before they were able to get over their own blue line. And it was through the good work of Allen Dow- son, the High School goalie, that Cannington did not pile up a score for shot after shot was stopped by Dowson's stick or pads. The first period showed a very small score, each team securing a goal. But in the second period Port Perry began to play better hockey and the score rose to 3-1, In the third period Port Perry-¢on- tinued to pile up the score. And as far. as Port Perry was concerned the game was going fine. There was only five minutes to go and the game would be over. But be- fore the time was up Hugh Nind of Port Perry team, received a very serious cut at the side of his mouth, when he fell on the back of another man's skate. But instead of worrying about him- self he turned to one of his fellow players and said "go out and win the game." The goals were scored as follows: In the, first period, Hugh Nind for Port Perry, and Butterworth for Can- nington. In the second period, Tom Harris scored two goals, and Fred Switzer assisted Hugh Nind to score one. In the third period, Hugh Nind assisted Storey Beare to score a goal. Corner scored for Cannington. Tom Harris scored again for Port Perry. and Johnston for Cannington. The: eighth goal for Port Perry was scored Fred Switzer scored for Port Perry f "| Port Perry High School defeats Cannington Continuation School for Port Perry by Albert Cawker, assisted by Storey Beare. Canning- ton's fourth goal was scored by Hal- ward. Tom Harris scored the ninth for Port Perry. It was a very clean ggme of hockey and Port Perry team appreciate the good sportsmanship of the Canning- ton boys. The final score was 9-4. Ea a a The Carpenter, and College Graduates (continued from column 2) which the man who does no useful work at all is considered a gentleman, and the creator of wealth and beauti- ful things should be considered 'low caste, in Anglo Saxon civilization. "'1 want to point out to you that the highest form of culture and re- finement known to mankind was ulti- mately associated with tools and labor. In order to do that I must present to you a picture, imaginative, but in accord with the facts of history and experience. "He pushed his chair back, and stood a few feet from the table. His face betrayed deep emotion. His voice became wonderfully soft and ir- resistingly appealing. The college men had been interested; they were now spellbound. He raised his ha and went through the motions drawing aside a curtain. " 'Gentlemen,' he said, 'may I in- troduce to you a young Galilean who is a master builder -- Jesus of Nazareth!" "It was a weird act. The silence became oppressive. As if addressing an actual person of flesh and blood . continued: "'Master, may I ask you, as I asked these young men, whether there is anything in this room that Ju could make with your hands as of men make them? "There was a pause, a brief moment or two, then with the slow measured stride of an Orient he went to the end of the table, and took the table- cloth in his hand, and made bare corner and carved oak of great table. In that position 1 i into the faces of the men and said: "The Master says, "Yes, I could the table--I am a Carpenter!' 4