The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

4 rhe Canadian Statesman, BowTnanville, May 23, 1988 EDITORIAL COMMENT Heads, Hearts and: Hands More than one million persons will bt- admitted to Ontario's active-treat- Mtent hospitals this year. To many, this fpight seem a staggering number for a Province o! about' seven million people. Toothers more closely associated with the hospital picture in Ontario, it only znirrors the beavy burdens our bospital : eop>e meet with efficiency, day in, ay eut, as they care fot' the sick in this province. Thiis year in Ontario, some 84,000 hospital employees, plus another 16,000 ~rt-time emnployees, will be combin- g their tume, their talents and their frairling in more than 220 public hos- #tais, with almost 48,000 hôspital beds. the year's end, 14,200,000 total days lihospital care will have been pro- çJfd for both aduits and children. ;~National Hospital Day, in May, was & sgpecial epportunity for al cf us te *flect on the fine work heing done by tmr hospitals and. the people wbo serve ii thém. -It is alse appropriate te re- Member -those who serve -se diligently ýni our interests without pay: the 3800 f'ustees, wbo guide and govern the a!- errs of our community hospitals, and the 70,000 women of the hospital aux- fiiaries, who have become such an in- tegràI part o! the modern hospital. The theme o! this vear's National Hospital Day - "Heads, Hearts and Hands . . . In the Service of Others," acknowledges the mile being played by aIl these people. Tbey, as the guardians of community health, are ensuring that the hospital patient in this province is Goods receiving the best medical care pos- sible. It is perhaps too much a truismn te say that in the past 100 years we have seen tremendous changes in medi- cal research and knowledge. Just recently a revolutionary surgical opera- tien in the United States le! t a man functioning with an artificial heart. Other sweeping changes in modern medical technology in recent years have perhaps obscured what-is still the para- rnount truth: that the individual re- mains- the key te the quality o! our hospital care. It is ne coincidence that this montb we aise commnemomate the birth et Florence Nightingale, the uncompro- mising "Lady With the Lamp", who, more than 100 years ago, established igilance and devotion te duty as the same transcendent qualities we find today in the 'prof essional bospital workér. From. the doctor who visits the patient in the ward, te the kitchen worker wbo helps prepare bis meals; f rom the trustee .who ensures high hos- pital standards te the community vol- unteer who works and serves te make these standards higber, we can be just- Iy proud cf our hospitals and our hospital people. Tru]y, bere are close te 200,000 beads, hearts and pairs cf hands in Ontamio, a]] engaged, as a "team" in the service cf others - you, and me, and our families. Ontario residents should spare a moment during May te salute them - they're a winning team. The Prairies Pay Off John A. Macdonald's Reluetant Investmei#t (Tenth Of A Sertes> By WALT MeDAYTER When Canada 'bought Rupert's Land from Hudson's Bay Comn- pany in 1869 for £M0,000, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald was far from convinced that hie was making a wise investment. In fact, a few years earller, he had disclosed in a letter, "I would be quite wiling. personal- ly, to leave that whole country a wilderness for the next haif cen- tury, but I fear if Englishmen do net go there, Yankees will." And se, Canada's first prime* ninister purchased the western prairies wlth a dog-in-the-man- ger attitude. He didn'L particu- larly want the west, at that time at leait, but committed Canada tn Itç purchase rather than ]et the Americans have ItL One of the objectives stressed In Con- federation was te protect the prairies trom ýmericaa annexa- tion.Ï The reason4. for Macdonald's lack of enthuilasmn were many. As a fledgling nation, Canada had littie finances for western expansion. Aise, Macdonald feared Canadq would meet re- bellion in ther ,west from three groups - the plains Indians, the half-breed Metis (who In 1869 -and 1885 did rebel under Louis 'Riel's leadership)i, and the new- ly-arrived Americans. But even more significant was the fact that at the time of the purchase the economie potential of the prairies iccked pocr indeed. Apart fromi a few fur-trading forts peck-m aîking the plains, there was littie settlement. The, descendants cf Lord Selkirk's Red River settlement, and a small number of French-Cana- dians and half.breed Metis Satisfactory or Returned The best guarantee against extra- marital dailiance and divorce in tribal Africa, The Financial Post says, is the established custom cf buying a bride. if the wife mishehaves, the husband gets the purchase price back fmom bis father-in-laxv. If the husband is the ý "landerer, he ]oses the lot - bride end dowry. .L ut this time-tested quid pro quo Sfast breaking dlown under, f irst, 4lemocracy and, now, inflation. The bride price in some nations bas jump- te t the equivalent o!f five ye.ars cf Report frc By Russell C There seerns littie doubt that the * .h-tmb wbicb explqdled Wednesday ai:- lernoon was intended for the Members Sf Parliament. We can be grateful te *Divine Providence wbo certainiy teck 1harge te prevent what would have 1Ipeen a tragic page in Canada's history. 4ý If the bomb bad expioded in the 4ieuse o! Commons Chamber it migbt Aave kilied or seriousiy injured the týrime Minister and Members of the 1Cabinet, almost al cf whom wcre -present. The gallery was packed wvtb :>everal hundred sc hool children. The inani with the bomb wouid have steod Inthe Gallery to throxv it onto the floor :pf the House o! Commons. The conse- iî4uences o! an explosion in the Gallery 3Rre toe awesome to contemplate. -One bad to be pretty proud o! the :ýhildren, and, indeed o! the M.P.'s. :Ihen the bomb exploded theme was ne 1 parue. Everyone, witb the exception o! few M.P. Doctors xvlo went te sec if bey ceuld give aid, remained in their yýlaces. When the exact nature o! the Zéxplosion had been determined the e{ouse adjourned for an bourt- t permit -dhe building to be cleared and searchrd ZThis week Mm. Diefenbaker lmunch- ý1a bombsbell of bis own. lie an- ýiounced 'that he and Mr. Fulton were tLaking ne further part ini the iTr singer investigation. Iii direc1in,[ a Zbitter attack at the enquirv the Con- :ýervative leader apparently' over-look- jed that he bad urged that such an -nquiry be set up and aiso he had 4urged that its procecdings be hrld in »'Ublic. It is obvieus ibat Mr. Justice Spence 'lias received evidence which xill en- :>blebhim te miake a !inding that eveuits Iurrounding Mrs. Munsinger's activities :kreated a security risk. Having made >~is first finding he may verv well go *i o find that Mr. Diefenbaker, wben »rime Minister, mishandled the mattcm. the prospective bridegroom's income. Angry young men in Kenya are band- ing together bo protest payments and talk up the marriage-for-love idea. In Nigeria, one youth association wants a $75 ceiling on the bride prie'e. Perhaps the best that the younger men can hope for is a suggestion f rom a Lagos man that "if after a given period the purchased wvife shows no signs of productivity she would be re- turned to be re.possessed and the full purchase price ref unded by her parents." )M 0Ottawa *Honey, M.P. In using such des.criptions as smear, star Ch~.mbr tapctics, siander,,MCr thyisrn and so on, the Conservative leader is winding up for a full scale offensive when the report of the Judge is filed in Parliament. Mr. Diefenbaker ohviousiy believes that the best defence is a good offence. Health Minister Allan MacEachen announced this week that a national medicare plan will be.in effeet by July lst, 1967. As of that date the federal government will be prepared to pay one-haîf the cost of medical care in- surance prograrns set up by the Prov- inces. To qualify for sucb payments the plans must cover a full range of care by generai practitioners and spe- cialists, cover at least 90 per cent of a province's population at the beginning, be administered by a non-profit agency and be portable across Canada. The. other one-haif of the cost will be raised by the provinces in whatever way they decide. It may be by general taxation, by premiums, or, by a combination of both. ARDA Minister Maurice Sauve aninounced a federal contribution of 50 per cent of the cost of financing On- fdrio's $700,000. Farm Pond Assistance Programn. The purpose of the programn is to increase the productivity of farms throughout Ontario by supplementing farm water supply for livestock water- ing, spraying.and irrigation. Under the program a grant of 50 per cent is provided for farmers who undertake the construction of an ap- proved farm pond. The maximum grant is $500. for any one pond per 100 acres of land or fraction thereof. The assistancée includes the Cost of digging test holes, excavation,' levelling and fencing and is exclusive of the owner' s own labour, machinery or material. Durham County's Greati Family Journal Estabished 112 years aqa in 1854 Aima Incorporating The Bowmanvilie News The Newcastle Independènt The Orono News ILb Auitbor s.Secod Clous Mail by the Post Office Dept.. Ottawa. enid for payaient ci postage L a s Produced every Wednssday by * THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITE!) P.O. Box 190 62-66 King St. W., Bcwmcznville, Ontario JOHN M. JAMES GEO. W. GRAHAM GEO. P. MORRIS EDrnrmPuausnn ADvro. MANAGER BusiNs MGR. -Copyrqbt ind/io properit r rghtii subujut in th. image appet¶rîng on this proot. Permission te reproducs, i whole or in part gnd in anr terni whatoo.ver, poziculorly by photoraphic or offset in as . publication. munt be obtain.d train te publsher and tihe printer. Any uncuthorimed gpou.ctom W..îbe subjec te couru, in Iaw.Y SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 a Year, strictly in advance $8 50 a Yom rinithe United Statom Aubtouqb overy precaution wiIl he token toavoid errer The. Canadien Stoemati accepta adverti.. f~ l in ifcenume oe th.undoxstandîn in tt i l t b holabl, for any errerinw a yadvertisment :Ufsbd b.r.under maes a ientof such advertisement lu requested in wrttanq bthe.adverttaar »« ýratmred te Nei Canadien Stateumoi business office dut siqned by the advertisur aad with suck or etcorecton plaînly noted ia wntinq thereon. and inmlintcase if aiiy errer se aoted in %et er.ctad by th. Canadien Stateeman its h bbuty e"ah1 net e*ceedsuch a portion oft the catir. oeuf #W* dwuhiemeat au th*. sove occupfed by the notaid errer bea te the. ebele .pace oeupted -lmperial 011 CIltection The first furrow .. . and a patch of western wilderness becomes new farmland. 25 YEARS AGO (May 29, 1941> Congratulations to S. George Werry, Selina, on passing his fourth year exams in the Faculty of Dentistmy, University cf Toronto. Camp. Ed. Cook has'etired fromn the V.G.C. and takea empioyment in construction wemk on Manitoulin Island where Mrs. Cook soon will jein him for the summer. Mm. Byron Crawford who has been working at the Hydre camp at Bain, was home recuperating fmom a sprained ankie, but bas since retumned te Bala. Paddy Weish, scn et Mr. and Mrs. James Welsh, Bow- manville, was on the air Monday evening, talking and singing fmom oaverseas and was beard very cleamiy in Bowmanviile. Miss Jean Morris is spend- ing the summer with ber parents, Mr. and Mms. F. F. Morris, having completed hem course at the Ontario Coilege of Educatian, Toron- to, and graduated without haviag te try examinations. A picture that was taken for the Evening Teiegramn on the night cf the Guides' concert in aid of the War Victims' Fund, appeared in that paper Thursday. It sbowed Mms. Royal Quinn, captain cf the First Bow- man ville Company, and Miss Ruth Hutchinson whc direct- 'éd a play that-evening.' Mr. Tom Dustan, B.A., a town boy, preached in St. John's Chumch on Sunday evening. Youth Day was celebrated in the moning. "Do No Sinful Action" w as pleasingiy rendemed by Mast- ers Wallace Diiiing, Bobby Coîrke and Hugh Dustan. Canon C. R. Spencer ad- dressed the young cengrega- tien. Tom Cartwright, major- dome at the Department of Agriculture offices, King S., bas just retumned from his annual euting in the Hali- burton district. He was at Mountaîn Lake, near Min- den. One or more ather deter- mincd car thieves picked a really fine auoomobile te use when they took J. H. McKeever's car fror n l front of his bouse during the dead of night on Saturday. Holiday Visitr.:- Ivan Poliard and John Cmook of Garten's Garage, with their parents in Lind- say and Loneville, repeet- ively. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Blake, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Blake, and Mm. Gordon Blake, B.A., Hamilton, with Rev. W. G. and Mrs. Blake at the Manse. Misses Mary Stewart, Elsie Howatli and Frances Dow- ney, Toronto, with Miss Edythe Carter. Miss Htele Pritchrdwith 49 YEARS AGO (May 31, 1917) Lieut. R. H. Riekard whe has been visîting his parents for a few days left Wednes- day for Tomante te jein the University Corps for over- sens duty in the Impemial Army. Mrs. Robt. Taylor and mether, Mrs. Green, Stirl- ing, have joined the fomm- er's husbnnd here and will resîde on King St. West. Mr. S. J. Washington who has been on a business mis- sion here has returned te his home in Glendive, Montana. Mrs. C. A. Bonisteel, Belle- ville, is visiting hem mother, Mrs. James Knight, Lake Shore Farm. Mm. Fred D. Cherry, of Schenectady, N.Y., is visiting his mother at Cherry Cot- tage. Mr. Geo. lîîgb', Rockwood, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Adams, High St North. Mrs. M. A. Jeweil is visit- ing her daughter, Mrs. N. B. Cobbledick, Taronto. Dm. Edwin Washington, daughter Norma and son Day, have returned te their home in OSAGE, Sask. Lieut. C. C. Laughcr is expected horne from Prince Albert, Sask., Ibis week ta resumne bis work as Choir Director and Organist in tbe Metbodist Churcb and ieacb- er o!fntsic in the Pubiiç Scbools o! the town. Messrs. Garnet Richards, Chas. Fleming and L. Mc- Lean and Misses Gertrude and Irma Babcock and Hazel Walters spent tbe holiday in Toronto. Miss Sanderson, Bcwman- ville Hospital, wns in Ment- real visiting ber sister Miss Dorotby Sanderson, R.N., who is gcing aversens short- 13'. Mrs. John Grigg visited hem sister, Mms. Roger Fish- leigb, Tomante. Mr. and Mrs. Fîshieigb recently cele- brted thcîm pennl wedding. Mrs. A. Goodfellow and son Jack, Toronto, ecently visited hem brother, Mm. Wm. Adams, High St. North. Rev. A. S. Ross, Montreal West, Que., was recent guest of his nunt, Mrs. Geo. M. Carruthers. Mrs. Gmace Raworth bas retumned fromn a vemy pleas- ant visit with Toronto rela- tives. Miss Eva Curtis, Toronto, spent the weekend at home. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fluker, Whitby, w e r e weekend guests at her father's, Mr. Chas. Cox. Miss Kate Dustaîî, Toron- to, spent the weekend at home. Mrs. Wm. Maynard and daughter Arletta visited Toroate friends. Enfield: Messrs. F. T. Ash- ton, Arthur Ormiston, Wes- ley Knapp and J ohn Hobbs have purchaaed new mutes. NoIU Or», Fearing that te new Cana- dian goverament was golng to forte his feliow Metis off their land, Louis Riel led two rebel- lions ln the west. Hie was hanged at Regina on Nov. 6, 1885. around St. Boniface, were doing some farming, but they depend- ed more on buffalo meat for their food than on agriculture. With the province of Manitoba created in 1870, however, the outlook became more promis- ing. 'rhousaîîds of settiers from Britain, Canada and the U.S., lured by the Free Land Home- stead Act cf 1872, began to flood into the newly-acquired Cana- dian prairies. Sonie foîtnd prairie life tee hard. They gave in, packed titeir few possessions, and with heads bent. retiirnèd te un casi- er, life in the east. Others stayed. At the titrn of the century, prairie population reached 400,090. By 1931. it swelled te almost 21ý million, in the process creating two great new provinces, Saskatchewan and Aberta, i 1905. Yes, the west was growing. And with it, Caniada's presperity grew. toc. Thanks te the rich prairie soul, wheat sen was playing a vital role in Canada's economy. By 1921, it had becomne otîr most valuiahle expert, represent- ing more than 25 per cent. of our entire export trade. It had not taken the prairies long te epay in full the lnvest- ment reluctantly made by John A. Macdonald in 1869. Torent n 'TéIegram News Service - CLIP AND SAVE - Be.Hese NEWS by Randy Sallown After thîs long rest period I'm back writing again now that we have lots of news te report. Fimst off, the executive elec- tien campaign is going great guns. The first thing that meets your eye upon entering the school is the wildest as- sortment of pop-art. Vote for se and se, the best treasurer or president yet. Really it isn't pop art. The posters al 'the candidates made this year are just fabulous. Several running for presi- dent and second vice dispiay sa much artistîc ability 1 feel they sheuld be pushed into the Art Committee or Pubiicity position. It seems like just the other day I was doing the seme thing. I can't figure eut havi a year dan pass se quickly. Believe me, it's great fun, theugh. The rewards one gets from serving a year on the executive just can't be ceunt- cd and I wouid heartily en- courage any ambîtieus persan te ua for an executive pos- ition next yeam. It was just like puliing teeth ta get people ta ua for executive positions on the Students' Council this year and this is of course ter- ri bi* vwmong. When election lime ralsq around there shauld be a mass of people accepting and running. After al. the executive means the Student Council, which in turn means dances, trips and other activi- ties thmeughout the year. Some peeple never ealize this fact though. Loeking back on the achieve- ments of this yeam's Students Couneil we see a vemy im- pressive record. There was the Hi-Tîme trip, the many dances that were ail great successes and each one had a band for entertain- ment and last, but net least, the Spring Prom. The big- gest achievement of ail. A lot of hard work was put into this year's Prom and it was worth it. I wouid iiké ta thank JI Ames and Neil Richards for their great con- tributions te the Prom. People lîke Neil and Jili gave their ail to make this the fimat suc- cessful fermalinl years. The music was great and every- thing went like clockwork. A successfui formai was definite- ]y needed this ycar for we were beginning te wonder whethem or net to have a fermai due te the failures of previeus years. Thanks again, you came through when we needed you most. I know I'm nussing smre- thing but I can't think what it is. Oh weli, I can put it in ncxt time -. I hope! Memorial Hospital Weekly Report For the week of May 16-22 inclusive: Admiions355 Births, 4 maie, 2 femnale 6 Dinoharges *.....« Major operations9 Miner operationm . .....25 Emoegiency treatmenta j. 29 Vàtlng humu -8 pMu dhil71 &I Younqman's C0klumn Home, is the place where we are, usually, treated the best, and we ap- preciate the least. Long ago, someone uaid "There's no place like home." That statement could be interpreted two different ways, i.e., that it is nice, and restful, or the exact opposite. Life around the average domicile would be pretty tame if there were neyer any differences of opinion, or if some one outside the family circle didn't upset the equilibrium once in a while with some damfool action, or the wife run true to form like the other day when she looked out cf the window, and asked when I was intending toecut the long grass on the lawn. In fun, I replied t hat, it could grow a bit longer and be used as hay if we had an ani- mal to eat it. Looking straight at me, she enquired, archly, "when did jack- asses quit eating hay?" Maybe some townsfolk think that our crop cf brand new postmen don't move verv fast; tbey can hustle if neces- sary, like the one who requested the use of our bathroom - he sprinted from the front door te the John" in nothing fiat. The same day, a friendly undertaker brought us a good book; a secretary-treasurer delivered an over- due pay cheque, and a female canvas- ser nicked us for' a contribution to a worthwhile cause. Strange how things happen in bunches. And speaking cf bunches, you should have seen the bunch that descended on us on Moth- er's Day. My brother-in-law, and his wife from Erin; mother-in-law and sister-in-law from Toronto; our daugh- ter. husband and famlly f rom Richmond Hill; another daughter, famuly, and neighbor from Courtice; the Bob Youngman family of Kendal, and the Art Youngmans cf Tyrone. Before you start gushing "Ooh, how i-,ice!" Let me mention that, I can take our relatives in small doses, but when they start te swarm, it's pretty unnerving. We're only starting te get back te normal from that ghast]y experience cf enter- taining twenty two cf ihem at once. No place like Home? Bah! We awoke, feeling quite chiliy, after one cf those real cold nights, a fortnight ago, because ihe cil furnace wasn't functioning. The electrician who answered our s.o.s. found a "short" in i I THE PERFECT HIGIT SCHOOL Virtually everybody these days is upset about our educational system. The public scbeols are net teaching the urchins te read, write and figger. The high scbools are massive, seetbing fac- tories tumning out illitemates. The col- leges are septic tanks c! sex, marijuana and LSD. Most o! this is pure poppycock, cf course, but a critical society is a healtby one, according te Hugh Dunnit, that great Welsb bard aind beatnik o! the eleventeenth century. This makes Canadians about the healthiest critters in the hemisphere. Columnists aver that high schools are run like military camps, producîng lock-step conformists who haven't leamned te tbink. This is patent baleney. Tbey think one helluva lot more than did these same columnists, when they came eut o! Hay!ork Centre with net mucb more tban a bumning desire te get away from said centre, a lousy basic education and a sbiny blue serge suit. Lots of parents, and some teachers, are cf the opposite opinion: that there is far toc much freedoni of speech. dress and action, toc many frilîs, flot enough good hard work and good hard punish- mient. These comments corne f rom par- ents who worked one-quarter as bard in school as their kids do, and teachers who atrophied some years ago. The kîds tbemselves, dependîng on home background, their own personali- tiEs, and their talent, or lack o! it, look on schoel as a jail or a bail. Some think o! it rather like having a bail in a j ail. School boards beef about the cost of evemything, and the administration beefs about the shortage o! everything and the teachers beef about the paper jungle and the custodians beef about the salaries and the heurs and the teachers and the administration and the school board. You might think, !rom ail this nag- ging, that there are some slight imper- fections in our high schools. And yen might be ight. But it's net as bad as it sounds. What I can't undemstand is that I baven't been appmoached for a defini- tien o! the perfect higb school. It's probably just an oversight, and because I'm net a pushy type. But wbo is better qualified? I've been te high scbool my- self, I womk in the blasted factory every day, and I have a daughtem who cornes the motor; he took it away, but le! t a temporary replacement, after which the house became unusually warm; thé thermometer registered eighty six deg- rees and stili climbing. Only one W~ng te do, go down cellar, and rernovffthe f use then, when we got shivery, g down and screw it back. As this" ap- pened during that cold speil, I was going up and down the cellar stepi like a blinkin' yo-yo. 0f course, if the heat control mechanism had work- ed properly - but it didn't, which meant that we had a choice, either work the fuse; let the house get hot, and sit around panting, or keep it cool, and pretend to like it. Our street has an average amnount o! little toddlers; those dear littie chaps with anjgelic faces that impel you to stop and pat their curly heads, and when you start walking away, run their wagons and tricycles into your heels. One o! these sweet littie cherubs found a large stone, picked it up, and wishing to deposit it somewhere, tod- dled onto our verandah and heaved it through the glass cf our aiuminum storm door - the little se and s0! About two weeks ago, Butch closed the cellar door, it didn't "catch"; she tried it again with the same resuit; the third time she really slammed it, and jarred the electric dlock !rom the wall which meant tossing the pieces in the garbage and buying a new one, after whîch, I installed a proper hook which ber ladyship dlaims should have been done a year ago. Now there's a snide remark that could lead to a jail term for wife-beating, or divorce. Our back lawn is homne made, and pretty uneven te cut. The other day, while trying te operate the power mower up and down the bumps, a rab- bit bounded off with me in pursuit, which caused my "baIl and chain" te suggest that, on future occasions, it might impress the neigbbors if I wore traditional hunting tegs while a rec- ord piayed "Yoicks! A hunting we will goý The foregoing will give you an idea of what goes on around our place niost cf the time, al cf which contrîb- utes to the trite saying "There's no place like Home." Who would want it if it was! and s pic e By Bill Smiley home every day and moans, "Do 1 ever hate school!" Well, here goes. Don't panic, n) . The changes would be slight and i. expensive. I think we'd ail enjoy 1f. more, students, parents and teachers. First of ail, let's cut out the mut- tered, mumbled morning prayer. I be- lieve in prayer and practise it quite often (usually when I'm in a jarn). But ît's almost sacrilege in the way it's de- livered. The R.C.'s whizz through it and leave out the last part. The .Jews and atheists are sulent. The teacher winds up leading three or four dogged ,Protestants who aren't always sure of the words. Next, out goos The Queen. While I am a royalist, and have the utmost respect for Qucen Elizabeth, 1 see no reason 30-odd teen-agers should be submitted, every morning, to a pompous and bad piece of music, the words of which have no more relation to their world than does the horse and buggy. How would vou like to go to the factory, or the office, and stand at at- tention while a tape recorded band blares out one of these awful tunes, before you Rot down te serious business, like waitinc for the coffee break? In place of these, 1 would suggest a warni-up period. We're ail pretty ding doggy first thing In the morning. The class cut-up would be master of cere- monies. Witt y sayings, announcements, brief weatber report. Some Beatles and Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. An original poem or song from the itti- dents. If a girl bas Go-Go boots, let her demonstrate a new dance. Probably on the teacher's desk. By this time everybody is friendly, warmed-up. The real learning atmos- phere bas been created. But unfortu- nately, I have run out of 'space. Read riext week's column for a furiher thril- ling instalment on The Perfect High School.-* The Ontario Safety League reminds motorigts of one of the aims of "defén- sive driving" - always to drive so that your licence will expire before you do. An indication of the importance of the automobile in the 2Oth century is given by this item from the Ontario Safety League: since 1900, 18 per cent o! ail patents issued by the U.S. have been automotive inventions. Y( Corner for £Poes A HOME The roomi are oh se spic and span, All the dust is in a garbage can, The floors are washed and polished toe, The linoleum is as good as new. The furniture has been polished through, Now theme's nothing I can do But sit and et a long day th.ýrough, For now the bouse is as pretty as new. Rouemamy Karp, age 11, Grade 6, Vincent Mamay Publia SchooJ In the Dim and Distant Past Froni the Statesman Files Sugar uni