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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 1938 Hippel Hints Minimum Wage for Ontario "In view of conditions that exist, do not be surprised if there is introduced a general minimum wage order covering the entire province." CHon. N. 0. Hipel told listeners at Preston following his acclamation at the official nominations in South Waterloo. The nomination was necessitated by the elevation of Mr. Hipel to the post of Minister of Labor. Purpose of the order, Mr. Hipel stated, would be to establish a minimum wage rate and, from that basis, gradually to step up to wage scale in various industries. Stating that he was astounded at the wages he had disovered were paid to some men and women in industry, Mr. Hipel quoted from a payroll in his possession the cases of a young man and a young woman who had each worked 45 hours for $3. "There had been considerable criticism," Mr. Hipel said, "of the labor and industrial board because more minimum wage orders had- not been made, the textile industry being the cnly one dealt with so far. It is a tremendous job trying to arrange minimum wage schedules. "Howlers" at University Doors Those whose school days' are long past may be pardoned if they are rather mystified by methods of teaching in effect now. The aim always is progress, improvement, but one result is that Dad isn't much use any more in helping Junior with his homework. And Dad had a pretty fair grounding in subjects that crop up in everyday activities. A pointed and oft-heard questh nowadays is: Are . the lower schools teaching a lot of stuff that will not be among the essentials in a pupil's efforts later on. to make a living? This is a subject disturbing not only to the general public but to educationists themselves. . Writing in the Queen's Quarterly. Prof. R. B. Liddy of the University of Western On! discusses this question of lower school education. Declaring that our school may be called the nation's biggest business, and that "no other enter-prise has' such possibilities," he says: "The sobering fact, however, is that, in spite of all the progress made, and the time, energy and money invested, we find ourselves educationally bewildered, faced by perplexing problems for which no adequate answers are as yet forthcoming." It is a fair assumption that pupils whose period of education ends with the public or high school course should be equipped with knowledge which, because it will be needed daily, will not be forgotten. It is at the end of the high school course and on the threshold of the university that Prof. Liddy's criticism has itis sharpest point. Somie months ago, he says, a test consisting of 25 questions was prepared and given to 319 of the students who were entering for the first time one or other of two Ontario universit: being to discover "how much of the factual material learned in public schools is forgotten by students when they are ready to enter university." He regards the results as interesting and instructive*--and he might have added amazing: hundred and twenty-one of School Books Too Expensive A parent, in a letter to the St. Mary's Journal-Argus expressed bewilderment at the ever increasing cost of school books in the elementary and high schools. "Just how a man with five or six of a family and a twenty-dollar-a-week job can buy all the copy, text, exercise and other books demanded by the present Public and High School curriculums ie a little bewildering." the writer says. Not a few Bowmanville parents are experiencing the same trouble. This year in particular school books are higher in price, and the average child at public school to-day requires close to $2.50 in ibooks when school opens. A new high school student, is expected to lay out between $5.00 and $6.00 for equipment before studies start, and then there is the constant replacement costs in addition. It is doubtless true, as the writer of this letter points out, that the Department officials, living on respectable salaries perhaps are not gwane of the difficulty the small salaried man experiences in providing necessary books for school work. One of the dangers, as we see it is the provision that teachers may select from a numiber of books for teaching purposes, and too many are ready and willing to select the expensive book every time. v i 11 c of 1 ried men earning a lot less than $20 per week. They want their children to be as well educated as other children, but it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to give their children the opportunity of a high school education when the costs are so high. --Bowmanville Statesman. Sixth Maple Leaf Contest $215.00 in Prizes Will Be Awarded by Travel Bureau and Railways of Canada Montreal, Septemlber 15.--The old-fashioned hobby of collecting brightly colored maple leaves has been put on a cash basis with the announcement that $216.00 in prizes will be awarded in the sixth maple leaf contest organized jointly between thee Canadian Travel Bureau, the Canadian Pacific National liversities, the purpose -Railway- and the Canad ho 1 Railways. The contest, now in its sixth yeai an effort to attract Canadians t th€ hardwood forests, the leaves of which will soon be tinted beautifully by autumnnal frosts. In addition to the cash prizes, the railways are off-. , ering the inducement of special ex-the students did not know the curg,ionS and cheap return rail tick-plural for the word basis. .Some etg to en<.ourajge cl,tv dwellers to rethought it to be "basises'," several turn to the sirnpier joy(s of their - isl," and many believed r0I.eiathere. the word to be the same in the „ . , . ,-.„.•„„„ plural as in the singular. Eighty-1 Hundreds of Canadians have been CASTLETON Hundreds of Canadi JSSVtf stad^USo«ghA^t| fining a, new appeciation of Can the sentence "I think it best for I ada s fOTests *» the> searched you and I to seek divorce' forests I woods for leaves big enough or pret-rnmatlcally "sound. * Approximat^y ty enough to a of the $2.15 one out of every five was unable J>™e list- Interest in the annual con-to find to three places of decimals test is growing, a keen inter-province the average mirk made by seven «™lry^having sprang up^ The; honour students whose total score was 356. of Pacing the most beautiful ea T^nt^TZTr £E height S Ne^BrunT^ from 22 to 819,200. Twenty-one I w**ta ^ Jhad _a per cent of the students were able to find what percentage 21 is of 84; some said "" Forty-three per cent were unable to express the Roman numeral MOMXXVM in the usual way. tempts varied from 127 1,000,027. Other "howlers" declared that the leading shipbuilding centre in Scotland was either Liverpool, Manchester. Londonderry, Leeds, Sheffield -Aberdeen, and 69 did not know that the First of July was Canada' ional birthday; and so on. Yet these young persons were entering upon their university courses. They had passed through the public and high schools, and, on the average, rated high in intelligence. Mr. Liddy asks: "Were they poorly taught? Or were they taught things for which later they had no practical use, and which, therefor, they have forgotten?" In other words,. What are the teachers teaching--and how? Rail Labor Costs Higher In Canada Than in U. S. Gross revenues of Canadian railways on a mileage basis are much lower than gross revenues of United States Class I railroads per mile, largely on account of the fact that there"are more thin traffic lines in Canada. Camparative figures submitted to the Senate Comimttee showed earnings of $7,662 per mlile in Canada, against $17,149 in the United States. Numiber of employees per mile of road in Canada is 2.83. compared with 4.51 in the United States, but the relative labor cost in Canada is higher. In 19316 the operating revenues of United States Class I roads were equivalent to one million dollars for each 263 employees while all Canadian railroads had 7'.30 employees for every million dollars of operating revenue. Read condensed adis on page 5. lonopoly largest leaves in past years, last year's winner being 21 by 22 inches with a surface area of 248.3 square inches. The rules are simple and can be obtained from all railway offices. Leaves must be gathered in Canada and sent from a Canladian point but there is no restriction as to nationality of contestants. Each leaf must be mounted on separate card and forwarded flat between two pieces of stiff cardboard, accompanied by sheet of paper five by seven inches on which are written the name and address of the sender, and the and place of gathering the leaf. Name of contestant must not be written on the card on which leaf is mounted. No entry man contain more than three leaves, though a contestant may forward as many entries as desired provided each does not exceed three leaves. Damaged or broken leaves will not be eligible and all entries must be forwarded post paid or express prepaid to Canada's Maple Leaf Contest, P.O. Box No. 21500, Montreal, Que. Canadian artists who will be judges of the contest, which closes on Nov. 'st, will not enter into correspond ence with any contestant, and no leaves will be returned. The prize inners and other leaves will be arranged for exhibit across Canada. Employees of the Canadian Travel Bureau and of the two railways and their suhsid'aries may not enter the mtest but members of their famil- s may submit entries. With Jack Frost already at work coloring the leaves, the annual treasure hunt is on. There are five prizes for the most beautiful leaf: $100, $40 $20. $10. and $5. Two prizes of $30 and $10 are given for the largest On landing at Quebec the Governor-General LordJ Tweed&muir, said he was "glad to be back in a quiet country." In few words this illustrates again the good fortune that Canada enjoys. October 18th, 1938 .Mrs. Donald Ellis spent Tuesday with Mrs. Herman Lane. Mr. James Farmer of Baltimore has moved into the Bound place. Mrs. Wm. Lean spent Sunday with Mrs. W. Lonsberry, at Trenton. Mrs. Irwin Robson spent the weekend with her husband in Toronto. Mr. Rdbt. McGregor spent the weekend with friends in Warkworth. iMr. and Mrs. David Arkles were recent tea guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. J. Harnden and family made a trip to Niagara Fallsi one day last week. Miss Cordie Home of Colborne spent Friday with her mother, Mrs. Prank McQuoid. A meeting was held to decide about a skating rink. We are hoping that one will be built. Miss Florence Nelson of Academy Hill spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lane. IMiss Gladys Welton spent the weekend with Mir. and Mrs. Floyd Harnden, at Grafton. Mr. Josh Harnden of Timmins spent a few days last week with his wife and family here. Mrs. Jack Johnson, Violet and Douglas, spent a few days with relatives in Toronto recently. iMr. and Mrs. A Coffey and family of Centreton visited her mother, Mrs, Chas. Nichols, on Sunday. Mr. Raymond Bowen of Wooler spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bowen. Mr. and Mrs. Ziba Harnden spent Sunday with their son, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Harnden, at Grafton. IMr. and Mrs. John Nelson of Academy Hill spent a day last week with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Grills. Miss Minnie Naish of Colborne is spending a few days with her par- ' ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Naish. Little Miss Patsy Harnden of Grafton spent the weekend with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. Welton, Several from here attended the fOw| supper at Dundonald on Wednesday evening and assisted in the program. Mrs. Fred Wolfraim and Miss H. R. Abraham; of Colborne were tea guests of Mrs. J. E. Wolfraim on Sunday. Miss Margaret Dingman has returned to her home in Dundonald, after visiting her grandmother. Mrs. S. Puffer. The annual Public Speaking Contest will be held in the town hall, on Monday evening, 24th. Do not fail to attend. Mrs. Chas. Blakely returned home from! Cobourg General Hospital one day last week. She is doing as well as can be expected. A large number from here attended the fair at Roseneath on Friday. The weather was ideal and a good time was reported by all. Mrs. James Stark and daughter Donna of Newtonville spent a few days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. I. Moore. Rev. L. W. W. Scott of Roseneath will preach at all the appointments of the Castleton Circuit of the United Church, next Sunday, Oct. 22nd, 1938. Rev. Mr. McBrien of CaimipbelLford was. the guest speakex in the Pentecostal Church on Sunday evening, in the absence of the Pastor, Rev. Chas. Ratz. The annual fowl supper will be held in the basement of the United Church on Wednesday evening, Oct. 26th, under the auspices of the Ladies' 'Aid. A splendid program is> being provided. Be sure and attend. The ladies of the United Church, Castleton, will hold their annual Fowl Supper in the basement of the Church, on Wednesday evening, Oct. 26th, 1938, from '6 o'clock untl all are served. Splendid programme will be given in the auditorium of the Church following the supper. Admission: adults 36c, children 20c. All come and enjoy this. Castleton Women's Institute On Thursday. October 13th, the Castleton Women's Institute met at the home of Mrs. W. R. Baxter, Colborne. Over fifty were present. Mrs. Chas. Wolfraim was appointed delegate to the Belleville Convention. Mrs. M. Harnden, convener, arranged the following program1: Demonstration --Sandwich making by Mrs. F. Harnden, Grafton. Current Events--Mrs. C. Wolfraim. Papei<--The First Thanksgiving. Mrs. C. McKague. Reading--Mrs. W. Nelson. Reading--Mrs. H. Welton. A cup and saucer were presented to Mrs. F. Harnden. Contest--Names of Flowers. 1st prize, Mrs. H. Allen. 2nd prize, Mrs. J. Stillman. An excellent lunch was served by Mrs. M. Harnden. Mrs. W. Nelson. Mrs. C. McKague Mrs. F. Isaac, Mrs. C. Wolfraim, and'Mrs. H. Welton. Sadly illustrating the dangers of evil associations, a Montreal Police' Court Official has been accused of theft. May We Repeat? The firm that advertises evtens very while business is good is preparing for a rainy day. It is easier to keep a healthy business well than it is to cure a sick business. The Colborne Expres Phone 44 Continuous Advertising Pays Best ... m COSTLY EXTRAS For 62 years doctors have been coming daily to this Hospital to donate their time without charge. During the past year over three score of them donated 40,000 hours of work to the task of giving sick and injured children the very best chance for the recovery of Health and happiness. Crippled? Deformed? Hurt in an accident? Suffering from Disease? Just "yes" to any of these questions has always opened the doors of this institution to children in need of hospital care. No distinction has ever been made in respect to Face, Creed or circumstances. The Provincial and Municipal Governments each contribute a fixed amount per day for those who cannot pay. But these grants'do not contemplate the cost ol medicines, operating rooms, oxygen, X-rays, plaster casts, anaesthetics, special diets and extra nursing--and they do not provide for the cost of many, many other necessary items. Each year we depend on public subscriptions to eover these extra costs. Won't you help this very worthy cause? Please send your gift direct to 67 College Street, Toronto. We employ no canvassers. IMPORTANT Thb Hospital don NOT share In the funds collected by the Toronto Federation for Community Service Because patients are aa> nltted from all parts of the Province. THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN 67 COLLEGE STREET - TORONTO