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: Wien better Cho jC lates than Mois are protest : in, b,this Sunt. ri have Her for sale. - EC -- Meat ts We sell everything you want in choice, clean, palatable, nutritious and satisfying meats. » 11 you want it geod | BERT \ MacGREGO . Will do the-rest. ' Ring up Phone 72. "We have the. Se leving 3 "varieties: i When you are n need of your soo ¢ Lowe will be glad to serve you. , F. McCLINTOCK PORT PERRY, ONT. ~ Let Gerrow do your 'baking. ei is the economical way. Wedding: Cakes a specialty oe : Ice Cream i in stock. administrative unit. g| tention to it or not. {a great many of them do that. : a ' expert : ent Do al most. important 'branch of ) stration today is education. It lies at e root of all our success, expansion and de We do ne tL dam fo have all "the iS 2 Department "of Comin Hon and year. to confer with you who are closely in ; 'touch _with local educational conditions and are. in a position to to Walle valtanle suggestions, We 'want ybur assis © You have to deal with" these problems. tan day. You pay for it. You run the organization. A p roximately thirty-two million dollars annually 0 maintain the system, It is estimated one-half of this expenditure is for rural-schools. Are we getting uate returns for -our investment? I think there is a feeling that our education is per- | haps costing us a little too much money." not a niggardly people, but we like to get the worth of our money. Thinking the matter over and analysing the your views on the problem of enlarging the school you would think of the feasibility of the develop- ment of a system of township boards rather than sectional boards, and I think perhaps some of the | statistics or figures will impress you with the you to look with great favor on it at any rate. I introduced a Bill in the Legislature, not for the purpose of passing it this session but for the . | purpose of inviting discussion in the House, when it was withdrawn, and it will be sent out to all the school sections in the Province of Ontario and you may have an opportunity of giving it fair consideration, discussing it at your school boards and elsewhere and perhaps when you come back here next year you will be able to give us some good sound advice upon that subject. The suggestion is that your :-board should re- present the whole township. Some people will immediately say that would make. too large and cumbersome a board. About half the townships of Ontario have less than ten school sections, ten oF less, and ten would not be a very cumbersome d to look after a substantial budget such as. ry Xownship would have. There is another thing that must impress yous The average cost of | educating a child: in the rural public school today taking the average all over the Pro OvAnce. is about $87 or $88. But we have nearly 900 schools in which there are ten or less children, and the aver- age cost there is $156, and we have about 180 Schools where the average attendance is five or ess and the cost there is about $250 a pupil. 'One can see just at a glance some of the ad- vantages that would accrue from thé combina- tions of some of those school sections, but I have had enough to do 'with rural school section trus- tees to kgow how they cling to their rights to operate their section whether they pay any at- From my. experience with rural school boards I found that when a, teacher wanted a job she went to the Secretary, who was one of the trustees, and she went to another trus- tee and he signed and she was hired, and there was never a word said. There are a great many {school 'sectiphs run their business in this Pro- vince that way--not all of them---but there are Little or no real serious thought or attention is given to the most vital problem that we have to deal with in this Province, There is not only economy to be found: in en- larging the unit of administration from the standpoint of per capita cost of education, but there are other economies that 'must recommend themselves--economies in building. If a school 'that has 7 or 8 pupils is only three miles away from a school that has 17 pupils, should not they combined -and would not they, if it was not siceand section, would not they get better education but they would get economy. at any rate--they would pay one. ~ | what they call pride but is really jealousy among these 9 Sections that they would not want to give efficient: edieation if they com- e two sections? Not only would they feb of erecting two schools they would erect' RB one; Instead of paying two or three teachers-- sad osintuining. 4 tbwo-ahook- 'b the ould® maintain "one. That, eare figures I came to the conclusion that I would like In other words, see" what ~ seriousness of that situation and. perhaps lead. {0 many'others interested in rural education; that - tions of th e country where men are i ir families a 7 Bs hem up as good | , they should have all the ad- vafitages we can ing them--and I believe that ~ can best be done if a township had a flat rate with a central fund for educational p and ad- ministered for the benefit of the wi would get equality of rate, you ad get I yak equality of standardized buildings, constru t.- You.would buy supplies in 1 "quantities and you would save money. You +4 lend permanency to your teaching staff, and you "would get a great deal better education. You know today that our Continuation Schools are based on sectional boundaries, One section may establish a continuation Sohal, and when you look over the field of the whole Province of |. We have. eighly-five. million dollars invested. in { Ontario you find many a Continuation School that school buildings and equipment and it costs should never have been established where it is. It is too great a burden on the section. In the ambition of the people who took an interest in education there, they desired to give their child- ren better advantages and higher education, and they established a continuation school with too small-a unit -of support behind -it. If you had township boards would not' you have a much better opportunity of establishing central second- "ary educational institutions? Would not you be able to~give better educational facilities right at home to the boys and girls that have to go to the town centres today? Would not you be retaining . them in the home atmosphere under domestic influences for a much Seo period than you can \do now? Are not all these things material ad- |; vantages that might accrue from enlarging the unit? ~If you had*15 or 16 sections in a township, 1 would make two" school areas of it; I would 'not have the board too large and cumbersome, but I do think--I am only venturing this suggestion because my experience has taught me that it is dangerous to issue a mandate even as Minister of Education--but I do think if you give it ser- we can Yeyolutionize our whole school conditions in the rural parts of Ontario; standardiZe schools and equipment, secure greater efficiency in the schools, previde + the opportunity for local de- velopment of secondary education, and then if you had a township board or a much larger board than you have now, you would have the co-oper- ative spirit and the advantage that comes froni it in the development of secondary school.edu- cation. All these things impressed me favorably, and Lit. was for that reason that we drafted this sug- gested Bill and 'that we are sending it out to you for your views. It is not a new idea by any means. For some time it hasbeen suggested and perhaps in a more or less arbitrary way. I am going to put it up to you people in the interests of your own children to reform your methods and your whole system of rural education. I think you can cut at least 25% off the cost of education ina very few years. You will retain your boys and girls at home longer #nd they will get a much higher 'and better 'education than they possibly can get at their home school today. Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen, that is far more than I intended to say when I got up here, but I have said it purely .in a suggestive way, and we hope that we will have your co-oper- ation, and after you have considered this thing thoroughly and seriously, I would like you to come back here next year and give us the benefit of your sympathetic co-operation. e want to interest you in. education. We 'want to" create enthusiasm in all parts of the Province for the welfare of the rising generation, i -- Oe No: 179 ~ : 1925 BILL : An Act to provide for Township Boards of Public . « School "Trustees. His Majesty, by and with the advice and con- sent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows :-- ~1, This Act may be cited as The Township School Boards Act, 1925. "From and-after the 'coming into force of' this Act, all the public schools in every township shall¥be administered -by a board of trustees to be known as "The Township Board of Public School Trustees for the Township of . (naming township) and such board. is hereinafter referred to as "a township hoard." 3 A township board shall éonsist of not less -than three and not more than ten members to be "elected from the school areas in the township de- _ termined in the manner hereinafter provided,-- 1, In a township containing only one school Stor the section shall constitute the chool area and the "township board shall ~ consist of three trustees to be elected by the 7 "a township' containing only two school = Snchioe, each section shall constitute a area and the | ~consist--of: gach of the areas separately and ; one to be selected by + struggling for | ole area. You | Lwin mature on the first : "ny of next month. Clip -- your coupons and 'use them 10 + Open g Savings Account with 'earned will in turn be earning. 2 STANDARD BANK OF CANADA. PORT PERRY. BRANCH--H., G. Hutcheson, Manager ious thought you will reach the conclusion thats Major General MacBrien Married Major-General James Howden Me- Brien, Chief of Staff of the Depart- ment of National Defense, Ottawa, was married on May 8th, 1925 in the Chapel of The Comforter, 14 Horatio Street, New York, to Miss Lyn B. Hartridge, daughter of Clifford W. "Hartridge, of 98 Greenwich Avenue. The wedding was a surprise to their friends, having been decided upon only "a few days "ago. Miss Hartridge, who is 26 years old, and her sister Miss, Harriet Hartridge, are connected with the Ottawa office "of a United States insurance Com- pany. The bride telegraphed her father. she was coming to"New York to be married. Her sister, her aunt and her godmother, Miss Elmyn Hartridge, were her only attendants. rete (Hrs RESULTS OF THIRD SESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS IN THE THIRD CLASS OF PORT PERRY -SCHOOL Maximum, 900. Honours, 675. Honours--Esther Turner, 841, Beverley Smallman 816, Dorothy Bal- four, 787,.Josie. Nott, 760, May Hall, 759, Gertrude Barker, 758, Hazel Jeffgey, 747, Dorothea O'Neill, 719, Patricia Cooney, 691, Marjorie Real, 689. George Tinsley 6568, ThHeodort 637, Evelyn Somerville 630, Veda sEwers 625, Arthur Carnegie 609, Menry Dodd 557, Harold Cawker 551, Archie Farmer 535, Orval Druean 493, Allin Doubt 485, Wilfred Stevens 479, Al- bert Gawker 448, Fred Switzer 437, Hubert Raines 407, Grant Willard 250, Gertie Druean 231, Teddy Kight (absent), Josephine Foley, (absent.) G. V. STOVIN, Teacher. am p------ NOTICE OF COURT OF REVISION NOTICE is hereby given that the first theeting of the Court of Revision for the" Township of Scugog, of the Assessment Roll, will be be held in the Township Hall, at 1 o'clock p.m., on Saturday, May 30th, 1925. All parties interested will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Dated this 11th day of May, 1925. THOMAS GRAHAM, H : Clerk of the Tp. / ee OOH SALVATION ARMY Salvation Army Officers and Com- rades who have canvassed for the Army 'Social Work, comprising In- «gfitutions, Hospitals, Children's Homes and Metropoles, in Canada E., want to thank all those who respond- l-ed.to this appeal. Port Perry, Greenbank, Seagrave, and Prince Albert, all in turn were called .on on. Lord Byng, Governor-General of Canada, says: "Anything the Sal- vation Army does interests me. It is always impressed on my mind how widespread is its service. It puts humanity into its religion as well as into its work." rearmnen (J ( (reer PLAY AT SONYA The B. C. S. Progress Club of Blackstock, will present their play entitled "The Private Tutor" in the Friday, May 15th, at 8p.m., under the he | auspices. of the Ladies' Aid Society. | attendance. | I - | Spnya Orchestra . in | Lunch will be sold at 15¢c. plate. Ad- mlesion) 4 adults '8bc. Children 20c. S.0.S. Hall, Sonya, on_the evening of | Branches also at Blackstock, Little Britain, Myrtle Station, Nestleton . k Station, Sunderland Half a Million Trees Planted A fine piece of reforestration work is being done by Mr. H, 8. Osler on the Hooper farm in the Township of wright, where 500,000 or more young trees are being set out. The planting con- sists largely of soft maple, ash, and spruce. This is a valuable piece -.of work, for which Mr. Osler is greatly to be commended The Village of Tén Thousand Roses. Port Perry is living up to it® reputation--the prettiest village to be found anywhere in Ontario. Recently the Horticultural Soci- ety imported a shipment of over a thousand roses bushes. These roses were given as a premium result, the Horticultural Society now has a membership of over two hundred. The gardens of our townspeople will now *'blos- som as the rose." hee A Pleasing Dance The young people of Port Perry held a most enjoyable dance in the Town Hall on Friday evening of last week." The Hall was prettily decorated in green and pale gold. There was a good at- tendance.- Music was furnished by the Adanac Orchestra. Men On the 3rd of June the 1.0.D.E. will serve asup- per in the basement of the United Churoh, fol- lowed by a concertin the Town Hall. Supper and Concert--50c. Cadet Inspection. The High School Cadets were inspected by Capt. Edwards, Toronto. The cadets, who have been under the instruction of Mr. Spinks, gave a good account of themselves, and the Inspector ex- pressed himself as pleased with their performance. After the formal inspection, Capt. Edwards gave the boys some ively ex cises for the de t of quickness in action and thought. Proceedings were founded o by ice cream for all students, staff, and High everybody made happy Hors a ht holiday, piso 4 to.members of the Society. Asa