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3. % i ks Bace s I k{.j- VOLUME XXVIII.â€"No. 4 Victrola Recital Thursday, May 17th The entire evening to be given to selections from the world‘s greatest musicians, including Galti Curei, Caruso, McCormack, Melta, and other famous singers and instrumentalists. THE NYAL DRUG STORE THE PEOPLE‘S STORE Everyone is cordially invited to attend this reâ€" cital and a delightful evening is promised. Sunday Hours:3â€"5 p.m., 8â€"9 p.m. Inch‘s Cut Rate Drug Store The :R%@% Store REMEMBERâ€"If you want a real bargain in GARDEN SEEDS we have the stock, the quantity and the price that canâ€" not be beaten. Don‘t put off. Call toâ€"day and select your seeds. We have Simmers‘, Rennie‘s and Steele Briggs‘. GITY DAIRY 16E CREAM 4 Will Be Carried. 3 ICE CREAM BRICKS in all Flavors Carried at All Times INGN‘S IGE CGREAM PABLORS ABE NOW OPFN D. L. and W. Scranton Coal Weston Coal & Lumber Co. At A. W. & L. R. Barlett‘s Don‘t forget the date â€" May 17th. Come and bring your friends. BOYS AND GIRLS Buy Your Ice Cream Cones at Inch‘s This Year Good Cones, Good Ice Cream, Good Big Helpings The Standard Anthracite COKE AND WOOD LUMBER MERCHANTS Our Supply of Coal is Coming Through Now. Place Your Orders. A Full Line of Rexall Goods on Hand. Office and Planing Mill â€" Phone 27 EAGLE AVENUE, near G.T.R. Tracks H. H. RUDOLERH, Mgr., Weston. AND DOING BUSINESS Will be Given at 8 p.m. Sole Vendors of & PHONE 53 be Cimsk & Guths. In London, England; United States and Ontario these fact sare recognized. These places are coping with the conditions and schools have been established for the purpose of reaching those who are not fitted for professional life or commercial life to be useful in other spheres of industrial life. The Ontario government is behind the movement. They will pay twoâ€"thirds of the teachers‘ salary, They will pay all the money outlaid for equipment, except the building, within four years, as follows: 40 per cent., 20 per cent., 20 per cent. and 20 per cent. < Thus the municipalities introducing this training would be required to finance the equipment and pay the interest on the money and pay oneâ€"third of the teachers‘ salary. He drew attention to the fact that the returned men from the front are being trained for office positions. These men will take those positions a nd they should get them. Therefore, why train our children for this line of business? A school organized here should be only for the better equipped technical in Toronto. reached. ) We must direct a larger portion to the industrial life. Our children are being directed for teaching and office positions and professional life. The need of professional life is only seven per cent., 40 per cent. to business and the balance to industrial life. Our women, few go as teachers some into the offices, but every woman has an ambition _f(_)r 3 home life, a home of her own. Therefore her course should lead her up to fitting that position. Why teach her higher mathematics or Latin? She requires English and art, but more particularâ€" ly cooking, dressmaking, millinery, home nursing, etc. These subjects are essential to the making of a home and home life. This is what a girl‘s education should lead to. Toâ€"day we find the girl take the same course as the boy in public school, high school and university. Ontario is the commercial and manufacturing province of Canada. _ Our natural products are beâ€" coming less and we will have to sell more brains and thought. These brains and thought can be best developed by proper industrial and technical education. Through this medium our boys and girls can be educated. Then they are able to cope with questions of conserving our natural resources. This will be brought about by the applied practical teaching of mechanics and industries. As the by products of the oil fields are valuable so other w astages will be utilized under the direction of the developed brains and thought. Our school system of teaching should be less general and more defâ€" inite in its purpose. The need of Ontario toâ€"day is artisans, skilled workmen in every branch of life. The greatest asset of our country is not its resources, but our children. Therefore our children is Ontario‘s greatest industry. Toâ€"day we are jus t where the oil fields were 50 years ago in respect to our children and their wastage. The great possibilities that lie dormant in them is not developed. Some never have the opportunity. They are given a fair public school education. A small part are given a fair high school education. But these courses fail to connect them up with anything except commercial or professional life. What chance has a boy who leaves the public school when in the third or fourth books? What can he do? There is no connection between the twoâ€"education and industrial life. The.generalized education fails t o give him the necessary help in work. The high school course does not help him to become a skilled mechanic, an industrial worker. Technical education bridges over this great chasm. It prepares the boy to take a place in life. It leads the boy into some practical, useful work. . He has a fundamental foundation to conserve time and enâ€" ergy. He is thus able to apply his time to the greater development along his special line of work. He is enabled to do things as a result of practical knowledge and study. No just happening on to the plan or rule of thumb applied. These boys should be directed for their respective courses at the ages of 11 and 12. This is the result of investigation. Oneâ€"half the day should be spent in the teaching of subjects essential, quick, accurate calculations, fractions and decimals and work of industrial problems, English composition, as everybody should be able to write out an intelligent description of what he intends to convey to other minds. He also should be able to write a decent letter. History and geography are also neâ€" cessary, as every boy should know some details of these subjects. Then mechanical drawing is necessary. This is a fundamental and used in all branches of indusâ€" trial life. This is now being taught in the kindergarten with cardboard. _ Then the balance of the time is devoted to practical work of industrial subjects. s This closed Dr. Merchant‘s remarks. Several questions were asked and answered in regard to the wastage at our school, the financing of the course and night class and the cost of the courses. These questions showed the keen interest with which Dr. Merchant was followed. A hearty vote of thanks was passed and extended to Dr. Merchant for his words and the instruction he had given. The same condition existed in the lumber trade. In the old days! the lumbermen hewed the tree, squared it and dragged it to the tun. It is estimated that over 50 per cent. was wasted in this method. Toâ€"day this industry is not yet highl y developed. tate _ Dr. Merchant in opening up the subject drew the attention of all to the oil fields in his youth. He pictured these fields 50 years ago. How men drilled a hole and the oil came in abundance. _ How only a small percentage of this was conserved or used. Most of it was let run off in streams and creck. In refining it all the by products were lost or wasted. This state has been changed. _ Toâ€"day the oil industry is under control. Brains have devised means to utilize every particle but the odor. The great wastage has been stopped, capital has been m ade out of the by products. In summing up, every effort should be put torth to make this year the greatest year of producâ€" tion West York ever had. Don‘t fail to do your duty. Every man should produce some food s%uff this year. j ( A very representative body of the citizens of W eston turned out to hear Dr. F. W. Merchant speak upon Industrial Education. The meeting was hel d under the auspices of the Weston Board of Trade. Dr. Irwin occupied the chair and in a few remarks imtroduced the speaker of the evening. In the second place we must become more economical with our present stock.. One breathes air with a freedom. ‘They do not trouble because the supply is inexhaustible. Many homes toâ€"day waste enough food to help keep a family. It would be a great surprise for you to visit the dump. Each day the collector carts down there foodstuff s that show an actual waste, a wanton waste. This must be stopped. Suppose your cake is heavy or a little stale, why not utilize it or at least feed it to the chickens? You can pare and save your potatoes by a little more care and attention. You can learn, as the French women do, how to utilize a lot of food stuff that we now waste. Carefulness in this direction will aid us in conserving our present supply. 4 Nature does not wait till man is ready. Now is the appointed time. This week must see all the seed planted. It will not do a month from now. Toâ€"day and not toâ€"morrow is the hour to do your seeding and preparation. _ How can this be done? You will have to do your part. Can you go out on the farm? In town we have several men who could spend their time on the farm most profitably. As a matter of fact, it is their duty to assist. Are you in the factory all day? â€" Then get a garden under cultivation. With care, attention and effort you can produce enough food stuffs in certain lines to keep you. Each man who does this relieves the market. Do you want to see the end of this war? Then come out and do your bit. 1 | We in West York are a long way from the seat of war. It does not affect us personally. Our boys have gone to the front, our girls are occupied in the munition factories. We are reaping the benefits from a great industrial prosperity. Ther efore the question is asked, Why should I worry? We have money, we have food. There has never been a food famine here. The people of Ontario do not realize what this food shortage is. They will not be aroused until it is too late. Then the cry will go upâ€"I could have done more but it is now too late! The land is here. The seed can be had. What then is required is men to work the land, men to labor in the fields, men to utilize every particle o0f ground. By a concentration of our available man power, by a utilization of our land, both farm an d garden, the food production can be doubled right here. Attention has been directed through these columns to the great need of a greater production of food stuff.. Most of these notations have no doubt been read. Some have given them a little thought. Most have, however. thought the statements a great exaggeration of facts. Toâ€"day the appeal comes to us with greater force than ever. The facts are made public. England‘s Premier, Lloyd George, tells us that we are facing a famine. Statistics show us that the world‘s food supply is short. A few moments of ordinary arithmetic will prove to you these facts. A little common reasoning will show you that famine faces us unless we get a bigger production this year. The great countries of Europe receive most of their grain supplies from Russia, Roumania and Bulgaria. These places are cut off. Bad crops have lowered our own yield and other great exporting countriecs like the Argentine Reâ€" public and the United States have also suffered. T hus the consumption is great, but the yield has not been large enough to meet the demands. _ This is augmented by the submarine warfare.. Thousands of tons of food stuffs have been sent to the bottom of the ocean.. ‘This is a dead loss. To counterâ€" act this great loss and shortage you are asked to aid. To help finish the war you are asked to lend a hand. A FEW WORDS IN SEASON To the people of West York WEST YORK‘S NEWSY WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL AND TE CHNICAL EDUCATION SAVE A FAMINE BY DOING YOUR BIT WESTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2ND, 1917 for the preliminary work. It should be a foundation Thus the highesg ideals in industrial training would be Store open from 7 a.m We receive fresh Cut Flowers each week from the Dale Conâ€" servatories. They are the finest stock to be had in Canada. Each week order some for your table. Our store is here for your service. We give quality, service and satisfaction. We are open every day and every evening. Our man will call for your order if desired. We have a bigvstock of Fresh, Choice Groceries. You can always 8 Rely Upon Our Stock. 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