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Ehitnrial ling at 112 Titanic Examiner 87 th YeorNo 78 53chGrqngemii BARRIE SCHOOL CLOSING DOINGS ALWAYS JOYOUS AFFAIRS THE DEAR OLD DAYS Gimme back the dear old days all the boys ltl linerr Boy Stood on the Burning Deck and Bingen on the Rhine lvvas Midnight in His Guarded Tentwwe spoke it high and low While Mary trotted In her lamb whose fleece was white snow Gimme back the dear old days that memory loves to keep Willi Pilot theres danger on the deep The oldtrifle Titharr gestures the jerk meant for bow We said that Curfew Shall Not fling but Lord its ringing now Gimme back the dear old days the pathway through the dolls To the school house tilly boyhood the soude OT faroff bells Jinkling across the meadows the song of bird and brookI lteadin writin rithnietic the oldtime spelling book and Gone like dream forever houses all round the place Where stood that oldtime school house and no familiar face ls smiling there iii welcome beneath morning sky Theres bridge across Times river and weve crossed and said goodbye ITCV SCHOOL EVENTS The writer feels safe itt saying there isnt pupil of the West Ward School classes of 1876 still living to whom the above words wont bring sheaf of happy mem ories of the exercises which were held just previous to the school closing each midsummer and Christ mas have often wondered what was the reason for the songs general popularity at each of those suc ceeding school events unlessit was their simplicity romance arid the rhythmic swing of the music which suited ourjuvcnile accomplishment and taste Some of the songs oii those programs were The Last Rose of Summer Juanita Flow Gently Sweet Afton Three Blind Mice and TheHappy DaysWc Spend at School too Quickly Pass Away the import of which gueSs nbne of us fully appreciated until years lateit The last day of Christmas is always school memorable before oecasion ThereWErercitatfons 33 Magda11kayakH6tTthusLnamedwcally livedthe and dialogues also like Bingen on the Rhine The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck The Prairies The Wreck of the Hesperus and the everpopular Marys Little Lamb and anyone could get away with it as recitei but you had to Ihave the godds if you want Vedtowbe soloist And as SOIOISIS most of us boys were good swim Ipearce us fearful night Nellie Grant BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SHOP LOSE TO HOME Members of the community Willi shop in our business section ifI price quality and service are cotn lparable with competing marketsg lI in the large centres of the province jTIlI Buy in Your Own Communi Iity policy too is as applicable to IIlltlCllllIlls as it is to housewives IIruiiiIieler iAltai Mail roon PROBLEM There is need for all the whiati Iwhzch can be produced if people everywhere ate to be adequately fed Unfortunately economic fac tors prevent many who need wheat and other food front buying it ltltlI Countries with surpluses cannot af ford to give it away iFIlED GRANT Evie Edwards lInitna Binghaiti llo FrLeman Lena llatch Hattie Crew Tina Mclhee Maud Cronipton Laura and Emma Harper Flora Ward Nita Bemrose Olive Crosby May Spry Bella Patterson Agnes Greatrix Mary McIIlae Rhoda Lum tnis Minnie Bailey Bert Stewart Kate Stevenson Jessie Milner Jes sie lorsyth Maggie Duff Jennie and Mossie Fraser Minnie Lennox Celia Gregg Mary Loan Jessie Vail Sara McLeod Martha Miller Lu Wright Hattie and Lil Sewrey Addie Orr Mary McMillan Maggie Scott Ella Shortreed Attinvvliider ton Ada Daymen Carrie Durham Maggie Butler Bessie McVittie Nora Clark Minnie Neill Bertha and Mary Bogart llawley Lu Mocking May Rodgers Kate Coulson Cassie Mc Intosh Etta Hanmer Annie Griffin Emma and Minnie Ada Kate Spearn Berta Capon Fuller Sara Brewer Lucy Kipp Frankie loan Mary Deans And Pro Boys Harry Arnall Atidy Carson Frank Bemrose Art Edwards Ernie King Frank Irvine Charlie Ward Art Sanders Charlie Cooper Harry McVittie Baker Warren Johtistoti Doug Farmer Ed and Urscn Sewrcy Dolph Lummis Dolph Wilsoti Jack McPhcc Leighton McCarthy Herb Lennox Milt Grant Billy Dowell AlbertDyment Charlie Hurst Bird Fraser Andy MacNab Frank Beld ing Fred Stevenson Harry Thom son Fred Hines Frank EWan lom Cairns Dave Kidd Charlie Mac kenzie Fred Lount Will Janes Sullivan Buck Ritchie Emerson Gregg Nelse Ford Alex and Archie Orr Alex and Bob Dunlop Dave Hartley Ted Herbert Ed Butter field Tom Braden Andy Dougall Charlie Cameron Charlie Warner Aubrey Ellis Charlie Fuller Art Meeking Arthur Smith Jack Holdsworth Jake Wice Billy Bill McFarlane mm or shinny players or skipping iWiseman Jack Breen Will Wilkin vrope artists but when the choruses igon Charlie Spencer Alex MpRae were readied 110 one SHIIZKEd his Joff Churchill Herb Moore Harvey duty and having in Imind the long srbbaid Albert holidays ahead every voice joined Crogan in that song of praise can hear even yet the ringing chorus of each of those popular songs when those classes of husky lOyearolds roared outiSwift goes my light canoe azown the rapid river or And yet cation we all hail with feelings of delight in those oldtime clos ing concerts at the West Ward School in the days of 1876 THE OLD SCHOOLMATES Do you remember the oldfash ioned school Christmas concert But there were some among those schoolmates who could sing and who were soloists not only then but in church the concert stage afterwards under direction of Jimmie Morgan and some of them who held place in the professional musical world May mention just afew of those old school chumI singers Misses Minnie Plaxtonillie and Lou King Minnie Ball Sarah Maundrell Sewrey Arthur Billy McCausland Peter McIntosh Jack McMillan Lou Vair Maurice Wilson HughMc Leod Ed Arnold Ed Armstrong FredCoates Henry Thurlow Char lie Jones Harvie Sizer Jack Chris tie Tom Bailey Jack Burridge Sutton Beck Hunt Hunter Monk Thompson Jimmy Casey Jimmy Armstrong Herb Pensione Harry Dollery Tom Crew Billy Culross Jim Deans Norm Burton Bill Lehigh Will Spearn Walter Holder However the Writer thinks he is playing safeywhen saying that many of those above men tter accom pttstim stage artistsiilhan he himself was but just the same they are well remembered as congenial school chums Of long ago and well entitledto be re corded here and that seems worthwhileffobiwfq The making of list oftnames of Ida Frank Teddy an elaborate fbow Finally your Huinboldt iSaskJ Jtitllnlll CEMENT SHORTAGII Fort Frances like many another community has had many nipanth tuck races with suppliers of cemi cut this summer In order to try to keep many building projects Ischedule For that reason the reI icent ban on the importation of whitc Portland cement shouldI cause some concern lort Frances tOiiti linies the above schoolmates has given5 me many memory of some Ill lividual or of his activities as school boy which could end in readable account In my books travel is the greatest educator iii the world arid in one session on park bench out in Victoria overlooking the Pacific Ocean with one of those even finished his West Ward School course biit had spent 50 years or more as sailor on many of those famed sailing ships which Iiad itot only called at all the big ports but had also poked their noses itito scores of outoftlicway landing places picking tip or laying off various cargoes gave the the idea he was far better educated man than were some of his school mates who had gone on through collegiate and university courses and finally graduated in legal or some other professional career and then spent his life as an unsuccess Iful lawyer or some other similar profession in some small town or Ivillage where everyone knew everyone else by their firstname other hibernatcd and Just existed Book learning is mighty poor foundation for successful career Oll old schoolday chums who had not lt ONTARIO CANADA THURSDAY OCTOBER To Hibernate I950 Section ZvPoges tolfl Why Fire Prevention Week No doubt some people wonder why each year week is set aside as Fire Prevention Week If is designated to the week in which EOctober falls and is the anniversary of the great Chicago Fire in 1871 fire which as one of the most destructive and costly in both lives and fires in all history Article Examiner Feature REMEMBER THE SEA GULLS By RCJ DEACIIMAN and Canada like the sea gulls of St Augustinc are turning to the wel the Dmy Fort fare state There is as much value Laudcrdalc Florida there comes sad tale of the sea There is moral Iii Aligning hld fm guns in it for the people of theUnited States and Canada perhaps for all Ithc costs were greater than the the world eft Tl Sea gulls in the old days at lb um mm to In the end it has failed them tale It is sad and pungent moral Augllslme HQUQAJLYEQDV Gatehf ut one which should be driven mg flSIh Then came the shrimp 5mg to the people Of today fleetboats which spent all their time catching shrimps The scrap Canadians hvmg iii free at compared with originality and an abiding ambition to see it through entirely oti vhis own efforts But am not putting out my neck by giving any names iii this connection Those were the days when the little girls were pigtails and Willie Smith after three months of steady rehearsal forgot everythingafter the first two lines of his Christmas recitation Iw The concert always cameon the last day and you went to school with the glorious prospect of no further attendance for two weeks Visions of coasting skatingsnow ball fights with the northIenders all flashed through your mind The concert starts The smartest kid in oolrcites his piece with but flaw and makes his exit with turn came after the audience had wept over the little girl who recited ITather dear father come home With me nowIi You ascended the platform with burning cheeks evading the scorn dglaleeHHm shallfinotiElamcirioninafure and proud looksofyour relatives It was the miserable part of an otherwise enjoyable day You went through your lines until the third verse forgttihgiverybit of elo cution that bad been taught and youfinally retiredyour part in ithe progmiserable failure Even she smiled That was the worst of all Finally the concert was concludv ed and the gratnbag was opened You wondered What your luck would be andyoiLeagerly reached in among the mysterious tissue wrapped parcels Finallyyou pull serious message for allmankind and waste from the Shrimp Shipmmosphere should take the lesson to was thrown overboard It was man heart our ability to plOduCC d9 na from heaven so far as the gulls Deds U130 0111 capacity to use the were concerned Free dinners made knW10dg we have hcquiled Let work unlyeceslsary illS not act the 56 gulls IlOl be indifferent to the problems of the coming generation Let us teach our children the greatest fact of life Rewards with out effort arc debit not credit on our book of accounts The con dition at St Augustine carries word of warning for all those who believe in the welfare state The gulls thought they had security but the ships moved on There Iwas nothing to take their placc If we have learned something from their mistakes their life has not been lived in vain ltgt CANADAUS AMITY Canadians and Americans get along iwell mainly because they geniedisputes that in other parts of theworld would certainly lead to the gravest consequences Visit ing batik and forth is an important factor in this continued friendli Tlie gulls no longer depended on their ability to catch fish The younger generation grew up with out knowing anything about the art But wait there is sequel to this tale it has attouch ofilsadness Suddenly the shrimp fleet moved away to more productive fishing areas located on Key West The sea gulls were unable to adjust themselves to the new situation While food was abundant theolder birds neglected to teach their young ones how to fish Now the reefs andsltores around St Augustine are lined withlttiug isiicnt rows of gulls their dark sad eyes turned prayerfully out to sea waiting for the shrimp boatsinhiEh so far as man can see will return no more to their old haunts Man played the gulls dirty trick Sometimes one may be cynical and just regard it its another promotionalstunt the idea of an advertising man as there are tnanygspecial days or weeks devoted to stimulating the sale and use of some com iticuaaiuu2diicts MB It is far from commercial stunt and is celebrated with View of endeavorlng to elicit public interest and overcome the apathetic view that is generally taken First let us turn to statistics Figures are cold and ltiipcrsonal until we translate them into the human and economic values which they merely represent On an average be tween 300 and 400 Canadians lose their lives through fire every year as matter of fact in 1948 the last utr for which figures are available 493 Canadians lost their lives and many times that number suffer incapacit ating or painful burns and injuries Of the number of deaths 335 lost their lives in dwellings and 30 in apartments hotels and other such habitations and the victims were largely women and children To think such preponderance of fatalities happen in our homes gives great cause for dismantling the apathetic manner and realize the pathetic situation It was an act of Providence that the Ritu ouski and Cabano disasters were not attend ed withgrcat loss of life In 1918 in Canada there were 53048 fires with property loss of 36714447300In other words we wasted this accumulation of buildings and goods at time when the na tions productive plant Wits working at full capacity to supply our own needs and to help supply our exports to other nations many of which had been devastated by the late war The figures surely indicate the magnitude of the problem which fires represent They measure its destructive force in lives and dollars and supply the answer to the question as to why we should have Fire Prevention Week and is designed to focal public atten tion upon great and ever present social and economic problem and is far from being commercial or promotional campaign Fire Prevention Week does not mean that we should confine our efforts to this one week thicrlls of firearc evcrpresent 3651mm of the air and hi holding campaign for one week is to signalize and emphasize the importance of this serious problem to every man woman and child in the Country It affords an opportunity right at thebe ginning of the season of the year when fire losses usually turn upward to give new im paths to program which is continuous and which should not be forgotten even for moment No nation regardless of how prosperous can afford to burn its human and economic resources aswe are each year in permitting fires to destroy so many valuable lives and such great property values Dohot forget that great number of in dustrlal plants and commercial enterprises destroyed by fire never resume business and that workers are deprived of their jobs and opportunities for employment are lost During Fire Prevention Week we should not just think of these problems but take active steps to eliminate the hazards which may exist in our own homes in our places of employment and see to it that fire prevention is must for 365 days of the yeag Our Korean Debt The collapse of Communist resistance in Korea gave many feeling of history re peating itself in miniature It halted little war that was far off and affectedfew Canadian families directly But An American formation that refused to sur render at Bastogne provided the rallying point that transformed the Battle of the Bulge from Germanvictory into German defeat The alert platoon that captured it dispelled the beginnings of the same gnawbridge at Remagen saved thousands of Allied ingI fear that attended similar rempte news items lathe 30s the fear that grew with the onset of the Second World War and ended only five years ago When Germany and Jap an capitulated In between there were number of oc casions when we felt ourselves indebted to relatively small number of men who kept the war at safe distance from our man homes There was the nondcscript fleet of tug boats pleasure boats and fishing craft that snatched an army from its doom at Dunker que The historic few of the Royal Air Force Canadians among them beat off the Luftwaffes efforts to overwhelm Britain few months later We remember the 8th Army small in com parison to the massive formations of the titer Battle or Europe who turned back the Germans and Italians in Libya when victory seemed remote didnt know what was doing didnt reallyintendito hurt him to crash into lives and made the crossing of the Rhine virtually bloodless Three British warships in the River Plate guerrilla bands of Asiatics in southeast Asia and Europeans in the mountains of Greece and Yugoslavia made their contributions to our survival And on each occasion we felt glow of gratitude Today the same gratitude goes to the men of many lands who cleaned up whatmlght have been the prelude to another world con flict They were chiefly Americans and South Koreans but included Britons Australians Canadians and others The nationality isnt impertant Once again men have shed blood to win reprieve from far greater calamity Be yond our sympathy and thanks we owe them our best endeavors to make their achievement worth while Drunkenness Is No ExcuSe there when he is drunk andshouldnt there fore be held responsible for what he does ax ftoieave When is allthis nonsense in our courts tress anit helps tradetocr Elmwood Man Herald DROP KID GLOVES Civilized countries must apply the iron fist of discipline hardu nature is rarely at faultGeneratiott after generation of gulls had learn stead of on their own resources The gulls of today are no dif ferent in physicalemakeup from the gulls of yesterday They are starving because their welfare state has melted before their eyes they have lost their ability to fend for themselves Nature here presents strange paradoxllhe gullsrwere once the of international espionage starting on our doorstep and up to the Iron Curtain GANANOQUE ONTi Reporter ENFORCEMENT NEEDED Thor should be sbmjaw in most independent creatures of the universe Nature had provided them Canada rigidly enforced to put in jail those who openly attack to hit thatpOIiceman You see Your Honor was littlehigh was intoxicated was under the influence of liquor headed daring with the efficiency didnfimean to The act was not premeditated Intoxication as an excuse twisted and turned this wayand that butistsillanrexcuse Something to lean on when common sense hasgone going to stop Drunkenness is no excuse and never can or should be held as such Drunkenness is cause manor woman who when intoxicated damages injures or kills is and should be just as liable as the man or woman who when sober damages injures orlcills To the dead child it makes no difference whether its killer was sober or intoxicated If anythingga sober killer is more likelitd An appealtothmtohthegroundthat mavctaken precaution to avoid the death The drunk killer is killerWhether in car or all menhave this common failing and you ed your hand out and feverishly unwrapped your prize It was only asniail box of candy but still it withTmarvellous capacity to take Care of themselves it was their ownfault they trusted the welfare state their own country on behalf of Your Honor know that man is not quite all with gun or knife in hand another nation Which is at present coming closeto threatening war JRainy Bivcr Ont Recordi Edltonal Notes hey were caug it by the phan tom idea thattheycould get some mug SERVICE The rich grow pour and the poor beconte T0days bedtime IstoricIs often begin once thing for nothing They beame Judging by the operations of purseproud Cowper upon time and half dependent upon artificial conditions some councils we have Seen Iit Now with free fopd gone they are would take as athetic and ia paying the price of theirffollies pen to 1355831effectivelygthe The government isnow apparently taking they jarevictitInsI of adverse Icir difcujties Of tddayvsI itsefvants steps to keep future managementslabor negoE cumstances or is 1tIthe1IIr stupidity thepeopleii mime local municipal tiations on the rauSI The people of United States fleliiSCARBORO iOnt MAIL And Ithen home with perhaps the sad thought that your best chum ed to depend on thshrimp fleet in How oftenare we to die before we goduite off this stage In every friendWe 1658 Alla173v of ourselves and the best part BPOPE Eartha examine IIIWhat woman IaIsIhts family were all prepared for gmvmgI away to Toronto out west wary mean for somewhere else where pastures Ilddked greener iv SCHOOL DAYS But considering things in generall school days werent the most un happy of any persons life by and largeoeven after remembering the almost daily lickings received fiom many of our teachers Itis quite certain those frequent occurrences in early daysrhad bigshare in our most exemplary life in any ma tureextensive career WHEN WEWERE CHUMS Im thinking of the days gone by when we were chtlclren you and We built our castles in the air and planned life quite free of care Wed stick together through thick and thin and every battle we would win But the years have gone and so have you 11 wonder if you re member tqo And though tis long since we last met know shall never forget That favored chum of old days when she and were eight per haps ten FRED GRANT The Finamlal Post Barrie Ont Oct 12 1950 GtassA Weeklybf Canada Published Every Monday and Thursday at The Wilson Building PostOfIfice Square Barrie Ontario Canada by THE BARRIE EXAMINERITLIMITEID 2i AJMacLAREN President watts VicePresident can Member of Class Weeklies of Canada Canadian Wekly Newspapers Association scout191 Quebec Division Of CWNA arid the Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscriber to II 7096 AVERAGE PRESSIRUN $iiiiiigtimif133s 71300 CQPES MiicLareu Managing Editor WI KI Wang Business Fair New Editbr aphittick AdvertisingII Iomlinufoni Printing Manager HII cooper PlunLSWI Rivett Office Manager WI smbbmssjv Emu IF Authorized as second clasavinallyby th Post Office Department Ottawa Subscriptions 38931216 in advanceig 00 early in Canada months $175 moiIiths 3100 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