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the Board sent in, 'Resolved that the 3 Rural School, The Status and Quali 'Adolescent School Attendance Act te, un] of the Teacher have all be not practicable in rural schools will only add to the elready heavy burden of taxation and should, there- fore, be repealed." Now I have not | and motions kinds proposed, but this wes the only occasion where a resolution was pro- to repeal this Act and it was had much experience in putting mo-| withdrawn, tions and thought we might talk the matter over before the Convention opens." The above conversation 600k, hove their children educated. n the sitbing room of one of the' . the townships and counties have been of a small Ontario town in 4, the van of moral 'progress is evi- plas 'of 'the rural people of Oritario that they have always been Sons ux Mey, 1922. Two men had driven eight dent by the expulsion of the barroom fles that morning, through a drench-| x rain, to attend a Jeagfhtey 5 Ratepayers' Convention for the coun- ty and had brought a resolution with em, and two other men had driven' a auto some forty miles. to speak at the same Convention. A rotunda or gitting room of a hotel is a most con- genial place for men to get acquaint- ed and men will express themselves frankly and freely in a small group when they hesitate to stand and ad- dress an audience. The whole ques- tion of the Adolescent School Attend- ance Act and mural education was threshed out hy the four men and wall mgreed that the motion should be laid before the Convention. It was real {zed by all four that a meeting held under the auspices of the Trustees' snd Ratepayers' Association, could got have a better subject to discuss than just such a resolution. They all believed in the motto, "Progress by Discussion," and based all discussion on the fundamental principle of con- fidence, faith and understanding. It was time to go to the Conven- tion and, walking down the street, thiough the rain, one of them recalled to his own mind the words of Amos, #Shall two walk together except they have agreed?" The bond of friend- ship established in the hotel grew ptrorger until there was a sincere willingness on all sides to arrive at the truth and a desire to discover the very best kind of education for rural chifdren. The spirit of mutual good- will - pervaded the Convention; the Adolescent School Attendance Act was studied from every angle, the people all" pulled together to devise the best ways and means of giving a #quare educational deal to the rural child and finally the resolution to abolish the Act was withdrawn and ------ COMPLETE SCHOOL SET FREE T0 BOYS AND GIRLS i from rural areas long before the large and! urban centres could be convinced of the evils of the liquor traffic. A very | much langer percentage of the adol- escents in the country are found in the regular church service than in the towns and cities. If country parents guand their adolescents morally and provide for them religiously, it is un- reasonable to suppose they will neg- lect them educationally, always been the recruits from the country homes, graduating from our colleges and universities, coming to our great industrial centres with good consciences and high moral standards, who have preserved the life of great cities from decay? Another Resolution. There is another motion re the Adolescent School Attendance Act. be- fore the whole of Ontanio just now: A Bill has been laid before the Legis- lature to suspend the Act until Jahu- ary, 1928. Every rural member of the Legislature would do well to oppose this retrograde measure. Democracy calls for a high standand of education | for all the people. It would be a crime against the youth of Ontario to allow them to leave school at fourteen and face the keen competition of the world unprepared; The Act is work- ing fairly smoothly and effectively with very little hardship to rural people, but stimulating us all to make provision for the proper education of adolescents, We need a different kind of school rather than the abolition of the Act and let us study how. to pro- vide it. May we hope for the with- drawal or defeat of this motion be- fore the Legislature, The process of education has only 'well commenced at fourteen years of age. Adolescence is pre-eminently the criminal age when most first commitments occur and when most vicious careers are begun, It is the adolescent years rather than the first seven years that count, We must keep fully abreast in educational standards with the people with whom we intermingle and trade. Now what the educational stand- ands-of these people? Ontario is more immediately surrounded by the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. than any other territory. The People of Ontario will have to compete with the people of those] states in all industrial, agricultural | and commercial pursuits. In none of; | these states is the age of full-time or, part-time compulsory education below | sixteen years; in Michigan, New York and Illinois it is eighteen years and n Wisconsin seventeen years. We hy as bright minds and as keen in- tellects in the youth of Ontario as are found anywhere. Let us give them a square deal, . . The man who does what he pleases is seldom pleased with what he does. For the purpose of encouraging im- | migrants of the farmer and domestic ages Union Jack . Flag Stickers, so that you can put the flagwn your school books; letiens, We will give you this Whole School - free of all charge if you will sell $3 worthy of lovely Embossed r Post Cards at 10¢ a package. . Bend us your name and we will send 'the cards to sell. When sold send the money, and we will send you OMER - WARREN 60, servant class, an Ordér-in-Council has been signed removing the continuous: journey restrictions, whereby immi- grants of the above classes who have resided' for a time in some country other than their own can emigrate thence to Canada. A further Order- i ine Council repeals the provision of a $5 fee for vise of the passport in the emigrant's own country. The pass- Australia, at Sydney; Melbourne and beautiful building shown in the pic mint master from London. small "C" on its reverse er Tl nine hundred years ater the int the Congueror in Lond Colfis were orice issued who wanted to do so, but coining. is now restricted to governments. South e in the mints of I ? CANADA CAN SUPPLY PROMISED CATTLE ev' Bh Commissioner: or of Agriculture ite would Says Shipping is Available for the Purpose." o teh from London says:-- tion to give any Hon. D. Marshall, Can A despa Scepticism is being expressed in some 'quarters in England whether Canada fssioner of can fulfil her eibargo, Clpafen hi eo istic Th CH 4 mise to ship 200,000 cattle annual- e) a ¥ to Britain, and the assertion is be- ment Merchant Marine, with its. Govern ed 'has been won by A. Puccini, ing made that sufficient steamship' ships, could alone take over almost' large manufacturer of macaroni, of aseccommodation cannot transport them during the season. | besides this the White. Star, Donald- sition W. Weddell and Company, the 'well son and Canadian Pacific Companies known, London: produce firm, in a re-' also proposed to handle the trade. view of the frozen meat trade Sid: Onpaita, had Sout abuont 400,009 sav Jy "The maximum number of cattle over before embargo, 8 steamers could carry is about 1,000, alla and the United States last year|of macaroni a grand 'prize. Head each, which means 200 shiploads, sent together 'about 150,000. and as the trade is seasonal the ves- a a sels would have to arrive on an aver-| po. joo gon bie unless you age of one every day, and the rates | yon would have to cover the return voyage Ehow what to do with it when CER men arid 563 boats were the Manitoba fresh walker with an equipment valued at > caught undér domestic license, while . sixteen and a half million pounds. Natural Resources Bulletin 'eries "Were operating in the Province. The: Natural Resources Tatel- icatohowar _ligence Service of the Depart ment of the Interior at Ottawa, - | says: 3] One of the fascinations of i living in a new country is the * constant revelation of previous- ly unknown resources. It is but a comparatively few years since Northern Ontarie was on thé map merely as so much space. To-day from out of that area are coming minerals which make Ontario the: largest min- eral pr ng province in Can- ada, and from its timbered farses 'millions of cords of pulp- wood -are 'being cut. It is re. ported that flowing into James Bay are seventy-four rivers, each with its banks covered with pulpwood species. Ontario certainly has a proverbial "gold mine" in her northern areas. sAssotiation, Southern Al- under the diteh" of these pro- ne ioe Northern i jon ict, com; 000 acres of land, Ey TH acres are ivigghie The smaller Ho wining Heads Health Campaign. Dr. Gordon Bates, who has"just com- pleted a tour of New Brunswick, which covered 2,000 miles, conducting an in. tensive public health campaign on be-! half of the Canadian Social Hygiene Councll. gr Site i 1 Northern, anitoba oats Nor minal, tobe batiey 0 All the above, Track. jy Ne perce corn--No, 3 0, Tadley Mating: 59 to ois. aboard | 3 outside. En 5, 78 wile. : ye--No. 2, 84 to Boe, 'eas--No. Milifeed-- I CALL FUR DR. COUEL REE Ba Aven ling or Vi seri MADER AND MADD! good feed fic iar, : Th : 20; Toronts Ses. os hid Ri ae seaboard, $4.9 oie Sy 8 , : E ta A gl gel 5 loti, per ton, track, | ports of immigrants of other than! British or United States origin are demanded with a view to having record of their Aaflonalities HE bis exhibit Winnipeg, 'Man.--Last year 2,113 Smpldye 1 hog 4 Over 1,125,600. pounds of fish were - the commercial fisheries realized over Saskatoon, Sask.--F ifty-nine cream- | Ji be obfaided to the whole quota in three trips, But|this city. At the international ph Botton pounds § measly 2-1 § D pointed Vice Pretiden "ot" the operating and maintenance of the Canadian National Railways, in the re- organization, has "assuthed the biggest Job of its kind in the world, having. is! charge of 22,262 miles of railway, He 4s a native-born Canadian.' eit med. rate. ed ba =~ jl a cent. over the Fin he 10; 23 rs 186.10;