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Page 4 SUGAR THE NEWS CANADIAN LIBRARY WEEK - MAR .28 TO APR.1ST Canadian Library Week aims at focussing attention on the wonderful world of books which is there for AND SPICE oA TTL Sut (eS 7 Pity For A Principal This is a time of year -- one of a very few -- when I feel deeply sorry for high school principals. It's the time when they have to start bidding on livestock, in the form of teach- ers, for next fall. Let's put you, gentle reader, into the boots of one of these sterling chaps for a few min- utes. And let's say you have a staff of 60 at the moment. And let's say you don't know wheth- er you're going to have 1,200 or 1,400 students next September. Oh, well, so far, only two peo- ple have officially resigned. Any clod could hire two teachers. Unless, of course, those extra 200 kids show up, which means two or three more. Even so, nothing to it. Ah, but tarry a moment. You know perfectly well that one, possibly two of your teachers, preferably from among the mar- ried ladies on the staff, will be- come pregnant. You are fully aware that Ma- demoiselle Tartuffe, of the French department, had an un- fortunate affair with young Ja- blonski, the basketball coach, and that one of them will be leaving. The grapevine has informed you that Mrs. Billings, the old faithful in the History depart- ment, has been hitting the grape pretty regularly since her hus- band ran off with the waitress. Everyone knows the English department is rife with strife. Since the unfortunate demise of Mr. Wiley, the department head, in February, of cirrhosis of the liver, four of the English teach- ers, all equally qualified, have been gunning for the position. No matter which gets it, all the others will quit in dudgeon. You have just heard that your Home Economics teacher, the one in charge of teaching girls to cook, planned the menu for the monthly meeting of the Un- fulfilled Wives Club. And every- body came down with food poi- soning. One of your junior science teachers has just blown up $850 worth of equipment and two students, during an experiment "Frankly, | was disappoint- ed!" which completely justified your | opinion of his knowledge of the subject. Little Miss Muffett, the geo- graphy teacher just out of col- lege, is having discipline prob- lems. You discovered this when you walked past her room and saw two boys hanging out the window. Investigation revealed Miss Muffett hanging upside down, a boy holding each leg. They were testing the wind ve- locity, they explained, using her hair as a weather-vane. Monday morning, you heard that the director of your Tech- nical department was in hospi- tal, with third-degree burns, af- ter trying to change a fuse at home. The head of your Maths de- partment, old Gwillimbury, re- fuses to teach the New Mathe- matics, or have anything to do with it, because "It's a lot of nonsense."' And on top of this, there are four teachers you'd dearly love to fire because of incompetence, emotionalism, idealism, being too fat or plain laziness. So you have two resignations, but you might wind up with 42. What to do? If you leave it too late, all the other principals, like so many dogs after a bone, are in there first, and you wind up with a collection of clots. If you jump in too early, and start hiring teachers right and left, nobody will resign and you'll wind up with 12 more teachers than the Board will pay for. And no job yourself. As a result, quite a few prin- cipals these days are treading the thin line of lunacy. They start at shadows. They quail when they see a teacher looking surly. They stare with unconcealed horror at Mrs. McGillicuddy's swelling waist-line. They flinch when a teacher knocks at their door. They pour oil on troubled waters, turn their backs and find that somebody has tossed a match into the mixture. Hard luck, chaps; and good hunting. IS ALWAYS THERE March 31, 1966 all of us to discover and enjoy. Through books we can all enlighten our minds with the thoughts of those living or dead, who have left a legacy rich in ex- perience, profound in thought and delightful in en- tertainment. The general accessibility of books of all kinds makes it a greater necessity for each of us to become more selective in our choice or reading material . There exists an art of reading, but there also exists the important art of distinguishing the books that are worth reading. 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