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A cloudburst at Sudbury on. Saturday did considerable damage to railroad, roads and bridges in that district. Mr, and # ¥ . Ralph, were swept from their farm wagon by the flood. "Pey managed to cling to small trees and were rescued later. The Jlorses were drowned. a ) Fire destroyed 1670 feet of freight sheds belonging to the C.N.R. on Front Street, Toronto. til o * x ® : 3 Washington has advised Americans to leave Ethiopia, as war with Italy appears to be imminent. 2 : i * 5% Political matters are in great confusion in Canada. There will be four parties in the fieJd--Conservative,- Liberal, C. C. F. and Reconstruction. The latter party will be led by Hon. H. H. Stevens. SRL : " '% & ® Serious floods are raging in Changteh, China. Dykes on the . Yuen River collapsed, and the waters swept over the city of Changteh drowning an undetermined number of people. Demanding adequate central housing and three meals a day in restaurants, unemployed relief-camp strikers of Manitoba, num- bering 500, occupied the city's soup kitchen on Princess Street, Winnipeg, with the assertion they would remain until their de- mands were granted. g . s 8 8 ' As provided for in legisaltion brought down in the Ontario Legislature this year, the border municipalities of Windsor, Walk- erville, East Windsor. and Sandwich automatically 'amalgamated on July 1st, and will henceforth be known as Windsor. The largest crowd so far this year visited the Dafoe hospital, home of the Dionne quintuplets, on June 30th, Dr. 'A. R. Dafoe attending physician, said. Dr. Dafoe said visitors came from all parts of Canada and the United States. Despite a warm sun a cool breeze was blowing. "The heat doesn't bother the babies," Dr. Dafoe said. ats : Tariff reductions totalling $250,000 on the basis of imports "during the past fiscal year, were announced by Newfoundland's Commissioner of Finance. g -------- Duties on clothing, boots "and shoes, reduced in December, will be lowered another 10 per cent., while the drawback on shoe findings wil be increased 10 per cent., and that on certain other materials used by shoe manufacturers will be increased from 33% to 50 per cent. : : Reductions in the duties on foodstuffs will include a drop of 15 cents per 100 pounds on beans and lentils and 20 cents per 100 pounds of rice. The duty on cheese will be lowered from 6 cents Ee per pound to 3 cents. The duty on oats will be reduced from 10 cents to 5 cents per bushel; cornmeal from 50 cents to 25 cents per barrel; offals of grain, from 25 cents to 10 cents per 100 pounds. Pasteuring plants will be put on the free list. X Questioning authority of the Federal Government for its ac- tion in the handling of the trek of relief camp strikers at Regina, Hon. T. C. Davis, Saskatchewan Attorney-General, telegraphed Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice, at Ottawa, demanding an explanation. : "I demand that I be advised forthwith as to whether you con- gider the enforcement of the Criminal Code in this Province ig your Fesponsibility or ours, and I demand that you forthwith instruct the police to take orders from me and from me alone in connection with the enforcement of the provisions of the code in Saskatchewan," Mr, Davis's telegram said. "I take this stand because of the provisions of the police agreement and the provisions of subsection 14, Section 92 of the British North America Act, which imposes the responsibility for the administration of justice in the Province upon the Provincial Government. si - ; * ¥ =x a . -+"Something ought to be done about this condition if we are to prevent the younger generation becoming more and more crim- inally inclined," Chief Faulds of York County reports, and sug- gests the adoption of the strap as a deterrent, especially in the . cage repeaters. "This was the practice some year. ago and it proved very beneficial, and seldom, if ever, did a repeater appear." The report points out that 53 more juvenile offenders passed through the hands of the department to the Juvenile Court in| 1984 than in 1938, making a total of 97, as compared with 44 ap- prehended the previous year. EE Ava $i 2 : Parliament at Ottawa has prorogued and a general election has been promised before harvest. . . Relief totals in Ontario are easing up a little bit. Figures for this spring--the latest available for the entire Province--are still adding up to better than $3,000,000 a month. In March the total cost of direct relief in the Province was $3,216,460.88. Mount Vesuvius alarmed citizens of Naples and near-by towns with a terrifying eruption, but observers at the Vesuvius Observatory assured the populace there was no danger. The roaring flames spouting from the volcano, whose lava and ashes buried the ancient city of Pompeii, provided a magnificent display for hundreds of thousands of Neapolitans and tourists in the © district. se . An offer from the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission was discussed at Orillia, but no action was taken. It was said the town would possibly have some power to sell when Orillia's new power project at Minden is completed, but what amount of "Surplus power would be available was not known. "The Commig- pes n is not ready yet to complete any deal, "said Mayor J. B. inston, "or enter into any. contract until a survey is made and ; the amount of surplus power. which will be available is known," : ; Uw 7 For i Fi 2 WEL : . x CY, : - J Ontario motorists contributed $41.40 out of every $100 cash 'receipts collected by the Province in 1984, an increase of $2.70 * 'aver the previous year. Of this anfount $25.80 out of every $100 represented gasoline tax, while the balance represented registra- tion and license fees. "According to the latest. figures 15.2 per cont of the population owned motor vehicles in Ontario in 1934 and &/ in that year, they contributed $20,786,970, or 41.4 per cent of the cash revenue received by the Province in the twelve-month period. 0) i] x Vy PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 11th, 195 $1.50 per year in advance 5 cents single copy Watch your label; it tells when your subscription expires. i ----- A -------- NR ----------------] i a a -------- CAN ONTARIO SCHOOLING BE IMPROVED? By 8. B. McCready (Continued from last week) FOLK SCHOOLS FOR ONTARIO COUNTY Could Ontario County have such a school? I think it could. In Nor- way, Sweden and Finland, where the Danish schools have been commonly adopted, the Folk High Schools are county schools supported by county coun- cils. Such a County School might become the permanent seat of the Winter Short Courses now held by the County Agricultural Representatives. They put great value on going away from home to live as one of a school family in Denmark. It is from living intimately under the same roof with great teachers and like mnded schoolmates for five Winter months that there comes the art of living together agreeably. It is this that inoculates young Danish farmers with the germ of co-operation. I can even imagine such a school on a small scale for each Township in the County, Why, for example, could not the Gamebridge Community Club that has carried on so successfully during the last Winter in its local Women's Institute Hall not develop a Thorah Township Folk School for its adult farm folk as well as for the older boys and girls who plan to follow up farming? Suppose Thorah Township bought-- (or what would be possibly just as good, had donated to it by some generous well wisher)--a 25-acré or a G0-acre farm and put it under the care of an inspiring teacher-manager who was a graduate of 'the Agricultural College! On this central township experi- mental farm would be grown the select improved seed for the township farms. . From its well managed poultry department the township flocks would secure their improved laying stock. From the co-operative movements engineered from this adult Folk School under the principalship of the "Town- ship Manager" might develop in time no end of worth while enterprizes in stock improvement, township banking, community insurance and farm com- modity marketing and purchasing. It is not difficult to believe that, with the right sort of a resident leader, having the loyal support of a sympathetic and' wise board of trustees every Township in Ontario County might "find itself" and go. forward into great co-operative achievements under its own steam and without the debilitating effect of governmental pap-feeding. The chief output of the school would not be better crops and more money-- important as these are--but the "good life" and that abundantly. "And what great things might there not be for the farmers of Ontario Province at labge as well as for the farmers of Ontario County under the | leadership of their own Folk Schools! The possibilities are unlimited. 'Who will take the lead to get them? They must come from the country folk themselves. They could not be effective if they were "wished on" the farm- ers. They must be schools of the people, by people and for the people. CO-OPERATION IN DENMARK A brief statement regarding 'the status of "co-operation amongst Danish" farmers will be illuminating: They have 1388 co-operative dairies repre- senting 90% of the farms, and 86% of the cows; the turnover in 1932 was $116,000,000. They own and control 61 co-operative bacon factories representing 70% of the farms and 76% of the country's pigs. In 1932 the turnover was $95,000,000. ' They have 700 co-operative egg collecting stations representing 20% of the farms and 25% of the hens; the turnover in 1932 was_$8,600,000. They have 11 cattle export 'co-operatives representing 11% of the farms and '18% of the cattle; the turnover was $1,260,000. : i They have 1368 feed-stuff co-operative societies representing 81% of the farms and, 34% of the cows and pigs of the country; the turnover was $26,500,000. "- They have 1412 co-operative fertilizer societies representing 24% of the farms and 29% of the farm areas; the purchases in 1932 were $3,760,000. They have 1815 co-operative consumers' societies with stores with 312,- 000 members and a turnover in 1932 of $61,000,000. : 'They have 530 private Savings Banks with $6550,000,000 loaned prin- cipally on farm and town properties. ~~ ___ ' They have 13 Mortgage Credit Associations which in 1932 had 408,000 loans with a total value of $1,046,000,000. They have 9 Hypothec (Second Mortgage Societies) which in 1932 had 63,000 loans totalling $113,000,000. The Danish Co-operative Bank of Copenhagen established in 1914 is owned by the co-operative societies of Denmark and acts as a clearing house for their foreign business. It has 50 branches and 60 offices throughout th. country. J : : They have 1650 Sick Clubs with a membership of two-thirds of the population, namely 1,950,000. It is compulsory and for a tax of a few dollars a year from each person, medical services, hospital care and con- valescence are provided for all. These are only a few of their co-operative enterprises, ~ Co-operation permeates their entire business: in all sorts of insurance, in cow-testing, in local light and power plants, in telephone, bakeries, potato-meal factories, breeding associations for farm animal improvement, cement factory, buying agricultural machinery, producing marl for land dressing, for cleaning and exporting garden, root and farm-crop seed. i Crowning their entire co-operative enterprises there is an Agricultural Council that speaks for the farmers of Denmark in all matters pertaining to proposed legislation, ifi all matters that concern other industries, and in combatting trusts and rings that menace agriculture. All'this wonderful achievement rests fundamentally on a correct training for rural life received in their schools. Are you. surprised that I am en- thusiastic for the application of Denmark's open seerets in education? Without them I can see no victory for the Canadian farmers. Education! Co-operation! Self Reliance! : RURAL ONTARIO'S EDUCATIONAL NEEDS And now after our excursions into Scotland and Denmark, we came back to Ontario. This is where we live and it is under our peculiar conditions that we must hammer out reforms for ourselves. People say, "Ob, it is all right to talk about Scotland and Denmark, but we're different. What you say is interesting but I can't ses how .we can apply the suggestions you make." Well, I confess I don't see any clear way ahead either. But I keep on hoping that some day public opinion will be-so strong and so well in- formed that the country people will get a square deal in education, And liberty to work out for themselves @ new sort of system of country schools which will be for them a bulwark and a sure defence--something lacking now. And' then Scotland's and Denmark's pioneering experiences may be helpful to us. hE ab You know as much as I do about our educational defects and needs. 1 shall content myself by asking a few. questions: briefly to challenge your consideration. ; : 1. Ig'it not true that the general trend of education in Ontario is to the town and city and away from the country? And is it not true that most country people are content to have it so? £7 Fy 2, 'Is it not true that our universities (catering to professional and urban needs chiefly) dominate the work of the secondary schools and, un- consciously, hinder rural Ontario from making its Continuation Schools, gchools for country life? Why are there not university graduates on Ontario farms? And in Ontario country schools? ' "8. Is it possible that our Agricultural College and Macdonald Institute (continued on page 5) 7 | Educational Finances in Ontario County A REPLY TO AN EDITORIAL IN THE WHITBY GAZETTE By WM, PARROTT My stand on this question would have been just the same if the claims of Port Perry and Pickering had been paid a year ago or had they never occurred. If through errors, someone has suffered an injustice the right thing for the County Council or any- one else to do, is to do all in their power to-see that no wrong results to the innocent so far as it is possible. My declaration of office requires this. At the two sessions in June about two hours were spent in trying to un- derstand and arrange a settlement of the question of unpaid and overpaid money, as required by the Statutes as amended. } Much more time was spent in try- ing to prove that the $20,000 overpaid moneys was a myth and should be forgotten. There are about $20,000 involved in this question yet the Gazette says it is not an important question, and ad- mits it is still "up in the air." The whole question could be legally and honourably settled by the: County Council in about an hour. How long does the editor of the Gazette think it would take to settle matters by the tactics adopted by some County Coun- cillors at the June session? So far as hardship on the school areas to pay this amount back is con- cerned, their school boards had access to the Statutes of 1930 and, had they understood and applied them, they should have known each year how much they were being over paid; and could have returned it but they used it; and it must have given them a good service these five hard years to have had someone else finance them to the amount of $16,000. It would be no hardship for these schools to pay this back in annual payments just as they received it, as by doing that they would get free financing to the amounts they were overpaid. - Pg THE STRUGGLE FOR SOBRIETY (Toronto Daily Star, July 2 The Supreme Court of Canada has decided, by three judges to two, that the Canada Act is more restrictive than the present liquor law of On- tario and therefore that the federal act still applies to the Counties of Huron, Peel and Perth, making in- valid the liquor authorities that have been issued in those counties. "Our provincial government made the mistake of siding with the liquor interests in this case and putting the temperance forces to unnecessary trouble and expense. The liquor forces pursup the fixed policy of try- ing to tire out their dry 'opponents and exhaust their finances, and on too many occasions they have been aiding in their strategy by the powers that be. Beverage rooms are an unpopular feature of the Hepburn 'government's record and are taking a heavy toll of life and limb and morality, both directly and indirectly. Provincial administrations should seck to pro- mote sobriety and public safety and in that effort they should welcome the aid of publie-spirited citizens such as are to be found behind the move- ment to limit the evils of the liquor control traffic. REPORT OF 8. 8. NO. 1, SCUGOG Sr. IV--Alan Carter, Irene Red- man, Gladys Collins, Harold Martyn passed Entrance. Florence Carter, Alvin Heayn, Jr. III to Sr. IV -- Edna Samells, (Hon.); Nelson Reader. " Jr. IV--Olive Brown, Percy Collins, Larraine Collins. Sr. III -- Mildred Heayn (Hon.); Ruby Brown (Hon); Gerald Colleran (Hon.); Joyce Reader (Hon.); Ever- ton Collins. g Jr. III--Marion Sweetman (Hon.); Aleta Collins, Wallace Collins. Sr. II -- Elsie Reader, Merlin Col- lins. Jr. II--Evelyn Reader' (Hon), Allan Redman (Hon), Myrtle Collins, (Hon); Geo. Samells (Hon.); Helen Swetman (Hon.); Walter Colleran, (Hon); Roy Collins, Lois Reader, Dick Rodd, aHrry Brown. " Sr. Pr--Jack Collins, Dorothy Col- lins, Edgar Brown. Beginenrs--Mary Reader, Jack Col- leran, ' '36 on roll. W. Niddery, teacher, J 'ment at the approaching general 'Again, attention may be directed to -- Mu -- . CANADA YEAR BOOK 1934-1935. Printer, Ottawa, as long as the supply The publication of the 1034-1036 | lasts, at the price of $1.60 which edition of the Canada Year Book is| covers merely the cost of paper, announced by the General Statistics | printing and binding. By a special con- Branch of the Dominion Bureau of | cession, ministers of 'religion bona- Statistics. The Canada Year Book is| fide students and school 'teachers may the official statistical annual of the| obtain copies at the nominal price of country and contains a thoroughly up-| 60c. each. to-date account of the natural re- sour f the Domini d their de- velopment, the history of the country, PORT PERRY its institutions, its demography, the ' ~~ PUBLIC SCHOOL different branches of productions, Examination Results a trade, transportation, finance, educa- tion, etc--in brief, a comprehensive study within the limits of a single volume of the social and economic condition of the Dominion. This new edition has been thoroughy revised throughout and includes 'in all its chapters thé latest information avail- able up to the date of going to press. The 1934-35 Canada Year Book ex- tends to over 1250 pages, dealing| Birkett, Irene Ruth Blewett, Fred with every phase of the national life| Densham, Joe Dowson, Norman Gil- and more especially with those sus-|boord, Harold Hayes, Clarence Leahy, ceptable of statistical measurement.| Jr. IV to Sr. IV-- Attention may be specially directed to the statistical summary of the pro-| (Hon.); George Stone (Hon,); Louise gress of Canada included in the intro-| Hall (Hon.); June Sonley, Grant Mec- ductory matter and giving a picture| Dermott, Irene MacDonald, 'David in figures of the remarkable progress| Pickard, Lola Gerrow, Herbert which the country has made since the | Howard, Lucille Harrison, Josephine first census of the Dominion was] Cooney, Doris MacGregor, Gladys taken in 1872, sixty-four years ago. Nott, George Emmerson. Attention may be called to some of By Final Examination--Edna Dow- the special features of the present|son, Jack Raines, Stanley Gyton, Fred volume. There is included in Chap.| Colbear, Betty Mitchell, Jack Tinsley, I, a brief description of Standard] Dick Hood, Bob Jeffrey. Time and Time Zones in Canada, R. H. Cornish, teacher. which is of special interest to those Sr. III to Jr. IV-- who travel either in the flesh or by On year's work -- Doris Mulligan radio. There will be found in Chap. IIT a discussion of the Representation (Hon.); Kathleen Read (Hon.); Alan Act of 1933 and a special table show- Colbear. ing the population as in 1931 of each By Final Examination--Jack Sang- of the new electoral districts, which ster, Earl Jackson, Frank Densham, will return representatives to Parlia- Howard White, Harold Wakeford. Jr HE-to Sr Hl-- -- On year's work -- Pearl Sutcliffe, (Hon.); Enid Dusty (Hon.); Joyce Hull (Hon.); Dave Nasmith, Mar- Brown, Harold Bob Allin, Entrance Class On year's work--Bruce Beare, Bur- gess Beare, Harry Carnegie, Leonard Colbear, Ivan Dusty, Norma Ewers, Cora Gerrow, Marion Gooderhans, Mary Leahy, George Mulligan, Ellen Ploughman. By Entrance Examination -- Ray clection. Probably the most extended presentation of the results of the Census of 1931 that will appear in the Year Book is to be found in Chap. IV, garet Day, Arthur where Religions are cross-analysed by Bentley, Gladys Goode, racial origin for the first time, and Lucille Mark. . several new classifications are added] BY Final Examination--Shirley Gil- to the section dealing with Birth-|boord, Phyllis Anderson, Douglass places; the chapter closes with sta- Gerrow, Kenneth Moore, Bryce Moase, Edward Bennett, Jack Pargeter, David Kight, Ronald Cliff. ~ S. A. Cawker, teacher. Sr. II to Jr. III-- On year's work -- Maude Griffen, tistics of the area and population of countries of the British Empire for the years 1911, 1921, '1931, and of the countries of the world for 1931. The Mines and Minerals Chapter, together with the discussion of the new dis-| (Hon.); Béth Griffen (Hon.); Cecil coveries of economic geology in| Gerrow (Hon.); Billy Stevens (Hon); Chapter I, will be of interest to those| joan Hayden (Hon.); Gordon Car- who are concerned with this rapidly negic (Hon.); Donald Carnegie growing branch of our economic life.| (fon.); Aileen Oke (Hon.); Grace Pickard (Hon); Ward Palmer (Hon.); Jimmy Davidson (Hon.). By Final Examination--Rose Marie Armstrong, Bernice Jemison, Norine Stewart, Kathleen Cook, Vera Bruce, Audrey DeShane, Pauline Jemison, Marjorie Jeffrey, Eric Farnell. Jr. II to Sr. II Promoted during term--Irene Mul- ligan, Grant Bennett, John Jeffrey, va Goode, Clare Glass. On year's work---Jack MacGregor, Ora Dowson, Myrtle Dowson, Teddy l.eahy, Ethel Powell. : By Final Examination--Marguerite Waridel, Fred Gyton, Lloyd Wake- ford, Jean Raines, Walter Sonley, Doreen Peterson. : Gertrude V. Stovin, teacher. Jr. II to Jr. Ila Passed on term work--Edna Gauld, Harold Mark, Norma Ploughman, Keith Allin, Betty Hall, Keith new | Stewart, Betty Collacutt, Aleta Wakeford, Gordon McMaster, Grant Bentley, Daris Vanos, Frank Prentice, David Bentley. Passed on Final Examination-- Arthur Nott, Arthur Colbear, Leila errow. the improvement of the introduction to the External Trade Chapter ag well as to the final statistics of the Cen- sus of Distribution and Services of 1930, to which has been added a more summary treatment of retail trade based upon a 65 to 70 p.c. sample of all retail trade and covering the years 1931 to 1933. In the Labour and Wages Chapter may pe noted the in- clusion .of tables showing both the oc- cupational and the industrial distribu. tion of the gainfully occupied popu- lation of the Dominion as in 1931. In the Public Finance Chapter appears, for the first time, a comparative an- alysis of provincial revenues, expen- ditures, assets and liabilities on the basis agreed upon at the Dominion. Provincial Conference of 1933: addi- tional material regarding national in- come is also included in this chapter. The Currency and Bankihg Chapter includes a description of the Bank of Canada and a classification of bank loans by industries and of dd- posits by amounts. In the Misc laneous Administration Chapter there appears a study of liquor corftrol, liquor sales and revenues arising therefrom, and the concluding chapter lists the honours and awards made by His Majesty the King to Canadian subjects from the resumption of the granting of titles in Canada (in Jan- vary, 1934) to June, 1935. Sr. I to Jr. 11 Passed on term work--Bobby Wil- liams, Bobby Dowson, Emerson Mec- Millan, Jack Cawker, Kathleen Day, Billy Hayes, Jack Cook, Wesley Jack- son, Jean Cook, Helen Peel. The volume is illustrated by many | Passed on Final Examination-- maps and diagrams and the latest Teresa Leahy, lois Parr, Betty Dow- available data are everywhere in-| son. Kenneth Jackson, Doris Raines, cluded. Immigration and trade sta-| Lucille Jeffrey. tistics for the fiscal year 1934-35 and E. W. Harris, teacher. dairying statistics, which it was not| pier to Junior First possible include in Chapter VIII when Names in alphabetical order. this was being printed, will be found | popart Archer, Jack Blewett, Megan in the Appendices. Beare, Betty Cook, Bobby Cockburn, Ethel Gilboord, Helena Hayes, Bruce Hull, Jack Kerr, Teddy Mitchell, Morely Mitchell, Gordon Mark, Mar- jorie Newell, George Nott, Hugh Prentice, Donald Pargeter, Florence White, Mercedes Waridel, Billy Wil- liams. E. May Walker, teacher. Owing to the urgent need for economy in the distribution of Gov- ernment publications, it has "become necessary to make a charge to all ih. dividuals receiving the Canada Year Book. = Persons requiring the Year Book may obtain it from the King's bs Tate Batu BHT ISSR TYS On year's work -- Hugh Nasmith 4 es Hoe fs A . a J on A Pb oa REST £