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THE ERA VOL NO Instant Schoolrooms Every year conies Ihe same old problem of rising school addition costs and battles between municipal councils school boards and protests by ratepayers to the Department of Education Under the present system each time new school buildings are required architects have to make drawings sketch plans etc and on top of all this earn a healthy six per cent of the total cost of construc tion plus certain consultant fees Perhaps Toronto has found the answer in a new idea from the United States It follows the pattern of proposals over the past few years that school buildings should follow a standard design and again save the architects fee Torontos Metro School authorities are studying factory made class rooms which can be bolted together to make a school These are called modular components and each is equipped with its own heating air condi tioning and lighting system With these modular components any number may he hooked to- as local conditions require and still not lose the advantage of mass production School trustees in Metro feel that approximately million could be saved in school building costs alone if the project could be brought into operation The Metro team doing the studying have not yet brought in a report following a trip to California to see the system in use in that slate It i thought they may decide to put up a demonstration this modular Climatic or other conditions might prevent the project in Canada hut school boards would do well to keep the idea in their files and watch the Metro experiment A sigh of relief would rise if education costs would Its Bad Enough Theres nothing more startling to the senses then to be driving along the highway enjoying the scenery ami to have ones nostrils assailed by an obnoxious odor This was case over the weekend sec The Readers Era when scores and perhaps hundreds of motorists travelled along No Highway through Bradford A poison didnt have to have a keen sense of smell lo know that there was something rotten in Bradford One only had to watch the cat- drivers suddenly swerve the wheel hold their noses and glare tn the right eft Our York County It doesnt matter polluted enough without our If Bradford has an air pollution byla- bylaw should be strictly enforced If Bradford has not such a bylaw the out delay the should pass one wilh- away from a place then a Read Carefully ago was at that lime ret tor led lo be t triumph of and the only true method of finding the wonderful reading potential in the child It turned out In he omelhing of a disaster in fact il led further to more studies and ended tip with another brilliant idea remedial read- It appears that wc reap only what sow the generation that were subject to this enthusiastic surge have now reached the age where they are able to drive cars and the results are only loo apparent If Hie sign says they misread it One curious aspect of is that the OK up If for Yield appeal to read If you arc one of Hie unfortunate victims of this disability you too should take leading In the meantime pull off the road The of the carbonated beverage may clear confused provided of course that you do not again the Cream Soda tel on the bottle when it really said Old Scotch SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley All Agony No Ecstasy My wife keeps asking me why Nor honors my hands shake would not be polite lo respond living hands shake So I blame on the war Some fellows have burned faces eve Some have great shrap nel wounds on abdomen or but tocks which they will happily show you at Saturday nillit pally My hands shake She doesnt believe war bit anymore so I blame it on boon- tension of leaching or the pills take for my bursitis lint real reason is that liv ing Willi her would make hands shake What brings this to mind is that Ive just gone through about hours of domestic purgatory Cow ardly husbands go quietly off lo mental institutions or have heart attacks My hands shake OS What the in fifty vc at there tossing What villi him How could he I I My mini 1 Kit the Lord hadnt caused a miracle lo his professors who had hi allowed kid pass and kids who had allowed a yea of our sons marks Ihe end of Plus tax When the paper arrived with the firstyear results I threw it on the table ran In the bathroom locked myself in and started flushing toilet at twelvesecond intervals The alternative sobs of grief and shrieks of rage penetrated my re- frige I had lo come nut and be a father I know wont believe il bill Hint kids name was not al the head of honors v mi thru font little kids So we And results proved to me once again that old platitude thai life goes on It was a linn sun and sand llahy me mil III I Inns lemonade Id Under this and i most peni- of Cordons my old she was delink I her bed until foil THIS WEEK AND NEXT By Ray Canada Leaps Southward wealth Caribbean arc today look- more to Ottawa than to London The main decision for advice aid and encouragement of the Ottawa conference in bettering their wav of life forty per cent peoples separated by rate ili- tin lui late temperament and i ly nailing down in dian aid and building other tilings Oil flighls of fancv Besting the could Caribbean le import ditty oil Canada wants to talks would result in a new west sell more and flour to the hemisphere on mo wealth Ihei leaders would with Can- Binds The illfated West Indies Songster and Cuyiina chief mill- enters the Europe Market il will have economic support of Indies the Federation is Readers EM After lining some shopping in Saturday I decided to my family lo Bradford and When I of I 1 a vegetable stand I was al stands who Mich a stench Why due whic in Pi The town should do something 1ICCS More stench ruins Bradford hue Who ing or whatever is smell shouldnt be allow- like John Mackenzie Keswick and Toronto THE ERA Serving Northern York Counly Since Sorry sir cannot be used on a tractor picket line Weekly Now advance copies are