ime ie doing nothing at school but getting into trouble. SUMAE & MATSHOT NEWS, ‘ABBOTSFORD, B.C, Bread AT 4 Loaves for 25c OUR BREAD IS CHEAPER THAN YOU PAY FOR BREAD BROUGHT IN FROM THE OU TSIDE. AS TO QUALITY OUR BREAD IS A. I, IT IS MADE IN A CLEAN BAKERY, AND FOR SWEETNESS FRESHNESS AND PURITY, IT CAN’ BE BEATEN, Ask for and Insist on Getting LEE’S BREAD ALBERT Lee GROCER AND BAKER B.C, PHONE 54 SE Sumas & Matsqui News Published Saturdays at Abbotsford, B.C, GERALD H. HELLER, Editor Subscription: One Year $1,50; Six Mouths $1.00; Three Months 75¢ ' Boys, Stay With The School When should a boy leave school and go to work? ‘The problem here set forth is a very real one in a country like Canada, whose people have That boys have left school too early is evidently the conviction of educationalists both in Great Britain and in Ontario, for, under the Fisher Education Act of 1918 in England, and the more recent Adolescent School Act in Ontario, the lowest age at profound belief in the value of education. which a boy may leave school has been raised from 14 to 16 years. Few will question the wisdom of this change, for the two additional years at school ought to mean far more in potential earning power and general all-round development than the money a boy could earn in the corresponding period or the help be ould give on a farm. It is often the case that the boy himself desires to leave school, and it “Ho's He’s not interested in his 4s considered by many parents the easiest course to allow him do so. Jessons, and he can’t get along with the teacher We have a good school too; I cant understand why the boy should not take advantage of it. I've talked, argued and threatened; what else can I do,‘but let bim go to work.’? In some such language more than one father has put the problem In the first place, we may agree t hat the boy himself ought not to be allowed to cast the deciding vote, and again we may as well admit ‘that the boy hasn’t always had the sympathetic and wise parental help in settl- a) } school. ing his school problems and difficulties. Ant hills of difficulty grow into mountains of discouragement, for the boy when he has to face them alone. Our schools are trying to do what is best for the boys, but unfortunately, for lack of time and help, it isn’t al ways possible for the teacher to dis- eover the fundamental needs of each boy. What the average boy needs is guidance in these all-important ‘teen years. The big thing that prompts them to quit school and go to work for a mere pittance of pay is the fact that unaided he is absolutely unable to relate his school work to life. Money fs conerete. It can be earned and handled and used; but education is an abstract something that the boy decides is all right for girls and sehool teachers, but of no use to him, He needs to be reassured often that his future depends on the training hoe is willing to take to make that successful. future He needs to have school training interpreted in terms of future happiness and larger usefulness. He needs ta be shown that if he leaves school very young he is likely to drift into a ‘blind alley’2 job, where his maximum earning power will most likely be yeached in the early twenties, and the longer he stays with end. the school the farther ahead he will be in the It is that long ‘‘Jook ahead’’ we must develop in the boy. Teach him that true success can only be measured by the service he renders humanity, not in the number of dollars he amasses, and that to render big service means blg training. Stir his ambition to be somebody, and to accomplish some- thing wortLy; other matters will take care of themselves. Fully half of the boys that drop out of school are not compelled to do so. It comes about because there is no one to counsel and encourage. Boys, stay with the (Contributed Making the Most of the Sunny Side of Life - A placid and well preserved gentleman of over eighty summers gives us the following sermonette, the like of which are literal green oases in a des- ert of commonplace superficialities we are glad to print it. He says: and drab economies: “We pass this way but once. We cannot retrace our steps to any pre- ceding milestone. Every time the clock strikes it is both the announce- ment of the hour upon which we are entering and the knell of the one which is gone. the books, and we know before wo sleep whether the result is on the right or on the wrong side of the account. Bach night memory balances “The older we grow the more we realize that life is worth the living. We think to little of the fun there isin it. We too parsimonious of laughter. We do not appreciate as we ought the man or woman who can make us forget while we are amused. We cannot help the past, and that man is a fool who lives init. To-day is a-better day than yesterday. are ‘(The secret of happiness and Jon gevity in my judgment, are to cherish and cultivate cheerful, hopeful and buoyant spirits. If you hayen’t them Enjoy things as they are. The ragge dest person I ever saw was a Turkish peasant standing in the field, clothed in bits of old carpet. He was laugh- ing hilariously at our well clothed party. The combination of color and hu- mor made him a thing of beauty, if x of a joy forever, “Let us never lose faith in human nature, no matter how often we are ‘deceived. Do not let deceptions destroy confidence in the real, honest ~ goodness, generosity, humanity and friendship that exist in the world. They fare overwhelmingly in the majority.’”' SB OThe Gone Town Paper The Punktown Bugle comes to hand on Friday of each week: a rawer sheet in all the Jand methinks, yuo’ll vainly seek, It has of ink a greasy coat that soils my cuff and bib; its type was ola when Greeley wrote his essays for the Trib. Its printed now and then in red or other gaudy tint, and I must stand upon my head deciphering the print. “Complaint made that Boggs the ordins would beat; “he pastures all bis corms and hogs along the village street.’ «James Zimmerman has set the pace by painting up his shack. Friend Jim! Let OER shes them- selyes along your track. “The mudhole in the public square disgraces our town, teams have foundered there, and child- ren there may drown.’ ‘(Some wretched fiend in human form stole prunes from Grocer Vail; our vil- lags marshall now is warm upon the felon’s trail.’’ “Sam Jonus has bought a runabout —seat wide enough for two. he’ll take a widow out; say, don’t you? {Sim Plker tried to shoe his mule and, while he trimmed his hoof, the long-eared and ungrateful fool just kicked him through the roof,’ You say such stuff is tommyror, from jay reporter's pen, but every i- tem hits the spot and makes me young again. You listen to it all with scora and say its stale and slow; It pleases me— for I lived in Punktown long ’ ago. is ce Good wor fair for sundiy And yet when that old Bugle comes, my tired eyes dance and shine; I quit my figures and my sums and read it every line. I’d throw away the nob lest book or skip a chance to eat, to pick the Bugle up and look through that old dizzy sheet. I’d drop the newest, fairest mag, with all its wealth of art, to read that musty crossroad rag, whiose stories reach my heart. Perhaps ‘(Old Peter Prune has bought a cow, his old one having died; we hope that he'll be happy now and not swell up with pride, ’? Thus speaks the ‘Bygle, and T spring retrospective I knew old Peter, and, by jing! his cow was well worth while. That sort of news, you say, would give the willles to a bo. Ah, well, jyou see, I used to live at Punktown, long ago! a smile; 2 ge a aT PIONEER STORE The Store for Dependable Merchandise gee = NEW BBD og, SPRING STOCKS Now ARRIVING Farmers Phone 1912 “Ry DesMAZES, Proprietor B.C, Phone 16 PELE Classified Ads SITUATION WANTED——Wantedieneen Be Apply Box 122 Abbotsford, B.C. work by young girl. Situation Wanted by respectable industrious youre woman, References . J. Cottrill, Abbotsford MAN WANTED Married man for ranch. of raspberries and chickens. Good 4 roomed house, electric lights, running water, fuel and garden furnished. Good wages. L. L. CURTIS, Knowledge We wonder— Phone 1307 McKenzie Rd., Abbetsfcrd motorey¢le with Flexi outfit, all in good condition. Here’s a combination racer, fainily touring *tar and track combined. Will - go where a car can’t, make all the hills jiaul 800}bs in sidecar, give 60 miles on a gallon ,and stand yeers of. hard service. 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