Well, sir; 7 see. it’s
. gettin’ to be purty close

to spook time- aan "ean os
-ain’t

fer a change,I
talkin’ about the wife’ s
relatives!: “

Wot I mean is, spooks « cum:
‘im: diffrunt ‘grades. ‘Sum. is
High Class spooks. They cum
_ with rattlin’ chains -an
ghostly moans an so _ forth.
it’s a tuff racket, ‘an ony the
best of ‘em make it to‘the
top. Politishuns make the-
best spook material an we
shud have gud crop comin’
up after the next elecksun,

becus.‘they: .know. all: about.

_ skeletons. Fattlin’ in ‘closets.

“Weni it cunis to spooks, ‘the
wife’s

time stuff. The. ony moanin’
and groanin’ they do is frum
hunger, ‘wen they cum over

. to git their feet under my

.

-- soul.
. “schools: . But™ what of the —
business illiteracy of teach-.

table. In the spook depart-
mint, they figger on. makin’
up fer quality by quantity!

relatives are - small _

- There jest ain’t any end to:
*them, an that’s: fer" dam-,

shure.

‘Enjways; } Tike I sed, ., purty

soon _the kids is gonna start -
bangin’ at the door, askin’ _
.fer Trick or Treat...an the: .
littel ones is gonna- be.

‘looken’.over their shoulders -
to ‘see wot it wus that jest 7

w through the hran-
ches on the birch tree behint

them. Witches and hopgeob--

fines ‘will be slitherin’ acrost
‘the moon—an sum of the
"kids will be wearin’ monster .
masks, jest to try an scare

away't the R - monsters. .

o

-Now, -wen it cums to
monsters there’s one real
dinger that stands head an
shoulders above the rest..
‘FRANKENSTEIN’S MON. .
STER!

~, So the Back Porch is gonia.

have a littel fambly quiz, jest

.:to see who can guess where

- the Monster cum ‘frum...BUT

_ NO SNITCHIN’ “AN LOOK-.;
JIN’ AT THE END BEFORE :
. You GUESSED!” ~

Y’see,

lotta: poetry. ‘Stretched end-

to-end,. i it wud reach from .

” over. «iinet .
yeres ago two fellers- writ a=

here to hell an gone...an [

generations of school kids

have wished it wud have! co

‘They: wus Lord Byron. and’
Shelley...an fer- a hunnert”
yeres they has stood like“

: giants an wot they wrote will - #

_ go on fer Eternity, I's"pose.
But one nite they. wus all

' decided to play a party game.

'- Mebbe it wus Halloween, §°
becus ‘they: figgered to find. |
who cud write the best Spook. |

story. a

One of ‘em did...an you

ill likely ‘find one of: the

littel kids on. the -doorstep
" purty soon, wearin’ a mask of
the most indestructible mon-
ster. of . all... FRANKEN-
STEIN'S. .

And the one who wrote it?

By, KENNETH McDONALD

Canada. is the Western

world’s biggest. spender on

education. Sweden is next,

_- the United States. Sth, . West
. Germany 20th (all. ‘expressed -
Gross‘.

‘in © percentages:. of

‘National: Product).

“Publicity. piven. to. the
“functional -illiteracy"’, . in

spelling, reading.and writing |. i. 7

English,..’- of -. high “school”
graduates. entering Canadian
universitites has led to:some’.
Searching . ine: “hgh &

ers?

Alot of good Wi workis done ii in.

a our ‘schools. . .
yp janis’, -are..well.' equipped -
mentally and: : physically, to,’

Young Canad-:|

learn what. they are -being’
taught.“ “But! they” are’ not’:

, being: taught | how ‘tor eam’ a*

living.

“Don't biame the teacheis.”

The ‘first. move will be an’

eight-page insert. in _ the

November issue of Today’ s
geared to a.
readership. of 450,000. stud- .--
ents in - high: schools AcTOSS. -_

Generation,

re _

~ -

Canada. =

ean

Most of them:have fone from o

school to. teachers’. school to A

teaching school. They “are:
the products as well as the.
-producers of a closed circuit.
Blame the educational bur-.

__eaucrats. and administrators.

- minietrics.
mirror, too

‘in_universities and provincial
- But Jook in me.

‘Education . is: far ‘too .

pes to be left to the
teachers. ‘Let them teach:

academic subjects: But: let.
the‘ rest of us. be’ sure that.”

te Ne

_teachérs 7 are given. opportus

__ ities to fcarn -.and to:pass én: | H
. to-their students ‘- ‘how | the. a
"outside world. works." ea”

_ Education’ 8 ‘purpose’ ‘is to-

-" serve the community, indiv-.
'  idually and collectively... The :
- Canadian’ community has: to

earn its living through
industry and.exchange.. It's.,
vital that young Canadians .
be taught how to ° play their
part. |

2 “With: this in mind, the .

' Cenadian Federation of Ind- |

ependent Business has auth-
orized an initial budget of-.
$50,000 for ‘an educational
program designed to help
students understand small
business and the workings of
the socio-economic system of

‘free competitive enterprise. :

'
c

mas

. .

all with water & mountain views: ‘Beach & stores juste. a.

: » "The Federation is concerned:
-*. that too much of education’s -
_ very substantial revenues is -
_ being ‘diverted ‘to education
where the: emphasis ‘is on_
training . for administrative. .
jobs. in public . -and. private’
. bureaucracies. oe Ss

“to one.

its aim’ ‘is 0 ‘change? this 7
: -saiphasis which

focuses on the building of

skills preparing young peop--

le for self-employment. -

Then the éducation system,

instead of ‘mobilizing recruits .

will.
.. begin to nourish the smaller _
enterprises which. sustain — |

for big institutions,

local communitites.

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