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When the ‘Netherlands vice con- sul, Mx. Jan Athimer, visited us earliér this- month, he stated that , his countrymen. were pleased -with
settlement conditions here but found themselves handicapped by lack of fi- < <mancial assistance. It was intimated - “by Premier Shaw that legislation may be introduced, ‘broadening the
-° terms under which government loans -.* may be received for farm purchases. - If a change of this kind can be made
that would encourage more immigrat- - fou from the Netherlands, this Pro- ~ yinee would be benefited; for Can-
ada has no more desirable settlers
than these new Prince Edward Is- __ Janders we have been acquiring in oa Figures provided by the Depart- _' ment of Immigration at Ottawa bear this fact out. They show that of 5,032 immigrants who were helped in settling on farms in the nine-year period, 1950 to 1958, 77 per cent were from Holland. They received the heip to which new Canadians were entitled,
_ but which would have been useless |
unless the individuals concerned ~ ghowed pluck and initiative. Of the 3,384 Dutch immigrants who became Canadian farmers in _. the nine-year period, 2,274 bought ' or rented farms in Ontario. A total —__—of_418 settled in-British Columbia, _
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' im time, it might lose the battle with ” been carrying the ball in this issue, and with success. Disarma- ment will be the biggest topic at the East-West summit meeting, how ex- pected in April. As partial steps to | this goal, Canada has advocated the | ending of nuclear tests, the exclusion
ploration, and the limitation of at-
omic weapons to the three nations
_ which now possess them.
; This country is a member of the 10-nation disarmament committee set
,. | up by the United Nations, on which |
it will be re ted by a strong _ mission under the leadership of Gen- erai E. L. M. Burns. Mr. Green is ‘anxious that the committee shouid start work early in the next year. And his emphasis on the importance of this matter at the NATO con- ference apparently met with general acceptance. :
There is evidence also that the Canadian minister played an im- portant role as conciliator in the Franco-U.S. atgument over military contributions to NATO, which threatened to wreck the conference before it got started.. Indeed, Mr. Green has given a smooth perform- ance in statesmanship all the way
hopeful statenient on the results, we are inclined to place the fullest con- fidence in his judgement.
Gift To A Grandson.
Britain’s Nobel peace prizewinner for 1959, Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, is not a wealthy man. But when he re- ceived his £15,000 prize money in Oslo the other day, he decided that _he would give £12,000 of it to further the cause dearest to his heart. The veteran Labor member for Parlia- ment said he had wondered whether to keep it and invest it in stocks and
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THE OTTAWA ARCHA
SILAS TERTIUS RAND: Missionary And Linguist
By Rev. H. F. MacEwen,
It is now over a hundred years since Silas Rand, pastor of the Baptist church in Charlottetown, resigned his charge to devote himself to the mission to which he had felt himself long called and qualified. As far as acade- mic credits were concerned he had but little, for his higher for- mal studies had taken a few months at Horton Academy. By trade he was a stone mason. But all learning is not confined to narrow academic circles and many the learned man there has been who has never seen the in-
’ side of a college door. Rand could |
well be classified among the self- made men, - although himself
197 in Alberta, 163 in Nova Scotia, _ * 91 in Manitoba, 90 in Quebec, 55 in Saskatchewan, 52 in New Bruns- _ __ wick and 44 in Prince Edward Is- fs Jand. Netherlanders have the qualities - that distinguished our pioneer set- tlers from France and the United Kingdom, who left us the heritage we have in our flourishing farms and fishing centres. They seem. to have little difficulty in fitting in with our ways and customs; and, ‘ most important, they like us and . we like them. It is to be hoped, as: a result of Mr. Athmer’s visit and of the policies which Premier Shaw, -as Minister of Agriculture, has under consideration, that. we shall see a larger influx of these people in the near future.
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Mr. Green’s Assurance
: It is reassuring to note, in con- trast to the gloomy reports from “ American sources about this week’s _-NATO meetings in Paris, that Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Green is ‘quite pleased with the progress made. * “Tt was not a ‘do nothing’ confer- *ence,” he told reporters in Paris. _ “Why, there would have been more towing if I had had a meeting of 15 Conservative members of Parlia- ment.” | _ This breezy answer impliés no disparagement of Mr. Green’s party _ _. \eolleagues at Ottawa. But it puts the : conference in proper perspective—a meeting of Western alliance partners "jn which controversial - discussion was inevitable, but quite in keeping “with democratic traditions and by no means indicative of failure. And the Canadian minister’s assurance is ‘borne out by the NATO secretary- general, Mr. Spaak. Replying to the query why “three days of wrang- ‘ jing” among NATO ministers over the integration issue had wound up with a communique that did not mention. the subject at all, Mr. -Spaak replied: “This is no camou- flage. There is no crisis in NATO.” “The ministers “unanimously re- «affirmed their confidence in the
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“North Atlantic alliance. and agreed .
that it will remain indispensible dur-
ing the coming years.” They also
: -agrted on the need for a summit “ meeting and approved the Canadian proposal for an intensive study of disarmament possibilities. This im- plies an important shift in major ~defense policies from a miltary to 1 / political and economic basis, in line
ith the advice given by Field Mar-
shares to leave to:his grandson; but he came to the conclusion that it would be better to try to leave his grandson more disarmament.
This is something more than a stage gesture, and bespeaks the deep convictions of the man. £10,000 of the award he received for his life- long campaigning for peace will go to the United Nations Association in Britain and another £2,000 to the World Federation of the United Na- tions Association.
The British United Nations As- ‘sociation was founded a few months before the United Nations itself. It has campaigned ceaselessly for dis- armament under an effective system of international inspection and control. It already was organizing a new campaign to encourage discus- sion throughout the 50 countries which have United Nations associa- tions. With the windfall from Mr. Noel-Baker, it will now plan a more ambitious scheme for the further- ance of disarmament.
We hope that Mr, Noel-Baker’s grandson lives to benefit from this benefaction, and becomes worthy of appreciating the great-heartedness that inspired it.
EDITORIAL NOTES
There is, notes the Globe and Mail, a striking contrast between the pre-Christmas period this year and the pre-Christmas_-period of 1958. Unemployment—existing abd expect- ed—was a major topic of discussion 12 months ago. Today we hear little about it. Still, an October jobless total of 237,000 seems large for this prosperous country. If customary winter trends assert themselves, the figure -may rise by mid-March to 400,000. This is not something to be complacent about. The best answer the Government could give would be that it is preparing to take a national © manpower survey.
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. Cattle and equipment fog a dairy research and livestock breeding farm were shipped recently from Sydney, Australia, to Saigon in Viet Nam. They afé being installed on an ex- perimental farm already set up 35 miles from Saigon, where it is hoped to breed a local dairy herd which will be the nucleus of a dairy industry
' in the country. The farm is part of a long-term project being carried out by the Australian and Viet Namese governments under the Colombo Plan. The first stage of the project, nthe development of pastures, erection
of buildings and training of staff, has been completed. .
would~be the Tast*to claim 3, for he ascribed all adyantages to the Giver of every good and per- fect gift.
The 1840's were years of burn- ing missionary zeal in these Mar-
itimes. Geddie and Archibald had |
gone out to the South Sea Is-
PUBLIC FORUM
This column ts open to the discus
sion by correspondents of question c
interest. The Guardian does not neses
sarily en‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.
BRIDGE PRECAUTIONS Sir,—1 would like to comment on the remarks of “Truckman” about the Hillsboro Bridge in Wednesday's Public Forum. He is certain the railings on the bridge will not safisfy all concern-
ed but shouldn't we let those who’
know the facts, make the decis- ions?
If truckers had respected the use of the bridge in the past few years when trucking has been heavy there would not- have been such rapid deterioration on it, I do not accuse all truckers of misusing it, but I have. seen many more misuse it than use it properly.
It is natural for a man to up- hold his livlihood, but does this
truckman consider those who! might be forced to travel sixty |
miles each day to work, just for the sake of his getting a few ex- tra trips?
As for the truckman’s “dire threat” to the new government; no matter what party one favors
‘ the government must be given credit’ for meeting the need of |
bridge repairs with as little in- convenience as was possible. I am, Sir, etc., RESIDENT OF SOUTHPORT.
CAUSEWAY & FARM PRICES Sir,—I knéw’ very little about
the problems confronting those | | who are trying to pilot the cause-
way project; but feel it should add immensely to the progress
of the Island should Ottawa see
fit to proceed with construction, but I doubt if they have the money.
However, I do not agree whole- heartedly with Mr. Douglas waen
he states that farm prices are lowering from fault of Conserva- tives. It is a little too early to as- sess the part the present Govern- ment intends to play regarding | / these problems,
But everyone remembers four years ago the Liberals promised better markets for farmers, more industry, etc. When the Liberals left office where were their prom- ises? Farmers Marketing Board wrecked by Government interfer- ence — denied a Meat Packing Plant to be established and run by farmers—and delegates re-
. turning Tast Fall from St. John’s Nfld. (APEC... meeting) stated P. E.Island was doing only 20 per- cent of the business they could be
doing in that Province.
In 1957 the American Tourist Association issued a guide cata- logue for their tourists to visit in Canada—this large edition car- ried nothing on P.E.Island. A veterinary who attended a meet- ing in this respect.reported: “Am- ericans are not going to recog- nize P.E. Island until such time provided
as meat inspection<és in the city.’ ; I am, Sir, etc.,
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B.A., B.D., Sydney, N.S,
lands, Burpee to Burma. The Gordons were soon to follow. Isaac Chpman of Acadia had sug- | gested to’ Rand that he should master Micmac to give the gos- pel to the Indians. Henceforth, this was to be his consuming zeal.
TARDY SUPPORT
Support was slow in forthcom- 'ing from denominational ranks. | Writing in 1849 he said, “Since - July, 1846, I, with my family have | been residing in Charlottetown, | Prince Edward Island. The church | here is small. I have been lab- |ouring chiefly at Charlottetown, ...The principal thing which
| ing that-I might have some suc- | cess, and expecting some oppos- | ition. Just before arriving at the
attention dur- | ing the past two years and a ha |is the learning of the Micmac
gress. I can converse with them
tures to them,—having translat- ed about a dozen chapters—and am compiling quite a full vo- cabulary of their words. I have met with some assistance, es- pecially in the officers of H. M. Brig “Gulnare,”” employed in
ers of the Gulnare were Orele- bar and Bayfield, names known to this day in Charlottetown. Rand continuee, “Last evening I spent an hour with Captain, Orlebar at his house. He is interested in the
wards’ assisting me during the last three years\ the sum of about twenty pounds.”
RAND’S DIARY
sionary activity Rand kept a diary of his work. Not only did he have a gift as evengelist; he Jeremiah S. Clark made an in-
1890's, and wrote this about it.
surveying the coast.” The offic- |
locking fellow out-doors at his ' work. I sat down on the shav-
ti t ti erga language. I have made some pro- | = hie red tate cosy
| to some extent, read the Scrip-| his appearance, and pretty soon,
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| what the Lord required of us; but
‘ance, and a woman who chimed
lines, looking only to his Lord for material and spiritual help. An shows us an_inner view of these apostolic labours.
“Sept. 25th, 1867, (Charlotte- town) I went to Rosebank, pray-
This treatment generally is pro-
| from_a few months to a year or even two. But it usually does the
job.
Ordinarily the menopause -oc- curs between the ages of 40 and 50. It begins gradually, the first indication of it being a decrease in the monthly flow. .
As soon as you notice this or any symptoms indicating the menopause, consult your doctor. Discuss. frankly with him your worries and fears, if any.
He will be able to help you through this period.
Don’t, however, listen to the ad- vice of relatives and friends..This is a medical problem, and if you want advice about a medical problem, see your doctor.
Mrs. W. C. MC.: Is there any way to prevent cataract or re-
encampment I turned ‘into the woods and spent a-little time in prayer. I walked up to the first wigwam, found the man outside pounding splits. He seemed frind- ly: conversed freelv: when his wife came out and invited me in. I entered, and soon produced my book and read Genesisl-2-2. After conversing a while I bid them good-bye, and walked on. Stop- ped to converse a little with Peter Mitchell, who was~buiiding- a canoe. He was short and crusty; I walked on, and-found a good-
started? . Answer: No.
“Old Jim’ Mitchell soon made in a loud excited voice enquired he gave me but little chance to
answer his question. I said ‘I'll read you the question and the
answer,’ so I turned to John 6.28 | the cre A > ee and 26, and read. I continued | puns ana ae gmp | reading until he interrupted me: | }ixe a river, channelled to a eare-
and soon Peter made his appear-| fy! course.
It ripples in the wind
of its kind for the Canadian for- eign affairs chief and he has said he was pleasantly surprised at the manifest strength of the al- liance shown by delegates.
DIRECT APPROACH
only principles but hard facts— especially on disarmament—must be dealt with, and soon. His words are a direct challenge to the Western summit meeting that begins this week - end among President Eisenhower, P rime Minister Macmillan and Presi- dent de Gaulle. .
NORMAL URGES ployer, “is why you've been here : The normal sex urges remain 25 years.”—Galt Reporter used to generally can contitue for many| M.-H. Kaliebe has collected 2,-| able to say As a matter of fact, = great last 45 years. However, his luck | Galt Reporter — | many women repoft improved | has ‘not been too good. He was | —— = health after the menopause. Those | divorced in rapid succession by| se awenae who have suffered physical or | three women, has never won a emotional difficulties during their | lottery prize although he plays a ‘generally wel-| regularly, and catches cold in the ‘memory is a come the willed. slightest drizzle.—Daily M ail, | thing, but the ability to forget is London the true token of TRYING EXPERIENCE ; ever, can be a trying experience d ’ : qver, can be a Canada In World Councils _ of the female sex hormones which By Joseph MacSween 2B the ovaries produce causes cer-| : Sa pa has hot ‘Canadian Press Staff Writer pore hy gw all id depres- In world councils, Canada has opportunity that Canada — as @ sion -| willingly taken a responsible and | member of the new 10-nation dis- Not all women experience these | down-to-earth role on the ques- armament committee embracing _ symptoms to the same degree. | tion of disarmament. East and West—invites views of Seme, however, become so de- : External Affairs Minister How- | NATO members on the question. pressed that simple everyday | ard Green is demonstrating this} More precisely, Green has problems become too much to/ at the NATO ministerial meeting | urged that NATO “within the cope with. in Paris. He has said, in effect, next few weeks” consult on polit- Unfortunately, far ae that disarmament is not some- ical and military aspects of dis- There is no need for this sell-| clowts, but i down tere on ie - sacrificing attitude today, with | prgund, where it should be Canada, Green says, has shown | all the medical aids we have at | piowed, and cultivated. its concern in a practical way by ie dies an Sees ee appointing Lt-Gen. E. L. M. | can_usually =e when advocates—_that | Burns__as_—_government- disa —— a ae ee smaller nations must be con-| Ment adviser—a man considered “£ have a similar action, until the | Suited on disarmament matters, | by the minister as having IE Sy gore aan In other | for there is a feeling at t he | ior talent. ; lad tne ge ae neck into her | Paris meetings that a more bal-| The biggest factor is Soviet EOLOGISTS —_« bey the hing tht RATE | ee Propo for Goes longer produces. of smaller powers than in the| Within four years Miemae mission purely on faith | PROLONGED TREATMENT
Soviet approach and, to the exe tent possible, what are their in- tentions.”’
Green said in an address to the NATO assembly: “. . resist the tendency we sometimes have of placing the worst con- struction on Soviet actions F pronounce ments. Provided we Move in unison, we should not be ‘afraid .-. . to meetyon our side any genuine mov it they are willing to make on theirs to wards living together in a better atmosphere.” - . “7
The Age Old Story
-Wherefore, my beloved breth- ren, let every man be swift te hear, slow to speak, slow ‘te wrath. : :
The Paris meeting 1s the first
But Green is insisting that not
- Green has been saying at every
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in with ‘Old Jim.’ Peter seemed | |; ever noe Sinest creamery butter gives Peek : | like ruffled water; ee cameron , : 9 ht ee quite a. vente me to oe peg oman . Frean’s ug seteiteages ng coche | camp, ouris S crool when the wind calms. ¢ avour wi ic akes it e ‘knife at me, and talked big. Eis favourite with old and young,
Indians. He has contributed to- |
, to. my business, and he must at-
‘ During the forty years of mis- |
\had the gift of tongues as well. Bearer to the Apostles, and to | Mrs. Fred Nash.
| vestigation of its contents in the TRANSACTIONS
quietly kept my reclining posture, | Now @ roving field mouse, telling him that I should attend silver-sudden as a minnow,
| crosses over
tend to his, that he was under ° flashing feet.
no obligations to hear me, and —Pear! Lunt Robinson might go away if he chose. I | in the Christian Science Monitor felt a little thrill of holy delight | at this little specimen of per- | secution, it seemed to draw me.
ical portion of the program in- cluded several arias sung by
our blessed Lord.” In the initial game of the sea-
son the Valleyfield a a > ' feated the Victoria Cross Mai Rand’s monument comes down | Leafs 4-0. Lineups were: Victoria
“The diary was hastily written 4 ys to-day in his translation re- | —often with a poor pen and pooT-| words He mastered the Micmac
er ink, besides other inconvenien- | and the Maliseet in his effort to
Cross—Semple, MacLeod, Mac- Lennan, Campbell, Nicholson, on and Mellish. Valley-|-
ces, as he moved from place to | place, carrying on the work of ithe Mission. But the difficulties | one meets in reading the volumes
learning, as fully as may be, the details and the ‘leading events in that remarkable work. But there are difficulties which are not at all due to the condition of the manuscript; and the student, if he be in any way ambitious to test | his powers as a linguist, is here presented with perhaps the best opportunity that man ever had,— for here are whole volumes writ- ten in Latin and French. w'th pages of Micmae and Maliseet,
the more solid matter; while Hebrew words occur occasionally,
one who has become assured that the Maritime Provinces, like Om- nia Gallia, are still divided into three parts... :
“Writing in his Diary on March 16th, 1884, he tells how he had been for two weeks reading a copy of the Scriptures in Eskimo, kindly loaned by Dr. Sawyer, of Acadia; and that portion of his diary written while on his tour through what was then called, ‘Western Canada’ abounds with Indian words used by the dif- ferent tribés of that section. There are complete lists of the first decade of numerals in the languages of the Mohawks, Oneid- as, Senecas, Cayugas, Onondag- as, and Tuscaroros, and such words as ‘bread,’ ‘milk,’ etc., are traced through all the different dialects. Nor was Dr. Rand satis- fied with gathering ‘what he could from the languages used in the schools and forests of Canada; he became more or less familiar with German, Daa on: and Portugese, and to the clim- ax, the page of the Diary which relates a conversation with a re- turned Burman missionary is ad- orned with a number of Bur- mese words.” .
WALKED BY FAITH
Dr. Rand was a maf who walk- ed primarily by faith, working in apostolic fashion. He became dis- couraged with conditions in the organized churches and so ran his
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are banished by the pleasure of |
and-Greek, interspersed amongst |
and prove very ‘shibboleths’ to
get out the gospel. His dictionary | heron
of Micmac wa® published by the | ee J pees ening _ ‘oa, Government of Canada. His Bible}. x MacPherson, Martin G. translation into that tongue com-| yacpherson and S. MacDonald. prised the books of Genesis, Exo- TEN YEARS AGO
dus and Psalms in the Old Test- (Dee 19, 1949)
ament and the whole of the new, Fire at the King Edward Ho-
also the Gospel of John in Mali- : seet. For this he used a phonetic - 7 KenteStreet, per system of English lettering, not spd yg uci a = a ast | the pictographs: used formerly in | ot tir Lee's living quarters aad translation and publication ef- on oad considerable damage to forts among the Micmacs. the Hotel above the laundry. |
(Te be Concluded) Quick response by the firemen
OUR YESTERDAYS. | fnca wnich was enly razed on |
Hotel which. was only razed on (From the Guardian Files)
the front and side. - Ata meeting of the congrega- TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO « (Dee. 19, 1934)
tion of the Summerside Presby-
terian Church last evening, a un-
The third in the series of this} animous call was extended to
season’s programs of the Wo-/| Rev. J. Donald MacKay of Hope- men’s Musie Club was present-
ed Saturday ‘afternoon in the
well, N.S. The Summerside Pas- torate. has been vacant for the lounge of the Canadian National os Hotel. Guest speaker ‘was Mr. Ar-
st two months since the resign- ation of Rev. Charles Carnegy,
thur Cooper who took for his sub-
ject “The Orchestra”, The mus-
who accepted a call to Hamil-
ton, Ont.
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