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a dozen turbulent, toilsome years-not so easy perhaps as before World War II but .,,.slowly returning to normal. The eastern --Samoas, a group of volcanic islands jut- ting out of the Pacific south of the Equa- for, have been United States possessions For 65 years. Population is about 19,000. Pago Pago, capital and harbor for the is- lands, lies on 40-square-mile Tutuila.

For centuries. recalls a National Geo- graphic Society bulletin. the smiling, hos- pitable Polynesians of Samoa led a serene, carefree life. The men were reluctant to toil in town or country, but would row a canoe all day on a deep sea fishing trip. They were adept at spearfishing among Pago Pago's encircling reefs. Abundant breadfruit, bananas, coconut palms, taro and yams required little cultivation. These, along with fish caught fresh from the sea, were considered sufficient food. A little effort was expended in raising pigs and chickens, and in processing copra (coconut meat). All this changed early in the war when the U. S. Navy established a ship re- pair station at Pago Page. The lure of good wages brought many men and women in

I from the coconut. groves, and for ten years

they lived ”hlg'h". But. in 1051 the Navy closed its station in Page Page and turn- ed over island administration to the In- terior Department. Loss of the Navy payroll caused some hardship, but readjust- znent probably was easier than it would have been in other lands. The happy-go- lucky Samoans returned to their farms and their fishing canoes. The islands once again became a languid paradise, whose pleasant ways have captured the fancy of many writers, from Robert Louis Steven- son to the present time.

Farm Revolution In Scotland

The tractor is driving the Clydesdale horse out of Scotland today. According to A recent report by a Scottish journalist, there are only 50 heavy horses in Edin- burgh, 10 in Perth, and a few score in Glasgow. The proud Clydesdale Horse So- ciety is reduced to efforts to convince farm- ers that the horse is still an economic source of power for short hauls and on limited acreages.

Today there are about 50,000 tractors used in Scotland. The statement is made that Scotland, considering the acreage un- der cultivation, is the most highly mechan- ized farming country in the world. In the early '20's Scottish fa1'ms were worked by nearly 250,000 horses, and the famous

.Glasgow Stallion Show was one of the premier livestock events throughout the ivorlrl.

. Reason for this decline in numbers amounts in- the long run to the fact that, at today's prices, it would cost Scotland's, farmers I8 million to feed" the horses theyi oncc mainlaincri. '

Social Welfare Problems

w l'hi'ec of the most. important social problems facing Canada in the past war Werc unemployment. immigration and the nceds of the aging. These subjects are high-

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The living is easy again in Samoa after

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. Among these, the report cites confusedg reception services for the care of the immi- grant on arrival; inadequate provision for "e

medical care or financial assistance during illness; ineligibility for family allowances until a year in Canada except for children born in the country; and the threat of deportation on the grounds of having be- come a4”public charge."

Historic Landmarks

An historic landmark in Newfoundland is threatened with extinction. This is lFort Amherst, built in 1763, one of several lplaces or structures commemorating a distinguished soldier of the Seven Years rWar. It is claimed by the federal authori- lties that S100,000 would be required to lrestore old Fort Amherst, and so some isort of monument is to be erected on the lsite-which may or may not satisfy those lwho like to preserve as many as possible of Canadals historic buildings.

The Ottawa Citizen notes that our neighbors to the South are more enterpris- ing in preserving landmarks of this kind. Old forts have been restored either by pub- lic or private auspices, and tourists help pay for their maintenance. Fort Ticonder- oga at the junction of Lakes George and Champlain is one example. g teresting specimen, in its different way, is the same General Amherst's fort at Crown Point, which is impressive because it is a

Bruin. It is not necessary. after all- t0 spend large sums on a restoration in order to recapture the feel of history.

"In Canada. apparently,” says The Citi- zen, ”official thinking on the subject of the old and quaint has not greatly changed since a provincial government tore down a Hudson's Bay company fort because it was untidy and cluttered up the banks of the North Saskatchewan River below the brand-new legislative building. Today, 8. bowling green occupies the place where Fort Edmonton once stood."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Canadals output of creamery butter in May amounted to 33.4 million pounds. or two per cent less than in May, 1953. Total for the five months January to May, how- ever, increased three per cent over last year.

A ten-billion dollar upturn in business in the United States during the next 12 months has been predicted by a leading American magazine. The trend of the business is up, and the forecast is that it will continue in that direction. The effect of such an upswing would undoubtedly be felt beneficially in Canada.

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This column Is open to the discussion by curresponrlon'.u of questions of interest; The Guardian does not nooesanr lly ondorso the opinion of correspondents.

FIRST AID

Sir.-I worked at. first aid as a side line for twenty years among the East Indian people who did not know anything about the common remedies that we use daily. here in Canada. The Island of Trinidad is divided into medical areas with a doctor in charge of each. and usually, a hospital. it is a splendid system, and a great tribute to the British Government: but few not- ivea are quite healthy. He will have some tropical disease that may at the beginning be quite easily cured by the application of some simple remedy.

This is where the missionary comes in. We always kept. a supply of medicines. castnr oil. chenopod- ium for hook-worm. epsom salts.

quinnine for malarial fever, iwo grades of ammonia for scorp- ion sting. I-look-worm infects '15

per cent of the population. Nearly every one goes about bare-footed.

The hook-worm larvae eniera at the toes, and through the blood gets into the stomach where it

drinks a drop of blood per day, and a thousand of those creatures soon leaves the body aenemic and sub- ject to killing diseases. 1 would go into a school. and in a class on the floor and would see this boy and that girl greatly needing treatment. They would be taken to the manse, and there given a dose of chenopod- ium in caator oil. The mother would

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It was in 1054 that the great divisionl between the Eastern Orthodox churches and Roman Catholicism took place. The intervening 900 years have been a con- llnuins history of division and subdivision. Now the great denominations stemming from the Orthodox, the old Catholic and the Protestant traditions meet for the sec- ond time in history to worship and confer together. Amsterdam in 1948, and now Evanston in 1954, represent tremendously important steps in the unfolding of a new and promising chapter in church history.

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Mayors who have sewed Toronto get established very well upon retirement, notes the Windsor Star. Mayor Allan Lamport has retired to'become a member of the Toronto Transit Commission. His

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that awful dose. A week later the dose would be repeated. such kicking and squealing was interest- lnlt. Then the Government took the mall” Up. and the whole populat- ion was treated.

Scorpion sting was another trouble that had to be treated. and for that we kept. two grades of ammonia, raw and refined, row for drinking and refined for rubbing Once late at. night I was called to treat a black girl of about twelve yelra. She was in such a state of vomiting that I feared it was snake ltllliz and I said: "Are you sure it was a scorpion?" and they said "Yes. we are sure, she ate it." They had fried the beast, and the chud had eaten it, in the notion that it is an antidote. I applied my remedies and before long the child was quite well. I have often been stung but no bad rcaulta followed. But some people die. as a result of the sting.

Tropical vermin are more numer- nua than the sand: on the sea shore, and some are poiaonnug,

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lllllied in tho recent annual report of the Canadian Welfare Council whose executive! dircctor, Mr. R. E. G. Davis, makes some "0"Cli9l0 Pli0P0sals. Canada's concern with unemployment, he maintains, must be not! mlly l0 Pl'0Parc for crisis but to prevent or at least mitigate human suffering in- ”normal" times. He referred to the coun- cil's pamphlet on ”Public Assistance and the- U"9mPl0yerl" which suggests procedures applicable in all circumstances. particularly for the RFOUP known as "the employable U"9mPl0yed" which when not eligible for unemployment insurance or when benefits are exhausted, can at present fall back on few if any resources.

The report points out that the social problems in regard to immigration are the same in principle whether immigrants number 50 or 500,000. come from Britain or Italy. arrive in spring or winter. The council has set up a committee on the wel- fare of immigrants and the report notes much constmctive work being done for immigrants both by .public and private bodlu. Said Mr. Davis: .

"All is still far from perfect in the im-

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ager of the Canadian National Exhibition. The man before that, Robert H. Saunders,. now is chairman of the Hydro-Electricl Power Commission of Ontario. Going further back, several Toronto mayors con-' tinued in politics, W. J. Stewart, for ex- ample, became Speaker of the Ontario Leg- -islature and still is in the Legislature. Horatio I-iocken, T. L. Church and G. RE Geary became members of Parliament, the latter briefly being in the Bennett Cabinet in 1935. ' O O 0

Matthew Flinders, English hydrograph- er, navigator and explorer, was born this date 1814. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of fifteen and took part in the bot- tle of "the glorious first of June". As a midshlpman in 1705 he spent some time in New South Wales studying the outlines and bearings of the Australian coast. Three years later -he made a survey,of the Fur- neaux Islands, north of Tasmania and in 1801 he joined an expedition which thor- oughly explored the Australian coast. Re- turning. his vessel H. M. S. Porpolse was wrecked on a coral reef and he was taken prisoner by the French. Slx.years' cap- tivity on Mauritius ruined his health. He wrote many scientific and interesting worlu. -

such as the stinging ants. We thank God for the hard frost that de- stroys most of those vermin. Yes. we have is great country, and mom to be thankful for than we know. I am. Sir, etc.. W. I. GREEN

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Prior to hIllhfl'lVll in Pl Edward Island in the early rprnet, of the last century, William 1!,-up had been foreman of a big ship. yard st nideford, in Devonshire, llnllsnd. and came here on s ooh- tract to build wooden ship. for . Bideford company known as Chan- tor and Burnett. He had six child- ren. William, Jsmu, George, John. Henry and Robert, all of whom were shipbulldera and came to the Island with their father excepting Robert. who remained in lnglsnd.

The shipbuilding firm Supplier! a vessel with provisions for two years and sufficient tools and lil- filaments. mother with sii.woi-i:- men nocouary to establish a ship- yard; and thus equipped. the vas- sol arrived at Inlpoque Harbour about June 5. llll. After investi- lation. Mr. lllis decided to local:

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Nicknames

By Patrick

"What's in a name?" asked Jul- iet. of her Romeo. And perhaps tnowhere is that question more apt

than here on Capital Hill, where few politicians are known by their .real name. From Cabinet Minis- ter to bachbencher, from "Mike" to "Buttercup." they are known by names which neither their birth nor their parents gave them.

Shakespeare put into Jullet.'s mouth the comment: "That which we call a Rose. by any other name would smell as sweet.” Here by an odd coincidence, Shakespeare was mentioning the only M.P. whose nickname has come from behind the Iron Curtain. Fred Rose - the Polish-born Jew, Fred Rosen- berg, who was so prominent in the Russian spy ring in Ottawa--was not known by his family name. but. by his adopted name, Rose. in Parliament; 1 mile away. in the Soviet Embassy, he was known as ”Debouz".

The Prime Minister is the only M.P. whose nickname is never used in his presence. "Uncle Louie" to everyone in common talk, or per- haps ”The Pee Emm," he is always st. Laurent" when addressed fuce-too-face. Even his colleagues call him "Mr. st. Laurent" or "Mr. Prime Minister" when they first address him at a Cabinet Meeting. falling later into the shorter "Sir."

Qualities Give Names

Naturally most. nicknames arise from some quality very obvious in the person named.

For example, the Social Credit- er Fred Show from Red Deer, Al- berta, has a very deep booming voice; he quickly became known as, and has remained, "Foghorn." Another M.P., who shall be iden- tlfied only by the clue that his constituency is on an island. walks around the Parliamentary corri- dors so slowly that he almost. ap- pears to be atatlonar . He has won the nickname ”slo- o-shun," after the apeedboat. made famous by the high velocity at which it. moves.

some M.Ps brought their nick- names to Ottawa with them. Among these are ”Mlke" Pearson, whose name is not Michael and whose nlcknsme originated in a manner which even he cannot explain; "Chubby" Power. the father of the father of the House of command. from Quebec City, who esmed that name when he was rather a plump young man; "Buoko" McDonald from Parry Sound-Muakoka. who was thus known in his piufesaionsl hockey days before he first came to Ottawa.

First. names or their abbrevia- tions are very commonly used a- mong members, but. some have glven names which they prefer not to use. Wilbert Thatcher from Moose Jaw. calla himself 'by his second name, Rosa: Major cold- well, leader of the c.c.r. party, nu a name which its also - and often confused with a military rank, so he always calls himself "M. J. ooldwell"; Barnira Joseph Warner Murphy is always "Murph." r

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Vancouver-3urrnrd'a John lama Macnougall has a happy knack of pinning appropriate and humorous nicknames onto his colleagues. He himself is always called Jack-It least to his face! maybe the via- tirns of some of the rare shaft of unkindnass among his tagging would like to call him something

else. Jack created the name "King-

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fish" for Vancouver: Tom Goode, presumably to compare his politi- cal organising with that of the famous US. Senator Huey "King- fish" Long. Foi-'New Brunswick'a A. W. Stewart. the free-trading ad- vocate of somewhat complicated economic policies. he created the nickname "Sir stiffbrd", after Bri- tain's austere economist Sir Stafford Crippa. Newfoundland! Leonard Stick. with the outstanding views on Foreign Relations has become Mister Pandit. Our northernmost M.P., M. A. Hardin from Yellow- knife. is Eskimo Pie, while his huge ambling neighbour, Aubrey Bim- mond from the Yukon, la The Little Panda. Major General George Penrkea fmm Esqulmalt.-Saanich has been named The Muskrat; and another Conservative from BC.. Davie Ful- ton from Kamloops, la "Buttercup"; Saskatchewan's J. H. Harrison, who as founder of "Harrison's Hornets" is Parliament's only band-leader, practices hia saxop- hone in the quiet remoteness of the Parliamentary Restaurant and earned the nickname "The mud- lark from Meadow Lake." Herbert Wilfred l-lerridge. C.C.!'. member from Kootenay West. came from his native England when he was only eleven but still retain: his courteous Old World manners, and with them the nickname Bur- lington Bertie. The high proportion of members from British Columbia in parti- cular and from the West in gen- eral who have won nloknnmea .ls a. fine tribute to their qualities. Through some outstanding conduct they have at least been noticed sufficiently to make names for themselves. - To end with ii puzzle: which M. P. earned himself the nicknsme "The Abominable Showman"?

IDEN. Sussex. England (CP) - Rev. Alfred Wing. who lost the key to the strong box containing donations to his church. asked for the free services of "some burg- lar. Preferably." to cut down on locksmith expenses.

The Age Old Story

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nuns: work Is nlwlll I060!- niaed. That of two oounterfeltors so impressed a California Judge. he awarded main to years free board and lodging. -Chat-him Daily News.

"Ina .lotoI'lIu.B.C-toololnl-F ron bit. into an oyster apd found not one but 31 tiny pearls. It-I little surprised like that that makes life interesting-and profitable too.

at. Thomas Times - Journal.

Aoonllng to statistics an un- plro makes 200 decisions during an average ball game. It is difficult to believe a man could be a bum. thlel. a robber, or blind that many times in less than two hours.

-Kingston Whig-Standard.

It h interesting to note that Canadian grain first made its ap- pearance in quantity on the Japa- nese markets after rice prices soar- ed. Barley especially was sought as I cheaper alternative to rice. Now rice prices are declining but Japan apparently still wants the Canadian grains. May we deduce from this that quality of product has won I permanent customer?- Ssskatoon Star-Phoenix.

A nsynah bird was brought from India to the Detroit zoologic- al Park. When the bird arrived he could say only "Pooh." Since his arrival his vooabularly has been extended to include bl-Ii boy," "What. do you know?" " Play ball" and "When is the house gains '0 buy?" Another example of the broader field of education on the North American continent? -Niagara Fall Review.

A " 't nun conceived what he thinks is a good idea last. week- end-and has promised himself be do something about it next week- end. Thia fellow fishes for wall- eyes on a large lake. While fishing from his boat on Saturday he said to himself, "These fellows go in schools. If 3. man only know how to locate these schools quickly he'd be all set.” Then came the idea. He piano to catch one walleye, tie a long, light fishing line to its tail. on the other end of the fishing line. he will attach a balloon. When the freed walleye rejoins his comrades in the school. the balloon will lead the fisherman to the right. fiahhig spot. -Fort. William Times - Journal.