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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1947 "THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE NINE -- SEE NEW ACT MAGNA CARTA FOR INDIANS Ottawa -- (CP) -- A joint rliamentary committee of mem= s of the Senate and Commons is inquiring into proposed revi- efons and amendments to the In. Appointed more than a year ago, the committee has accumu. lated a formidable bulk of evi- dence from department officials, native chieftains, nutritionists, missionaries and others concerned wth the welfare of Canada's first inhabitants. Tome of the evidence was sum= med up by Dr. Frederick Tisdall of Toronto when he told the com- mittee not long ago that the aCe nadian Indian "is a sick man." Describing a survey he took at Norway House, Man., Dr. Tisdall said he found tuberculosis imei. dence there to be 50 times that of the white population in the prov- ince. The Indians were mentally sluggish, indolent and inert, They shuffled rather than walked and they showed little enthusiasm. Dr. Tisdall attributed their con- dition to lack of proper foods. They did not eat enough minerals and lacked certain vitamins. Where the white man ate fresh vegetables and other nutritious foods, the Indian favored flour, dried beans and lard. Another delegation before the committee--the Native Brother- hood of British Columbia Indians described the Indians' sickness of heart and spirit. Their chil- dren needed better educational fa- cilities and more encouragement to go on to university, One chief, William Scow of Fort Simpson, B.C., said his son had taken year of university, had received high marks but had been unable to continue for lack of funds. He had wanted to become e. lawyer, but found Indians were no. admitted to the British Co- Jumbia Bar Association. In a movie theatre at Prince Rupert, B.C., the Indians were placed in a special section and denied the privilege of mingling with other patrons, The proposed revisions will be the first major alterations in In- dian administration since the treaties were first made 30 to 100 years ago. Chairman Donald Brown (L- Essex West) says the committee will try to make the new act "an Indian's Magna Carta." Aussies Chart Coastal Waters By LEONE KIREKWOOD Sydney, Australia, May 15. -- (C P)--The average Australian busi- ness girl doesn't get as much mon- ey as her Canadian counterpart, but that doesn't mean that she isn't as happy. She doesn't*worry too much about clothes, for several reasons. One is the clothing rationing, another is the fact that she is less subject to high-pressure advertising. Still another reason is that Australians as a whole are casual about their clothes and dress more for comfort and less for style. Girls "down under" rarely wear perfume, but most of them appear in sedate hats and gloves. The Aussies don't dip too heavily: in their pocketbooks when winter rolls around. They stock up on sweat- ers--most of them knitted at home out of famous Australian wool -- a coat, equivalent in weight to a Ca- nadian autumn coat, and rubber ts. because Australian par- ents eyebrows, and chiefly be- cause of their wages, Australian business girls don't usually have apartments of their own. the same reasons, they don't migrate om city 3 city. They live with parents, Of late, the Australian press has Duta shaking ds head over the sal- aries of girls in certain categories. 'The Sydney Dally Telegraph has looked into the matter and con- cluded that skilled workers are paid less than semi-skilled girls. A girl machinist learns her job in three to six months and earns from $16 to $27 for a five-day week. A street-car conductress can man- age her job in three days and gets $10 for a 44-hour week, ' A trained office worker draws a Today's Short Story A QUIET EVENING By Lillince Montgomery Mi jd went into the elevator "of Sallie's t building, one might as we! Sallie probably paid no more her room in this Rita did in that walk-up flat where she had romed for three Foam © for "Rita is & good sort," he told ain the. thought, "but Sails hg e there's a girl with dash rl" He was the bell now and I ae into a living-room that was none too tidy, The furniture was right up to the minute but it had not been lished bably since the day t had i i] the Salegtoci, The rugs loo as thougl y were entirely unfamiliar with a vacu- um cleaner and over everything lay a fine film of dust. "Of course, that's not Sallie's fault," Joe thought. "The land- lady is supposed to keep this room clean." But Sallie had rushed in with a wrap over her arm: "Oh, Joe, I'm s0 you happened in. They're a dance over at Kitty's and--" "But, say, after the way I've worked all day, Sallie, I abso- lutely can't dance all night! I--I just thought we'd have a quiet evening and--and talk--" He did not go on to say that he had wanted to talk over serious prob- lems with her such as the burning uestion as to whether two could ve as cheaply as one. He had talked these things over with Rita but things had never gone any further, He knew that Rita had a good cedar chest well-filled with embroidered linens. And she had furnished her own reom. They were all good pieces, too. Little thoughts about Rita kept dodging across his mind now as he compared this dusty room with the old-fashioned but tidy room in the flat where Rita lived. Sallie's laugh brought him up sharply: "A quiet evening?" she re- peated. "Who in heaven's name wants a quiet evening?" Her piquant little face wup- turned to his, Joe allowed himself to be hurried from the room and down in the elevator. "There's a taxi," sald Sallie excitedly. "How far is it to this--Kitty's? Was that the name of the girl?" . asked Joe. Sallie nodded. "You met her a '| month ago--the same night you met me, Joe. Don't you remem- ber her--a girl with red hair-- no wave at all and long green earrings?" Joe remembered. "I--let's not go there," he. said, uneasily, "I-- 1 didn't fancy her--at all!" Sallie laughed: "Oh--she's not really as vampy as she looks. Honest! But she thinks that's cute line right now so--" "I'm not going," said Joe, stub- bornly. Sallie looked up at him, her foot on the running-board of the taxi, "Oh--yes, you are," she said, "Yes--you--are, Joe Mar shall!" the address?" asked quietly. He repeated it to the cab- driver. "How much -- about?" asked Joe. "'Bout four-sixty," the man. Joe hand.d him a five-dollar bill. "Keep the change," he said, Joe answered | closing the door. Joe stood on the curb long after the cab was out of sight. His hat was in his hand and it was not until he sneezed that he re- membered to put it on his head He turned down the stree: in Rita's direction five dollars! ly ney. or days gone. shrugged; a all, a fellow could not expect to take about a girl like Sallie with- out spel . He had thought that he wo visit with her all evening as he had done so often at Rita's but this gitl-strictly modern, he told himself. He thoueht to buv a box of candy for her and this was yet in ns Jocket. It was a fancier box than h ever taken: Rita, he though Rita herself opened the door. "Hello," she said, warmly, "I wasn't expecting you, Joe. No-- come back here to the dining room. Mrs. Matson had to go to the dentist's and I'm taking care of the Joungsters. Mary is at her homework," On the table was a huge basket with stockings, one of which lay in Rita's chair. " must be a centipede--if you wpre all those," Joe teased the youngster, "or else you're a lazy girl to let 'em pile up so!" "They're mother's and ours," said the girl. "Rita 'most always takes a hand at our darning and she's not lazy--not half as lazy ag you look," she added, surpris- ingly. "Mary!" said Rita, "Well," answered Mary, drop. ing her eyes, "you aren't lazy. ou didn't put the vacuum away ten minutes ago--doing the clean- ing so mother could take it easy oonow after being at the dent- t." Rita's face was burning and her head bent above the stocking in her hand. "Maybe Mary'd like some of this candy I brought," said Joe. "And I was wondering, Rita, about--about--that furniture we were talking about--" "Are you proposing to her?" demanded }ary. From the sense and wisdom be- hind Rita's eyes, he might even : learn goodness, too. Now it was Joe's turn to flush, The kid needed a spank But he managed to get out with, "Any pbjections?" that Rita'd 'IT was hopin marry a good-looking man," re- torted this surprising youngster, Joe stared at Mary. en, faintly, he began to see the humor of the situation. He looked direct- ly into Rita's eyes. In them, he thought, he might be good-look- g. And from the sense and wisdom behind Rita's eyes, he might even learn goodness, too, "Yes," he said to the youngster, directly answering her question, "yes, I am proposing." (Copyright), weekly salary of from $8 to $14. A trained nurse falls into the same class, She gets about six dollars a week while leArning and can com- mand slightly under $16 when she is a qualified nurse. Back of this lles the fact that women, with the exception of those in such professions as journalism, medicine and law, receive less mon- ey than men for the same work. The average Australian girl seems to take all this calmly. She con- siders herself * fortunate if she draws about $20 a week. Consid- ering her expenses, the cost of liv- ine in Australia and her way of life, she probably is lucky. FEE HL aps iETS Fi H WE DELIVER .. EGGS JUST CALL vos * BYRON CARSWELL | 268 BLOOR W. Sales Representative for K. J. McQUARRIE POULTRY FARM " CITY WIDE DELIVERY WITHIN 24 HOURS OSHAWA RR. 4 BOWMANVILLE THE EGGMAN :, PHONE 32230 ) ( ° / 4 Nations Spotlight By CLYDE BLACKBURN Associated Press Sports Writer New York, May 16--(CP)--Al Flushing Meadow and at Lake/ Suc- cess delegates to the 65-member United Nations General Assembly talked about all angles of the Pales- tine problem except the immediate and apparently irreconcilable po- A Vows Lt 2 Lo They set up an 11 member fact finding commission to work out a formula for peace in the Holy Land but it starts out with little appar- ent hope for success. War Seen Arab states and non-government- al Arab spokesmen of Palestine de- clared unequivocally that unless Jewish immigration were stopped and Palestine restored to the Arabs as an independent state, the troub- les there would flame into war, Jewish spokesmen declared with equal firmness that they would de- mand nothing less than resumed and unrestricted freedom of state- less Jews to enter Palestine and make it their national home as fav- ored in the Balfour declaration. In all the long hours of speech- making by the Assembly delegates little attention was paid to those diametrically-opposed demands al- though hours were spent on histori- cal dissertations: and compromise proposals, Canada Continues Whether or not the Canadian government wanted to be it has been drawn into the controversy. Pirst by the election of Lester B. Pearson, Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, as chairman of the main committee which built up the fact-finding commis- sion and now as a member of that commission. If it should happen that Pearson is appointed to represent Canada on the commission--which now seems unlikely--there is no doubt he would be asked to act as chair- man, Difficult Task It will be one of the most diffi- cult tasks yet assigned to the in- fant world organization and one that seems almost impossible of completion. | The commission must have a re- port ready by Sept. 1, containing its recommendations for a solution. Meanwhile it will travel in the Holy Land and take evidence on the spot. The Jews do not accept Arab so- 'Lucky' In Italy Luck runs. bad again for Charles "Lucky" Luciano, former New York racketeer, who is arrested upon arrival in Genoa, Italy, on charges of having gone to Cuba without clearance. vereignty nor do they trust the Arabs to give them equal rights if the existing British Mandate were withdrawn and an independent Arab State, or even a bi-national state as proposed by Russia, set up in Palestine. The old argument about partition has mallen because, for one reason, only a comparatively small area of Palestine is desirable for settle- ment purposes, and for the greater reason that the Arabs claim Pales- tine to be theirs by every known law and precedent in history. HUTS FOR VETERANS Vancouver -- (CP) -- The Citi zen's Rehabilitation Council has ap- pointed a committee to probe the feasibility of converting buildings in Vancouver army camps into emergency shelter for homeless veterans and their families, History Written Into Signboards Of British Inns By STUART UNDERHILL Canadian Press Staff Writer London -- (OP) -- Liquor sup- what they are, most the name of the pub is more im- | portant than the fact it's serving Scotch. "History is reflected in the names A? ~vww mathe " said ana of theses con- nolsseurs. "It's a very slow trend, though, Most publicans are content to stick with names tha} have been in common usage for g h "But there are exceptions, At Hounslow there's a pub named the Master Robert, after the Grand National winner of 1924. Hastings has the G.I. and Chatham the Or- dinary Fellow which is how King George V described himself in his Rochester, named after Imperial Airways' Flying boat, and the Silver Bullet at Findsbury Park, after an express train." Those who make a hobby of col- lecting pub names usually carty a little book in which they jot down anything new. They gloat over names like The Dumb Flea at Mel- dreth, Cambridgeshire, and the Old Grinding Young near Dublin. Some just collect names and then try to weigh the significance under- with a huge arch bearing 24 al- lying their choice. One such col- | ed lection of 18,500 showed Red Lion was the favorite title (459) with Crown (320) next and Royal Oak (288) and the White Hart 282) vy- ing for third. Some pubs are alert to political trends, At Bridport, Dorset, there's a Lord Nelson, which was known as the King of the Belgians until 1945. It acquired the latter name in 1914, casting away its original name of the King of Prussia, For a time it ad @ Wowdswaod signboard, on which all three names were visible. The ancient art of signboard painting has diminished from the days when the White Hart at Schole, Norfolk, advertised itself Holbein is in a Swiss museum, Sometimes the new sign-painters show lively imaginations. The Startled Saint at Malling, Kent, is said to owe its title to a Orusader who returned from the wars and was startled, to say the least, by the news he heard about his wife. It's present sign shows & saint really startled by the Spitfire buss- ing about its halo, Ad Treble dha Thea Marinare has a sign which shows only one sea~- man, but he's the "elderly naval man" of W. S. Gilbert's ballad who was "a cook and a captain bold and the mate of the Nancy brig." PHONE 341 -- push ELECTRIC FOR INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILY GROUPS . « « we have a plan with special benefits designed to fit your needs. Get all the facts! 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