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liiiuyjjiiaijiui jciliaiialiturati jjpwmtorl x page 3 tttfje jwemortal 3beal a monument built of enduring granite or marble symbolic in design and rev erent in purpose resting in surround ings of peace and beauty a tribute at respect and honour to the dead a con stant source of inspiration to the living oakville monument wqrks we employ no agents you pay no commission buy direct a cardxr letter will bring our service to your door large display in stock 90 colborne street west mm human brotherhood is mission of vancouverite the georgetown herald wednesday sept 19th 1951 ip u wkrfsneu as he pulls up at the end of his days run its just his friendly way of saying hello but if there is some important development in town he expects his friend the bank manager will know about it plans for enlarging the school the chance of a new factory opening up part of the bank mans job to know his community his customers expect him to know whats new in other parts of canada the brotherhood of man is still the dream of a few sincere optimists in a world in which most of their fellows remain indifferent if not actually hostile many prominent men agree with the theory but do nothing towards putting it intorac- tlce a notable exception is r m mil lar founder of miuar coe who has devoted much of his time for the past eight years to the shedding of light on what he calls the worlds darkest problem the inferior posi tion of the coloured racjes recently bis hobby has become practically fulltime job and a fairly expen sive one at that bob as he jfl called by his host of friends was president of van- couver rotary in 1922 and 1923 since he first became interested in interracial problems mr mil lar- has developed into a public speaker of note on his one pet suo- ject a tour in the state of wash ington gave him the opportunity of addressing service clubs there and most of these clubs asked for repeat visits he is the kind of speaker an audience is quite willing to hear more than once l in british columbia mr millar has spoken in most of the impor- tant cities invariably meeting his own travelling expenses all told he has spoken in van couver on more than a hundred occasions he is as much at home in a church pulpit as on a public rostrum and never says no when called upon in an emergency the plea for racial equality was carried as far east as toronto by mr millar in 1946 when a speak ing tour was arranged by ontarios minister of health the won russell t kelley he is now in ontario again where he is making an extensive speaking tour mostly to service clubs and churches he was visiting last week with mr and mrs vern thompson at their farm at union mrs millar and mrs thompson are sisters mrs millar being the for mer bertha e watson mr millar came from guelph originally they have lived in the west for over forty years the speaking tour spon sored by the canadian council of christians and jews will include guelph and brampton rotary clubs as well as service clubs in orange- ville nd richmond hill in this district a blut healthy wellbuilt man in his sixtiey mr millar speaks fluently without notes but he is still a memlior of the public speak ers club and a student of elocution his first address on racial relations was made when a number of for mer presidents of the rotary club were called on for four and a half minute speeches all of which ex cept millars were lightly humor ous he received a real ovation crammed full of meat and brist ling with punchy sentences mr mil iar made every sentence count it had taken him eight hours to pre pare hat 4 2 minute talk today he averages so addresses a year and is frequently heard over the west ern radio network chinese in british columbia have had the vote in provincial and in federal elections since the legisla ture amended the election act in 1947 and have already voted in two provincial and two federal by- elections going to the polls in lar ger proportionate numbers than the whites the theory held by some al armists that the oriental vpte could be delivered by some political boss was shown to be unfounded in victoria chinese property owners could vote on money by laws but not for mayor or alder men that anomaly no longer ex ists the union of british columbia municipalities at its annual con vention at harrison lake in sep tember passed a resolution advocat ing the franchise to all qualified chinese in municipal elections the vote was almost unanimous only two delegates opposing the three delegates from the van couver city council supported the resolution but as certain changes must first be made in the city char ter vancouvers 1200 eligible chin ese could not mark their ballots un til this year another 800 will vote in other parts of the province many stout friends are still car rying on the fight for a better deal for the japanese who were depor ted from the coastal regions dur ing the war and who are now scat tered far and wide across canada most of them are firmly reestab lished and they may vote in any election if they so choose mr millar is particularly conver sant with the problems of our east indians he has many personal friends among the sihks and the hindus and attends their important social functions he was in charge of arrangements for the birthday banquet held in honour of pandit jawaharll nehru prime minister of the dominion of india when the guests included at the head table mrs maude field the only cana dian negress who is a christian science practitioner and representa tives of enough countries to form a league of nations in miniature one of the leading spirits in the canadian association for the edu cation of coloured people mr mil lar has been largely instrumental in having this organization arrange luncheons in honour of outstanding visitors including the popular ra dio entertainer rochester for the jack benny program it was one of the very few occasions when this famous negro has sat at the head table at a white mans public lunch- con mr millai is in deadly earnest in his campaign against racial preju dice in his addresses he frequently quotes experts who have given the subject exhaustive study including h g wells pearl buck paul robe son abraham lincoln professor basil matthews and andrew hatch- a leading american -negrop- ru- cator who made this challenging its tfce friendly way to ravel you see alj the tights along the iay you have rnore to spend thet things because fares are low round trip boston itirsbtkgii ufclkoit 2520 1755 w h70 rose bar restaurant main st phone 89 7rodidhbtvlsere7tousirie88 facfs7tea3s to new markets at home and abroad for farm as well as factory you will find your bank manager well x posted and ready to serve you chartered banks work that way on of a series by your bank tho who m winking f bfp statement when addressing the stu dents of princeton university if you discriminate against mc because 1 am unclean i can cleanse n l wi tement of the racist problems in canada are concerned with such groups as our lsioo chinese 23000 japanese 22ow0 negroes and 2000 east indians these peopld feel that they have been kepi in a state of near vassalage and denied the op portunity for economic and cultural advantage no i alter what their qualifications might be because their skin pigmentation is different from that of the white man one sign of enlightened progress is the recent granting of the fran chise to east indians this has come to the sihks arid the hindus after more than 2ft yiais of waiting and is regarded one of the most im portant idvandf in the struggle 3for racial qjily in the dominion myself if you segregate me because i lack knowledge i can become ed ucated but if you discriminate against me because of my colour i can do nothing god gave me that i have no protection from race prejudice but to take refuge in cynicism bitterness and hatred two thousand years ago cicero advised against getting slaves from hritara because those people were so stupid they were incapable of being taught and unfit to become part of the household of athens in the light of the advance made by the proud angloamerican peo ple since their ancestors were con sidered unfit to share in ihe glory of fjteece w lio can say asks mr millar what underprivileged coloured race of today may be the dominant worldpower in the years to come mr millar uses few statistics in his appeals for tolerance but these arc striking enough to warrant rep etition the coloured people out number the whites three to one and india has onequarter of the worlds population estimated at 21 5n59l 19 by the worlds alma nac lor 1948 chin is crowded with 600000001 souls and lost 0 000000 by japan ese aggression although the great scientist broca recognizes 4 shades of color in the human skin there are only four main divisions white black yellow and biown all of which overlap to a considerable extent racially the negroes are black the american iiuiiiii- aie brown the mongols arc yellow and the caucasians are white but the shadings range from the very light of the scandinavians to the very dark of the arabs and east indians the darker a man may be the more likely he is uo be the target for racial prejudice- in the opinion of the average man the sihk flnd the hindu are coloured not white in one address light on the worlds darkest problem mr mil lar left his atmienee with this con clusion whatever we do to help the as iatic and colored races of the world we must do quickly the hour glass is running low across the fareasf a wise radicalism now in extend ing the right hand of fellowship not only to the millions of asiatics and colored people across the high- waysal uicuarld but- also lothe thousands who claim canada as their home will be true conservatism in the days that are to be he who hesitates is lost we must evangelize asia or the white race is on the way out one day when the two friends were spending the day together they heard the very lovely song of a wood thrush they hid themselves at twilight the little songster came to bathe in the pool miss simons who belong- to a pootry club wrote this poem to describe her experi ence and sent it to a georgetown friend miss h a staunton floral designs i tor all occasion8 j walter rigg j giro williams phoae 75zw c r cross s s auto parts the wood thrush at the close of the day comes an avian band approaching the pool he has claim ed for his own and he sings as he conies with the voice of a flute a ballad thats known to the folk of the wild all the joy of his life is contained in that song the music he makes holds the spell of the wooos and the language is beautiful clean and distinct though hidden the meaning alas from uankind at the edge of the pool he has en ded his song i he silently bathes in the gathering dusk and refreshed he ascends to the limb of the oak to preen for a moment before tak ing flight v elizabeth d simons july 1951 charleston sc usa the foregoing poem was written by a nature lover in charleston south carolina elizabeth simons holds an interesting position in the charleston museum on saturday mornings a number of school children assemble at the museum where miss simons con- ducts a naturestudy class the na ture lyailees go for hikes to study birds stars seashells etc miss sim ons has an intimate friend who was her predecessor this friend hag a house on the river she gives some time evry day to the itudy of birds there is a nook under a spreading liveoak trmaexeusattvtoobl tor them to bathe in far all make cats and trnekt tires frsat 30x3 k f 24hour towing winching service cbev dj axle phone 9rtl milton res robert st phone 131 s schultz electrical construction wiring motor repair f 1 t elna sewing machines heat wave ranges fred schultz phone 531w stop and see us for pontiacs buicks varrotaj ojmtic tbtjilis tire a batteries farts acobssordta good selection of favd cam cobtpuctb servios and rkpaik8 lome garner motors imfr jar hmmm h