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Many New Phones
Placed In District

Indicative of the general in-
crease in population of almost
4,000 since 1935 is the number
of telephones installed in recent
months.

Comparative figures are as fol-
lows, number of telephones as of
Jan. 1, 1948 are followed by the
Jan. 1, 1946 figures in brackets:
Ganges, 375 (261); Keating, 445
(339); Mayne Island, 101 (70);
Sidney, 722 (6388).

_ Other district telephones are
listed in the Victoria additions.

Varnish On Mummy
Case 2,500 Years Old

Present holder of the varnish
longevity record appears to be
the varnish still doing duty on
ancient Egyptian mummy cases.
In some instances, the mummy
case varnish is almost 2,500 years
old—a tribute not only to the
quality of the ancient product but
to the care with which it must
have been applied. Faulty work-
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since have resulted in the ruin of
even the finest ancient product,
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toward good citizenship. Only a
few can be mentioned as typical
of the social, fraternal, cultural,
service and sports associations
which spread knowledge, encour-
age neighbourliness, and provide
meeting places for people and
ideas.

The Canadian Institute of In-
ternational Affairs has as its ob-
jectives to promote and encourage
research in international affairs,
and to advance understanding by
its members and the public of in-
ternational questions bearing
upon Canada. Through discus-
sion, lectures, broadcasts, and in-
formation services, it draws at-
tention to Canada’s position both
as a member of the international
community of nations and as a
member of the British Common-
wealth.

The importance of “cultural
factors’ in promotion of good
citizenship is the chief concern
of The Canada Foundation, a
national organization with offices
in Ottawa. ‘It endeavours to
promote wider understanding and
appreciation of Canadian litera-
fure, music and art, by serving as
a national clearing house for cul-
tural activities, and by promoting
exhibitions, scholarships and com-
petitions. The Canada Founda-
tion believes that good citizenship
must be based on love of coun-

try, and that pride in the nation’s:

cultural achievements is indispens-
able to that end.

The Community Planning As-
sociation, whose first objective is
to foster understanding of, and
participation in, community plan-
ning, works also toward citizen-
ship education. Common values
and responsibilities in citizenship
can be demonstrated clearly, it
believes, by greater attention to
the community’s stake in the
creation of its physical environ-
ment.

A particularly worthwhile ef-
fort is being made by the Imperial
Order Daughters of the Empire,

through official ceremonies of
welcome to newly-naturalized
citizens originated many years

ago. This gesture brings a new
meaning to naturalization by add-
ing friendly mterests to what was
formerly a cold legal proceeding.

The Young Women’s Christian
Association covers a wide field.
Its objectives include the provis-
ion of means for health, fun, de-

velopment of initiative; self-ex-
pression, friendliness, and the
ability to participate im group

activities. Interests in the wel-
fare of people is fostered on three
community levels: one’s own
neighbourhood, the country, and
the world. Members are encour-
aged to develop their initiative in

working out their own plans
through group thinking and
action.

The Young Men’s Christian As-
sociation has developed a So-Hd
(Social Education) program which
has spread across Canada in the
past two years’and now has 10,000
youths over 18 in its study groups.
An exceedingly practical way was
taken by the Y.M.C.A. to acquaint

leaders at first hand with the
activities of the Federal Govern-
ment. A three-day “institute”
was held at Ottawa, when staff
members from all over Canada
observed Parliament in session,
met members of the cabinet,
visited government departments,
and learned about the resources
of information upon which they

could draw to ‘help in building
eitizenship.
At a younger level, the Boy

Seouts and Girl Guides Associa-
tions are doing splendid work.
There are, according to the an-
nouncement of Boy Scout-Girl
Guide Week, 165,000 Scouts and
Guides training to serve Canada,
learning to help others, and learn-
ing to give and take. These or-
ganizations stress learning by
doing; the boys and girls are en-
couraged to take part in the plan-
ning and carrying out of various
forms of community and national
publie service.

Special duties and opportunites
for making new-comers feel at
home devolve upon the Nederated
Women’s Institutes of Canada,
which are active in rural districts.
The Radio Farm Forum and the
Citizens Forum provide oppor-
tunities for study groups to con-
sider important citizenship prob-
lems. In the large cities, Univer-
sity Settlements and Community
Centres provide valuable contacts
for new Canadians who would
otherwise be apt to get lost in
the great populations.

These are only a few of the
associations of people working to-
ward better citizenship. To all
such organizations we owe a debt
of gratitude, and we also owe our
moral and practical support.

CITIZENSHIP MEANS
PARTICIPATION

After education and prepara-
tion comes participation. It is
one thing to talk about citizen-
ship in your living room, or hear
it talked about from the public
platform, and quite another thing
to get out and wrestle with prob-
lems in your community. In the
first ease you are dealing in words
which have nice sounds: democ-
racy, brotherhood, citizenship.
In the second you are dealing with
actualities which are sometimes
sordid, usually! worrisome, and
always entail work. The partici-
pation of people in doing some-
thing about things, added to
knowledge of what might or
should be done, holds society to-
gether.

Tt is the common, everyday
people who make the country good
or bad. MIndivdually, they may
think they count for little, but
they become effective as members
of groups. In European countries
the tendency is to let officialdom
take the initiative rather than to
have it assumed by groups of
private citizens, but this is a vic-
ious trend characterized by the
late President Roosevelt as one
which withdraws government from
practical contact with citizens as
human individuals and makes men
and women mere units in statis-
tics.

Fortunately, we im Canada can

The Department of Trade and
Industry, in co-operation with W.
A. McAdam, agent-general for
British Columbia in London, has
organized a group.of 20 British
Columbia buyers to visit the
United Kingdom in April, it was
announeed by the Hon. L._ H.
Byérs, following a report that he
would leave for the United King-
dom at the close of the Legisla-
tive Session.

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TOTAL PAYMENTS TO POLICYHOLDERS AND
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(Providing premium reductions through dividends.)
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(A new record.)
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‘(All described in Annual Report.)
TOTAL ASSURANCES IN FORCE, DEC. 31,1947 . - =; $937,404, 062
(Almost entirely Canadian.) z
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SIDNEY, Vancouver Island, B.C., Wednesday, February 25, 1948.

Mr. Eyres said it is felt that
every effort should be made to
encourage two-way trade between
the United Kingdom and British
Columbia, as world trade is the
keynote of British Columbia’s
best customers.

The delegation, under the lead-
ership of Mr. Eyres, will explore
the possibilities of British market
with a view to increasing British
Columbia purchases from that
source. The party will leave Van-
eouver on April 15, sailing from
New York on April 22, and re-
turning, will leave England on
June 2.

MILK BOARD HEARINGS

The British Columbia milk con-
suming public will have an oppor-
tunity of presenting their case
against a further increase in the

- price of milk, it was announced

this week by the Hon. Frank Put-
nam, minister of agriculture, fol-
lowing telephone conversations
with the milk controller, E. C.
Carr of Vancouver.

It is expected that the milk
board will hold hearings shortly
in Vancouver and in Victoria.
Any ‘government action on the
application of the producers and
the distributors for an increase
in the price will be delayed until
after the hearings and recommen-
dations have been presented by
the controller.

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benefit by the object lessons an
other countries. Prizing Canadian
citizenship, we can make it the
backbone of government. We can
avoid the procrastination which
ends in spasmodic activity, flaring
up for a while and then dyimg
out; we can refrain from detached
eriticism, whieh complains: from
afar about what officials do, but
refuses to get together for co-
operation to make things better;
we can shun dependence upon
busybodies who go to meetings,
listen to talks, but never work
long enough to see one construc-
tive thing through.

Good citizens will participate
in local government, at least to
the extent of selecting to the best
of their ability the men who are
to govern the community, admin-
ister its schools, organize recrea-
tion, operate health services, and
beautify the district.

WORLD CITIZENSHIP

From local government to world
citizenship may seem a long jump.
It was Cicero who said that en-
dowment of human beings with
the ability to reason makes every
man a member of the great human
community. Starting with care
for his family, expanding through
service in his community, prov-
ince and nation, every Canadian
citizen finds himself embraced in
the wider fellowship of world
citizenship. Whether we think it
a good thing or not, the future
of Canada is wrapped up with the
future of all countries. We can
make great, and perhaps decisive,
contributions to the preservation
of human freedom and evolution.

Our citizenship contribution
might well start, indeed it must
start, on the home front, in com-
munities where good citizenship

ean make itself felt quickly and |

decisively. Dickens set down for
us in a dramatic way the picture
of failure arising from our
natural inclination to take in too
much territory. In his novel
Bleak House Mrs. Jellyby was a
very earnest woman who began
with the natives of Borrioboola-
Gha instead of beginning with her
own children. Nobody denies that
we have duties to the natives of
Borrioboola-Gha. But to begin
with them is, for the most of us,
to begin at the wrong end, and
to make a sad mess of our citizen-
ship in consequence.—From the
Royal Bank of Canada Weekly
Letter. :

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On Friday evening the North

Saanich High badminton team
members were hosts to the Junior
elub from Brentwood.

Ten matches were played. The
team took seven while
Brentwood won three.

After the matches J. Watson of
the Brentwood club discussed the
finer points of badminton with

the members of both clubs, ilus-
trating them in a special doubles
game with Mr. Watson and Hllen
Bertelsen matched against Audrey
Pearson and Daye Lines.

Teams were as follows: Brent-
wood—Marie Gilbert, Joyce Bick-

ford, Ellen Bertelsen, Bob Lee,
Al Schmidt, Bill Wolf and Tan
Gordon.

North Saanich High — Winnie
Lee, Yvonne Aiers, Audrey Pear-
son, Barbara MeGonnachie, David
Lines, Jack Christian, Fred Gane,
and George Aylard.

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TO TAKE CARE
OF YOUR EYES

(A series of articles to help you preserve your sight.
Watch for them each week.)

By means of an instrument called an ophthalmoscope,
an optometrist examines the interior of the eye.
instrument projects a light into the eye and by a
battery of lenses magnifies the various parts of the
eye to sixteen times their normal size.
the nerve layer, arteries, veins, and lens system is
Sometimes serious physical con-
ditions are first detected by the optometrist by means
Have your eyes examined.
Remember, it is wise to take care of your eyes.

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