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Dark Races of Wanda< Otninintilem
Whito tfy Two to Ono.
Bow of the alarming facia rei
'knot am:tied, by Prot J. W.
Oregon', in hie book tenatitel "The
Monate; of Color," just published, aro
the fonewino:
rrne dark raven or the world out-
nUnabor tho white by two to one. If
the high negro birth-rate le main-
tained the bleck papulation ez the
United spates of Amerlea will be forty
millions in the- year 200e. No BUM -
Wait nation multi rule India it the
People were united againet It,
III the writer.% upluico the white
race Will be uneble, ie the long run,
te hold its owe agellitif the Increas-
ing numbers; of negroes and Latins
or mixed blood on the Western Con-
tinent, end the Yellow races and
, Indians In Mia,
' "lexteneive areas for the (Kenna -
Hon of the white man are few,"
declares Prof. Gregory. "Asia has
'met empty tracts of good land in
Seuthern Siberia climatically suitable
:for him. „ A great increase in
the white population along the line of
the Siberian Railway ie therefore
Probable; but the European colonies
May be at any time swamped by the
cheap labor of Mougolians from the
south.
"Tile opportunity tor white settle-
ment In South Africa is even more
unfavorable owing to the hopeless -
nese of artisans of the more cultured
rapes competing successfully with the
negroos. North America, no doubt,
is a white man's land, except for the
share held by eleven or twelve mil-
lion negroes whose tuture is the most
difficult problem in American de-
velopment.
"South Araeriea offers the possi-
bilities of an nultfioite increase in
the white inhabitants in the southern
part of the continent; but the bulk of
it ie predominantly brown and negro,
and tte future lies with a mixed color-
ed race with a dwindling white atrala.
Australia is the one continent which
offers a possibility of a twenty -fold
increase of its mmeent white inhabi-
tants,
Prof. Gregory has uo axe to grind:
with scrupulous impartiality he ex-
amines the probieun, of inter-
marriage between vartnini races and
the antagonisms labia cause most of
the world's gene tions and wars.
He comr to the eenelusion that "each
Of the eve, of mankind has Lis spe-
teal nnerite, and lets wade Its own
contribution to the progress of the
world.
"The ethical basis of civilizatien
e 0s,
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'Course I ain't quite as good all year
As I am now-
3ut what's the use of beinl pod,
Then, anyhow?
At Christmas time a feller gets
A lot of things 'cause folks fergets
How bad he's been some months ago,
:If he is good right then, you knowl
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Gee, but it's tougb sometimes, you belt
This belle good—
A feller can't do lots of things
That mum he could,
But when it gets tg Christmas Eve,
He's glad he made 'em all believe
That he reformed. But, say, it's tough,
This bein' good for Christmas bluff!
—JAMES P. SINNOTT,
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has been supplied by the A:latie, to
whom are due all the chief religions. rr.•
For the material basis of civilization, f
iron, the world is probably indebted g
to tke negro,
"The sicentist and ethetter..tive
genius of the Europa aa ref I dis-
covered how the forces awl
of nature can be tenth, more ,uily
available for the service of man." I
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HOLIDAYS LN THE 4,1,D f'01'N'Ti.Y. I
London Has Fewer Than
Any thhel f'ke.
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'Chief of Child -Welfare
DR. HELEN MaIVI
cLIRCHY
13y Kate T. Connolly.
IIf you vre,e rteldenle• fr.n "reel& I
Why ...•tould Loattm Ie' I wor with a of the meet. .,y d. f,i‘tn
publics holidays than any other city of tie brill'. ori woino. L e•-thre,
in the world, not excePting el en kn,- Dr. IT^!, n vibe 1 now
tling New Yor.%, which has ten, or
th., herd of the &Tile: 0 .'$ of ehil
tres, erhere thre ere etwelve? ;mks a welfare in Ottawa. lrau wou d feel
'writer in Ammer.. It has only the like exclaiming: "Pm.. We! It
six days appointed tit, statute — a eln't ho! No one wotnan, no mr
atte
number commonly teret eded even in how Plumed. could Ire, ;0 many
our own country. e
To the Scottish dcgrees Dank Holiday.; '
Glasgow adds a day each in April, Then, if you were suddenly con -
May, and September, as well as a fronted with the gentle little woman
fortnight at the Fair. Edinburgh, her. elf you could not help exclaim-
!, too, makes holiday durine the last
week In July, oeenat an absolute paradox!
In some parts of England, local That one small head and that kindly,
custom prescribee other holidays Te- yes, motherly rummer r' Paradox or
sides those legally ordained. All I.ot, the coinbination stands. i
Whit -Week is pia) Liz,. Ler Manches-
ter, and at the walue or ft anis many While Dr. Macaurchy is a pure i
northern towns close -down. Canadian, her ancestors claimed the
The custom of thus taking holiday land of the heather as their native
in the mass brings about curious re-
sults, Some evening newspapers sus-
pend publication, and at Sheffield all
the lamplighters take their holiday
tegether, so that after sunset the city
lE a Place of darkness. At wakes time
in Lancashire towns, there is one
postal delivery, and most shops ciose
from Saturday night until the follow-
ing Thursday morning.
Cuatord also affects the resumption
of work after a holiday. Lancashire
and Yorkshire buckle -to at once,
whereas nothing Is done in the Clyde
shipyarda ori the day atter the Glee -
sow Fair.
To deter Verlters from ttlus ex-
itendegg a break in the common
round. there Is a singular practice in
some establishments. It a man turns
up on the Tuesday atter Bank Holi-
day, he is paid for that day. If he
does not re -start till Vifednesday
morning, he forfeits two days' wages.
Immeasurable is the difficulty of
breaking through any customs of title
`kind. A Lancashire village was ab-
sorbed by a neighboring borough, and
yet for many years afterwards it in-
sisted on holding Its Wakes at the
old thno, instead of making holiday
with the rest of the town, •
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the moat tatileg of ilie Ceeetee flea" •
Convicts Play Games.
It wee recently announced that the
"star" class of prisoners in Maidstone
Prison, England, have been Permitted
to play bowls.
The pthion lawnss
has been pressed
into sertice as a be/fling-green, and
the bowl. used have been presented
by a local elub. "Star" Oriaoners are
allowed to indulge in thiapststime for
an teeth. eVery evening, the time ad
spent forming part of their daily
retreation.
Pi'esently English prisoners will be
following the American exernPle, end
wireless receiving petit will be Metal.
led In all our convict establishments,
as at Sing Shag.
Etheilitgbant.
Iliratinghalti, Eng, bait 1
tion of neatly one Millie%
HURON COUNTY
Miss Nellie Medd, of the li:Xelet
nubile. school staff, won the first prize
for all essay on Christian Stevrard.
ship in the Onward. The contest was
put ori by the financial department
of the 1.1hlted Clhuteh,
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vbt'titii 111 Stratford vault
lan Adams, aged 1.1 years, parro.gi
away.
tar, 14s1(11.111:.. a t taar
rho:' took place at the (i1;:1i,1,11 li
mean Parsonage, Mitchell, who a Misr
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Etaten Warden, daughter Holey
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we ea... .5taflinOti, of. OW north ciul
, 11.-' town, tzti 10 Val.
wdfle, of Tateettelf.
lik peer health for inwards of 0
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19.•• 4•• lit f Nil Olen, died at the reel
(hare 111 his aixter, Mrs. Prank ROI:.
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1;..,01a, in bk. t4t 11 year. Th,,i0,,
Mr< 110(Wer a 1•:1•.:1,kgri of li'ullart to
Carte,', a;tott 90, -who broke
Ills bit ;it the Co. 11011,„ie a X0W weeks .
ago, di --d at the (lemma IInepliel 10
Stratford. Ile' formerly resided in
idulhice Township.
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4 niembet of the executt7e
(.1. the international Congress of
School Hygiene, she attended their
teiennial meeting in Paris, Frazee, in
1.'10. In 1911 she was appointed as.
tont demonstrator in obstetrie:, and
gynaecology at both the faculty of
medinine, Toronto University. and
Toronto General Hospital.
Threc years later she was appoint-
, <I inspector of the feeble-minded,
dopartment of provincial secretary,
to the Province of Ontario. At tin
me
satime she was appointed assist-
, ant inspector of hospitals, prisen.i,
and public charities. The following
year she was appointed official del-
i caste of the Dominion Government
to the meeting of the first English -
DR. MACMURCHY yankingconference in infant wel-
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country. Her father, Archibald Mac. fare, London, England(Didn't I
Murchy, was born in Kintyre, Argyle weekly letter home, describing the tell you at the first of this Ada you
hire, Scotland, and her motherMar-
thorn of a sick negress we called on would be exclaiming "Impotsible !")
jory Ramsay MacMurchy, was the
s,
every time we went, provoked the One could go on filling page after
daughter01 James Roomy, of Lin_ authoritative telegram, "The Ward page with the important offices Dr.
lithgow, Scotland. For 42 years, 0
menace to any respectable girl, IllaclYlurchy has filled, such as inspec-
Archibald MacMurchy was first math- Don't got" 1 for of auxiliary classes in the depart-
ematical master at Jarvis Street Col- ' I must confess it was not much of ment of education in Ontario, lee-
legiate Institute, Toronto. Later he an effort for me to stop my visits term in the social service department
was rector of the samschool and there for I was "slumming" princi- of Toronto Universitrand so on, but
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also editor of the Canadian Edueat- Pally because some of the other girls already you have learned enough to
ional Monthly, With which a grati, were, find not, like Dr. Helen Mac- understand the quality of. her gray
many claim there k no magazine tcy., Murehy, beaus° 1 was vitally inter- ' matter,
compare in Canada to -day. ested in the condition of the unfor- , The culmination of her ambition
Does it not seem strange that
tunate people there. Even when she crime in 1920 when she was made
near- ,
ly always, when we inquire into the was teaching in Toronto many an chief of the division of child welfare,
"out -at -elbows" ward dweller Was Dominion ministry of health, Ottawa,
parentage of a famous Canadian, we
find it be either English, Scotch, Irish made happier in both body and spirit you would think the time (01,1energy
or a mixture of all three—seldom un -
by her yieits. I and mind of a woman of this timbre
adulterated Canadian? it that we I ,
She made a special study of the would be so filled with the inultitu-
Canadians have nbt yet developed mentally deficient all through her dittoes problems connected with her
the amazing persistency and the in-
medical course, and one year went position that the would not have any
finite capacity for taking pains" that "
to Manchester, England; New York. left for ordinary interests of ordinary
lo characteristic of the older Courand several other American cities to people, but the very opposite is the
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make an intensive study of their meth , ease,
tries? ode in dealing with this giganticThe most humble young Northern
Like so many professional women, problem, She has written a little Alberta farm Mother who Writes to
Leaching was the preparatory pre -
book, "The Mmosts." which deals her on some vexing problem is cheer-
lude to Dr. Maeltlurchy's public ear-
iwith this question in a moat Interest -1 ed with her quick response. Her malt
eer, andsue-
while she was a mosting way. idea in life seems to be service, and
eensful teacher, still it was only 08 When he was on tho house staff she really is very little concerned a -
the five finger exercise, with the main of Toronto General Hospital, her bout the many laurel wreathe that
thane the study of medicth.
e and stir. -
nickname was Mother MacMUrcklY" have been hung upon her. Even men -
gory. and a more fitting title could not be Mon of Toronto University's honor -
In 1900 he received the degree of tocecle for she has been and is a ary degree of 1924 evoked not a
M.B. from Toronto 'Unitversity, with mother to the big army of Canadian ' spark of what would have been quite
first-clas,9 honors in both surgery and children who have tome into the pardonable pride.
medicine. The next year site reeeiv- world with subnorntal developinent.1 Her mind is a brilliant storehouse,
ed her M.D. from the sante unlver. Prom 1906 to 1920 the presented to but she has worked and is still work-
shy, and the follOWiag Year took the Government of Ontario 14 at- Ing harder than almost any woman
ort feeble-niirideditess know for its furniture. While DO.
pOst gradtiate work under Dr, Wil. num reports
Ham Oster, at the Johns Hopkins Hos- and mental defect, three special re- MacMurchy id a peculiarly gifted
pital and also at the Wonlen's Medi- , ports on infant mortality and five re- woman with a real vision and a high -
cal Collage, of PennsYlvania, Phi.. I ports on auxiliary classes. Her sex- principled devotion to the Welfare of
ladolphia. Ilea of "The Little Blue Rocks" and Canadian children, yet her Wilmt
welfare work has always; "The Canadian Mother's Book." important post was not obtained with
held a definite allure for her. Every- I Which were revised last year, brought any single stroke of ilash-in-the-pan
one who knows Toronto at all, knows this tinehtrusive little woman into in- brilliancy. It was the well•deserved
what a" sordid, back -alley, even dan.1 torriational prominence. They are result Of long, sustained effort,
gerous place "the ward" was 15 I most helpful .to young mothers, and, as one writer has truthfully said of
years ago. When I was at School findeed to all who are interested In her, "The hardest of hard work and
I remember getting a telegram from 1 the nation at large and In the Meal- unfaltering devotion to an ideal have
anxious parents one Saturday night 1 eating of proper health-prineiplos in put Dr. Machlurchy where she is to -
on the subject< I had been taking children, day—an internationally recognized
my turn with other members of a They can be had free, by the way, worker for humanity, especially in
Sunday school class visiting the sick by applying to the Department of the cause of childhood -and the feeble
and indigent in that quarter. My Health, Division Of Child Welfare, rniaded,r,
1. 0 lit - tle town oi Beth. le.lietul Bow still we see thee lie.
2. For Christ is born of Ma - ry, And gath-ered all a - bove, —
3. Bow si . lent -In how si lent - ly The wonerons gi f is &Mt --
4. 0 ho - ly Child of Doh. le - hem! De- send to us, we pray; —
it - bore thy deep
While mar- tals sleep,
So God imparts
Cast out our sin,
and dream -less sleep, The sl • lent stars go by; —
the an • gels keep Their watch of wond'r • tag love; _
to hu -man hearts The blessings of Hie heav'n_
and en - ter in, Be born in us to • day. —
Yet in thy dark streets shin • eth The ev er • the t ng tight
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0 morn-ing stars to - ,geth er Pro. claim the ho . ly births —
No ear may hear his cern • lag, But in this world of sin, —
We hear the Ohriet - was an • gels The great glad lid - Inge tell —
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The hopes and fears of all the years. Ate mot in thee to nig t.
Abed prais-es sing to God the Ring And peace to men on earth
Wheroritheksoultiwill re- odic Him still, The dear Christ en. ters In
0 come to no, a • bido with us, Out Lord E man • n • eli