CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November 7, 1957 Racial integration By Lewis Milligan The probl« of integrating white end eclored pupils in Am- erican schools is not so easy u solution as many Canadians think. It is all very well for us who are not involved in that problem to assume a helier-than-thou attitude towards the white pcople of Little Rock and other purts of the Southern States where the colored populelion in seme in: ces is as large as if not larger than the white. If we in Canada were in the same position we would be no mcre in tavor of raciul integration then the white people of the South are. That word “integration” mcuns much more to them than a system of education; what white parents fear 13 racial blood in- tegration of their childcen with the colored pupils as a result of their intimate association in mixed schools. Whatever moy be Published Every Thursday At Castlegar News “THE € ADS OF THE AYS" Castlegar, B.C. Menaber: L. Vv. CAMPBELL Publisher Canadian Weekly B.C. Weekly Newspapers Newspapers Assn. Subscription Rate: $3.00 per year — 25e mionth by carrier Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Bureau A Message From 6. Smith. said against that fear as en of racial and denial of equality of citizenship, it is purely a matter of natural selection, The two races have got along fairly well together since the abolition of slavery, and they realize their mutual depend- ence upon each other in industrial life. They work side by side in factories and business generally, and compete on an equal. basis in popular sports. They are not denied education, for there are colored schools that they can attend. From what I have seen of large citics in the United States there is no residential integration of white and colored people. Harlem in New York isan example. In which I visited recently, I saw entire blocks of houses that were exclusively oecupied by colered people. They seemed to be hap- py together and I was told that many. of them were very pros- perous, owning their own homes end driving their own cars. Gen- erally speaking, the pure-blooded negro is the happiest man in the world and is free from any inferiority complex He prefers to live and asscciate with his.own people. It is usually the half- easte who is the trouble-maker. He seems to be at cross purposes with himself; being neither one nor the other entirely he feels that he has had a raw deal in his birth. I was told that the half- whites were by no means favored by the full-colored people, probably because they are inclined to pride themselves on their mixed blood. There is no doubt that tha: average: American still regards the” nqgroes as an inferior race. A few years ugo I met a Canadian while'fishing in the Kawartha Lakes who had spent half his life in the States. He was an elderly man of a kindly disposition who had retired after a successful business carcer and had an orange grove in Florida. He téld me that he employed negroes on con-| they are Everything I have ever said green and slimy, as it is only about the poverty of the African emptied once a year ‘because of is easily demonstrated in Kano.| the shortage of water and costs The people have no furniture $270'each time it is done. © and lie down to sleep on the + Because we had’ arrived by earth floor, which is covered air, we could bring only 130 Ibs. with the droppings of goats, chic-! jof luggage. As a result we had kens, and children, Food is cook-| to send’ our pots and pans, sheets, ed over a little fire of corn blankets, cutlery, etc, by sca stalks as there is not much wood | (Presumably it is in the Bay of in the north. The streets (7) are! Biscay at the moment) so we had open sewers, in which the child-! yory little equipment. Naturally ren play happily, swimming in they could’ not send us out in the pools into which they émpty.! ihe bush unequipped so we have Leprosy is common. Children, been posted to Jos, where we. can swarm everywhere. They alll stay at the Government Rest seem very happy. Fat people are Centre, everything provided. “It few and far between. Their in-| is an ill-wind which bloweth no fant mortality rate is very high, | good"! because Jos is situated But things are changing. Two on the Bauchi Plateau, at about years ago schools were ered rend ft, with the only decent down became only about 10%{climate in West Africa, be it of the children were attending’ ideally situated for Europeans. (ie, 10% of the 1.8% who had. Until our stuff comes, I will be registered for seneel but now? Assistant Education Officer, Pla- i teau ince. Then.I will move tract to pick and pack the oranges and in cultivation work, 1/ and some 2,000 children are now to the Juru Provincial Secon- asked him to tell me what he candidly thought of the negroes.! “Well,” he said, “a nigger is a nigger. But they are all right; when they're kept in their place. They're good workers and are! happy at their work. When they're all together picking in the, grove one will start singing, ‘O Lord!’ and they'll all join ina chorus. Yes, we get along all right with them and they are well paid.” ‘Then, after a long pause he turned to me and said,! “We couldn't do without the niggers, you.knew.” H | And that last remark is true. The colored American is al-/ ready an integral part of and professional ‘life. If he has not been integrated socially it ‘is be- cause he is ‘a negroe and the white people prefer to associate with their own kind, just as ‘we do here in Canada. We cannot truthfully claim that there is no color line in the social and fra- ternal life of Canada. One need not go into details, but, speaking generally, Canadians have no more desire to mingle socially with the comparativel; few negroes in the population than have the white people of the United States. + ty a Don’t use flimsy shoe boxes — use + corrugated cardboard cartons. Pr] Use strong wrapping paper and tie with strong co 3 Eq Print: name and address clearly, completely and correctly on frant ,of parcel TN INK: a Par your own name and address in the front upper left corner, and inside parcel. Don't guess about weight ~ have a your Post Office weigh parcels. FOLLOW THESE S SUGGESTIONS AND HELP SPEED YOUR Mae} CANADA POST OPFICK in school. This is because they dary School, near here, where 1 will become independent in 1959, will be teaching History, Geo- whereupon there will be a great. graphy, and English. demand for educaled Africans Castlegar. and the ruling northesmen have Meanwhile, I am inspecting suddenly realized that these ed- schools, - needless ‘to say I can- ucated Africans can come only not understand a word as all in- from the Western and Eastern struction is in Hause at the El- Provinces; from tribes which’ ementary School level, Still the they despise as inferiors. Thus teachers don't know the extent the rush for education. of my ignorance and as long as The Moslems of the north,I look wise and benevolent I have no inferiority. complex re-jam treated with the greatest re-| garding the European. In fact,! spect, especially by the teachers they are sorry for us ‘because! doing their practice teaching we do not adopt the only trueldoing their practice teaching faith, They are inclined: to laugh! over whom, apparently, I have at us, It has happened, for ex-{the power of life and death! I ample, that a native'boy goes to find the lessons very fascinating, a Catholic ' Junior Primary} During an English (foreign Ian- School, a Seventh-Day Adventist guage) period one boy got a Senior Primary School, a United difficult question right (spelled Mission Secondary School and. an blackboard) and jived down the Anglican’s Teacher's. Training aisle between: the desks very ‘| College, changing his religion at pleased with himself. There are every step of the way. Mean-'a few girls in the class here at while, the Moslems present a u-;this level, but they haven't got, ited front and go on their merry, much idea, being too seared to way of converting the pagan, and do as well as the boys. It's quite! the Christian, Nigerians. Also,' funny to see them carrying their| Just like! © ‘| weter was beautifully warm, also * ‘}for they have been told that you they laugh. because we allow just! one wife. Moreover, we allow our wives equality, which the Mos- lems regard aS ’a sign of great weakness (What would happen if they. visited the American matriarchy?).--.- - While waiting for, our post: ing, we spent most-of out-time at ‘he club swimming-pool. The binders home, balanced on top of their heads! ‘This may look peculiar: but you: should see their: deportment — they. all look like mannequins! .The . children got their money’s worth out of me, A white .man actually in the classroom looking at thelr work gives them quite a- thrill and I have forty pairs. of eyes intently following my. every movement CUSTOM-MADE. PENSION PLANS with SUBSTANTIAL INCOME TAX SAVINGS! 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Some of their more educated people step when they come to a town, wash in the nearest stream and then put on the clothes which they have been carrying in a bundle on their head. My wife is quite amused ‘at this. Their huts are ecmical, having walis of mud with thatched roofs and when the white ants eat away the mud they plaster some more on. These huts are built among the rocks, surrotinded by a thorn fence which is a very effective barricr against enemy attack and the wandering goats which will auntage of the new legislation — contact The Mutual Life of Canada representative in your community. He will be glad to prepare, without obligation, a plan for you and your family that best suits your needs, eee heli UTUAL [IFE Castlegar, B. C. Fraser Tees. Branch Office: 450. Baker Street, Nelson, 8. c. eat their erops. Some of them are cannibals. Here leprosy ‘is prevalent. I saw my first leper tedsy, poor devil, and I under- stand the problem is so big that it will be years before the spread of the disease is checked. 1 will finish with a story. An tion Officer visited a R.C. school run by some nuns. He was told thet they return to England once every four years (com- pared with an-absolute maximum of 2 years for us,) whereupon he suggested that the length: of tour be at considerable sav- CANADA , HEAD OFFICE: WATERLOO, ONTARIO Sam Sez... amaze me, coming back after a hundred years and seeing the place again. Now, you take towns. . The placés we knew then and figured that they were pret- ty big places why, they don't ‘amount to hardly anything now. I saw Yale the other day. Well, I remember Yale when it was some town. But I had to look twice now or I might have missed it. It seems like Yale is just a learing along the highway. You are through it before you know it, Yale used to be about the wildest spot north of ‘Frsico .It was as far up the river as the steamboats could go — so with us it was a port and distribution eentre, lower Fraser, Yale was the place that the miners‘ coming in from Victoria or New Westminster got off the boat and started the trelc by land. Everything went through Yale in that time — miners, gam- blers, cooks, crooks, mules, cam- els and supplies, Believe me or not in the ear- ly ‘60's Yale used to have 20 saloons, all going strong at the tsame time, A little before that, about | 1858, in the Fraser -gold rush there. were 3,000 miners work- ing between Yale and Hope. ere was one spot just downstream on the south bank of the river, a little half-mile square ‘spot, that they got over two million dollars worth of gold from. °- * Yale” had. what. you might, say three beom periods. *- First during ‘the ‘50's - as: ‘head of navigation, sécond dur- ing the ‘60's as the distributing hub of the Cariboo toad to the Barkerville country and third, Exit one, Education Officer, deeply crestfallen. Of course, this story has no moral for Cast- legar: (or has it?) = As: I finish ‘T can hear the on records,- and I expect they are jiving away. Incidently, you might just as well give it up in Castlegar, these boys are in a different class,-doing the various gyrations with .a natural. sense of rythm with which the white race just cannot hope: to’ match. More news anon! ‘There's a lot of things that| When the gold rush swung’ up toward the Cariboo from the! Africans playing “rock'‘n roll”|. after my time, in the '80's when the C.P.R. was ‘being built. The, their headquarters. e Well, they had everything there — -powder works, engine construction plants, repalr- shops, They had a newspaper, hotels, more saloons, One fellow writ- ing home said that every third building was a saloon, Well, Yale flourished of for two or three more years and then the railroad that had given it a néw lease on life’ when it was being built killed it off as it got ‘ing. The old railway contractors made Yale} - so did Yale. + of vague place on th road; and to think-back to them days when one Yale saloon used to take in up to $3,000 a day. and the coaches faded out, and It sure is funny now for .me| | to looky at Yale — just'a Kind], I was there, », “GASTLEGAR NEWS | "RG Photo of heart operation by 7 ; of Heart The Life Insurance Companies Taunching the organization. The Hospital for New hope for prevention ‘Disease In spite of accurate djagnosis. advanced medical science and surgery, heart disease is stili the greatest killer today, What causes it? Can it be prevented? The National Heart Foundation of Canada, recently } formed, will intensify the search for the answers to these questions. in Canada are supporting this Foundation because it is so important to the future health of Cana- dians. They have made, substantial grants to cover the cost of +The Foundation will encourage intensive.research into the causes of heart discase by every possible means. It will seek to stimulate professional and lay education and kelp family doctors to keep abreast of the newest developments in diagnosis and treatment. Support of the National Heart Foundation is just one of many ways in which the life insurance companiestin ‘Canada are helping to create.a healthier, happier life for Canadians, THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA READY-MIX CONCRETE YOU CAN DO IT FASTER WITH NO FUSS — - NO MUSS Just PLACE YOUR ORDERS, with ‘Smoli-tize kit for “het REGULAR, SUPER, VERY GENTLE Castlegar Drug MM Sunday Church Services ST. RITA’S CHURCH - Rev, E, Brophy, P.P._ Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 Benediction Friday at 7:00° p.m. Confessions Sat. 4-5 and 7-8. p.m. COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE| Sunday in the Legion. Hall 10:30 Sunday School 7:30 Family: Service At 51 Columbia Ave. ST.. JOSEPH’S ‘CHAPEL Re Brophy, P.P. “Masse. 30 and 10:30 a.m. Coni: s Sat. 4-5 p.m. Wed., 7:30 Young People’s Hr.,| Fri, 8:00-Prayer & Bible Study; THE UNITED CHURCH PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE! ‘Sunday School — 10 a.m, Morning Worship — 1 am. 7:30 p. eut, The Mother Superior replied, “Sir, 1f you didn't smoke, or drink, and led a godly life, then even you could stay in Nigeria four years.” Prayer and Bible Stu, ‘Thurs, Ts Everyone Weleome Robson: ist & ard Sundays at liam, Sunday School 10 a.m, Kinnaird: Service of” Worship at 9:45, a.m, Sunday School 11 Castlegar: Service of Worship at| 7:30 pm Sunday School 10:30 am.! CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIS@ + OF LATTER DAY SAIN ** Sundays at 10:30 a. “Twin Rivers Hall ¢ PRESBYTERIAN CHURC Sunday, November 3rd ‘Resident Minister W, J. peers Public. Worship 1: Church: School metts with, congregation temporarily), THE ANGLICAN CHURCE Remembrance Sunday, Noy. Castlegar 8 am—7:30 pm] Kinnaird -11- a.m. Robson 9 a.m. Matins, peo eople compete in the oil business. Did you know therd are more than 10,000 peop! gaged in the for oil in Canada? We know it, because we run into plenty of them each time we try to lease promising Did you know there are hundreds of skilled chemists and engineers in Cc da’s 42 refineri owe know it, b our own i 1 have to work hard to oie ahead of the.others in producing better products at lower cost. da’ ‘958 ‘square miles. of *| tion it afforded a dynamic view There’ s Year Round Skiing On Garibaldi 5 Glacier ‘This is the second in a peries. of four articles: about Garibaldi} Park prepared especially for this newspaper by the B.C. Automo- bile Association, With due respect to count- less numbers of do-gooders who have liked to play.a part in the development of majestic north- ern Garibaldi Park, the story of the area thus far in its. 37- year existence is the story of the Brandvolds. Ottar, 52, hs wife Joan, 37, and his brother Emil, 50, pitted their wills and energies against the obstructions of nature to per- sonally hack out the nit [mately 15 miles of distance and|~” W.A. Celebrates 10th i . Anniversary In Robson : The monthly meeting of the Women's Association to the Robsorl Community Memorial Church was held at the home of Mrs. W..L, Wright, with Mrs.: R. Brown presiding and 22 mem- bers and 9 visitors present, The meeting was opened with singing of a hymn and 2 prayer, then Mrs, O. B. Ballard read an article “Recipes on Liv- ing”. Next month, which is the annual’ meeting, the members agreed to bring a small gift to Letter to Editor The Editor, Castlegar News, Castlegar, B.C. Dear Sir: Through the medium of your paper the members of: the CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November 7, 1957 3 exchange with another member also another small gift which will be sent to the Senior Men's Hostel in Nelson. | * This meeting was the occa- sion of the 10th Anniversary of the WA. At this point, the presi- dent, Mrs. R. Brown, presented corsages to Mrs. W. L. Wright and Mrs, J. Raine saying that these two members were elected to. President and Secretary on November, 5, 1947 at the. home of Mrs. W. Kennedy, and are still active in-the WA, The Program Convenor, Mrs. D. Carter, then asked Mrs. Wright to say a few words about the WA, Mrs. Wright ecutive being, President, Mrs. W. L. Wright, Vice-President, Mrs. . Tutt, Secretary, Mrs, J. Raine, Treasurer,-Mrs. D, Magee. Bight of the original members answered roll call. Mrs. Wright went on to re- call the good work the members had accomplished in 10 years and urged them to continue. ‘The meeting was closed with the saying of the Mizpah Benediction. A lovely birthday eake with 10 candles was then brought: to Mrs. Wright, and the members sang “Happy Birthday” to the WA. Refreshments were served by hostesses, Mrs. O. Sutherland and Mrs. J. Raine. that’ the Women's A consists of members from all Protestant faiths, afd the work is chiefly for the Community Memorial Church at Robson and ‘also for .missionary work, She then -asked Mrs. Raine to read the 1947 minutes with .tht ex- ’ TUL ROOMS Confectionery Special Chinese Dishes Qpen 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sat. 8 am. to 12:30 p.m. stata Kiwanis Club of C. would like to express their apprecia- tion for the wonderful. turnout, enthusiasm “and cooperation of the people of the’ district in making our second Bingo. last Saturday night such a tremen- dous success. We -are. glad: that ‘all the people of the district will be able to enjoy, through the medium of the- Project Soctety, the fruits of the success: of the evening. “heavy” coast snowfall, ‘Diamond Head does, " The Tuck, hord core of a volcano that belched its lava for miles over the park.in prehistor- ic times, can be visited from the We particularly express our SASH DOOR — KOOTENAY BUILDERS & tices PHONE — 5155 CABINET MAKING BUILDING HARDWARE *GLIDDEN PAINTS MARSHALL-WELLS PAINTS i chalet with a shank’s mare or thaniis to, ue eee gine a skiing hike that covers approxi-| 44. assisted us in making _ available such an inviting prize six to'seven hours of time. —_/iist We wish to thank the Cast- To reach Black. Tusk frow |jegar and District School Board Squamish, one must travel 15/¢or its appreciating the position miles along the Pacific Great|in which we found ourselves and Eastern right-of-way to Gari-lcooperating with us in making baldi Station and clamber UD-|the High School facilities avail- ward for about seven hours on ajable, We thank all of the many steep, Tough 11-mile trail that| persons who helped in the sale ends close to the shoreline of/of the tickets. i L trail that winds ‘its way. ta Diamond Head Chalet, the only public’ accomodation ‘in some Finally,; may we thank the y following men for'their assistance Ottar Brandvold recalls the/in the actual operation of the when the/Bingo: Herb Pitts and. Roy And when they had made the trail navigable by packhorse, the Brandvolds set to work in 1944 to erect the chalet on .a site carefully chosen: after near- ly two years of hiking and ski- ing through the northern reach- es of the park. On a rise beside two tiny Elfin Lakes, they laid hefty al- Pine fir timbers with 24-inch girths that were skidded into) the spot behind a team of hors: es, ~ Diamond Head Chalet rose up slowly and soundly over the next two years, and on comple-| more than half way round the horizon ‘and provided a comfort- able retreat in winter for skiers who found the park's finest slop- es nearby. Skiing ts possible ‘42 months of the year at the -head of Gari- ‘balel Glacier a few miles away. BLACK TUSK Some people would argue that Black Tusk Meadows of- fer more exciting eye-appeal,| and. so.they might in summer- time, but because, they lie be- hind a range of peaks topped by Garibaldi itself, the. mead- ows do not get the best of the major share of construction on|Brown, who looked after . the the chalet was finished. Bingo Cage and the announcing; “We nailed the last hand- Mack MacPherson, Sandy San- split roof shake in place on New|erson, Lerne Zinio and Art An- Year's Day,'1946, then we spent derson for their help with the an entire week shovelling out/eauipment, the school and the 32 feet of snow that had pited|Ushering. up in the shell. We thank the ‘Castlegar ews By conservative estimate of; °F so chntarina their time,. the cost of. horses] rina ae re that could wdrie only two,months asiens Clap of Ceatene each summer but had to be fed ers Blckey. Tact: for 12 months, and the equip- > __. President. 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What have the “Brandvolds gained, from their project in the decade since the chalet first was occupied by guests eae “out- side?” Joan will tell you: “A host of good friends, a wealth of happy living, and more of the same to look forward to.” Did you know C; 8 Oil employ thousands of salesmen to ‘ket their prod vd We know it, because every day our own sales jle‘are’ peting with sal from other companies. wage vigorous competition. ‘The result is increased efficiency, ‘and b fit te the IMPERIAL OIL Limiran ( Esso) Authorized Dealer Leo Bosse PHONE 2041 -NO DOWN PAYMENT — NO. CARRYING CHARGE USE OUR CONVENIENT Lay-away Plan FOR: CHRISTMAS World Famous Watches Make The Finest of Gifts Rolex — Bulova — Gruen — White Star _ Pageant — Also Ladies’ Dicmond Set Watéhes We also have calendar and 25 and 30 Jewel Waches which will give you years of dependable service. REMEMBER — If you don’t know your watches— know your jewetfer. 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