Tárogató, 1940-1941 (3. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1940-07-01 / 1-2. szám
1« TÁROGATÓ Warren Hugh Wilson “Capitalistic organization might possess itself of much of the best lands in the river valleys of the world, but the time is not in sight even of the most agile imagination Jwhen all the countrymen shall be gathered into cities. At present of the billion and a half people on earth, at least a billion and, a quarter are dwelling upon the land and tilling it, herding cattle and tending their crops.” “Rural Religion and the Country Church.” THE GREATEST PATH The greatest path in the world is the path from your door to the door of your church. If all of us faithfully used this path, and were guided by its radiant influence the nation would |be safe, crime subside, business prosper, and all hearts have peace. For this path was made by the Son of Man, for the sons of men, that walking humbly into His Holy Presence in the church, they might afterwards walk together as brethren in the world. CANADA — WHAT’S IN A NAME The derivation of this name accepted by our leading historians who have investigated the records makes it an Iroquois word, still surviving among them in the form Kanata, meaning a collection of dwellings, or a settlement. Cartier, in one of his vocabularies of the Iroquois speech, says of it — “they call a town (ville) Canada.” Its evolution into our place-name Canada can be fully followed in the narratives of Cartier, wherein it appears first in his account of his second voyage in 1535. The two llroquois Indians whom he had seized at Gaspe and taken to France the preceding year informed him on entering the Great River (now the St. Lawrence) that their home was in Canada, which proved later to be an alternative name for the village of Stadacona on the site of modern Quebec City. Cartier himself seems to have extended the word to the surrounding region as a convenient territorial name, — much as the name Quebec has been extended from the City to the Province. Canadian Resources Bulletin. MODERATE DRINKERS CAUSE AUTOMOBILE DEATHS So we are all wrong when we say that liquor is responsible for a large part of the highway massacre in this country, are we? Well, the National Safety Council at its convention in Atlantic City last month received the report of a special sommittee which has been making a three-year study of this subject. And the report stated that liquor is directly responsible for 25 per cent, of the deaths from motor car accidents. Twenty per cent, of all automobile fatalities, the report stated, are caused by drinking drivers; 15 per cent, involve drinking pedestrians. Moreover, it is not the drunk who is responsible for most of the killings; it is the slightly irresponsible person with only two or three drinks under his belt. “The main hazard,” according to Taylor Soper, executive secretary of the Illinois Road Builders’ Association, “is not the souse. There are not many of them. The main hazard it fellows like my friends and yours who think they can drive as well with just a few drinks as they can with no drinks. They are numerous.” So far as we know, this is the first time a responsible public body had made a careful investigation of the causes of our ceaseless highway slaughter and allowed the facts to reach the public. We wonder how many of the papers which published these facts, and perhaps editorialized on them, were filled with liquor advertising? And we wonder how many pares filled with liquor advertising failed to publish or comment on these facts?
