Tárogató, 1945-1946 (8. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)
1945-09-01 / 3. szám
TÁROGATÓ IS ment on the formation and purpose of the Council was made by Canon L. A. Dixon; Scripture read by Rev. H. C. Priest and Prayer offered by Dr. W. J. Gallagher, Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches. The offering was received by Missionary ushers. Thanks were extended to Dr. Wamshius by Dr. Jesse H. Arnup, who is Chairman of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.-—From The United Church Observer. THE CHURCH vs. THE MOVIES A writer in the Chicago Daily News recently tore the mask from the reasons given by some persons for not attending services, by using those same reasons against going to the movies. This was his method. “I’m out of the habit of going to the movies; I better not go tonight.” “I have not been to the movies for so long the walls would fall in if I went.” “I know a man who has gone to the movies for years, and he is no better than I am.” “There are as many good people outside the movies as inside.” “Too many hypocrites attend the movies.” “I stay away from the movies because of the kind of folk who support them. I would not sit in the same room with Mr. So and So.” “The performer gets more money than I do. Why should I help keep him in a good car and fine clothes?” “I do not like the people in charge of the movies.” “I stay away from the movies because I went so much when I was a child.” “I need new clothes before I can go to the movies.” “I have a friend visiting me, and I do not know whether he likes movies or not; I never meddle with a man’s private opinion.” “I do not go to the movies, because directors never call on me.” “I do not go to the movies, because when I went the last time, no one greeted me.” —Oreward. AMBASSADORS OF GOOD WILL (Letter from a Vancouver Newspaper) My sister is a teacher in a London County Council school for small crippled children, evacuated to the Midlands. Following are a few paragraphs copied from a letter received from her: “Then the item of the day. The American jeeps drove up to the door and out jumped all their men loaded with a huge parcel for each child. They really are bricks to the kiddies! “They distributed their toys, then stayed and played games until tea-time, helped to serve the kiddies’ tea, brought in the twotiered iced cake amidst shouts and shrieks, after which they had to depart. “A Mexican, half-caste, called in a jeep last Saturday and brought three or four huge toys that he had made himself in his spare time—animals to ride on—all prettily painted. “He said he was very, very fond of children and very homesick, and the tears rolled down his cheeks as he asked Mrs. B. if she would accept them for our little boys. He was a really good man, I should say.” It occurred to me that it is very nice to hear of the way the Americans are building up that good will which will be so needed in the future.—L. Noble. —Onward. ANIMALS KNOW THEIR VITAMINS A Physician-Scientist who lived in India and studied at the Government hospital, learned a great deal about eye disorders as affected by foods. During an epidemic the natives came in droves for treatment, but in spite of the most diligent effort the patients could not be cured permanently. Then the doctor found that not one of the numerous monkeys which populated the surrounding forests had this disease. This gave him an idea which he followed up. The apes lived on fresh fruit which was rich in vitamins and thus protected themselves against such ailments; but the staple food of the natives consisted of rice which they grew in their fields, and these fields, after decades, even centuries, of continuous use without treatment of the soil, had become exhausted. An examination of the rice proved that it did not contain any vitamins; so the patients were given a diet rich in vitamins and their health improved rapidly. It is interesting to note that the doctor did not succed in getting even one of the monkeys to eat this vitamindeficient rice, although these animals otherwise are very greedy, omnivorous, and “accommodating.”
