Tárogató, 1950 (13. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1950-10-01 / 4. szám
TÁROGATÓ 15 The Buchan children grew up, and some of them went far away. Willie went to India and tried hard to help poor farmers there. Alastair went to a war and lost his young life there. Walter worked in a bank. Anna wrote some of the books that you will love when you read them. John, too, did many useful and helpful things. Besides, he wrote books that made many thousands of people feel that they knew him very well. At last King George V sent him to Canada to take the King’s place here. The King gave him the name of Lord Tweedsmuir. For five years he was a good friend to everybody here. He went far and wide all over Canada to meet people. Now, more than ten years since he died, people still think of him most often as John Buchan. Since he loved animals, perhaps he would have laughed to know that some farm children in Canada called their best pet calf “John Buchan.” SPECIAL FUNCTIONS OF NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE During the five years since it was established, the Special Placements Division of the National Employment Service has steadily expanded. There are now thirty-two N.E.S. offices that have sections assigned exclusively to special placement work. In all other N.E.S. offices, there are officers who devote such portions of their time as may be necessary to this special work. Broadly speaking, all persons who present a special problem in placement in employment are sent to “Special Placement” for advice and practical assistance. They may be divided into three main classes; (1) those seeking their first jqb, (2), the physically or mentally handicapped, and (3), those with more personal problems such as ex-convicts, graduates from the Borstal home or industrial school, ex-inmates of mental hospitals, ex-alcoholics, etc. These three groups are handled separately because they have a common need, the need for counselling. The type of counselling available in the Special Placements Division is mainly designed to assist the applicant in discovering his work capacity, either present or latent, and to help in relating his interests and abilities to existing job requirements. In order to achieve a desired goal, it is often necessary to help in formulating a suitable vocational plan, which may entail further training or preparation. The main and final function of the service is of course to provide specialized assistance in locating suitable employment and the use and efficient follow-up service. Anyone with employment problems, such as those listed above should use this special service of N.E.S. CANADIAN MINING — NICKEL The beginning of the story of nickel — one of the most important industrial metals — goes back many centuries to the legendary warriors who forged their swords from meteroric iron which has a high nickel content. The ancient Chinese also used nickel in an alloy called pakfong. In modern times, nickel was isolated in an impure form from ores in Saxony in 1751. The two-hundredth anniversary of this event is being celebrated in Canada next by the striking of a special five-cent piece. It was the development of electroplating as the result of the research of Michael Faraday, and English chemist and physicist, that stimulated the use of nickel. A further impetus was given to its production by a revolutionary change in policy toward token-money coinage. The first to use nickel for coinage were the Swiss, who adopted it for this purpose in 1881. Since then many other nations have followed their example. The “nickel” is a very familiar coin to Canadians. As a result of the growing consumption, because of these two uses of nickel, the world was combed for supplies. Norway became at first the greatest source, reaching its most productive years between 1870 and 1877. New Caledonia, an island in the southern Pacific, then became an important producer. The scene then changed to Canada, when in
