Tárogató, 1939-1940 (2. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1939-09-01 / 3. szám
14 TÁROGATÓ tinctive culture which it inspired while yet combining to establish “a broader freedom and security than either could have achieved alone.” His Majesty also referred to the relationship between the Empire and the United States and spoke of their faith in reason and fair play which had enabled them to keep peace. Canada and the United States have had to settle disputes during the past hundred years, but never has one of these differences been resolved by force or by threat. His Majesty concluded his address with a few sentences addressed to youth: “I would end with a special word of greeting to those of my listeners who are young. It is true—and I deplore it deeply—that the skies are overcast in more than one quarter at the present time. Do not on that account lose heart. Life is a great adventure, and every one of you can be a pioneer, blazing by thought and service a trail to better things. Hold fast to all that is just and of good report in the heritage which your fathers have left to you, but strive also to improve and equalize that heritage for all men and women in the years to come. Remember, too, that the key to all true progress lies in faith, hope, and love. May God give you their support, and may God help them to prevail.” Not alone by their words, but by their personal interest in people of every rank, King George and Queen Elizabeth have brought new confidence and courage to Canadians. The King’s words to young people have the ring of reality. (Extract from letter from Rev. D. J. Scoates, our United Church Missionary at Oxford House, Man.) In September the greatest number of my congregation go off to winter camps. Some of the places to which they go are unnamed lakes therefore no name could be sent in. My farthest visiting point last year was one hundred and twenty miles from Oxford House. This trip took me seven days at the rate of three dollars a day. To the north west of us I go to a camp fifty miles away. There are many other camps ten and twenty miles away. Last winter I visited every one of these camps. Some of them, the nearer ones, I visited more than a half a dozen times. Every time I hired a dog team, it cost me three dollars a day, oftimes I have had to wade in slush up to my knees, sleep in the bush, and camp in Indian shacks sleeping on the floor with as many as seventeen Indians. Oftimes in the winter time I am up at 2 a.m. and on the trail at 4 a.m. over three hours before daylight. Sometimes the temperature is 40 degrees below zero. If you have ever sat on top of a loaded toboggan at 4 a.m. with the temperature at 40 degrees below and the breath of the panting dogs freezing to your face you have some idea of what I am trying to describe. This winter I walked to numerous camps to save expenses. On one occasion I walked fifty miles in two days with the temperature SI degrees below zero. I did this because Indian people wanted sacrament and as their minister I could not disappoint them. I have travelled through broken ice by canoe for sixty miles in the spring to visit the sick. I tell you these things not because I feel my job a hard one because I love the people among whom I work. THE ORIGIN OF NATIONAL FLAGS By Dennis H. O’Sullivan Although in remote ages men were accustomed to display objects of various kinds as emblems of nationality, leadership, or allegiance, it is not until the Middle Ages that we come upon the earliest traces of what may properly be called flags. As early as the Norman conquest, however, bits of cloth of various forms—square, rounded, swallow-tailed, or many-pointed, were borne at the lance-head by warrior knights, and the court heraldists issued minute prescriptions as to the forms and uses of the standard, banner, pennon, guidon, and a number of other flags that had come into use. Originally, the flags, like the coat of arms, was simply the personal emblem of the lord or knight. Sometimes, as in the case of the standard, it was emblazoned with complete armorial bearings; at others, as in the case of the small flags carried by esquires and retainers. it merely showed the colours or bore a simple device. In course of time the flag of a lord naturally came to be looked upon as a flag of the people over whom he ruled, and in many instances it has remained the flag of the people, though the lord whom it symbolizes, or his line, has passed from power. Thus, until recently, when Austria became a part of Germany, the flag of the former Austrian Republic bore the ancient colours of the dukes of Austria, and the flag of Greece displays the colours of Bavaria. Not every national banner that can boast a heraldic origin is derived from the banner of a lord. Religious banners flourished in the
