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12 DON'T DEPEND ON LUCK • will bring you more NATIONAL SAVINGS Open an occount at the NEWFOUNDLAND SAVINGS BANK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION •FRESH •FROZEN • CANNED 'SALT • SMOKED • SALMON • LIVE LOBSTERS Wholesole Distributors of all Newfoundland Products very interesting. Occasionally I find time to write the Rev. James Dawe, now stationed at Parham, Ontario. Evidently the Dawe Clan must be a large one. It has been many years since I left St. John's in company with Harry Wood, son of Rev. Arthur Wood, Rector of St. Thomas's Church. We were both headed for Tennessee and I doubt not that Harry is still there. Mrs. Watson and 1 have just celebrated our fiftieth Wedding Anniversary and among the guests was Mr. E. Stanley Story, son of an unusually fine type of minister, the Rev. George P. Story of SI. John's. If the good Lord spares mc, I hope to re·visit my birthplace, Rants Harbour, in Trinity Bay. Good luck to you. Yours very sincerely, Richard Furneaux Watson. e You will in this issue find a poem by Eli Miles which we think you will enjoy. It came in along with several others which also impressed us as expressing a great deal of the spirit and humor of Newfoundland. In a little biographical sketch Mr. Miles, whose letterhead proclaims him a contractor and builder of 15 Swan Street, Everett, Mass., says: "I was born at Bonavista in 1871. I left Newfoundland before the fire and have since covered most of the principal cities in the United States and Canada. I also spent some time in Alaska during the Gold Rush. Writing verse is one of my hobbies." So laconic a biography conceals, we are sure, an interesting and varied career of which perhaps we may hear more later. In the meantime we hope to see more of the results of "one of my hobbies". ATLANTIC GUARDIAN
THE CHALLENGE OF CONFEDERATION A s THIS is written (late July), it has just been announced that Newfoundland is to be accepted into full partnership with the other nine provinces of the Dominion of Canada. Time alone will tell whether the choice of a majority of the island's voters in favor of Confederation on July 22nd was the best for the country and its people. At this stage the important thing is the attitude of Newfoundlanders to the change in our status brought about by the referendum result. It is one thing to vote for Confederation because of the benefits it will bring, and another to meet the challenge that the accomplished fact of Confederation imposes on us as individuals. Newfoundlanders are now members of a great union of peoples of many nationalities and creeds who have made Canada what it is today. If we enter Confederation with our thoughts keyed to what we will get out of it, then it will mean not a union of two countries in the real sense but a selfish move on the part of one to the disadvantage of the other. We have to pull our weight after Confederation if the historic decision of July 22nd is to have any real significance in the forward march ot the human race. To do this effectively we have to think ot ourselves as citizens of the great Dominion that now is greater geographically and traditionally because of our entry into it. While still Newfoundlanders we have to think of ourselves as Canadians playing a proud part on the world stage. Can we as individuals contribute anything to the gro'Nth and development of the great nation to which we now belong? Only by working and thinking along those lines can we hope to do our shme to make Confederation work. That does not mean that we have to live in Ottawa or Montreal or Toronto to do our bit. Citizenship, like charity, begins at home. If because of our efforts, St. John's or Carbonear or St. Anthony or any one of Newfoundland's settlements becomes a better place in which to live, then we will be making just as real a contribution to the success of Confederation as if we lived in the Maritimes or Ontario or the Prairies. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. So it is with countries. Newfoundland can add strength and stature to the Dominion that now in very truth "stretches from sea to sea" if we as individual Newfoundlanders throw our weight behind the decision of a majority of our fellow-countrymen in favor of union with Canada. A healthy positive policy on an individual basis will make for national solidarity and progress. If on the other hand we view Confederation negatively we ha\ e only ourselves to blame if it doesn't prove to be successful. It's up to us. -EWART YOUNG. SEPTEMBER, 1948 13
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THE CHALLENGE<br />
OF CONFEDERATION<br />
A<br />
s THIS is written (late July), it has just been announced that Newfoundland<br />
is to be accepted into full partnership with the other<br />
nine provinces of the Dominion of Canada. Time alone will tell<br />
whether the choice of a majority of the island's voters in favor of Confederation<br />
on July 22nd was the best for the country and its people.<br />
At this stage the important thing is the attitude of Newfoundlanders<br />
to the change in our status brought about by the referendum result. It<br />
is one thing to vote for Confederation because of the benefits it will<br />
bring, and another to meet the challenge that the accomplished fact of<br />
Confederation imposes on us as individuals.<br />
Newfoundlanders are now members of a great union of peoples of<br />
many nationalities and creeds who have made Canada what it is today.<br />
If we enter Confederation with our thoughts keyed to what we will get<br />
out of it, then it will mean not a union of two countries in the real sense<br />
but a selfish move on the part of one to the disadvantage of the other.<br />
We have to pull our weight after Confederation if the historic decision<br />
of July 22nd is to have any real significance in the forward march ot<br />
the human race.<br />
To do this effectively we have to think ot ourselves as citizens of<br />
the great Dominion that now is greater geographically and traditionally<br />
because of our entry into it. While still Newfoundlanders we have to<br />
think of ourselves as Canadians playing a proud part on the world stage.<br />
Can we as individuals contribute anything to the gro'Nth and development<br />
of the great nation to which we now belong? Only by working<br />
and thinking along those lines can we hope to do our shme to make<br />
Confederation work.<br />
That does not mean that we have to live in Ottawa or Montreal or<br />
Toronto to do our bit. Citizenship, like charity, begins at home. If<br />
because of our efforts, St. John's or Carbonear or St. Anthony or any<br />
one of Newfoundland's settlements becomes a better place in which to<br />
live, then we will be making just as real a contribution to the success<br />
of Confederation as if we lived in the Maritimes or Ontario or the<br />
Prairies.<br />
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. So it is with countries.<br />
Newfoundland can add strength and stature to the Dominion that now<br />
in very truth "stretches from sea to sea" if we as individual Newfoundlanders<br />
throw our weight behind the decision of a majority of our<br />
fellow-countrymen in favor of union with Canada.<br />
A healthy positive policy on an individual basis will make for<br />
national solidarity and progress. If on the other hand we view Confederation<br />
negatively we ha\ e only ourselves to blame if it doesn't prove<br />
to be successful. It's up to us.<br />
-EWART YOUNG.<br />
SEPTEMBER, 1948 13
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