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Interesting News Stories ·From All Parts Of The World
It's Hard To Pick America's SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
New
Look Missionaries
New York.
If you try to picture a missionary in a foreign land you might conjure up a sombre man in black, umbrella" in hand, standing, piously under a palm tree.
For
serving 30 years in the troubled Near East and can spin many a yarn about brushes with trigger- happy natives.
This stereotyped, impres on which he serves as execu
President is the sion embedded in an untold tive Vice
foreign mission arm of the con- number of minds, isgregation of Christian Churches, as old as the three-masted
a missionary today it is "Right now when we send a schooners that used to not enough to proclaim the missionary to Formosa he mast carry evangelists to out-of- gospel in the old sense," said Dr do a lot of soul-searching," Dr
Carleton, who in a
Carleton said "Would you take a natty grey the-way ports along the suit might have been taken for your family to Formosa to- world's trade routes.
a prosperous business execu-morrow?"alted Press. tive. The need is to express the gospel-to carry it ou; with conviction among foreign people."
It is also so outdated, accord- ing to Dr Alford Carleton, Executive Vice President of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions. Missionaries are as plentiful as ever, but you would hardly re- cognise one these days without a guidebook.
He might be serving on the faculty of a native
university
in India. helping run an African hospital staffed by, na- tive doctors... organising social club for teen-agers in an Arab village.
Theology Not Enough'
2
"The missionary's call has always been to be of help where help is needed," Dr Carleton said. "It still is. What has changed is the kind of help that is needed."
Dr Carleton explained the new look in missionaries during a trip from his Boston head- quarters to attend a New York meeting
of of the division Foreign Missions of the National Council of Churches. The board:
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service. If the tests prove successful, the pro-
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Made from Santa Fe's own design, each cart is capable of handling about 400 of luggage.
gers entering the Station can put their lug- gage on one of these carta and push it to the spot where they will board the train. A train attendant will place their bags on board
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An education in theology is often not enough for an aspiring missionary in 1955. There is an increasing demand for speci- alists, technicians, doctors, nurses.
Many countries of Asia and Africa now have their own na- tional churches which carry › on the evangelical work once practised by missionaries from Europe and America. Burma, for example, is sending out its own missionaries to the primitive
areas of Indonesia.
Christian missionaries used to be the only representatives of Western
culture in many Oriental communities, Today the activities of American diplomatic and business inis- sions abroad have made Christian worker only one of representatives of the Werter. Ford.
No Axe To Grind'
The Christian missionary often finds himself in the post- tion of explaining to native people what American diplo- mats and businessmen are doing in their country," Dr Carleton said. "The missionary has no axe to grind and the people trust hira.”:
.
Vegetarianism
Ground
No
For Divorce
Cairo, The fact that a husband is a vegetarian and tries to indure his wife to adopt a vegetarian · diet is no renger for divorce, according to a judgment de-
-*4.08 7. M. Hag, 34, 16 Fat off Cam, 1948 by RKA Servier, the
livered by the Sharia (Moslem) | "I've tried to teach Robert to save-but all I ever can court.
The young wife of a senior em- ployce in a leading company applied for a divorce on the grounds that her husband was miserly, that he had adopted vegetarianism and had the
pored the same thing on her. As a result, she added in her plea, she had not tasted meat, Aah, or any other animal pro- duce since she married him. She claimed she was growing weak and had lost weight. She produced a medical cer- tificale stating that she weigh- ed 180 lbs on her wedding day "acid that on the day she made her application to the court, her weight was only 90 lbs. Her husband explained he did not spend a single pastre on any animal produce, but he bought his wife everything she needed, including vegetables which
were "much more healthy" The court rejected the applica- tion for a divorce and said in its findings that the wife had admitted that her husband bought her all her require ments of vegetable produces, "Herbalists say that a man who eats vegetable produce lives longer on the average than
A century ago when a mis- sionary left America "there was great weeping and walling at the boat. His friends never ex- pected to see him again.
Today
American an
mis- sionary may travel to his post by piane and return for a visit home avery few years. Wherever he is, he is as close to the out- side world as the radio at his e.bow.
Living can still be primitive, tough. and dangerous. Dr Carleton himself
came home. only a few · years ago after
e who eats animal produce," the court judgment said, United Press.
Food Inspectors' Blitz Hits Argentina's
Fashionable Restaurants
Buenos Aires.
The gourmets and gluttons of Buenos Aires took little notice last November when the munici- pality announced a campaign for more cleanliness and fresher food in restaurants,
Argentinians love to tell the f
The
:
get out of his bank are a few pennies!"
10,000 Boy Scouts
Will Attend Canada's World Jamboree
Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Plans are now rolling smoothly in preparation for an invasion by 10,000 Boy Scouts from 57 coun tries who will take over a square mile of historic parkland for a 10-day World Jamboree starting on August 18...
Canada will play host to this try's Boy Secute last year num- eighth annual festival, and ner bered 174,886, up 10.483 from the invitation has brought enthusias. year before and a 60 per cent tie responses from Scout groups jump in the last five years. all over the world, including those in. 40 parts of the Common- wealth,
Headquarters in Ottawa have drawn up a partial menu for the boys including 20 tons of meat, 150,000 loaves of bread, 140,000 quarts of milk and 250 tons of potators.
* More Join
National headquarters said that Scout units now totalled 6,974, including 3,691 Walf Cub packs, 2,995 Scout troops and 288 Rover Scout crews. The year- end census showed the packs up 552, the troops up 235 and the crews up 29, from the previous
There will also be 250 tons of year. hot dogs, 40,000 pies, 10,000. jars seas Scout groups. They serve The totals embraced six over- of pickles, 400,000 calves and the sons of Canadian servicemen 176,000 jars of jam.
and one recently formed boasts The scouts will bring their 4 roster of some 200 boys whose own camping equipment end fathers are with the 1st Canadian settle down in the park where Infantry Brigade at Soest, Ger- General denac Brock bunked his many.
forces during the War of 1812. The latest headquarters' They'll set up 10 miniature Agures also showed that volum-- cities each with 1,000 tents and teer adult, Secut leaders in government.
Canada now number 18,449, a gain of 2,187 over the 1953 strength and a 88 per cent in- créase since January 1, 1950.
Special Stamp
Canada will Issue a special stamp to commemorate the oc- casion. Organisers have ar- ranged excursions, accident and sickness insurance, medical at- tention and 31 meals for each boy for a fee of $30.00.
kitchen of "Coraggio" old one that goes like this: "We may be cleaner since the res- don't eat to live. We live to taurant was closed for five eat." The saying is not made days, but the singing walters Other any funnier but given con- still perform their bits of oper siderable support by a United as badly as ever. Another re- Nations chart which shows taurant with pretensions, “Los Argentina as one of the world's Patitos," was fined and closed best fed countries..
for a dirty kitchen. There
So who is going to complain nothing to the report that use Patitos" was punished because about a few cockroaches and one of its special dishes was now and then a beefsteak with duck smothered ia chocolate a blue tinge?
The list continues:
sauce.
the
Jamboree,
GloomySubways
Get Light
been busy with their plans for
countries also have}
New York. About 2,000 Paris has been experimenting Great Britain, with perfumed air in its subway delegates from
the Swetu, Norway and Denmark stations, but
Transport chartered have ship to bring them to Canada. strap-hangers is not so exotic. a Norwegian authority's gift to New York The Indian contingent expects It is to stay away from home for five months.
simply light White paint and fluorescent lighting fixtures are making Among the other countries subway platforms so bright that The food
found fans soon
represented will be Mexico, passengers
report they out. Before the end of Novem
Italy, Switzerland, actually read a paper now with-
• "Loprete," famous for its France, ber,
started city inspectors
spaghetti-fined.
South Africa, Jamales, Venezue out getting eye strain. making themselves hated by
and Germany. Canada's The Transport authority saya many a restaurant owner. H
participation will be limited to the programme will be extended the inspector was only slightly
the until all
catacomb-like repulsed by what he saw and
In Ottawa, meanwhile, it has stations are lighter and brighter. been announced that the coun--United Press.
he merely fined the
was
but realised that after all it could be worse, he closed the restaurant for five days. And if it was a case of Let me cut of here, quick," the inspector prescribed both, a fire and a five-day closing.
43
ls
"Amerio," whose speciality is candlelight and wine 3,500 scouts. ined.
"Grill del Espanol," food mecca for rich Spaniards— closed.
To date 78 public eating houses have been caught with dirty faces and, the inspectors are looking for more. It wil not be known, until they start around a second time whether the campaign is succeeding.- United Press.
Costly Murder Trials
Nothing Sacred Apparently nothing is sacred. The kitchen of "El Tropezon" was found to be less distin- guished than its clientele. "El Tropezon" is the round-the clock restaurant where senators and deputies gather from the nearby Congress building al-
Montgomery, Ala. most every midnight. For ve
The cost of the murder trials nights the legislators had. to
for the slaying of crusader argue off the record in some Albert Pettercon, which may run other dive.
on for months, will have to be "Chez Daniel," a tiny French borne by Russell (Phenix City) place with red and white County even though they were pastice, was fined and closed. Alabam Attoney General John It is one
of the favourite dining Patterson, son of the slain miz. out spots
Vice President ruled that
at Russell County Alberto Telaire. When Soviet will have to foot the bull even writer Dya Ehrenburg, a long- though much of Phenix City's was in revenue was wiped out by the time Parks resident Buenos Ait's for a week last sweeping cleanup of vice year he left the Bassian embassy only once. He dined at "Chez Danielifey
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