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is arranged, or at least approved, by her paternal grandfather. Mrs. Johnson said that the Bahamas, being British Islands, have British customs. The natives work for the British residents and copy some of their ways, One of the prob- lems of girls on the Bahamas is that they suffer from lack of secondary education; there aren‘t enough high schools or teachers to permit the government to make high school education compulsory. Another great prob- lem for the young people is that there is‘ a great conflict in their minds between Chris- tianity as they hear it taught and as they see it lived. Miss Newberry said that at one high school in Trinidad one thousand girls applied and only sixty could be accepted. Mrs. How added that in Formosa six years at elementary school is compulsory but pros- pective students for high school and univer- sity have to write admittance examinations. About one applicant in one thousand is accepted. A point that came up repeatedly was the overcrowding of population, especially in India and Formosa, as compared with the "wide, open spaces in Canada." Summing up the discussion Miss Whale stressed our responsibility of trying to under- stand people of other lands, toward the end of world peace. Young people who cannot visit other c0untries might promote underâ€" standing by correspondence with young people in these countries. People in a country like Canada also have a responsibility to do what they can to see that the hungry people of the World have food. And Miss Eadie fol- lowed this with the suggestion that we could help by strengthening public opinion in supâ€" port of the Colombo plan. The conference girls came to feel very close to the “foreign” guests at an informal evening in Macdonald Hall where Mrs. Basrur ex- plained her sari and the significance of her jewelry and Mrs. Johnson led in singing Negro spirituals and folk songs of the Ba- hamas. Mrs. How showed a beautiful brocade evening gown of Chinese cut, given her, folâ€" lowing an old Chinese custom, by her motherâ€" in-law at the time of her engagement, The Indian Canadian Mr. Elliott Moses of the Six Nations Indian Reserve in Brant county, a man well known in Ontario farm organizations such as the International Plowing Match, spoke on the position of the Indian Canadian. There are 168,000 Indian Canadians, Mr. Moses said, living on Reserves, which were first established to protect Indians from unâ€" scrupulous people coming to the country. Over the years this segregation may have tended to separate the Indians from their white neighbours. and any racial discrimina- tion is a problem to people who think of the good of the country, Because the Indian character is sometimes misunderstood, Mr. ID Moses explained that the Indian ma... b considered inefficient as a farmer because he is accustomed to living with nature, mukm his home in the forest, fishing in the Stl't‘afncg The Europeans coming to this country “In down the forest to make money; the Indian didn't need money so he used the for”E m its natural state and preserved it, y” m spite of this closeness to nature, Indian; some Reserves such as the Six Nation-i so modern in their houses and their is,- that tourists driving through don‘t knmi are passing through a Reservation. E on Some people ask why the Indian letting their native arts and crafts (in The reason, the speaker explained, is l the old days a woman might work \ritl: . bark and porcupine quills for a week in r, a basket that would sell for $1.50. . woman can earn $5.00 a day at city work and go to a show in the eveniny There are Indians who don’t care .i education or progress in any way, Mr. admitted, but when an Indian does v.‘ go into a profession he has no specia’ culty either in getting the education in, practising his profession There are l‘.‘ 7. five teachers on the Six Nations Reser ' but one of them Indian. Of his own edin Mr. Moses told how he had been out of for fourteen years before he decided he ed to go to the Ontario Agricultural C7 then to get the education he need- il' admittance he had to go back to action 'z; children. “There’s a proper time for i ' thing,” he said. “If you girls have it. a decision, get your school education After three and a half years at the 1 Mr. Moses enlisted â€" this was in ti: world war. “That experience has bee]. derful,” he said. “It taught me that .. people have as much right to be her I have.” Incidentally while Mr. Moses lei 5-3 O.A.C. before he got his degree. his ed a fitted him to work for his people as a: - cultural adviser to the federal Departn Indian Affairs, But the Indians have some grievani» .i~: Speaka‘ said. Only those who have 1-4 2:1 active military service are allowed til it. To get rural mail delivery on the Six 3. -:i' Reserve it had to be shovvn that a amount of reading material was con- 'u the residents. When a survey was n‘ == was found that there were more papi Ital Periodicals per capita coming to the I.‘ than to a comparative non-Indian comr :I), “One reason for this,” MI“. Moses so. that the Indian doesn’t work as hard a mi farmers so he reads and thinks and lies more.” The Indian people are trying to m 31”“ their identity as Indians, the speakm’ «393‘ and sometimes things are made difl‘ii“ 1 1"" them. When his father went to school - i “19 HOME AND COUNTRY