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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1950 THE DAILY YIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIFTEEN National Museum Guards Folk Lore of Early Canada By KAY REX Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa--(CP)--From its store®of folk-songs and legends of early Canada the National Museum has compiled two bulletins on Canadian folk-lore and hopes to turn out more in the near future. The books, "Folk-Lore of Water- loo County, Ont." and "Folk-Lore of Lunenburg County N.S." are the first museum publications of their kind in "20 or 30 years." "There's no limit to what you can do in this field," says the chief cu- rator, Dr. F. J. Alcock. Lack of funds and consequent lack of necessary staff is holding up the work. ; xhibits in the museum are fine but it's only the people who come to Ottawa who see them, said Dr. Alcock, Only through publications could the work of the museum be made known across Canada. Important Historical Data It also was important to collect material on early * Canadian life without to much delay. "We should get all this material while we can," he said. "It's from the older people that we get it ... the longer we leave it the harder it is to obtain ... people spend more of their time these days driving or listening to their radios, they don't scit around telling the old stories or singing the old songs and the past is slipping away." As it is the museum already has accumulated a mass of folk-lore material, It contains thousands of written records of myths, folk-tales, sayings, games dances. Folk-song collections alone include phonographic recordings of 3,000 Indian and more than 6,000 French- Canadian songs. Books of Songs In addition there are several hun- dred British-Canadian folk-songs mostly from the Maritime Prov- inces, : Dr. Alcock said he hoped the mu- seum's next step would be the pub- lication of a book of Canadian songs, The 163-page Lunenburg county publication was compiled by Helen Creighton, N.S., who for the last three field seasons has been em- ployed by the museum on fofz-lore studies in Nova Scotia. Blood-chilling tales of ghost ships predominate in the book. They should provide a wealth of material to writers seeking story plots. Compile from Manuscript Material in the 68-page Waterloo County bulletin was left in manu- script form by the late W, J. Win- temberg, a resident of the area. It was arranged for publication by Dr. Douglas Leechman of the staff. . The German dialect spoken by the early settlers of the district fascinated Wintemberg, The book is filled with sayings and superstitions i known in that part of the coun- y. Research into the Canadian past has attracted much evidence abroad. In fact the next edition of the American Journal of Folk-lore, pub- lished in Berkeley, Calif. will be an All-Canadian number. There still is much to be done if Canada is to build her tradition and preserve relics of the past. , Dr. Alcock reported Newfound- land "practically urtouched" when it came to folk-lore research. But it won't continue long that way. The curator said a member of the museum staff is spending two months this summer in the new province beginning a study into Newfoundland folk material. Naval Surgeon Has Unexpected Trip to Far East Ottawa, Aug. 16.--From the con- templation of a three-month exer- cise period in European waters to the reality of an indefinite period of service in the troubled waters off Korea was a matter of only a few days for Surgeon Lieutenant Robert B. Ramsey, R.C.N. (R), 26, of Montreal. Lieut. Ramsey, a graduate in medicine - from McGill University, _ had volunteered for a year's service with the Royal Canadian Navy and had been assured of an appoint- ment to the destroyer Cayuga, then scheduled to accompany other units of the Fleet on' an extended train- ing exercise to Europe. However, a few days before his scheduled departure from Montreal, a telephone call from Naval Head- quarters in Ottawa changed not only his destination but the entire tenor of his trip. He was informed that the Cayuga and two other destroyers would be sailing, not for Europe, but for Pearl Harbor and probably onward to Korea, and was asked if he wished to go along as medical officer in one of them. He responded enthusiastically, hur- .riedly caught a plane to the West Coast and is now serving in HM.C.S. Athabascan, which, with the Cayuga and Sioux, is operat- ing with United Nations naval forces in the Korean theatre, Served in War Lieut. Ramsey served during the war in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. He joined as an Ordinary Seaman in Montreal in July, 1944, and saw service on the lower deck in HM.CS. Corn- wallis, training establishment at Cornwallis, N.S, and in the de- stroyer Hamilton. He was pro- moted to commissioned rank in the executive branch early in 1945. _ Demobilized in Montreal in Oc- tober, 1945, he rejoined the Reserve there in April, 1947, as a Sick Berth Probationer, but was promoted to the rank of Acting Surgeon Sub- Lieutenant in August of that year. He transferred to the executive branch a year later land served in that capacity until completion of his internship this spring when he re-entered the medical branch. Chief Medical Officer Principal Medical Officer of the Canadian flotilla is Surg. Lieut.- Cdr. J. €. Gray, D.S.C.,, RCN, 39, of Halifax and Victoria, serving in the Cayuga. Surg. Lieut. Victor 8. Newman, R.C.N., 30, of Toronto, is medical officer in HM.C.S8. Sioux. : Lieut.-Cdr. Gray, a native of Hali- ax, England prior to entering the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve there in the early part of the Second World War. Throughout the war years he served mainly in ships of the Royal Navy whose operational areas included the North and South- Atlantic, the South Pacific and the Burma theatre. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in January, 1943, for Telpnuy and outstanding ser- e," Following the war he served as Principal Medical Officer in the aircraft carrier HM.C.S. Warrior and the cruisers Uganda and On- tario. Demobilized in September, 1947, he spent a month on special naval duty in the R.C.N. Hospital, Naden, prior to transferring to the R.C.N. in November, 1947. He was ap- pointed to the Cayuga just before the ship sailed from Esquimalt on July 5. Lieut. Newman Lieut. Newman, who graduated in medicine this year from the University ot Toronto, is a veteran of more than four years' service in the Second World War. He joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volun- teer Reserve in Toronto as an Able Seaman in June, 1941, and two years later won his commission in DRINK Celely Tasty with sandwiches was practicing medicine in| the executive branch. Sibsequently he served in H.M.C.S. Cornwallis, at Cornwallis, N.S.; in HMCS, Avalon, St. John's, Newfoundland; in the Algerine minesweeper Win- nipeg and in HM.C.S. St. Hya- cinthe, the R.C.N. Signal School at 8t. Hyacinthe, P.Q. He was demobilized in Toronto in October, 1945, and entered the fac- ulty of medicine at the University of Toronto. At the beginning of his final year at university he entered the RCN. as a Surgen Sub- Lieutenant. He was appc... d to the Sioux on July 3, 1950. Assisting the medical officers in the three ships are Petty Officer H. R. 8. Matte, Mount Laurier, P.Q., in the Cayuga; Petty Officer S. B. Kelly, Toronto, in the Athabaskan, and Petty Officer J. E. Plastow, Ponoka, Alta. in the Sioux. SCHOOLBOY EXPLORERS Britain's Schools Exploring So- ciety may "explore" Canada next year. The boys taking part will range in age from 16% to 18. Korean Town Caught Between Two Fires Looking almost like a painting executed to illustrate the horror of war, ruins and rubble of an unidentified Korean town in the battle zone between Andong and Yechon. Furious fighting between Communist troops and the advancing American and South Korean forces almost completely destroyed what had once been a peaceful, happy town, this photo shows the smoldering --Central Press Canadian 'Legacy' Clubs Help Kin 0f Australian War Dead By LOUIS L. LECK Canadian Press Correspondent Sydney -- (CP) -- Tens of thou- sands of Australians died in two World Wars and left widows and young children behind. Those widows and children get Common- wealth pensions lage enought to keep them from want, but they have many problems which nor- mally would be solved by the man oi the family. Legacy helps to solve these prob- | lems. Legacy began in 1923 when Maj.- Gen. John Gellibrand formed a Remembrance Club in Hobart, Tasmania, so that those who had served together in the war could continue their comradeship in civi- lian life and help those whom their fallen comrades had left be- hind. Th .me was changed the same year to Legacy and by 1926 every capital city in Australia had a Legacy Club. A typical club is Sydney Legacy, which has a membership of 350 legatees, all veterans. Some are leading business and professional men, others ordinary clerks and artisans. They make themselves respon- sible for the widows and children of war dead. Children who are wards of legarcy are junior le- gatees and as they approach man- hood and womanhood they become intermediate legatees. In 1939, Legacy's work has dwindled and it was giving active care to onl, 200 families--the .ie- gacy of the first world war. Now iL is caring for 4,000 families--.he | legacy of the Second World War. In 1949, Legacy spent about £60- 000 ($186,000). 'Thay was tile cost of direct help--money grants for education, sickness, food, clothing, even to buy furniture or to help finance the purchase of a business or a home. Five nights a week Legacy pro- vides gymnasiums, arts and crafts, voice-production and other re-| | creational facilities for junior and intermediate legatees. Medical and dental members staff free clinics. | Every legatee adopts one or more | | families, where there is no male] {friend or relatives to take the] | place, however inadequately, of the father who will never come back To such families, the legatee becomes the father. He advises the widow on all. her financial prob- lems, plans with her the children's education; does odd jobs around the house or arranges for them to! bz done; even helps to overcome, disciplinary problems. | This was a typical Legacy chore: | Twin boys flatly refused to have | their hair cut. In desperation the; mother phoned the legatee and | told him her problem. An hour late: he arrived at the home where the twins welcomed him as a friend. He examined their over- long hair, pulled a pair of clippers from one pocket and two pink rib- bons from the other and asked: "Now then, which is it to be?" The twins submitted quietly, That is the work of Legacy as it is done in every city and town throughout Australia. Needless to say, Legacy always needs funds. ut the public is al- ways ready to dig deep when ask- ed to contribute. Versatile Band From U.S.A. Will Play at C.N.E. Toronto, Aug. 16.--The most ver- satile band in the long line of top '| civil and military bands to play for Canadian National Exhibition audi- ences will be in the bandshell every afternoon and evening from August 25 to September 9. The United States Air Force Band will be there, but a casual visitor may see it in any one of at least a dozen different forms. 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