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their children the benefits of education they themselves lacked while taking pride in their own race and its achievements. Now we stand at a crossroads, we have neither enough edu- cation to get better paying jobs nor can we depend on the country itself, as our ancestors did, for a livelihood. “As students graduating, you represent the result of many years in a classroom the work of many teachers has gone into helping you get the education you now have. If you con- Inuvik Needs Editor's Note: This message Came In its indirectly from Mrs. Ellen Binder of lmn'ik whose article “The Changing Norrlt" appears in this issue. new library has just opened for the benefit of Canada‘s northernmost residents. The library is a striking one-storey structure measuring 36 feet by 60 feet. and is located on the busy main street of the Cana- dian showpiece development in modern Arc- tic living. Inuvik, which in Eskimo means “the place of man", is the focal point for all the people in the Western Canadian Arctic. It is located on the east side of the Mackenzie River delta just 50 miles south of the Arctic Ocean and l25 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It is the home of both Indians and Eskimos. With a large number of students brought into the Inuvik school there is an exceptional number of children in the community â€" around 1500. which is well over half of the town‘s 2800 population. The new library will fill an important gap in the community and will assist in bringing Canada's North into the complexities of the jet age world. The library is operated as an acâ€" tivity centre with books and exhibits to inter- est both young and old. It is locally Operated and is open to everyone. The building was financed through at Centennial grant with Ter- ritorial support and is the only Centennial Project in the Northwest Territories ready for Centennial Year. All of the grant funds were put into c0n- struction to obtain a building large enough to hold the 10,000 books recommended by the Canadian Library Association for a community the size of Inuvik. Now assistance is needed to fill the library's shelves with suitable books. There is an immediate requirement for books of all types with a special call for children’s WITHIN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE a 2B tinue on with your education what will ynu do then with your lives? Will you come hunk North to serve? Our North needs young vim]: ous people like yourselves. Your OWn pen it- look up to you for help, for guidance. 1;: M stand idly and watch progress pass yo“ ‘7 Keep the best of what your people know (i combine it with the education you now l r. Make your own lives something to be pro“. ! take an active interest in the affairs m North and make of it the wonderful I we all know it to be." Library Books volumes. Although there is a government gram to stock the library over a perils years. the library deserves to be filled books now to satiate the present interest all residents. There are many people ll area who have never had the opportunn having a book in their home. The HCL‘I. the satisfaction and knowledge from boo“ urgent in this rapidly developing part of ada. Donations of money to buy books or 1‘- themselves will be gratefully acknowlc. with a donor‘s plate in every book. Any h sent should be clearly marked “book which costs 10c for the first pound from where in Canada and 8c a pound for the 10 pounds up to a shipment maximum u pounds. Donations and books should be addrr. to: The lnuvik Centennial Library. Box | Inuvlk, Northwest Territories, Canada. * i it THE STAY-AT-HOME THRUSH By Patience Strong \Vhen the swifts and the martins have sung their goodbyes, And the swallows departed for tropical 5klt:He is all the more welcome, my faithful old Erin \When I hear his sweet song at the day's quiet end. In the massed choirs of summer he’s only a nub. A melody piped from a single small throat. It is only when listening in autumn’s first hush That I catch the full song of the Stay-at-Ii thrush. #44 HOME AND COUNT!” 9-...â€"