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Antigonish* is a tidy little Nova Scotian town (pop. 2,200) with a picturesque name and a unique university: St. Francis Xavier. To St. F.X., as Bluenoses call it, educators come from all over the world. Last week Jesuit Father Ralph O'Neill, of Philadelphia, arrived. Like the others, he had come to study the Antigonish Movement, to see how adult and cooperative education had bettered the lot of Maritime fishermen and farmers. He wanted to do similar work among the Filipinos...
...know the broad-minded Roman Catholic priest who is the director of the college's extension department: the Rev. Dr. Moses Matthias Coady. His ringing voice, ruddy features and muscular 250 pounds are familiar all over the Maritimes. He was born on a farm in a Nova Scotian village, tiny Margaree Forks, which had poverty aplenty. He studied in Antigonish, in Rome, and in Washington, taught school, preached, but never forgot his birthplace...
...idea spread. In Nova Scotia alone there were 35,000 fishermen, farmers, loggers, miners who could neither read nor write. In a year and a half, Dr. Coady's self-help doctrine ("seek, and ye shall find") had sprouted 1,000 adult study clubs with 10,000 members. With adult education came co-op stores, farm and fish producer groups. Impressed, St. F.X. set up a special extension department to carry on the work, put Dr. Coady at the head of it. The Dominion Government picked Dr. Coady to organize the badly exploited Maritime fishermen, some of whom...
...Coady can tot up his successes. Now Nova Scotia has 12,500 members in 73 incorporated co-ops and about a dozen unincorporated ones, which do a $6,000,000-a-year business. It has 33,645 members banded together in credit unions, who have lent one another over $9,000,000. In the Maritimes as a whole 100,000 members have joined coops...
...estate operator, who entered Tammany politics after he had successfully retired at 50. At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, when he was 23, he was the concessionaire who introduced the "Dance of All Nations" and the "Hootchy-Kootchy." ¶Charles Aubrey Eaton, 78, a Baptist minister from Nova Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the U.S.'s most puissant law firms, veteran of innumerable international congresses, No. 1 Presbyterian...