Arvida High School - Yearbook (Arvida, Quebec Canada)

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23 THE WINNING SPEECH OF i952 THE Arolvuc AGE When I was asked to make a speech I thought of the main factor that gave our age its name - UTHE ATOM.. - The atom as a destroyer of life. The atomic age dates back to the beginning of the nineteen twenties when men began to explain and prove or disprove theories by the discovery of the composition of the atom. The atom is so minute that it is hard to think of it as a potential destroyer of life. It is so small that it would take ten thousand of them placed side by side to make the thickness of a soap bubble. Scientists found that the atom could be broken down to form other materials by bombarding the nucleus and thus splitting the atom. There is a great deal of energy emitted when this process takes place, and both the force and the speed of the particles flying off will split other atoms and thus create a chain reaction that builds up a terri- fic pressure. The energy or pressure of this chain reaction was used as a tremendous des- tructive force during the second World War when the Uranium atom, which is very heavy, was utilized in the Atom Bomb. The Japanese felt the devastating blow of the mighty little atom's strength when they saw more than half of the beautiful city of Hiroshima disap- pear under a blinding flash and a mighty column of smoke. When the atom was split a radiation was evolved which caused very painful sores, and frequently an even more painful death, to humans and animals alike. In these days of armed peace, the thought of the atom bomb being used to fight a bloody war is most disconsoling. However the minute atom, the powerful atom, has also great pros- pects as peaceful servant as well as an enemy of mankind. It may heat our homes and give us health and prosperity. A The Bible is often quoted as saying, There will be wars and rumours of wars? But the true quotation lies in Matthew 20, verse 7. I quote: And ye shall hear of wars and ru- mours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. This passage seems to add comfort to the fearful person who thinks an atomic war will destroy the earth and all its inhabitants, and it helps them look forward to the rest of the twentieth century with more hope and peace of mind. THE ATOM BOMB AS A LIFE SAVER Canada is now developing a new type of Atom Bomb, that will not destroy but rather preserve life. The bomb is enclosed in a new machine which treats cancer patients by al- lowing the radiation to escape to the patient's body and there destroy the atoms of the cancer. ' I The new bomb utilizes radiation-saturated cobalt discs. The discs are about the size of a quarter in diameter and about one fiftieth of an inch thick. The radiation of course is caused by the bombardment of the atoms. This machine costs less to buy and operate than the radium machine. One CE'llL7S worth of uranium-activated cobalt can do the work of curing that it requires 51564 worth of radium to do. Recently the president of the Pulp and Paper Committee of Canada announced that it would not be long before the atom will be saving millions of dollars worth of pulp wood each year. The atom would be used to combat bugs and disease that take such a great toll of forests. He said also that the time was not far off when huge mobile units, powered by atomic energy. would move into the forests and take a whole tree and pulverize it on the spot. This would also he of great saving to the wood industry because it would cost less for equipment and more could be made from each tree because the roots, leaves, bark and branches would be used. What I have just said shows that the little uranium atom is a very powerful enemy, as well as an ally, of death. What does it hold in store for us in the rest of the twentieth century? NORMAN BLACK Grade XI

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Z4 THE WINNING SPEECH OF l95l CANA A, MY FUTURE What will Canada my country, be like du- ring the next fifty years? I think that Canada has a greater future than any other country in the world. In this talk I am going to con- sider Canada's future from the economic point of view. Canada, since the war, is rapidly deve- loping in industrial expansion. Canada has more hydroelectric power than it knows what to do with. It has a sea route on the east and on the west. There is a plentiful supply of labour. Canada has undeveloped ore bodies whose size no one really knows. With these assets no wonder Canada's industry is growing in leaps and bounds. It is difficult to predict the future of Canada during the next fifty years. The only way to get an idea is to think of the way Canada has progressed in the last fifty years. As an example I will take the Saguenay valley, which is familiar to us all. What was it like fifty years ago? Farming was the only industry. There was no Alumi- num Company, No Shipshaw Power House. No Price Brothers paper mills. The city of Chicoutimi was about lf 10th its Size. There was no such thing as the city of Arvida. There were no large boats coming into Port Alfred with tons and tons of raw material for indus- try. There were no planes roaring into Bagot- ville with mail of the same day. Neither was there a beautiful paved highway with trans- ports speeding along it carrying merchandise from Montreal. There were no freight trains with car after car filled with tons of coke and bauxite for the Aluminum plant. Since the Saguenay valley has advanced this much in the last fifty years, what will it be like during the next fifty years? Will all the sections opening up in Canada expand like this? There is a great future for the mining industry in Quebec. A vein of nickel has just been found in Ungava which may be the richest in Canada. A mountain of titanium, a new metal, has been discovered on the north shore of the St. Lawrence. This deposit of titanium is the largest in the world. It will be processed at Sorel. Near the Quebec-Labrador border great iron deposits have been found. This iron ranks among the top three new industrial develop- ments in the world today. Two hundred million dollars is being in- vested in this iron venture. A 360 mile railroad has been started to connect this mining area with ocean shipping on the St. Lawrence. Within a few years this iron industry will be earning millions of dollars for Canada. About 140 miles from this iron is one of the greatest undeveloped water power sites in the world. The Hamilton River drops 305 feet which is 1 2f 3 times as steep as Niagara Falls. Its possible power is 1 million 250 thousand horse power, which is as great as Shipshaw. Over the past few years there has been a great increase in activity in the oil fields in Alberta. Accordng to the newspapers, this is only the beginning. These oil fields supply a good part of Canada with oil. If production keeps in- creasing'Canada may be able to supply all her own oil. We, in eastern Canada, get this oil very cheaply, This is because an inter-provin- cial pipe line was built from Alberta to Lake Superior. There are not only huge projects beginning in Canada. There are hundreds of small indus- tries springing up all over Canada which all contribute to the country's industrialgrowth. This increase in industries over the past fifty years has resulted in a great increase in Canada's population. Dozens of countries outrank Canada in population but none have excelled it in population growth during the past fifty years. In that time the population has nearly tripled to a present 14,000,000 It is not difficult to imagine that the next fifty years will see an even greater increase. The international crisis may or may not improve, but each day our country grows older and wiser, and its people and industries grow more and more important to the modern world. Looking ahead we can think of the day when Canada will be second to none, and her industries and natural resources will be among the richest and most profitable in the world. BRENDA BAUMAN