Manual Arts High School - Artisan Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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MOUNTED POLICE B ' Sam Israel Representing what today is one of tlic world ' s finest constabular - organ- izations, the Royal Canadian Mounted Poliec was modeled after its predecessor. the North ' est Mounted. There are two principles that stand out in the code of the Ro al Canadian Mounted Police. One is written and the other is unrecorded. Both of these prin- ciples are ne er broken no matter if it ma mean the life or death of the constable. Being the first principle and the one that is written, prohibits the Mount from drawing first. The second law, the unwritten code is what has made the Ro al Canadian Mounted Police the organization that it is today. It ma mean months and years of hardships but onh ' through death .shall the Mount ' fail to get his man. Officers of the Royal Mounted ha e ested in them the responsibility of patrolling and protecting life and propert - in millions of square miles of property. This property lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Keewatin District on the shores of the Hudson Bay and from the United States-Canadian border line to the Arctic Ocean. The responsibility of patrolling this territory- is but a part of their york. In many cases the care of the sick or the injured falls to them There are records that tell of the yaliant service done by these men of the north. Man ' a time an entire Indian yillage during an epidemic has been under the care of the Mounty. In remote districts up toward the Arctic Circle, the deli en- of the mail falls upon the Mounted Police. They are also foresters, doing all possible in preyenting loss by fire, and fighting them when the break out. Time and time again the Mount ' has sacrificed his life in the protection of the ast timber area. It is during the times of danger that the mounted police prove their courage, for no matter what the odds are ag.iinst them the will do all that is humanh ' possible in the preser ation of human life. These men are not always mounted police, for if it w.rn ' t for their dogs and sleds it would be impossible to patrol these sections of the uorLiiland. With their snowshoes, and their dog teams and sleds, the police enturj into faraway Indian and Eskimo villages, rarely entered by white men. These men of the northwest, whose dauntless courage in guarding life and property, proctecting the weak and assisting everxone, are hailed today as the greatest body of men in an constabnlar organization in the world.

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i6 THE ARTISAN W 40 THE PRINCIPAL ' S MESSAGE To The Mounties— By choice, the winter class of 1940 has become the namesake of as brave and courageous a group as was ever organized for the promotion of the welfare of mankind. It is not possible here to describe in detail the many fine achieve- ments of the mounted police. Theirs is a record replete with unparalleled exploits romanticalh- achieved, of faithfulness to their ideals, devotion to duty, indomitable perseverance and undving lovalty. The history of the organization in an incontrovertible tribute to the worth- whileness of discipline and of dc ' otion to a cause, so much so that the very name Mounties has become svnon mous with law and order over a half of a continent. Knit together as thev are by tradition and common ideals the Mounted Police form the perfect example of what a few stout-hearted men can do. The winter class of 1940 has done well to symbolize their hopes and ambitions by choosing the name of such a group for their class. California, America, and the world are drastically in need of young men and young women who will do today for America what the Mounties have done for the Northwest. The Mounties have succeeded not because of material prosperitv, not because of superior weapons or superior equipment, not because they have been surrounded with those material benefits which enable one to live comfortablv and at ease. Thev have succeeded because they are determined to do so. Nothing has been able to swerve them from the path where duty called. Hardships, disappointments, and self-sacrifice all have been cheerfully endured whenever thev helped the cause. In many respects the world of tomorrow is like the great unsurveved wilder- ness of the Northwest. The future of that tomorrow is dependent upon the calibre of the ' Oung men and the oung women in our high schools todav. The worid has need of young people with the idealism that motivated the Mounties of Canada. Self-sacrificing dc otion of the t pc which Mounties ga ' e to their country and to their cause will produce just as richly in the world of tomorrow as it has produced in the worid of the past. The greatest wish of the principal is that the members of the winter class of 1940 will find in the inspiration which the name Mounties has brought to them; hope, faith, and courage with which to face the future as the Mounties have done. There can be no doubt as to the result where the future is faced in such a manner. Floyd R. Ilonn, Principal.