Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR Tlllf. SCHOOL YEAR WAN - IWW Qu. , ng, IIC. -73 .Q N . M41 126- SIXTH I-'ORNI IWSS-SW N1.zr1.1'11.'g: lf Ballon, YY. lfilvming, H. little, XY. Strung. -Y1ll'PIkU.' ll. Culver, B. Rarnsey, Hr, C. 'l'. Ansrey, R. Holdbloom. Zllibe fllrisis, 1938 l'iX'l'R.-Xlvli from letter of lf. H. K.-l'l1gc,EssEN, Fton College, September 27, 1938. This week has been very dull from the ordinary point of view, but there has been a great deal of activity. We were fitted for gas masks two days agog they have a single sheet of Celluloid across the front instead of the goggle kind issued to the Army. They are very nice and comfortable, and although they smell repulsive from the outside you don't notice it when you are in them. liton is fully supplied with them now, I believe, and there are gas masks ready for distribution everywhere. Today a truck went by with a loud speaker on top saying Come and get your gas mask . Today is the day after I-litler's lighting speech in Berlin. I heard part of it on the radio. All today we have been digging up Mr. Asshetoifs rlower beds and filling sand bags. l15l

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE The Sleigh Brine Papa Bouehard bin out of work Forfifteen year, 1'd .fayg f But jux' las' year he got lzeem job To drive aroun' dat ,fkier moh In one'or.fe open yleigh. He drive dat sleigh at lllont Rolland, Shelf role job hut :he payg He'.v'ard at work mof' all de time, To drive de tourix' up de line To Ste. .ldele chalet. One day eet 'appenfunny ting, I weel remember longg De train .che rome aroun' de hen', Sl1e'.v right on time at ha' pas' ten Jn' out rome noixy throng. I .fpeeial notire hunrh Q' hoyf Dat yell dem for de Jleigh, .Jn ,vo Iyell, Voila, ma-fren', ' So wit' de boy.: we .ftart again For Ste. -Jdele chalet. Papa he stand heenz on de hack, To ,fee dat all',r okay. De hoyx dey laugh an' .ring an' shout, Jn' poor Papa dey keek heenz out, Jn' poosh heein off de sleigh. Dey make Papa walk up de hill F0r'hout a mile 1'd Jay, Jn' every time dose hoy: dey come, Dey throw heem roun' - dey don' rare none, Jn' .vhoce heem of .fame way. He lose lzeenz quite a hit of weight From walk uphill eaeh dayg Jn' when Papa come haek in .vpring .Hama she do not know eet'J heem, Beeauxe W' what l1e'.r weigh. But when ,fl1e',r .fee dat eet'.v Papa, 'Er 'eart eexfeel wit joyg Papa fade 'way to merely' ton, He now ee: nearly- size of Jon, He'.v .vkeeny little boy .' Relationf rome from St. Ellifdfllf, Dey don' know what to .fayg But lllama .fhe is on dejoh, Jn' nex' year makex heem drive .fame In one 'arse open .fleigh ! U41 moh, R. B G Form 6

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SliI.WYX HOl'5li SCHOOI. Nl.-XGAZIYP We piled them against the house, and with the aid ol' gas curtains inside, when they are rinished they make a bomb-prool'. gas-proof shelter, complete with lavatory, kitchen, and space for at least sixty people. 'l'he sand bags are piled 20 feet high and 4 feet thick across the windows. .-Xs that part of the house is mostly windows, there is a pile about 8 feet wide, then a 3 foot gap where the bricks are, then another 8 foot pile. We have put in about ollfl bags today, but have got about another llllll to put in. They arc filled with earth and are very heavy. lfverybody is having the time of their lives building them, but their motives cast a sinister shadow over the proceedings. i Nobody talks about war much, though everybody is thinking about it, and the general feeling is rather serious but quite unscared. No one seems at all frightened by the imminence ol' war. liven after Chamberlain's speech about an hour ago, in which he said he could do nothing more for peace, nobody seemed worried. A lot of boys are going home, and in the event of war the school will disperse. il' in VORIN iyoinz No wonder the price of-iute, from which sandbags are made, has increased of late, a good thing for India! However, thanks to blr. Chamherlairfs modernized version ol the old Latin tag si vis pacem, para umbrellum --V the crisis has, at the time of printing, been averted. Mein gampfn seems to have won out - so far Yi The :lBerinh uf iiaisturp in which ii tnuulb like tu libs In thinking it over, ol' all periods of history, l would like to live in the present: and what is more, I would like to live here in Canada. Today there is more justice -e much more e than in the olden days. In those days only the rich could bring a case to court, the poor being always neglected. Now it is a quite ditlierent. The poor have a chalice to have -iustice done them. In the lfeudal system days the serlis were accounted as specks of dust. People nowadays would call that dreadful. Comfort in the days gone by was hardly to be compared with what it is now. The houses were barren and cold, and even damp, warmed only by one or two tires. Now nearly every house has a furnace and suthcient lights to keep the house snug and cheerful. 'liransportation today is wonderful compared with long ago. Nlotor cars yxeren't invented until the early 'Slls, and the trains did not come . A V - into use until the late ,Os. Aeroplanes were the last to come into being IUUR being the First time a piloted plane stayed in the air for one minute. Now, transportation is an extremely important factor. Boats in those days took perhaps months to cross the .-Xtlantic, while today the Queen Mary does it in three and a hall' days l Cars are very important in big towns, especial- ly for business men. .-X person's lilie often depends on one: because if a very sick patient were taken to a hospital in a horse conveyance going five miles an hour, he would stand little chalice ol' recovery. Trains are also important blocks of transportation. One would have great trouble taking supplies three or four thousand miles without a train l Une gets sulfcient education in a school ol' today. lt is only recently that the lower classes, or poor, have been able to obtain a certain amount ol' education. The rich always seemed to get the best of everything. To enjoy life, there must be entertainment. Now- l16l