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Should Women Propose? In this age of female domination, of female doctors, female bankers, and female taxicab drivers, the superiority of the male is in some jeopardy. According to statistics, a man can expect to live a shorter life than a woman. Further, for over one-sixth of the first fifty nine years of this century, men have been very busy killing other men in war. Meanwhile, on the home front, women were quietly taking over many male roles in our society. Today, women “wear the pants,” in both the literal and figurative senses of the phrase. In the past, men were the dominant sex and they proposed marriage to women. Now if women are the dominant sex, should they not propose? To prove my point and answer the question, let us look into history. In the beginning, God created Adam with an extra rib and a carefree mind. But then the Creator, in a moment of weakness, took back one of Adam’s ribs, and created Eve, the first woman. After seeing the indiscretion of letting such a creature roam free over the surface of the earth, the Creator told Adam to take care of Eve. Adam promptly hit her over the head with his club, and hauled her off. This was known as the “un¬ conditional proposal” or the “club proposal.” It had one great advantage—no long and expensive engagement. As time went by, man became more civilized. Man became sentimental, romantic, and feminine. Man was no longer a virile, robust, rough and ready barbarian. Thus civilization ruined man. The results of this deterioration of man were long and expensive courtships, duels, feuds and wars. Thus women gained the fruits of long courtships, (gifts) and the duels, feuds and wars began to bring about a shortage of manpower. Now! in the original state a man was a bar- Festival And When the idea of a music and speech arts festival was conceived by the late Dr. K. H. Neufeld 27 years ago, the founder had in mind a sort of showcase of young talent. The talent was to be drawn from the schools of southern Man¬ itoba and the festival was to serve first, as a stimulus to the arts, and secondly, as a focal point or annual climax for cultural activity in this area. That vision has been realized. Well over one thousand students each year are gaining the benefits of thorough preparation and pro¬ fessional adjudication in both the speech arts and music. Since 1953 the Altona collegiate has shared in these benefits. The collegiate choir, under the direction of Mr. Kroeker, has participated in the last six festivals and has won top honours in its class three of the six times that it has competed. As this yearbook goes to press the choir is again preparing for competition in this year’s festival. barian with a club. A woman had no say in the arrangement. As civilization slowly ruined the male of the species, he gradually moved from hauling off a wife with a club, to leading her off to ask her to be his wife, with the consequence that we now find man on his knees proposing marriage where once men lifted women off the ground and carried them off. Before us lie two j conclusions: Man in the barbarian state was happy, and proposed as he pleased to whom he pleased; and civilization, which was a woman’s; idea in the first place, has a deteriorating effect; on men. There is but one solution to this. We must either take up the club and throw off the yoke of civilization, or we must succumb and lose all manly dignity. Since all persons wishing to sell their split-level homes and buy caves would be a minority group, let us look into the future to view civilization. Civilization has ruined man. As we look into the future we see passive, domestic ghosts and shadows of men, whose clubs are only used for golf; whose sporting firearms have been turned into lamps, table legs, or antique ornaments. Never again will a man display even a hint at rebellion against the female-dominated world. A marriage is taking place. With a huge gold- plated frying pan (the symbol of the new order of marriage) a woman proposes to a man. She hits him over the head with the pan, and hauls him off to their new split-level house. I shudder to look at such a future. But if civilization is ruining man, as it most certainly is, men might as well “throw in the towel” and the women can start proposing marriage right now. But as for me, give me back my club, or my long-lost rib. —Tom Milne. The School Altona collegiate debating teams have matched eloquence and rhetoric with other collegiate teams in the inter-collegiate debating classes which were added to the festival three years ago. This year our team of Dora Toews, Shirley Braun, Dave Hoeppner and Joe Fast won the home-and- home, total point debate on the resolution that “The Russian System of Education is superior to the Canadian system.” An increasing number of students each year are entering speech arts and instrumental classes. This year approximately thirty collegiate students entered spoken poetry and public speaking com¬ petitions. The collegiate produced one trophy winner: Bob Wieler was awarded the Dr. W. Colert trophy for his speech on “China” in the public speaking competion. As in past years a number of students who are receiving private instruction in piano and voice will be performing at the two-week festival. 31
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fessors who could speak of great things in a familiar way and he would have daily contact with great scholars. Even the building held out its proud stature and seemed to challenge ac¬ complishment. Immediately Wesley arose, packed his books and a few of his belongings and slipped out into the dusk to learn from the priest. The great clock at the comer struck ten and his mind turned expectantly towards the future which lay before him. Tomorrow he would be sitting in a classroom in that great building which he had always looked upon with awe as a child. —Dora Toews. Mommy’s Coming Back My head ached and I felt funny all over because my Mommy was lying so still on the floor and Terry’s Mommy and Aunt Sally were all here and they were talking in quiet voices. I wondered what they were all doing here be¬ cause we only get visitors on Sundays and this was Thursday. My Daddy was kneeling beside my mommy and his throat made sort of a funny sound and his great big shoulders were shaking. I think my daddy was crying, but daddy never cries. He is big and strong. A big black car came onto our yard. A man in a black suit came in. My daddy only wears his good suit on Sun¬ days when he and mommy and Gerry and I go to church. Then I knew that he wanted to take my mommy away. “Daddy, Daddy, please don’t let him take my Mommy, please Daddy, don’t let him.” But daddy only made a low gurgling sound like my little brother Gerry does and held me so tight I hurt. Maybe the man will only take my mother, away and make her better and then she will come home again. Gerry was very sleepy because mommy always put him to bed after supper but the siren had gone already. I didn’t want to, but my daddy made me go to bed. Ii vvas very dark in my room and my eyes hurt and sometimes I was very cold and then I felt sc hot. Daddy came to tuck me in just like he and mommy always did but he didn’t mess up my hair like he always did. I think he was trying to tell me something but I couldn’t hear the words and I wanted to hold my daddy because I was scared but my body couldn’t maVe. Finally I heard the words “Mommy” and “dead.” My head ached so much and I wanted to cry, “No! No!,” my Mommy’s coming back. The man’s just going to make her better.” —Marlene Epp Clothes Reveal Character “Pink makes the boys wink.” This is a statement I heard my little niece say when her mother donned a pink sweater and it started me thinking. Wearing pink clothes may not make the boys wink but clothes certainly reflect the character of the person wearing them. When I thought about this I remembered an aunt of mine who always wears black suits and white blouses. Never will she wear a red blouse or a green scarf to change the monotony. This is exactly the way her whole life goes. She has set ways for everything. She has been driving the same black coupe ever since I can remember, she wears her hair the same way, and she always wears the same rims for her glasses. She has been a school teacher for I don’t k now how long and I’m certain she teaches each new class the same old stuff the same old way. To her anything new is evil. And then I thought of a friend I had who was the exact opposite. He wears nothing but raCe-track plaids, gaudy reds and flashy yellows. This is reflected in his character. He makes snap decisions and Is always willing to try new things. He drives a white Cadillac with all the extras. He roams around the country working a few months and then driving on. I dare say he is not the most reliable friend to have, but his life is certainly more exciting than my aunt’s. Another person whose personality is reflected in his dress is my father’s old friend. He is a lawyer and he dresses most conservatively. He is the mean between my aunt and my young friend. He dresses in such a way as to make him look dignified and cultured. He is a very cultured person, a sincere patron of the arts and has taste in selecting good music, literature and company—all in all a very repectable kind of person. Lastly, I was reminded of the little country maiden who was going to work in the city. She tried to act very sophisticated and dress very sophisticated. The latter was obvious: printed skirt, nylon blouse, socks and earrings never went together very well. She was trying to look her best but she failed so miserably. I guess it’s only human nature to pretend to be something one isn’t. The Way people dress does definitely reveal their characters, but it is wisest not to base one’s analysis of another’s character entirely on his clothes. —Rose Peters
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