Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute - Breezes Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Art Room The talents of Daniel ' s artistically skilled persons flowered in Room 27 under the inspirational guidance of Mrs. Vaselenak. Art classes worked in many media including wire and wood, all forms of painting, sculpting, etc. 44

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Prose Contest ESSAYS First - Food for Thought Brian Yamashita X-51 Second - What it Takes To Be A Man Kerry Mclnnes X-2 SHORT STORIES First - Vorne Jane Harris XI-39 Second - To Tell The Truth Brian Yamashita X-51 FOREIGN LANGUAGES First - Imitatio Horatio (Latin) Aubrey Hemminger XI-39 Second - La Vieille Mysterieuse Richard Woollard XI-39 Third - Au bord de I ' Assiniboine Gerry Collins XI1-36 Honourable Mention - Joie de Vivre Pat Lambert XI-29 I FOOD FOR THOUGHT When we speak of inflation today, we are not referring to the enlarging of some volleyball or balloon. We mean the rising cost of living coupled with rising wages, followed by rising prices, accompanied by the rising cost of living, resulting in rising wages, etc., etc., etc. Not unlike three yeast factories, each is trying to out-rise the others. The solution to this crisis is obvious and simple. First, the government forces all wages to be lowered. Second all prices must be lowered so that the ex-affluent people of the country will be able to buy the goods on sale. Of course, as with any sure solution, there are drawbacks. In the few months between the lowering of wages and the lowering of prices, many Canadians may starve to death. The survivors, however, will cheer the government as heartily as possible. Some may not be able to issue forth any audible sound, but the thought will be there. Others may ide of exhaustion, for cheering requires the consumption of many hard-earned calories of work. In one hearty, Hurrah! many Canadians, in their weakened state, may expend all the energy that they had consumed in the previous two weeks. The people who will survive this fasting will be, of course, the fat, the rich, and the thieving. The Prime Minister cannot be expected to survive, but any new government, I hope, will have the willpower to uphold the austerity policies vitlined by its late predecessor. In case of enemy at’ , the remaining two million Canadians, I am sure, will rally together to defend any part of the nations as long as their skeleton-like bodies stand. Our neighbour to the south will 46