Eastern High School of Commerce - Eastern Echo Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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EASTERN ECHO 43 seconds later the full realization of the tragedy swept upon them. Firantically the crew pulled on the line, but the eyes of the two men at the pump widened in terror as they felt the weight leave the lines. Up came the two snaky lines, amidst a swirl of bloody waters. All self-control deserted one sailor, and, as he repulsively dropped the line, he gave one -agonized, piercing scream. Across the lurid twilight drifted a luxurious pleasure yacht-a picture lovelier far than any artist's wildest dreams. As a background was a sunset of awe-inspiring splendour-gorgeous clouds drenched in startling scarlet. How crimson they were! as crimson as-as the mottled surface of la bit of the smiling seas. Floating across the tropic night came the weird, haunting strains of a native lament! -Dorothy Deacon, 4S1, 200. Cn Books Books are the food of youth, the delight of old a.ge,' the ornafment of p-rosperity, the refuge and comfort of adz1erS'ity,' a delight at home, and no lzindrance abroadg companions by night, in travelling, in the country. -Cicero. OOKS, books everywhere. Deep books, shallow books, heavy books, light books, clean books, dirty books, big books, little books, open books, closed books, bank books, 'phone books, score books, code books, cook boo-ks, scrap books, needle books, work books, budget books, and, since I've gone this fair, the declarer's first six tricks in bridge. But omit the bank books, the cook books and the needle books. They perform a most important function in their way, indeed, without them we would be lost, but they are secondary as books. Books are meant for entertainment. That is their primary importance. There is no joy that, in my mind, can compare with a good book. Go to your party, go to your dance, but leave me to my book. You will return tired, perhaps 'bored and with a bad taste in your mouth. 1 shall be in a confident dreamland, hand in hand with Romance, Advenrture, Mystery. You call yours Life, but Life is too real, too harsh for perfect contentment. Therefore, give me a book, for it is an ever-faithful friend, a silent friend, one that never lets you down. lt gives all and asks nothing. No matter how elaboraite or pretentious the furnishings, a house is not a home wit-hout books. It lacks that essent-iall something. It is simply a place off ostentation. But the humfblest shack, if it contains hooks, gives prom-ise of companionship, interest, and serenity. Of a winter's night when it is too cold to venture from the fireside, what -better comrades-hip is there than the intimacy of a book? A haven far from the cares and worries of a hum-drum existence. To show us the open road, the passion of spring, and the vastness of nature. Strange places, different people, new thoughts, beauty. These only a book can conjure. Realism left behind, we are in a blissful mirage, loving, fighting, living.

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44 EASTERN ECHO And in the summer, ly-ing in a yielding hammock or drifting boat, whifle energetic friends are hiking or swimming, a book again rises to the olccasi-on. A new life unfolds-from between the covers of a book. And, before you leave, glance again at the opening quotation, study it, and then realize that more true or complete words were never spoken. -Thomas Tmmphour, 4G, 201. Cn Talk FEW days ago, I afttended a local theatre. The usher escorted rme to a seat be-hind two young girls about fifteen or sixteen years of age. Every few moments one of the young damsels 'thought of some remark, in her opinion, witty, and unable to keep it to herself shared it with her frien-d. This social fbultterHy obliged her with an equally 'brighlt reply. The repartee continued for at least five minutes and then they began to talk about everything under the sun, from the latest fashions to Rudy Vallee, the young man w-irtfh such a romantic voice. Between pauses in etheirpchatter, which were few and far between, I managed to catch disjointed words from the movie players, which only served to in-crease my anger. At last I saw a vacant seat in the next ro-w and you may 'be su-re I availed myself of the opportunity of escaping from the garrulous pair. Luck-ily this seat was among persons less sociably in-clined. This incident started me thinking of the part talk plays in life. A lawyer with the gift of the gab can by his clever use of words suroceed in having a fprisoner, who is really guilt-y of a certain offence, acquitted. During our present depression the communists have by their soap-box or-ations aroused mobs of unemployed and hungry men into attacking their former empiloyers and destruction of bolth life and property has been the outcome. Then .there are those who talk about nothing in particular and everyth-ing in general, as did .my young friends of the theatre. Th-is is aptly shown by Bassan-io's speecharbout Gramtiano in the Merchant off Venice: 'cGratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have the-m, they are not worth the search. -Shakespeare. These peo-ple are usually 'the ones who make the least suc-cess in life. Many a time has a person's reputation been ruined by the slan-der- -ing, gossipin-g talk of 'men and women who are jeailous of his or her reputation, wealth or beauty. A few sentences frorm men su-ch as Napoleon or Wellington have decided the fate of hundreds of thousands of persons. Ta-lk is also an indication of the temperaime-nt and 'habits of t-he speaker, as -the slow, -drawling speech of the easy-going co-wtbov in contrast with the quick, crisp tones of the tense and energetic busi- ness man. On the other hand, talk has been of great benefit to oiviflizati-on. An excellent speaker-can do a great deal of good as well as harm. On