Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Specula Galtonia Yearbook (Galt, Ontario Canada)

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42 SPECULA GALTONIA The World Jamboree was oflicialy opened by the Duke of Connaught, on July 31. On his arrival at Arrowe Hall he was greeted by a Guard of Honour consisting of a troop of Canadian Scouts, of which the writer had the honour of being a member. His Highness shook hands with the entire troop and chatted with them. In the afternoon there took place the most touching ceremony of the Jamboree: the march past of nations. Fifty thousand Scouts of forty-two nations, scouts of all creeds and colours, fifty thousand of the youth of the world marched past the Duke of Connaught and their honoured Chieftain. The grandstands around the rally-ground held twenty thousand visitors and ropes were lined with hundreds more. The Canadians were loudly cheered, showing the warm spot in the English heart for Canada's subjects. The real impression and picture of this mark in history is beyond my powers of explanation. There the sons of most of the countries of the world were marching, sons of fathers who but some Hfteen years ago were slaughtering each other in the chaos of the World War. They all marched with joy and peace in their hearts and good fellow- ship prevailed. Here was one of the greatest sights the world has ever seen, all realized through the work of Lord Robert Baden-Powell. Two similar ceremonies were conducted before the Prince of Wales and before the Chief Scout. Each afternoon before the grandstand, displays of dancing, gymnas- tics, pageantry and various types of entertainment were conducted. Can- ada was given the position of honour before the royal box. The camp covered an area of four hundred acres. There were stores, banks, barber shops, fice creamy parlors, reading tents and many other establishments which carried on immense trade with the Scouts. In each contingent camp, displays of native goods, handiwork and products, were open to the public. It was comical to see perhaps a French Scout walking arm in arm with a Pole and a South African negro. Probably they could not understand each other but what did that matter? They were all Scouts and having a good time. It rained for eight days and during this period the mud was at times six and seven inches deep. During the two weeks in this city of fifty thousand souls only one death occurred, which is quite a record. The first week was spent in displays and visiting foreign contingents. During the second week Canadian and other oversea Scouts were taken on tours of neighbouring cities and points of interest. Port Sunlight, New Brighton, Chester, Bolton, Southport, were among the tours. We were given leave practically every day to go across the Mersey River to Liverpool. We be- came quite well acquainted with the stores and theatres of this city. The Prince of Wales visited the Jamboree and in full scout uniform chatted with the boys and visited all contingents-he was a real scout. gk! , I Hey, Bill, is your girl a positive or neg- DANS LA CLASSE D ESPAGNOL ative types, MISS CARTER- Cual es la obra mas if?he'S high-:' ' rt t d 1 rn t ' 1 2 mP0SS1 e-f lmpo an e e a I era um mg esa Well, last night, I proposed to her and LORRIMAN- No lo soy senora. she said 'Positively no'.

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SPECULA GALTONIA 41 THE IRON MAN AND THE TIN WOMEN, by Stephen Leacock. According to critics, Leacock's humour which was so spontaneous in Non- sense Novels and Literary Lapses, has fallen to the crime of pilfering from comic papers and newspaper columnists. This book contains a good deal of burlesque, exaggeration, guys and epigrams. Everything hereto- fore made funny has been put into the ingredients of this book, and treated in exactly the same old way. One critic says I found it weary, stale, flat . . . but no doubt Mr. Leacock will find it profitable. However I have warned you. Space permits only brief mention of other best sellers. There are two good mystery stories, one The Golden Hades, by the inevitable Edgar Wallace, which is very good, although it sounds as if episode followed episode as they occurred to the writer while dictating to his secretary-The other is the enthralling 2-91,000,000 Deposit, by E. Phillip Oppenheim, which is as ingenious, and as pleasing to his extensive public as its .pre- decessors. There is, too, Susan Ertz' The Galaxy, which written in her own inimitable style makes fascinating reading for those who like very modern books. Priestleyis new and much talked of novel The Good Com- panions will appeal to countless thousands, especially as Priestley has written a very fine criticism of the Modern Novel himself, and consequent- ly should be able to embody his own ideas in a book. Mazo de la Roche's The Whiteoaks of Jalna is much better than the first book, Jalna -its characters are softer, more human, and the story itself less involved and sordid. Aix! The World lamboree ROWN SEA ISLAND, 1908, Birkenhead, twenty-one years. What does it all mean? It means that Scouting has become of age. The world- wide organization founded on Brownsea Island in 1908 by Lord Rob- ert Baden-Powell, has reached its twenty-first birthday. To celebrate this anniversary, fifty thousand Scouts of forty-two nations, assembled at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, England. Canada was represented by one hundred and eighty Scouts and oflicers at this birthday gathering. Can- ada's contingent represented our country from Halifax to the Yukon and as a member of the contingent I will try to picture briefly this gathering of the youth of the world as seen by Canadians. The contingent trained at Ottawa for a week for overseas' displays and then we entrained for Montreal, where Premier King delivered Canada's farewell message to us. At Montreal, lVIayor Houde bade us farewell, and on July 19 we sailed for England. At Quebec city we were inspected by His Excellency, Lord Willingdon, who shook hands and spoke to each Scout. The ocean voyage was a delightful one, although there were many cases of mal de mer. The ship, the HS. S. Antonia, stopped at Greenoch, Scotland, and Belfast, Ireland, to allow passengers to go ashore, and then docked at Liverpool on July 28. Sir Alfred Pickford, the Commissioner for Overseas' Scouts, greeted us and then we were taken to Arrowe Park. The Chief Scout visited us while we were preparing supper and thus we had our first view of our beloved and honoured leader. The three days be- fore the opening of the Jamboree were spent in intensive training.

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SPECULA GALTONIA 43 - - - - 4.4 g THE FRENCH CCR . ER E 3 . 53 . Q E ' '6 v w V ' V ' ' A 6 6 MWVNMVMWVNMVVNMYVNVNVNMV WKIDSYIIYA1 6 P081 ' Chanson De Merefflie By HONOUR BAILIE Chantez une chanson de six-sous, Un sac plein de seigles, Quatre et vingt merles, Cuits dans un pate, Quand on ouvrit le pate Les oiseaux se mirent e chanter- N 'est-ce pas un repos piquant Pour mettre devant le roi? Le roi etait dans son bureau Comptant son argent, La reine etait dans son boudoir Mangeant du pain et mielg La bonne etait dans le jardin Etendant le lavage- Et voilal un fin merle Qui lui le nez arrache. Aix-5 LE TRIOMPHE DE. UANGLAIS 'ANGLAIS poursuit de jour en jour ses conquetes. De plus en plus, il nous submerge. Il n'est pas un Francais qui ignore, aujourd'hui, ce qu'on entend par football, polo, bobsleigh, challenge, court, cricket, cross-country, curling, goal, golf, knock- out, match, performance, raid, recordman, ring, round, skating, speaker, sportsman, sprinter, starter, tennis, team, uppercut, Water-polo, et yachting, par exemple. Pour la toilette et le vetement, on sait tout de suite de quoi il est question lorsqu'on parle de cellular, d'homespun, de jersey, de legging, de liberty, de mac- farlane, de moleskine, d'oxford, de plaid, de shirting, de pull-over, de tartan, de sweater, de trench-coat, et meme de whip- cord. Il n'y a plus de danses francaises: place aux fox-trot, barn-dance, scottish, one- step, two-step, shimmy, etc. Pour les chemins de fer, place aussi a rail, tunnel, Wagon, terminus, ticket, bal- last, tender, express. En politique : budget, club, congres, jury, verdict, parlement, session, vote, etc. Il en va ainsi dans l'agriculture, l'ameu- blement, le commerce, la carrosserie, l'a1i- mentation, Pelectricite, Phabitation, la marine, la photographic, le theatres, les voyages... Dans quelques siecles, il y aura une nouvelle langue: la langue franco- anglaise. G. ANECDOTE 'EST un professeur de la Sorbonne qui nous a conte cette histoire. Il en fut le heros il y a quelques jours. Il avait pris un taxi pour se rendre a son cours et sans doute etait-il apparu au chauffeur comme un universitaire parce qu'il avait une serviette sous le bras et qu'il avait donne l'addresse de la Sor- bonne. Quand il fut arrive a destination, le chauifeur lui demanda: -Vous etes professeur ici? -Oui. -Alors, vous ne me devez rien. Je ne fais jamais payer un professeur... Et il s'en fut sans autre explication.