THE SEARCHLIGHT 3 VISIT TO THE ART G J.TT Y By Lorno Johnston Sach year tho Manitoba Society of Artists presents an exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings by its members and by outside contribu¬ ting artists whoso works have passed a selection coimittee appointed by tho society ' s executive. Since this is tho senior society of Manitoba, its ' ' show ' usually contains the best work of the better artists. This year four classes wore given the opportunity of seeing the pictures displayed, 8A, 8B, 9A, 9B. My favorite landscape painting.in the Art Uali ary is End of the Day painted by C.F. Ashmore. It is a water color ainting of the end of a day after a hard day’s work on the farm. The :mer is unhitching four tired horses from a plough in a field, and nor. by a little colt is nibbling grass. Among the ninety-seven pictures on display, t re were sovoral portraits, A member of the Manitoba Society of Art s ' ts, Jean Eyden, pro¬ duced a splendid water color portrait of a smiling Id man, Mr. Kendal. You ' ve probably seen Mr. Kendal selling newspapers n the corner of Portage and Main in front of Child ' s Restaurant. H. is an old short man with a curly white beard. The artist, in his portrait, reveals the Santa Claus features of Mr. Kendal. I was very pleased to find a pointing by Margaret Milne, our art instructor while Mr. Wolfb was in England last year, it was called ’’Floor of the Forest , 1 It was’a pen and crayon drawing shewing mushrocaus, ' different kinds of plants and the shrubs growing on tho floor of the forest, THE JOY OF BEING AN EDITOR Adapted by Fred Roy Getting out the Searchlight is no picnic. If we print jokes people say we are silly; If we clip things from other papers, we are too lazy to write; If we don’t, we are stuck on our own stuff; If we stick close to ' the job all ' day, we ought to be out hunting up news; If we do get out and try to hustle, we ought to be on the job in ' the offic If we don’t print contributions, we don ' t appreciate true genius; If wo do, the Searchlight is filled with junk; If we make a change in a fellow’s write-up, we are too critical; If we ' ' don’t, wo are asleep; Now, ' like as not, someono will saw we swiped this one from sane other papej! Well, wo didll ’ FATHER: ' And what did you learn at school today? TONY: ’7, learned to say ’Yes, sir ' and’No, sir’ and ' Yes, ma’am’ and ’No, ma’am.’ FATHER (greatly pleased): You did? TONY: Yep. ’
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THE CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY BY Pat Wolfe On Empire Day Friday May 23rd, a Citizenship ceremony was.held in the Legislative Building. The Union Jack and the Canadian ensign were drapod against tho wall Behind the speakers tabic, and four red-aoatod Mountios stood ' at attention. The ceremony commenced at eight-thirty and continued until nine thirty, but only the earlier part was broadcast. Two representatives attended from Hugh John Macdonald School, one teacher, Mr. Bolton, and one pupil. Tho ceremony was hold to welcome all those people who intended to take out, had just taken out, citizenship papers. The program started with the sin png of 0 Canada . Then, the Chairman, Judge W.J. Lindal, called upon the first speaker The Honourable R.F. McWilliams, tieut.-Governor of Manitoba, who spoke to the persons who bocamb Canadian Citizens during 1951. His speech dealt mainly with what tho law is and what it means to the people. After Mr. McWilliams finished speaking. Judge Lindal introduced Mr. Justico ' TJ.B. Coyne of the Court of Appeal, who spoke to the persona who have declared their inten¬ tion to apply for Certificates of Canadian Citizenship. He told of the rights and privileges of citizenship. At this point in the program, the“ Hachray School Choir sang I Vow To Thee My Countiy . Then, Judge Lindal introduced tho third speaker. His Honour Mr, D.L. Campbell, Premier of Manitoba. His address was directed to Canadian“citizons who have just bocane of ago and to students of the High Schools of Manitoba. He said that although these people wore not requested to take the Oath of Allegiance to their country, the duties wore still thoro. Judge Lindal then introduced Mr. N.V. Bachynsky, Speaker of the Legislative“Assembly. Mr. Bachynsky is a Ukrainian who came to Canada at tho ago of eighteen. Ho has been in the Manitoba Legislature thirty yoars. He spoke to one and all, stressing the point that the duty of every good Canadian was to bring up his children in such a way that they would understand what it is to have freodom, and after having it, how to cherish it. To conclude the ceremony, diplomas were handed out to representa¬ tives of each class of people spoken to during the evening. Look not sorrowfully into the past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve tho present; it is thine. Go forth to moot the shadowy futuro without fear, and with a manly heart. : Henry W. Long fellow
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