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WE PRESENT THE In composing the 1939 SCOTTONIAN, it has been the purpose of the editors to pre¬ serve the happenings at Scott from March ’38 to March ’39 in an appealing word-and- picture record. This we have tried to do by keeping student life the main theme of our book and subordinating an art theme to vivify our story. Believing that Toledo’s maritime history justifies our nautical interest we have selected a colorful, nautical idea by which we might compare the activities and educational growth of students to the functions of a life on water. By using scratch-board and brush¬ line drawings to illustrate bouyant verse we have sought to apply this theme to our school life. We hope that you, as readers and critics of the annual, will enjoy our allegory and understand its purpose.
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F O Ml E W O Ml n Toledo’s history is largely the story of its port. As early as the eighteenth century, traders as well as Indians were using the Maumee River as a major link in the canoe routes to the Ohio and the Mississippi. It was natural that settlers should come and establish communi¬ ties along these trade routes to participate in some o f the resultant commerce. In the next century the village of Port Lawrence, at the mouth of Swan Creek, merged with Vistula, at the foot of what is now Lagrange Street, to form Toledo. Immediately the new town began to flourish as a center for waterborne commerce,- cities at mouths of important rivers always do. Another hundred years passed, during which time the port continuously increased in importance. A primal reason for this increase is that Toledo has one of the finest natural harbors on the Great Lakes. In terms of tons of waterborne goods entering and leaving, Toledo today is the largest port on the Great Lakes with one exception: the joint port of Duluth-Superior, at the head of Lake Superior. In the rest of the nation only New York, Philadelphia, and perhaps one or two others exceed it. Toledo’s port ships more coal each year than does any other in the entire world. There is, furthermore, little doubt that Toledo will someday be the largest oil-shipping port on the Great Lakes. Already there are half a dozen docks for handling petroleum products. Also handled in the port are stone, sand, ores, and grain. About fifty thousand passengers went by the Toledo harbor light in 1938. Over forty-five hundred vessels entered and cleared the harbor. In the preceding year well over fifteen million dollars’ worth of cargo was loaded or unloaded here. The future greatness of Toledo’s growing port exists to a large extent in the fate of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty with Canada. What the ratification of this treaty would mean to Toledo com¬ merce is readily apparent. Because of its position at the western end, i.e., the head, of the lower lakes level, Toledo would become the most important seaport on the Great Lakes. Via the St. Lawrence, Toledo is less than three hundred miles farther from Liverpool, England, than is New York City. Since this small difference would be negligible in computing ocean freight rates, Toledo would be open to the cargo ships of the world. A moment’s reflection discloses the idea that regardless of how far inland a port may be, ships will go to it if they can find accommodation and profit. To quote from a venerable and noted Toledo shipbuilder, the late Captain John Craig: This great Maumee River and Maumee Bay constitute a God- given heritage.’’ How gloriously true! How much there is for Toledo’s present and future citizens to look forward to and to work toward! It is with these facts and thoughts in mind that the editors have planned the nautical theme of the SCOTTONIAN for 1939. 3
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