London South Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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if... -pg Mas 99 By ALEX HOFSTETTER :zz Illustrated by Dorothy Hubbell and Bill Archer He Slipped Up On Nine - But Could You Blame Him? Fefe Plays Strange Tricks at Times, as Bill Morrow Found Out BILL TUBBY MORROW lazily uncoiled from his very comfortable reclining posi- tion in the swivel chair. Something seemed wrong today. Something was making him rest- less. Bill reached for his hat and coat, locked up his oflice and decided that, since the boss was away, he would take a half-holiday. He descended the long, straight stairs to the busy street below. The barber shop clock showed just nine minutes to two, on this fine, sunny afternoon. He greeted the barber. Hi, Tony. Going to Ethiopia to fight? he asked jovially. I might as well, for all the trade I get, mourned the little Italian. There's been just nine people in here today. Business is great, he added sarcastically. Tubby smiled and strolled on. For diver- sion he counted the cars parked along the street. Just nine in this block, he muttered, his brow puckering. About the middle of the next block, as Tubby sauntered on, a hurrying pedestrian bumped him heavily. dropping a suitcase which he carried. Sorry.l' apologized Tubby. rather annoyed. He was mildly interested to see the stranger quickly regain his balance, clutch the suitcase tightly and hurry off without apologizing. the stranger. His quest was short. for the stranger turned to the right and descended a short fiight of stairs. after nervously glancing up and down the street. Tubby was just in time to see him enter a door at the bottom and carefully shut it. Tubby made a mental note of the street number. 'LNine-ninety-nine is the number-say, why all the nines today'?'l mused Tubby. And why on earth did I wear myself out following that guy? I must be going nuts. After a Tom Collins at the nearest re- freshment haven, Tubby felt braced up and full of pep. He decided to go to the races at the polo grounds. First race is at three o'clock, thought Tubby. Just time to get my car and get there. Half an hour later our friend was grunting at the rail beside the track, while two pon- derous gentlemen enthusiastically shoved their elbows in his rather prominent stomach. But Tubby was as enthusiastic as they, and repaid them. plus interest. Tubby sighed mournfully as the first two races were won by numbers nine. Just before the third race Tubby felt in his pocket and remembered the weekly pay envelopes for his firm which contained a total of iive hundred and some-odd dollars. Somewhat hesitantly. but with growing confidence he walked toward the betting booth. Fxil looking fellow, thought Tubby, and absently turned around and started to follow can't fail. The horses nine looked as milk wagon to I'll pay it all back with what I win. It Five hundred at nine to one on num- ber nine in the third race, he told the bookie, lined up at the post. Number though he'd been taken from a fill up the starting line. They,re off! Nineteen horses shot out from the starting line, their muscles in their tinnuin mnnn - rl on page 87 X A7 AKAH A TT? f fb Qfffadffg XQWMQZY fa. ' yy es 3x f -M, 4 4 2 ff. f.,-wwf. Af fm? .V H 4 f , 47 ff M-' my ff! jf J Z 7 rftirfgff y I X fr . s fa' elg. if . gwdgm l If f L., jr.. g , s 'e a or H or -H ff

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l-low Con Conoda Contribute Toward World Peooe ? GOLD MEDAL ESSAY - BY LLOYD STEVENSON HE most obvious way in which Canada can contribute towards world peace is by sup- porting Great Britain and the League of Nations in their efforts for international amity. Lord Cecil's recent Peace Ballot has shown con- clusively that the British people are peace- minded, and Great Britain's tremendous power and prestige a1'e on the side of peace: the other nations of the Commonwealth can strengthen this influence by their loyalty. The League, though hampered, perhaps, by too rigid a cove- nant, is still the world's best guarantee against war, and should receive Canada's whole-hearted support. It is commonly agreed that the pressure of increasing populations in the countries of Europe is one of the causes of war. Canada. being a large, underpopulated country, can help to relieve this pressure by welcoming immi- grants from Europe. Government restrictions on immigration might be relaxed somewhat without endangering national interests. Since nickel is an essential for the making of armaments, Canada's predominance in nickel production has forced upon her a grave respon- sibility to the world community. Canadian nickel should not be exported to an aggressive belligerent in time of war-in the present case this means Italy. This restriction, subject to the decision of the League, should apply also to wheat and other exports, even although applica- tion of League sanctions will mean a loss to Canada of approximately 53.250000 annually for the duration of the Italo-Ethiopian war. For more than a century Canada has lived at peace with her neighbour, the United States Republic. This continued peace has been built on the foundation of mutual trust and friend- ship, and comparatively low tariffs. Protection not only diminishes trade, but it transforms the competition between economic groups into a strife between nations. If Canada is able, by reciprocity arrangements with other nations, to lead the way in lowering tariff walls, she will have made a material contribution to world peace. But Canada's relation to the United States has another significance: the strengthening of the bond between the Republic and Great Britain. It has often been declared that if SOUTH C. I. 4. i X S . ' . if Y i 1 if vb l 3 2? -a t -.im ' it Q -L- .,q .'1 ab T1 Q 'B 't' L a l? Ci 4 'P - 4' - 'L 5?-'11' 112- War. 5 l T Q. L' 4 1 .s '-,fi f' Great Britain and the United States were to join hands in their efforts for peace, their com- bined strength would be irresistible. And Canada can do much to bring about this union of purpose. It has been said that education for peace means a diminution in the intensity of the emotions and passions and loyalties which make war possible. Canadian children should not be encouraged to be ardent, aggressive 'tpatriotsf' Our system of education should foster a con- ception of the human race as a whole, and of the interdependence of nations. Moreover, this conception should form a part of the adult education in Canada: immigrants from Europe should not be urged to give over their old attachments altogether, but rather to let them flourish side by side with their new loyalty to Canada, so that the new Canadians may become, in a measure, world citizens. . . . We turn the pages Of a larger atlas: telegrams come in From China, and the world is mapped. . -fCharles Madgf.-3.1 Canadian citizens should keep themselves informed on international questions, to the end that there be a sound body of public opinion to influence the government in time of crisis. Any effort for the betterment of social con- ditions, both in Canada and abroad, is a con- tribution towards world peace, since it makes peace more attractive, more satisfying. -Lloyd Stevenson VB. Page Seventeen

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How Britain Won The Schneider Cup By DOUGLAS MacLACHLAN ESS than seven months of intensive work produced the Vickers-Supermarine S6B monoplane and the Rolls-Royce racing aircraft engine which won for Great Britain perma- nent possession of the Jacques Schneider international seaplane trophy. British partici- pation in this event was not decided upon until the end of January. 1931, leaving only a short time before the race-a time considered insufh- cient for the testing of new planes and engines. Thus it was necessary to develop the designs that were successful in 1929. Externally the 1931 S6B planes were simi- lar to 1929 S6 craft, the chief difference immediately perceptible being the much longer fioats on the new machines. The internal differences were many more in number, and very marked. The 2,300-horsepower Rolls- Royce racing engine -- 211, more powerful than the 1929 power plant but only 6122 heavier-required much larger radiator sur- faces. Water cooling radiators therefore occu- pied every possible inch of the upper and lower surfaces of the wings and the upper surfaces of each float. Oil, requiring similar cooling. was carried in the tail fin, and cooled by passing through radiators located on each side of the fuselage. This increased the efficiency of the oil cooling system by 40'l. Fuel was carried in tanks within the floats. From there it was forced by engine-driven suction pumps to a pressure tank in the fuselage. Much more fuel is put in the star- board float than in the port one to counteract the propeller torque. equivalent, at full throttle, to 500 pounds. On steeply banked turns, due to the great centrifugal force, the fuel supply is cut off, and the engines have to be fed from the pressure tank. When the plane was travelling at speeds between 350 and 400 miles per hour, due to slight inaccuracies of design, a fiuttering of the control surfaces was noticed. To overcome this. small streamlined balances and flaps were built on the control surfaces. The kind of propeller employed seriously affected control on the take-off and landing. The new one, 102 inches in diameter, compared with the other of 114-inch diameter of 1929, caused violent swinging to port. even with full starboard rudder. This was finally remedied by using a propeller 109 inches in diameter. The Rolls-Royce racing engine used by Flight Lieutenant Stainforth on his first attempt produced 2,300 horsepower, an in- crease of 400 horsepower over the 1929 engine, with an increase of only 100 pounds in weight. When using a special fuel containing a high percentage of alcohol, a minor adjustment on the motor raised it to 2,600 horsepower. To effect this change. the twelve-cylinder HV engine had a new supercharger added to it. This supercharger. located in the V of the engine, draws air into the motor at the rate of 250,000 cubic feet per hour. To nr the new design around the nose of the craft, a new type of connecting rod had to be made. With this change, one twenty-five minute oil was used at the rate of 112 gallons per hour. This rate was finally reduced to 14 gallons per hour, with the pure castor oil enter- ing the engine at 80iC. and leaving it at 140iC. With all these difhculties overcome, the S613 was able to set up a world's record of 340 miles per hour over the Schneider course, to win the famous Schneider Cup permanently for Britain. Although this same plane reached a speed of 408 miles per hour for a new world's record, Francisco Angello flew the Italian Macchi sealane at a speed considerably in excess of this during recent trials in Italy. However, when we consider that the Italian plane was built in 1934, six years after the original plans for the Supermarine S6 were made, we can easily see that such an advance is only logical, and does not lessen Britain's achievement. IN MEMORIAM South was shocked by the loss of Jack Parr, who was killed in an automobile accident east of Lambeth on June 1, 1935. Jack had been a pupil of South since 1933, and in that time he made many friends and leaves many happy memories. Tragic, too, was the death of his collie, Napoleon. After five days of grieving, the dog died, heart-broken. A fine dog and a fine master-We tender our deepest sympathies to his family. G. D. SOUTH C. I. Page Nineteen