Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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2fi The Wimtsor-Walkervillr TVchnii-al School Year Book the longest in the world. The bridge is built outward from each bank of the river and the span will join in the middle. After this is completed men will add to the steelwork, building back and forth until the steelwork is finished and the full weight is hung from the cables. On the roadway across this span there will be room for five lanes of traffic, and an eight foot sidewalk where you may go for a stroll on Sunday morning if you wish. There can be handled over five thousand cars an hour—a cap¬ acity that will meet the demands of the heaviest tourist traffic. There will also be transportation by bus for people without cars, from the metropolitan sections of both cities across the bridge. The summer of 1929 will bring to an end the worries of the men behind it, the difficulties of the en¬ gineers, and will bring true the dreams of thousands. The river will be covered with yachts and motor launches, music will float in (he air, gay colors will unfurl ev¬ erywhere, when the AMBASSA¬ DOR BRIDGE in all its splendour is first opened. Then two great sister countries will be joined in lasting interchange of friendly communication. By E. HERAGE, C3B. -o- PLAYLETTE OF T 3 B. Scene: Auto Mech. Room. To¬ bin and Padgett and Atkin are working on a car. C. McLaren is looking on and giving advice (as usual) but is not working. Gx ose is fooling around inside a car. He finds a key in the lock of the car and thinking it is a door key he opens the door, puts the key in the lock and turns it. Then he takes out the key. puts it in the car and shuts the door. Teacher: Jewell turn on the lights. Jewell: The door won’t open. Tobin: Why not yon down? C. McLaren: C’mou funny. Tobin: Use your muscles. I Door refuses to open) Grose (standing in back-ground turns as red as a danger sign) : I guess I must have locked it. Teacher: Where ' s the key? Grose: Inside the car in the transmission lock, f thought it belonged there. (Loud guffaws from rest of ToB). Padgett: Bring on the glass cutters. Atkin: C’mon Grose, you’re re¬ sponsible for this. Get busy. Teacher: Get under the car and push up the floor-boards. (Grose disappears under the cal¬ ami about 5 minutes later) Grose: Do you see me coming thru? C. McLaren (gazing into inferior of car): I can’t see you, blow your horn. (Grose snorts with rage. At last he gets the key and crawls out from under the car. Work goes on as usual.) Teacher: Grose, you are so dumb that you ought to be shot. Glass: Shoot him, shoot him, we’ll take the blame. Grose: Aw! can’t you take a joke, anyway it was Chuck Mc¬ Laren who told me to do it. McLaren: Tf I told you to jump into the river, would you? Grose: f dunno. P.S.—Grose is still undecided. We’re hoping he does it. C. M., T3B. -o- BOOK REVIEW The Friendly Stars Martha Evans Martin, the au¬ thor of this hook, is keenly inter¬ ested in the stars in themselves, not technically. Aside from this hook, shp has written an interest¬ ing one called “The Ways of the Planets.”

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Tho Windaor-Walkcrville Technical School Year Book 25 You are all lucky that I fell asleep, because while I was asleep I dreamt that I was a {Treat orator, and was making a speech to an audience of all the greatest com¬ position teachers in the world, among whom was Mrs. McGiffin. Just then I awoke. Thinking of that name it came to my mind that 1 had a speech to learn, and then a wonderful thought occurred to me. It was to speak on the difli- culties 1 had in preparing an oral composition. 1 went upstairs to bed at live-thirty o’clock, making up my mind to get up early next morning. 1 woke up at fifteen minutes to six, and started to pre¬ pare my composition. Here it is as proof that. I did prepare it— eight hundred and twenty-five words of solid, brain-paralyzing material. DONALD MERETSKY -o- THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE This superstructure rearing its stately towers in the air, and stretching its lengthy span across the river, adds a touch of architec¬ tural beauty on the Detroit River. Only after years of planning and plenty of worry did the work of pioneers in the agitation for a De- troit-Windsor bridge succeed, and in the autumn of 1927 actual con¬ struction of the massive founda¬ tions started. The following sum¬ mer saw Canada and United States linked together in peace, when the first cables were strung across the river to support the narrow cat- walk where daring men afterwards worked on the main cables. While the foundations were sinking to rest on bedrock, steel was being prepared, to be placed on the foundations to form the slender towers which support the main cables. The towers are light and slender, not like the massive construction of days gone by when people believed that the larger and heavier things were the stronger; but the modern engineer puts his brain to - work and these towers are so constructed that, although slender, they have tremendous strength. Unconsciously the work¬ men showed great heroism as they skipped from girder to girder at the top of these suspension towers, where a misstep would have meant a fearful plunge to the river below. While these towers were rising skyward the men behind the bridge did not wait for their completion before going on with the rest; no, they started preparing for the cables which were to rest on the peaks; and as these towers rose t he approaches and terminals were taking shape, and before the com¬ pletion of the cables the roadway on the Canadian approach was fin¬ ished. Thus last autumn the great cab¬ les suspended across the Detroit River were made and anchored in¬ to place. Each wire of these great cables was laid separately and each strand anchored. Upon comple¬ tion the strands were bound and cl amped together by steel bands. These will be sealed and made air¬ tight. This cable holds the full weight of the main span. On top of the towers the cables rest in a saddle which swings back and forth with the cables as it pulls and expands due to the varied weight of its load and the effect of summer and winter. At present travelling cranes are building up the lengthy span, now Windsor Public Library

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The Windsor Walkcrvillo Technical School Year nook 27 The story has a setting well- known to ns all — that of the dark blue sky. Its characters are the stars, gay anil sedate. Through the entire story the author introduces each bright star individually. The first is Capella — a charming star that is nearer to the North Star than any other. Capella is above the horizon more than twenty hours and can be seen some time at night every month in the year. It rises in August about ten o’clock and about sunset in October. Capella is yellow in colour like the sun. It is the same type as the sun and is about the same chemical composition. It. is larger than the sun and gives at least one hundred and twenty times more light. Capella is not inhabited and is receding from us at the rate of twenty miles a day. It will be hun¬ dreds of years, however, before there will be any noticeble change. The constellation of which Capella forms a part is called Aviga. It is a live-sided figure somewhat in the shape of a shield. Taking each of the bright stars in this interesting manner, Mar¬ tha Martin brings to us the fine companionship of the stars with¬ out the tiring technical part. By reading this book it is easy to think of the stars as friends. KATHLEEN CLOSE, C1ID. - o— 1 - A FLAPPER What is a flapper?” Nowadays we use the word in speaking of a young girl who is “sophisticated” or worldly-wise, and it is not alto¬ gether a compliment for any girl to be called a flapper. The word has come into common use only in t he last few years, but it is in real¬ ity a revival of a word which was used by Swift more than two hun¬ dred years ago. In Swift’s Gulli¬ ver’s Travels.” the people of La- puta are described as being so lost in deep meditation that they would pay no attention to what was going on around them, unless they were roused from their speculations by being touched on the eyes and ears: “for which reason those peo¬ ple who are able to afford it al¬ ways keep a flapper in their fam¬ ily as one of their domestics, nor ever walk about or make visits without him. This flapper is em¬ ployed to attend his master dili¬ gently in his walks and upon oc¬ casion to give a soft flap upon his eyes, because he is so wrapped up with cogitation that he is in mani¬ fest danger of falling down over a precipice and pounding his head against every post and of jostling others in the streets.” In Laputa a flapper was a person of either sex, and was regarded as a non¬ entity: and in his letters to his son, Lord ( hes ter field warned him aga¬ inst becoming a mere flapper. From O.A.C. REVIEW -o- MR. MCDONALD’S VISIT In November we, pupils, were very proud to have Air. Wilson MacDonald, the Canadian poet, visit our school. The pupils gathered in the auditorium where Mr. .MacDonald gave a very in- leresting talk. In his speech Mr. Mac¬ Donald referred to some peculiar ideas that some people hold about poets. He assured us that they were not mere dreamers and •‘sissies. but real men; that poets arc ordinary people. lie him¬ self. even ‘‘ate raw onions.” He told briefly the history of some of the Canadian poets, mentioning Pauline Johnson and Goldsmith, Mr. MacDonald related how he had travelled much over Canada and the United States, and how he got his ma¬ terial. He said that the university did not recognize Canadian poetry because it did not smell “musty,” meaning that the University thought a work of art must be old before it is of value. Then again. Canadian poems and poets are little known because our own Canadian Gov¬ ernment does nothing to help the poets in placing their poems to the front. Mr. MacDonald is the first Canadian poet to own his own hook and who earns his living entirely from his poetry. We ali hope to have the pleasure of hearing Mr. MacDonald again soon.