Midland Secondary School - Yearbook (Midland, Ontario Canada)

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M. H. S. REVIEW Page Thirteen message from the iflllapnr Midland, March 2nd, ISIZZS. To the Editor, Midland High School Year Book, 1928. Dear Editor :- It affords me very much pleasure to learn that our High School is now ready to publish the Year Book for 1928. I hasten to extend to yourself an-l staff every good wish for the continued success of your Journal. No doubt enters my mind regarding' your ability to carry on a bright and breezy Literary digest of your school work. It will, I am sure, prove a very welcome visitor to many homes in our town. In its pages, your parents and admirers will find that many items will prove to their entire satisfaction, and that our High School staff of Teachers and Students, are deserving of the great pride in which they are held by the citizens of our town. On this occasion I feel I should address a few remarks to the Students. Evely one of your company enjoys the advantages of being young, and in the formative stage of your career. Faced, as you are, with the most important problems of your life's work ahead, it is my duty to call to your attention the far-reaching con- sequences of your school days. It is your duty for your own benefit, and the advancement of of the larger life of mankind as a whole, that each one should ap- ply the mind and gather every bit of knowledge possible. Educa- tion is one of the few things, which costs nothing' to carry through life and nothing can give you larger returns on cost. Make up your minds to what your life work is to be and decide to reach the top. I know you can succeed if you will only try. The de- mands of our National Life call to you, to help solve our greater problems. Great rewards are waiting for you to claim them. Your School, Town and Country will praise you, so work hard and may success, be your life's partner. This is the sincere wish of GEORGE T. GOODEN, Mayor.

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Page Twelve M. H. S. REVIEW ltunk Qhut for the ltahuzsl By Mr. R. S. McLaughlin, Chairman of the ,Board of Education. Some day, just a few generations on, there will be a big ship in dis- tress at sea. Above the roar of the storm as the rush is made for the life- boats, a student- female voice may call out : Men and children Iirst ! This is not offered as a certain prediction. A few generations may not be long enough to otfset the trend of the ages. But one thing is a certainty ! Within a few generations star women athletes will give their male rivals real battles in many competitions, especially those which call for speed and agility instead of shear strength. Women's advance in sport, business, art, and sciences has been re- markable. If you visited the Canadian parliament buildings a few years ago, you could not have found a women acting as secretary to a Minister with Portfolio, but to-day it is common to 'rind women filling these important positions. The vital statistics will show that in spite of a late start the women have now moved up to within twenty-five or thirty per cent. of matching the best of the males. How much better is the male to-day in athletic competition ? The margin runs from ten to forty per cent. but it is gradually being chopped away. We had May Sutton and a few good women golfers fifteen or twenty years ago, but there were not many stars. And there were few women who amounted to anything at swimming, track, Held or any other sports, where to-day they are constantly setting new records. You can hardly turn around before some girl has set a new mark at swimming, running, jumping or throwing the javelin. This has all come without the help of heredity, without the develop- ment through generations which the male has known. If women had been athletic competitors for several thousand years and the men had just started, the diiference would be just as big as it is now upon the other side of the sex border. 1 There are competitions now where the women are not outclassed by the best of men. Only a few years ago Harold Kruger set a new back- stroke swimming record for the 440 yard range at 6 minutes and 28 seconds. That record has been considerably lowered since, but only last year Sybil Bauer, a co-ed of Northwestern University, travelled the same back-stroke route in 6 minutes and 23 seconds. The girls have come closer to masculine records in water than they have on land. They have been shattering records for all distances for the last two years. This alone shows how swift the improvement has been. In fancy diving it is quite doubtful if any mere male could wrest the laurels from Aileen Riggins and Betty Becker, who have both been Olym- pic winners. It must be remembered in golf and tennis that a far greater number of males are playing these two games. Yet there are not so many males -very, very few, in fact-who can beat Miss Suzanne Langlen at tennis or Miss Joyce Wethered at golf. In all divisions of sport there is sufficient evidence to show the re- markable advance made bv women in the last few years. They have women Rugby teams in France and England and they have a number of girl boxers and wrestlers in Germany. The male has almost reached the limit of his record-breaking. Not quite, but he is at least down to a matter of split seconds and half inches. The other sex has only started. Records will be improved year by year, and by 1050 the margin will be nothing like as wide as it is to-day.

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