North Bay Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Northland Echo Yearbook (North Bay, Ontario Canada)

 - Class of 1941

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26 THE NORTHIJXND ECHO The achievements of better standards of labour in Mr. Roosevelt's Administration are greater than those in any previous administration. This has been accomplished despite Henry Ford's baronial independence, and continuous bitter attacks against all labour organizations. In 1936 although many of the lower class realized that the New Deal was imperfect, and that it had not achieved what they had ex- pected, they felt that they had a friend in the White House and one who was at least trying to help them. They demonstrated their ap- preciation by supporting him for re-election. Throughout the democratic world Mr. Roosevelt is better known for his foreign policy than for his domestic one. To Canadians he is a friend. His Good Neighbourn policy with us, and the Pan Arnericanism directed towards Latin America, is one of the greatest achieve- ments of his career. It has always been his goal to have North and South American solidarity in the face of a hostile world. His assurance at Kingston that the American people would not stand idly by if Canadian soil is threatened by any other Empire was received with the greatest possible amount of enthusiasm by Canadians. The ties of friendship between Canada and the U.S. were cemented in the Ogdensburg De- claration by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. King. The esteem with which Mr. Roosevelt is regarded in South America was demonstrated when these Republics declared a national holiday on the day of his re-election in November. His judgment of international events has always been superior to that of his opponents. In 1938 he shocked the isolationists by pro- posing at Chicago that the aggressors be quar- antinedf' This speech was the cause of many bitter attacks against Mr. Roosevelt by his op- ponents. They claimed that he was speaking of war in order to relieve his precarious political position in the U.S. When in 1939 he asked Congress to repeal the Arms Embargo in favour of the Cash and Carry basis, he was accused of war-mongering. Later, a special session of Congress was necessary to repeal the law since war had already broken out in Europe. When this terrible catastrophe struck Europe he took all the necessary precautions to prevent America from being involved in it. He declared a safety zone on both sides of this continent and prohibited American vessels from going into belligerent zones. However, when war broke out in all its fury, and many free countries, France included, were conquered, Mr. Roose- velt saw that America had to send more help to Britain, since Britain was the only remaining obstacle in Hitler's path. It was also evident that if Britain were defeated and the European economy were in Hitler's hands it would be a difficult task for the United States to compete in the world trade with Germany. And unless the United States would co-operate with Ger- many she would face economic ruin and a lowering of her standard of living. America, as Mr. Roosevelt said recently would be living at the point of a gun. Accordingly, despite opposition from some quarters-incidentally the opposition is not the same as that which opposed him in his domestic policy, because financial interests derive profit from rearmament-he decided to enlarge the American rearmament program and give more help to Britain. Recently he declared that the United States will become the arsenal of de- mocracy since there can be no appeasementi' between the democratic world and Hitler's world. He re-affirmed his belief that the Axis cannot win, and that with American help the democracies will be victorious. As far as one can see at present Mr. Roosevelt's new foreign policy is backed by the majority of the Ameri- can people. But many of the opposition especially among the lower class who have al- ways supported the President are alarmed by his blunt language and straight talk to the dictators. Will he, now that he has changed his foreign policy, be able to keep America out of war and keep his campaign promise and yet be the economically helpful ally of Britain? Or will he be forced by circumstances and events to become a second Woodrow Wilson? Both his supporters and opponents are anxiously watching Mr. Roosevelt steer the ship of State in these tortuous channels. How will he fare? To-day he has the greatest op- portunity to win personal triumph and be a real statesman, now that he is no longer bound to the party machine and has no longer to play the politics. What will happen during his third term no one is in a position to predict. That he will go down in history as a great democratic leader, there is no doubt, although no one can foretell how Mr. Roosevelt will be remember- ed. At all events, American life will never be what it was when he took over the leadership of the United States in that fateful morning of March 4, 1933. DECLINE IN CHURCH ATTENDANCE ISABEL CHERRY, V COLLEGIATE Nowadays, if there is nothing else to do, you go to church. All day Saturday you watch to see what kind of weather is in store for Sunday. In the winter, a good fall of snow will prompt you to wax your skis and start out for a good day of Sunday skiing. In the spring, a bright cloudless day will send you heading for some cool brook for a good day of Sunday trout-fishing. But if the weather man does not treat you so gen- erously, you go to church. In such a case of church attendance, you do not enjoy the ser-

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TI-IE NORTHLAND ECHO 25 Bermuda is suited for an advance base for both fleet and aircraft. Heavy cruisers can enter Hamilton Harbour, although coral reefs and narrow channels make it impossible for a hostile fleet to beseige the harbour. Naval bases can be had in the north or south coasts of the island. The Bahamas cover the approaches of the Straits of Florida and the entrance to the Caribbean. They have no good harbours, but with 3077 small islands and rocks stretching 630 miles they offer countless safe anchorages where enemy seaplanes, tenders and submarines might lurk. To counteract this danger large bases are not needed, but a series of small airfields and storage depots and a continous patrol to protect this area from hostile forces. All bases in the Windward and Leeward islands are logically small bases with Trinidad as a main base. British Guiana has no good harbours and would be useful only as a small air base. jamaica has ample resources and could be used for any kind of a base and would be useful chiefly as a base for air patrol of the Caribbean. Trinidad has large resources of oil, food and labour, and has plenty of open territory and therefore would be suitable for an Army Bomber Base. Trinidad is logically the southern anchorage of the U. S. Defence plan, unless she also obtains a base in Brazil. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT QEz1o CAPPADOCIAD For the first time in the history of the United States a President has been re-elected for a third term. This shattering of an old American tradition is chiefly due 'to the per- sonality and leadership of President Roosevelt. Born of Dutch ancestry, near the city of New York, Mr. Roosevelt has been in the public eyes of the Americans since his youth. Both his father's family and his mother's are among the oldest in the colony of New York. He is therefore a member of the American landed aristocracy. For his education Mr. Roosevelt attended the distinguished American schools of Groton, Harvard and Columbia where he was an average student, not too brilliant. With the Rooseveltian family tradition and background, he began his political career. In 1912 he was elected to the New York Senateg in 1915 he was appointed Assistant-Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson: in 1920 he was the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate. His party was defeated and he Temporarily re- tired from politics. It was during this brief in- terval that he suffered an attack of infantile paralysis. After many months of suffering he finally conquered the disease although even now he must have some one to lean on and must use a cane for support. He began to prepare for his political future during convalescence, by studying economics and political science. In 1928 he returned to politics and was elected for the governorship of New York during the notorious administration of jimmy Walker. The governorship of New York led him to the presidential nomination in 1932. During his first two terms of office the world witnessed the rise of a three-headed mili- tant dictatorship in Europe. The people throughout the world have been the helpless spectators of a feverish armament race which has culminated in the outbreak of a war, and the present-and we hope, temporary-over- lordship of Nazi Germany in Continental Europe. In the early l930's, while Europe was speculating and dreading the possibility of war, the new president was embarking upon a liberal domestic policy. It was his purpose to remove from the hearts of the people the fear of economic bankruptcy. At that time banks were closing and the citizens' investments were no longer secure. Unemployment was in- creasing, social unrest growing. The people cast meaningful glances towards Wall Street. To check this flight towards catastrophe, Mr. Roosevelt embarked upon the New Deal in order to overcome the great economic crisis which had occurred at the end of 1929. To safe- guard deposits he ordered a bank holiday and a gold embargo. To help the farmers the Agri- cultural Adjustment Act was passed. To remove the young unemployed off the highways and freight trains Mr. Roosevelt provided the Civilian Conservation Corps and Federal-State Tran- sient camps. The Public Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration were created to employ the workers of the nation and stimulate economic activity. Overnight, 4,000,- 000 men were employed. Far from being perfect, those measures have been abused by irrespon- sible individuals. But no one can seriously ques- tion their necessity. Yet they have been bitterly attacked from many quarters. Most of the opposition to these measures came from Wall Street's financial interests. These persons did all in their power to prevent a leader like Roosevelt from rescuing a nation still bound to the rock of depression by the chains of economic serfdom which they them- selves had forged. They opposed him in 1932, 1936, and again in 1940-in vain. These Wall Street attempts to defeat Mr. Roosevelt were thwarted only by the unanimous support which the workers gave him. It is to these people to whom the President owes his re-election in 1936 and in 1940. They supported him because it was he who by means of the Wagner Act, the National Labour Relations Board and the Social Security Act allowed them to organize and form powerful Trade Unions.



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THE NORTI-ILAND ECHO 27 viceg you do not even hear it. Instead you are feeling the sting of the snow on your face, ex- periencing the thrill of your first leap on that new ski jump, or landing that beautiful speckled trout that you could have boasted about for weeks to your rivals. Then, not having heard two words of the service, you swear that you will never go back again. In this case, the minister cannot be blamed for an uninteresting service. The radio rightly bears some of the blame for poor church attendance. You are afforded the opportunity of receiving the church service to a better advantage at home, since you have the privilege of switching off the radio if the sermon does not suit your taste, or if the story you are trying to read while you listen, proves to be more entertaining than religion. Too, radio reception does not demand an early rising on your part, nor does it require Sunday clothes. Bathrobes and Romeos serve just as well, especially if you are going skiing later on and will later have to deck yourself out in ski clothes. On Sunday night comedy radio programs prove to be a greater attraction than church because you don't feel like dress- ing again after that strenuous day of skiing. Next Sunday, since the weather is bad, you, and a fair congregation, turn out to church and the topic of the sermon is, Poor Church Atten- dance and Lack of Fundsf, You are informed that if you are absent this Sunday, remember the Church expenses go on just the samef, This request annoys you and some of the congrega- tion, who had resolved, perhaps rather unmean- ingly, to reform and go to church more often, and you, now resolve to continue with your air reception where you are permitted to listen if you wish. Once again the church attendance declines. BEFORE THE CURTAIN RISES M. MACDONALD, FORM V The dressing room is crowded, the walls covered with what might be the loot from a mixture of pawn-shops and Bond Street cloth- ing stores. Overalls and stiff shirts, boots and dancing pumps, all are there, spread about in mad disarray. Here and there boys, trying to pull on their socks or shoes, are standing like storks or hopping about like dancing-dolls. What a sick-looking bunch they are-all white as a sheet: you look in the mirror to straighten your tie and-Shades of Sir Cedric Hardwicke! Can this ghost-like creature be you! Why, your face looks like the front of one of those shirts. Funny thing too because it's very warm in here. Loosen your collar: there, that,s better. Now youire ready for make-up, or are you? Letis see, have you forgotten anything? Got that scarf? Mustn't forget it again to- night. Remember what happened at the dress rehearsal. All set? The make-up room is on the next floor up. This way: say, what's your hurry? You took those stairs three at a time. Here you are. First the cream:'rub it in well then rub it all off, remember, its just to soften your skin, not bury it. Try to stand still, how do you expect the make-up man to get that lip-rouge straight? There, that's that! Eyeshadow: just a little. Hair okay? Fine. You might as well go upstairs to the stageg nothing to do now but wait. Wait-only liif- teen minutes more till the curtain. Wait-and your heart beating twice as quickly as your watch. Wait---wait ----- wait. There's a funny feeling in the bottom of your stomach. Come on, buck-up-only five more minutes. Pretend this is just another practice. What do you say when you go on first? What, you've forgotten? Never mind, it will come to you on the stage, if you ever get there. There's a big crowd to-night so do your best: you mustn't disappoint them. Only three more minutes-ah! there's the orchestra now. Three more minutes, one hun- dred and eighty seconds. You never knew be- fore how long a second really is. Thereis the prompter settling into her chair by the end of the stage. It won't be long now and you've a good audience: steady, brother. Say, you ac- tually look happy? Feel better now? Great! there goes your cue, the curtains' rising. So long. Keep your fingers crossed .... MORE ABOUT GRAPEFRUIT H. Nxcor. V To eat a grapefruit is a task in all parts of the educated world. Many breakfasters shun the round, oversized lemon, because it provided them with a shower of acidy juice expelled with considerable force from the large globules, which ruined both apparel and temper. Breakfasters descend from the bath-room and with a cheery morning salutation to the cook, seat themselves at the table and are in- stantly confronted by a large half of a grape- fruit, staring them in the face. With a shudder, the would-be consumer, hesitantly, picks up the culinary instrument customarily engaged for the purpose, and searches for an opening in the mel- low fruit. Cook has been careless to-day and has not sliced the adjoining walls of the fruit so the worst can be expected. Like a wary con- testant in a iistical engagement, the person circles the fruit with his eyes and prods ginger- ly, first at the sides then the centre. He eases the spoon gently down into the side and is re- warded for such an audacious act by a yellow streamer of juice full in the optic. Never daunted, the daring attacker grips the evasive victim in his left hand and with a sudden down- ward thrust of the spoon, jabs viciously at the fruit and receives another liquid torrent, ac- companied by a huge seed.

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