Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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The Voyageur i g, 1 f a s eI E It at VOL. 14 - ' 194-1 PUBLISHED BY THE STAFF AND STUDENTS OF PICKEIIING COLLEGE, NEWN'NIARKET ONTARIO, CANADA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - - - BARNABAS APPLE LITERARY EDITOR CHARLES BEER SPORTS EDITOR WARD CORNELL ASSOCIATE EDITORS TERRY BAM1-'ORD PETER ESHELBY PHOTOGRAPHY - WARREN GALE STAFF ASSOCIATES R. IDE, B. W. JACKSON Editorial . . . N A CIVILIZATION so constituted as ours everyman must expect to be the servant of every other man if he would be accepted by his fellows in the community. ln the professions of some men it is easier to note this concept of service than in those of others. The minister, the preacher, the lawyer render a service to their fellows that is obvious to most of us. Not so obvious perhaps, but nevertheless real is the service rendered by men in other walks of life. We must go to the butcher for our meat, to the baker for our bread, our light depends upon many men as does our supply of water and our source of heat in winter. For our laws and their enforce- ment we turn to others, indeed no man can live as a hermit in this day. Consequently, since we turn to others for many services, it is logical that others will turn to us for some service that We may render. It might be well then to cast about for some clue as to what that service may be. ln searching each man must come upon his own solution to the problem for the services to be rendered are many and varied and it is a part of our democratic faith that a man may choose the way in which he will serve. It is one of the dangers of our democratic way of life that too often a man feels that this freedom to choose is actually a license to live his own life selfishly without a thought for the needs and comforts and feelings of his fellow men. Lately, however, we have had a rather rude awakening from that attitude. Of a sudden our whole way of life has been challenged by a rival ideology that has recognized the value of service but has turned that service into slavery by denying men the right to choose their own way of serving. Service that is coerced and not given of manis free will soon loses its vitality and dies. The system that bred it will die too. But in the mean- time the presence of such a system in our world has served the purpose of awakening us to the need for greater service to our own ideals and to our own way of life if we are to preserve them. Had we been more careful to serve in the past the tremendous self-sacrifice which the present demands might not have been necessary. The grim reality of war has called for the total service of the nation to the cause of preserving itself and what it stands 14

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The Voyageur The Strategy of Faith Abstract of an Address Delivered at Pickering College, May 18, 1941 By RABBI MAURICE N. EISENDRATH OT YET have we really answered Wvinston Churchill's desperate appeal, - first voiced many months ago and passionately reiterated in his most recent world-wide radio broadcast for the tools, the tools, the tools, in order that those heroic souls across the sea might finish the job. We have not as yet learned the meaning of the word sacrifice-our seemingly staggering new budget notwithstanding. Our lives are still comparatively untouched in glaring contrast to those who for so many slow-trudging days and hideous nights have been enduring, for us, so much toil and sweat and tears and blood. We grumble about increased taxation, a movie less, a second-hand car, while vast multitudes have been rendered homeless, their very last possession shattered before their very eyes, their loved ones torn from 'their embrace. A Canadians too must learn to strip ourselves, not next week or next year, but NOW of their every needless luxury, of their every superfluous possession, even of many unnecessary comforts, of our booze and our jazz particularly, in order to provide those tools for victory, those tools that might enable those most valourous souls which history has yet beheld to fin- ish the job, lest, before we realize what has befallen us, we ourselves will be finished, UTTERLY, INEXORABLY FINISHED. lf the budget brought down just a few days ago is requisite to-day, is it conceivable that it was not just as direly needed yesterday? Was it then because we were not prepared for such so-called sacrifices then, that we demand of our leaders that they shall spoon-feed us and prepare us ever so gradually by such homeopathic doses? And does it not follow that even greater demands which will be exacted of us to-morrow are actually required to-day? Shall we, then, be the archi- tects of our own downfall? Shall we be the co-conspirators of our own ruin? Must we too be guilty of that lamentable refrain, QTOO LITTLE AND TOO LATEM because we have not the courage to face unflinchingly the cost, be-cause, while others gladly relinquish their lives we will not surrender our material goods to sustain their hands with the indispensable physical and military tools so indispensable for even the bravest heart to win 'through to victory? No miserly spirit can triumph in this hour of decision. For our enemies are anything but misers. They take by force-as we should give with a free and willing heart-everything which their peoples have and hold and dare to gamble it on this single throw of the dice which, should they win, will wipe out all our greedily grasped possessions. Nor can we hope to subdue the solid phalanx which our foe presents so long as the slightest vestige of our erstwhile divisions of race, religion, class or creed set us apart one from the other. It has been by the centuries' old tactic of '6Divide and Rulew that the Nazis came to power first of all in their own land, and then in the country after country which they marked out for conquest and which their treacherous trojan termites prepared for the slaughter. We in Canada dare not permit the sly and subtle and scheming fifth-columnists, not yet altogether purged from our bosom, to set province against province, Protestant against Catholic, French against English, capital against labour, Christian against Jew. 16