Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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EDITORIAL THREES OR ONES? It ' s a mad world, my masters! becomes more obvious daily. Some parents and, possibly, some students see it. What are we going to do about it? As it is we who make the world, can there be something wrong with us? Whence came we, what are we, whither do we go? This three-fold question recalls the trinity of body, mind and spirit which is each of us. How is modern life educating this trinity? Growing frequency of failure by church, school and home is all too evident. J. Edgar Hoover places most blame on the last. Thus: Parents are forgetting their God-given and patriotic obligations to the little ones. . . . Selfishness is the keynote of the day and materialism the inspiration for living. God in many instances is not accepted in the home and concepts of morality have been relegated to the junk heap. . . . The key to life itself is God. He is man ' s first need — his main goal. Destroy religion and chaos will result. Is he right? Were Shakespeare, Livingstone, Washington, Lincoln, countless millions of Christians mere misguided people? Is there any truth in the Bible? As we must worship something, is it God or go ld? Duty or dollars? In these days, is there any value to us of tradition? Surely, we must recognize that life on this planet is a battle — a proving ground for our material, moral and spiritual development. It can be nothing else — apart from the menace of extinction by poison or bomb — until each of us has done his utmost to bring his moral and spiritual development abreast of his purely worldly interests. Material development has resulted in atomic discovery. What unimaginable wonders lie ahead of the scientists of the mind and spirit? Their work alone can control peace and war. Each of us can share in this work. Sir Alexander Cadogan, at this year ' s McGill convocation, said that the struggle between Communism and anti-Communism could be won only by capturing men ' s minds . Foch has told us that wars are won by the things of the spirit . If they are right, what chance has a collection of divided nations, merely professing democracy and belief in God, against a forcibly united dictatorship, inspired by a godless doctrine which has much of the force of religion and has its producing missionaries everywhere? We should have seen long ago that one cannot have real democracy without real Christianity. Chasing dollars is needful but, unless kept in right rela- tionship to the things of the spirit , it is stark paganism. Exodus 32 tells what happens. There has been a shooting war. We are learning what a cold war may mean. We of the democracies do not yet widely recognize that we are being out-fought in the spiritual war. The task of parent, pedagogue and parson must be realized anew before the little ones of

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Christ ' s love can be properly prepared for the battle. We have to return to the faith of our fathers to ' reap once again the harvest of God ' s blessings . Remember Kipling :- No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul. SCHOOL NOTES The Rag Concert was the highlight of the Michaelmas Term but the intellectual and social inertia caused by the usual School routine was offset slightly by either a dance or a movie on Saturdays and Grass Hockey on Sunday afternoons. The Lent Term produced the coldest weather and heaviest snowfall for over thirty years. We had good skating and then toboggans and skis appeared but games were confined to the Squash Courts and Gymnasium. In March sundry short plays were successfully produced by Mr. Larsen. At the funeral of Sir Richard Lake on April 25th, the School was represented by the Head Master, the Staff by Mr. Duxbury, the boys by the Prefects and the Old Boys by — many of them. The Cadet Corps Inspection was on May 27th. The inspecting officer was Major-General H. F. H. Hertzberg who was old-fashioned enough to notice small faults and other such things as do not appear to matter nowadays. On May 17th Strathcona Lodge School put on three excellent short plays produced and written by the girls. Thee and Patrick went to Vancouver for the B. C. Squash Tourna- ment. The former did well and in the finals, Ned Larsen was defeated by his brother Jack — weight must help! On June 5th the Head Master attended the always impressive Commencement at the Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma. On June 16th he gave away the Prizes at the Athlone School Sports, the most efficiently organized affair he has seen for a very long time. We said good-bye to Messrs. Larsen and Bullen who proceeded to rest up after a strenuous year by playing Cricket whenever possible (very successfully). Mr. Bullen accompanied the B. C. Cricket Team as far as Winnipeg. They both crossed the Atlantic in a Greek passenger ship as stewards, the only two who could speak English! and now Mr. Larsen is at Exeter College, Oxford, and Mr. Bullen at New College, Oxford. We now have one more Old Boy on the staff, Mr. W. T. S. Pearce. To finish a good year we had a delightful visit during the holidays from Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Twite.