United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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28 VOX In dance halls crowd the hot young men Who long to fill their arms with hen; While sheiks in Fords will sigh full sore, And neck, and park, and neck some more. In art the girl is on the throne: We sculp her bust in brass and stone; We paint her face to feed our flame— She paints it first, we’re not to blame. And so at last I end my verse. I trust you grant long words are worse; For I’m quite sure the short are best For Chink in East and us in West. More than one sound is much too much: Sesquipedalia and such Seem desuetudinous to me In polysyllabicity. We are pleased to note that there is more advertising matter in this issue of Vox than in any issue dur¬ ing some years past. It seems to be an indication of Western pros¬ perity, of the keen business policy of our local houses, and of their confidence in the quality of the goods and services they offer. It is for Vox readers to give them a trial. Support your adver¬ tisers. See how they support you! The Exchange Editor acknowl¬ edges with thanks the following exchanges: The Gateway, The Ubyssey, The Brandon College Quill, The Trinity University Re¬ view, The Managra-. Commenting on the Manitoba debating team, the Ubyssey makes the following comprehensive re¬ port: “At this point in the pro¬ gram, Mr. Paul Murphy introduced the debating team from Manitoba. Both of its members, Mr. Richard¬ son and Mr. Saunderson, gave sam¬ ples of Manitoba wit”! Statisticians state that Canada’s national wealth is $2,525 per per¬ son. We would like to know when we can collect our share. “I never felt so put out in my life,” said the student as he read the letter from the Dean. iHikado SUPPER DANCE PARTIES

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vox 27 Monosyllables (“U” life as seen in Coll. Hum. —Ed. Note.) They say the Chink who rules the East Makes use of words that sound the least; But in our tongue we still can find No lack of words of that brief kind. Yea, for long words whose joints are six, Short can be found in each bad fix. Men have the con, the diph, the flu; The docs will make them good as new. We phone our ads to feed the Press, And next day find them in a mess; On that same page we pipe the news From Yanks and Japs, from states and stews; In lines of red or blocks of black We learn of all who jump the track; So, too, of czars and popes and kings We read the worst that each day brings, As bow in Rome the Chief Wop makes The rest eat dirt or pull up stakes. Small words will serve as well to show How we in class (and out) may go; At nine with sines and tans we play Or plot our graphs from day to day. At ten the profs may make us fume With Kant and Locke and Mill and Hume. Next hour, with hearts on fire, we grind At Bill the Bard, or John the Blind, Or Sam the dope fiend. One Lung Keats, Or lame Lord George with his bad feats. At twelve we damn the verbs of Gaul In words we should not use at all. At two we wipe the dust of time From kings and states and wars and crime. At three we read the tale of Troy In lines that lack the least of joy, Or curse at forms a noun might take W hen bards of Greece their pens might shake. While all day long our minds are set On skirts and hops and dates to get. For all our age is gone on girls With legs and teeth and smiles and curls. We buy them sweets and buds and drinks In hope to gain their smirks and winks; We fork out scads to feed their ears With jazz that jades us down the years; We throng the Met with hicks and coots To lamp the queens in one-piece suits;

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vox 29 Immigration—A National Problem By Burton T. Richardson None of the national problems confronting Canada today are more important than the immigra¬ tion question. The number, qual¬ ity and condition of the popula¬ tion of the future has a vital sig¬ nificance for every Canadian prob¬ lem of major importance. There¬ fore, the question of our present immigration policy should be a prime consideration to every Cana¬ dian citizen. Our national policy in this matter should be recognized as one of the chief factors to be con¬ sidered relative to the question as to who we, as a Canadian race, will be in the future. Present Racial Composition Let us first answer the question of who we as Canadians are now, then let us consider what sort of a national stock we should wish to evolve for the future. It will in¬ clude some survey of some of Canada ' s needs in the matter of population, and then, and then only, shall be have reached an ade¬ quate basis on which to form an opinion of what Canada’s immi¬ gration policy should be. In the first place, the two pre¬ dominant racial stocks in Canada have always been, and still are, British and French. The last Do¬ minion census (1921) showed that these two stocks constitute about eighty-three percent, of the total population and that the remaining seventeen percent, are divided among thirty or more races. The question which naturally arises at this point is. How does the pres¬ ent policy of Canada in this mat¬ ter act to preserve this dominant strain? A brief glance at the latest available statistics on immigration shows that for the first eight months of the fiscal year of 1928 British and U.S. immigrants (the latter being largely of British an¬ cestry) constituted about fifty- three percent, of the total. Added to this we have the assurance of Mr. Forke, speaking in Brandon a few weeks ago, that his policy for the coming year will be that of closer adherence to the principle of British preference. Therefore, as far as the immediate considerations of the problem are concerned, if we consider that the present mix¬ ture of population is satisfactory, it is being maintained by the present policy. Desirable Immigrants Let us then consider the quali¬ ties and characteristics of the type of immigrant which we consider desirable and satisfactory for Can¬ ada. What must he be, what must he possess in order to conform to our standard as an eligible new¬ comer to our country? The first obvious consideration is that he must conform to a high physical and mental standard. This is the first criterion which should oper¬ ate in our immigration policy, for no one will deny that our citizens of tomorrow require strong phy¬ siques and firm mentalities. Other criteria which, I believe, should op¬ erate in this matter, and which are not mentioned very often in an im¬ migration discussion, are those which may be termed moral, social, industrial, political, even aesthetic. These aspects of the question, if considered, will take account of ele¬ ments of our national life which are perhaps better controlled by an guide in the matter of selection and