United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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SWSI % CAP ORAL If, by your sergeant, your wife or your dearie, You’re sent to the doghouse to grieve for your sin, Don’t prove you belong there by growling and whining! ... And THAT ' S where a Sweet Cap fits in! 2

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V : PUBLICATION OF UNITED COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATES WINNIPEG, MANITOBA APRIL, 1943 Vol. XVI—No. 2 Subscription and advertising rates on application. STAFF . . . Honorary Editor: DR. A. R. M. LOWER Editor-in-Chiej and Business Manager: JOHN H. HOWES Associate Editors: MARGARET ANNE BAR AGAR, ROBERT McLEAN Managing Editor and Associate Business Manager: VICTOR C. GRUNEAU Contributing Editors: HARVEY DRYDEN, IRVIN PETSNICK Circulation Manager: DAVID ROSS Illustrator: ANN PHELPS Alumni Editor: DEAN A. D. LONGMAN Class Representatives: First Year—BOB GRIEVE Second Year—FREDA GUSSIN, RON RIDDELL Third Year—VERNON McKELVIE Fourth Year—JEAN MURRAY Collegiate—DAVID MILNER, MARY McFARLANE, GLEN FRASER, BARRY KINSMAN Theology: HOWARD GIBSON CONTENTS . . . WITH THE EDITOR STORT STORY: FAIRY STORY .MORTEN PARKER. ARTICLES: FAREWELL ADDRESS .DR. D. C. MASTERS . ASIA, CONTINENT WITH A PAST . . . AND FUTURE ... PETER GORDON WHITE . VALEDICTORY . . . 1943 .JOHN H. HOWES . A TRIBUTE .A. E. WALLACE MAURER THE UNITED-MACALESTER CONFERENCE: A COMMENTARY .PETER GORDON WHITE ... SPECIAL SECTION ON AMERICAN WRITERS: ,... ELIOT AND FROST AS THINKERS ..ROBERT McLEAN . THOMAS WOLFE—A SONNET SEQUENCE .HAROLD KARR . (With introduction by the Author) LEWIS AND JAMES—A CRITICAL SURVEY KAY ROWLETTE ... . THE TECHNIQUE OF FROST AND ELIOT .IRENE HODGSON . POETRY: A DIRGE .DAVID McKEE. DEPARTMENTS: REVIEWS . CURRENT AFFAIRS ALUMNI NOTES .. UNITED-MACALESTER LAYOUT COVER . IRVIN PETSNICK. HARVEY DRYDEN . DEAN A. D. LONGMAN DAVID ROSS. ANN PHELPS. Page 3 4 7 8 12 33 41 17 18 21 26 29 11 16 46 48

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Editorial Notes: E WERE going to write a stirring editorial for this issue, as stirring, that is, as we could make it, but that was some time ago. We were going to write perhaps of the nebulous second front; now we do not believe in the feasibility of such a plan and would instead subscribe to a wholesale transporting of Cana¬ dian, British and American troops to the Rus¬ sian western front. It was in our mind to raise our voice boldly against a certain American Senator (Smith, we think his name is) who twenty-five years ago added his cracked trumpet to the cacaphony emitted by the anti- Wilson cabal, and who recently, being ap¬ proached on the question of an allied council said brilliantly, ‘it’s all that international busi¬ ness again.’ Now we resign ourself to periodic pronouncements of that sort. In fact we have resigned ourself to many things. Humans be¬ ing so imperfect, we have begun to revel in their imperfections. We thought of placing our pen to paper and adding our faint protest or commendation for the dynamic warping of the public conscience. Warping, that is, to particular views. But we have decided against it. Perhaps “Vox” itself should speak. It might be called an entity, a subtle, living thing pos¬ sessing a tone and mood of its own. It might, perhaps, as a journal with a tradition—a jour¬ nal, moreover, breathing a liberal atmosphere not found elsewhere in Canada,—it might very well become an inviolable instrument for the expression of the liberal spirit. Editors might become reverent guardians who colored but never changed either the instrument or the spirit. The magazine might become greater than the editor; it might rule him by the aura of its own tradition. Someday perhaps. Today “Vox” lives through its editors who alter and shape its policy year by year. It is not an altogether undesirable state of affairs. Thus, the voice of “Vox” has actually become the editor’s voice. Elsewhere in this issue we are heard sufficiently to make any additional advocacy inexcusable. We thus set aside our stirring editorial and instead propose a ramb¬ ling chat. H ARVEY DRYDEN, our current affairs mentor, informs us that “Vox” made its debut in the House of Commons a short time ago. Rev. Stanley Knowles, M.P. for Winnipeg North Centre and a graduate of the college, apparently came across a copy of our December issue and finding a certain article to his intere st therein, displayed it to his confreres in the House. We can picture it feverishly passed from hand to hand while the destiny of a nation hangs in the balance. We can picture it, but we’ll never convince ourself. F OR the first time in three years “Vox” ap¬ pears without the prolific handiwork of Steve Otto. Steve’s uncanny skill in any med¬ ium, more especially with the linocut, made him one of the indispensables of the “Vox” staff. Well, not quite indispensable. A glance through our pages this issue will demonstrate how capably Ann Phelps has taken over his work. We welcome Ann to the staff. And we hope that the mellow Gordon Head sunshine has not affected Steve’s vigorous prairie art. W E THINK that the pictures of the famed United-Macalester Conference of 1942 and Mr. White’s commentary will prove interest¬ ing to our American friends. (We say ‘Mr. White’ because he was our Senior Stick. Re¬ spect.) The Conference could hardly have proven more of a success, achieving as it did its purpose of creating the basis for wider view¬ points and more solidly founded understand¬ ing between the American and Canadian groups. Credit is due members of the Faculties of both colleges as well as student organizers for their fruitful efforts this year. Of the worth of the Conference there can be no doubt. One of the men attending it has already become premier of this province. Of course, we don’t expect that to happen very often. Manitoba premiers are too permanent. 4 ND with the thought that what this country needs is more people telling us what this country needs we bow out. 3