Walkerville Collegiate Institute - Blue and White Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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BLUE AND WHITE “ ‘Treat her like a hoss’, you said, On the day that I fust got ' er— Well, like a hoss she bust her leg, So like a hoss, I shot ’er.” PHILIP MONTGOMERY. PROBLEM You may allow yourself two and three- quarter hours to solve the following problem. There is positively no catch to it. Every fact is relevant and must be considered. If you are exceptionally in¬ telligent you can solve it in five min¬ utes. A train is operated by three men nam¬ ed Smith, Jones and Robinson. They are fireman, brakeman and engineer, but not respectively. On the train are three business men named Smith, Jones and Robinson. Mr. Robinson lives in Detroit. The brakeman lives half-way between Chicago and Detroit. Mr. Jones earns $2,000. per year. Smith beats the fireman at billiards. The brakesman’s nearest neighbour, who is one of the three business men. earns exactly three times as much as the brakeman who earns exactly $1,000. The passenger whose name is the same as the brakeman’s lives in Chicago. Who is the engineer? Who is the fireman? Who is the brakeman? (Answer on page 73) Sacred Love There, yonder by our lovers’ lane, Beneath the clear blue sky, Where nature sings and calls and plays, Where Whip-poor-wills doth cry. There lies in sacred solitude, My love of long past days. There, in the precious dark cold earth, In silent sleep she stays. All through these dreary summer months, I dream of her alone. I see again her face, her form, I hear her haunting tone. Page Forty How soft her lips and mine did meet In long sweet clinging kiss! Those big brown eyes! That sleek black hair! Oh, how my cat I miss! JOE HONG, 12; On Some Hints on Reading The university to-day is not the on source of learning in this age of a treme and rapid progress. The books,i which there is a tremendous and vaii abundance provide, if properly used, vast field from which knowledge of at type or description may be culled. Job: son once said that an educated man n one who knows something about ever thing and everything about anything but to-day, I believe, other things bek equal, an educated man is a well-ra man, who knows something about mo ; things but specializes in one particuli field. To be the master of a subject, an be thoroughly the master of it, comt only from long, intensive training i which reading plays a vital but definit part. Any person who intends to tra: his mind along paths of penetration ' discrimination must, of necessity, buii a fundamental base from which he ca: go forth, looking ever upward, endea ' ouring to better himself, his fellow mar the world, and this fundamental corner stone about which he intends to buit his pyramid of knowledge is an analyt ical, discriminating and sound readiiii practice. The classics in one’s natir tongue are certainly an inspiration t any who wish to think independently fo themselves, for any number of ideas ca: be formulated from a classic and not tk- single idea, prevalent among the fictior ists and lower class writers, that the an thor wishes one to think. Truly, the sc: ence of reading shall be as the Phoeni’ —immortal—for works of merit sha live long after the author’s demise. Tb greatest purpose that a book can full, is to make the reader think logical!: for himself. K. H. EWING, U

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y- ik t in Be he k- it fy vt sk DO ke to ed 35 ro¬ ar fe. k :en led years of hard work to compose. He wrote an oratorio “The Mount of Olives” and several smaller works for orchestra and chorus, and over two hundred and fifty songs, only a few of which are sung now. Beethoven’s music is so grand, so firm¬ ly founded upon sound musical laws, so full of great musical skill, that no mus¬ ician of any time can be declared great¬ er. The Viennese people had great re¬ spect for Beethoven and looked upon him as one of the greatest men of the country. He died in 1827, of dropsy, re¬ sulting from a cold. His funeral services were almost as elaborate as those given to kings and emperors. KATHLEEN COX, 13A. A PAGE FROM MY DIARY April 1. This being April fools’ day, I spent most of my time playing jokes on my friends. I changed the labels on the tins of vegetables and fruit. Dessert doesn’t taste very good when mixed with meat and potatoes. 1 don’t like veg¬ etables for dessert either. Retired early because I didn’t feel well. It must be indigestion. April 2. Felt better this morning and so I dined out (protection). We went out in Deacon’s car at night. We didn’t come home in it. It won’t run on orange juice. P.S. It won’t run! April 3. Today we retrieved Deacon’s car. Necessity is the mother of invent¬ ion, but not this invention. We got 10 cents worth of Joy gas. A thing of beau¬ ty is a joy forever. Well, you can’t have everything! April 4. School was very uninteresting today so w’e had a chalk fight. Tsk! what a mess. White polka dots don’t fit in very well with the colour scheme of our class room. Neither do we now. April 5. Mr. McNaughton requested our presence at one of his frequent but necessary get-togethers. Our marks sure took it on the chin. Gee, I’m glad it’s not near Christmas! Naou son wuz goin’ on thutty, He’d never seed a gurl; But jest the same I thought he should Give married life a whirl— “But Paw”, he sed, “I don’t know how A man should treat his wife; You know I ain’t seed one o’ them All thro’ ma rustic life”. And bein’ as I wuz his paw, I tried to make it clear That ’wuz as easy as makin’ Moonshine er “Mountain cheer”. “You know the way to treat a hoss, You’ve owned enough of ’em. Well, when you get thet wife o yourn, You treat her jest the same”. My son asorta pondered, Then he to me did say: “I reckon I’ll meander off And git one right away.” So off he went down to the town, And got hisself a spouse Who, considerin’ the odds Did well at cleanin’ house. Two weeks ago she disappeared, But son wuz unconcerned, And when I ast him where she wuz, This is what I learned— “We went awalking t’other day,” He said, and topped a keg, “And while we wuz astrollin’ ’long, Pore thing, she bust her leg.” E. COOKE. Page Thirty-nine

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BLUE AND WHITE The Black Population of North America This is a story of the wild aborigines of Africa who have scaled the heights from uncivilized cannibals into law-abid¬ ing citizens in a period of little over one hundred years. No other people on earth have made such progress in such a short period of time as the Colored Folks of North America. First brought to this continent by the original settlers, a few slaves were brought from Europe as servants with their masters. But the big percentage of the negro population in early years made the terrible trip in the slave ships direct from Africa. These slave ships are one of the black¬ est spots of cruelty in the annals of his¬ tory. Captives taken prisoners by the wild tribes of Africa were brought to the coast and traded for merchandise to unscrupulous whites. These poor people were jammed into the holds of sailing vessels and forced to go to another con¬ tinent. Many of them died from malnut¬ rition and disease before they reached North America where the remainder were taken to the markets and sold at auctions. Public opinion over the world was gradually changing. The British Emp¬ ire in 1833 passed a bill, that all slaves should be freed in the Dominions. In this way Canada was first to see these people living a normal life as free men on our continent. At the same time our neighbour to the south started to agitate for tne lib crating of the slaves and in 1819 some of the northern states came out for ab¬ olition and the Mason Dixor. line was drawn with eleven states in the south ?till having slavery. Canada became a haven for slaves who had escaped from their cruel mast- ogpj; ers. One of those responsible for helping sha. s l aves escape was John Brow n about . Tin the period of 1840 to 1859. Negroes who escaped and were captured in the Nor¬ thern states were returned to their orig¬ inal masters. By means of the under¬ ground railway many of the poor blacks made their way into Canada and could not be sent back to the horrors from which they had escaped. These people became free men and respected citizens in their new homes. The United States has a different story to tell of four long and bloody years of Civil War starting in 1861 be¬ fore the south would do away with the fiendish system of holding human beings in bondage. The poor negro was the pawn in this gigantic struggle for his freedom, and being illiterate he was taken advantage of by some of those w r ho were his mast¬ ers, as well as by some w’ho made the pretense of helping the cause of free¬ dom. An Act of 1868 finally abolished all slavery and gave the negro of the South the franchise. Since then, problems due to the racial differences between w ' hites and blacks have caused many rifts. However, their differences are being ironed out, and it is apparent that in the near future all the difficulties that have arisen due to the Black Population will be removed from America. MAVIS SMYTH. The Students of W. C. I. They come to school, and before nine, Copy homework just in time To get to class, and start to clown, But finally they settle dowm. Some are slick, others are late, And some play hookey and go to skate; They write their excuses with practised scrawd, And hand them over to Mr. Ball. There are, however, the studious kind, With here and there a master-mind. They pore o’er books while others play, And excell the class on ‘Judgment Day’. When it comes to Assembly they clam¬ our and shout, While each tries to push the others about; They sit where they please to be with some friends, And rush to the door when the meeting ends. JANE FARROW. Page Fortyone