Westdale Secondary School - Le Raconteur Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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W :svvn-IL-:tin x, 4.3 1. Q., . PRINClPAL'S MESSAGE . R, f'i ' 43, I . ij-'E .aw ' , 'ff 1 -',fa: r-1' ' I Las' X Mai ft A if ' How nice it would be, in this annual message for Le Raconteur, to pen a pleasing platitude or two and turn away from things unpleasant. Instead, however, let me recall the incident which was staged outside this school a short time ago when a group of renegades posing as Youth distributed, at the beck of their masters, lying and seditious handbills treasonably conceived to cripple our security, to seduce our loyalty and thus, in due course, to seal the doom of the free- dom won for us in Canada by our forefathers through patience, privation and peril. Fortunate indeed that this revelation of the ma- lignancy of the still painless growth which has been imported into our corpoate body should be brought to our very doors as a warning. Because this particular propaganda was stupid in its patent absurdities and untruths, we should not be de- ceived concerning the real and present threat to our free way of life. The Iron Curtain has been erected with malevolence but not by stupidity, ex- cept by that stupidity of the loyal citizens who declined to see the approaching storm and failed to raise their defence in time. Pt study of the events of the past ten years must impel us to underestimate neither the traitor in our midst nor the enemy abroad, lest the fate of the Baltic States, of Poland and Czecho-Slovakia be ,- '24 --qu, We . Ll- - - ' intra' v W trim?-Q... Col. M. V. McQueen O.B.E., B.A.Sc., F.C.I.C. ours also. In 1945 l saw the industrious and in- offensive rural families of the lovely Danube Val- ley from Linz to Vienna deprived of all they owned and exiled from the lands of their fathers. Was it they whom I also saw crawling on hands and knees, hunting like swine for edible roots in the open fields of a camp near St. Polten? Do we say that it could not happen here in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula? The responsibility to ensure that it does not lies with you-the boys and girls attending our schools to-day. H seditious pamphlet reflects sedition. To what end that sedition points each one of us must de- cide. I hope that each member of the graduating class, and the undergraduates who perchance will not return, will achieve and cherish happiness and prosperity and will not soon forget the days at Westdale. Friendship and assistance will be theirs here, always. May we all strive together to fulfill and further the purpose of this great School-to learn to live graciously, with industry, intelligence and in- tegrity. Finally, l congratulate the President and mem- bers of The Triune Student Council for their effi- cient conduct of student activities and particu- larly on this occasion, the editor and staff of Le Raconteur. 7

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Conhdence . . . In an educational institution is that assurance produced by many years of marked success in build- ing successful careers for young men and young women, that the standards of education and the faculty are of a superior kind. It is this Confidence that leads the leading business firms and finan- cial instiutions of Hamilton to come to us for office help. CANA BUS ESS CIILLEGE WIAIN AT llUGllSON STREET Il E. CLEMENS, PRINCIPAL L l