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MARSHALL, HAROLD ROSS, BASIL BLAKELY ALUMNI STAFF Editor: ALBERT M. BRIGGS, '36 Circulation: RUTH LOWERY, '34; JESSIE BLACKWOOD, '37; VELMA KELLY, '35 Contents Page Editorial: Jabberwocky for the Hoi Polloi 2 Principal W. C. Graham, a Message 3 GRADUATE FEATURE ARTICLE- Perennial Poland, by Dr. W. J. Rose, London, England 4 CHANCELLOR'S PRIZE STORY- The World Is Waiting, by David C. Cottingham 8 SPECIAL COLOR SECTION- Graduates of 1940: Five Panels 13 United College Student Council 19 Valedictory Address, by Harry Meadows 20 Interfaculty Champions: Football 22 Basketball, Track, Soccer 23 Executives: Drama, "Vox," Athletic 24 Social, Co-ed 25 "Vox" Talks: A Review of the Four Issues 26 ~'REEDOM OF SPEECH PRIZE ESSAY- The Maintenance of Free Speech in Canada, by Ellen Hampton 29 Song for Canadian Artists, a Poem, by Chester Duncan 35 Watson Kirkconnell, a Tribute, by J. D.H 36 Alumni Notes 37 : EDITORIAL EDITOIUAL JABBERWOCKY FOR THE HOI POLLOI What can we say? our way of life is to stand up against the blows of In this day of sudden, shocking re-evaluation, the invader. Perhaps, as Heywood Broun says, when Reality has thrust its ugly visage into our we ain't been livin' right. waking dream of life, what can we say? Where did we go wrong? How is it that Better to say nothing and go by. democratic France, so triumphant in 1919, has Perhaps heed the words of Edgar Lee Masters been brought into the dust by the German jug­ in the sad tale of Louise Smith- gernaut six weeks after the launching of the blitz­ Do not let the will play gardener to your soul krieg, so that now we have been confronted with Unless you are sure It is wiser than your soul's nature. the macabre spectacle of French and British fight­ For these were some of the things they said, ing on the seas? They said it over and over, like a Congo song, a We must interpret this defeat. chant, and it lulled us into apathy. They said­ The smash of France was due to an irresistible combination of factors in the enemy's favour. That Hitler would never go to war. But Hitler and his methods was not our great­ That the war would never be in the west, if est enemy; the most formidable foe we had was there was a war. our own smugness. The smugness which permit­ That if there was a war, even if there was a ted us to go unarmed while the enemy was arm­ war in the west, that it would be a defensive war. ing furiously and even to dally when the day of That if there ever should be a war, any kind reckoning arrived-this was inexcusable. We said of war, that there would be a revolution in Ger­ Democracy was good and Dictatorship was bad many very soon. and that seemed to be enough. We sneered and That Germany could not last six months be­ criticized the Nazis, while refusing to consider the cause she would starve. imperfections of our own system, and we were so That France's army was the finest army in the confident that he would crumble up if ever he world. raised his hand against us. In our snobbery and And when Hitler went to war and it was in the conceit we turned away from this uncouth brute, west and it was not a defensive war for the Allies until one day he rose up and smote us. It is not to and there was no revolution or starvation in Ger­ be expected that we would be as fully armed and many within six months-then they said: hardened as this international gangster who had That Hitler made a fatal mistake when he spent seven years getting his mob together for the invaded Norway. kill, arming them to the teeth and waiting for the That the French general Gamelin was a great day he could strike down a peaceful community. general indeed. But we might have openly faced the fact that he That the Nazi army would not get through was a gangster, not a paranoiac, and kept our Holland because they would flood Holland. police force in shape, and watched the arrant That the Rome-Berlin Axis was broken and cowards who were ready to sell out to the brute Mussolini was soon to be an ally of the British. to save their proprietory interests. Who said it? We don't know. But it got Democracy had got a little soft in the head due around. These were the things they said and to the idealistic theories of so-called intellectuals. lulled us into a false security. Every word they It needed hoops of steel to gird it, for an abomin­ spoke or wrote, these publicists, helped to wall us able smugness had got abroad in our land that up in our fool's paradise. We were a democracy. took refuge under the churchy slogan that Right And if we objected to what they said, if we Will Triumph. But we forgot that only when criticized ourselves, then we were being un­ right has teeth can it triumph. We forgot the first patriotic, for they equated patriotism with their law of life, a principle which Darwin promulgated own easy assurances of safety which led to the a century ago: that the fittest survive.