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Anent the Blues 



May be that it was in Shakespeare, or may 

 be it was in Locke's hymns that we ran across 

 the following lines, but wherever it was, or 

 from whatever source the verse emanated, 

 the man who wrote "When You're Blue" 

 knew what he was talking about when he 

 said: 



The world looks "bummy" 



When you're blue. 

 The dearest friends dummy. 



When you're blue. 

 There's nothing good nor true, 

 Every one's doing you, 

 All creation's askew 

 When you're blue. 



But as we sit around Recreation's crackling 

 camp fire we can scarcely appreciate the feel- 

 ings of a man when he is blue. That is why 

 we are smiling, that is why we are opti- 

 mistic. Each spark which goes dancing up 

 among the tall dark tree tops carries with 



it a message to the timid fowl roosting there, 

 to the effect that Recreation will see that 

 they have a fair show, and each leaping 

 flame from the birch logs is a beacon of 

 light and promise to all true-hearted sports- 

 men and a token of the hospitality which 

 awaits them at our camp. 



One of those wise old ancients, a fellow 

 bearing the name of Stoboeus, said that hap- 

 piness means vigorous and successful ac- 

 tivity in all our undertakings. This being 

 true, we are both happy and successful, and 

 the reason is that we try to be on the "dead 

 level" in everything we say and do. So 

 when we call attention to the illegal fishing of 

 American fishermen on the lakes we do so 

 because we believe in fair play, and if our 

 nation and our brothers in Canada have 

 mutually decided upon a line, even if it be an 

 imaginary one, which separates U. S. from 

 Dominion waters, that line should be re- 

 spected by both sides, and the Americans 

 who try to steal Canadian fish and embroil 



