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eS A Cee fo ne a AE RN SE RES 3 a NS, 2 Dea ns a SA Great River From "Back of Beyond" Through valleys between these eompressed ridges flow three of the world's great rivers: the Mekong, the Salween, and the smaller but eommerclally more important Ie- sawaddy. This is the glamorous river im- mortalized by Kipling as "the road #0 Mandalay," beloved of the Bri- sh Tommy ... Movie travelogues bave also familiarized the western world with its sampans and rice boats, it lush jungles and fabulous ruing, ' The Irrawaddy is thd great river of Burma. Its headwaters tap the borderlands of China and Tibet, . where they approach within a few miles of the Salween and the Lu- bt branch of the Brahmaputra' . . The headquarters of the Irra- waddy penetrate that little-known Mill country which British resi- dents near the seacoast call "the back of beyond." . . The Irrawaddy is an important artery of commerce. To the tour- Jot a flotilla of rice boats with tri- angular sails drifting down the shvers Is an unforgettable sight. So, %00, are the water taxis or sam- ns, unstable craft resembling eshortened gondolas, in the boatman stands up and pushes the oars . . . Still more primi- e are the eraft resembling Arab' dhows, the canoes, and the great sefts of teakwood from upcountry A novel feature is the floating mar- het, a barge loaded with fruits, ve- getables, and other Jommodiies, towed up and down the river and stopping at various villages along the route. "The Irrawaddy," says 8ir Harcourts Butler, "is a beauti- $ul river'--and he particularly ex- 40s the sunsets which flame above the jungle and dye the current a gorgeous crimeon . , . Among the cities which still adorn the Irrawaddy, Mandalay, some hundreds of miles from the pen, is known by its musical name end Kipling's tinkling verse. But the metropolis js Rangoon, with more than half a million' people, some twenty-two miles from the wth of the Rangoon River, Visit- be steamers anchor off the shoal- tog delta to await a pilot. The voy- age upstream is a eontinuous pan- orama of grotesque fish traps and Jush rice fields, with gilded dago- bag, rising above the more distant vegetation. Rangoon itself is proud of the Shwe Dagon, perhaps the $host famous temple In Asia . . EH is covered with plates of bur- pehed gold and flaunts a metal banner encrusted with. precious stones. Resplendent in the noon- fide sun, iy is scarcely less impres- sive in the darkness when illu- minated by tier upon tier of elec- tric arc fight. Day and night it dominates not only Rangoon but a wide arc of fertile delta, a visible expression of the riches of the Irrawaddy Valley and of the glit- tering but bizarre culties that have flourished thece.---From "Earth's Grandest Rivers," by Ferdinand C. Lane. SALESMA . "Excuse me, sir," saad a shabby galler at a City office "are you sat- Isfied with the amount of your pras ent life insurance?" ' "Yes," replied the manager shortly. "Could I interest you in a morocco- pound edition of the works of Thackeray?" "You could not." "Would: you wvest insa good second-hand cornet if you could get It cheap? "No!" "Just so! Would an offer to sup- ly you with first-class' imported Wi cigars at ten -dollars a Yundred appeal to you?" "Nog a bit!" "That being the case, ealler, "wanld you be willing to buy a tir «f shoe polish, just to get rid of me'" . "Cheat Scot! Yes." "hanks! Good day!" which said the. IFE IN THE OLD BOY YET--As he near Appling ot ts Enloago rd to prove that the old rockin® eh ORT FATES AEE VR ACHAT EY. s d the all-time ecord shortstop, veteran infielder Luke amiably for a photographer 1 hasn't got him yet. Luke was gunning for the record of 2188 games sét by Rabbit Maranville. q ( A SwxgirC Bobby Locke, sfter winning the British Open Golf Championship last month, decided to take part in some exhibition games over there, At the same time he expressed the hope * that such affairs wouldn't keep him in England too long. * * * aisle p lot of sugar. over in the United States," the rather cock- sure Bouth African is reported to have said, "and I certainly hope to get back there by Fall." * * * But right now it looks as though Bobby eould take g stow freight in- stead of a fast plane across the Atlantic, and etlll not do hig bank- roll any too much harm. Alleging that Locke had been guilty of with- drawing from "numerous" events in the United Btates after eommit- ting himself to [2stleipats, Bobby was ruled ineligible for any future tournament sponsored by the Na. tional Professional Golfers Associa- - . And that means practically every United States tournament worth Locke spending time over. * * * } Now it is no intention of ours to et out the crying-towels over Mr. cke's plight. We gave up attend- ing golf tourneys as soon as we saw them developing into one of the most over-publicized rackets in sport, and that's quite some years ago. And we understand, from those who have been more or less closely associated with him, that Mr. Locke is--well, somewhat hard to take. "Bobby Locke's all right," was the way one golfer of our ac- quaintance expressed It, "if you happen to Hke Bobby Locke." * * * Still, to give everybody his due, we don't think that the National Professional Golfers Association of the United States comes out of the affair with flying colors exactly. In _ fact, to us the whole thing has a rather smelly atmosphere. The nub of the matter lies in the statement that, since he first started paying visits to "God's country' back in "1947, Bobby Locke has packed away "suigar' to the amount of ARN, 712, Acrial Trickery--The world's acrial 'acrobatic champici, Ty Skelton, 22, thrills the crowd at an air show in Gatwick In land, as she cuts a tape with the wing of her [lave while fiyi only 15 feet from the ground. : If. that figure had been five grand, instead of fifty, do you imagine that those great sportsmen, the American pros, would have been so ready and anxious to bar his further entries? If you do--well, go right up to the head of the class as one of the world's great -be- levers. » * * Just what the harness-horse game has developed 'into during recent years is seen in some facts and figures regarding the recent meet at Westbury, N.Y. in which GRATTAN McKLYO stepped two miles in the record-breaking time of 4.16 and 4/5ths--which is some stepping, at that. And when you read those facts and figures, ou won't wonder why Canadian horoughbred racing men shudder every time somebody mentions opening a big-time harness track-- with night racing--on this side of the Border. * » * The crowd that watched GRAT- TAN McKLYO pace his two miles numbered 29,619 -- and they wag- ered, during that one evening over' a million dollars -- $1,076,601 to be exact. That is a lot of people, and a heap of money, and you can bet all the tea in China, plus all the coffee in Brazil, that a lot of Canadian sports promoters are studying them long, longingly, and with intent to act. > Bh * They have mutuels instead of - books on these modern American tracks, of course; and the winner-- highly, favored by the crowd--paid his backers $6.80; $5.10; and $3.60 across the board. (With the books, we -imagine he'd have been about 2 to 5, out, out). The second horse, $19.90 and $10.10; while ROYAL MAN, finishing in the third slot, paid $3.20 for show, coupled with two others as an entry. y * * * Canadian horses didn't do so well. DR, STRATTON -- which went to the post favorite in the same event a year ago -- did a lot of pacing in the first mile but ap- parently ran out of gas after that. With his veteran owner, "Lindy" Fraser of Forest, , Ont, in the driver's seat, DR. STANTON stopped to a walk and eventually wound up fifteenth, : * * El Only one other Canadian side- wheeler faced the starter. That was STEWART DIRECT from Hugh Stewart's Peterborough, Ontario stables. He gave a most creditable performance, finishing fifth--which, in. a bulky field of that kind, isn' doing so badly after all, . Finally, lest some of you might think that big-time harness racing calls for a mile or better track, we _ might say that Roosevelt Raceway is only a half-mile affair. That is to say, the horses in the Nassau two- mile pace had to travel four-times- around the racing o strip, which makes GRATTAN McKLYO"S performance more noteworthy. Answer to Crossword Puzzle 1 | Jialrla|nNERe | or kairo] IINIAINIEBELA |W R[ole Bl /IN£[S EER Llr]slr | TE alse B\Ein\RIMRIEIOBPIELS AEA o|P|s S|K|&]7|N|S yelelolelo OVEN EMV Lialo|ERO|E [EBM SINIELF olLik|alnglAlDIE| PT JeloleiuielclrBTIR LP] E GATES CRB TINIE tifatinirintlale|E|R| S| ERRAND at abe PALESTINE Some fourteen months ago Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden said that the chances of restoring peace between the Arabs and the Israelis were about 100 to 1. In the interim ten administrators and soldiers in the service of the United Nations died violently in the attempt, But the "long shot" seems to have come off. Just recently Berna- dotte's successor--Acting Meriator- Ralph J. Bunche--was able to re- port to the Security Council that "I'he mission of the Mediator has been fufilled." This was Bunche's final Palestine report. With armistices arranged bétween the Arab States and Israel covering the entire fighting front, he said that the job of negotiating a definite peace settlement should be left to the three-power--(France, Turkey, the United States)--Con- ciliation Commission at Lausanne in Switzerland. : The commission's talk 'with Jews and "Arabs had bogged down last June over the question of returning to Israel the six or seven hundred thousand Arab refugees put to flight by the war. But under prod- ding by the United States, Israeli negotiators recently returned to Lausanne prepared to make a definite offer ainfed at breaking the jam -- the acceptance of some one * hundred thousand of the refugees in return for the Arab States' ac- ceptance of a final and definite peace treaty. GERMANY ' As chaplains read out the names of 39 British and 31 American fliers who had lost their lives in the great Allied airlift to Berlin, the strains of "The Last Post" and "Taps" floated across the airfield at Fass- berg. in the British zone of Ger- | many. This Allied memorial service marked the beginning of the end of the unique operation. Since the end of the Russian blockade last May stockpiles of food, gasoline and coal in the Ger- man capital have grown to nearly one million tons, and are becoming too large to handle. So the 30,000 British and Americans who were operating more, than 300 airlift planes are being gradually rede- ployed. By the end of October less than half the original number of transport planes will remain in Germany. ' Just for the record: since June 26, 1948 those flires carried some. 2,220,000 tons of supplies on nearly 275,000 flights, totalling. over a hun- dred million flying miles. One one day alone -- last April 16 -- they flew in 13,000 tons. But there's always a. drawback, it seems. In Berlin, the discharge. of thousands of freight handlers will add to an already serious unemploy- ment problem. And those Berliners who remain deep in the Russian zone of the city are likely to miss the familiar, reassuring sound of. those friendly airplane engines sounding from. above. GREAT BRITAIN Were the 'good old days' really 80 good, after all? was the question brought to many British minds when Prime Minister Clement Att- lee raked over some between-wars history in an electioneering speech toward the end of July. In it Attlee flung at the Conservatives Winston Churchill's recent blast at the. "dis- astrous rule" of the Labor Party. - "How disgraceful it i¢ to try and make people believe all our difficulties are due to Socialist mis- management." Then he quoted the Congervative Party Chairmpn, Lord Woolton, as having admitted that, before the war, "not less than 25 per cent were. suffering from mal- . nutrition--or ° impXoper Jfeeding," and that between £922 and 1939 * Britain had gn average of 1,700,000 unemployed. . "As for Mr. Churchill, I have never been slow to acknowledge his war service, but during the past four years he has had a bad relapse into irresponsibility and party spite," quoth Mr "Attlee. JAPAN General Douglas McArthur has ordered the Army' to return local Government to Japanese cantrol by the end of the year. At first the Japanese welcomed the news, but now 'they're beginning to realize that the new autonomy will bring a AGENTS WANTED PA ~ FUR BALE ? CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING . FEACHERS WANTED ~~ ~-oar- OILS, GREASES, TIRES insecticides, RBlectrie Fence Con ers, House and Barn Palnt. Roof Coatings. Dealers wanted, Write Warco Grease & ON ited, Toronto THE ONE CHANCE of your lifetime! 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