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San) RN AHEM AL NE i UNAS . ealled themselves i i ARAN EY A Tall Tale Of The Sea There is an old saying that 'the sailor can't lie in the teeth of the storm," but he makes up for lost time when he gets ashore before a Board of Inquiry. That, of course, does not mean that all sailors are romancers, but, through the ages, many of the men who went down to the sea in ships have shown a marked aptitude in the telling of tall stories. ' The first is told by Lucian of Samothrace, a Greek who lived some 2,000 years ago. His seaman- ship must have beer good; and 1 think that his imagination must have been better, writes William McDowell in "London Calling." According to his story he got tired of his Mediterranean 'home waters and decided to venture fur- ther afield. He fitted out a good ship, manned her with fifty picked men, and sailed from Rhodes. Being a cautious yarn-spinner, Lucian gives no indication of the course he set. 4 'It Must Have Been A Big Windl' On the first day out, his ship ran into bad weather and it became so dark that they could not see, and just had to let the ship run. After eighty days, the sun broke through, and they found themselves off a mountainous island where they nded for some much-needed rest. hey set hil again on the follow- 'dmg day, the storm still blowing hard. Suddenly, a whirlwind caught the ship, spun her round, and IHted der bodily into the air to a height, Lucian: says, of 3,000 furlongs. Nearly 400 miles! It certainly must have been a big wind! For eight days the Shiprmas was blown through the sky until % a 'shining island glittering 'with t.' It was the moon. Luclan and Bis men landed, and found the plinet inkablted by a race that Hippogyphians, end they yode monstrous, three- ded vultures instead of horses. ut they were a kindly people, ia opite of that. . They took Lucian to their king, who, surprisingly enough elaime de also a Greek, snatched up from 'earth while he was asleep. The king, who introduced himself as Endy- mion, treated the party well, loaded them with presents, and even pro- vided an escort, presumably of vulture-riders, to set them on thelr way. Leaving the moon behind, they dropped in on the Morning $tar to take in fresh water, and then erufsed about the firmament, passing near the sun and visiting various other planets. One of these was peopled by 'glorious and resplendent' erea- tures' who invited them to stay. They did not like the look of them, however, and went on their way. Four days later, to their great joy, they came gently down wind, back on to the sea. You would have thought that journey to be enough for most people, but Lucian was apparently a glutton for adventure. He goes on to tell how, after feasting and merry-making, he and his men set sail again, and after three days ran into many monstrous fishes and whales. One whale was bigger than the rest.-Lucian, with that attention to accuracy so 'noticeable in the best story-tellers, estimated it to be 1,500 furlongs in length--a mere 187 miles--and having teeth as long as trees, This fearsome creature made for the ship with epen mouth, Feeling that their last hour had eome they embraced one another in darewell, while the whale swallowed ship and all. By good luck, however, 4s teeth did not close on the ship, which slipped through a gap, down the gullet, into'the whale's interior. It was dark, Lucian says, emcept when the beast obligingly yawned. Then he saw that his ship had come to rest by a wooded, hilly island which, he presumed quite reason- ably, must have been formed from the mud which the whale had swal- Jowed in the past. From his de- scription, the island would seem 40 have been about the size of Moala in the Fiji Islands. They made the ship fast and Janded to explore the woods. To their surprise they found a temple, erected to Neptune, and judged the Jsland to be inhabited. Going fur- ther, they saw smoke, and heard a dog barking, and soon came acrogs an old man and a youth busy gar- dening. The two were overjoyed at the meeting, and insisted on taking Lucian's party to their 'home for | food and wine. The old man ex- lained that he was a merchant of yprus, whose ship, like Lucian's, had been swallowed but which, un« lke Lucian's, had been chewed up by the whale, leaving these two the. sole survivors. They had lived, they said, twenty- seven years inside the whale, feed- ing on herbs and nuts, and fish which they caught by casting lines from: the beast's gills. They had long given up hope of escape and reconciled themselves to their fate. The old man explained that life inside the whale was not too bad except' for their neighbours. woods were populated by five pep: arate tribes, One of these, the most warlike, looked like eels with lob: The sters' faces. Another, less offensive, were half man and half cat, and the old man and his companion were left in peace mies by paying a yearly tribute of 500 oysters » i ve hs LASS PLS LORS ARENT ol an Bhe Knows A Better Way--While Shirley. May France and ther swimmers train for the nglish Channel, Mrs. Eetta Hi of swimming the frucling tas 8, above, of Southsea, England, z ers to make the crossing in a more leisurely manner. Astride "waterbike," Mrs. Hills ehats with radio announcer Derek oy who has arranged a race across the Channel between Mrs. 5 and a gentleman challenger. pedaled across the Channel as a can beat $20 1XBY IC "We have e¢ompulsory vaccina- thon against smallpox, and inocu- fo prevent measles. and all sorts of other things" remarked 4% friend of ours mot so long ago. ut in my opinion it would be more sensible if we made tt eom- pulsory for every kid to learn how to swim and, later os, to er a ear properly. " * * All okie aside, we honestly think he has something there. Death from the automobile is a far greater ° menace today than death from smallpox has become under modern sanitary conditions. Yet any experi- enced traffic cop will tell you that the percentage of those tooling cars along our streets and highways who "really know HOW to drive prop- erly is amazingly low. * * * This includes not only beginners and screwballs, but many.who have been driving cars for years--pre- sent company NOT EXCEPTED, 'barring ourself. (We have never driven and never intend doing so). * * * As for the compulsory swimming lessons--well, you have only to open up any paper during the sum-_ mer months, and especially on a Monday, and--be sickened at the thought of so many lives last in the water--lives which might have been spared had there been even a rudimentary knowledge of swim- ming. * * * In this connection, it is interest- 'ing to note how many swimming fatalities, at the seashore and on lake beaches, are attributed to what is called "the undertow". According to general belief this undertow is a broad, powerful current running below the surface, and returning to thte lake or ocean the water which the waves had' piled up upon the beach. * * * Encyclopedias, dictionaries and -_ = EZZARD CHARLES Heavyweight The English housewife A Soung girl, and is confident she comers, y = Semen even textbooks on Jeology give their theories about undertow, their explanations running along the line just quoted above. But it ap- tist had ever bothered to check up and find out whether or not the un- dertow, theory was correc.t *¥ * * A week or so ago Dr, Francis 8hephard, a very noted marine 'ge- 'ologist, came out with some state- ments which all who lke to dis- port themselves in the water, whe- well to note for future use, Writing in the magazine PHYSICS TO- DAY he tells of extensive experi- ments and measurments of beach- side water flow, And he says that --"The net movement at the sur- face is ordinarily in approximately the same direction as it is at inter- mediate depths and even near the bottom." * * ] Dr. Shephard hastens to explain shat this does not mean that there is no seaward current. Water brought in by the waves has to get back somehow, and everybody knows that bathers are often drag- ged out beyond their depth by some hydralic force. But this. counter- movement of the water is not a GENERAL UNDERTOW, It is a well-defined and LOCALIZED rip current, tide.) \ * » A rip current is formed when an - incoming wave is bent by a ridge in the lake or ocean floor, or even by a pier or jetty, The ends of the wave converge in a pincers move- ment, causing a pile-up of water. Then the piled-up water rushes back, generally along a narrow 'pathway defined by a miniature sub- marine canyon, Beyond the breakers this rip current farntsons and loses its force. - » ROE A poor swimmer, Shephard warns, should be on his guard against rips when breakers are more than 3 feet high. The height can be judged by standing knee-deep in watér during upsurges and gazing seaward at the horizon, shore do not cut off the view of the horizon, it is prétty safe to assume that the surf is not violent enough to cause dangerous rips. -~ * * * Ld He 'gives this advice to swim- mers: "If the breakers are large, thé poor swimmer should keep 'in than waist . high even during the largest waves. He should also avoid bottom irregularities, which indi- cate the existence of channels cut lby the feeder currents of the rips. Even if the water in the channels appears to have little current, a series of large waves may send a concentrated surge along the chan- nel, sweeping the bather off his feet and out into the zone of large breakers." . ' ¥ The bather who blunders into a rip and feels himself being carried out beyond hig depth should. eon- serve his strength and not try to fight his way to shore against a powerful 'current. narrow, the best strategy if to head at right angles from' the current and will often at least in quieter water, pears that, until lately, no scien-. ther swimmers or not, might de (sometimes called a rip shallow water, never getting deeper. Since rips are parallel to the beach: A few strokes land the swimmer on a shoal ordering the rip 'channel or If waves breaking near - " PALESTINE Shoyting for "Bread and Work" 'some 400 Israeli broke into the courtyard of the Parliament Build- ing at Tel Aviv and battled with the police. One New York news- paper correspondent reported that at least 15,000 of the new republic's population are. seeking .visas that will permit them to emigrate to the United States; and a Times report- er, after visiting one of the 330 camps housing 66,000 immigrants found the inhabitants "enveloped In hopeless idleness and too tired to understand that the State (of Israel) "is new and that its funds are inadequate." After fifteen months of existence the Israeli Republic appears to face a bleak future. It is over populated and under capitalized. At the be- ginning of the year immigrants were arriving. at the rate of 225,000 annually, while homes were going up for less than a quarter that - number, Alarmed at the effect in foreign lands of reports on the existing situation, the Israeli Finance Min- fstry called in reporters a few weeks ago and scoffed at predic- tions of the country's collapse. Dur- ing the first half of 1949, according to. the spokesman, $60,000,000 had been. invested in Israel, while im- migration had dropped by almost one-half, ~But to sustain the Finance Min- jetry's optimistic . outlook, Israel is going to need far more capital than it is getting from outside. Large private investments are slow to develop. New businesses, accord- ing to the Official Gazette, are gen- erally capitalized at around $3,000. And a speaker warned the Tel Aviv Commercial Club that 200 American business men, represent- . ing an investment potential of one hundred million dolars, had visited signing any contracts at all. In other words shouting for the new Republic and damning the British for retarding its creation was one thing. Investing hard cash in it, now that it has got started, quite another! CHINA United States experts are trying to line up the Western Powers in an agreement not to extend any eredits to Communist China, They figure that without big credits from the West the Chinese Reds will have to turn to Russia for ex- tensive: help -- help that Moscow cannot afford tp give without mak- ing either the Russian people, or other: Russian satellites, go short. Thus, in theory, if the West stands firm in refusing economic help, world Communism Is bound to suffer, no matter what policy the Kremlin adopts. Only time, of course; cai prove whether or not this theory is sound. But there seems to be no doubt "that the Chinese Communists are having their troubles. Depression and inflation are crippling both Nanking and Shanghai. Since the |. Reds took overe checks passing through the Nanking clearing-house have dropped from 20,000 to 200 a day. Up to a'week or so ago only one ship had dared to riuh the National- ist Pblockade into Shanghai -- and her cargo of cotton just doubled its value in the course of a voyage from Hong Kong. Trying to keep the city, adminis- tration going, the Reds increased the Shanghai land tax one hundred- fold. And in an effort to impose discipline on the hopelessly corrupt city then even cracked down on the mah-jongg gamblers, rounding them up in droves and putting them. to work cleaning lavatories 'and' sweeping the city streets. THE UNITED STATES Mr. Truman has been having rather tough going since he pulled the great surprise last November; but even his worst enemies cannot deny that he, personally, has been 'doing his utmost to keep his elec- tion promises, in the face of stiff sition from all sides, Jeifing own. His niost recut triumph, up to now, was the passage of a ted eral housing bill over the opposition Wof a well-financed real estate lobby. This measure will provide funds the country and: then left without IN THE WORLD Norman Blaiy . for an immense program of hous- ing for low-income families, slum clearance, and rural housing im- provements. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, the House of Representatives ap- proved a bill to broaden the cover= age and. raise the benefits of the federal social security system, Av- erage benefiits for old age would be raised 80 per cent, and 11 million workers would be added to the 35 million now covered by social security. Passage of this measure at the next session of Congress is now regarded as nearly certain; and al- though it is somewhat less than the President originally requested, it -will be the .most important social security improvement in the Past decade, There are those who say that there is a certain. lack of skill in President Truman's leadership, Nevertheless the -stubborness with 'which he fights for his liberal con- victions are 'undoubtedly bearing fruit -- backed, as it appears to be, by a strong tide of publie opinion * behind his social reforms. INDIA India has just celebrated its sec- ond anniversary as an independents and the record of accomplishment, jn that comparatively short time, is surprisingly good. Because of monsoons and other disasters to crops, India has. had to cope with more than the normal food shortage. But she met the emergency by the importation of foodstuffs and by. the most ambi- tious rationing . scheme ever at- tempted anywhere -- a rationing system affecting 140,000,000" people. And this scheme proved amazingly effective. Now India, handicapped by an unfavorable balance of trade, wants to end her importations of food and aims to become self-sufficient in the matter of food by the end of : 1951, This, in a sense, is bad news "for - Canada, which shipped 10 million bushels of wheat to. India in the - past 12 months. Nor is Canada's export outlook brightened by' the new Indian program of-locomotive manufacture. India has been ime porting railway stock from Canada and other countries in the past, but hopes to be making her own within a year and a half. But an increasingly prosperous India should eventually develop a higher standard of living, and will not only require Canadian goods but will have goods of her own t trade for them. At all events the progress has been made since. India struck out, "on her owh" is far greater than nine-tenths of the "experts" were. predicting two years ago, when the 'great event finally occurred. Some Party! Two Scotsmen who had been at a party met the following morning, and one said to the other: "Weel, Donald, and did ye get hame all richt?" "Aye," replied Donald, "I got hame all richt, except that just as I turned 'a corner a policeman trod on ma knuckles." Naturally! An artist who always painted .pictures of people with no clothes on was asked: "Why do you always paint people in the nude?" "Oh," he replied, "I suppose it's because I was born that way." -- = Ser REID'S noustrown INSECT POWDER A sure blorl, Fouches "nad" Ser wv Classified Advertising. AGENTS WANTED OILS, GREASES, TIRES lnsecticides, Blectric Fence 54 Controllers, House and Barn Paint. Root Coatings, ete. Dealers are wanted. Wri Limited, Toronto THB ONE CHANCE of your lifetime] Four Warco Grease & Of day week, 356% commission. 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