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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-09-24, Page 6rmy 01 flTtCY. arches in its 60th Year Salvation Artily Uses the Fc'ent as it EattgouiuI t • Story by Mona Gould • For sty 'yrears now, the Salvation :Army has beenim the march in Gan- ada, From coast to coast this vast or. • ganization carries out its crusade for the welfare of mankind. Well might the old nursery rhyme be quoted to • embrace the gamut of humanity up- lifted:: "Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, • rich/nen, poorman, beggarman, thief." Color and creed means nothing. Where there is a need, the Salvation Army comes to the rescue, In a country at war and earnestly +concerned with the battlefront it is sometimes easy to overrOok the fact that home front responsibilities to yard the less fortunate do not dimin- ish, but rather increase. Immoral- ity, poverty and destitution flourish in the .midst of stress and anxiety and financial burdens. Homes, temporarily ,or permanently bereft of fathers, be- come unstable and the children saddled with the direct results of such misfor- tune need all the help they can get to live to grow up and become useful cit- izens. Over a period of years the Salva- tion Army has developed an efficient and economical organization, func- tioning smoothly; to meet all human emergencies. Because all leaders and workers for theArmy give unstinting- ly of their time and service for mere pitence as pay great and lasting re- sults grow from but modest expen- ditures. • Administration offices are modest in the extreme. Corps, workers live of- ten in the districts where their duties are centred ... some of them in rooms above the citadels where the church services and young people's work are carried out. Simplicity and economy marks every! phase of the army% broad sphere of compassionate ser - Vice. Corps workers keep in close touch with the people they seek to help and befriend. Well versed in the complex- ities of human nature through close association with humanity. in the raw, they know the value of a little word of cheer and encouragement. Friendli- ness brings with it trust which begets results far past the dayor the hour. Into homes gone awry because of drunkenness or poverty or misfortune in any of its tragic phases go the Corps workers of the Army. They - do not come with condemnation but with the simple comforting assurance of the Bible and a practical demon- stration of the Golden: Rule. If food is needed,‘it is provided . . . clothing . . . or medical attention, There are 418 Corps with 700 officers engaged in bringing help, materiel and spirit- ual, to the poor or needy' citizens of Canada. Unlike the Nazis with their decree of death for, those past.usefulness, De- mocracy protects its aged. Li Canada the Salvation Army provides "Sunset Lodges" for old women where they tnay live in peace and comfort sur- rounded by kindliness and good will, and "Eventide Homes" for old men. Housed in pleasant secure surround- ings these aging,people have a place .of their own in the iun." Last year the Salvation Army cared for 1,567 mothers and 1.042 babies in the fourteen homes provided for the unmarried mothers house in ways, in time of war this particular phase of rescue work has increased greatly and continues to increase. Ex- perience shows that 86% per cent of the unamihried mothers housed in these Salvation Army homes go on to become useful virtuous citizens, Sheltered in Army Homes in plea- sant attractive surroundings these un- married mothers 'are given every chance to regain their self respect, When their babies are born they are cared for in any one of the 36 Army maternity hospitals in Canada. Then htey return to, the Home again until they are ,ready ,and able to find oc- cupatione and start life afresh. Many of the babies are adopted and taken into households where they may have the love And care children need to be- come useful adjusted men and women, "Emergency" �r "Receiving Homes" run by the Army in Canada provide shelter' and tare- whenever an un- forseen crisis- wises. For instance a mother and child, put out of their lodgings without funds or the imm- ediate prospect of another roof over their heads may be housed until other arrangements can be made. Unfor- tunate girls remanded in court are ,e.teseeeenefeese 'ewe*, eee.eie VISITING CANADA General Geo. L. Carpenter, internat- ional leader of the Salvation Army, with headquarters in London, England who arrived in New York by plane late in August, and who soon after spent over an hour with President Roosevelt in Washington, General Car- penter, who was chosen for the top post in The Salvation Army while in charge of the Canadian Territory in 1939, will visit Canada in September and October, and will =duct special Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Con- gress meetings in key Canadian cities. often taken into Receiving Homes by Corps workers until such time as their stories an be checked, and their parents or guardians contacted. Runaways, girls lost in big cities peo- ple recovering from illness with no one to care for them, people seek- ing help in finding work, all these may come to Receiving Homes and be cared for. - Three homes for children are main- tained by the Ariny. in Canada. Some of the small residents are only tem- porary where homes have been dis- rupted: or upset. These, young ones will go back to their own parents when conditions nierit a return. Still ethers, deserted, or with parents fir prison, find a second home in whole some friendly surroundings with plen- ty of good food and sympathetic un- derstanding, a combination that goes a long way toward making n child mind receptive to the good things of life. These are the chlictren, faces shining clean, and wearing clean pinafores to table who will grow up to want a haa• monious Christian existence. Those of them who remember the slums and the despair of dirt and destructibri will make very sure that their children will never have such memories. For they have learned a whole new 'way of life under the sheltering wing of the Salvation Army. These are the inno- cents who say Grace at meal time, and who are dependent on the gener- osity of Canadian people able to give, for the continuance of their care and well being . . . their swings in the yard and a, bit of green for a game of 'croquet! For the ex -prisoners of our goals, the Salvation Army has clone and is doing invaluable work. The court room is one of the regular "beats" of the .Army officer. It doesn't matter to the Ariny-of Mercy how hopeless the case seems, or how unregenerate. With the greatest patience and kindliness and tact, the Salvation Army workers seek to establish a feeling of trust, and once the lawbreakers has become re- ceptive to this earnest sincerity the battle is half won. The Salvation Mmy officer will take on the respons- ibility of rehabilitating his man. A. job is found, for him to go to upon release . . material aid, constant encour- agement and backinkmake Mman feel that one mistake ,or even ten need not brand a man a total loss, if he has the will to go straight. In war plants today, in.the fighting forces, are men reclaimed by the Salvation Army, star- ted anew and helped back to a nor- mal Christian existence. • So, when this month the Salvation Army asks the people of Canada to give generously in response to the Red Shield Home Front Appeal it it with the assurance that after sixty years of service, Canadian citizens will see to it that the Army of Mercy "goes marching en"! •I v Britain is now producing twice as many tanks as in August 1941, three • times" as many as in February 1941, and five times as many as in Au- gust 1940. . . „ THE CLINTON NWS RECORD • Sugest Rural Change The little red schoolheuse can bring its reading classes up to date just as easily as schools in urban districts, according to Lois Clark, adviser of early childhood and ele- mentary education in the Pennsyl- vania department of public instruc- • tion. Speaking before the annual con- ference on reading instruction held at', the; Pennsylvania • State college over the past week -end, ,Miss Clark advocated that the one -room school teacher group her pupils according to ability father than grades. "To help each child to do what he is capable of doing, we must free the rural teacher from the artificiali- ty of grade organization and let her give pepils with third grade read- ing ability books they are capable of mastering regardless of their age or grade level," she said. • Miss Clark recommended three ways to bring about improvement in reading in rural schools. 1. Re-classify pupils according to their ability. 2. Teach reading in •other , sub- jects as well as in "reading class,' making sure that pupils are famil- iar with words found in geography, health, and history textbooks in ad- dition to those in readers. 3. 'Encourage more free, volun- tary "reading for fun" from other books which interest the pupils. Such a program carried out in one rural school brought about marked irnprovernent in reading, better re- sults in achievement tests, and greater interest in books, she de- clared. Save This for Your. August Plant Feeding Strawberry beds—because the first buds of the strawberry are formed in the fall of the year, the plant should be fed well, during August and September, to insure a heavy crop of fruit for the following year. • Dahlias—in order to keep plants blooming freely until frost. Delphiniums—to promote a fall burst of bloom. Established lawns—to help the grass develop 'a strong, deep root system that is not subject to winter killing. A fall application of a com- plete balanced plant food (4 pounds per 100 square feet) is very bene- ficial. Seedbed ,fir new lawns—to pro- mote vigorous growth of young grass and promote well-balanced development of both root and top growth. New and established plantings of crocus and narcissus bulbs—to in- duce se strong root growth, and thus insure abundant spring bloom. Naziism and Nietzsche's Distorted. Idealism Comparing the superman theory. of Hitler with ''that of Nietzsche, Germany's famous philosopher, Dr. Donald A. Platt discloses various influencee behind the Nazi move- ment and the strangelydistorted idealism of Friedrich Nietzsche. • Professor of Philosophy at the Los Angeles campus of the University of • California, Dr. Piatt says that Nietzsche saw everywhere deca- dence and defeat He wanted men to become gods. This was the task of science and philosophy. He called the Germans smug and slave- souled. "Shame On the ignoble hap- piness that is the dream of. grocery clerks, Christians, cows, women, Englishmen, and • all democrats," wrote Nietzsche in "Twilight of the Gods." Fascism arose in Germany, states Dr. Piatt,. through two groups: "a small bourgeois class, disgruntled, envious, wanting more power and wealth, and soldiers returning from the First World war, finding it dif- ficult to secure employment, not wanting to work, wanting to fight." Hitler, as the leader, promised ful- fillment of these aims, though both aims were despised by Nietzsche, whose Superman was neither indus- trialist nor militarist. TECTURS. SEPT. .24; 1942.; Suggestions Given for Answer to How Brown Johnny Isn't Deaf if 6. Care of Paint Brushes • In the past, approximately 90 per cent of the paint brushes used were made df Slack Chinese hog bristles. With imports from China at a stand- still,''paint brushes -should be oared for carefully and protected so that they may render the longest possi- ble service. Never leave brusheS in a paint pot. While painting sessions are on, suspend the brushes in an old can half filled with turpentine. When the. painting is finished, wash the brushee well M turpentine or benzine. Squeeze out all, of the paint possible, then wash very thoroughly in hot soapy water until all the paint is removed. Allow to dry thorough- ly before storing away. • Alcohol cleans shellac brushes, lacquer thin- ner cleans lacquer brushes. Brushes that are used in casein or cold water paints will not be dame aged by these materials if they are not allowed to dry into the bristles. Bending this hardened mass may, cause the bristles to crack. Always' wash brushes used in water paints. immediately after using. When painting, don't jam a brush into corners. It buddes the bristles' and spoils the brush for good work. Be sure you are using the right, sized brushes foithe work remiired., Misusing a brush will cause it to! lose its general shape. After load- ing the brush with paint, it should 'be drawn, fiat side down, across the rim. of the paint can. The shape of, the brush will be spoiled if drawn edgewise. With good care your brus,h will stand by you for the duration. St. Lawrence River Approaches Commanding the approaches from the ocean to the St. Lawrence river is Newfoundland, oldest colony in the British Commonwealth of Na- tions. Southwest of Newfoundland and northeast of Cape Breton island is Cabot strait, 55 miles wide, larg- est of three entrances to the gulf. Smaller but very important is the Strait of Belle Isle, ten miles wide, separating Newfoundland from Lab- rador on the mainland to the north, and serving as passage 'on the shortest shipping route from. Mon- treal to Liverpool. Smallest is the Strait of Canso, half a mile wide, separating Cape Breton island from Nova Scotia. • Navigation in the Gulf of St. Law- rence has its hazards. There are frequent fogs. Tidal currents are meeacing. Iron ore deposits in the north shore hills cause strange com- pass deviations. The •savere winter climate that closes the river several months a year causes spring ice jams in the gulf. These factors plus the numerous islands take a heavy toll in wrecked ships. Growing Their OWu Rice Eight thousand small farmers in South Carolina will buy no rice this year. They're growing their own, according to the department of ag- riculture. These Farm Security ad- ministration borrowers will save the money they usually spend for rice, and at the same time will make a substantial contribution to the nation's Food for Freedom pro- gi•arn by releasing rice stores for soldiers and sailors. Contrary to popular belief, rice can be grown successfully in the southern states; although somewhat smaller in size •than that grown On irrigated land, it has equal nutritive value, The rice is planted late in April and re- quires little ' cultivation. Families report no difficulty In producing or preparing the rice for home use. Many harvest the crop in bundles, and thresh it at home by beating the bundles over old bed springs. New Goggles,Aid Air Pilots Before going on night duty air pi- lots in the military. service spend about half an hour in a darkened room so that their eyes will become adjusted to seeing in dim light. To eliminate. this waiting period • in a darkened room, special goggles have 'been developed recently in the Unit- ed States to condition eyes of avian tors. , The goggles are made with a red filteebetween tvio layerS of polaroid. This arrangernent,shuts ett most of the light falling op the outer part of the retina, which is used principal- ly by the eyes in .seeing under low illuntination. With the new goggles a pilot may remain in a fully lighted room until he goes 'on duty. Crushed Frozen Fruit Requires Canning Care If crushed frozen fruits, a com- paratively new product now gain- ing favor, are to please consumers, the packers find they must exercise scrupulous care, to prevent undesir- able flavors and odors from metal equipment and containers. Chemists of the Western Regional Research laboratory of the U, S. department of agriculture say that metals containing iron, zinc and copper are particularly bad. Fruit acids dissolve iron, which combines with fruit tanning hi astringent fruits, affecting the color. Zinc car galvanized metals dissolved by fruit acids are somewhat toxic and give an astringent taste to the. product. Tin cans are used for packaging most frozen crushed fruit, but the cans should be lined with enamel or lacquer. This is especially nec- ,essary for 'red -colored fruits and those containing tannin. Freezing fresh fruits in an atmos- phere of inert gas such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen or under condi- tions which exclude air, does not af- fect the flavor. Queen's Visit Renews Importance The springs at Bath, England, were the center of a Roman resort city developed during the first four centuries A. D. This was ruined by the Saxons in' 577 A. D. and for 1,200 years the city existed quietly, developing some reputation for cloth -making. A visit to the springs by Queen Anne in 1703, touched off their new popularity that reached great heights midway in the seven- teen hundreds. There were severe growing pains attached to this new popularity, un- til Richard ("Beau") Nash was ap- pointed master of ceremonies at the spa and instituted needed regula- tions into the frivolous life of the city. Swords were banned. Serv- ices at the famous Abbey cathedral became a prelude to an evening at gaming tables. Growth of the city followed the well -made plans of competent architects, earning for it Landor's description, the "Florence of England." Even though it waned as a fash- ionable resort literary and political celebrities continued ' to patronize it, and the former have written it repeatedly into lasting literature, such as "Humphrey Clinker," "The Rivals," "Pickwick Papers," "The Virginians," and more recently, Booth Tarkington's "Monsieur Beau- caire." Historical Russian Kereh The Golden Mound on the slopes of Mount Mithridates in Kerch, Russia, cfilitealed a big stone vault containing golden dishes. The Mound of Cinders was the tomb of an ancient Greek king and his queen. He wore golden bow and buckles. She had a golden diadem, necklace and breast jewels. A gold- en vase lay at her feet. Another tomb contained what is believed to be the oldest Greek mural existing. It dates from the Fourth century B. C. A Christian catacomb bears the date 491. The Church of St. John the Baptist, built in 717, pre- sents a specimen of purest Byzan- tine art. •• For 2,500 Years or more, Kerch has felt the impact of the wars between civilization and barbarism. First known settlers of Crimea were the Celtic Cimmerians. They were driven out by the nomadic «Scythians, who allowed the ancient Greeks to establish colonies, Many Crimean towns still bear names of Greek origin. - • • St Lawrence Gulf Has Half the Size of North Sea Announcement that an enemy U-boat has operated in the St. Law- rence river suggests thoughts that may be misleading unless a map is handy. ,For the St. Lawrence is no ordinary stream with banks close together. Near Anticosti island it is some 80 miles wide; and where it narrows down, 150 miles farther inland, the banks are still approxi- mately 30 miles apart. • The river ranks high among the streams of the world in the volume of water discharged. With its canals and the Great Lakes, it joins Chi- cago and Duluth by fairly direct wa- ter route with Europe. Trade of western Canada with the United Kingdom has built the great cities 'of Montreal and Quebec on its banks, says a bulletin from the National Geographic Society. When the Gulf of St. Lawrence is added to the great funnel -shaped expanse of the lower river, the area is half that of the sub -infested North sea. It exceeds the area of the five Great Lakes combined and is equal to 26 Chesapeake bays. It would cover the Middle Atlantic states—New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania—with Delaware and most of Maryland thrown in for good measure. • Roll Over Three Times! The Northwestern university traf- fic institute, Evanston, DI., reports that at 40 miles an hour a car will eollide with a fixed object with the same force that it would exert if it were dropped from the top of a four-story building—or from the height of approximately 54 feet. A headon collision with another car traveling at the same speed would double the force and probably would be fatal. M 40 miles an hour it also develops enough energy to roll over about three times. ' Ideal for Ambush The Japanese army invading southern China was shattered along one of the most difficult sections of the tortuous Burma road, says a bul- letin from the National Geographic Society. The road, winding to 10,000 feet along hairpin turns, overhung by precipices, and sometimes only eight feet wide, is ideal territory for am- bush. Concealed Chinese artillery at Chefang and American Volunteer Group fliers near the Salween river smashed the spearhead of the Japa- nese forces by taking advantage of the road's natural obstacles. Mech- anized equipment proved of little value there. First town on the Chinese portion of the road is Wanting, a customs post toward which remnants of the Japanese army fled. Twenty-four miles to the northeast is Chefang, where the Chinese trapped the main Japanese army in a gorge. Greeting Card Industry The greeting card industry is com- prised of over 100 manufacturers and publishers and gives employ- ment to thousands of individual wage earners, including executives, artists, writers, craftsmen, factory workers, salesmen, retail dealers and clerks. At the same time, the industry uses a comparatively small amount of material, as is suggested by figures showing that the manu- facture bf greeting cards requires but a fraction of 1 per cent of the total paper output of the country. It is also interesting to note that the industry utilizes no vital or crit- ical materials; does not interfere with war production; yields up its materials for reprocessing. Ship- ments require but little transpor- tation space. s i5rowz Sugar wen ow brown is brown sugar? This queation may sound like the one that asks how high is up. But -the, fact of the matter is that there are Many degrees of brownness M this famil- iar forma of sugar, as any housewife will testify. • • No two people will ever agree ex- actly onthe brownness of sugar be- cause of the variation that exists in the perception of different individu- als' eyes. Now, howeyer, thanks to a new device, the manufacturers' of brown sugar will be able to provide the housewives of America with brown sugar of uniform color at all times. Heretofore- sugar refiners have had trouble -with brown sugar be- cause even the men who make the sugar could not agree on the degree of brownness of their product from batch to batch. They need have no more trouble in this regard because two Califor- nia chemists, T. R. Gillett and A. L. Holven, have invented a, device which employs photoelectric cells to measure the amount of light re-, fleeted by brown sugar. By meas-: uring the amount of reflected light' by this electrical instrument, a true and consistent measure of thee brownness of sugar is provided. Madagascar Is Almost As Large as Texas • Madagascar, seized from the Vichy; French by the British, is the key to! the western Indian ocean. It con- trols the trade routes around Afri- ca's Cape of Good Hope to Indiai and Suez. In the hands of an enemy, it could harass shipping from the, British Isles to Australia by way of: the Capetown route. Madagascar's area is 228,000 square miles—larger than France -1 almost as large as Texas. It is the; world's fourth largest island, 1,000: miles long, and 360 miles wide at its broadest point. Only Greenland,i New Guinea and Borneo exceed it.! Africa is only 240 miles across the' Mozambique channel. Diego Suarez, on the north tip of the island, has one of the finest natu- ral harbors in the world. There the' French had established a naval, base, with a 656 -foot drydock and! machine shops, and an air field. .Another important air field is at Tananarive, the capital. Short, lengths of railropd and motor roads' have been built by the French to! serve the population centers chiefly' in the southern half of the island. The Onion for Flavor -• A taste -exciting odor from some- thing a -cooking in the kitchen? More often than not, there's an onion 10 - volved. Maybe it's a suggestion of onion in. the hashed potatoes . . . golden onion rings to serve atop steak . • • tangy onion soup. Or it could be one ot hundreds of dishes. For the onion has almoirunlimited culinary possibilities. As every good cook knows, the chief value of the onion is for its flavor. Perhaps it is most appreci- ated by women who must plan meals using certain bland but nu- tritious foods day afer day. Onions help them to vary their menus in- expensively. Dehydrated onions are being shipped now under terms of the Lend -Lease act—to brighten up monotonous wartime meals in coun- tries where practically all food is rationed. However, onions are not at the foot of the class as far as food value is concerned. In their raw state they have a little vitamin Bl, ribo- flavin, vitamin C, iron, and calcium. Young, green onions are fair sources of carotene, which the body can change into vitamin A. AR anions are high in water content, low in calories. Amazing 20 Year Advance Although the science of photog- raphy from the air was used to ad- vantage toward the close of the first World war, it has seen its greatest development during the peace of the last 20 -odd years, keeping abreast of the amazing expansion of modern .air transportation. The technique which today makes possi- ble the clear, distinct reconnaissance pictures which aviators are taking from the very threshold of the strat- • osphere is the result of millions of exposures made not only by the armies and navies of the world, but by countless civilian photographers who have helped to blaze the trail in the greatest advance the art of map -making has seen in many cen- turies, writes Bradford Washburn in New England Naturalist, Speedy, efficient field work and laboratory procedure may be essential to vic- tory in war time, but they are fully as important to business pres- tige and proht in time of peace. Along the Burma Road Japan's invasion spearhead into Yunnan province, along the Burma road, has brought a new war threat to one of China's long remote and undeveloped regions. • Before the Japanese attack on China and the completion, late in 1938, of the backdoor supply route through Yunnan, this province was an "outland" of the world. Part of high Asia, it is a continuation of the Tibetan mountain and plateau land. Its name literally means "gouth of the .Clouds." It is con- sidered one of the least Chinese of China's ,areas, with a population of son -ie 12 million people who more closely resemble their neighbors in Burma, French Indo-China. and Thailand. e• He Does Not 'Hear' You: When mai-aria tells Johnny to - wash his hands and he "doesn't hear," he isn't deaf. He is merely developing a quality practiced by all' normal adults—that of "not hear., ing" distracting sounds. Only by discriminating between, what we wish to "hear" and "not; hear" are we able to concentrate-, on our work in a noisy room: We unconsciously learn to concen- trate on meaningful sounds and "not hear" background noises. The hard -of -hearing have never - had to, develop such auditory sup- pression. Consequently they are at first annoyed by hearing aids which. amplify all sounds for them. A per- son accustomed to silence mist taught to adapt himself to sound,. evaluate it, and listen to some while. ignoring others. We don't hear all sounds in, speech. Much of our hearing is, guesswork based on our knowledge. of vbcabulany. The difference be- tween the hard -of -hearing person and the normal person is that the - former has fewer cues to go by. Four methods for aiding hard -of - hearing children. are recommended: 1. Give them more auditory an& visual cues. 2. Give triema thorough knowl-. edge of language, emphasizing read- ing, writing, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary so they can make. better use of such cues. 3. Provide hearing aids for class- , room use. Such aids are expensive, it is admitted, but not so expensive. as maintaining special schools for the hard -of -hearing. To prevent rough usage, the aids should not be worn on the playground, however. 4. Any intelligent teacher can and should instruet hard -of -hearing chil- dren in lip-reading. Three minutea a day over a period of years will enable a child to become an expert lip-reader. Brazil, the Giant The "Giant of the South Ameri- can Continent"eis the territory of the United States of Brazil, occupying nearly half of South America. II contains one of the least explored regions of the world, and the basin of the mighty Amazon, largest 01 all rivers. Forests, inhabited by un- known tribes of Indians covet thousands of smiare miles in the valleys of the Amazon and its tribri taries. Yet Brazil contains suck) modern and populous cities that traveler can pass m a few days from scenes otabsolute savagery tc 'teeming boulevards that recall „Madrid and many other large European cities. Southeastern Farmers Sure of 'Sweetening' Sugar rationing won't bother some. 70,000 low-income farm families in, the Southeast. They will grow their own "sweetening," and four times. as much of it on the average as, they ever grew before. Thus they are contributing to the department of agriculture's Food for Freedom. program. These -families' plans are on rec- ord because they are borrowers un- der the Farm Security program. They live in Alabama, Georgie, South Carolina and Florida. Stepping up production to meet increased food goals announced last fall, these families rearranged their farming schedules, and wrote new sugarcane and sorghum "planks" into their farm plans, many for a half -acre patch. When food goals were revised after Pearl Harbor, many of these. families decided to increase produc- tion to three acres each. They are planning for enough cane or sor- ghum to satisfy home needs for. "sweetening," with a little extra for market. Little Peace for Lubeck Lubeck, Germany's leading west- ern Baltic sea port, reportedly pounded into rubble by British bombs, lies at the junction of two rivers approximately 12 miles in- land from the Baltic and 40 miles northeast of Hamburg, Into these sheltered waters, filled with built and half -built Nazi ships and subma- rines, have poured iron ore, wood, and other raw materials from Swe- den; outward have streamed mili- tary supplies for Norway, Finland, and the extreme northern parts of the German -Russian front, says the National Geographic society. The ancient city of Lubeck, with. its gabled houses, its medieval tow- ers, and remains of a once protect. ing wall, has known little peace. since its birth as a village in 1142 near the pretentious castle of a lre cal count. At various times Danes, Saxons, Imperial Germans, Swedes,. and French have held the city. `Venice of China' Marco Polo, who visited Shaohing: in the Thirteenth century, described the city as the "Venice of China" because of the network of water- ways on the Shaohing plain. These are attributed to the great Emperor Yu who ruled 22 centuries be- fore the Christian era and was a master of irrigation and flood con- trol. He is supposed to have con- quered the Yangtze and Yellow riv- ers and his shrine three miles from Shaohing is a leading tourist lure of the province. Until recent times these waterways served northern Chekiang as the main routes for its commerce in wine, silk, cotton, tobacco and tea. They now are largely supplanted by highways and rail lines. Norway's 'Atlantic City' Mandel, whose airport was bombed by the RAF, is a city of only 5,000 inhabitants on the south- ern tip of Norway. • Washed by the invigoratilfg waters of the North sea, it has one of the finest bathing beaches on the Scandinavian peninsula, and unti the war, was popular enough to b called Norway's "Atlantic City." The Norwegian town is a cluste of white buildings, mostly frame that occupy a rather narrow are between the beach and high foreste hills. Winding between the build in-gs are the Mandel streets, tier row but animated. ,