HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-02-04, Page 7COMMONWEALTH'S TALLEST — Model shows the Canadian Bank
of "Commerce Building as it will Iodic • when built beside .Mont-
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Cam'monwe•olth.
Bride Arrived On
Crocodile's Back
One afternoon a stranger ar-
rived at a Somaliland village. He
was of the same tribe but from
the other end of the country. He
gave the villagers all the news
picked up on his journey, was
given food and tea and made
welcome.
When evening came they were
sitting around the fire when sud-
denly he called .out excitedly:
"Lookup there on the hill!" On
the hillside stood a shining figure,
fantastic in the darkness.
"Look, it is the light from
Allah!" he cried, He tore his hair,
prostrated himself, forehead on
ground, and prayed loudly. The
whole village followed suit.
"Come, let us go up on to the
hill and' share in Allah's light,
Allan. beauty, Allah's goodness,
Allah's blessing!" he added.
Off they all stormed, up the
hillside. They returned carrying a
man, fighting each other to, help
carry him and to get close enough
to touch him.
They knew him. He was their
former Holy Man's son who had
visited them before and was a
dearly honoured guest. But never
before had Allah's divine light.
shone upon him. A miracle had
oecured. His father's power had
descended upon him.
John Buchholzer, who was in
the village and witnessed this
phenomenon, has written a vivid
Account of his travels in "Soma-
liland - The Horn of Africa."
His interpreter, Hassan, an old
acquaintance of the Holy Man's
son, eventually coaxed him to
tell how he had stage-managed
the light from "Heaven."
He had covered himself with a
white, transparent cloth, wedged
a strong torch on the ground
between two stones, and stood
over it, The stranger who had
come to the village was bis as-
sistant.
News of the miracle spread
far and wide, People brought
him flocks of goats and sheep.
The Sultan sent him five camels
laden with millet: To turn all
this into money the villagers
gladly offered to drive the ani-
mals to the nearest big marker
town, a day's journey away.
Counting his gain there and
checking the account, the newly
"ordained" Holy Man suddenly
called to the auctioneer:
"You have taken money for
selling the beasts. Do you not
know that those were my fath-
er's beasts and my father was
a Holy Man?"
"I have taken the money that
is due to me in accordance with
the law," the auctioneer ,replied,
"and if %your father was a Holy
filen, then .mine was, too."
"That is an outrage against
my father," shouted the son, and
the men from the village wailed:
"What have you done, what
will happen now? The rains may
not come. Our camels may fall
sick." But the auctioneer turned
his back and walked off.
Two days later the Sultan's son
1vl kRY MENAGERIE
rfyl rant it hide to have at
nUrncry for the Children!"
and the chiefs of the villages
which . had sent gifts squatted
around the Holy Man'sson who,
sat on a stool under shady trees,
They were a delegation formed
to avert the fearfuldisasters that
might follow the auctioneer's in-
sult for a Holy Man only re-
ceives and has to be treated with
respect, even when he is dead.
The 'Sultan's son proffered a
handful of coins - the auc-
tioneer's commission. The Holy
Man's son refused them, saying:
"My father's anger will strike
this district. Never has he beet)
treated thus,"
For hours they all begged him
to accept the money, producing
still moire, pouring.it at his feet,
prostrating themselves, clinging
to his knees, kissinghis toes.
When the coins had grown into
a large heap he reluctantly
agreed to accept. The givers went
joyfully home with the good
news that calamity had been
averted,
"And now," said Hassan envi-
ously, "he'll go, to Mogadishu and
have a good time with the girls."
Buchholzer also went on the
trail of the crocodile men, a
brotherhood of sorcerers who
spread death and disaster along
the Juba river, seeming -to wield
power over people's minds and
animals.
He was told by Somalis that
they could induce people to mur-
der each other, make crocodiles
eat certain people of their choos-
ing, hurl curses over long dist-
ances to strike their victims like
lightning, tell a man that he
would die the next day or at
the next full moon. Experts in
all the black arts, they were
clever doctors and makers of
medicines. For their best, made
from the blood of infants, they
stole and murdered children.
The Italian authorities told him
that there: was something in these
tales, for in the 1930s some
crocodile men had been shot be-
cause they made their trained
crocs eat lamb from a neighbour-
ing village.
An old Arab shopkeeper told
Buchholzer of a crocodile man
who fell in love with a girl down
the river. When neither she nor
her family would have anything
to do with him, he used his
crocodile, which seized her when
she went to the river for water.
It did not, however, eat her.
Placing her carefully on its back,
it swam down -river escorted by
other cross. All the way she
shrieked in terror, but no one
dared help her. The old Arab
claimed to have seen the "flotilla
sailing down to the man's. vil-
lage, where he stood on the bank
awaiting her.
There she stayed, for neither
. she nor her family dared. protest
about her 'abduction.
This Arab put Buchholzer in
touch with a crocodile man who
guided him to the crocodile men's
village. There he witnessed some
of their grisly mystic rites and
dances, and watched one of them
call crocodiles from the river
with a singing chant, Three came
and lay in front of him like well-
trained dogs ,and were fed with
live goats:
Haby crocs are captured as
they emerge from their eggs and
trained until the relationship is
like that between a man and an
obedient dog.
How Can f?
By Anne, Ashley
Q. Is there any way t can'add
luster to my linoleum without
waxing it?
A. One easy way is to add a lit-
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when you are washing your floor,
Russia Loaded With
Hidden Wealth
The work of a large group of
Soviet geologists, who assisted
by some 300,000 volunteer help-
ers, have 'surveyed the country
from the Pacific to the Carpa-
thian mountains and from the
Arctic to the Caspian Sea has
opened new and glittering vistas
for the Soviet Union's economic
future.
More than one-tenth of the.
personnel close to 40,000
were trained geologists. Of the
remainder, the majority were
young people for whom the
prospect of turning geology into
a patriotic endeavor spelled ad-
venture and romance, In East
Siberia's province of Irkutsk for
instance, more than 10,000 peo-
ple offered their help,
Popular enthusiasm for ge-
ology is one of the reasons for
the surprising success ;of Soviet
geological exploration. Other
reasons are the vast untapped
natural riches of a still largely
unexplored country, the sub-
stantial sums which the Soviet
state allocates to geology, and
the scale of geological survey-
ing.
Last year's results were sum-
med up by Minister of Geology
Fyotr Y. Antropov in Izvestia.
"Although only part of our oil
reserve has been discovered,"
wrote Mr. Antropov, "it now ap-
pears that our Central Asian re-
publics alone have oil deposits
of ,thesame order as the coun-
tries of the Middle East."
Oil, which the Soviets need
not merely for fuel, but more
and more for their petroleum-
based industrial chemistry and.
for export, is only one of the
minerals which last year's sur-
veys
have ascertained in new
locations,
Other discoveries were hot.
carbonaceous mineral springs in
the vicinity of the Central Asian
metropolis of 'Tashkent, which
already are being used for urban
heating purposes and are ex-
• pected to save some 40,000 car-
loads of coal a year, writes Paul
Wohl in The Christian Science
Monitor.
Large new deposits . of natural
gas, iron ore, and nonferrous
ares also have been found, Es-
pecially "interesting" are said to
be new lead deposits in the
Krasnoyarsk province of West
Siberia, new oil fields in West
Kazakhstan, and rich gold veins
in the Chukchi National Okrug
which occupies the little. known
territory between the Autono-
mous Yakut Republic—hitherto
the principal gold producer .of
the U.S.S.R.' — Kamchatka and
the Bering.' Straits.
One party of geologists dis-
covered a large outcropping of
diamonds near the Anabar River.
in the northwestern corner of
Yakutia. This was the second
major discovery of diamonds in
this part of the U.S.g.R. Earlier
discoveries, about 500 miles fur-
ther east, were claimed to 'equal .,•
the diamond riches of South
Africa.
Most important from the point.
of view of transport economy
was the confirmation of large
oil fields and deposits of natural
gas in West Siberia and in the
Yakut Republic. Siberia hither-
to lacked oil. Once these new
reserves are exploited, Siberia
will ' no longer depend upon oil
shipments from west of the
Urals-. a. distance of more than
2,000 miles. This would be espe-
cially valuable for East Siberia
which is practically beyond the
reach of the rapidly advancing
pipeline across the Urals. •
Once the necessary all and gas
pipes have been laid, Yakut oil
also could supply the Soviet Un-
ion's' strategic ports and indus-
tries on the Pacific, which pres-
ently depend on the inadequate '
oil yield of Sakhalin and have to
be supplied by tankers from
Black Sea ports over one of the
world's longest shipping routes.
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Has The Moon
A Solid Core?
During the moments before
Russia's cosmic Tocket hit the
moon, the radio aboard sent back
a burst of valuable information
.about the nature of the earth's
natural satellite. The most impor-
tant bit of data: No magnetic
field had been detected in the vi:
e•inity of the moon's' face, at least
tt'ithin the limits of the rocket's
sensitivity.
This report confirmed the view
held by most, scientists that the
moon has a solid core, A liquid
core, such as the, one at the center
of'the • earth, tends to act like a
dynamo and creates a magnetic
field.
In the, current issue of Physical
R e -v Sew . Letters, however, a
woman physicist offers a word of
caution. Particle radiation thrown
off by . the sun, writes Marcia
Neugebauer of Cal Tech's Jet
Propulsion Lab, creates a "solar
wind" as it drives at high energies
clown on the face- of the moon.
This wind of electrically charg-
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any magnetic field that might
exist except 'for a very thin
layer, too close to the moon's
sunny side to be detected by a
fast-moving impacting rocket.
According to Mrs, Neugebauer,
no one should draw any conclu-
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field until someone sends a rock-
et to the dark stuface of the
moon, where the sun's radiation
would have no effect.
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the manager.
"Terrible!" snapped the guest.
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