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She Knows A Better Way While Shirley May France and
other swimmers train for the grueling task of swimming the
English Channel, Mrs. Eetta Hills, above, of Southsea, England,
prefers to make the crossing in a more leisurely manner. Astride
her "waterbike," Mrs, Hills chats with radio announcer Derek
Roy, who has arranged a race across the Channel between Mrs.
Hills and a gentleman challenger. The English housewife
pedaled across the Channel as a young girl,_ and is confident she
can beat all comers.
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"We have compulsory vaccina-
tion against smallpox, and inocu-
lations to prevent measles and all
sorts of other things" remarked
a friend of ours not so long ago.
a1But in my opinion it would be far
more sensible if we made it com-
pulsory for every kid to learn how
to swim and, later on, to drive a
ear properly."
* * *
All joking 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 lost 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 -
Mg 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
ZZA D CHARLES
11 eavyweight
even textbooks on geology give
their theories about the undertow,
their explanations running along the
line just quoted above. But it ap-
pears that, until lately, no scien-
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
Shephard, a very noted marine ge-
ologist, came out with some state-
ments which all who like to dis-
port themselves in the water, whe-
ther swimmers or not, might do
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-
faceis ordinarily in approximately
the same direction as it is at inter-
mediate depths and even near the
bottom."
Dr. Shephard hastens to explain
that 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, (sometimes called a rip
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 pileup 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 fans out and loses
its force.
* * *
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 water during
upsurges and gazing seaward at the
horizon. If waves breaking near
shore do not cut off the view of the
horizon, it is pretty safe to assume
that the surf is not violent enough
to cause dangerous rips.
He gives this advice to swim-
mers: "If the breakers are large,
the poor swimmer should keep in
shallow water, never getting deeper
than waist high even during the
largest waves. He should also avoid
bottom irregularities, which indi-
cate the existence of channels cut
by 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 tll.e chan-
nel, sweeping the bather off his feet
and out into the of large
breakers."
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The bather who blunders into a
rip and feels himself being carried
out beyond his depth should con-
serve his strength and not try to
fight his way to shore against a
powerful current. Since rips are
narrow, the best strategy is to head
at right angles from the current and
parallel to the beach, A few Strokes
will often land the swimmer on a
shoal bordering the rip channel or
at least in quieter water,
zone
PALESTINE
Shouting 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 6f the new republic's
population are seeking visas that
will permit them to emigrate to the
United States; and a Tifnes report-
er, after visiting one of the 330
camps housing 66,000 immigrants
found the inhabitants "enyeloped
in hopeless idleness and td `tired
to understand that the Stale (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-
giinning -of the year immigrants
were arriving at the rate of 225,000
annually, while homes were going
up for less than a quarter that
numb er.
Alarmed at the effect in foreign
lands of reports on the existing
situation, the Israeli Finance Min-
istry ' called in reporters a few
weeks ago and scoffed at predic-
tiona 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-
istry'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 dollars, had 'visited
the country and then left without
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 laying.,
to line 'up the Western Powers nil.
an agreement not to extend any
credits to Communist China. They
figure that without big credits from
the West the Chinese Reds will
have to turn to Russia for ex-
tensive
xtensive help — help that Moscow
oannot afford to 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, can 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 °rippling 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 run the National-
ist blockade 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
opposition from all sides, including
his own.
His most clear-cut triumph, up
to now, was the passage of a fed-
eral bousing bill over the opposition
of a well-financed real estate lobby.
This mei sure will provide funds
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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 S0 per cent, and 11 million
workers would be added to the 35
million now covered by social
security.
Passage of this pleasure 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 slcill 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 public opinion
behind his social reforms.
INDIA
India has just celebrated its sec-
ond anniversary as an independent;
and the record of accomplishment,
in that comparatively short time, le
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
emengency 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 im-
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 inoreasingly prosperous
India should eventually develop a
higher standard of living, and will
not only require Canadian goods
but will have goods of her own to
trade for them. At all events the
progress has been made since India
struck out, "on her own" 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, "1 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."
R E D' S HOUSEHOLD
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BABY ODIOUS
FREE RANGE PULLETS 10 weeks to laying,
Pure breeds and cross breeds. Also day old
round. Free oats,
rogue. T Weddle Chickeaar Hatc erlee Limiter
Fergus, Ontario.
DYEING AND CLEANING
HAVE YOU anything needs dyeing or clean-
ing? Write to qs for information. We are
glad to agswer your questions. Department
B., Parker's Dye Works Limited. 791 Ynngo
Street, Toronto„ Ontario
FARMS FOR SALE
60 ACRES—Good land, location, buildings
$3,000. Lovely located home edge Kemp*
villa. Nice lawn, trees and 4 aures $7,600.
A good choice In all size farms—write Re-
quirements. Charles Pelton. Realtor, Kempt-
ville, Ontario.
FOR SALE
ALUMINUM ROOFING & SIDING
Cross -Crimped Corrugated and ribbed atyles.
6 to 10 ft. lengths Immediate delivery from
stoat. Write fol samples and estimates • Steel
Distributors Limited. 600 Cherry St. Toronto.
PAINT SALE—Outside gloss, white, cream,
brown, red, grey, green or black. Sale
price per gallon.
aint not warsurplus stook Regular retail
Price. $6.90. Mall orders sent C.O.D. Coyle's
Cold Storage, Vienna.
CHIMNEYS — Patented, prefabricated, ap-
proved, lightweight. handyman installation.
Free literature, The Lockharts, Terminal A.
Box 182, or Midway 4593, Toronto.
FARM EQUIPMENT
ONCE USED GRAIN, potato, onion, cabbage
bags, etc. ' Used bags bought and sold in
any quantity. Over quarter century. servicing
the trade. Write or call London Bag Com-
pany, London, Ontario.
SEED rye: Packed in two bushel sacks de-
livered your station at $2.26 per bushel.
Please send money with order. Jack Urlin.
London, Ontario.
BUSINESS FOR SAI -.P.
FARM implements for sale, small town, 80,-
000 volume, maior lines. Box No, 46. 123
Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont.
GIFTS china babywear and library. Living
quarters. Low rent lease. Good turnover.
2628 Main, Vancouver,
GENERAL store and 7 -roomed apartment
combined. Meats, ice cream, tearoom, flour-
escent lighting, Kelvinator refrigerator, very
profitable turnover, priced right for quick sale
$6,600. 60 miles from Peterboro. Leonard's
Stare, Coe 13111.
HOUNDS AFIELD
A monthly magazine of Hounds arid Hunting—
for the sportsman. Hunter, Breeder and
Fancier: Features all the hound breeds—
hunting and shooting—Field Trials and Showa
—Exclusive articles. illustrated. $2.22 per
year.
HOUNDS A.FIELD, ORTON, ONTARIO.
MOUNT FOREST, ONT., for sale: White
brick, eleven room duplex home, all con-
veniences, near highway and two railwaYel
two storey out building with over 9,000 so,
feet floor apace; hen houses; live acres of
land, hydro, telephone. John Gillespie, Box
63, Mount Forest,. Ontario.
FOR SALE Model A Ford sixteen passenger
school bus. Nicholson and Pelton, Young's
Point. Ont.
FEMALE COCKER SPANIEL, four years,
good pet for woman or girl. Produces nice
easily sold puppies. Fiteen dollars. Mrs.
Brodie, Aultaville, Ont.
HELP WANTED
QUALIFIED TEACHER for Whitefish Palls
School, to teach Grades 7, 8, 9, 10; Must.
be good disciplinarian; salary 91,600, plus
heated and partly furnished teacherage. Rev.
R. W. Stump, Ser., Whitefish Falls, Ont.
QUALIFIED PROTESTANT TEACHER for
S.S. No, 6, Bagot. Apply stating salary
and qualifications, to Mrs. Lewis Emon, See.-
Treas., Calabogle, Ont. R.R. 2.
WANTED
Old gold, Jewellery.- sterling silver,
dental gold, antique jewellery, pearl
sunbursts and watch eases.
blather together your forgotten articles
and turn them into dollars at The
Gold Shoppe (Orawfords), 180 Tonga
Street, Toronto, Prompt valuation on
malted parcels.
PILES
411
When you remove the internal cause of
piles you get worthwhile results that last.
That's the simple reason for Pyltone's
great success. No matter what you have
done for this torture, or how long-standing
and stubborn your case modern science has
the answer in the new Pyltone Treatment
(a liquid taken by mouth). Your first bottle
proves this or the price refunded at once.
That's our guarantee of Pyltone's quality.
91.75 at all modern druggists. PT -1
MEDICAI
IT'S
PROVEN—Every sufferer of Rheumatid
Pains or Neuritis should try Plxon's Roma.
dy. Munro's Drug Store. 336 Elgin, Ottawa,
Postpaid $1,00.
SATISFY YQURSEL F—Every sufferer of Rhes -
matte Pains or Neurltie should try Dixon'.
nomads,. Munro'a Drug Store, 886 Elgin, 0t•
tawa. Postpaid $1.00.
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Solicitors Established 1890. 860 Bay Street,
Toronto Booklet 01 Information on request.
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SCHOOLS
368 Bloor St W , rorooto
Branches. 44 Kine St., Hamilton
& 72 Rideau Street, Ottawa.
MoKELLAR GENERAL HOSPITAL, Fort
William, Ontario, offers a three year course
in nursing under cheerful and Interesting
surroundtnge. Appilcants must be 18 yearn
of age and hold secondary 5011001 graduation
in Ontario. Books, uniforms, aro supplied by'
the Hospital. Applications now being received
for fall class. Apply, Superintendcnt of
Nurses, McKellar General Hospital. Fort
William, Ontario,
CONCRETE BLOCK PLANTS, why work fo
the other fellow? You can earn a good
living running a block plant. See Moore Bros.,
61 Nelson Street, Toronto, AD1761, Yet
machinery.
PERSONAL
FREE SAMPLES—plastic comb. Send (Ifni
for postage and handling or 4 for 26o. Odic
2, 1134 Yonge Street, Toronto.
WANTED
APPLICATIONS for Student Nurses are re-
quired at the Sarnia General Hospital,
Sarnia, Ontario. This is an approved School
of Nursing. Honorarium after preliminary
term is complete, 925 per month.
BROCCOLI plants wanted, suitable for trans-
planting, any quantity. Phone El. 7128, of
write S. Lightfoot 4 Son Ltd., 23 St. Law-
rence Market, Toronto.
GRAIN separator, In good condition, at leant
28" cylinder. State full particulars inalud-
Ing price. Gordon Dixon, R.R. 1, Port Dover,
Ontario.
WANTED
YOUNG. WOMEN
for
Harvesting Peaches, Plums,
Pears, Apples, Grapes, Tomatoes
and
other Fall fruits and vegetables
Accommodation in
Farm Service Force Camps
August 15th to November 15th
Campers must bring
blankets, sheets and pillow cases.
For further information write:
Ontario Farm Service Force
9 Richmond Street East
Toronto 1, Ontario.
Auspices:
Dominion -Provincial
Farm Labour Committee
MINARD'S
LINIMENT
. Apply freely, and rub.
2-9 That's all. It's greaseless,
fast -drying; has no strong
odor. And it brings quick
relief to muscular aches end
pains, neuralgia, lumbago.
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