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A Texas collie named Tip, we
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read fell in love with his owaer'�
Wagons loaded waft husbands, ' t e
j.. - 3>w h Y4 Y anto'nabile. He wanted o sleep
wives and children atop of furniture ,, 4 a N : ✓h, ., hear he ea'C even in wintr weatlt-
weuded blTeii way along the Gouk- w Y x t Y
F.° `� ;%v« sic=' or. When, at last, the old bus war
stone Burn to a milestone marked ' Y
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sold, Tip refused to eat. His master
Ae, which will have a place in `" }" t� w�C.4'�i�4t', �4� �°'
"g� �,
tontonrow's history books. Ae, just g bad to ask the new owner to brings
• l'9 the car where Tip could find it.
north of Dumfries in southern Scot-
land, is Britain's fir -sit new forestry °�a �Ct,t i� 1"l.' AD�•�'c�;•.� apparenty, he's taken up residence
village,raster,
; .; ,", with the car, not his m•
Forestry has come to mean for y " .y< ¢;3 t This is a bit of news that could
Scotland a great deal more thanf l .: • ,a. .ai/6,.% . shake our confidence as dog lovers
the growing of trees and p'roduc- to its very foundations, Have we
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tion of timber for industry. 1"lIe . � d„: „ ••” • been wrong all along? Is it merely
t,su�a, infatuation for some heartless blvin
combination of the forest and bhe g
village dependent on it marks ��+l
., .. :........ �a. .. .. - ; we awn, not affection for ourselves
a hitherto neglected means for • �J �Z�k '" ! alone?
coarsely men and highland
in the, WRY? Lots Of Canadian
:sparscin populated ,highland glens • �� rr '+ u •+4 _ u �Q• Nbthing, we have believed, could
,.and lowland valleys, Teal families i pay us more guileless flattery, un-
' Kids Would Like To .now Too 1 �`
have occupied their Tames m Ae l t�r_t&werin sullied by ulterior aims, than the
and another 14 are moving into „e•,. ..at,,Q,�✓; •�.1�..a.��•w��41t�` urrfailing,� tail -wagging exuberance
At 11 a bo thinks of baseball and bubbleguni and -- , of Elmer's welcome home. Could
houses almost completed. Soon the y
just maybe, youth being what it is—of hydrogen bombs. �rA -` � � �'�' •�� �`����-��' it be, after all, just some tawdry
village of Ae will , Tave about 90 J ) � }' ra • ! d' � i� � I . attachment to our watch chain?
houses with a population of nearly Eddie Rutsky of Cleveland Heights, is Just such a boy. A,,. eft" . aov� And that soulful gaze from Hilde-
400. At breakfast the other morning his father, Dr. Paul P, R,
The Forest of Ae is just 20 years RutslcT and mother discussed the horrendous bo b. Eddie [ ;i'�' -° P Q's '" °` � � down's big brown eyes as we reach
down to scratch behind her furry
old and is still a forest in the began asking questions. "Some of these questions I couldz aru3 tu et 4n dr ,y V41 carst Maybe it's just a special kind
making. Of its area of more than not honestly answer without being cynical," Dr. Rutslty, � � .fib -y .ssr.� ++� of canine ecstacy at being close
10,000 acres, some 3,000 acres have a dentist said. "I felt that the re )lies' would .destroy his to, that old, overstuffed easy chair,
been planted. Already its thinnings fparents, teachers government and hunianity ". "Lut �", '$l�:�i,�w ..Gr. / „4i. � �G.' � `�6' Perhaps she thinks the chair does
are yielding about 3,000 long tons faith in his ei
€" � � � �-• the scratching.
of timber annually for pit props in general. His being taught idealistic incl democratic ,:,, tp�,y r r
arinci les in school made me ashamed that I had not the �+ i ch don't like to contemplate
and fencing stakes. When fully 1 p „ r R such notions. We'd much rather
planted, the forest will produce an- wisclo>n and choice Of words to answer. Curious, sensitive,✓d r'rd
f�a��� dismiss Tip as an atypical, abnorm-
nually more than 7,000 long tons persistent Eddie Rutel:}* was determined that someone £k al. egregious, teratogenetic canis
of timber. should answer his questio a: "�Vhy the hydrogen bonTb?"ifamiliaris, or the whole story as
The plantations are composed en- So he wrote a letter to President Truman, a letter his rw
just another tall tale from Texas.
tirely of coniferous trees, which father came upon and which is reproduced here. He hopes :��✓ r� 5,
produce the softwood timber needed he'll get an answer. ✓` Redly Busy Bees
_.. .
in such enormous quantities by
modern industry. Among the most After experiments lasting four -
popular species is the Sitka spruce, "Self -Help" the victim's nervous system, or like- it was enough to cause fogging of hundreds of years. Because a Rri- teen years, scientists have succeed -
Among y , photographic plates. Indeed, the tish explorer has returned from the ed in breeding bees which are more
a native of the western coasts o� A ly to cause death b a loss of blood
North America, which, strangely, Animals and Birds a speedy cure is usually effected, same company had had similar giant Seward Ice Cap with a bottle- industrious than their ancestors.
grows more rapidly in Scotland Wounded animals will perform trouble some time before, when the ful of glacier -worms. These busier bees have been pro -
than its European relatives do. The amputations upon thmselves to save fogging was traced back to radio- duced by inseminating queen bees
Certainly there is something in He is Dr. N. E. Odell, and his
Soots pine and the Japanese larch their lives. There was a remarkable active cardboard made from sal- artificial) under microscopes. The
are other varieties which add orna- "instinct," especially the instinct of instance of this not lop ago on a vaged waste, Fault self -luminous bottled warms cap a remarkable Y P
g Y scientists bred and crass -bred var-
ment to the forest b their con- self-preservation. A sheep with in- career of exploration. Odell climbed
y farm. dials made of cardboard at a war- ious types of bees until they. got
trastin foliage, terra) trouble will deliberately seek A rat had been raiding a barn time factory and had gone into to within 2,000 feet of d ]rests
g g out particular herbs which it knows summit and saw Malory and Irving exactly the insect they were seek -
The road alongthe valley runs „ , , of fodder, and the farmer had sus- salvage for re -pulping, and the tiny in. The new breed has already
y will be helpful to it and eat then. leave their last camp for the crest g
through the farm land, with the tamed such losses that he determin- amount of radio -active paint from proved that the can produce more
plantations ricin an the steeper A cat similarly afflicted will go for of the great peak, never to be seen i; y p
de at last on drastic steps, and set this source had been enough to hone than an other kind of bee.
g grass in a big way. Foxes occa- again. Twice he has-been to Spitz- Y Y
billsides. This is typical of what sionally get jaundice, a complaint a breal.back trap. It was much give fogging trouble. The are also healthier, gentler and
against his will for bein a humane Bergen, and last autumn he climbed y
happens when new forests are ere- g = g the highest mountain in Canada,. more resistant to disease.
acted in Scotland, the hest land accompanied by fever, but usually man he detested these snares,Worms—They're g
t themselves simply Ice 15,000 -ft. Mt. Vancouver (on the
manage o cure
being kept under cultivation. b going without food for a day or
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Next da the raider was caught
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in the trap by one leg and was still
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Yukon -Alaska border), which had
British Isles.
But forestry is a vital industry for two.
Britain. Twice in the present cep- have the sure
alive'. Intending to end the animal's
Scotland alone, the Forestry
never been clirtn•bed before. It was
here, on the surface of the Seward
the same means. ��
Birds, too, same
tu=ry Its . woodlands have been instinct for self-help. They will
suffering, the farmer approached the
Until ver recent) you would
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Glacier, that he saw—and and sough¢
remission has 150 forests and
ptripped to meet war emergencies• plaster a broken bone with mud,
p
Two-thirds
trap, but before he reached it the rat
freed itself by biting clean through
not have been in Alaska more than
a week before some veteran of a
the legendary ice -worms. He ing
scribes them as bits of wriggling
this number will increase.
A 71e village of Ae is but a fore-
of all the timber stand- which dries over the fracture and
iixg in 1939 was -felled and reserves a splint.
its own leg bane. Next moment it
dozen polar winters told you—with
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black cotton against the white
]runner of other forest villages
be in Scotland
acts as
#acrificed to save s'hippin•g space, Others, having sustained a super-
was gone. Golfe, yes—but not to die.
To -day that three-legged rat a
a. broad wink—about the ice -worms
that crawl across the ice cap.
snow. 11
learn
which will created
I
Trite resuwlt was the gnavest timber ficial flesh wound, will look around
still occasionally seen. about the
The veterans rolled up with
We have yet to what the
shortage Brittain has ever known. for• some soft substance, such as
farm, for the farmer says' quite
laughter when last spring a Cana-
ice -worm finds to eat. in polar
p
Trees flake time to grow, and sheep's wool, and twine it around
injured their beaks.
plainly that he hasn't the heart to
p y
dian explorer said he saw scores
glaciers, how it breeds, or how long
r is that
it lives. What do
•ireful planning is proceeding to the part with
shoot it or tryto tri it again, so
p =
an one of Alaska's
of )ler
ch em t
when Odell touched them they very
orate 5,000,000 sores of productive Again, birds of -the hawk tribe
P g �
d
profoundly was he impressed by its
glad
smaller glaciers, for the Alaskan
" quickly died—the warmth of his
woodland-§ in Britain' in the next sometimes get "liverish" when their
y0 years. This involves government food is not just right. Then a vi
courage and endurance.
"As a matter of fact," he says,
`classes ice-tvarms with the Loch
I4ess Monster—they are something
hand literally burned them up.
Planting of 5,000,000 acres of bare tim will often be seen deliberately
"I don't believe 'Old Tripod' as we
to joke about, "a relative of the
round, and the re -stocking, mainly eating grit and even small stones,
call him, would ever allow himself
unicorn."
There are about 5,500 islands and
y private owners, of Britain's ex- both of which prove an excellent
to be trapped again: Rats are! canny,
But they are no longer able to
islets around the coast of the
fisting 2,000,000 acres of woodlands.
physic for such complaints.
and aren't usually taken twice by
pull the greenhorn's leg about
British Isles.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry—I didn't
Scotland alone, the Forestry
In doctoring themselves the crEa-
the same means. ��
worms that live in arctic ice for
know it was loaded]"
remission has 150 forests and
tures of the wild have an Import -
this number will increase.
A 71e village of Ae is but a fore-
alit advantage over their human
counterparts. They are not cursed
A -Bomb Effect
ONE GAME WHERE, BOTH
SIDES LOSE
]runner of other forest villages
be in Scotland
with imagination. They newer worry
about the possible dangers of blood-
Felt 2000 Miles
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which will created
I
't t1 d're cala-
-
to ensure that Brrtam s hillsides poisoning or plc ute to I
yield as much timber as its land maties which all to .often beset the
Ian produce. Before World War II, more imaginative human:
95 per cent of pit props used in The result is that Nature has
Britain were imported, but within Ideal conditions in which to exert
10 years one-third of these will be her own healing powers, And unless
homegrown. the injury is too severe a shock to
When Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln tore contains many stor-
ies of the Great Emancipator's
.leniency toward military offenders.
Scarcely ever did he decline to re-
mit sentences—at least to some
extent. However, when faced Witt]
a situation that threatened the
stability of the Union Army and
thus, victory itself, Lincoln could
be ruthless -and was.
This is proved by a Lincoln
pronouncement recently conte to
light and now in the noted Alden
S. Condiot collection in New York,
Lincoln had to combat a sinster
home -front evil. It was the "sub-
stitution racket" spawned by the
loose draft law of that day. `I7his
pleasure enable any main drafted
for service to buy, for $300, a sub-
stitute to take his place.
Like Prohibition years late]', this
was cluck soup for the hoodlums
and gangsters. A substitution
racketeer would collect his $300
f<oirl •a man drafted in New York,
sign up in the army and within a
few days desert, I•Ie would then
hop over to, say, J'et'sey City, as-
sume another 11a,ine, contact another
willing draftee With 000 a-nd kNl•
peat the pt*fartrtaeipi►,
There were thousands of these
racketeers, How Union Army
strength was sapped is indicated
by the fact that "Bounty Jumpers"
accounted for more blian 268,000
desertions.
Lincoln's fire] attitude toward
these racketeers is shown by the
message shown here, referring to
an appeal for executive clemency
by five men convicted of the crime
and sentenced to be shot as traitors,
Here is the text of the telegram
to Maj. -Gen. George C.' Meade,
hero of Gettysburg,
Washington, D.C.
August 27, 1863
Major-General Meade,
Warrenton, Va.
Walter, Rainese, Falln•, Lao
Irerl>,m appeal to Ire for mercy,
without givitug any groundis for it
whatever. I, understand *"t M%
very flagrant eases, and thst you
d•am their punisllumpnt me beim
indispensable to the WV1,00. 11 1
amt rat mistaken in ohne, please let
t'haln know at once that thel,r ap-
peal is denied.
A. Littcola]
This steril tatges,age. 40-1tolud At
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Ficton writers are not the only
people who tackle "whodunnit"
problems. -One of the biggest photo-
graphic companies in America
found that their films and plates
were getting fogged during stor-
age, That was in New York—a
few months after the first test
atomic bonvb had been secretly
exploded in New Mexico, well over
two thousand miles away.
At that time, the photographic
company did not know that there
had been an atomic explosion. But
they traced the fogging trouble to
the strawboard of the boxes used
for storage. This strawboard, made
specially for them by a paper man-
ufacturer in Indiana, was giving
off unusual radio -active particles.
By the time their investigations
had got as far as this, the New
Mexico explosion was no longer a
war -time secret. But even this did -
not solve the mystery. The In-
diana mill was a thousand miles
from the site of the test bomb ex-
plosion; and the radio -active straw -
board had been made three weeks
after 1
Then it was realized that the
paper mill drew water very heavily
from a river, and the river was
found to be the source of the radio-
active vontantialation. In fact, if
batches of strawboard were made
soon after heavy rains in the catcli-
ment districts of this river, the
hoard fogged films and plates even
more, Mioute amounts of radio-
active substances, formed ill the
New Mexico explosion, had fallen '
upon soils over a wide area. Rain
washed them into rivers, and then
the river water put them into paper
and board made at the mllll
This amount of radio-aotivity
would °trot endanger health, though
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Nobody Wins A Strike—Newschart above shows graphically how long a worker has to labor
to make up the wages he lost through being on strike. In the recent steel strike, each worker
lost about $400. Ili addition to strikers themselves, thousands of workers in other industrie*
lose wages through being laid off because of material shortagees caused by the strike,
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