The Seaforth News, 1949-08-25, Page 2She 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.
1), '.e/ A aniTC'h IC
"We have compulsory vaccina-
tion against smallpox, and inocu-
lations to prevent measles and all
sorts of other things" remarked
friend of ours not so long ago.
"But hi my r rinion it Would be afar
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 t 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-
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.
k * *
Encyclopedias, dictionaries and
r'.ZZARD CHARLES
Heavyweight
even textbooks on geology give
their
theories o es abouth
t e 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
5 e
A week or so ago Dr. Francis
Shephard, a very noted marine ge-
ologist, came out with some state-
ment* Which all who like to dis-
port thdisiselves in the water, wife
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 neasurments of beach -
side water flow. And he says that
—"The net movement at the sur-
f;ire is ordinarily in approximately
the same direction as it is at inter-
mediate depths and even near the
bottom."
" a
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 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 fans out and loses
its force,
* * :k
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 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 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,
WIIATGOES ON
1N THE
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 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 monthsof 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-
istry 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-
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 centiacts 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 anotherI
o - CHINA
United States experts are trying
M line up the Western Powers in
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 help help that Moscow
oennot 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 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 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 clacked 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 housing bill over the opposition
of a well-financed real estate lobby.
This me -sine will provide funds
Nor man Blair
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 lay that
there is a certain lack of skill in
President Truman's leadership.
Nevertheless the stubborness with
whichhe fights • for his liberal-con-
viotions are undoubtedly bearing
fruit — banked, 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, is
surprisingly good.
Because of monsoons and other
disasters 0
tcrops,-India has had
noelo e with more than the normal
food shortage. But the 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 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 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 to
trade for them. At all events the
progress has been made since India
struck out, "on her own" is far
greater then nine -tenths of the
"experts" were predicting two years
ago, when the great event finally
occurred.
Some Party!
Two Scotsmen who had Veen at
a party met the following morning,
and one said to the other; "Weed,
Donald, and did ye get hanle 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."
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