Zurich Herald, 1950-04-06, Page 7f
Ice That .Drives
Strong Men Mad
174! rooi of tier world is l,erIn-
luently clad in ice. The ter. Cap of
Greenland, ill places 9,000 feet thick
covers it hilmer area than '1'Vesteria
t:urope and Is ctnitfn«illy spewing
.. - glaciersinto the frozen Sea_• -Ice -
l -ergs by the thou-aild. spitzbergell
Ruch the water; of *Arctic Siberia acid
to tills profusion of ice, much of
Which drifts into the North At-
lantic,
Mich -October sees an icy pulp
,Forming oil the fjords of Northern
5lberia, Then, suddenly, the xuerc-
ury drops to 70 below and ---bang!
--an icy covering is 'whisked across
the ocean. It thickens every sec-
ond mitil, in half an hour, it is a
foot deep. Where current,, are
slrotig, the movement of the. water
defeats the cold. But not for long,
'Che channels of open water formed
by the currents gradually narrow
and disappear.
Roar Like 1,000 Guns
Inside 12 hours, the Ice is femur
feet thick. And when the tide be-
gins to rise, a roar like a thousand
guns booms across the Arctic. Such,
at least i4 the ccs tl • N S'
, e xis le, . eLi . i-
berian :Islands, oil' Northern Siberia.
Table Manners In
All From Seaweed
type of transparent wrapping paper
that originally was a green, blistery
"tae Middle Ager,
chatupion, is keenly interested in all welfare 7vork. During his recent visit to Toronto lie caljed
Legetables. It is plain that even
at this remote period the culinary
plant at the bottom of the sea.
p
Prout the days when it was dis-
at Variety Village, vocational. training school for crippled children. The School is operated
by the Toronto Variety Club; the work.is one cif the activities of. •the Ontario Society for
Vorks were unknown until the
covered that iodine could be ex-
seems go elseiiiad
.Che sea presses beneath the ice
t1we of Elizabeth and even theca
tracted from burnt seaweed, sciert.
happily duping the' Itvhl•ter. Irir�lay
they feel- a?> • irieStiiyle.:urge '.to go
were regarded as foreign and of,
Lists have been putting this !tumble
fined 'to the houses of the arfstoc-
famitiate. , , , The problem of wash-
plant under a thousand and out
nedy, Toronto; Donald Drennan, Ottawa and Donald Orr, Sault Ste. Marie. Doila.tions may be,
Lag* was lar'g'ely solved by having
t@SYS to find out what other t1SCS It
--thunderclap, the ah conlpressed,be-
eia� ares. Instead, a' thick slice (a
' has for mankind,
regained consciousness and became
�p'
tranche) Of bread was laid before
Latest discovery is of tremen-
lovely little seals, only two and a
each guest. Ori this the, meat was
dons benefit --that a soluble wool
placed and the gravy soaked dower
call be made from seaweed for
into the bread. The able, and
use ii- dentistry. ;Iaexrrorrhage after
when this batt°fteahiis'liecl, il�r'blfeese
the well-fed took care'to
re ' to leave at
alt extraction was one of those
things you hoped you never had,
22vl:ulv�y
montlis' of the'iiiost,.hellish`.form .
least a little 1. this bread c the
e
end of the ureal. It was then
but this new soluble wool has vir-
bled for by the scullions and what
what
tually overcome the possibility of.
they did not cat was given to the
tilts•
The inventive genius behind this
seem. to ;const>ttite.,a fiery
poor at the
p The medieval ecook had quite an
discovery is Frank Bonnisken, who
As the fe'riales swimlin file liwlls
array of tools, As early as the sec-
is still trying to find other applic;ie-
ond half of the twelfth! century -we
tions for seaweed. I want to
find Alexander Neckham, enumer-
�con-
centrate on bloodless surgery, he
beginning a meal, and favoured
-Wath;
ating•, in addition to pots with their
trivets or tripods and their
says.
He has been at the seaweed game
k male apprcaclies ne :h«11''of' her
pot-
sticks and pat -hooks, a mortar and
for twenty years,, and in that time
�
pestle, a flying pan, a grid -iron, a
lie has converted seaweed into hair-
posnet or saucepan, a saucer (that
cream as well as into ice-cream
powder. Aritifical wool has also.
servants. ;.els portant people
is a vessel for mixing sauce), a hand-
Mill, a pepper -hill, and an instru-
been made from the plant; silk has
the harem. there while
nlent for producing breadcrutab
been copied, and to -day you may
Have food in a certain,
+ ry
Ile also mentions a speclai table
e
your wrapper'
, e xis le, . eLi . i-
berian :Islands, oil' Northern Siberia.
I
The Manassa Mauler Shows 'Em.How—jack Dempsey, former world's heavyweight boxing
for chopping and mixing herbs and
type of transparent wrapping paper
that originally was a green, blistery
Here the .tide rises arse! falls as
much as 40 feet, and when it
chatupion, is keenly interested in all welfare 7vork. During his recent visit to Toronto lie caljed
Legetables. It is plain that even
at this remote period the culinary
plant at the bottom of the sea.
p
rises
after the "freeze-up" the world
to
at Variety Village, vocational. training school for crippled children. The School is operated
by the Toronto Variety Club; the work.is one cif the activities of. •the Ontario Society for
art was capable of many elabora-
tions.
_
--� "�-
Couldn't Be Heaven
seems go elseiiiad
.Che sea presses beneath the ice
Crippled Children '�vhich is conducting it annual Faster Seals campaign n for funds March 13-
e P g'
.
. Tbese pontps were naturally con -
happily duping the' Itvhl•ter. Irir�lay
they feel- a?> • irieStiiyle.:urge '.to go
which'r6sists at first—then suddenly
April 9, The boy's with Dempsey are, front left: ;•N ilfred 'Doltibroskie, Renfrew; Bob Keh-
fined 'to the houses of the arfstoc-
.__.�
The sick acau had been delirious
(;eves way. With a tremendous
nedy, Toronto; Donald Drennan, Ottawa and Donald Orr, Sault Ste. Marie. Doila.tions may be,
racy, but the burghers who grew
;•ith fever for days, but now he
--thunderclap, the ah conlpressed,be-
wilt to '1'inlxuy, 'Cproiltrl. .,,
wealib towards the end of the
y
regained consciousness and became
LLL een the sea and its icy crust
bursts out, flinging into the air
blocks of ice the ize of a house,
Jets of sea •water follow• the escap-
ing air, pouring across the surface
of" the ice, adding feet to its thick-
ness.
Qfice again; the tide falls and
rises. As it, da -ops, the ;cc is left
suspended across the fjords Lentil,
unable to support itself, it crashes
into the sea which, exposed to the
air, freezes again—the old ice and
till new forining a contorted mass
perhaps 20 feet thick. Then the
tide . begins to rise again, pressing
upwards harder and harder until
dice again it bursts through, fling-
ing inimeilse blocks of ice on to
the shore with the uproar of a vol-
carzic eruption.
ve seen mcn go mad at such;
trines,"says Jaii Wetzel, a trader
who lives in the Ne'w . Sigerians,
"Seen them run along the shore
aving1beir arms and yelling with
fear until they fall from exhaust-
io'n." '
�,. Vor seven,nlouths- the sun is but
a ;memory; But with the return of
anriug,' its ' warmth melts the ice
sufficiently for tide, current and
wind to break it up.
Late last century, expl„rers de-
cided that the currents that carry
,the floes of Siberia, Spitzbergen
and Greenland" into the North At-
latitic could be used to carry a ship
very close to the Pole. • The Ai net•-
ican explorer, Commander G. de '
Long, was the first to test this
theory, For two years, his ship, the
Jeanette, drifted towards the North
Pole, at times with pack -ice piled
against her to the level of the -decks.
But the pack crushed her, leaving
her crew to die on the frozen sea
150 miles from the New Siberian
islands.
But the icy fate of the Jeannette
did not dissuade others from fol-
lowing in her track. In 1894 the
i'.'.orwegian, Nansen, allowed his
ship, the Fram, to be frozen -Ile not
far''.from where the Jeannette had
perished.
Day after day, the .Bram drifted
towards the North Pole. When she
had Peached the most northerly
limit of the current, Nansen low-
cred sledges, and dogs on to the
floes and set o«t with a companion,
Joban5seil. He was a brave nian.
:Ide knew lie could not hope to find
his ship again, for she was drifting
in an unknown direction. Ile knew
lie would have to make his, way to
bind as best he could.
Ships Lifted Forty Feet
'Mien finally forced to turn
back, lie Reached for 'Franz Josef
Island, a sledge -journey which only
one of his huskies survived. There,
lie and his companion also would
have died if they had not met mem-
bers of a British expedition. Back
in Norway again, Nanseti learned
that the Drain hath survived. She
'teas Illck-v., for the power of the
floes is such that they have :lifted
a ship 40 feet out of tine v; ater,
Such was the experience of the
Intrepid, one of the ships that
searched for Sir John Franklin's
Erebus and 'Terror. The ice, con-
verging on her ]lull, piled beneath
her until she was 39 • feet "above
sea level." Huge loose blocks top-
pled to her decks. Her crew
thought the end had come—when
the pressure suddenly relaxed and
the ice fell away, all but two pil-
lars, one under her bow, the other
under the stern.
Then her skipper, Capt. Cator,
dict something that no s,eanian had
clone before.—or will do again.
Swinging over his ship's • nide, he
-walked the length of the ship under
the keel. Teti minutes 'later•, lie
clambered aboard again to report
that she had suffered little damage,
just before the two ice pillars col-
lapsed and the ship fell into; her
natural clementt
Every -Man PerisheCl
The Erebus and the Terror '(in
which Franklin tried to find t:lie
North-West Passage) had- sides 17
inches thick, :Even so, when ice
trapped thexu in a fjord iii the ex-
treme north of Canada, it crushed
them. Every xuan oil board—there
were 105—perished, but the two
ships were yet to make another
journey. When ultimately the ice
broke up, it carried thein nearly
3,000 utiles along the north coast of
Canada, down into the North At-
lantic, There they were seen by
the company of the Renovation,
heeled over on the pack ice, their
sides gaping.
Similar tales have come out of
the Arctic during recent years.
The Russians lost six ships in
six months before the last Lagar. A
Norwegian sealer, caught in the
spitzbergbn floes, tt•as carried right
round the island before, after 10
months in the grip of the pack, she
foundered with all hands. Last
spring, six f:ealers were crushed
while sealing off Labrador. New-
foundland and Greenland,
During one period of 1() years,
0 ship:, ---Russian, Norwegian, Ca-
nadian, Atrterican—were destroyed
in the grind of part: -ice o, in col-
lisioIt Lt ith 'hergs,
Friendship Wills -•••,14:ill 1)it� tilt• mother rat who live; atthe
railroad Lar(ls, evidetltly triuulph.ed over her baser itistillcts i11
adopting phis fertrlesy ntoitsc Into her Mott eliold. Shortly After
M111'Ilie gA\e bil•th fo a lifter of hitt'etls, the Avet` filollse' t-111'11ed
111) altd illad" itself at 11olne.
`Wayward "Oscar" -=' Aircraft:
worker, Brude.Kiehiian; 20, is
the holden- of an. "Oscar," but
lie 'didn't 'wilt' it for acting.
Klee: �'fts >1C1: the cdveted
statuett'e'•abottt -fi1years ago.
bespite detiraii-ds ofNthe Ac�.-
dexny' of Motion Ptctli;,e- •Arfs
and Sciences to surrender t11e
statuette. Kieriiian held.ontd it,
and every year around Aca-
demy Award time he, wonders
who lost or threw. away his
"Oscal'."
Life Amongst
A pillion Scats
Charles ilelulvey, a Canadian ex -
barrister wl>o has travelled widely
in North West Canada recently
gave a BBC tall: on his experiences
on the Pribolofs, a group of islands
In the far North Pacific. These
islands are the only mating grounds
of the great fur bearing seal herd.
They are almost fogi,rntiid in sum-
rner and one morning 'as Wfulvey
groped along the bare, • boulder
strewn shore lie heard a deep -
throated roar and through 'the fol;
saw a giant seal, six feet long anti
weighing! about seven hundred
pounds, lumbering by.• From a safe
distance lie watched the great creat-
ure swing his head to and fro,
gioLvling and Snarling vindictively
and threatening any nearby seals.
In tile. second week of klay lttind-
reds of hint seals come to the is-
lands and each adepts a territory
v, hinlr Becomes his harem during
the mating season, '.Clic best posi-
tions, nearest to the water, ar:\
the property of file fiercestfighters
and when ` file' for;: lifted, 'NItilvey
watched many of tiic, ,eweS0lll
territorial battles. A seal " ould
faire lip a position, anoille • Sould
fancy it and charge with ,, roaring
cliallcnge, toy be.. -net icy the firs`
seat Lvith teeth bared and powerful
neck thrust out. Utilvey deseribed
these fights as the most vicious lie
had ever seed and at times lie
turned away in liorror praying that
something might intervene to stop
them, !alit the end collies only with
A LLolnan'visitint Norray was
;,unazed at the enorillou$ rocks in
'lie valley where shr LLa�; staying.
"Wherever rho they all collie
fiom?" she asked a local inliabi-
t•ru.
"7.'he glacier breu Blit them
n
dow ," lee explained,
"But where's the glacier?"
"Gone back for more rocks." was
tl?e reph,
h
Royal Snack Bar—To aid her :famity', fading fortunes, Lady
Lees (pourirt4), wife of Sir John Cees, third baroiiet, of Poo!c„
England, has opened this snack bar outside the lodge gates at
her South Lytclie.tt Manor home. The custonicr is Lady
daughter-in-law,, Mrs. Faith Lee. Financial strv:s nisei forced
the family to move into a cottage: ort the• ground, and reill the
manor house as a school.
r�riir
Arthur Pointer
medieval period, xf they lacked
aware of his comfortable bed and
complete victory -for the stronger
something of ',knightly ceremony,
certainly knew flow to furnish their
the gentle assurance of cool, loving
g g
"Where
seal.
During the' !tattle period the. #e-
tables: 'In the Cent nouvelles Note -weakly.
hands. am I?" he asked
"In Heaven "
xttales have been conning from the
= velles (which may be taken to re-
No, dear," said his wife Booth -
'South Raclric,' where • they - bask
Elect manners common to -both
England and prance) we r6ad of
ingly, "I'm still with yrou."
happily duping the' Itvhl•ter. Irir�lay
they feel- a?> • irieStiiyle.:urge '.to go
the widow of a xnerchailt setting
a
liacic to mate',pu the'•`islands where
-before a single guest a dinner con-
�w
they. were born. he sea is clotted
silting of soup, bacon, tripe, and a
for miles with their heads as•'these
roasted ox -tongue;. followed by a
piece of salt- beef sot ite,
7
lovely little seals, only two and a
and choice
'half to three feet long and Lveighhig
mutton. As her guest , devoured all
�,; ••,
these stile called for a haul,• 'and
:
ab6tit eighty pounds, Come, gently
" "
,�:n \*;!tat described as, "two
when this batt°fteahiis'liecl, il�r'blfeese
<
%
22vl:ulv�y
montlis' of the'iiiost,.hellish`.form .
.and a dish of tarts and apples. To
of -dofnes''ticity °•that' life .female ,of
our ni'od6kh `"rationed" appetites .this1.
'would
z•oy'i species 'has ev°ex experienced. „:
seem. to ;const>ttite.,a fiery
As the fe'riales swimlin file liwlls
handsome repast.
ar-a„raixgeditlbffg tltg'sllore to.ixleet'I"i
was :e��sioipary'to wash before
them;tcddifkg to attract* then. A fe-
beginning a meal, and favoured
-Wath;
k male apprcaclies ne :h«11''of' her
guests hada CLL`@i'of a WWI,' •''
�
cheface and; is' picked up as tho'tigli'
a?ld,a towel braught to them by two
s
she.xL ece a lfittan , attd carried to
servants. ;.els portant people
zY
the harem. there while
were expected to wash'before sitting
+ ry
,5ke'.(s clefi
til 1,w '.wisliand Oi;„ ter:collect other. •
rl l r for altllot{$,1 the 'bull',.
down and for this purpose lavours
d; laVdtbicies were' provided Eome-
E
r
, young
.seal, .Akes'gnly.'•one or two, the
tinter; -in "t}fe+rh ll .itself, sometimes
e
,mature ibuli' ;nay talc+ a hundred.
%itside, e,A few of thesti layatories
x
Bell :seals.attaig n;iaii Hty at seven
have survived in the cloisters of
�• � , 5.
trots}. tie, age of ;tour,
cathedrals, When the guests were
abut.,date
ivfiglathey develop•ta• inane of'light
seated, the servants spread cloths
yelioW"'shi hail. For the two and'•a
over the tables, placed on'.them the
half months of mating season they
salt -cellars ,and;in later Mimes; the,
� �r
never eat and seldom sleep, They :.
knives. Spoons.,Lrere' also provided
hin
spend their entire te in their
when the nature of the food seemed
Belgium's Ruler? - - Princes
harems and when they leave the
to render thein necessary.
Baudouin, 19, above, son of
islands are emaciated wrecks, com- '.
hone very curious fedture of nae-
King Leopold III, would be-
p,Ai;ed•, with the lusty,, giants illeX
i :dteval table-mannel:s is meiitioned so
conte ling of Belgunl if the
41e,,rp in mucid -May, Y bung- b'acltelor
seals liv6 • iiWa: � from the harems
often in the metrical romances that
there can be little doubt of its being
suggesPaul-tion
suggestion of former Premier
Premier
and cautiouslof
y make their way to
a universal custom. Guests were
S farm leader
the sea through special lanes be-
seated at the tables in pairs with
elle powerful Socialist Part is
P y,
tween them for trespassers are torn
, p
only one plate between them out
followed. S aak urged the kill
P g g
to pieces. Mulvey spent. a,,great
of which they were both expected
in an open letter to turn over
4ldeal of time in these heutrai' lanes,
to eat.. . The placing of ,guests
the throne to the prince to
studying the seals and watching.
Ilie mothers for babies,
must also have offered considerable
restore order and unity, Acting
caring their
fd'r within very short time
opportunity for the exercise of tact
Premier Gaston Eyskens, Soci-
a of
landing the females give birth to
by the lady of the house.—From
"The Character of England,” edited
al Christians' leader, reportedly
P
the yours conceived in the re_
S p
by Ernest Barker.
favors the plan.
vious year, He watched the young
bachelors playing together in the
sea; •with an ahiiability that 1'etwes
ss , •
-.' y;r,
them when they become mature .arid
``
grow into. "tlxugs, wife-b'eatei•s and
a
z
all round domestic tyranta." '
These seals' pelts are unlike any
`
others and are thick, soft and lus-
trous with great commercial value,
. r e ••
In the middle of the last century,
�:; °�
a,�;;
'1 .:• "'t a pi's
when the held numbered between
three and five million, the seals
'
were slaughtered with. hiduus fero-
city and in fifty years their numbers,;
k+
were reduced to about two hundred
a.
and fifty thousand. Now the islands
are controlled by. the Unitech States,
coastguard cutters escort the herd
can migration and when it is ill
residence patrol the surrowidin
%5 aters. No one, is allowed to land
oil the islands without permission
�
from Washington and no ships are
�M ` � s
a�d
permitted to call, Only :e certain
; • " .
8 :"' ,
t:utnber of seals are killed each
year and these are all three year
old bachelors, for old balls' skins
i
are scarred by fighting and fei ialeG
arc kept for brcediiig.
Industry
A LLolnan'visitint Norray was
;,unazed at the enorillou$ rocks in
'lie valley where shr LLa�; staying.
"Wherever rho they all collie
fiom?" she asked a local inliabi-
t•ru.
"7.'he glacier breu Blit them
n
dow ," lee explained,
"But where's the glacier?"
"Gone back for more rocks." was
tl?e reph,
h
Royal Snack Bar—To aid her :famity', fading fortunes, Lady
Lees (pourirt4), wife of Sir John Cees, third baroiiet, of Poo!c„
England, has opened this snack bar outside the lodge gates at
her South Lytclie.tt Manor home. The custonicr is Lady
daughter-in-law,, Mrs. Faith Lee. Financial strv:s nisei forced
the family to move into a cottage: ort the• ground, and reill the
manor house as a school.
r�riir
Arthur Pointer