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^^ She Knows A Better Way â€" While Shirley May France and other swimmers train for the grueling task of swimming the English Channel, Mrs. Eetta Hills, above, of Southsea, England, E refers to make the crossing in a more leisurely manner. Astride er "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. "We hav» compulsory vaccina- tion against smallpox, and inocu- ktiont to prevent measles and all sori'i of other things" remarked • friend of ourt not »o long ago. "But tn my opinion it would be far Biore seniible if wc made it com- pulsory for every kid to Itarn how U>.:^ini and, later on, to drive a ear'Tiroperly." * • ♦ Alt 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 modem •anitary conditions. Yet any experi- enced traffic cop will tell you that tht percentage of those tooling cars along our streets and highways who realty know HOW t^ drive prop- trty is amazingly tow. Thia includes not only beginners •nd screwballs, but many who have keen driving cars for years â€" pre- sent company NOT EXCEPTED, barring ourself. (We have never driven and never Intend doing so). * * * As for the compulsory swimming kssons â€" well, you have only to ©ptn up any paper during the sum- â- ler months, and «specially on a Monday, and b« •itikencd at the tlioiiKht o( so many lives lost in the water â€" lives which might have keen spared had there been even a rudimentary knowledge of swim- wing. * * * In this connection, it is interest- ing to note how many swimming fatalities, at the seashore and on bke beaches, are attributed to what h called "the undertow". According to general belief this undertow is a broad, powerful current running Mow the surface, and returning to tbte lake or ocean the water which ♦be waves had piled up upon the beach. * * * Encyclopedias, dictionaries and !;â- â- %"•â-  EZZARD CHARLES Heavyweight tven 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 correct A week or so ago Dr. Francis Shcphard, 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 â€" "The net movement at the sur- f;nc is 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 «iot mean that there is no seSward 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.) ;â-  » » A rip current is formed when an incoming wave ia bent by a ridge in the lake or ocean floor, or even by a i>i«r 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. • • * A poor swimmer, Sliephajd warns, should be on his guard against rips when breakers are momthan 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 shoiild 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 i)f 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. VIUTiiOES ON IN THE WORLD 4^ Norman Blaiv PALESTINE Sliouting for "Hrcad and Work" some 400 Israeli broke into the courtyard of the Parliament Build- -ing at Tel .^viv and battled with the police. One -Mew York news- paper correspondent reported that ai least l.S.OOO of the new republic's population are seeking visas that will permit fliem to emigrate to tihe United States; and a Times report- er, after visiting one oi the 330 camps housing 66,000 immigrants found the inhabitants "enveloped in hopeless idleness and too tired to understand that the State (ot Israel) is new and that its funds are inadequate." After fifteen months of existence She 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 ip 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 arc 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- in<g an investment potential of one hundred million dollars, had visited the country and then left without signing any contracts ait all. In other words shouting for th* 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 I CHINA United States experts are trying to line up the Western Powers in an agreement not to extend any credits to Communist China. Thtjr figure thait without big credits from the West the Chinese Reds will have to turn to Russia for ex- tensive help â€" help that Moscow cannot 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 rrfusing 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 Nankin.g and Shanghai. Since the Reds took overe checks passing tbrou.gh the Nanking clearing-house have dropped from 20,000 to 200 a day. Up to a week or so.ago only one •hip had dared to run the Natronal- i»t blockade into Shanghai â€" 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 housing bill over the opposition of a well-financed, real estate lobby. This nil isnie will provide funds for an immense program of bot>s- 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 ijge 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 seS'Sion 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 skill in President Truman's leadership. Nevertheless the stubborneSs with which he fights for his liberal con- victions are undoubtedly bearing fruit â€" backed, as it appears to be, by a strong tide of public opinion behind his social reforms. ..Classified Advertising •• AUKMTB WaMTllU> ' OILS, GREASES, TIRES loMotloldu, Dleetrlo Fenct Controllart, HouM mm) Bara Palat. 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A good choice In all aize farms â€" Write Re- QUlrements. Charles Pelton. Realtor. Kempt- â-¼llle, Ontario. FOR BALE INDIA India has ju»t celebrated its sec- ond anniversary as an independent} and the record of accomplishment, in that comparatively short time, in surprisingly good. Because of monsoon« and otbar disasters to crops, India ha« had to cope with more than the normal food shortage. But she met the emergency by the importation of foodaituffc and by the most ambi- tious rationing scheme ever at- tempted anywhere â€" a rationing system affecting 140,000,000 people. And this scheme proved amazingly effective. Now India, handica4>ped by an «nfavorabl« balance of trade, wants to etid her importations of food and aims to become self-sufficient ia the matter of food by the end of »S1. This, in a sense, is bad news for Canada, which shipped 10 million bushels of wheat to India in t(h« past 12 months. Nor is Canada's export outlook brightened by the new Indian program of locomotiv* 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 ysar and a half. But an increasingly prosperous lodia 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 pfx>gress hais been made since India struck out, "on her own" is far gireater than nine-tenth* of the "experts" were predicting two years ago, when the great event finally occurred. ALUMINUM ROOFING & SIDING Croaa-Crlmped Corrugated and ribbed atylea. • to 10 ft lansttaa Immediate delivery from atock. Write for aamplea and aatlmataa Steal Dlatrlbutora Limited. SOO Cherry St. Toronto PAINT lALE â€" Outalde gloaa. white, cream, brown, red, grey, green or black. Bale price IS. 99 per gallon. Thla la new atock paint not war aurplua atock. Regular retail price, 16.30 Mali ordera aent C.O.D. Coyla'a Cold Storage. Vienna. CRIMNBTS â€" Patented, prefabricated, ap- proved, lightweight, handyman Inatallation. Free literature. The Lockbarta, Terminal A. Box 182. or Midway 4693. Toronto. FARM EQUIPMENT ONCB USED GRAIN, potato, onion, cabbage bags. etc. Uaed bags bought and aold In may quantity. Over quarter century aervlclng tha trade. Write or call London Bag Corn- pan y^I^ndon^Ontarlo^ SBED rye: Packed in two bushel sacks de> llverad your station at 13.36 per buahel. Plaaae aend money with order. Jack Uriln. Ijondon. Ontario. BV8INE8S FOR 8AJLE FARM Implementa for aale. amall town. 10.- 000 volume, major lines. Box No. 48, 138 Blghteentb Street, New Toronto, Ont,. SATISFY TOURSBLli'- Every auSerer of Rbaa- matlo Pains or Neuritis should try Dixon's Remedy. Uunro's Drug Store, 886 Elgin, Ot- tawa. Postpaid 11.00. PAI'BNTS 1 FETUERSTONHAUQR A Company Patent Solicitors Establlabed 1890 360 Bay Street. 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PERSONAL, FREE SAMPLE.S â€" plastic comb. Send dtm» for postage and handling or 4 for 26c. Offlo* i. 1184 Yonge Street. Toronto. WAMTEU AFFUCATIONS for Student Nurses are r» quired at the Samla General Hospital, Samla, Ontario. This la an approved School of Nuralng. Honorarium after prsUmlnarr term la complete, 126 per month. BROCCOLI plants wanted, suitable (or traii» planting, any quantity. Phone El. 7138, o* write S. Lightfoot A Son Ltd.. 38 St Law- rence Market, Toronto. GRAIN separator. In good condlUon, at least 28" cylinder. State full particulars Inclu4- init price. Gordon Dixon, B.R. 1, Port Dover, Ontario. OIFTS china babywear and library. Living quartara. IjOW rent lease. Good turnover. ISSS Main, Vancouver. 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." 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No matter wbat you have done lor this torture, or how loBg-stanilin( ud stubborn your case, modem science kaa the anawar in tks »aw Pyltone l^aatmant (a liquid taken by nouth). Your bat kottl* â- roTca tUa or the price nlunded at oaca. That s our guarantee ol ^Itona's aaality, •1.75 at all moden draggiita PT-I WANTED YOUNG WOMEN for Harveating Peachei, Pluma, Peari, Applet, Grapes, Tomatoes and other Fall ImltB and vcgetablet Accotiimodation in Farm Service Force Campa AngUBt 15th to November 15th Campers must bring blankets, sheets and pillow casss For further Informatioii writs: Ontario Farm Service Forct 9 Richmond Strast East ^ Toronto 1, Ontario. Auspices: Dominion - Provincial Farm Labour Committee L// - RHEUMATIC PAIN..., RUB iN LINIMENT ^ Apply freely, and rub. Tbat'a aU. It'a greaaeleaa, faat-drying; has no stroim odor. And it brings qui» ralier to muecular achea and paina, neuralgia, lumbago. lASSt ICONOIIICAL.Sat 6»C ISSUE 35 â€" 1949 NMurally! 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