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T Camels Are Desert * 'Newly- Arrived's" It i( ttartling, but incontestably tgue, that the camel, which we al- ways associate with the desert •cent, was not used i^i the Sahara until well into the Christian Era. _^^ie, [^pitl was imported into Nofn Xfrica from the East and came tardily and gradually. Or rather came back. In prehistoric days it had existed in the coastal regions that are now called Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Its bmies have been dug up. But the wild camel died off before man learned to use it. The slowness of the process by which the camel â€" the much-needed camel â€" moved westward from Asia Minor toward and into the Saharra i$ a puzzle. One would have thought that this seemingly Heav- en-sent desert vehicle of tramsport would have swept into popularity in a few years. But it took cent- uries. In early historic days even Egypt to close to the East, had no camels. The father of Rameses II was obliged to have a cistern built in the desert east of the Nile so that his men could reach the gold mines without risking death by thirst, they having had no trans-port but asses to carry water for their jour- ney. By the seventh century B.C., there is noted the limited use of eamels in Egypt . . . A: small, but significant circuni- ttance which I have noted is that at Alexandria, which was far closer to the East whence camels came, and at a considerably latter date thaai that of Alexander the Great's pil- grimage, the celebrated procession . . . included camels along with exotic and unfamiliar beasts like ' â- ebras, a white bear, a rhinoceros. It seems obvious that caniels must itill have been much of a rarity, else they would not have been given a place in this great show . . . In short, at least a thousand years elapsed between the first in- troduction of the camel into North Africa, in Egypt, and its adoption as a regular means of transport. Yet it was the camel aloiie that was capable of. and eventually did. open up that immense trans Saharan trade " which made Mediterranean Africa rich and brilliant in the Middle Ages and gave splendor and cuUure to the Xegro empires by the Niger. Before camels came, such desert travel as there was used horses speiially trained to go two davi without a drink. Pack oxen, also so ti'ained, carried water skins. Asses helped, too. â€" From "North African Prelude: The First 7,000 Years," by Galbraith Wel'li Cost Of Living High In Russia The British Foreign Office has given, without comment, a list of prices in Russia after the February 28 revaluation of tlie ruble, quoting the wage of a skilled Russian work- er as from 500 to 1,500 rubles, equivalent to $126 to $378 ? month. Unskilled workers' wages were said to rainge from 250 rubles, or $6J, a month. Taking the value of tne ruble at 25 cents, the prices giver were: Black bread: 2 rubles (50 ceuts) a two-pound loaf. Milk: 3 rubles 60 kopeks a liter, or about 50 cents a pint. Chocolate: 145 to 200 rubles a klogram, or about $16.80 to $25 a pound. Beef: 35 rubles or $4.34 a kilo (2.2 pounds). Hani: 47 rubles, or more than fS.60 a pound. Toilet soap: 3 rubles, or 70 cents a cake. Woman's sbae-: I'Vi'mi â- >" to ,M0 rubles, or $63 to $134 a p3.it. Men's shoes: Fiuni 20'^ to 470 rubles, or $50 to $U7 a pair. Investigate - Before You Join Hatidicapped, But Game â€" Th taken at Blue Mountain cam by the Ontario Society for Cri funds continues iiiiti .is bov, Robin Sutherland, is crippled but happy. Pi^iun- was p, near Collingwood. It's one of three summer camps operated â- ppled Children. The Society's annual Easter Seals campaign for 1 April Q. Donations may be sent to "Timmy. Toronto." Searching For "Extinct" Monsters For many years scientii;ts have agreed that there are more myster- ies in the sea than are ever likely to be solved. Unlike the majority of us they have rarely been incred- ulous of the stories of monsters and mermaids that have entertained us tor so long. And they have been even less so since Decenther 22nd, 1938. On that day they received the big gest shock in scientific history. A trawler fishing off the coast of East London, South Africa, found a strange, steel-blue fish in the catch. Fine Like Arms It measured five feet in length and its most unusual feature were "No Substance" â€" Anibassador- at-I.arge Philip Tessup speaks into a microphone <is he arrives in Now York from London, Jes- siip, who was accused by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of having"au unusual afliiiity for Cotninunist causes," said there was "no sub- stance" to McCarthy's claim of Conimimists in the State Dept. â€" By MaroW ArntM PAINT MATCHING TOMiy PAINT TO MATCH WORK ALREADY DONE, SMEAR SOME OF MIXTWf ON PIECE OF GLASS AND HOLD GLASS AGAINST SURFACE FOR COMPAWOH IF SWATCH DOESN'T MATCH WIPE IT FROM GLA5I BEFORE APPLYING ANOTHER SAMPLE. HOT PLATE MAKE HOT PLATS PROMTIH CAW AND HEAT-LAMP ILlMINT, SCRfW HEATING ELEMENT INTO SI6N WCEPTACjil TO WHICH A PLU» AND CORD ARIWWmD AMD FIT REClFTACltOrtR HOLf IN •©TWM OP TIN CAN. LIT eoef OF CAN fXTENO SLIflHTLY AIOYE TOP OP, ELEMINT MD PUNCH IIOLU INtDMf CAN WHWIRISTO $UPPOl| A •RATI. its fins which had developed until they looked like arms or legs. Because it v.as so unusual, the skipper had it preserved and sent to Dr J. L. B. Smith of Rhodes University. Dr. Smith examined the fish and his subsequent story shook tht scientific world to its foundations. The strange fish belonged to » species that hai been extinct for 50.000.000 years â€" or thought to be. In other words this species has actually hved all that time, un- known to man. Unfortunately, after Dr. Smith had finished, the mysterious fish was handed to a local taxidermist who stuffed it , throwing the head and entrails away before biologists could examine thenj. That is why, early in tlie New Year, an e.tpedition of twenty-five scientists sailed to discover, if pos- sible, the area where the species, must spawn and also to look for proof of the existence of other strange marine creatures. If the seas can hold such a secret for so long, how many more sur- prises nught there be in store for us: Perhaps in the not-so-distant future sceptics will be made to think again about the existence of th* Loch N'ess monster, for in- stance. We â€" the la>nien â€" laughed when officers oi the Mauretania reported seeing a curious monstur, even though their story was supported by pas>engers. We laughed when Hans Egede, the missionary, vouch- ed for one, and even when members of the Zoological Society reported another. We were even disbelieving when fifty foot carcases of unknown species have been washed up on the shores of India and .\frica. Scientists, however, have not been so sceptical â€" at least not since 19J8. But w liat of mermaids - Both Beebe and Barton have re- ported strange deep-sea fish that looked almost human, seen through the windows of their bathyspherei. At the same time every sailor who sails the seas does not spend his life Irving to spoof people. Scores of tiinee they have told of mennaids, until constant jeers forc- ed them to keep quiet. Vet they cannot all be wrong. All Nonsense? In \ii^[ a mermaid was repor.ed to have been seen off the Orkneyi, and all the newspapers carried the story. She wa« described at having a iniall black head and a milk-white body with long arms. Iwo years later another mermaid WJ5 seen by a man and hie wife at almost the same spot. They agreed .<he was beautiful end had lots of »hiek brown hair. Nonstnse? Of course it i» all »ill> nonsense. So was the atom bomb once. So wei the motor I'ev «nd the aero- pUllF Radio Murder Convicted criminals w. • statt penitentiary are supposed to be a hardened lot. But some things are too nmcli even for them to stom- ach. Judging by an article in the ^lonthly Record, a publication pro- duced by inmates of the Cmmec- ticut State Prison radio crime ji one of those things. One contributor wrote: I get glass-eyed wit. anger (when) 1 think how the radio crime presentation industry oper- ates its debasing crime schools. A barrage of how to-do-it crime programs is pouriaig into the homes of the susceptible .\meric3n pub- lis. Vour kid* are constantly being shown that if they aren't as stupij as the villains of the programs, they can easily get away with crime. Every lecn ager knows he's not that stupid, so he begins getting ideas, ajiid there's another young- ster beaded for ikid row to get a gun and maybe uhimateU a trip to the hot seat. Headed '-15.000 Murders a Month," the article expressed the view of a number of prisoners in the institution that progr;i'ns drip- ping wiih guile and gore occupy altogether too largo a proportion oi the time on radio station scheduler. That is expert testimLvn\ . VV'i'o should know better what it takes to make a criminal than those who have made the grade, the down- grade: The men ni W elherslielJ Prison are paying their debt to society When' will the professional and conirneriial exploiters of a de- praved ta>4e for crimeâ€" the pro- ducers and sponsors of thinly veneered glorifications of the gun- man and gun moll â€" begin to do ti much? A^ior* you inveei, iavaittigate. TbM's the advice of the Better Bwaineei Bureau and it naakas i«m« whether applied In purchasing • washing machine, a security or joining some popular movement. It i- iiarticularly applicable just now w4Mn k'l hard to till a Communitt -hys.er froni a genuine social re- former. Already a lot of organizatioaa with fine democratic names have been expcjsed as ideological boiler shops. A lot of unthinkiuK liberala and do-gooders who didn't inveeti- gate what they were getting into, have been left holding the bag. To- day there are three or four world- V ide Communist sales ori^aniza- tions. \\i are selling a highly mar- ketable and desirable pr(>duct â€" "Peace." The line is tbis; "If war comes it will be the fault of the Truman- iacs. The Soviet Union wants to bam the Bomb. The others refur^e to do so." In other words, condition our minds to accept the Big Lie that if war does come, it will be of our making, not Russia's. One sales force aims at labor; another at women: a third at the "cultural" level â€" the arts, science, etc. â€" and a fourth at youth The latter organi2ation is called the World Federation of Demo- cratic Youth. There's also a Women s International Democratic FederatioK and a World Federation of Trade Unions. The kingpin ia the World Peace Congress. The boss of the Canadian branch, Dr James Endicott. ex-United Chureh missionary, was in Moscow r«- cesitly. His mission: to gfive a liret- hand report on the Canadian Peaco Movement. Recently, rhe Communist youth inovemeiit staged a World Youth & Student Festival in Budapeet, behind the Iron Curtain. .â- \. young American who attended, writing in a U.S. magazine article, said he was "appalled" oy what he called the "deianiation" of the West. .\mong the hundresd of youm delegates were J2 Canadiaais repre- senting these organizations National Federation of Labor Youth, National Committee of LPP Students, The Canadian Tri- bune, Student Christian Movement, Canadian Seamen's L'nion, United Jewish People's Order. Association ot United L'krainian Canadian!, B. C. Woodworkers' fcnternational Union, CIO Fur and Leathor Workers. "A'ochenblatt" (Canadian Jewish Weekly) Kossuth Sick Beneiit Society ( Hungarian >, Fe- deration of Russian Canadians. Except for the Student Christian Movement, ail are either ontright Communist affiliates or front or- ganizations, .^t least 20 of the 32 delegate* were known Communist* Some were members of the 'Bea- ver Brigade." This is a Communist youth shock troop group. Since the war, they have made annual rrips behind the Iron Curtain to work with pick and shovel on Commnniat work projects. The Canadian party also included a contingent of musicians, dancer* and singers. Ax least two of them are members of the Toronto Sym- phony and one holds a staff posi- tion with the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music. ^ .^, The leader of the delegation waa Norman Penner, long a Communist. He is the head of the LPP's youtfc movement. From him and his Que- bec deputy Camille Dionne. the conference got i;* report on tho state of culture in Canada. Whon he came back, Ecnuer made a coast-to-coast tour carry- ing the Budapest message to tho Canadian faithful and »yrapathiztft»> What Penner and hie world youA movement and all Communists arc selling if totalitarianism done up id a fancy package. In a wrapper labeled "Democracy," it has beea forced down the throat of much of Europe and now China. ]' '" Today more than ever before' ^e should inrestigate bcfort lending support to causes no matter how attractivriy presented. If we don't we are quite likely to tind that our names and rinancial contributioua >r« being used to undermine the very thinga wt cherish most. â€" From The Financial Post. Houaing Problem la e big city departuteiu store, V a woman wa« e.xtreinol)' iiiteresrei â- ik in t display of doll houses. Sh*':^' examined each one very minutely, -y Finally, she stood in front of one^-' and whan she read the exorbi ,>i tant price tag, she wraa petritied. '^ The saleslady, noticing her star- V3 tng at the expensive doll hous9.fi% asked: "May I help you, madam?" The wora»n smiled sweetly and ., replied; "Of course, you arrang[«. jfor the mortgage on this!" Blind Man is TV Fixerâ€" Al- though he's though he's been blind for 13 years, John- ny Lizza, 25, is expanding: his radio repair shop to televi- sion. By hi» sense of touch alone, Lizza can make most repairs on the c'o m p 1 i cated sets. He open- ad his radio shop iti 1045. and hopes to save enough money, for an »y« operation. "A Man Gets Mad Sometimes" â€" l-".nt;iuitcl Silxa wrecked his cenietu truck mi a hillside ami es- caped unhurt. That he could take A couple of days later, hp wa.'* helping to haul the big truck up an etnbanknient when it suddenly burs: into flames. Then ^ilva saw red. He dash- ed to his sedan parked at the top of the eiuhuiikmetit, gunned it and crashed intv the burniuB; truck. Kinergiiiy from liiii wrecked car nnhurt, Sflxa said: "\ man gets ni.id <;nineiin("s. *>1 S