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Times & Guide (1909), 16 Jan 1958, p. 4

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Py m oott SSAE n Om P e t indeer. fishermen and those prevalent So, after negotiations, 300 |in‘ 1884 when ‘the Mission first apland reindeer, roaming wild|PUt MP its flag. It began operaâ€" inorthem Norway, were bookâ€"|tions on the Dogger Bank, startâ€" I for an Atlantic passage. ing "i‘:i; hnty vessel, ‘3: Enâ€" By 1908, the time of ;; |sign, which put out from Gorlesâ€" ansfer, the Mission was rtlf: ton in July / of that" yeat, ‘its mg three tiny hospital stations|CArg® being Bibles, warm wool« , Newfoundland, superintended len clothing, tobacco and a fully A¢ Dr. Wilfred Grenfell who|@quipped medicine chest. P oo ie We While | the â€" Arctic reindeer| """" |" arched, their provender for the | alm®St " urney," 60 tons of moss, acâ€"|tA% M npunicd them on sledges. A| And : rtyâ€"mile _ trek brought the|exploite irty to Altenfjord, where they |Ships, k mbarked on the S.S. Anita, These Three Lapland families went| potion ith them as herders. These|proft t« au.l little men, bringing|and ma» magic drums with them,|ness. Bu reed to show the New World|Skipper ow to manage the reindeer and|tonâ€"he x.nt year, mission members more than 21,500 visits to vessels, homes and hosâ€" itals. And the Mission‘s Generâ€" Ej,u_l.enhry. Lieut.â€"Commander k. Hague states that magazines re sentâ€"regularly to Norwegian itals north of the Arctic j@e, at isolated, settlements rhere British seaman cn,ul!flel; re often quartered. ~C \ At Kirkenes hospital patients in gaze eastwards on Russianâ€" peupied hills. During the war, ," iet forces overran the town, it found it largely deserted. ‘Several hundred inhabitants aried" themsélves in the magâ€" tite ore mines, seven miles stant. "There they lived for ks undetected," said Comâ€" inder Hague, "and during this Wéeuation, ten. babies were born Â¥ the mining galleries." Mere, at these remote northâ€" M stations, many staffed by ftractive blonde murses â€"â€" one wentyâ€"eight bed "hospitalet" is en return home. .. ‘ During the trip through icy, ormâ€"lashed seas, many of the rimals were violently seasick. m, on approaching St. Anâ€" nxy, the Anita ran into an unâ€" roken icefield. The reindeer rd to be landed on iceâ€"floes. This slippery business nearly teriorated into chaos. Terrified y their long crossing in crampâ€" 1 quarters, several reindeet ithered off the ice and, quick i‘ the Laplanders were with ipes, many animals were lost. However, enough of them inded ~to make many Newâ€" undland fisher families indeâ€" endent of savage huskies as aulage animals. The reindeer, ®, provided other welcome menities, such as good quality ide, milk and, on otcasion, wmchâ€"needed meat. ‘ ‘In fact, many families unwiseâ€" r ate their domestic â€"benefacâ€" rs. The Lapps went home but, rough eaten out of Newfoundâ€" ind, descendants of those same ndeer introduced by a misâ€" ®n‘s. enterprise, remain in Laâ€" _ and ‘snarling, . For. one. Asherman, a o?‘ in their harness, the|Lady even sent to England s closed in on him. Vainly.|his special brand of tes. Then, mumcmmdflmumwm.mmm _ whip. ‘They tore him tolit to specially brewed in a DBB: ) «) + + vacuum flask. These kindly woâ€" his kind of tragedy happenâ€"|M®R also bring flowers, write mot once, but a great many letters for a patient, make teleâ€" es in those remote regions. ghou calls for him and, what im the Royal National Mission|is most important, post his footâ€" Deep Sea Fishermen, which ball: pool m‘p‘%ns. As one man s striving against the severâ€"| commented, e like Norweâ€" bdds to give medical and|@lan girls, but their grandmas ritual aid to Newfoundland‘s|are good, too." ‘ igrant fishers, decided to reâ€"| No comparison exists between ce the vicious huskies by|modern conditions forâ€"deep sea n;wv_re;k'vlrmorng the coastal les of Canada‘s eastern seaâ€" later knighted for his courâ€" indland fishing port|the Arclic MNGIâ€"Exotic screen Zsa Gabor calls this "Grey Ladies." Led by. Mrs. ‘m‘.&mm«m ‘ Red Cross look upon the Arctic hospitals as their ton in July of that© year, ° its cargo being Bibles, warm wool« len clothing, tobacco and a fully equipped medicine chest. It ran into bitter opposition. For, at that period, all those working with sailing fieets lived precariously. _ Casualty~ rates were hijlh. medical provisions almest nil. No one cared about the men‘s spiritual welfare, And almost all were cruelly exploited by continental grog ships, known as "copers." These vessels served a fearful potion that brought enormous profit to the grog ship owners and many a strong man to madâ€" ness. But as one gallant sea dog, Skipper Tom White of Gorlesâ€" tonâ€"he sailed as a boy on the Ensign‘s maiden voyage â€" reâ€" members, it was the grog ships which finally capitulated to the Bible ships. And that happened, even though some liquorâ€"ridden skippers threatened to ram the Ensign. â€" Now and again, even today, of course, the old demon drink asâ€" serts itself. But the Mission superintenâ€" dents, understanding and reâ€" sourceful, know how to work on a man with wet towels and hot coffee when he threatens vioâ€" lence. . The Society‘s good deeds nevâ€" er cease. And, sometimes, they occur almost melodramatically. One hardâ€"drinking old« salt, while herring fishing, lost his balance as the boat lurched in~a howling gale. She shipped a heavy sea and the backlash of it whipped him overboard. No one saw him go, but in the next few" seconds, as he struggled helplessly in the sea, with the wind shrieking relentlessly, he saw, so he afterwards claimed, horrible visions of his misdeeds: In those split seconds, he swore he‘d never touch a drink again. Even more amazed where his mates when they saw their catch. â€" Then, suddenly, he felt a rope against his hand. Grasping it, he was pulled forward. And then, to his amazement, found himself hauled out of the water in the trawling net. ° M He kept his promise. becomâ€" ing afterwards a zealous misâ€" sionary. f The good deeds of many make up a wonderful camaraderie: of the sea. To date, at least fourâ€" teen deep sea fishermen owe their lives to John Hunter, mate of the Northern Duke. In July 1935, this gallant man, an expert diver, ‘fAung off his coat and dived overboardâ€"into a twoâ€"foot gap between *his ship and the quayside at Honingsvang. Down he went, twentyâ€"five feet below the surface to heave up a Norâ€" wegian youth lying uficonscious em the harbour bed. * â€" Thirteen years earlier, he won: the BE.M. for his deep sea resâ€" gue diving while working with Atlantic convoy blitzed by Uâ€" ts. Here, through repeated ving actions, he rescued a en men and dumped them gafely in his ship‘s scrambling pets. Mone recently, he plunged inâ€" Grimsby fish dock to support man who had fallen into the ater until ropes were lowered. ‘The Mission now operates in elgateen fishing ports, Apart @rom having opened six new inâ€" stitutions or hostels at a cost of @yer $200,000 since the war, with two more under eonstruc , it is tirelessly active, meetâ€" img the fishermen‘s many needs. It supplies some 13,000 newsâ€" pepers and magazines a year its volunteer needlewomen :nvzrt over two and a half tons wool annually into fisherâ€" @ken‘s comforts. â€" All, toiling under the blue &ban wonderfully proud of | they serve. A contractor, doing some exâ€" emvating, was charged with negâ€" lgente ‘when a pedestrian fell ig#o a pit on a dark night. The watchman, a somewhat dullâ€" witted but loyal fellow, was to b# called to testify concerning Ounger signals. He was primed x the contractor, and when oMlled to the stand swore steadâ€" Mikstly that ample lanterns had flhun‘hth!lrn.()nflb gth of his‘ testimony, the alise was closed, and the contraeâ€" »&mnmhw him _ warmily. did very well, Sam," he #*" "Wal, not exactly, boss," lied Sam, gt I‘l tell you 1 t was scared that lawyer felâ€" was going to ask me if them INCIDENTAL UPES A LAUGH â€"Laughingest guy in Hollywood is Britishâ€"born star David Niven, who refuses to take himself or Hollywood seriously. During the filming of "Around the World in 80 Days" he even fell off an eleâ€" phantâ€"from laughing. Bringing u| A Pet Seal Bringing up a seal s no light task, as I was soon td disâ€" cover, Left on her owh for a while Lora would start the cuNâ€" ous basing sound that young seals make, and should no one hasten to her this would change to plaintive whining interspersed with angry barks, which would be kept up until she was given attention. : » As a pup she had a bottleâ€"four times a day. My first mistake in seal upbringing was to allow her to have it on my lap. This priviâ€" lege once accorded she ‘had no intention of relinquishing | it without a tussle. Even when fully grown, measuring some threeâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half feet and tipâ€" ping the scales at fiftyâ€"six pounds, she would still try and scramble up onto a stranger‘s lap should he or she be weak enough to allow her to do so. Once on my return from a walk 1 went into the parlour to find Lora entrenched on a breathless and terrified lady visitor. "She started to bark each time I tried to make her get down and . . . I wasn‘t sure if seals bit, so I didn‘t pusk her too hard." I was informed. I promptâ€" ly ordered a reluctant Lora in to the floor. Allowing her to sleep at the botom of my bed was another mistake. A seal pup one one‘s feet is one thing, but a fully grown seal quite another. It took me several weeks g train her to lie on a low bamboo couch at nights and to refrain from surâ€" reptitiously trying to clamber back dnto the bed. When on dry land, seals move by pulling themselves dlong on their flippers. No sooner was she past‘ infancy than Lora started to waddle after me round the croft and trail me over to the byre. If I set out on a walk, her wails of protest at being left behind would Sihe me into the distance. I deeided that I must train her to/become more independent and\ capable . of amusing beresif, Now that she had discovered her true element and was growâ€" ing older our food pr@blem was eased considerably, for she huntâ€" ed her own fish. The, natural diet of seals is crustaceans and fish. But, like most domesticated animals, Lora‘s taste ranged beâ€" yond the natural and she was not averse to a raw carrot, porâ€" ridge, and, as an occasional treat, a spoonful of oil from ‘a sardine tin. At nights she had a supper consisting of dog biscuits soaked in‘ milk and oil. â€" From "Seal Morming," by Rowena Farre, We possessed l)flnll rowboat which was kept in a sheltered inlet of the lochan. One day, seeing that the weather was not! likely to turn squally, I took her out.in it and dropped ber over the side. In a moment she was swimming â€" vigorously, . diving. twisting. and circling the boat with incredible swiftness. From a slowâ€"moving, awkward creature she had turned into one of the utmost grace and speed. Each day after that she spent many hours swimming with the otters in the lochan ... . Skilletip on DEEP FRYING of delicately flavored food . . . heat 1 tablespoon of vinegar in the kettle before pouring in the fat. The vinegar will vaporize and modify the flavor of gréase. Especially good for delicately flaâ€" vored fritters. In urgent need of a flat a woman advertised her wants in an Oregon local paper. She stated that she would ".,. . get rid of my pet chinchillas, miniâ€" ature poodle. budgerigar and goldfish, but would like to keep my nineâ€"yearâ€"old son." J . SLEEP TOâ€"NIGHT MOTHER LOVE \ ' $ seal s no s soon td disâ€" r _owh f a start the cuN Drank Polson To Prove Innocence According to some ancjent but deeplyâ€"rooted tribal lore, when this liquor is drunk to separate guilty from innocent parties, the innocent ones always escape any punishment by vomiting up the poison. The, guilty ones, howâ€" ever, writhe in agony and die. In this test case, the grandâ€" mother herself decided‘ to take a cup, too, probably to exhibit her fath in the validity of the : To settle their differences and find out ‘the real culprit, the child‘s grandmother resorted to traditional justice lnwd‘ cups of muabvi, a virulent poiâ€" son dmm.d from the bark of the swamp â€" growing muabvi S:Eimfi'i- an instrument of jusâ€" tice, Bo all« three quaffed their drinks. . The im‘fundn'mther and the aunt d but the child‘s mother survived. Now she is to be‘ prosecuted. tg:dlon( ago the law in Nyasaâ€" laftd, as in other parts of Africa, outlawed trials by ordeal. All foun d participating become liable to criminal charges, proâ€" vided, of course, they are fortâ€" unate enough to survive the ordeal. _ SHAPELY SHIVERâ€"Furâ€"swaddled Delores Kirby offers a someâ€" what shaggyâ€"girl story, playing it‘s cool at the seashore in Miami Beach. The only chance she has to wear her silver fox stole at the resort is when the temperature dips way downâ€" sometimes into the 70‘s. Looking through a window, Professor Piccard saw his bathy> scaphe being swung over the ship‘s side into the sea. The cabin underneath _ disappeared _ from sight, then the float came to rest. "Well," Auguste said to Proâ€" tessor Monod, "apparently they have not vet discovered the teleâ€" sight, then the float came to rest. "Well," Auguste said to Proâ€" tessor Monod, "apparently they have not yet discovered the teleâ€" phone is riot working. We shall simply have to wait until they realize it and give us some inâ€" struction. . It will tak‘a good while to fill the tanks with gasoâ€" line." © â€" tw : "Let us settle down for a while, then, and have a game of chess," replied the professor. An Undersea Game Of Chess Auguste glanced at his watch. It was three o‘clock in the afterâ€" noon. The steel sphere was floodâ€" ed with a beautiful blue light where the sun penetrated the water from a clear blue sky. All they could hear was the . soft noise from the Draeger breathing apparatus: Occasionally, when he looked up, Auguste noticed a curious fish pause at the window of the gondola, investigating this strange monster that was invadâ€" ing the depths. Once, a frogman passed the portholes, one of the men the professor had detailed to check below the surface after the bathyscaphe was in the water. _ Slowly, the FN.SR. II desâ€" cended into the sea. _ A ‘sudden jolt told the scientists they were at the bottom. The bathyscaphe worked! Here they were, safe and sound in about 90 feet of water, and eve® Khing was working as it He gave them no instructions and disappeared. Still nothing happened. It seemed hours beâ€" fore the float was . eventually filled. : Finally, another frogman apâ€" peared and caught the attention of the men in the observation chamber. He held a board in front of him with these words on it: "You are now going down. Don‘t stay too long!" "Ten Miles High, Two â€" Miles Deep," by Alan Honous, phone. â€" â€" Auguste was delighted.â€"From pposed to, except the teleâ€" position. A director of a firm with ramifications over most of the world was interviewing an m plicant for a fairly responsi â€" "If you use your initiative and work hard," said the direcâ€" tor impressively, "you‘ll evenâ€" tually earn a very substantial salary Will that satisfy.you?" Not Satisfiedâ€"â€"So Made A Fortune "No, sir," replied the appliâ€" cant promptly, "I shall never be satisfied." More than forty men were seeking that post.. Yet he got the job Because the director liked his attitude. He realized the man would never rest, but would always be bent on improving his position and that of the firm. That applicant‘s ideas were sound, and fortunately he had met an executive who shared his own point of view. A lot of rubbish has been written about people being dissatisfied. It is such people who are responsible for progress, in â€" commerce, science, social reform. A man who is c?ynded with his pay and his work won‘t get much farther; on the other hand, he may be a useful citiâ€" zen, but he‘ll never amount to much. 3 Take the great princes of inâ€" dustry _ Suppose Sir Thomas Lipton had been content to serve behind the counter of his first grocery shop, to to sleep beneath that counter. There would have been none of the numerous stores which bear his name. Instead, he would have reâ€" mained where he started: an obscure grocer, scraping a livâ€" ing. s Sn e ez And what about Lord Nufâ€" field? As plain William Morris he repaired bicycles, A useful occupation, but he wasn‘t satisâ€" fied with doing this unrewardâ€" ing work day after day. He launched out, and his cars are sufficient justification for takâ€" ing what must have been a bold and even perilousâ€"step. Henry Ford was born the son of a small farmer. He might have spent al} his years ploughâ€" ing and harrowing, sowing and reaping. But he had ideas, and eventually <the. Ford . car was born, the first "people‘s car." He not only made millions; he used â€" them . wisely, provided the necessary capital for all sorts of. philantrohhic purposes and inspiring enterprises. Many must bless th name of the forâ€" mer bicycleâ€"repairer and . be grateful that he was not satisâ€" fied with his early lot. These men, and hundreds like them, born in humble circumâ€" stances, wanted to do something bigger. to rise above their enâ€" vironment. + Of course, it‘s no good being dissatisfied unless you do someâ€" A FLEET IN ONEâ€"Out for its shakedown eruise, the world‘sâ€"largest birchbark canoe skims Over|aire Augustus Hawker said af> the waters of Golden Lake, in Ontario, propelied by a totul of 16 paddlers. In the bow|ter‘ his doâ€"orâ€"die spirit h:: of the giant craft is 85â€"yearâ€"old Matt Bernard, who supervised its building. The canoe, a|taken him to the top: "Any mmav af shamâ€"mad hu antle tur radars is 44 foat lana and slx fost wide. it will be shindgediczan make a‘ million if they ‘hold copy of those used by early fur traders, is 36 feet long and six feet wide. it will be shipped to Ottawa for display in the National Museum. THE NATO ALLIESâ€"Map shows the 15 members of the North Atlantie Treaty Organization whose "summit" leaders are meeting in Paris. NATO was formed when Canada, the United States and 10 Western European nations, on March 18;1949, adopted a defense pact agresing that "an armed attack against thing about it. That only spells and bitter.frustration. You must decide what you want to do and do it with all.your might, It means taking a risk, someâ€" times entails a financial loss to start with and a consequent tightening of a belt already drawn in beyond comfort. But these are chances you must take. Treat them as a challenge, as mere obstacles on your chosen road. Then you will gain the right perspective. . â€" To be satisfied is fatal. Listen to the words of a leading indusâ€" trialist. _ "Only cowards and fools are satisfied," he says bluntly. ‘"The man of . falent who is contended with a routine job, however well paid, is a failure. He may not realize it, but it‘s perfectly true." / M I ,Then he adds this ominous and â€" enlightening â€" postscript. "Give me the dissatisfied : emâ€" ployee _jime," he asserts. "I can ke something of him. He wahts to get somewhere â€"â€" and I‘Hâ€"help him. on the way." Of course, not all employers are like that, or have the broad vision of the director mentionâ€" ed. Some years ago, a man took a traveller‘s job with a wholeâ€" sale firm. He worked hard, put in many. hours a day, made useful contacts. The result was that after a time he had built up a valuable connection and ‘had numerous profitable cusâ€" As he was on a commission basis his personal income inâ€" creased. Then one of his chiefs came along. ‘‘We, consider you are earning far too much for the job you are doing," he old him curtly. ‘‘To counter this we have deâ€" cided to reduce your rate of commission." > â€" In less than three years he had built up a flourishing busiâ€" ness, was making far more than he had ever done with the firm which had developed so scurvily tewards him. â€" Did the employee accept this humbly? No. "I shan‘t be satisâ€" fied with that" he told his emâ€" ployer grimly. "I‘m getting out â€"now!" He went and started® on his own in the same line of busiâ€" ness; and eventually his indeâ€" pendent spirit and the dissatis. faction inspired by mean and cheeseâ€"paring treatment _ were rewarded. m |It is not only in business angd commerce and industry that a sense of dissatisfaction has had farâ€"reaching results, writes R T. Cooper in "Titâ€"Bits." . Mrs. Hannah Montague of Troy, New York, for instance, was fed up with washing the whole shirt whenever her husâ€" ‘band‘s shirt collar became dirty. ____ _ |on to their dream and refuse to be smacked down, 'I'htt‘t how munouerevepseseemetecmeeemenere® \hrig treese reach the §kY/ She invented the first detachâ€"| "Gus" left his family in Engâ€" able collar. land in 1926 and went out to Others who found success by|Canada where e became a smoothing the path of domestic|U"ANium prospecter. For twen life were Solomon Goldberg,|tYâ€"#‘x years he had no luck, In who invented the crinkled hair.|fact other breadwinning enterâ€" pin which wouldn‘t fall out and|PTises, such as being a trapper earned millions of dollars, and |And & trader, failed. f Sir Henry Wellcome, who first| Then, in the twentyâ€"seventh thought of coating pills with|Ye@T, he staked claims to some sugar. of the richest uranium rocks in Every reform, every advance, Canada. He‘s now known as levere vistarions haifia in thal Mt. Uranium." n Every reform, every advance, every victorious battle in the cause of suffering humanity, has been accomplished because some brave _ soul was dissatisfied with the old order, With "things which through years of familiâ€" arity lesserâ€"folk took for grantâ€" Prison reformers like Elizaâ€" beth Fry, doctors scientists like Louis Pasteur, humble labourâ€" ers in the teeming, viceâ€"ridden slums, these and many more were utterly dissatisfied with all they saw, and their dissatisâ€" faction became the overriding force which drove them on unâ€" ‘til they reached their goal. « BOUNTY LOCATED â€"Coralâ€"encrusted remains of the famed mutiny ship, HMS Bounty, have been located off Pitcairn Is» land in the Pacific, near whgre it was burned and sunk on January 23, 1790, by mutineer Fletcher Christian and his followers. Here the salvaged, 12â€"foot anchor rests on a landing in Bounty Bay. Fletcher Christian, descendant of the original mutineer, views the relic which has the rounded flukes (arrowâ€" like tips of the anchor‘s cross piece) used before 1810. Photo is copyrighted by National Geographis Magazine. one or more of them in !uvor and North America shall be considered an cmck".m‘nn all." Purpose of the current meetâ€" ing of NATO leaders is to elevate the organization‘s prestige, declining in the face of Soviet propaganda victories, restore harmony among séme _of in _dlnldom‘ n_vombon and provide NATO with the strong leadership naeded. Satisfaction is too often only another word for ..u‘.."*b. eency and smugness. Become L'd:udhfled-â€"!nd give full rein and your initiative. The "Saféâ€" ty First" principle may be .a comforting \a nd _ comfortable philosophy. But applied univer» ally it would mean the end ‘.: progress, the strangling. at Oof all enlightenment, the death knel} of every reform. A As the newlyâ€"made millionâ€" }dn Augustus Hawker said afâ€" Two drivers involved in a read accident in Denmark were sumâ€" moned to attemd court at Faaâ€" borg. According to the evidence it appeared that a motorist erashed ‘his vehicle into a metercyclist. When the two men appeared in answer to the summons, the magistrate Was surprised . to learn that the ages of the two drivers totalled 166 years. My, P. Mortensen, driver of the car was 85, and the motorâ€"cyclist, Mr. Rasmus Ellinge, 81. VINTAGE DEIVERS CRASH wnaTO C orhigs

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