© 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved. The Children's Newspaper, Week Ending May 6, zg^o s New A Bicycle For You f—See page 9 Every Wednesday—Threepence FOUNDED BY ARTHUR MEE~ No 1624—May 6, 1950 An Airman Alone in Two LITTLE A HELPING OF LIZARD PIE SAILING BOATS WITH SEA WEED SALAD "Trembling Earth" ""THE world's strangest cookery book is the one recently pre- ^ pared by the Royal Canadian Air Force for its School of "FHE first man to be lost in a vast swamp in Georgia, USA, Survival at Fort Nelson, British Columbia ; some of the recipes *• and to find his way out alive is an American airman with would have alarmed the worthy Mrs Beeton. the good Scottish name of James Douglas Stewart. His plane Aircrews engaged in flying crashed in the Okefenokee Swamp and caught fire, but he over Canada's northland, and managed to get out unhurt. He could hardly have come down STOLEN SWORD who are now going through the in a worse place. school, will learn from this book RETURNS how to defeat starvation if forced The Okefenokee Swamp, so- down. It gives them recipes called from an Indian word 'T'HE Wallace Sword which is for such delicacies as newt stew, which is said to mean "trembling now on view again in the lizard pie, bat soup, a dish of earth." is about 45 miles long and Hall of Heroes in the National lousewort (a form of weed*, sea­ 30 miles wide. It is a deserted Wallace Monument, at Stirling, weed salad, and lemming-en- wilderness of cypress and black recalls an astonishing story. casserole garnished with sea gum trees growing in mud, of On Sunday night, November cucumber. wide marshes, low islands covered 7, 1936, the caretaker of the Wal­ The authors of this invaluable with pine trees, and a few lace Monument heard a knock book are two Air Force officers stretches of shallow water. at the door. Wondering who who had long experience of the He decided to followr the rule could be calling at such an hour, Arctic while with the Royal for stranded airmen and to stay he opened the door and was con­ Canadian Mounted Police. They by his wrecked plane in the hope When 12-year-cld John fronted by four masked men who admit their dishes are not for that it would be spotted by Hilt, of West bremwich, said they had come for the Wal­ the fastidious, but for' the fellow rescuing aircraft. Then he returned from a visit to lace Sword. who just wants to live; and they climbed a tree and realised the South Africa, he brought with him this model yacht, The caretaker shut the door in claim that hundreds of lives grim fact that his plane could their faces, but the men forced would have been saved, including not be seen from above. His only made by craftsmen in the Canary Islands. their way in and locked him in those of members of the Sir John hope of life was to do what no his room. Then they climbed up Franklin expedition, if knowledge man lost in Okefenokee had done a sloping buttress of the tower of how to find food in Canada's before—to walk out of the and gained admittance to the Arctic had been available earlier. swamp. Hall of Heroes by smashing a "All animals in the north are He started his dreadful pilgrim­ stained-glass window known as safe to eat," they point out in age. Ho had to drag himself for the Crown and Sceptre. There their book. "This includes bats, miles through mud and avoid the they found the Wallace Sword lizards, newts, frogs, and even grip of bogs, and be on the watch and escaped with it. snakes, which taste like the white all the time for poisonous snakes Several months later the police meat of chicken. Grubs found in and alligators. For food he found received an anonymous letter the ground or in rotten wood berries and chewed grass, and and, acting on the information make good food. So do grass­ thus for seven long days he it contained, found the missing hoppers, toasted on a stick. Pick fought yard by yard through the sword at Bothwell—at the bottom off legs and wings before cook­ mire. But-he beat the Okefeno­ of a well! ing. Do not eat caterpillars; kee, and reached his fellow men, some are poisonous. Meat is who took him to hospital at meat when you are hungry." Homerville, Georgia. Two yachtsmen, sail­ ing on the Thames Starting From Scratch MUTTON BIRDS ON THE WING at Surbiton, lie flat ji/jANY motorists went astray TpoR some time past the or fly across the middle of the out to prevent their LV1 recentJy on a road near Wim- Australian Government has Pacific. In all, the round trip craft from capsizing borne, Dorset, all because a cow in the stiff breeze. had scratched Us head against a been investigating the migratory cannot be less than 18,000 miles. signpost and turned the sign in habits of mutton birds, which In recent years the numbers of the wrong direction. nest in great numbers in the mutton birds in the Purneaux Furneaux group of islands. Every islands has dropped considerably, year the mutton birds—so named so the Australian Government because their flesh tastes and are taking steps to stop sheep- looks like mutton—take off on breeding there so that the ground their long, long flight to the can be ploughed in an effort to Bering Strait and the Aleutian attract the birds back to their Islands off the coast of Alaska. nesting places. It has now been established beyond doubt that the route of these far-flying migrants lies by way of the Solomon Islands and HE SOLD SEA SHELLS Japan. The birds return by "yynEN the giant oil tanker transport did fortune come to another route which has not yet Velutina, christened by Prin­ him. been discovered, but it is thought cess Margaret, goes-to sea in July But Marcus Samuel never that they either follow a course her captain . will receive a sea forgot his start in life. Each one along the Pacific coast of America shell from his employers. This of his tankers became a "shell," is in accordance with custom, and the company formed to run for the tankers in this fleet are them was styled the Shell Oil named after shells, and each one firm. Instead of selling shells to Auld Reekie carries the appropriate shell in a the public he presented them to : Minus the Reek glass case throughout her career. his shins. ^i^ '-\ (\N his retirement after 35 The custom has an interesting years' service Mr Allan origin. The founder of the great Ritchie. Chief Sanitary Inspector Shell group of oil companies was Pressing Affair of Edinburgh, was complimented Marcus Samuel, later Lord Bear- •A CROWD was gathered round on his pioneering efforts to re­ sted, who began life in a humble ** a motor lorry at Gretna, but move the "stigma of reek " asso­ way in the East End of London, curious passers-by found that it '! >• « ciated with the ancient name of selling painted sea shells and ivas not due to a road accident. Edinburgh. Ritchie's achieve­ other curios. The people ivere merely witch­ ments in this respect have been In those days shells were ing an obliging lorry-driver recognised by the Smoke Abate­ widely used ,for decorative pur­ slowly manoeuvring liis ten-ton ment Society, who made him a poses, but young Samuel made lorry over two planks in order member of Council and president little money out of the business; to press a Gretna villager's home­ of the Scottish section. not until he- went in for oil grown tobacco. zi © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

The Children's Newspaper, May 6, 1950 Diatoms to The Western Powers NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE Save Dollars Must Act as a Team THANKS A MILLION! MUSIC WHILE THEY WORK J^ KIND of earth called diatom- Marshall Aid to Europe during Records are being made of the aceous, made of the skele­ Once again London is to be the main centre of interest in the two years ending March 31 traditional "waulking" songs of tons of millions of minute plants, world politics, for the Foreign Secretaries of. Britain, France, totalled 8,726,500,000 dollars. the Hebrides. They are sung by may help Britain to save dollars. and the United States are due to meet in the British capital Britain received 2,391,400,000 the weavers when tossing the This was announced recently by tweed to and fro to give it its Sir Roland Nugent, leader of the next week. A C N correspondent, who is a close student dollars (about £853,730,000) in loans. finish. Northern Ireland Senate. This of international developments, believes that this conference will kind of earth is used for several The Boys' Brigade Annual Dis­ Inspired by the visits of be the most important diplomatic event since the end of the Britain's Young Vic Company, purposes in industry, and Britain play loill be held at the Royal has hitherto had to purchase all war in Europe. He writes as follows : Albert Hall, London, on May 5, at Holland is to form a Young Vic Company of. her oivn. her supplies from dollar 'J'HE momentous character of not agree to suggestions by other 8 p m, and on Saturday, May 6, countries. at 3.30 and 7.30. the London discussions by the nations, no .matter how big or An American surgeon revived a dead man twice after operating It is used for filtering sugar, Big Three can be seen from the powerful, unless they feel such Between 35 and 40 Canadian mineral oils, sewage, and so on; fact that a full fortnight was set aircraft are taking part in a on him, by massaging his heart— proposals are sound and just. the first time for 31 hours and as a filler in paints, rubber, apart for the final prepara­ photo-survey of the Dominion, for plastics, and other products; and However, the nations of the West the production of maps of regions the second time for three hours. tions for this conference. These have come to realise that it is The man has now completely as an insulator against heat, cold, which have not been accurately and sound. preparations were entrusted to in . their own interest to get surveyed. recovered. Mi* Jessop, the United States together, to agree on what to do, Patrol Leader John Wilkins, 14, Former students of Aberyst­ Ample Supplies ; roving Ambassador, M. Massigli, to do what is decided, and to do the French Ambassador in of the 22nd Lincoln (Thomas wyth College, University of The deposit of diatomaceous it jointly, quickly, and efficiently. Wales, have so far given over London, and Sir William Strang, Cooper Memorial) Group, has earth, said Sir Roland, is in been awarded a Bar to the Gilt £23,000 towards equipping new Permanent Under-Secretary for French Plan County Antrim, and, if it can Cross for saving a boy from college buildings on a site over­ be refined and purified, there is Foreign Affairs, a team of first- But how to secure a common drowning in the River Witham. looking the town. class importance. policy? There is belief in France, sufficient there for the whole of for instance, that the best way Britain, representing a saving of Of course there is little doubt 40,000 or 50,000 dollars a year. of what is to be discussed. The ,to do it would be by creating an Atlantic Union including all the The regions where it is found happenings in South-East Asia ?oy Scouts and Girl were once under water, fresh or are one thing; others are the countries of Western Europe and the United States; such a Union Guides from Holland, salt, in which lived countless situation in the Middle East, still vhile. visiting Britain, millions of tiny, single-celled a good deal uncertain, the would be planning its defence met Lord Baden- plants -called diatoms which Balkans, and Germany. The very jointly, and would develop perhaps at some later date, into Powell, son of the foun­ contain silica. When these special problem of Yugoslavia, minute specks of life died, sank which is both anti-Soviet and a new great State stretching from der of the Scout move­ the Rhine .to California. ment, at Scout Head­ to the bottom, and decayed, the anti-West, and Russia's "cold silica in them remained, and in war" are further items of im­ This is, of course, a grand idea, quarters in London- but the danger, as with all great the course of millions of years portance. Here he is showing them has formed thick beds. The sea ideas, is that the national repre­ a beaker which was sentatives may get submerged in or lake departed, leaving dry The Big Three presented to his father land, the beds of diatomite were It may be said that the sub­ discussing something which at •present is an obvious political at the 1937 Jamboree in covered over by the accumulation jects to be raised at the London Holland. of soil, and in our time men have meetings of Mr Bevin, M. Schu- impossibility. The main task of the Ministers, therefore, appears dug down to the diatomite, which mah, and Mr Acheson are far looks something like chalk, and from being new. Most of these to be not to lay down plans for future combinations of the free­ used it when purified for modern worries have been with us since Church plans for the Festival industry. the end of the war. If there is dom-loving democracies, but to • Safety Song find out to what extent they can of Britain include a service in A popular • edition of the. new Sir Roland Nugent said that great hope attached to the St Paul's to mark the opening, meeting of the Big Three—and work out a common policy, com­ road-safety, song, Never, Never the Scientific Development Com­ bining as a real team which can and a programme of religious Dash Across the Road, is shortly mittee of which he is Chairman many think there is—it rests on drama. The blitzed St John's the belief that at long last the cope with all the present emer­ to be issued by The Royal Society has been testing for more than gencies and problems and making Church, Waterloo Road, will fcjr the Prevention of Accidents. a year various processes of purify­ Ministers will be able to work out become an exhibition church. a single and uniform policy for adequate plans for joint action The British Council of ing the diatomaceous earth of tne West in all matters under dis­ in the difficulties that may arise The conference of representa­ Churches has spent well over Antrim, and already success has cussion. in the future. tives of the peoples of the South £1,000,000 on refugees in Europe been achieved in the laborator5\ Pacific islands, which is now This is naturally far from easy If this is, in fact, done, then since the ivar. a. real union of the Western being held at Suva, Fiji, is being in a free world. Independent attended by over 60 delegates and Additional exemptions from democratic nations all have their nations may be nearer than many school for children of 14 and over WAGING WAR ON people imagine. advisers, most of whom are own policies and normally will natives of the various islands. to help farmers with the harvest w.ll in no case be given this year. DISEASE The World Glider Champion­ Children as young as 13 will be ^HE new National Institute for ships will take place at Orebro, in given exemptions for harvest Medical Research at Mill Modern Merchant STROLLING central Sweden, next July. ' The work only when acute local needs Hill, London, is to be inaugurated Swedish Aero Club announce make the employment of chil­ by the King and Queen on May 5. Adventurers PLAYERS that so far ten nations have ex­ dren unavoidable. It will be the headquarters in 'J'HE CHILDREN'S THEATRE of Two modern Merchant Adven­ pressed their intention of taking this country for research into the Brighouse, Yorkshire, are to part, including Britain.- A De Havilland Vampire jet turers have just made a fighter has beaten by 22 minutes causes of diseases and • is fur­ send a party of young players nished with every kind of equii. • journey of some thousands of And Never Late ? the record for the 980-mile flight miles in a praiseworthy attempt on a theatrical tour of the from Cape Town to Pretoria ment for the purpose known tc science today. to sell the attractions of their Arnsberg district of Germany. A mechanical office boy will be which was set up in 1947. Its famous city. The tour will be part of an on show at the British Industries time was 1 hour 54 minutes. The Institute is run by the extensive scheme whereby 500 Fair at Olympia. It has a Medical Research Council and They are Alderman J. 3. children from the West Riding mechanical tongue which licks JET MAIL includes the world influenza and seals envelopes. Morreli; the Lord Mayor of York, will visit Germany this summer; The first air mail to be carried centre which is administered by and Councillor A. S. Rymer, the and in due course a return visit A 12-foot statue of Christ will by jet aircraft has been, flown in the World Health Organisation. Sheriff. They have been to to Yorkshire will be made by be unveiled at Aldershot' on the Avro Canada Jet-liner. It This building, in which some America to invite several well- German children. May 5. It is surrounded by a flew from Toronto to Idlewild 100 scientists and between 250 known people to visit Yorkduring Airport, New York, and cachets During the first week of their rock garden of stones from the 55 and 300 of their assistants will the Festival of Britain in 1951, towns and cities which suffered were applied to the air mail visit the young Brighouse covers carried. wage war on disease, is one of and while there they gave broad­ players will give performances most in air raids. A book record­ the most remarkable which has casts concerning the beauties of to audiences of German school­ ing their names will be placed in The Geological Survey is inves­ been constructed in Britain since ancient York. children, ' and in the second St Michael's, Aldershot. tigating the claim of Jan Ford, the war. ...People invited were chiefly week will be themselves enter­ During her six-month voyage a research student at Bristol It has a copper roof and, to those connected in some way tained. It is hoped to take them round the world, the whale University, to have tracked the supply the needs of the scientific with the "name York, and two of to the Passion Play at Oberam- factory ship Balaena sailed 30,000 largest deposit of uranium in the equipment, many unusual ser­ the first invitations were given to mergau in the Bavarian Alps and miles. She arrived at Liverpool world—running for twelve miles vices have been installed: dis­ Mr William O'Dwyer, the Mayor to some of the famous State recently with 203,000 barrels of between Bath and Bristol. tilled water through tin pipes, of New York, and to Mr Felix theatres and opera houses. whale oil, enough to provide A "Junior Safety Council" has compressed air, steam, and both Bentzel, the Mayor of York in 40,000 tons of margarine, and 48 just been formed in Singapore alternating . and direct electric Pennsylvania. When the German children come over here in July they will billion units of vitamin A liver from selected boys and girls from current. Toronto in Canada was also be taken on a tour of the Dales, extract. the colony's senior schools. This In addition, there are hot and visited and its mayor invited, for committee are said to be respond­ cold rooms in which the tem­ and will visit industrial towns of In the last .full year before the ing well. Toronto, capital of York County, the North, spending the evenings war the Austin Motor Company perature can be regulated from was originally known as York; at various theatres. The West employed 17,000 workers and pro­ A "sarcophagus containing the one control point. and quartered in its coat of arms Riding Youth Committee are to duced 1700 motor vehicles a week. mummified body of Queen In its bewildering array of the are the lions of the English city. be congratulated on this splendid Today they employ 18,000 workers Takhout, wife of Psammetik the latest scientific apparatus are two While there, the two "Adven­ attempt to foster international and produce 3300 vehicles a week, Second, who lived ab'out 600 B C, electron microscopes and a mass turer.*; " stayed at the Royal York understanding among young with an export proportion of has been found in the village of spectrometer used i^ connection Hotel. people. about 90 per cent. Atrib, Lower Egypt. with work on isotopes.

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The Children's Newsbaber. May 6. I9S0 800 MILES ON IS lid 'JJHS latest hitch-hiking record diately set his face south along for the 800-mile return the Great North Road. A pillion journey between London and ride on a mdtor-cycle took him Edinburgh has been set up by a to East Linton, and there he was 16-year-old Scottish boy, Sergeant lucky enough to. fall in with an Henry John Moffat, of Ealing Edinburgh family who' were just (London) ATC, who made the out for a car ride, but on learn­ whole journey in 52 hours 58 ing what he w^as attempting minutes at a total cost of Is lid. immediately took him to the During the whole of liis trip, Scottish Border. Henry walked only twenty miles, At Chester-le-Street Henry, covering the rest of the journey then hardly able to keep his in cars, lorries, and on the back eyes open, slept the night in a of motor-cycles. watchman's shed; but in the On the journey north Henry morning he had another stroke travelled up the Great .North of luck, for a Glasgow family Road, and had little trouble in motoring to Jersey for a holiday, finding obliging drivers to take caught up with him at Bawtry, him to Edinburgh. He was in Yorkshire, and took him all dropped at St Giles's Cathedral the way to North London. and hurried straight to the Henry, who was in uniform for Central Police Station, where he his hitch-hike, lived on iron "clocked in" 27 hours 55 minutes rations, his only expenses being after leaving Ealing. Is 6d for a bed in the Newcastle Most people would have wanted Y M C A hostel on his first night, Aloft a rest then, but Henry imme­ and 5d for two cups of tea! BIG ENOUGH FOR Ramblers from a nearby town NEWFOUNDLAND'S walking along the top of Winnats MACE . THE JOB Road, near Castleton, Derbyshire. JfjEARiNC-AiD valves so small 'J'HE new mace of the Newfound­ STAMP NEWS 700-YEAR-OLD that a thimble will hold land Legislature has been J^ NEW Brazilian stamp com­ three of them were on view at presented by British Columbia. memorates the Italian emi­ PENNY SKY CROCKERY gration to the Rio Grande do a recent private exhibition in r It weighs 75 lbs, and is composed J>^ PENNY used in the reign of London of radio and electronic pHE queer objects which cer­ of hundreds of pieces of British Sul which took place 75 years Alexander II of Scotland components. tain people in America keep Columbia silver, which are etched ago. The design, signifiying the (1214-1249) has been found at saying they see in the sky are industrial and agricultural Representatives from 20 and gold-plated, and symbolise Easer Livilands, Stirling. It was nothing new to Australian in­ Britain, Canada, Newfoundland, nature of the Italians, shows a one of the first coins to be struck countries saw also 200 different, ventors, who have been busy for factory and a bunch of grapes. kinds of radio and television and the major industries of the at Roxburgh Mint, which was at 20 years trying to invent flying two provinces. Dolphins, for in­ Friar's Park, near Kelso, but of parts, together with components saucers. (^AYMAN ISLANDS will shortly that play an important part in stance, are emblems of the New­ issue a complete new series which all trace has disappeared. nuclear research and atomic No fewer than six patent foundland fisheries, and golden of pictorials. energy development. The manu­ specifications for this sky ropes of the shipping industry. facturers of these fascinating crockery can be seen in the 'J'HE Railroad Engineers of TRUTH ABOUT objects have nearly trebled their Patents Office at Canberra. The America are honoured on exports in three years. patents date back to 1930 and, UNIVERSITY OF the latest US issue. The stamp AMERICA presumably, have never passed THE SAAR depicts the legendary railroad beyond the drawing—or wishful- worker Casey Jones, an obsolete 'J'HE American Embassy in ODD JOBS FOR thinking—stage. The drawings all 0NE of the most important de­ locomotive, and an up-to-date London, the English Speaking show a huge inverted saucer velopments of the cultural streamlined model. Union, and Birmingham Univer­ FIREFIGHTERS agreement between the Saar and r sity have staged an exhibition in which, the inventors claim, can France is the foundation of the pwo forthcoming French QUR gallant friend the fireman rise vertically, hover, or fly stamps will honour Presi­ Birmingham which is designed to is always ready to lend a laterally at a tremendous speed. University of the Saar. It is at show what America is really like. hand even when fire is not the Homburg, a small town on the dent Raymond Poincaire and Specialists who have examined Saar side of the newly-established Frangois Rabelais. A further Documentary films showing enemy, and during a recent week­ these plans say they all embody various aspects of American life end London firefighters were German frontier. six stamps, continuing the the same fundamental principles Lectures and papers are given famous 18th-century personalities and work were shown, periodicals called to some queer combats. which might produce a flying series, will honour Chenier, the and pictures were on view, and One, at Ealing, was to defeat in both German and French, and machine like a flying saucer. The French and German students live poet, David the painter, Carnot gramophone records of American a toy clockwork locomotive which inventors seem to have been and Hoche, both soldiers, and music were played. had got itself viciously entangled together in a common hall. The futuristically Jiving up to their University embraces training for the two revolutionaries, Robes­ in the hair of a young lady of country's motto, "Australia Will pierre and Danton. The United States Information six while she was playing with academic callings, a school for Service is keeping the exhibition be There "—in a flying saucer if interpreters, and an Institute for it. With the aid of some scissors necessary. 1\JEWS about the International together so that it can travel lo the firemen separated the engine Metallurgy which is of par­ * Stamp Exhibition being held other towns, and there are a from the young lady's tresses. ticular importance because of the in London is given on page 6 of a number of bookings for this mineral wealth of the Saar. this issue. At Stamford Hill they strove SUPER-GLOBE summer. with a 15-inch ventilation pipe J^ HUGE globe, made entirely by which had trapped a boy who hand and showing the had incautiously • entered it countries of the world in relief, during a game of hide-and-seek. has just been completed by a The pipe was cheated of its prey. British firm for the Massachu­ When the new Hastings lifeboat At Norwood a household chim­ setts Institute of Technology. was given its first practice launch ney was the assignation. It had The globe is nearly six feet m men had to wade into the water snared a nervous cat which had diameter, and cost £1000; model­ to ease it off a sandbank. run up it hoping to escape that ling the reliefs alone took nearly way on finding itself in the wrong four months. house. The chimney held the cat a prisoner for 22 hours before the firemen arrived. HOW ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED *pHREE Canadian films being RADIO CABINS AT shown to industrial associa­ CHARING CROSS tions in this country demonstrate "YyiRELESS' has entered its the main causes of accidents historical stage, and radio which occur in factories. The enthusiasts will want to see the main lesson of the films is that exhibition of ships' wireless accidents do not "happen," but cabins which was part of the are "caused." recent Marconi Jubilee celebra­ Carelessness in the factory tions, and is now on view at the often leads to accidents. Oil that Charing Cross Underground has been spilt on the floor and Station. London, where it will be not wiped up, loose clothing, fly­ open on weekdays until May 20. ing ties, or long hair that can It illustrates the progress of catch in machinery, rough floor­ marine radio, and consists of boards, objects left lying about exact replicas of a number of the machine benches, the ignor­ wireless cabins of famous ships ing of elementary safety pre­ during the past 50 years. cautions—all these help to cause Visitors to the exhibition can, the 500,000 accidents which occur on inquiry, be given the exact in Britain alone every year. position of any British ship at These accidents keep their sea. This has been made possible victims off work for at least three by the G P O. days, and many result in death. © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

The Children's Newspaper, May 6, 1950 Elephants Forget AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CRAFT CRAVEN HILL, OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, SENDS . ,. TT is good to News From the Aviaries at BUT MANY OTHER hear from the Rural Industries ANIMALS REMEMBER Bureau of the London Zoo T)R EDWARD HINDLE, Scientific Ministry of Agri­ THE pitiable plight of sea-birds nest, keepers are supplying them Director of the London Zoo, culture that the which have had the mis­ with material. Several barrow- recently surprised naturalists ancient craft of fortune to get oil on their loads of twigs and small branches when he said that the elephant thatching is by plumage is again illustrated at have been placed in the aviary, does not possess a remarkable no means dead. the London Zoo, this time in the as the cormorant builds a very' memory, as is commonly sup­ A year ago the case of three young guillemots, a large.nest; and one pair of birds posed. Indeed, it is sometimes Bureau, worried kittiwake, and a razorbill. All are looking this over with special forgetful, and even downright at the number were received recently from interest. stupid. As an instance of this, of thatched Devon, where the birds were Dr Hindle related the case of an roofs falling into picked up on the beach by Mrs There is, however, one snag. elephant which screamed with disrepair a 11 In the aviary live 20 African night indignation when her keeper left G. H. Gibbens, of Sidmouth, the over the country, plumage of all five being so herons. These birds, too, are her side. But when he returned carried out a wanting to nest, and from time after an absence of five months thickly clogged with the heavy survey of all the brown oil discharged at sea by to time keep raiding the cormo­ she showed no signs of recognis­ thatchers still rant's material and taking it up ing him. tankers that they could scarcely carrying on their move. to their lofty nesting sites which How good are other animals at traditional craft are inaccessible to the cormo­ remembering? in England and It was lucky for them that they rants. - Wales. The were. found by a bird-lover: "But I am watching the posi­ Off to the Vet number was Taking pity on them, Mrs Gib­ tion," Mr Gregory told me. "If Most dogs have good memories. found to be only bens collected, them all, put them the herons take too much, I shall At Walthamstow in Essex a dog 7*78, and to re­ inside a picnic basket, and took supply more for the cormorants. with a sore ear used to be trieve this sad them home, where she pains­ Although the cormorant has muzzled before being taken to position the takingly set about cleaning the never bred in the Gardens, so far the dispensary. One afternoon, Bureau began a casualties with cotton-wool as we know, there seems no because there was a children's scheme for soaked in warm butter, after­ reason why these birds should party at the house, he was training that­ Three brothers, Donald, Derek, and Dennis Cresswell, wards applying soap flakes and not do so. A few years ago a muzzled as a precaution. Soon chers. This of Teddington, Gloucestershire, at work on a cottage at warm water. This "first-aid" pair nested quite satisfactorily afterwards the dog trotted round scheme has had Southam, near Cheltenham. was surprisingly effective, and in St. James's Park." to the dispensary of his own a fair measure when all the birds had recovered accord, which he had never done of success; recruits have come in roof, and this skill can only be sufficiently, Mrs Gibbens warmed "PEW birds of prey become before. He had not forgotten fairly steadily, if not in great acquired by experience. and fed them and later put them popular at the Zoo, but one that the muzzle meant a trip to numbers. Nothing, however, is more in a hamper and motored them who was an exception was Old the vet. Thatching is by no means easy typical of the English country­ up to town. Now, they are Bill, the South American condor Cats do not easily forget those to learn. It requires considerable side than, the thatched cottages recuperating still further under who has died suddenly of old age. who are kind to them. A little skill to bind the bundles of straw with their colonies of birds nest­ the care of Headkeeper Gregory, Old Bill was the "Father of the girl could not find her pet cat, or reeds and pin them down ing under the eaves, and it is who is hand-feeding them at the Aviaries" for he had been living Tom, when her family went to with split hazel-wands while one pleasant to know that they are Eastern Aviary. there since his arrival from the live on a farm 17 miles away. Six is balancing precariously on a not to become merely a -memory. "Doing very well they are, too," "Andes in 1911. . months later Tom discovered his says Mr Gregory. "And they To regular visitors he was mistress's new home and came are turning into proper little almost a museum piece, his bounding toward her, obviously ELEPHANTS—Contd Song of Oslo comedians. They give people favourite perch . being a tree remembering her with delight. mealworms was returned, and ^LL Norwegian towns have their more amusement than sea-birds stump on which he would sit by Horses have probably the best the frogs had forgotten their own distinctive song that is usually do. For -in the aviary the hour. But he had his memories among animals. After experience; they pushed their sung or played on all important we have a crop of rocks over sociable moments and would being away for eight years a noses against the jar as they had civic occasions.- Oslo the capital which water falls, and the eager­ sometimes hop down to the cage pony remembered the journey done when it was first put in. city had one, of course, but was ness of the birds to get under wires to have his bald pate from London to a village in Kent, The toads remembered their not satisfied with it, 'and so the falling water and take a tickled by his friends—usually following the twisting lanes to previous efforts, and refused to decided to find another in time ' shower-bath ' is giving visitors with the ferrule of a stick or his old stable without hesitation. try again. But after an interval for the forthcoming 900th anni­ many a laugh!" umbrella. Circus horses have clearly re­ of eight, days they were ready to versary of the city. . Sixty com­ For his keepers Bill had little membered complicated tricks make a fresh effort. positions have been submitted TN another of the Zoo aviaries regard, and he attacked them which they have not been called There is plenty of evidence and the Prize Song will be known the activities of some other more than once. On one occa­ on to perform over a period of that birds have good memories. for all time as The Oslo Song. ecastal birds are attracting atten­ sion, when the keeper's back was many years. Experts believe that pigeons The celebrations planned for tion. They are some cormorants. turned, the condor swooped and find their way back over long this summer will be marked by Many British wild birds have struck at the man with talons Toads Beat Frogs distances by memorising land­ other prize music. A new nested in the Gardens at some and wings. The keeper threw A Zoo experiment showed that marks near their loft. orchestral composition for which time or other, but not, to date, up his broom to protect himself, toads have better memories There was a goose which Lutwig-Irgens Jensen has been the cormorant—mainly because but Old Bill smashed it! than frogs. A glass-jar of meal­ always remembered when it was awarded £500 will be played when the Society has seldom had suit­ Another time, when a keeper worms was placed in their en­ Sunday because the farmer wore the new Town Hall is ooene'd on able breeding pairs in residence. was cleaning the cage floor, the closure. After' about a week of his best clothes. On weekdays May 15. Jensen is a young This spring may, however, see the condor grabbed him by the leg trying to' get through the glass the bird was fed in the ordinary Norwegian musician who in 1943 cormorant nesting, for in this and pulled him off his feet. to the mealworms, a favourite way, but on Sundays it walked was awarded a special "com­ aviary are six of these birds, all Small wonder that, recently, food, both frogs and toacJs to the back door, lifted the latch poser's salary" by the Govern­ obtained two years ago from Lord keepers had made a practice of realised it was impossible. The with its beak and called loudly ment. Two other prizes. of £250 Revelstoke's estate on the Isle jar was removed. entering the condor's cage two for its dinner. This was a Sunday have also been awarded for of Lambay, off the Irish coast; at a time. One did the cleaning Three days later the jar of privilege which it never forgot. Festival music. and as they seemed to want to while the other stood on guard! One Spring Morning in Somebody's Garden—Sreakfast Time at the Robinses

These five young robins Icok disgusted kecause Mother has " Mum's right, /'// show you how to fly," cheeps Arthur (already Hullo, this is more like it ! And of course brother Egbert is come home with an empty beak and has started on again about nicknamed "Airborne,"). "Whoops ! Haul me up somebody— first in the queue as usual—he eats enough to keep a dozen learning to fly and fending for themselves and all that. "Yes my claw's got caught and my wing's got cramp ! " Eut the grown-up robins. " My turn next, Mum. Can I have a worm Mum. hut whst's for breakfast ? " ethers are all dozing off.again. this morning ; I'm tired of stale breadcrumbs." © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

The Children's Newspaper, May 6, I9S0 3 T^DT? WA J2 71 / Pictures of young (and not- L \J JX. V V JTJ. AX. l_y . so-young) Britain on the march

The new W R A C band on parade, led by Drum-Major Evelyn White

The five Scouts who will represent Britain at America's National Jamboree to mark her 40 years of Scouting

Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London marching to chape! for a service

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A Royal Marine band parading neai H M S Victory at The band of the Bluccoat Boys of Chrizt's Hospkci msrc'r.ing across tiis quadrangle of their Portsmouth handsome school buildings at Horsham in Sussex © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

May 6, 19S0

Wordsworth's A Bell for Hiroshima I TN the rebuilding of Hiroshima, Wishing-Gate the Japanese city destroyed rTjHE nation-wide movement to by the first atom bomb, there is a secure information concern­ MERRY MONTH church called the Church of the ing rights-of-way, ancient stiles, Resurrection. wishing-gates, and so forth, will ETWIXT spring and summer demand caution and diligent in- B comes the month of May, a No more appropriate nane qury; it is possible for details, month celebrated in the world's could have been found for a hastily gathered and not tested, folk tales and beloved of the church in the city now rising to lead to grave error, and one poets. The old customs of the from the ashes of its former life. example lives on in the poems of Maypole and Maying are not so But the church belfry was with­ Wordsworth. universal as they once were, out a bell; and then someone in A lover of all ancient harm­ but the spirit of happiness which London had a good idea. Why less customs, Wordsworth wrote they expressed is as alive now not a ship's bell for Hiroshima ? a poem on an old wishing-gate in the vale of Grasmere, and .as then. The idea was suggested to the told in a footnote how wishes Blow trumpet Admiralty which looked round formed at such spots were be­ For the world is white ivith May. the ex-minesweepers now being lieved to have a favourable issue. dismantled, and discovered one In some parts of England Later he was told that this -—the Speedy—whose bell was Tennyson's vision is literally ancient gate had been destroyed, looking for a new home. So the and in grief and anger wrote a true, for the hawthorn has Speedy's bell came to the Church second poem lamenting the out­ spread its mantle o'er the hedge­ Missionary Society in London, rage. row, and the . woodland trees • and there Dr Kagawa of Japan Tis gone—with old belief and are arrayed in incomparable rang it for the first time in its Engine Spotters dream finery. That is the magic of new Christian vocation. A group of boys get together to compare notes at the end That round it clung, and tempt- the month, and the origin of of the boat-train platform at Waterloo Station. ing scheme much of May's traditional merri- May Hiroshima's church bell "Released from fear and doubt; • ness. long endure as a symbol of And the bright landscape too friendship between the two must lie, May Day, of course, also has countries. THE FIRST REAL MOTOR-CAR By this blank ivall, from every eye, its serious aspect. For genera­ Relentlessly shut out. tions it has been dedicated to the A 75-YEAR-OLD motor-car was clared that the monstrosity was That done, the poet then went aspirations of the people every­ HOMES ON VIEW taken out of a museum in much too noisy, and brusquely to the scene himself, only to where. TYURING the coming months Vienna recently and driven at ordered Herr Marcus to take it find that the old gate was still its maximum speed of seven-and- home—and keep it there. Different countries have differ­ many of the " stately homes in position unharmed. ent views of the way their people a-half miles per hour. This Marcus, downcast perhaps at Most people would have can­ of England " will be on view to should march to make their vehicle, it seems, can be claimed the cold reception of his self- celled the erroneous poem, but the public. By paying a modest as the first real motor-car ever acting carriage, did as he was not Wordsworth! The poem dreams come true ; but behind entrance fee visitors will assist in to be built, yet for years the car told, and nothing more was seen was allowed to stand, and to this all the differences are the same the upkeep of these historic and and its inventor were forgotten. or heard of it for about 45 years day it stands as a record of sighs hopes. All ordinary folk want noble homes. * The first internal combustion when—its inventor having been and sorrowing over an event that peace, a home to live in, children Lord Derby reports that the engine working by petroleum dead for 22 years—this primeval never occurred. to love, and friendship with 60,000 visitors who went into his vapour, it has generally been motor-car was found in the shed All who. share in the new their fellows, and if May Day home at Knowsley last summer thought, was that patented by where it had silently stood while labour of mapping our landmarks can help to make those dreams caused no trouble at all. They Gottlieb Daimler in 1885, but ten its kind grew up and covered the must make sure of their facts. come true then indeed May years earlier this car had been roads of the world. respected his privacy, and showed deserves to be called the Merry by their behaviour that they built and driven by an Austrian, It was then wheeled out of the YOUTH CLUB'S Month. Siegfried Marcus. appreciated seeing a great house shed and placed in a museum, MODEL which had never before been and a bust of its inventor was The vehicle resembles a A MODEL railway, complete with open to them in this way. farmer's cart and has wooden erected in a Viennese park. In engines, coaches, and rolling BRITAIN'S SHOP Tradition, affection, and senti­ wheels and iron tyres. It has the museum the Marcus car stock, is being built by members WINDOW a strange history. When Marcus stood for another 30 years until, of St David's Youth Club, ment as well as history are drove it on its first journey along the other day, two engineering Knightswood, Glasgow. Though ]7ROM May 8 to 19 Britain will blended in these homes' and it is a road out of Vienna, and people experts coaxed its antique .75 h p only twelve feet by eight, the dress the biggest set of shop for all visitors to remember that gaped at the horseless wonder, engine into life, and it made the engine will be electrically- windows in her industrial his­ they are homes first and show- a policeman was fittingly the second public journey of its long operated, and will pass through tory ; during that period the places afterwards. first to recover his wits. He de­ and self-effacing career. a miniature countryside. British Industries Fair is open Material has been gathered for in London and Birmingham. JUST AN IDEA the construction of bridges, The Fair is a remarkable wit­ farms, and cottages which will As Ben Jonson wrote, Talking Half-a-Million Stamps on View stretch along the line amid green ness to the initiative' and energy and eloquence are not the same : J^EXT Saturday, May 6, the selection from the collections of fields, and as no Scottish railway of the ninety industries which to speak, and to speak well are doors of Grosvenor House, the King. line would be complete without spread their products before the two things. London, will be opened to admit Sixty of the finest stamps ever a burn or two the boys and girls eyes of the world's buyers. Five visitors to the first international printed will be on show, and mean to fashion miniature years of concentration on the stamp .exhibition to be held in visitors will be invited to choose streams along the route. products of peace have lifted our Under the Ec England since 1923. It will- be the three best designs. There country again into a leading a display never before equalled will also be a Junior Section for place 'among the world's pro­ 'J'HE average man is taking mere ducers. It has been a struggle, in London, with. over 500,000 the unde'r-20s, in which another interest in his hair. Thinks it but this great Fair is evidence of stamps, worth £2,500,000, prize competition has been is above the average. victory. arranged in 918 frames. arranged. a Sponsored by the Royal Prices of admission are 5s for At the root of this display lies J± SPEAKER gave an addrc?s to Philatelic Society and the British Saturday and Sunday, and 2s (id the will of w.orkers. However a large • audience. Did any of Philatelists Association, the ex­ for the rest of the week. The much industry is dependent on them write to him ? hibition was originally planned opening ceremony, which is being machines it is indebted far more H for 1940, the centenary of the broadcast, may only be attended to the people who invent and QOALVILLE Mining College zcas first postage stamp, but the by holders of a season ticket. manage them ; the human eye, war intervened'. started in a coach house. Right hand, and skill are as important The exhibition begins with a now as they were in the days of place for coaching. display by the Postal History Acting Amid the B Society of the posts prior to 1840. the great craftsmen. His Majesty's Post Office has pro­ Ruins This great Fair is testimony to _A^ FUNNY story should be put in vided a selection of. rarities, CINCE fire destroyed the church the co-operation of management, a nutshell. Then comedians such as proof sheets of the of St Michael and All Angels staff, and machinery ; it is a can get cracking. "Penny Blacks," and a showcase at Tettenhall, Staffordshire, a panorama of achievement of contains exhibits from the Post few weeks ago, donations for its which Britain may well be proud. Office Record Room of books rebuilding have been received showing the rare handstruck from all over the Midlands. stamps and cancellations of last To aid the fund, the children YOURSELF century. of nearby Codsall Secondary- EVERYBODY has his own theatre, A display of stamps of almost Modern- School are shortly to every country in the world will produce, in the ruined nave of in which he is manager, be seen, Great Britain being the church, a modern morality Outside his jeweller's shop at actor, prompter, playwright, represented by 89 frames; there play called / Will Arise. Windsor, Mr Charles Dyson has had sceneshifter, boxkeeper, door­ v/ill also be displays of Airmail, Written by T. B. Morris, the a clock fitted into the pavement. keeper, all in one, and audience Local, and Steamship Companies play tells how St Michael in­ Three-year-old Wendy Hawkes into the bargain. QOME anglers travel long distances stamps. Possibly the biggest spires the despondent citizens to thinks it a queer place to have a Julius Charles Hare fishing. And catch trains. attraction of all will be a rebuild -their devastated church. clock. © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

'dren's Newspaper May 6, 1950 : THINGS SAID May Day The Scientist in a . T WANT to show Britons tactfully MAA N has always been thrilled and slowly that there are with the coming of the good Germans still existing. Spring, and with the appearance Balloon Dr Schlange-Schoeningen, Ger­ of new life upon the Earth ; and man Consul-General in London our May Day celebrations are a j\yJAY 9 is a notable day in the scientific calendar, for it marks relic of the Roman festival of *"•'• the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Louis Gay- T AM convinced that in England, " Floralia " or Floral Games—a 'Lussac, a French genius of the laboratory who w,as imbued with and possibly Wales, the right festival which began on April a spirit of adventure which sent him to the heights. way forward between the divided 28 and lasted for several days. Churches is not to set up a rigid Born in 1778 at the [HHHim . ' However, he descend- When the May Queen is crowned little town of St jrfflHmP|i& ed safely, bringing with constitution which we will all she represents Flora, the Roman n m accept, but to grow so alike over Leonard in the Haute wf^^^^illl* ' flasks of air goddess of Spring. Vienne, Joseph Gay- ,J|f Jsffil taken at his highest the course of years that in the DOm From time immemorial vil­ Lussac, was the son oi iBL, _Masi_ wi*a t which proved end we rind ourselves united a judge whose life «as ^^K^^^^^^ that, except regarding without knowing it. lagers have " gone out a-maying" -—going out before dawn to endangered during the wlf^^^llfPj density, the atmosphere Archbishop of Canterbury French Revolution. He ^giL'^ «*^&F is *ne Eame above as at gather the blossom of the haw­ was. thrown into prison B^"V^%. surface level. He also UFFORT in the athletic field has thorn. As the sun rises they to await trial, but young W^*^? jib found that the Earth's a great part to play in have returned, " bringing home Joseph, then a lad in Jm$ .^jgfiSi magnetism does not making a peaceful, happy, and the may " to the accompani­ his early teens, won the <*»wlF ^fiBi diminish with height, kindly civilisation. ment of dancing and music. favour of the prison g||~ J^|||£^& A year later he was Lord Burghley With these blossoms they would governor, and so he was 9'^^^^^^^m able to announce that one decorate their doors and win­ kept unnoted in gaol m- K^L^^^^^^^H^ volume of oxygen, dows, and, of course, the maypole stead of being- sent to ~^™™!f™^^^ combined with exactly Joseph Gay-Lussac National Handwriting itself. The fairest maid of the Paris, where his execu twQ volumes of hy(Jn> tion would have been certain. gen, forms water. Half a cen­ Test of 1950 village was crowned with flowers tury of equipment more refined as Queen of May. When at last his father was 'THROUGHOUT the Easter holi­ liberated, Joseph, a brilliant produced figures different in the days and into the new T 'Swinton, in South Lan­ scholar, gained success upon tiniest degree from Gay-Lussac's, school term, the judges have A' cashire, " Mayers " would success, and attracted the atten­ a variation relating to the tem­ been at work on the many go about carolling before the tion of Berthollet, the greatest perature and pressure at which chemist of the day, who was combination takes place. A bril­ thousands of entries for the first day of May ; they would liant teacher and inspirer of C X's great National Hand­ start about the middle of April glad to have him as assistant. His studies took him from the youth, Gay-Lussac profited by writing Test of 1950. or even at the beginning. There laboratory to the heights by the use of a powerful galvanic The entries reveal a high were usually four singers ac­ balloon, at first accompanied, and battery provided by Napoleon; standard of work, and the task companied by a flute and a then alone, zo that he might his researches in electro­ of the judges has been no light clarinet, and the first verse of learn all he could concerning the chemistry made him one of the foremost men in science. one. It is now nearing its end, one of their songs ran : physics and chemistry of the upper air. Joseph Gay-Lussac was the dis­ however, and we hope to publish Come listen awhile unto what Two-Legged Funnel names of the chief prizewinners When the burnt-out Monarch of It was in 1804 that Joseph's coverer of cyanogen and iodine; we shall say, ascents were made, and the in next week's C N. Bermuda was converted into the New he multiplied the quantity of Concerning the season, the month Australia one of her funnels was second was memorable. He rose metals that the chemist in His we call May ; replaced by this double variety, first by himself to a height of four- laboratory could evolve. He en­ For the flowers they are springing, of its kind to be installed in a British and-a-quarter miles, with a tem­ joyed recognition as one of the Words and Music and the birds they do sing, merchant ship. perature of 18 degrees of frost, leading scientists of his era, and Tx Sicily, according to Mr Paul And the baziers are sweet in the which numbed his hands, pre­ a century after his death is still vented him from swallowing, and Hoffman, the Marshall Aid honoured as one of the master- morning of May. made breathing painful. builders of chemical science. administrator, troubadours are Competition at an employed to give people in the " Bazier " is a Lancashire hills details of the Marshall Plan. term for the flower auricula a Exhibition member of the primrose family ; J^ys essay and lettering com­ It is a scheme we commend to and as auricula means " a little petition with a prize of £5 NEW FORTH BRIDGE Sir Stafford Cripps. What could ear," it has been suggested that for senior schoolboys and girls on JJJOME interesting facts concern­ towers in pairs and will take be more pleasing than to have " bazier " means " the base ear." his or her impressions of a visit ing the new ^.road bridge about three months.to lay. The wandering minstrels pause out-. ""THE Maypole was once seen to an art exhibition in London which it is proposed shall span cables are designed to bear a side our doors and sing a song has been organised by the Royal in every village and town. the River Forth near the famous strain of 33 tons to the square of Budget benefits ? Society of Arts. Indeed, one of London's city railway bridge, were given by Dr inch. A vast improvement it would The exhibition is in memory of Anderson, designer of the bridge, churches takes its rather un­ Percy Delf Smith, R D I, and will The bridge will be exposed to be on White Papers and usual name from the maypole of when he addressed a meeting in gales blowing up the Forth from consist of examples of his letter­ Cupar, Fife, recently. Economic Surveys, and everyone the parish. This is St Andrew ing and calligraphy as well as the sea, and to test its resistance would welcome such sweet music Undershaft, so called because some of his etchings, engravings, The two towers from which the a large-scale model has been down their street, provided they when the maypole was erected and paintings. It is being held suspension cables will be hung made, placed in a wind tunnel, appreciated the Budget benefits ! it overtopped the steeple of the in the Library of the Royal will be half as high again as St, and subjected to artificially-made church, which was therefore Society of Arts, John Adam Paul's Cathedral. winds far in excess of any known in the Forth Estuary. " under the shaft." Street, WC2, from May 4 to Each suspension cable is made iitor's Table May 26, admission free. up of 16,000 individual strands of The cost of the new bridge at John Stow, the historian, who . For students of art schools wire. The cables will be carried today's nrices will be in the was buried in this church, there is a prize of £10 for the from shore to shore , over the region of £6,000,000. best example of calligraphy and PETER PUCK describes the setting up of the WANTS TO maypole there. a specimen of lettering. KNOW —•>— Full details of the Competitions will be obtainable at the If a new hat is an TWO PRINCIPLES overhead expense exhibition on personal applica­ Vy/HEN speaking to the Classical tion only. Association recently, Dr. j^ XfAV picture for the Royal Hugh Last, Principal of Brase- Academy shows a rain-washed nose College, Oxford, said that MOVING AN street. In water colour, of course. there are two fundamental prin­ ICHTHYOSAURUS ciples upon which our civilisa­ • A PARTY of civil engineering pOR traffic reasons, London's tion is built. students of Leeds University future shopping centres may The first is that " every recently found the fossilised be one-sided. What will become human being as such has to be skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus in of the middle-man ? regarded as of intrinsic value." the harbour bed at Whitby, and 0 The second is " that the dis­ they are now engaged in hewing TEACHERS do not like help­ tinction between right and wrong the fossil out of the solid rock so that it can be taken . to the ing with school meals. is absolute, that it is not made University Museum. ^Jfi Prefer multiplication to dining- by any legislature, that no legis­ I - •'• tables. This task is likely to take lature can alter it . . . that the some weeks, as some hundreds State, in fact, must be moral." of individual bones, including :~fj> \ MAGAZINE has been It was in Greek and Roman about 60 vertebrae, will have to >J4IV giving English people times that these principles were be sorted out and re-assembled. advice on how to behave in first established ; after many The Ichthyosaurus was a pre­ _ America. Some need advice centuries of trial and error they historic marine reptile shaped to go on how to behave in Eng­ remain the bedrock of Western something like a porpoise, and such finds as this are becoming land. civilisation. The 17th-century smock increasingly rare. OUR HOMELAND mill at Terling in Essex © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

The Children's Newspaper, May 6, 1950 Digging Up Steps to Sporting Fame <& Malcolm Hilton Rope and Carthage Ladder Rescue TJUNDREDS of men with picks J-Tow would you rescue a cat . and shovels are now at work from a well 50 feet deep if in North Africa on the site of you had a ladder only 25 feet Carthage, once one of the world's long and no rope as long as 50 capitals. Twenty-eight centuries of history are buried there feet? beneath ten feet of mud and This was the problem, recently, sand; and it is hoped that by of Mr Horace Bullen of Trunch, the summer of 1951 tourists will Norfolk, who had come six miles visit the excavations and see for to rescue the cat. They had themselves some of the one-time wonders of the ancient city, summoned him because he is a Queen of the Mediterranean. well-sinker, but they had not This systematic . excavation is said" how deep the well was, and under the direction of the French the ladder he had brought was Tunisian government, who are Playing for M C C Young Malcolm practised a Malcolm then reached sport­ Reaching home that evening, only 25 feet long. using materials provided through this year is the great deal on a cinder pitch ing fame in one stride by Hilton found himself sur­ : Mr Bullen told two men to hold Marshall Aid, including the young Lancashire behind his home. Later, he twice in the match claiming rounded by a crowd of school­ the top of the ladder for him ingenious "Traxcavator," a com­ spin bowler, Mal­ went into League cricket, the wicket of Don Bradman. boys, demanding his auto­ at the top of the well while he bined tractor and steam shovel. colm Hilton, a pos­ and joined Lancashire from "Well bowled, Hilton," was graph. Not yet a regular climbed down to the foot of the At present work is concentrated sible candidate for Werneth. Aged 19, he played the famous Australian's com­ Lancashire player, he will not ladder. Then he braced him­ on the famous Antonine Baths,' the next tour in for the county against the ment as his young conqueror lack opportunities of playing self across the well and they which stretch along the sea front. Australia. Australians in May 1948. came in for lunch. with the M C C. lowered the ladder on the end Tons of Carthaginian stones of a rope to the bottom of the and monuments have been well. carried off to build other cities as Down the ladder once again far away as Genoa and Cordoba THE PIRATE AND THE PROVOST'S DAUGHTER went Mr Bullen, took pussy in since the destruction of the city HPHE ancient tenement of the hearts of all the citizens. To none other than Andrew Gray. his arms—she had been in the by the Arabs in AD 698; but it is Morocco Land, in the storied add to the city's distress, a large, It appears that after his well 24 hours—and climbed to hoped that the main gateway to Canongate of Edinburgh, is now- heavily-armed Algerian pirate escape Andrew Gray had taken the top of the ladder, braced Carthage will be unearthed, and being pulled down because of ship appeared in the Firth of service with the Emperor of himself across the well again that some of the principal streets dilapidation; but a replica of Forth and sent a strong party Morocco, with whom he had be­ while they pulled the ladder to will be traced. Right over the this historic building is to be on shore. The Strangers ad­ come a great favourite. Now he the top. and held it for him to central market-place site the Bey erected on the site, and the vanced into the centre of Edin­ had returned to his native city make the final ascent. of Tunis has his summer palace— curious old statue of a Moor burgh, summoned the magis­ vowing vengeance on the city the only modern building to be which adorned the original build­ trates to meet them, and magistrates; but he found that left in the area. ing will find a niche in the new demanded a huge sum of money. by a strange turn of fortune the one. chief objects of his -wrath were YOUNG ERNIE The Buccaneer's Demand J^N old lady who was Sunday- A strange and romantic story related to him. school teacher to Mr Ernest NORWEGIAN lies behind the name of Morocco In vain did the Provost, Sir Without revealing his identity, : Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, has Land. Early in the reign of John, Smith, and his brother-in- Gray then stated that he was recently retired from being post­ BROADCAST Charles I a riot broke out' in law, Sir William Gray, point out in possession of a medicine of mistress at the beautiful Somer­ rpHE Norwegian Broadcasting Edinburgh and the residence of to the. leader of the Moorish amazing potency and demanded set village of Winsford, where Corporation are transmitting the Provost was attacked and set pirates the danger that he ran that the Provost's daughter Mr Bevin was born. 15-minute short-wave broadcasts on fire. A young man named in entering the plague-ridden should be entrusted to his skill. She is Mrs Mary Veysey, aged in English. These programmes Andrew Gray was arrested, city. The buccaneer only laughed Reluctantly, the Provost had his 84. She well remembers a little are intended especially for the accused of being the ringleader at the warnings and demanded daughter conveyed to a house in boy coming to Sunday school in many friends of Norway in this of the outrage, and sentenced to the Provost's eldest son as the Canongate, and there the a wide, white collar and a straw country, and will include talks, be executed two days after his hostage for his good faith. pirate restored her to health. • hat—and a grin. For the lad news items, and "interviews. trial. But on the night before "It seems, however," writes an The end of the story is as it who was to be Foreign Secretary Transmissions will, be at 12.0 his execution a rope was smug­ old chronicler, "that the Pro­ should be. Andrew Gray married was rather mischievous and was midnight on Saturdays, and at 2 gled into the prison, enabling vost's only child was a daughter, the Provost's daughter and always up to pranks, says Mrs a m, 12 noon, 2 pm, and 8pm Gray to climb out and escape who then lay stricken of the settled down in the Canongate Veysey. To make him behave on Sundays, on 19 and 25 metres, beyond the seas.^ plague, of which her cousin, house where he had cured her better she gave him the task of and sometimes also on 13, 31, 61, Nothing more was heard of Egidia Gray,'had recently died." of the plague. There he set up distributing the little Testaments and 190 metres. The times are Andrew Gray until 1645, when When he learned this news a a statue of his royal patron, the round the class, and this pleased Greenwich Mean Time, so do not Edinburgh was stricken with a great change was noticed in Emperor of Morocco, and from him very much. With all his forget to make the allowance for plague that emptied the busy the attitude of the leader of that time the tenement has high spirits, she says, he was British Summer Time. streets and struck terror into the Moors. He was, in fact, borne the name Morocco Land. really a dear little chap. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE—Picture Version of Shakespeare's Popular Drama Antonio, the young merchant of Venice,- had borrowed had made the strange condition that if the sum were not with merchandise - would arrive soon, agreed to this 3000 ducats to help his friend Bassanio to court the repaid by a certain time one pound of Antonio's flesh condition. Bassanio, accompanied by another friend, wealthy lady, Portia, in fitting style. Shylock, his creditor, would be forfeit. Antonio, expecting that his ships laden Gratiano, travelled to Belmont, where Portia lived.

\o win Portia, Bassanio was obliged under Portia gave him a ring and said : Myself and Then Gratiano and Nerissa, Portia's maid, What sum owes he the few ? asked the wealthy jhe terms of-her father's will to choose the what is mine to you and yours Is now converted : said that they wanted to be married too. Portia. For me three thousand ducats, replied right one of three caskets, one of gold, one but now I was the lord Of this fair mansion, All were rejoicing when a letter was brought Bassanio. What, no more ? cried Portia. of silver, one of lead. The right casket master of my servants. Queen o'er myself; for Bassanio. It was from Antonio, to Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond ; contained her portrait, but she had taken an and even now, but now, This house, these say that all his ships had been wrecked, so Double six thousand, and then treble that. oath not to reveal which one this was. servants and this same myself Are yours, my that he could not repay Shylock, who was Before a friend of this description Shall lose a Bassanio chose the leaden one and," to his lord : I give them with this ring ; Which when now demanding the letter of his bond—a hair-through Bassanio's fault. First go with me joy, found her picture inside. Portia was you part from, lose, or give away, Let it presage pound of flesh. Here is a letter, lady, ex­ to church and call me wife, And then away to equally delighted, for she was as much in the ruin of your love. And be my vantage to claimed Bassanio. The paper as the body of Venice to your friend. Bassanio agreed, and love with him as he was with her. exclaim on you. my friend, And every word in it a gaping wound. went at once to m ,ke ready for his departure. •Another instalment of the Merchant of Venice will appear next weak © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

The Children's Newspaper, May 6th, I9S0 Healthy Young MORGAN OF THE A University's Scots MOUNTIES Jubilee will be here again Come hither lads and hearken, QN Friday this week one of next week in an Britain's younger universities, for a tale there is to tell Birmingham University, is cele­ Of the wonderful days a-coming, amusing adventure— brating its jubilee. Honorary when all shall be better than degrees are to be conferred on well. The Princess Alice, Countess of Ath- "YyiLLiAM MORRIS wrote that lone, and on seven others, verse in the last century, Fastest Caterpillar including Sir Barry Jackson, who and now his prophecy is being founded Birmingham Repertory fulfilled in Scotland, where the in the World Theatre. young people have been shown to Make sure of your CN by In years Birmingham is still a be "better than well" in the giving 3 newsagent an order Report of the Scottish Health baby among the world's uni­ Department. versities, yet in its comparatively short life some great men have There has been such a startling been connected with it. Sir Oliver improvement in their health, says Saving Up For The Lodge, the scientist, was its first the report, that in future public Principal, and Sir Edward Elgar health may have to be judged not outing was the first occupant of its Chair by death rates and figures about PARTIES of eight or more of Music. diseases, but by the prevalence passengers travelling together It is chiefly to the energy of of sub-standard health. can obtain first- or third-class the famous statesman Joseph In Glasgow boys and girls are day return tickets at the ordinary Chamberlain that the University taller and heavier than they were single fare, and members of owes its birth. He collected half 18 years ago; boys aged 13 last holiday clubs and other organisa­ a million pounds towards its cost, year-were two inches taller and tions often save up their money and the University's great clock 7J lbs heavier than those of the for outings under this scheme. tower, 325 feet high and seen for same age in 1932, and schoolgirls Club Secretaries can obtain miles, is a memorial to him. were also 7i lbs heavier and 1$ from any District Commercial The University's story really inches taller. officer of British Railways holiday begins in 1828 when Queen's The infant death rate was 'J9 subscription cards, which can be College was founded as a school per cent below that of 1941-45, used for recording the weekly or of medicine. The scientific work and the general death rate .was other periodical payments made of Queen's was taken over in the lowest ever recorded. by a member. 1882 by the new Mason College which attained a high reputation for its medical teaching, and New C N Competition Series! which was destined to develop into the University. MNWP TYGBS The Charter of Birmingham 1st Prize: A BICYCLE University was granted in 1900 and land for its buildings at Edgbaston was given by Lord for me -they're for Colouring this Picture Calthorpe. Its first Chancellor was Joseph Chamberlain, who i// Cameras and Meccano Sets For Runners-Up saw to it that the faculty of Commerce should have a promi­ safe and sound/" HERE is No I of a spring and summer series of competitions for C N nent place in its studies, thus 9H/32H readers ! Every month there will be an interesting competition with reflecting the industrial character grand prizes for boys and girls. The first prize this month is a fine New of its city. Today the University Bicycle, and there are Meccano Sets or Cameras, according to choice, as has over 3000 students, and its. consolation prizes for the six next-best entries. Chancellor is Mr Anthony Eden. TRICK TIME for Rowntree's Gumstersl ~k ~k ~k it if -fa -fa This is a chance for young artists to show what they can do. This This young place of learning colouring competition is open to all readers under 17 years of age and, of has lived up to its motto, Per course, there is no entry fee. The prize Bicycle (junior model, or full size ardua ad alta— By the hard way RONNIE as the winner may need) will be awarded for the best colouring of the to the heights. May its fame picture given here. Full allowance will be made for age. increase in the years to come. The colouring may be done in LIFESAVERS paints or crayons. gTURDY young Lifesavers are a KsEE THESE 25 BEANS? BET YOU EACH OF US PICKS UP IN TURN ONE,^, To enter, simply feature of Australia's beaches, I MAKE YOU PICK UP THE LAST ONE TWO OR THREE BEANS-NO MORE cut out and colour and many a swimmer In distress ALL RIGHT-YOU START. the outline as nicely has good cause to thank them. as«you can, but re­ •- The otner day members of the member you can do Cofi's Harbour Surf Lifesaving better work if you Club, all volunteers, undertook a paste the picture on rather unusual mission. a postcard or thick A girl of 16 suffering from paper and let it dry infantile paralysis was in an iron thoroughly first. lung at the district hospital. Cut out the panel Suddenly the iron lung broke whole—that is, down. The local lifesavers were picture and coupon called in, and they applied together—and then artificial respiration, much as fill in the coupon they would do in their ordinary HA-HA! THAT5 THE SECRET-ALWAYS MAKE plainly in ink. Make HER START.ALWAYS MAKE THE TOTAL work. BEANS PICKED OP EACH TIME COME TO sure that you get FOUR-ANO AT THE END SHELL ALWAYS your effort signed as For two hours the youths BE LEFT WITH THE LAST your own unaided worked unceasingly until a spare FOR HER LAST TURN work and that you part of the iron lung had been r delivered to .the hospital. The have marked y our patient was then put back into preference for Mec­ the repaired automatic breather, cano Set or Camera hone the worse for the unfortu­ if you are winner of nate break in her treatment. a consolation prize. Then post to : CN Competition Not, Fighting Dust 5 Carmelite Street, "JJEW apparatus for extracting London, E C 4 dust from the air in the This colouring is entirely my own work. (Comp), dressing sheds of slate quarries Make the most of your sweet ration by buying Rowntree's Fruit is being installed in North Wales, Gums. Experience proves one tube is the longest lasting s\d. Name -f. Age.. . 1.0 reach us by and within a year the whole in­ Address . . .' Tuesday, May 16, dustry should be so equipped. worth you'll Jind for one personal point. 1950. It is hoped that this develop­ This competition ment will ease the labour In the event of my being a consolation-prize is open to all Hinders problems of the industry. Many winner I should like a MECCANO SET/ in Great Britain, young men have been deterred CAMERA (cross out the one not required). all Ireland, and the from going into the quarries be­ ~ ,- , Parent/ Channel Isles. The cause of . the slate dust, which Certifiec d , • nGuardian Editor's decision causes chest troubles and other will be final. complaints. © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

to The Children's Newspaper, May 6, W50 Oldest Ship in SCOTS AS SHE 'DUTCH GIRL ON BOOKS IS SPOKE SWING FREE •# •«•*«>«• IIIIMIII the World? J^VEN on the Scottish side of "YyTHicit is the oldest merchant the Border listeners some­ YOU WILL ship at present in commis­ times find difficulty in under­ sion? From time to time various standing the broad dialects heard names are put forward, but a in various' Scottish wireless pro­ ENJOY correspondent in The Shipbuild­ grammes; and to remedy this ing and Shipping Record has put state of affairs the BBC have Here are Daily Mail books specially prepared for boys forward a claim that the 2390- begun a weekly programme called and girls. Entertaining and instructive, they are beauti- ton Nacala (ex-three-masted The Guid Scots Tongue. k= fully printed on best quality paper and are well illustrated. barque Leyland Brothers) is the As in England, the Scottish ROMAN BRITAIN HOW TO PLAY CRICKET oldest passenger-cargo ship language has many widely- By R. F. Jessup, F.S.A. Maps, By Don Bradman. All effective operating on regular service in Museum Pieces, Mildenhall Trea­ strokes. 26pp. of pictures. 96pp.- varying dialects in Chambers's sure, etc. 32pp. Price 1/6 Price 2/6 the North Atlantic. • Scots Dialect Dictionary, for in­ " - ' * * stance, there are no' fewer than Absolutely Free. This wonderful | SAXON ENGLAND GOOD SHOOTING She was built in 1886 at Packet of Stamps can be Yours By R". F. Jessup, F.S.A. Maps, By John Batson. Hints for young Southampton, and 64 years is 50 alternatives for that favourite Free. It contains lovely Holland Museum Pieces, Sutton Hoo, etc. marksmen. 20pp. Price 1/- Scots word "canny." ' Another 32pp. Price 1/8 a long time for an ocean-going- (Netherlands) Child. Welfare BRITAIN'S AIRLINES difficulty lies in the fact that Charity stamp showing a Little MEDIAEVAL ENGLAND vessel of any type. Some thirty By Edwin Vernon. Route Maps, years ago she was said to be "too some Scots words, such as Dutch Girl on Swing, also Large | By G. C. Taylor, M.A. Maps, Air Lines and Personnel. 32pp. "pawky," have no exact equiva­ Spain (General Franco), also Mediaeval Ships, Buildings, etc. Price ,1/6 old," and acted for a long time fine France (Peace and Olive I 36pp. Price 1/6 as a kind of floating coal ware­ lent in English and a whole sen­ RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN tence is often required to explain Branch), also. interesting Italy | PEN LETTERING (Southern Eng.) By C. F. G. house—a sorry plight indeed for (Torch of Enlightenment). By'Nora Kay, A.R.C.A., M.S.I.A. Cooper. Early engines and routes. a once-proud barque, with her them. Instruction in the use of lettering Developments up to 1949. 32pp. Get Your Packet now. Just send pens. 24pp. Price 2/6 Price 1/6 tall masts, sails, and clipper Robert Kemp, the writer and 3d. stamps for our posting costs, bow. . producer of the programme, ask for Dutch Girl on Swing BIRD WATCHING RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN Packet Free, and ask to see By Stuart Smith, B.Sc, Ph.D. (Western Eng.) By C. F. G. understands the problems, and Conversion is presenting The Guid Scots selection of Windsor Approvals. Wonderful bird pictures. 8 Cooper. Early Engines and route Write today to : coloured plates. 44pp. Price 2/- maps. 32pp. Price 1/6 During her coaling service a Tongue in an interesting way by POND LIFE ABC OF THE SYMPHONY storm drove the Nacala from means of a series of conversa­ WINDSOR STAMP CO. By E. H. Ellis. Insects, Plant life, By Froom Tyler. Authoritative tions carried on between an (Dept. CN), Uckfleld, SUSSEX etc. 52pp. Price 2/- text. Pictures of instrumentalists. her anchorage and damaged her, but upon drydocking for expert and a learner in the studio. SEAWAYS OF BRITAIN 24PP- Price 1/3 By A. C. Hardy, B.Sc., M.I.N.A., STORY OF THE ANT repair her iron hull was found F.R.G.S. Passenger, Cargo, Fish­ By J. Yunge-Bateman.. Superbly to be in such excellent con­ ing Vessels, etc. 32pp. Price 1/6 illustrated. 24pp. Price 1/3 dition that it was decided to Electronic From Newsagents and Booksellers—or complete and post coupon below. convert her to an ocean-going vessel again. To: Tuning-Fork DAILY MAIL PUBLICATIONS (Dept. 951), The cost was £250,000, but her ]yj_osT piano-tuners of long ex­ Coupon New Carme!it3 House, LONDON, E.C.4. present skipper, Captain Jose de perience can tell accurately I enclose remittance value. (including postage 3d.) Castro, thinks it has been well whether a note on the piano is worth it; he says she has too sharp or too flat, but a newly- Please send inn tool.s as follows: years of service ahead of her. invented electronic tuning device She now has the appearance of cannot possibly make a mistake. something like a cross between a Narns ... When a note is struck a micro­ small tanker and a large coaster. phone picks up the sound and Address. This fine stamp of TENUIS PLAYER Although almost modernised transmits it to a tube of illum­ in action FREE to all applicants for throughout, the Nacala still has inated gas where there is a Approvals sending 2£d. postase. her old hull; she can make 12 revolving ring. While the note is BERKELEY STAMP CO. (C N), knots, and carries a full comple­ " off " the ring keeps revolving, Newton, West Kirby, Cheshire. ment of passengers on every but when the frequency of the SOUTH AFRICAN PROTECTORATES 10 ARGENTINE FREE! ] if FREE! voyage between Lisbon and sound is correct the ring slows This week we offer the following bargains : This fine FREE packet includes com- I Fine Packet 12 stamps includes Afghanistan, America. down and stops. ROYAL VISIT STAMPS meliorative and official stamps and is ! Brunei, Burma, Caledonia, Ethiopia, Malay BASUTOLAND Id. to 1/- complete catalogued 1/3. To obtain it just request I (Tiger), Manchukuo, etc. Send 2Jd. post­ unused set of four only 2/3 age and ask to see an Approval selection of BASUTOLAND. " complete Approvals and enclose 2Jd. stamp. j —BEDTIME CORNER- used set of four only 2/6 attractive stamps. BECHUANALAND Id. to 1/-complete K.V. FANTOZZI | C. STOCKTON & CQ. unused set of four only 2/3 (Section CN), BECHUANALAND " complete Blue Shoes For Sally used set of four only 2/6 Hillside, Whitefite. Northwict. Cheshire j BRIDGWATER DRIVE, SWAZILAND Id. to 1/- complete gALLY had three brothers, all for their heads, and brown unused set of four only 2/3 WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, ESSEX SWAZILAND " complete younger than herself. woolly mittens in the shape used set of four only 2/6 WHAT A MARVELLOUS BIKE! They were called Jim, Kim, of bears' paws for their hands. VICTORY COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS and Tim. Every evening after "And now all we have to do," BECHUANALAND The complete set of three values in bi-Hngual pairs, unused. tea they all used to choose a she said, "is to buy your Catalogued 6/4. A very scarce set. Only 4/- story for Mummie to read to bright blue shoes, Sally" Cash with order. them. Sally's favourite was When ordering, please ask for a selectioa of But alas! . Alas! There our World Famous Approval Sheets. Goldilocks and the Three were red shoes, green shoes, ERRINGTON & MARTIN (Dept. 559). Bears because the picture of brown shoes, fawn shoes, South Hackney, London, E.9, England. Goldilocks in the book was black shoes, and white shoes. Established; in the year 1880. very like Sally herself. But never a pair of blue. 20 DIFFERENT CANADA She, too, had long golden "We'll have the white ones, AND' curls and bright blue eyes. then," said Mummie. 10 DIFFERENT AUSTRALIA And her party So the white frock was blue FREE! satin shoes To everyone requesting'my discount Approvals and white and were bought. frilly, with a P. OWEN (Dept. CN8), But Sally was "Larkhill," 237 Hartford Road, Davcnham, blue sash also. nearly crying Northwich, Cheshire. The only thing because she Sally hadn't felt sure they'd got which not win a prize FREE Goldilocks if her shoes SET OF 3 had, was a pair were the wrong large SARA­ of bright blue WAK inc. stamp colour. illus. to all shoes. c o llect-ors •MMMMUlHUliilllmJ requesting: Then one In bed that famous Approvals. Send 3d. to cover my postage and lists. Ves.it's the day Sally and night she did WRItrHT'S STAMP SHOP, Dept. 54, her brothers cry. CANTERBURY, Kent. were asked to "My! What SUPER PACKET FREE ^USA GOLDEN WWGS! a Fancy Drejss a silly you are," Have you got the large Party. said Mummie. pictorial stamp of ALL IN and see it at your cycle shop ! How it "What shall "Go to sleep MONACO portraying we go a s?" now, and see the famous colleotor stands out with its speedy lines and brilliant President Roosevelt C asked Jim, Kim, and Tim. . what tomorrow brings." blue and silver finish. Imagine what it must be with his collection t It "I know," cried Sally. "Let's And in the morning, to is FREE, and also tho like to ride one! This is a machine specially go as Goldilocks and the Three Sally's delight, there stood a following fine stamps', ARC albums and sets. FREE ! Fully illustrated catalogue! Just send a postcard to suits; and she made brown they all could share. LISBURN & T0WNSEND LTD. woolly hoods with bears' ears JANE THORNICROFT B.S.A. CYCLES LTD., 25 ARMOURY ROAD. BIRMINGHAM n (CN), WEST KIRBY, WIRRAL © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

Tff ( hildren's ^Nevtspapcr, May 6,, JViO This book makes To FOSTER First Great every walk an HANDICRAFT Alpine Tunnel J/TOST of us value a thing made QNE hundred years ago old- It's Sports Day at School. Jimmie and Billy, ADVENTURE by skilled hands above a fashioned people were shak­ the boy next door, are all set to beat the record! similar article mass-produced by ing their heads at the crazy machine, so we shall welcome notion of boring a railway tunnel the permanent exhibition, opened through the Alps. The. Times, last week in London, where we however, was enthusiastic about can see examples of the work of the idea. "What a magnificent Britain's problem is here presented to the craftsmen and inventive genius of the age!" women. wrote that newspaper in 1850. It is the new "What splendid results to be Crafts Centra attained by its successful con­ at 16-17 Hay clusion?" Hill, Berkeley In spite of such encouragement, They're both in the too yds. Now for the High Jump. Jimmie Square, which however, the Mont Cenis tunnel, sprint. "On your toes!" Gosh, reaches 4ft. 6ins. clearing 3 inches will be a home eight 'miles long, was not opened just watch them go! Jimmie higher than Billy and wins and shop win­ for another 21 years. Work on wins by yards.. another event. dow for some it began on the Italian side in 500 whose life- 1857, and on the French side in wo r.k ,is to 1863, and it was finished in 1870 make beautiful at a cost of £3,000,000. t h i!n g s with Twelve years later came the St TJUNT the wild flower and their hands. Gotthard tunnel, 9£ miles long, -*--*- keep it beautiful and The things and an even greater engineering Two Fawns, by colourful for ever ! This new on view are Donald Potter feat. Yet it was a tunnel of book brings an exciting hobby not for sale; tragedy, for 200 workmen lost up-to-date. How, where and when but sales of objects like those their lives in constructing it. to find 38 attractive, common shown will be arranged. Lack of ventilation was the cause, Prizegiving. Jimmie's won 6 "Here's my secret," says Jimmie. wild flowers—and how to press Among the exhibits are and was remedied in the piercing cups. "How do you do it?" asks "I train on Welgar Shredded of what was, when opened in Billy. "I never win." "Come Wheat. Mum gives it me for them and mount them, told in 24 attractive examples of calli- home with me," grins Jimmie, breakfast, tea or supper every illustrated pages by S. Francis gaphy, textiles, engraved glass, 1906, the longest railway tunnel ''and I'll show you." day." Blackwell. A full colour portrait and pottery. There are, too, hand­ in the world, the Simplon tunnel, of each flower makes naming made furniture, a spinet and a which is 12j miles long. them easy, and a special drying clavichord (old-fashioned musical It is significant of modern paper section in the book gives instruments), beautiful examples progress that old folk who could The Welgar Boy says: you the means to press your speci­ of book-binding, stoneware, and remember travelling in stage "There's nothing like Welgar Shredded Wheat for mens as soon as you get home. articles in gold and silver. coaches were among those who strength and stamina. To win, at work or sports, Start your "Treasure Hunt" The Crafts Centre has been had the thrill of travelling from •you need the nourishment of Welgar Shredded • today—begin a collection that will Wheat. Ask your Mother to write for the NEW formed by five craftsmen's Switzerland to Italy in a bril- Welgar Recipe Book, to Dept. C.U.6, The Shredded rmfke every outing an adventure societies and is a non-profit- .liantly-lighted electric train. Wheat Co. Ltd., Welwyn Garden City, Herts, and every stay-in evening a plea­ making organisation. The today!" sure. 3/6 from all booksellers or Government will contribute £3000 if any difficulty, 3/9 post free from: a year towards the £6000 required LAWN TENNIS for its upkeep if- the craftsmen MEDALLION PRESS LTD. themselves and the public con­ AGAIN WS&^MM SHISEDDED WHEAT (Dept. 62), 5 Dowgate Hill, London E.C.4 tribute at least the other half. 'J'HIS week • the lawn tennis Tel.: CENtral 5329 season opens in earnest with The All-Day Food You Just Can't Beat! the British Hard Courts Cham­ Our Favourite pionships taking place as usual on the beautiful courts at Pleasures Bournemouth. Brilliant England centre-formacl, "TABLE JJOYS and girls at Ilford, Essex, This tournament, founded in the ' wisest head in Soccer' . . . CRICKET" have some original tastes in 1924, has become one of the most The Replica of Test sparetime occupations, according important in the tennis calendar, and Country Cricket to a recent inquiry. Among their for it is the first all-international Played with teams of miniature favourite out-of-school pursuits meeting of the season, and men, ball and stumps with bails. Overarm bowling, double wickets were making telephones, catch­ attracts many prominent players and all the " outs " such as clean ing snakes, finding ants' nests, and large crowds of spectators. bowled, caught, stumped, etc. and going on newspaper rounds. Googlies, breaks and even body- Visitors to Bournemouth this line bowling. Hits for six, four, The inquiry was carried out week include a number of stars and odd runs. under the auspices of the from overseas, with Jaroslav Send 3d. stamp for full details and Workers' Educational Association. Drobny to set the pace. Adrian Order Form to: Quist, that wonderful veteran of Tommy The grammar school pupil.? p. A. ADOLPH the courts, is here with his fellow- The Lodge, Langton Green, listened to the.wireless, especially Tunbridge Wells, Kent. the Children's Hour, more fre­ Australians, but the. Americans quently than children at modern are still on the Continent, for the CIGARETTE CARDS schools, went to the cinema only Paris Championships coincide Lawton Send 3d. for our NEW BARGAIN IIST of 600 half as often, were more often this year with our own Hard series. ALBUMS to hold 200 cards 1/95, to Courts Tournament. bold 64 cards 9d. .100 different cards 2/9 members of ; religious organisa­ SAYS post free. We offer the following sets ex-stock : Chief interest at Bournemouth l'layer's Aircraft of the R.A.F. ... 3/6 tions, and were keener on clubs Wills' Garden Flowers 2/- for stamp collectors, chess­ centres upon our younger players Churchman Howlers (Schoolboys) ... 2/- players, aeroplane • and railway —the Davis Cup stars of to­ Ogden Sea Adventure 5/- modellers, and so on* morrow—in particular ' John B.H.W. LTD., Dept. " C," 42 Victoria Street. Londo n. S.W.I. As collectors, both boys and Barrett, now in the RAF, and 95 girls favoured stamps, but boys Wilfred Rowe, who has been ^Here's how I cross roads. also liked football programmes, working on a farm in the West cricket score cards, pictures of Country, and training hard all | AUNT sportsmen, and coins, whereas the winter, when he could spare a the girls preferred film actors. few minutes from his farm work. | EMMY " Fancy foot-work scores on the Quite calm, no running and dodging, ' According to this Report, most football-field, where you want to because I wait for a proper gap in the grammar school boys at Ilford I COLLECTS like cricket better than football, Meal-less Journey confuse the other side's halves and traffic first. backs. But on the road, confusion is I PANSIES, and the girls' favourite sport is J^ PARTY of many thousands of " If you misjudge things in Soccer swimming, after which come insects which travelled by the last thing you want — it's much — well, you're very seldom hurt, 1 PETUNIAS cycling, tennis, and walking. plane from London to Australia too dangerous. Head-work is the anyway. But if you take chances in recently were given no meals on thing, when you're crossing a street. traffic, and a car or lorry charges 1 the way so that they should be Here's how /do it: you, you may be killed. And the I AND... WEATHER PATROL ready for- a really big feed of 1 At the kerb—HALT. JTOR the first time since the weeds when they arrived. same accident may kill other people. 2 Eyes —RIGHT. So watch your step, be a good Road international Weather Ships' These passengers, who were organisation began, a Dutch ship, forbidden to "spoil their dinner;" 3 Eyes —LEFT. Navigator, and cross all streets the Cumulus, is now sharing duties are tiny black insects called 4 Glance again — RIGHT. Kerb Drill way." , __£— with the British vessels. It will Zeuxidiplesis, whose home is in 5 If all clear — QUICK MARCH. USilhinioift make five patrols of 21 days each, the south of France, and who ~< on a. course some 500 miles off are fond of eating a weed that the west coast of Ireland. has been invading grasslands in All the usual facilities such as Australia. There must have been "mail-dropping" by the RAP some Zeuxidiplesisian nightmares LIQUORICE Ausozrs will be extended to the Dutch due to over-eating after they were Issued by the Ministry of Transport weather watchers let out. © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved.

15> The Children's Newspaper, May 6, I9S0 15 la" \7 THE BRAN TUB Jacfco is Giveii a Wide BertK crosReadings AcrossWord. 1 A distinguishinPuzzleg \> i* p JL iiJL/ U1VTU1 X UK : - -- featurRendine ei nA<>rna9 character. 1. A distinciiishiin5 Venomou»s serpent. 8 A bright warm colour, 9 The honey badger. 11 Small landowner or Hand-some farmer. 13 You and I. 14 Stage plays: 16 Organs of sight. 17 Wooden pins. JJE entered a furniture shop and 19 To punish. '21 Exists. 23 Spring asked the salesman for a festival. 25 Outdoor pastime. 27 Com­ mirror. pass point (abbrev). 28 To become brown by exposure to sun. 29 Having )8 "A hand mirror, sir?" asked the organs of hearing. assistant. Reading Down, 1 To attempt. 2 "Er, no thanks. Just one I can Abounding with water plants. 3 Regards with utmost respect. 4 Railed see my face in." road-vehicle. 5 Denotes contiguity. 6 \23 To work with needle and thread. 7 Excuses. 10 Beheaded bananas name 25 21 Poor Percy a pineappte* 12 Employer. 15 Not so ' "J^HE "hares" had lain a fine hard. 16 To live. 18 Large swimming birds. 20 A local tax. 22 Health resort. 29 clear trail 24 Same as S across. 26 Above and touching. Across the countryside, Answer next zeeeli And our Poor Perce, out for a LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS stroll, Never-Never Land Riddle-My-Name : Robert This suddenly espied. JOHN : Doesn't Harry speak ACKO had been sent up to Town to collect a new plant for his father fluent Esperanto? How Far ? "These Litter Louts! " he cried Dithering is 6 miles from Sleepyville He soon found out why it was called a Hedgehog Bush—it was covered Jack: Rather! In fact, you aghast. J Built-up Word : all over with prickles. It was a big plant, nearly the same size as Jacko, would think him a native. COOT "They get worse every day." and most people gave him a wide berth as he staggered along the street. No. more ado, he got to work— It was the same when he entered the railway carriage. In no time he had And swept the lot away! a large space all to himself. As Jacko chuckled afterwards : " I didn't THE WORD FOR EXPORT realise before that people could be so polite." The End JJILL: What part of a fish is like Dodo Other Worlds a book? J^ CERTAIN bird is well known TN the evening Mars and Saturn Jill: Why, the fin-is, of course. because it does not exist. are in the ' south. In the When we say that something is morning Venus "as dead as the dodo" we are Heads and Tails referring to the bird which lived and Jupiter are J|EHEAD a fruit and leave a part oh the island of Mauritius until in the east. The of the body. it became extinct toward the end picture shows Curtail a plant and leave a spice. of the 17th century. the Moon at 5.30 Behead a plant and leave to Rather larger than a swan, it ^^^^ on Friday morn- exist. had a ..massive beak, curly tail .tuiSHHI in?;, May 5. Curtail an animal and leave a feathers, stout legs, and small serpent. useless wings. Portuguese sailors Four Hens named it doudo, meaning stupid. Behead what a shepherd carries J^ MAN has four hens. The first and leave a black bird. lays for three consecutive Jumbled Poets days and then misses ^ day; the Curtail an aquatic mammal and TF properly rearranged, the leave a body of water. second lays for four days and letters of each of the follow­ then misses a day; the third lays ' Answer next xveek ing phrases will spell the sur­ for five days and misses a day; names, of six famous Poets the fourth lays for-six days and Countryside Flowers Laureate: misses a day. ^LTHOUGH often found growing SEA FILMED RIG BEDS If all miss laying today, how on hedge-banks, Herb Robert YOU SETH THROW SWORD many days will it be before they favours a stony soil and will also NET SONNY AS UNIT all miss together again? nourish on old walls. Answer next Keek Anstcer next iceck cam* •The delicately- veined flowers Tell Anty This Farmer Gray Explains have five bright TREACHER : Now, Johnnie, what do Strolling Stoats. The grasses pink petals, and you know about ants? swayed gently; bright eyes stared measure about Johnnie: There are two kinds inquisitively at the children. half an inch of ants, insects and lady uncles. across. The "Look! A weasel, Don!" ex­ branching claimed Ann. Twelve Inches One Foot THE WORD stems, which "THERE was an old fellow named "There's another, and another," grow from six 1 replied Don excitedly. FOR TOFFEE to 18 inches Beet, Suddenly a large stoat ap­ long, are hairy Who possessed most remarkable peared. It chattered angrily and brittle and usually tinged feet. before vanishing in the direction with red. The fern-like leaves He would state ivith much pride, taken by the smaller animals. turn red during autumn. Herb Robert belongs to the geranium They were twelve inches wide', "They must have been young family. And stretched nearly the length stoats, not weasels," said Don. of the street. 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