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Easy isn't it. Why not act at once. Get your father's City Zone Prov or mother's approval and MAIL THE COUPON TODAY. Parents Signature Dept.CB SEE PAGE 31 FOR ADDITIONAL COUPON TO JOIN THIS CLUB I CH1WINO THINGS TO DO CanadiaSEPTEMBER, 1967, VOL 4, NO. 6 n Bo r ELECTRICITY! 0% m m FUEL OF TOMORROW Contents Electricity will power most of our transportation before the year 2067. Even the fantastic Editorial: Futuramic Venturing 4 computers Professor Porter tells about in this issue will Science by D. A. Cob urn 0 still depend on electricity. ine r>exi riunarea oy ur. Arthur rorter 1 \Jtto Matic #y uoug ana Don MacMillan lu Just to Make aure #y Lnola Chamberlin 12 Stories by Our Readers 14 Saskatchewan Boy: Jim Woods fry jK>w Mitchell 16 The Story of Canada Z?y James Simpkins lo ocoutcraii. 1 eiescopes 2U jueciers cu Lxsier 21 Canadata by Vernon Miller 22 Gagline Contest Winners 23 Award for Valour 24 Movies by Clyde Gilmour 25 You can create your own electric power simply by following the dia• Hustle Buck! 26 gram above. 1. Fill glass jar 2/3 full with water and table salt solution. Photo Contest: Biggest and Best Yet 26 2. Bend 1" wide copper strip over Stamp Corner by H.L. Woodman 31 jar. Also same size zinc strip (eavestrough metal). Off the Record 3. Attach fine wire to both strips by Sandy Gardiner 32 above water line. Cars by Roger Appleton 4. Attach one wire to flashlight 32 bulb as shown. Touch other wire to bottom of bulb. Penpals 33 Now — watch the bulb glow. You'll enjoy your experiments more if you Rib Ticklers 34 keep some Wrigley's Spearmint Gum handy all the time. DR. ARTHUR PORTER, author of "The Next Hundred", has a list of academic credentials and achievements longer than your arm. Briefly, he holds three physics degrees from Manchester University in England, his birthplace, has studied or taught at five other colleges and universities, has worked in scientific research for three companies, and has served on many important committees, including a taste that current stint as chairman of the Advisory Council Commit• tee for Science and Medicine at Expo. >WfrGOUvELY' flavour SEPTEMBER fore you jump without your chute. Ever since the turn of the second millenium (year of 2000 A.D., or as we now call it, 50 A.C., or 50 years Futuramic After Computer) Earthlings are called according to the chemical composi• tion of their genes on which heredity depends, also by the order the amino acids, are linked to form specific • body proteins. Hence no more Mc- Flintlocks, Finkelsteins, Pumpernick- J Venturing els and Assarabowskys but: Whafs Scouting going to ALPHABEFORNO > be like in 100 years? A a B 4 NO (Alpha) little different, a lot the BETATOOVETO /3 2 V TO (Veto) same. GAMMADETEEFORTOO y D T 4 2 (Teefortoo) WHYDEFORDOR Y D 4 DOR Hi there, Leprechauns! This is your imitation Mic Mac powder horn with (For dor) Friendly Jolly Jelly Giant fooling sign language type message burned UTOORAT U 2 RAT (Ratsy) 'round with some question thrown at into the media, the biggest and sharp• Immediately after birth, the for• him at the recent closing meeting of est Bowie knife in existence, a mula is tattooed on the skin of the one of the local Venturer Companies. shrunken head from the Amazon left armpit, most handy in case of "Like Jelly, OV Bean," asked Alec, River tribe of "Pft" Indians—the last accident or sickness when one or sev• the Hustler, "any ideas about how thing you hear is "Pft" and you're a eral organs must be replaced. Scouting is going to be fifty or more goner, man — a "Rots of Ruck" So, as I was fooling around with years from now?" wooden statue of the Kwai Indians my 3-D Videostereo set (man! those "Yeah," said Ricky 'Speedy Gon• living near the Angel Falls in Vene• electromagnetic hit tunes by The Sun- zales', "like what's up at the long zuela, and an illuminated rotating, spots are out of this universe), my range, Lone Ranger?" transparent globe). Video-phone softly called out my Well, I must admit, that I never After taking up a comfortable name. Yeah! You've guessed it; it gave it much thought before, which semi-reclined position in my armchair, was my intype pal Ratsy, the Shmart proves one thing: don't put hot mus• I switched the globe on, set it into Shnook of our space Venturer Com• tard on your peanut butter and jam orbit and gazed at the magnetic pole pany "Alphacentauri". He seemed sandwich, or else you won't be able slowly revolving in a small circle excited. to talk for a while. around the north pole. Sure 'nuff, "What's up Ratsy, Old Meson?" "Cats, you're putting me on the all of a sudden without a sound there "Man, would you believe, my kid spot! If you really, really want to was Batgirl standing next to me, try• brother Micron found a real antique," know, give me a chance to snap my ing on my skunk hat, asking me if I said Ratsy. "You know, he is an fingers, clap my hands and take a think it fits her. Typical female, I Atom Cub from the Plutonium Pack. metapsychic trip, (which means that thought, then greeted her: "Welcome He was working on his Telstar re• you mentally expand yourself without to my humble junkyard, Bat-O-Girl." quirements and while cleaning the at• the influence of chemical substances "Cosmic rays and salutations even, tic in Grampa's old house, he found such as root beer, Six-Down and to you Jelly, OT Beanpole. Like this . ." other assorted Cool-Man-Aids) at the what's the makings?" All of a sudden, there on my col• conclusion of which I might give a "Wee problem, Batty Dearie, tossed ored Videophone screen was the few hints on tomorrow's happenings." at me by that loudmouth Alec the mysterious object, about 7.5 cm (or Little did my trusted Venturers Sharpshooter. Wish he would stick to three inches) in diameter, made of know that over the years in inner• his pool table. My Venturer Tigercats highly polished hardwood, two flat most secret I had perfected the sep• would like to have a hint or two or wheels, interconnected by a small arating of my thinking process from three, 'bout tomorrow, after-tomor• arm. The space between the wheels the Jelly Body and reaching far out, row even, like what'll be Scouting's was about 0.3 cm {Vx inch) and an into the inter-connecting paths of the picture and all that jazz?" old frayed string was attached to the unknown. It is on a similar journey "Read you. Jelly. Question simple, interconnecting part by which Ratsy that I first met Batgirl, the flamboy• answer easy. However, be prepared was holding the small object. ant female figure of the future who that your friends will be chasing you "What in Jupiter is that?" I asked. knows more about tomorrow than the with their cues around the pool table "Haven't got a spark," said Ratsy. rest of us put together about past and when you lift the corner of the jet "It could be some old-fashioned toy." present.