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WHITE looks to BLACK
Tis a strange paradox that, in a gold-run world, the greatest of all gold-producing countries should be in danger of finding 11self in Queer Street. And that the standard of seventy-ave per cent. of a white people should be so low that it is quite likely the white race in South Atrien will lose. that stamina and virility no essery- tial for the maintenance of a white civilisation."
The quotation is from 11 O'Kelly Webber's The firip of Gold (chin- san. 18.). The author has lived in South Africa for forty-eight years, and knew all the people who were worth knowing and many who weren't. But he does not arem to be al'all optimistie About El Dorado's future..
"AI South Africans," he says. should, ask themselves whether they are preparing for the conditions which will face then when the gold-inining industry begins to show sighs of lan- Kulshing.'
As Mr. Webber sera things, South Africa is content to drift, and to make ittle or no use of its "most wonderful
And this asset? No, not Its gold, but
as black population.
South Afrlen must always have n Mr. vint black proletariat. GIAN Webber. He wants to see those coloured folic trented more generously. given better opportunities for self-ad- VARSEL. ut he also insists that They must be in permanent subjection to their while mastera. And the better treatment is only a prelude to exploit- solleres on a far grander nenle,
Well, this Bouth African is nothing nut frarik. He admits tha! Bouth Africa is not purely a white man's untry in that its coloured people ete carential to ita prosperity, but .never, never agalu must it be a block
n's country Yet he does
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TREASURE TREK by Juice Stoad
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mean to be ironical when he says: What a happy country-the Union
of South Africa would be if there were no racial enmities! "
Shall we leave it at that?
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iro muny, perhaps inost, of the Jalal people, who tempor- arlly make their homes there, India la a kind of patchwork rug, soft to the feet-Just that and nothing more...
Mark Chining found it an Indian Mosale, tho title which he gives to his latest book (Harrap, Ba. 04.),
If you want to try and reach the heart of India, read this volume. As a monale it may be lacking in plan, but the pen pictures are accurate, penetrating, sympathetic and vivid. And for that alone it is a worthy bookshelf companion to Bengal Lancer.
For Mr. Channing. like. Mr. Yenis. He Brown, has soldiered in India. went there after the Boer War, a junior subaltern and a self-confessed anob. He learned to love what at first he hated. Maturily brought a brond. mindedness uncommon among those to whom Social Convention is as sacred as King's Regulations.
"I would no more have thought," he says of those early days, "of pinying tenis with on Indian or of allowing myself to be seen going about with one than I would have walked into the gymkhana cluta atark naked."
And afterwards? "I loud looking down at the white wake of the vessel.
It was India that I did not want
to leave: the India of strange temples and gentle peoples: the India that hact once meant exile and that had become my home."
Indian Mosate lifts a corner of the Eastern voll, Those who read it will be waiting for Mr. Channing's next,
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Speeding Up the Breaststroke
Upper-Erie Rademacher, German Star, Shows the Arms Beginning Their Powerful Pall, With the Legs Relaxed Completing Their Drive. Layer-Johnny Weissmuller Shows How the Legs Are Doubled Up in the Old "Frog Kick," Causing Itealstance on the Front Surfaces of the lega. Head Should be Pointed Forward and Not to the Sile as Shown Here. The Feet Should Paint to the Rear.
By Clarence A. Bush
"To execute another stroke im 'mediately," said McDermott, "is to encounter much resistanco in separat ing the legs. We consted until de momentum reduced resint- ance. However, the boys seem to be getting away with it"
TARS of the present day are speeding up, the breaststroke, swimming higher in the water and eliminating me starting in phase, it is stated by Michael J. (Turk) McDermott, who in his day was among the world's greatest competitors in this style of swimming.
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In the old "frog kick" of the breast- stroke. the legs were bent at the knees, brought up under the stomach, They are not changing the fundamentals of the stroke, but then shot out and hack at divergent they are transferring some of the emphasis from the legs to the angles to reach the position, and then driven together. Coach William arms, and increasing the number of strokes used to travel a Bachrach, who developed McDermott, Robert Skelton, John Faricy and given distance.
other stars, evolved an improvement 15 Dealing with a better stock.. After observing John H. Higgins winning the 200-metre on tids. He figured bringing the 16 Give one a right.
knees up was a resistaner motion it 17 Such ambillons are not confined
frog
the_air-minded. te breaststroke--championship, at the America National A. A. U. would be well to avoid. The
kick requires three moveme! 28," up; 20 Facsimile, championships in Chicago, MeDermott said:
out and in. Bachrach reduced the 20 For the Spree, Karl ties himself
into knots.
12 One of Mary's joints.
21 Steal.
24 Part of a bay tree?
27 Deserve (anagram).
"Higgins used the orthodox stroke, tion, and they are more or less con- motions to two, avoided resistance, but had his arrus working all the temptuous of resistance. I don't know and put the feet into a letter pos time, and swath so high in the water whether they were endowed with tion for propelling traction. it broke across his chest most of the these mighty motors, or developed This new style of kick in the breasts European, but you may find t time. takes a mighty powerful them; anyhow, they've got theme streke has been called the "fish-tail motor. to swim like he did, more
flip." The legs, relaxed and undulato powerful than the old system re- The arms in this stroke start from in, are separated directly to the quired. However, all the stars, are the forward position close together. position, and then flipped back toge swimming the strenuous, pace, now. The painis, Dat on the water at first, ther. The whole motion is like a Judays. Brie Rademacher of Germany re rotated fating outward. Then
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it, and the Japanese with the arms are swept outward at full Pair of cels, or whips. The legs are of the feet face each other when they Yashiyuki Tsuruta and others went, each until they form a straight line rotated at the hips so that the roles
the shoulders. Here him he better."
are extended Inck. This elongates reach the end of their effective pull, the whiplash and puts a paddle on In the old system, which may look though one swimmers follow the same as the present to the und through to the hips with them. The the end which gives the leg netion
tremendous propelling power. are then hent at the elbow, Is an interval, of arms initiated, there
the arms
Inasmuch as either the arms or the roasting with
extended hands brought together under the together in front of the head. This chest, and shot forward under the legs must be paramount in any swim- comes just as the arms are recovered surface of the water, to the advanced min stroke, Mellermatt and the and shot forward and the legs com- position.
immers of his day put the emphasis on the legs. This meant they not plete their propelling drive.
This arm stroke, applied with some only put most of their power into the Having been driven together, the elevating pressure, brings the body lers, neglecting their arms more or es are held close together. The high in the water, during which ass, but they had to relax the legs arms likewise being held close to period air is inhaled through the longer due gether, the body is in the position mouth. encountering the least resistance from the water. It has also received
Modern swimmers, shifting em- its maximum propelling impulse. The the legs are separated to a V posi coust is to take advantage of this tion, and as the arms go forward in plinsis to the ms, seem to be put lowered resistance and maximum pro- recovery the legs are driven together ting less energy into the legs and pulsion, and to relax the arms and inn wedging motion. This leg they do not need to rest them with legs:
action is powerful propellant, and a coast, Those who are mastering if properly done the body Junges for the stroke, however, would do well "Nowadays,"
McDermott, ward in the water. With 'sak
water to learn the slower rhythm Arst, get- with the powerful muters they've piling up against the face, breath is ting, plenty of relaxation between got, they don't seem to need relaxe- exhaled under the surface.
strokes.
SALESMAN SAM
As the arms complete their sweep,
to their great effort. Hence the consting phase developed
by fastest breaststroke swimmers.
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