SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1939.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
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Dear Kiddies,
The colouring competition was very Well done and I received dozens and dozens of entries. After careful consideration I have decided to award the prizes this week le:
Winifred Barman (aged 12), 10. Gun Club T, Kowloon.
Mary Branson (aged 4). The Prak.
Specially commended for excellent work are the following:
Senlors: Mansoor Ali, Mary Leung, R. A. Rocha, Mabel Swaine, Joseph Lai, Norman Hellevick, Charles E. Clark, Join Tsang, Eva Grady, Mary Grace Asche, Yeung Kit-wa.
Intermediates; Chandru Heera, S. S. Bux, Lela Corvissiano, L. Korner. 271.Joan Daniel, S. A. Bux, Pamela Bar- man. W. Burton, Fred Lee, C. Bon- hoff, C. Ross.
Ann Dantel (aged 4) No address.
Juniors: Rosalind Silver, J. Clark, Coupons are being sent to Winifred | Stella Stokoe, Gillian Price, Frank and Mary which I want them to | Danied, P. Wong. David Asche, P. bring to the "Hongkong: Telegraph" | Wood, S, Wood, Judy Price, Shona offices. The coupons will then be McIntyre, exchanged for money prizes. As Ann did not give an address, will she please call for her coupon at the "Hongkong Telegraph" ofBees.
PUZZLE CORNER ANSWERS Crypingram: "It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question
What are
busy about?"— WE
Thoreau,
Word Square: False, about, lodge, Tugar, cleru (vari).
Letter Changing: Moon, sein, soot, spot, spal, spar, mar.
How Long?: 20 Inches,
Fun With Antonyms: Noiseless- audible: indiferent-considerate; ob-
soleta-new!
apoque-irausparent; peaceful-hostlle; exact-definite: keen dull; abundant--scarce; cluli impolite; accurate-erroncavs.
This week, kiddies, we are having » picture puzzle. All you have to do Is to complete the eight names we have sturted in the panel. This you do by adding the answer to one of the pictures each time-thus, JA, and looking round you see a net, which gives you JANET, a a girl's name. the same way use. up the other plc- tures to complete the names, and when you have filled up the panel, copy the eight complete names on a Fill in the name, age and postcard. address coupon and send your entries to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph", Wyndham Street." The competition closes at p.m. on Wednesday.
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Three prizes will be awarded- one for the best in each section. Children 15 years and over are not entitled to enter for these competi- tions.
Trick snaps of a man talking to himself are easy. Double exposure does the job.
ACCIDENTAL double exposures.
two pictures on one Atm, apoll many snapshots, though once la a while the result in amusing. But double exposuro can also be used to produce trick pictures that astonish and baffle your friends.
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A black background is needed for double-exposure trick plctures like the ano. To get it, pono sub- Jects before door of darkened room. 8, subjecte in doorway; LL, photo Bights; C, camera.
All you need is a firm support for your camera, and a black back- ground. Such a background is cany to obtain Indoors at night if you have a broad doorway between two rooms. Simply poso your subject before the open doorway, with tho | shown blurred'or as a double image,
· room back of him dark. Beo diagram. | That is why a firm camera support Two amatour "food" bulbs in—such as a tripod or tablo-lo neces- cardboard reflectors will provide sary. enough light for box camera snap- shots, it high speed him is used. Place thom as shown in the diagram, keeping light out of the far room.
"Ghost" pictures are produced by underexposure (for the ghost), and about the simplest way to achieve this is to reduce the light by movlog
wo had wanted the man siendlog to appear transparent and "ghostly," wo could have moved our photo lights two to three foot farther away from him before making the second snapshot.
The trick pleture shown abovoit farther from the subject. Thus, if a man arguing with himsoll-was mads by double exposure. First, ho nat down on one side of the card table, and ono pleturo was snapped. Then he walked around to the other side of the table and porod for a enc.
Try double-exposure tricks... ond snapshot. Naturally, the m was not wound unill after the soc- they're ensy, and fun. I'll have somo ond exposure, and the enmera was more tricks of a different type for not moved. If the camera bod you later os. moved, the card table would havol
Every good wish.
Uncle Eddie
John van Guilder
Eddie Lightning
FRIGIDAIRE
Leads The World
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DODWELL & Co., Ltd.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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(By Carl Van Doren, Putnam, 155.) REVIEWED BY RITCHIE CALDER THEN Benjamin Franklin flew his kite and tamed the lightning, he joined the legends beloved of school text- books James Watt and' his mother's kettle, Alfred and the cakes, Raleigh and his cloak and Washington and his little hatchet. It was a great piece of experimental research to prove his theory that lightning was electricity and that the But he clouds were charged with it, had already.propounded the den of the forked lightning conductora on tall buildings.
The British Royal Society had passed that over, but in France D'Albard followed it up and proved it right.
This book brings the greatness of Franklin into true perspective.
☆ ☆ ☆
He was one of the world's greatest men, a printer's apprentice who be came a brilliant writer, philosopher. actentiat, diplomat, and statesman,
had In six years, Franklin. who bullt up a successful printer's business in Philadelphia, made all his funda- mental discoveries in electricity, and was honoured by the Royal Society, by American universities, and acclaimed tr in France. But his adventures science, great as they were, were only incidents in his spectacular career.
Ho became a leader of the American Revolution and one of the framers of the constitution of the United States. He was his country's plenipotentiary in France,
8pending liberally, he was hailed by Iru• the thrifty as the emmple of gality. Loving freely, he was regarded by ho strictly prim as a model of decorum. Everyone claimed him as mentor.
Much has been written about Frank- lin, but this book is and of the best.
Island King Will -Defy Loneliness
SHALL not feel lonely if I don't see a stranger for months. My wife and mother and the birds are company enought for me."
So Mr. Robert Mitchell, 38-year- old Irishman, brushed aside the sug- gestion made to him recently that he would be lonely when he tots up his home as farm-warden on the lonely. Calf of Man.
"The Isle is full of birds. Yes, I'll have plenty of time to took after them. Sixty acres of farm and a few head of stock won't take all my time. "Too remote? Not a bit of it. On the West Coast of Ireland I lived 47 miles from a railway station. From the Calf I can sail to Port Erin."
Negro Fact and Fiction
N
OWADAYS the
ten-
doncy of fiction is to make the Negro, if not
black as ho is 'painted, at least as disreputably groy,
He is usually pathetic and cring- ing, or a buffoon, or a bully.
A Negro author. in a novel launched this week with words of praise from Paul Robeson, puts an end to such literary nonsense, and tells the truth about his own people.
It is not a pretty story, for it deals with the brutal oppression of black people by white people in the Southern States of America
Richard Wright does not make the silly mistake of idealising his own folk and assuming that because whites are often black-hearted, blacks are there- fare always white-hearted.
In the four long-short stories in Uncla Tom's Chlidren (Collancz, 78. d.), he presents Negroes sy human beings, capable of dishonesty and cowardice as well as heroism, deter- mination, and tenderness.
The result is that the reader is drawn to the Negroes and shares their reasonable hatred of the whites, who, not content with treating them like dirt, bully, torture, and murder them. Two of Wright's stories, Big Boy Leaves Home and Down by the River- alde, are appalling in their revelation of the sheer wickedness that white men. tempted and, as they think, Justi- fled by a colour prejudice, can permit themselves to do.
All sympathies apart, the writing in these stories is tense and vivid and convincing."
EVER aince I read Mr. Norrls Changes Trains I have seized eagerly on each new publication by Christopher Isherwood.
His latest book, Goodbye to Berlin (Hogarth Press, 75. L.), continuca his captivating sketches of disintegrating Berlin, its slums and night-clubs and comfortable villas. Its odd maladapted types and its complacent hurghers.
Mr. Isherwood ǹnn an Oriental flair for sheer story-telling, and he is able to tell you an engrossing tale without bothering you with a plot.
I hope that, having now rald good- bye to Berlin, where he lived until shortly after the Nazi coup, he will next turn his considerable intelligence to a strictly contemporary novel.
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FROM the Hogarth Press also comes a first novel, The Man Below, by H. T. Hopkinson (79. Od.).
It is, if you like, 'n kind of Pilgrim's Progress in modern dress, the story of a boy who, during his growth to man- hood, exercises his natural cowardice by extravagant self-assertion.
It is written quietly and rather more than competently and it holds the attention.
The best part of the book is a really thrilling account of teaky sailing. bont's fight with a storm during a madcap trip from Liverpool to Ireland.
ANOTHER first novel-"Rough-
anapes," by William Mcdowell (Hodder and Stoughton, 88. ed.)—is of the kind that continually suggests in quality of sentiment and development of plot that I really ought to have been a m.
There is vivid and amusing descrip- tion of the life that hums round a great north country shipyard.
There are characters observed with A close affection.
But, for me, a rather far-fetched love story and some dabbling in the psychic detracied from stature of the story.
Stuart Fletcher
MYSTERY
TURNING for the first time to detectivo storica, •Joanna Cannan has committed an admirable example of the best sort of murder-s the domestle kind, where love or family relationships tangle to the point at which a smart blow on the head or a brisk dose of poison is (in fiction, any- how the logical next step.
They Rang Up the Police (Gollancz, 7. Od.) tells of a mother and ber three daughters, forty-ish and unmarried." whom amid cooings of *darling," the fragrance of flowers and the com- forts of hot milk in glasses and hot water in bottles, she gathers coaliy around her, thankful there is no man in that chintzy heaven.
Then they find the managing eldest daughter dead on the midden. There are rumours that perhaps a man has penetrated that paradiso after all. And 50 to some competent detective work that is all the better for possibly con. Arming your own conclusion.
Fittingly, Carol Carnac's The Case of the First Class Carriage (Peter Davies, 76. 6d. speeds up steadily until it fairly roars to a surprise solution of the how and the who of the poisoning of a railway passenger in mid-journey.
Margery Allingham has collected in Mr. Campion and Others (Helnemarin, 78. ) nine blls of detection as well told as they are neat, and five Ultilo mysteries, of which They Never Get Caught is as grim a plece of wish ful filment as any badgered wife could desiro
P.E. I.
"At the bottom of every man's heart," Mr. Mitchell addol explain-Chat's all."
ing his desire to get away, from civi- He will not receive a salary, but lisation is the boy's longing to be itay trippers from the Isle of Man
Alexandra Building King of an Island. Some of us grow mainland and a few summer boarders
up quicker than others. I didn't—will, he hopes, augment his incorne.
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One of James Lee Ellentnood's amusing skelches from his book, "There's No Place Like Home" (Scribners, 68.), to be published next week,
IN BRIEF
The Soyici Comes of Age, by 20 of the leading citizens of the UBS.R. (Hodge, 15a) A story of Russia's achievements during the last 21 years by men who have häd a hand in them.. Most of the chapters are very un- critical, but they are all full of well- presented facts. And facts that make you think.
I am a Miner. By B. L Coombes. (Pact (d.) A South Wales miner tells about the real price of coal-the minute by minute risks that a miner runs in the pits, and struggle of his wife to make ends meet. A detailed, moving portrait.
Who is for Liberly, by Hugh Ross Williamson (Michael Joseph, 10s (d.). A queer book. Plenty of good stuf
about Ruskin and the grand old men of Bocialism, written with the true enthusiasm of youth, but interspersed with some of the most inaccurate, 11- informed criticism of the Labour Party that has yet appeared in print.
Her over Europe, by Ernst Henri (Dent, B.). Bye-opening guide to the forces which pull the strings attached Lo Hitler, the marionette.
RIGHT
from the HEART
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JOME books are written just be- cause their authors needed the money-and quickly, too. Some are brought into print by the urgency of the problems they ex- pound and the enger adToCavy their authors display.
Some--but we can forget them- must be written for no discoverable reason save someono's vanity to com- mence author,
All these reasons for writing, except the last have produced great book. Yet, best of all, I like a book written from the fullness of a man's heart when he can took`back on # Kreat career in his own walk of life.
Buch a one is The Horse and Buggy Doctor, by Arthur E. Hertzler, which, after a tremendous rogue in America, is published hero by John Lane, for 12%. Od.
Dr. Hertzler, one of the lanky, ugly Bort like Abraham Lincoin, struggled from farming, poverty and narrowest plety up to a medical degree at North- Western University.
Then he served a countryside In Kansas with devotion as a homespun doctor, saved money, and emigrated to Berlin University to return a specialist. For the second part of his career he served Kansas as the greatest surgeon- pathologist in the West,
He writes with pith and feeling. This is the most downright and excel- lent book I have read for a long time. "I had to tell them," he writes of parsons, “that saints and sinners died alike and that the time of death
there was no pain.” Here you have a man wrestling with the angel of death, without equipment or resources except his own magnif cent skill and courage.' His story must make a great book,
T.D.
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John would
not eat
John was thin and pale-poor appetite until the doctor traced the trouble back to sleep ...
WONDERFUL, SHE
YOUR WEIGHT IS
JUST RIGHT
TRE DOCTOR SELS JOHNİ
WEEK LATER
HORLICKS TIME.
MUMAKY
GOSU, THAT'S MARS. BENTH MY
JONN LOOKS 10 FUNY |BESIDE HER
DOY. IT'S
THIS FOOD FADORATĖS GOES BACK TO MUS SLEEK YOU SEE, CHILDREN USE OF ENERGY DUENO SLEEP IN KLASTEGATE AND BREATHING JUÊT AS WE DO, JUNDI DĖV ALSO FLOW DURING BLEEN THIS USES UN
YES, YOU SOP WA I WOULDRET VORGEI YOUR HOFLICKS, IT'S DONE YOU A WORLD OF GOOD!
BECAUSE
HE WON'T
ZAT PROPERLY
MY JOHN IS SO PALE. KE JUST PICKS AT HIS MEALS...
... UNLESS ENEROV 15 REPLACED A CHILD IS BOUND TO SE MERYE AKU "BADDY" AND "INNICKY” FT% MIGHT STARVATION. GIVE DINE PIŠELIČKE AND YOUĴL EVE A DIFFERENCE
• WEEKS LATER
MORE PLEASE,
SKUMUMY
I HAD THE SAME TROUBLE WHITE BILL. MRS. MORGAN,
· LINTEL # TOOK
HIM TO THE
DOCTOR. HI SOON EXPLAINED WISAT, VERZ
NEY WORLD, JONN, YOUŽER LATING LIKE A HORSE.. TRESE DAYS. YOU MUST-
HAYR HOLLOW LEGG
THANK GOODNÝ
FOR HORUCKS
If your child is pale, 'nervy,' tires easily, if he's fussy over his food, remember what the doctor wald. Guard your child against Night Starvation-give him his Horlicks at bedtime
Horlicks is best when made in the special Horlicks mixer, obtainable at all good stores.
at bedtime bullds appetite, and
HORLICKS orgthens nerves, by guarding
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chlidren against Night Starvat