Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 29, 1940,
MAGAZINE PAGE
German Fun with the A.T.S.
Here are some 'German cartoons. This
timo the cartoonists
make the girls of our A.T.S. their fangor.
THE CAMERA
Take Photographs From Angles
Kodak
Amateurs get
more good pictures
per roll
when they buy.
VERICHROME
Gets the
picture where ordinary films tall
Mummy arrives home on leave
(Kölnische Zeltung)
"Stand at Easo!"
(Kolnische Illustrierte Zeitung)
Prophetic Picture: After 12 months in France
(Kolnische Illustrierte Zellung)
Still at her post
(K&nische Hustrierte Zeltungs
Experts in the art of Camouflage
(Kölnische illustrierte Zeitung)
•
"It passes the time on sentry duty"
(Lustige Blätter, Berlin)
"We must find her another job. She doesn't
suit this platoon
(Lustige Blätter, Berlin)
IN one cor-
ner
of the
The
room Bridget. my youngest daughter, is playing happily with a doll's house.
It is her idea of home- planning, and I know how serious it is, for I have just been called in to help with the decorating. ·
When I pointed out the bare- ness of the windows I was told that in her street there was no The information has black-out.
set wondering.
What will the houses of the future look like? They may be camouflaged or even built below ground. Or they may have to withstand nothing worse than bad weather.
But it is of their owners, our children, that I am thinking. It vccrps unfair to leave them with Auctia rotten world, and I confess that whenever I see a child with a gas-mask I feel ashamed.
World
My generation inherited a world
which was merely a ume-bomb in disgulee, waiting to explode. The
next generation has received much the same, but with a generous supply of bigger and better gas- masks. Horrors still more devilish may be in store for our children.
The amazing thing is that of human the vast majority belags loathe aggression. Ther want a world fit for children to live in.
But they lack the power to get it because they have nothing to draw them together. If only they could find one ample idea to upon-a kind of highest work common factor of all their differ- ent ways of thinking-the new world would be theirs,
PLANS there are in plenty. But will they work?
to
Most of them seem to mo
They sinrt at the wrong end. deal with maps and not with
Can you identify this subject? The answer le below-with other ideas for novel and amusing pieturas you can take.
WHEN you run out of ideas for the usual type of pictures -try your hand at unusual pictures.
Look out for novel angle shots, und opportunities for "puzzle ple-
is
such tures." This fun-und
to your shots will add novelty snapshot album.
There are all sorts of unusual things worth trying. For example, odd lighting effects when you are taking night snapshota. Instead of having your photo bulbs at eye level, put them on the floor for a few shots, so that they shine up toward your subjects, and cast lonit shadows on the wall. It's a stunt that yields surprising effects. Try shots at unusual angles. Take a picture from an upstairs window, with a subject directly below you looking straight upward. Try steep up-angle shot of a tall building. Shoot straight-down-a- stairway well.
The picture above is a shot of a deep elreular staircase, taken with the camere pointed almost straight down. You'll agree it makes ak novel effect.
For another stunt, try tricks with perspective. Take a shot of a sub- Ject sitting down, with his feet ex- tended toward the camera. If the feet are fairly close to the lens, they will show up absurdly large in the picture.
For shots such, as this, use the smallest lens opening on your cam- eru, as you need extra "depth of feld." It won't matter if the near- est objects are slightly out of focus, but they shouldn't be too "fuzzy." Try some double-exposure tricks. For example, a close-up shot of a newspaper page and then a close- up of a person on the same flax Use a dark background for the You can pro- shot of the person, duce come unusual "combination" effects in this manner.
Needs
God
not wise the freest government is
BY E. R. Appleton compelled to be a tyranny." And
Founder of the famous B.B.C. :" Bunday evening "Silent Fellow ship" broadcasts,
mes. They expect to join nations like pieces of a g-saw puzzle. And I confess that I am suspicious of any plan which starts with World Commltices and Interna- tional Federations.
ed
Sooner or later they get pla tered with protocols and up with their own bureaucracy. The League of Nations failed be- cause, to quote one of its leading delegates, there was not enough faith for so big a church."
My own plan deals first with Individuals. It includes a simple charter of faith as a guide to the of man every-day relationships with his fellowmen.
For I agree with William Blake when he says that "if people are
history shows that the greatest movements are those thot spring from the people.
Over-organisation, na we have an evil. Just teen, can itself be But the three evils that most affect ua to-day are fear, loneliness and can clear oppression. Once we them away we shall see the dawn of our new world.
My plan, therefore, la based upon one idea which has within it the seeds of deliverance from these evils. This idea can be.ex- pressed in one word-companion- which originally MAN
·Blites - meant the sharing of brend.
But the companionship, that I mean is like that of the Good Samaritan; it looks upon all people is the children of a loving Giver of Life.
vague I am not suggesting a Idealism. Starting with this one
Try all these stunts--and keep your eyes open for other novel pic- ture chances, They'll give added spice to your camera hobby,
John van Guilder
Spotting the Rank
LIEUTENANT
There are more officers of this rank on the active list of the Royal Navy than any other, the total at the out- break of war being over 1,300. But on the retired and
emergency lists there
were only 763.
Like Captain, the rank of Licu- tenant is derived from the French, by way of the Army. When war- ships were produced by the simple method of arming merchant vessels and embarking fighting men in them, the ofeer appointed in com- mand held the military rank of Captain.
When a second officer accom- pauled him as his deputy, he was alven the rank of Lieutenant. Literally this implied "lenant In lies" of the Captain. La whose duties he would automatically suc eced if the latter were killed or ipcapacitated.
Since those early days the in- troduction of the intermediate ranks of Commander and Lieuten- ant-Commander has caused the relative importance of the Lieuten- ant to decline. But this is same- what mitigated by the fact that ho automatically becomes a Lieuten- ant-Commander after eight years.
word we have planned in detailą amidst other things, a new system of education, a bridge between de- nominations, safe- Cards for the roads, and a new charter for industry.
Our plans have been tested quietly for two years and are now action, ready to be put into Numerous small companies Arc being formed for study as well as recreation.
"af But we want an army helpers-overyone who is ready to be a real companion and particularly those who love little children.
We
can expect some people to neer at our efforts, just as the Moronites and Ammonites mecred at Nehemiah.
Let us answer them in Nehé miah's own words: "The God of Heaven, He will prosper us; there- for wo His servants will arise and build."
There must be no more black- outs.
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