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PUNTS THROUGH THAMES ICE
Britain.
The winter has been particularly sovere in Picture shows a Windsor lock-keeper going out
punt with his dog to break up the Thames icc.
on 3
The man who
fights
against famine
SIR JOHN ORR is the world's
STR
greatest expert on nutris
lion. Sir John Orr knows what we should ent, and how we should grow it and distribute It. Sir John Orr has the Answer to famine. Sir" John Orr's name rings round the world
the clear-sighted Planner of Plenty.
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And yet, you will be pleased to hear (because it is always' pleasant for us groundlings to find flaws in the mighty), Sir John Orr is not very good at arranging a cup of tea and allee of calto for himself. I established that when I went to see him.
He was dying, he sald-though no
man ever looked more alive--for tea and
cake. An hour later, after Inquiries three places, he had only reached the stage of saying to a waltress: " naked for ten before all these others."
Close-up of
SIR JOHN
BOYD ORR
By Victor
Thompson
For the rest, it must all be praise and deep respect. Many thinkers hold, indeed, that the World Food Plan which Sir John has before the nations-after wearing himself out in its preparation-may well save the world from the atom bomb.
He was able to prove an an ex- perimental farm that harvests could be multiplied by scientifle ideas, and In 1935 he was knighted for his work. F.R.S., LL.D., and J.P. were also added.
Soon after that he shocked all the complacent people in the land by declaring and proving that half the population wore victims of malnutri- tion. His book, "Food, Health and Income," became the biblo of the couse of Peace through Plenty.
Still wanting to become a farmer, he found himself working ond arguing always arguing-in over- widening spheres; and though he was Independent in pollies he found nanturally hot p Worked more and more
oroformer he Will the el. gate to Hot Springs for the World In 1943, he went as a British dele-
Food Conference.
First (and he would have it that way himself), he is a Scotsman. The one other story know Meeting him, you do not have to be against him in that when
this old so. He looks like one and talka H Henius of nutrition went to a doctor like one. Remembering his fana- In Washington he was told that he deal devotion to hard work, I would was suffering from vitamin-de-also say that he thinks like one, ficiency.
INSPIRING-HEROIC-PATHETIC
Captain Scott's Dash to the South Pole
NE of Britain's
By DAN L. THRAPP
United Press Staff Correspondent
most in- spiring, and at the same time pathetic, true tales of heroism the tragic death of Captain Robert Falcon Scott within 11 miles of safety after a memorable trek across the inhospitable Antarctic-will be filmed by Enling Studios soon. Cameramen Osmond Sorradalle who filmed last year's outstanding Australian adventure film, The Overlanders," is now in the Antare tie with the British scientific ship, Trepassey. He will take background pictures for the Alm and return in March to England, where a story of the explorer's last trip ta in prepara- tion.
Caul and final details of the movie have not yet been decided. The director will be Charles Frend and the producer Michael Balcon.
Building an empire often calls for herolam, and the British Empire was no exception. Among the bravesi tales of the strong men who forged lla links are the stories of those who extended the Empire into the Arctle and to the South Pole.
He is a tall, pipe-smoking man of 65, with a lean, shrewd face und sharp blue eyes that nest, as it were, under what must surely bo the world's bushlest cyebrows.
The Plan
ended by personifying the whale gathering and its humani- tarian aims,
Ile is, you see, not only a scientist and a prophot, but a skilful steerer of meetings, a committee' man who never loses his temper unless he means to.
In October, 1945, by which Ume so he was M.P. for Scottish Universities. he was elected Director-General of the F.A.0.-the Food and Agricul tural Organization of the United
No wonder he has overcome many obstacles in his career. With those eyebrows a man hun only to frown to quell opposition.
Even before they Krew to their Nations, present luxuriance, however, John Boyd Ore was n leader emphatic and stubborn.
As
Farming Lure
of men-
S student at Glasgow University (of which he became Rector in 1945), he took not only the M.A. degree, but the M.D. and the D.Sc. and coveted gold medal.
"And yet," he told me, "all the In 1909. Sir Ernest Shackleton, man fell into a crevasse, suffering o one of his former subordinates, had concussion which left him tempora- tune i was becoming a doctor, I was really hankering 10 be a farmer. taken the most arduous sledge jour- rlly demented, so that he could not Farming was in my blood, and I ne recorded until then to within 07 do his share of work and had to be nearly threw over everything to try miles of the Pale. Scott determined | cared for by the others. Eventually | 12′′ to reach the Pole itself.
He left England In
In 1911. It was booming year in Antarctic ex- ploration, comparable to the period 1940-8. Expedit'ons of five nations were rushing south to have a try at reaching the pole, for the Americans, Dr Frederick A. Cook and Reur Admiral Robert E. Peary, had both just announced that they had reach ed the North Pole, and attention of the adventurers was turned to the nuly ulher remaining goal for plorers.
Ex-
he died,
enke and
eating it, and that is what young John Orr did.
Well, he didn't throw over every. A second man suffered frozen feet, thing, Good Scots don't go in for which interfered with his ability to that sort of thing. They try to ind travel. To give his companions a way of having their better chance, he announced one night, during a terrible blizzard: "believe I will take o Hitle walk." They tried to dissuade him, but he stepped out into the wilderness of ice and was never seen again.
EPIC OF COURAGE THREE were left, and they stag T
fered on, dragging the heavy sledges with them, until they neared a cache of food they had stored on the south-bound trip.
"I didn't want to take it, but I couldn't refuse," he told me. "And then I said I would sesign as soon as the thing was under way-but I can't do that elther until the Plan is accepted and working. I am afrald my farm gets further and away
further
A Great Man
JAVING Anally secured that tex, he walked back to his offices, talking about the Plan.
By the Duke of York's Steps, under n statue that symbolisen the bad old world of marching armies, he stopped in the middle of the road whille taxis whizzed round him.
"Peace can't be built on a founda-
tion of empty stomachs," he said.
"F.A.O..can decide the fate of the He secured a post at the small world for the next fifty years," he Rowett Rescurch Institute in Aber- | said. deenshire, which was scientifically investigating problems of animal nutrition. He could rear pursue his medical carcer,
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Then, using those eyebrows quell any taxi-driver who looked pigs andiko disputing his passage, he walk-
As director of the Institute, he had cd back to his office to con over The already widened its scope to cover packed.
Plan for the last Ume before he nil problems of nutrition, human as well as animal, when the first world war began.
D.S.O, and M.C.
naval
cruisers. Before
AMUNDSEN TURNS SOUTH
Scott, the great JNKNOWN to
Roald Norweginn explorer, Amundsen, who was planning a
Then, 11 miles from this cache, a North Pole expedition, had just heard of the conquest of that prize three-day blizzard caught thein, trap- and, at sea, turned and headed 15,000 ped them, and killed them.
HE became an Army doctor, and
then volunteered as miles south to try for the South Pole.
Bay
Their diaries of
were found with surgeon In secret Ho comped
nt the Whales, where Little America now their frozen bodies the next spring. he was recalled to help in post-war stands, and Stott made for his own Scott's has been preserved as an eple food planning. he hnd ndled the old buse near Victoria Land.
M.C. to the string of of courage. As his sight dimmed D.S.O. and Amundsen, who had trained him and his fingers froze, he gave credit initials after his name.
There followed Industrious years self all his life for Polar exploration to his companions for their courage, In which the Rowett Institute grew
"we have died as in importance and was a past master at the art, and confirmed that his expedition went like clockwork. true Englishmen," then thought at stream of illuminating pamphlets He used dogs, and he made the the last of his wife and zon
came-from-It-and-all-of-them-bore "For God's sake look after Our approximately 1,800-mile trip to the
the stamp of John Boyd Orr's logicni NO NOVICE
Pole and back like a machine, calcy people," he wrote,
brain. CCOTT was a Captain in the Roval lating to the mile when he would Navy, and he was no novice at kill each dog for use us food, how Antarctic exploration when he start- much the animal would weigh and ed on his last trip. He had led a how much energy it would give the huge, carefully planned and skil- survivors. Amundsen reached the fully executed expedition in 1953-4 to the Ross Ice barrier, a couple of hundrels milea west of Little America.
And outstanding among these in credible legends of fortitude in the face of almost insuperable hardships Is-the-story-of-Scott and his last expedition.
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The Scout keeps on marching briskly with Rupert at his heels and then turn abruptly into quite a small office with a few toys arranges neatly on shelves. An aged doll with a quill behind his ear comés re meet tiem, "This is the store. keeper; put your donkey down, Rupert, and see it he can explain. why he jumps i saya the „Sceut. The little bear obeys, and the old atorekeeper bendi down and looks closely."Well, why doesn't he jump" he says, "There's noth. ing to explam so far as I can see1** ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
NANCY
Pole on December 14, 1911, stayed three days, and arrived back at his base in time to ship out before the ice closed in. It was a masterpiece of polar travel,
UNDERFED, OVERWORKED VERYTHING went wrong with the Scott expedition, He used tough Manchuriari ponics instead of dogs, and although he planned to them as food, one was completely lost when it fell into a deep crevasse on the south-bound Journey and the sledges had to be dragged inostly by hand from the sea-level ice barrier to the 10,000-foot high South Polar Plateau,
Underfed
little Scott
and overworked, the almost ex- party was hausted which
the they topped Plateau, but they struggled on over the pitiless frozen
always wastes, secking more speed because the sea= Ron wax drawing to a close. Then to top it all, they reached the Pole itself, on January 13, 1912, to find Amundsen's tent and to know that they had been beaten by a single month, it a goal for which they had struggled so
so far.
season.
They turned north, but. It was
the dangerously late They followed a tortuous mounia.n Klucier from the Plateau to the Rosa ice barrier, and halfway down one
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