Bernard Wicksteed has
Fun Finding Out about
what some people drink
MOST of us at one time or another have been pre-occupied
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1947.
basic anhydride. [1130]20, of the oxonium hydroxide H30.OH in con. formity with oxonium salls such as 130.C and· H30-|- So now you know.
Another chemical fact about water Is that it's never pure. There's no pure water in nature and it can't be made in the laboratory. It is such a powerful solvent that it's always got something else in it besides oxy- gen and hydrogen.
fawali, which has an average of 470(ns. " успг. At San Gabriel, California, in 1920, 1.03 Inches of
If rain fell in one minute.
you turned buth tapt on full you couldn'i na bath much faster than that.
Altogether in the form of rain, snow, hail and sleet, 35,000 cubic miles of water come down from the sky every year and each
SHWATER
with water in one form
mother.
either as snow or as ice or the
ntuff that won't seem to boil when you put it,in n kettle."
The most notable thing about this particular quid is the quantity of it. Someone with time on his hands has worked out that there are 320,000,000 cubic miles of en water Tuone.
Above our heads there are Mou. rails of millions of tons mere, že the form of vapour, and elud, and even the so-called dry land is wet for six iniles down.
Everywhere
AN AMERICÀN DOIťesor calculated once that if all the water la the ground was brought to the surface it would cover the earth to n depth of 1,000 feit (and mod of us would be drowned),
Besides that, we go book full of water ourselves. It's a rather wipici Bought, but seven-nghth.. human body is nothing at
That as to
W
the Chan
pit-up girls Included.
Even' this paper 1 Comabrasiyi
dikaled. So
The polar bear may have got it from a walrus he ate in the autumn and the walrus from a herring.
The 'snow will eventually melt and some of these came particles will soak into the ground and pus. sibly turn up at the bottom of some- body's well 10, 20 or 50 years hence.
Other particles will go down to the sea, and once there anything can happen. They may sink down and mix with fishes for the next 1,000,000 years or they may be sucked up, turned into tropleal rain and be part of a banann by spring.
Never pure
AND NOW for
Q Title chemistry. When I was af school I was taught that water was 1120. That's to
say a particle of water was made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Were you told the same? In that case we were both mishformed.
Water isn't 1120. Steam is, but when it turns to water it takes on a different chemical structure which
schoolmasters didn't go into details. But just for the record you might like this definition from the Encyclo
Dritannica: "Water is a
so complicated I don't wonder our
turatie. There's ten per cent, a wider in.> table, or the leg of a chair, un bon ever well you air the sheet ya'll paedia
ver get all of the insisture sati
Where does all this water come: from? How did we get it in the Ant place? Scientists say thistle hawn with us ance the earth dat 1 shape, and the ble kys the
ne thing, only L + literenti
way.
Everlasting
SVET
WILLIAM
hear this may be cheered to learn Tectotallers who are distressed to that it is equally impossible to get the last drop of water out of alcohol. However many times you distil it there's always a little water left.
Water Is said to be tasteless and colourless, but really it is neither, The neurer to pure you get it the more peculiar it tastes. And it only looks colourless in small quantities. in bulk it has a bluish tinge.
Water Is supposed to be a good conductor of electricity. Actually It is the impurities in it that conduct the current. Pure water, I such a thing existed, would be an Insulater.
Slow to heat
FROM THE fuel-saving point of view water Is almost the worst liquid in the world, in which to boli an egg (or anything else). It takes more gass or electricity to heat it up then does any other com- non substance. But once it's hot water takes longer to cool than any- thing else.
drop that falls on fand is helping to wear it away and take it down to the rea.
The land surface of the world Is being lowered in this way at the rate of one foot every 13,000 years. The average height of land above sea level is half a mile, so if things go on like this there will be no land ut all in another 34,000,000 years and our descendants will have to live in houseboats,
Jeft
Some countries are disintegrating faster than oiliers, and high up on the list is the United States, Ai the rate it's going I will be down to sea | level by the year 7,001,947 A.D.
Drop of comfort
ACTUALLY the scientists 'point out that as the lund gets lower the rivers will go Riower and carry less soil away than they do at the niement, so we really have a good So what you lose on the egg you deal longer than 31,000,000 years to gain on the hot-water bottle.
work out what we are going to do.
The average rainfall for the whole year, The world is 40 inches wettest place on earth is Kaual, in
HICKEY
Neil and obey
Daily, the Spenker's proces. flow. Even when water at Ox-|
Be
ford
reached the disastrous | record flood levels of 1894, local warnings down-river lacked the Forty-eight Board's backing. hours
wasted during which too much water flowed under and over bridges. The Army would have been quicker if official orders had
were
The world wan very hot at the Lime (unlike our part of it just now)sion advances solemnly through and the heat joined **
und
the corridors of Parliament on hydrogen atoms together and made then into steam. As the earth its way to the Speaker's Chair crated the sleam condenast into
in the House of Commons. and it has rea lore water
fore it reaches the Central Hall since.
policemen shout to visitors an xious to see M.P.; "Hats off, strangers!" Every male head is uncovered, every reverence been quicker. in paid. NEIL. MacLEAN (Soc., orld Govan) the other day
caught on the wrong side of the alleyway among these visitors, just as the Speaker approached. Another M.P, shouted to him: "Neil!" Six women knelt at
THE SAME isuvidual par- ticles of wafer heye existened rule 11.
began. Tuy were original crait of seaan they were in the first ormanı,
to their history d naquon mil. bon years they may have been 30
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once.
They may hake boon drums by daneaurs and used by as foumn in i ตาม ก The sevenaghihs of FLOOD:
wiler that helped do hoke up C flooded
is still around somewhere,
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Amebody's fish-x+,
was
NEW POST:
Long derelict. the English church in Moscow might be revived; Britain's Ambassador there. SIR MAURICE PETERSON, out thinks a chaplain should be sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Express reporter Alarie Jacob cables: "The British colony recently passed round the hat to pay for expenses of a chaplain. Not enough money was raised."
Main complaints of
MUSIC: Thames-side people:
France's jazz-player Number One, 39-year-old composer Why were 211
We not properly MICHAEL WAHLOP, died in Paris warned? Why were not Army recently after a short illness. War- Jop founded famous "Hot Club of -Nothing-in-the-world-ba.-*-many-[waterproofed vehicles ready to Frike.". asiventures as water in ds Hifferent take food to stranded families? farms. Just take ad likely comes by air from the Arctle, Blame seems to lie with Thames. IN ROME: Called in by their diguised as a clond. Immediately Conservancy Board
officials, union to speak at a meeting of Savoy before that it may have been any over-confident that their locks hotels chief, and member of the new Hotel strikers, F. C. HOLE, LMS. and sluices would control river national Holidays Board. began:
"Gentlemen
Then he smiled, began oguin: "Contades...
mos
thing from an Telle to the muisture In a polar bear's breath,
BOOM TOWN OF
THE NEW KLONDIKE
Fields of gold under the ice
by CYRIL BASSETT.
YELLOWKNIFE, North-
West Territorio. TILS they call Canada's new Boom Town, and it was dis- covered by accident.
But today, fanning out from the huge rock around which it in built on the shore of Great Slave Lake, in the sub-Arctic, Juen search the frozen earth for gokl, silver, radium, uranium,
JAL
Yellowknife
From Slove
JUDGMENT:
Though one cccupation has seen Jr payrise for more than 100 years, Mé DALTON rays:
propose to make RO change." So High Court judges still can expect no more than salary scale of £5,000 a year, introduced whert It must have been worth a bit more -1832.
But some day the question may have to be faced, and there'll be a lot more to worry about then,
!
President Truman's Plan To Aid Greece & Turkey
What Russia thinks
about it
Мансом.
THEN Mr Ernest Bovin,
W1 struggling towards
n
by Alaric Jacob
More than that, Mr. Truman im-
better understanding with Russin, called for all cards to be "face upwards on the table," he could scarcely have plied that any further extension in envisaged that any ally of Bri- the world of the Soviet way of life tain would slap down such £1 -which I believe anyone who has haud as Mr Truman has shown lived in this country through recent In his speech on Greece and Years will admit commands the loyal- ty of the overwhelming majority of Turkey.
the Russlan
Open diplomney is one thing. But for World Power Number One to brand World. Power Number Two as A "Lotulltarian" threat to the inde- .of two nations when the pendence crucial pence conference of the post- war world is silil on is something to which history offers few parallela,
So far, astonishing to relate, Mr. Truman has got away with It.
BIG 4 SMILE Utmost affability
The Big Four shake hands and amite each day, take drinks together, and go through preliminary skirm Ishing about Germany with the ut- most attability, Just as though no- thing had happened.
Perhaps it is because what has happened is so truly grave that, like
wound received in battle, some time clapses before it is felt.
Every thinking person from one end of Russia to the other now knows that the United States Pre- sident accused Russia of threatening to attack Turkey and of conspiring with Its Slay nilies to undo the inde- pendence of Greece.
EABLE EMPLOMERT |
AGENCY
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"As for me, you'll do—but my husband muri okay you"
KATTILAN KAZNA WER
WAAF Cricketer
For Australia
One of the women chosen to play for England against Aus- tralia and New Zealand in 1948 is 27-year-old Flight Sergeant Jona Wilkinson, of Colne, Lan- cashire, at present stationed at is a physical training instructor. RAF Station, Weeton, where she
She has been granted six months unpaid leave from the WAAF for the purpose of the tour and will be returning to complete three years' extended service. She thinks WAAF life is "simply grand" and is hoping to take up the service as a career.
Among her many cricket triumphs F/Sgt. Wilkinson scored 109 for the WAAF against the WINS in 1945, and took six wickets for 24 runs against the ATS.
at Budbury last year. She also played for the North of England and Midlands. Against RECORD:
the South at Nottingham, when she Dr Joad, for once scured 77, and playing for the Rest stumped for the right word, at the in a two-innings match against the Government reception recently for Heme Counties she took five wickets the delegates of the Supreme Soviet: for 10 and scored a useful 59. "What does one say to a visiting Russian?" he whispered plaintively. Finally selected: "So you've brought your weather with you," as did 90 percent, of the other guests.
She will be going with the WAAF hockey team to Europe this month and in the coming cricket season she will play for the WAAF and the XWAAFians' beams,
1
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
1
ROFESSOR GNEISS, the seeing it are very slight. Watchers Punologist attached to the in the Peak district may possibly see a tiny object about the size of the Strabismus Expedition, said to pimple on a lawyer's nose, but not reporters yesterday: "Landing for more than a quarter of a second. owing to gaseous rock strata. Well, then, will be our greatest difficulty, object for longer than he need? Eh? And who, wants to see that sort of
The lunar air is filled with parti-
.that
By next year the rush was on This is the new Klondike. from which nearly £5,000,000, but, when war came, mining worth of gold, his streaty been' was stopped. extracted.d
This year ex-Servicemen by the hundreds started a new rush. This Today, here, is "a flourishing became Kom over again, township of 3,000 people, where, but with a difference.. 12 years ago, there was nothing. Where, in the Klondike rush, they clés of throbodium, a powerful Question time 1,000 miles from the rest of mushed it by dog-team, today's pro- reagent: At night the mist Canada's original cubren of civi- spectors fly in from Edmonton, and sises from the canals and craters is Is the Minister aware that not all lisation-Exmontini..
day by day Ay. out from Yellow-se-power of 3,798,421,031, we chance?" The' question, asked by
and as our machine has knife to felds they are staking, and
the mice in ships are there by] Thore is half a million square y, back to waiting wives and sup- may and if we land in darkness that Mrs Vobbe, drew an angry answer
per ay'.casually miles to be explurst, only 200 Comebody in the city
as the suburban the atmospheric pressure is one in from Mr Floofer. Said Mr Ploofer, six, corresponding to the permeation "Mice can be in ships for many of which are intensively ataked.
1 of the ether by globules of radio- This difference, too. The eating disseminative barpelion, which, being Black To date, more, dhan 32,000 olaims are held, and 250-com-
houses, though edited by such fron-emblative to changes of tempern- tier names as Lil's Place the Wildeat ture, tends to nullify any conglo- punles are working the area. Cafe, Ruth's Roving Hornet, ore as meration of arudicial protective de- respectable as any in Britain. vices, such as may be supplled by They knew vaguely the
There is no gambling. There is apoll-generators, attached to Ulle potential wealth of the unin- no wild shooting it out The Jall's nachet-tanks under the nozzle of the habited north 160 years ago, but only-and it was not until 1984 that two drunks thrown in overnight to cool prospectors, C. J. Baker and H. Muir, got off the beaten track the housewife here la much like and stumbled (terally) over town
the housewife of your own small Yellowknife's filgli-grade ore,
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off,
casual-inliobitants
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rocket."
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reasons."
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(Cries of "Smuggling! marketi") My Tiddleforth heard to scream, "Are we sunk Mrs Slater then asked why so low that we have to import mice?"
mice could not be brought in by plane. Nobody paid the smallest attention to her, as Mr Teargurden was saying that I applied to export as well Import. Mr Zazer then asked why what was not so.could not be ainted. The Minister concluded by saying
A treat for Derbyshire INQUIRIES about the best place to that, as far as his information went, see "Utopia" from are pouring mice had not been deliberately, in- in. I can only answer that it will troduced into ships, except as an travel ho fast that the chatices of emergency measure.
This
Interests. America's would threaten comes as a shock to most Russians, because it flatly contradict the assumption on which the entire Soviet postwar policy is based: that not only can the Soviet and capital- ist systems exlat side by side, but that their advocates can even work together in the same Government as in France and Czecho-Slovakia, where Communists are prominent in the Cabinets,
No doubt Mr. Truman was too well advised to suppose the speech could drive wedge between Government and people,
The Russians are loyal, emotional folk who know their own faults and those of their rulers too well to sym- pathise with many outside critles,
REACTION
Righteous indignation Rational or not. It set that the reaction of almost every or dinary person to whom I have spoken is one of righteous indigns- tion.
"To think," Bald Fenya, an old chambermaid in my hotel who look- ed after Roosevelt at Yalta, "that after seven million of our lads, nave their lives so that they could be free and rich over there, this is how they repay us."
George Nikitin, railwayman, of Leningrad, said: "The idea that we would attack Turkey is madness. Surely UNO will not allow this man to send his soldiers to our very door
The girl In the news 'klosk, who wouldn't give her name, said: "Stalin has said that another war la impossi- ble and of course it is so. Why must people be so disagreeable?"
slep
2. If such abysmal distrust exists over Greece and Turkey, how will it be possible to solve the much more. fundamental problem of Germany?
3. Those who bellove that the role of a weakened Britain should be midille to ploneer
way between the extremca of Moscow and
Washington will feel that Mr. Truman has cleanted Mr. Devin 20 a post- tion of decisive power.
But fow Russians believe · Britain is capable of steering an Indepen~ dent course. }
Economically, they bellava we are little more than America's poor relations,
The Russians bellove the key to peace in Europe is for Socialists and Communists to work together; but
British that
labour instinctively collaborate with capital Communism whenever
prefers to rather than the choice arises.
Even in France, where the bulk of the working clasă supports Com- munists and not Socialists, Britain tie align Socialists with secks to M.R.P.
THIS POLICY Might cause split Persistence in this polley, the Russhans claim, would spilt Europe's werking class in two and smooth the path for Conservative Governments basically hostile to the Soviet Union.
Marxist theorists, who since
:
nep the
war ended have been predicting that Amerten would embark on an im- perdist course, can now say to the
you sa Russian people: "We told Americs sends money and military Next she will send personnel now.
All this
over UNO's troops. And head,"
The Russians are not really worried if America pours millions Into Greece, But Turkey and the Strolls are a nerve exposed for centuries of Russian history.
Turkey's northern airfields rely 170 miles from Sebastopol. The very thought of foreign "military personnel"
those 10 cess Intolerable to and hig
ure
Fu
getting ac-. airfields is Marshal
Zhukhov
southern command ag
the arrival of
foreign military
Igor Koslovsky, civil sorvant: personnel la Belgium and Holland "Truman, Churchill
this man would be to Brilain. another anti-
Dulica are cooking up
In adopting Walter Lippmann's Communist crusade." (John Fostor plan to challenge Soviet expan Dulles. at that moment, was 100 sion at a decisive point" Presi- yards away in the Moskva Hotel.) dont Truman could hardly have "Hitler didn't get away with it and selected a more sensitive spot.
Tho nor will they."
Turkish President's reply
Permit a reporter to be as frank
a President and these points emerge from the situation:
**
to Mr Truman is tuken here to
that American mean
uld will enable the Turks to continue spend half their incume on
1. Soviet-American relations have to never been worse.
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