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-THIS

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD DREAM

Botter Composition ACCORDING to Websler.com

position is the practice of combining the parts of a work of art to produce a harmonious whole. In simpler terms, com- porition might be defined as ar-

well compo rangement. A picture is one in which various elements in the picture are so positioned that the ar- rangement is pleasing to the eye, this can Perhaps

be more by a glanes at castly grasped today's illustration. Here we have two pletures of the same: in different subject, cropped ways, Because of the way they

are cropped the plature at the

right is more pleasing. The ac Bon is contained in the print, whereas in the picture at the left, the rider appears to be galloping out of the picture at

fast clip.

This illustrates one of the basic rules of good composition: Let your subject move into the picture space rather than out of it. Subjects moving out of the picture tend to lead the ob server's eye out.

Other rules of good com- position are as simple as this one. For example, don't "halve" your picture-That is, don't let it be split in equal parts by the horizon line. A well composed picture places emphasis on a single element in it. And when a scene is split in half emphasis)

weakened.

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MEANS:

In thi» dream you ure partly un- dressed 'but it d'o e not bother YOU unti called Lo your at- Caption and then you try to explain i ∙AWAY.

Dreams ot Being

dro sacd aro

YOU SENT US THIS DREAM R

YOU WERE GOING TO YOUR OFFICE IN YOUR:

·PYJAMAS WITH AN ....

OVERCOAT OVER

THEM

nally partly exhiblilontalle Le, showing-off dreams and partly due to a supersensitiveness to ridicule. Naturally the more you want to show off, the more risks you must accept of seeming ridiculous. It looks as if you have been flaunting your personality and revealing a lot of, it; it apparently hasn't come off or you

British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

3 Tactful (8)

7 Deep humming sound (5) 8 Increase (8) 10. Incapable (0)

13 Akin (7)

16 Existence (4) 17 Deserved (7) 18 Rests (7) 20 Train

20 Ireland (4)

Keep the point of major in- terest out of the centre of your picture area. In your mind's eye try to follow what is called the "rule of thirds." That is the 21 Hand over (7) centre of interest should fall at 26 Give up work (6)

of two lines 27 Penitent (8). the intersection when lines are drawn, horizon-28 Cutter (5) tally and vertically, splitting the 20 Debars (8)

picture arca

parts,

into three equal

Here again today's

iration is a good example.

Hilus

And, another rule for com- position, keep your backgrounds simple,

when you Generally

our interest cen- Lake u picture,

your tres on some foreground object, The simpler the background of the plcture, the more emphasis is placed on the foreground.

-John van Guilder

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WITCH HAZEL? WHAT

GOOD IS WITCH HAZEL?

TIAT WONDERFULLY HEALTHY SUN

BATH ON THE LAWN HE SAID HIS

|SKIN COULD TAKE IT"

AND IT

DID.

THE LAD

WITH THE HAY FEVER HAS TO

TELL THE

WHOLE HISTORY. TREATMENT

AND PRESENT

CONDITION

OF HIS

COMPLAINT-

(ALL HIS

FRIENDS WILL KNOW A

POSITIVE CURE!)

LEAVE OFF THE PAJAMA TOP AND PUT THE BLANKETS AVAY AND SURE AS TAXES ́A COLD" BREEZE VILL SPRING UP BEFORE: MORNING.

YESTERDAY'S

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1 Scent (5)

2 Sum (5)

DOWN

3 Handed out (5)

4 Copy (4)

Bring to light (6)

6 Watched over (6)

9 Judged (0)

At no time (5)

12 Staft (5)

14 Wilderness (0)

16 Boundary (5)

10 Iress (5)

18 Save (8)

19 Alfresco meal (8)

22 Vegetables (5)

23 Go to see (5)

24 Insurgent (5)

25 German wyman (4)

CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Cactus, 5 Devil, 8 Steel, Seitee, 10 False, 11 Debit, 12 Ogre, 13 Cedes, 10 He- side, 18 Credit, 20 Rated, 22 Damp, 23 Veins, 25 Rupee, 20 Atones, 27 Ample, 28 Heals, 29 Spades. Down: 1 Customer, 2 Cataract, 3 Used, 4 Steered, 5 Deficit, 6 Elated, 7 Issue, 14 De-

17 Signals, 19 Reveal, tained, 18 Supposes, 18 Redeems, Abuse, 24 Step.

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ON ARRIVING AT YOUR OFFICE » YOU TOOK OFF YOUR OVERCOAT

AND HAD TO EXPLAIN THAT YOU DID NOT HAVE TIME TO DRESS

PROPERLY

wouldn't have had tuls, dream in which you are compelled to explain yourself away.

"If you are the sort of person who likes attention bat' not what It may bring with it, you might keep in mind Lao-taxetbe Chinese philosopher-who said "Elo low; if no one notices 'you, you cannst get into trouble," or words to that effook.

3 TALES OF CONFLICT

CAMPBELL'S KINGDOM, most accomplished writers cf For no less than six years Hammond Innas, 10/6, adventure series at the present Fuchs supplied Russia... with work. time and CAMPBELL'S KING• longihy reports of his Collins.

DOM will add to his, blrendy He kept his secret for a further considerable reputation.

two years and was convicted

for his

To gallier material navels Hammond Innes is tire-

only on his own evidence."

less In his search for a setting. THE TRAITORS, Alan Pontecorvo simply disappeared,

Moorehend, 12/6, Hamish presumably to Russia.

These men are not necessarily. Hamilton.

His choice of the Rocky Moun- inins puts the reader

immediate-

that

well.

ly in the mood for the type of

adventurzs breathtaking

bo

Communist

men without idents. Their In these days of achievement, ideals may the scientist has suddenly be ideals, but they are stil

still deals. the quthor handles so

them The

as they were. tense

has come a man of power. And in Imagine atmosphere

and the combined world of politics Brilliant scientists,

not active that element of surprise

and science we have advanced in politics but pro-Russian`, In It all sympathies taking part in a towards absolute power.

corrupts, and absclute collaborated effort betwee *ቡ power power corrupts absolutely, it is allies (Russia was still an ally), understandable that today. we America and Britain shared

of their knowledge. Russla Bruce Wetheral) is the grand- are faced with a new type

After treachery and a new kind of being kept out. Later even Bri- son of Stuart Campbell.

tain was to be kept partly

spontaneity that makes it real, His characters bave the rugged qualites that At into just this type of story.

distinguished war service Bruco traitor roturned to his job as a clerk

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a

wak

Alan Moorehead has made in the dark. in an insurance office. He be- THE TRAITORS a clear analysis tomes ill and is told that he of this phenomenon. He in-

double Fuchs, whose young mind had has only two to six months to vestigates carefully the

by the tive.

life of Nunn Moy, Fuchs and been strangely warped

book Pontecorva. His

ows circumstances of his youth was his nothing to the shrieking head left only with a belief in

he liner of the national press, but own conscience. His wild its quiet content is sentational. A

The Dog Days - And Nights

DADDY, DEAR! -DO-YOU-REALIZE THAT AUGUST IS ALMOST OVER

AND THE FUR SALES OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE

GONE TOO?

THE HEAT IS ON IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE..........WITH. LAST CHRISTMÁS'S '--. BILLS ALMOST PAID,TAX BILLS AND INSURANCE · COMING UP, SOMEBODY WILL BE SURE TO RE-

·MIND. YOUTHAT EXPEN- SES ARE AS ENDLESS, AS A SOAP OPERA ON TV.

THE TIME OF YEAR. WHEN THE GARDENERS GET AS PLAYED OUT AS A BUSTED FIDDLE FROM BUGS WORMS AND

WEEDS!

News comes to him that grandfather has died and inherits the estate,

tract high in the Rockies, local- ly known as Campbell's King- dom. He Inherits the old man's ambllion to sink on oll well on

his

kis

had been torn apart by Com- munism, Nazi persecution his father's

Christian Socialist comenilled ideas. His mother suicide,

was im-

loyalties

and

father

this land and also the conflict By W.H. S. prisoned. A brother and sister

with the whole town of Come Lucky.

a

a

were

in exile, another alster threw herself from an under-

he himself

was ground train, By far the fullest and most hunted and escaped to England. In ordinary life the adjust- the Interesting of the studies is a ment might have been caler. Against local opposition young man set about proving search into the mind of Klaus but in the unprecedented post- his grandfather right, but he Fuchs. The case of Allan Nunn tion of an atom scientist, who was May is restricted by the pu could foretell what his reactions found that his neighbour

to keep would do? building a dam and intended to fessor's determination

and the

The boule deals with a matter buy out the kingdom and flood silent. The full facts

whereabouts of Bruno

of great importance and the the lond.

Contecorvo are still not known, cold'· hard facts as presented In their youth, as here cannot fail to elucidate, the

t

the well

were,

The two projects, and the dam, raco towards their sociated with Communist question for, these who would completion; a battle of wits and activities and ideals but not know the truth.

notably so. They all seem un-

not always fair play. There are likely spier. Nunn May might ESCAPE TO CAPTIVITY. thrills and surprises right up to the last minute.

have gone free but for a lapse by a confederate in the Russian This is not the first of. Innes Embassy. The secrets he gave novels to be selected as a Book away were small beside those Society choice. He is one of the of Fuchs.

By KEM P

STARRETT

COPA, 1952 BY GENERAL FEATURES

THE ONLY TIME THE PESTS CORP TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

STAY PUT LONG ENOUGH TO BE WALLOPED IS WHEN THEY LAND ON THE WIFE'S PET LAMP - OR THE WIFE HERSELF.

NOW IS THE TIME FOR THAT ELECTRIC FAN YOU MEANT ·

TO FIX LAST WINTER,

1 TOLD YOU YOU'D WISH

ETC.

THE POLITICIAN'S WILL BE HOTTER

· THAN A TIN ROOF" TRYING TO PROVE THE OPPOSITION.

IS A BUNCH OF

BUHS

Peter Hartloy, 12/6, Dont.

The result of the battle

so far as 31-year-old Sergeant Peter Hartley was concerned ——. was settled when a runner ap- proached his Singapora guli zita with:

Good news for you, sarge we've

chucked in a couple of

姓

hours Ro defeat. But it was

This was

also, victory; the only sort of victory open to the prisoner o war - that of the unconquer- able spirit; the conquest of mind over matter.

With Phil, his QMS., Peter tried to escape. Together with

the

n wounded officer and a private they reached Singapore and grobbed boat. With

two paddles and a piece of wood they threshed their way through darkness. against the tide. Their route led from island to island towards Sumatra. On the way the four joined Jarger. vessel, which took them to Rengat, and then they raced in

lorry: acroES Sumatra to Padang The last ship had left and within few days the Japanese were in the town!

A

The

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first move was to a prison camp in Gloegoer, which they shared with Australian troops and Dutch civilians.

Here the

nows

process of adjust

ment to the new life was ba gun

for this was the least un- pleasant of their, places of con- finement

Then there was

tho thatshattered their settled existence. Five hundred of the fittest men, this after more than a year of setal- starvation and disease were wanted to construct Toad further north. The partings of friends were among the hardest trials to bear. Peter was fit, Phil paft

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We had lived together for two years in, the closest con- tact. Together we had slept, ato, laughed and mourned, "Wo had shared our triumphs and

disappointments, our joys and misfortunes; yet, in character and outlook, we could not have been Jess ailke we had, little in common, except tho determination to survive."

Through boredom, shipwreck, despair, physical and mental torture and exhaustion, the". years of captivity continued: the building of i

of the

Jungle "Railroad of Deathland" the long

wait for victory. Petar Hartley me sincere, sensitive young man, lived through it all studying and comforting his comrades, recording,- his own and their reaction This In- sight and sympathy for his follow prisoners are whư) mako. the book outstmas. 22555 IN quewers the questions that were in the minds of so many friends Ana Tolatives who were lett) AS home,