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Quackery
NO MAN can prophesy the re-
sult of a war if war comes to Europe.
Lord Horder, who recently addressed the British Associa- tion, was not over-stating the case when he said that the "salvaging of the world" may depend on whether Western Europe and America succeed in preserving their individual civili- sation.
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The dictators, may possibly be sincere in the belief that their methods are a panacea for the strain of the times and effective remedy against unarchy. But medicine has nothing to say for these nostrums. Parading or dragoon- ing patients in the mass is at best a form of quackery; and when the cost of the prescription is considered, the proposed vic- tims of the experiment may well tremble. "What matter the colour of their shirts if they are soon to be their shrouds ?" If civilisation is really to be saved, it must be by some means less dangerous than maga hypnotism and the discipline of the barrack yard.
The Smallest Village IT IS even more "exclusive" to
be an Eldonian in England to-day than an Etonian. For there are only nine Eldonians- inhabitants of what was recent- ly described in the press as the smallest and loneliest village in England. Moreover, there are no Old Eldonians. Another odd fact about this tiny hamlet, which is four miles from the nearest mail box, or "pillar box," and telegraph office, is that it is in Hampshire; and those who have the feeling that solitude has fled to the remoter corners of the Island should be en- couraged at the thought of its lurking so close to the centre of things.
Yet now that Eldon has been "nows," explorers will be push- ing into darkest Hampshire; and few of them will be as sensitive as the poet who wrote:
The finger-post says Mumble,
And that is all I know
Of the narrow road to Mamble,
And should I turn and go
To in place of lazy token, **That lies above the Teme, There might be a Mamble broken
That was loom in a dream. So that the Nine Worthles will have to take care, if they are not to find the great world, in- stead of the owl, hooting at their gutes, and, perhaps, chias- ing them to pillar and post
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- NO!
DALADIER
NON!
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COLONIES!
COLONIES!
CORSICA!
NICE
THE TOTALITARIAN: "Dear, dear! This is much against the spirit of Munich!"
She sails 1,500 miles to the Arctic fishing grounds.
The Fleet
Captain Courageous.
TUNISIA!
Nobody Knows
W
HEN you gather BY GEORGE GODWIN.
round the family hearth and the winter wind
howls down your chimney- think of us."
It was
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man with the weather-beaten face, in loose blue jersey and sea boots, who spoke.
"Well, where will you be?" 1 naked,
"I'll be looking into ice and fog somewhere in the White Sea," he replied," and 141 be lucky if I can see the boys in the fish pounds for'ard handling the cod."
The White Sea la around 1,500 miles from Hull. This laconic Cap- tain Courageous was master of a little ship precisely 170 feet long. with a gross tonnage of no more than 550 and as little free-board us matters.
When the wind attacks the six- miles-deep Atlantic with a 100- miles-an-hour hurricane force, it may rates mighty mountains of water, dig deep valleys, but will keep its worst for the continental shelf,
There the ocean floor shelves steeply up and the sea churns into a great contusion of waters.
Nowhere does it do this with more violence than north of the Scandinavian Cape and cast of it, There, unnumbered, innumerable, King Cod speeds to his spawning grounds, travelling a hundred and twenty fathoms deep.
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VERYBODY know a something about
tho Royal Navy. We sing patriotle songs in praise of it.
Are there any ballads about the men of the fishing feets? There may be, but I've never heard of them.
Why are they unsung? Because they are allont. Because they take their job as a matter of course.
We may look to the Royal Navy for protection in time of war; but it is to the men of our groat fishing flect that we must took, war or pete, year in year out, for a large part of that food which-is life.
Yet that come to be the fleet
-To-day's Thought THERE is no love sincerer
than the love of food..
2 --BERNARD, SHAW,
Net-mending is an important task.
nobody knows about or thinks about.
There are nearly two thousand British trawlers. Just now, they are fanning out into the grey, broken waters of the North Sea. from Hull and Grimsby, from Aberdeen and the lesser parts of the industry.
They are bound for the Faroe Islande, for the great Icelandle fishing grounds, for bleak Bear Is- land. for the White Bea and the Murmansk Coast of Russia.
Last year they brought home 21 million hundredweight of fish valued at £18,000,000.
Eighty-dve per cent. of all fish caten in this country comes to the table from tho anh pounds of our deep-sea trawling fleets.
The other Afteen per cent, ta made up by the drifters who fish, often in sight of land, the pelagic. at surface-swimming, fish, which the chief is the humble her- ring.
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It is the trawler feat that is all important, and it is to this fleet that we should have to look in the. event of war for one of the most, Important of our foods.
For it is the cod whose Nosh and liver all provide a sure
ahield against those deficiency discuses which attack civilian populations underḥ prolonged war conditions."
Centuries ago, when a fisherman went sick, his wife rubbed his body with the oil of the cod's liver.
A
Tsea, often half-frozen, the and
on Living coarsest food, be main- Lained his strength by drinking the oll. He even used it to salve his wounds.
He had no notion why this oll performed such wonders for him, He did # because his father did It.
It was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that medi- cal men noted the fact that the fishermen were using a remedy of obvious value as yet unknown to
science.
It was only when science dis- covered the vitamin, and bio- chemists hunted down this myste rious element, that the secret of the cod was out.
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In its oll are stored the two in- dispensable vitamine-A and D.
Much is now known of the life- style of the cod. It swims, in tho mid-water of the Atlantis:caan, feeding on minute marine organ lams and upon son vegetation,
This sen vegetation, known as plankton, gave science a clue. It links the swimming cod with the source of all fo—the gun.”
Thinks that grow in the sun,
possess vitamins.
Plankton' Is sun-drenched. The cod cats it stores it away in its liver.
The cod is not the only-fish whose liver stores an oll of value to man, but it is the most im-. portant.
When the breeding season comes round the cod follows the herring shoals as they make for the northern coastal waters.
F
ROM January to June
the cod spawns. It is at this period that the harvest is reaped.. Great conical bags of rict, some 100 to 120 fect long. scoop up the great cod by their thousand.
A trawler is a miniature floating factory. She carries her own boll- ing plant for extracting the oli from the livers of the cod. This is now done as soon as they aro caught and gutted.
Seventy tons of ice in the traw- ler's hold preserve the flah fresi..
Tled up again, with 3,000 or more milles of steaming behind her, the stout little ship discharges ber cargo. The oil is pumped out of her and conveyed to chemical laboratories for analysis and grad- Ing.
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The fish, ton upon ton, goes by road and rail to the great fish markets.
storing The Government staple foods against emergency. It in storing wheat and meat and whalo oll.
It is storing whale oil because It makes a good substitute for but- ter and lard.
But the Government is not ator- ing dried fish. Neither is it atok- ing the liquid fat of the cod's liver.
After the last war, when a whole" generation suffered from rickets and other diseases of malnutri tion, aunlight and cod ilver oft came to the rescue.
To child who gets
sufficient ration of vita- mins A and D dovolops the deficiency diseasca, however, poor the general diet.
As for the food value of the fish" itself, that has been as: clearly established.
Is the Govelaiment, then, doing the obvious thingxtoring fish and fish oila?
The answer given to me by the Head of the Food Defence Depart iment is that the matter." will be. kept under constant reriowy
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