1939-05-27 — Page 11

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

TRICK PICTURES

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1939..

Girls and Boys' Corner

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BATSMAN M.

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Name

Address

Dear Kiddies,

This is all ray own work

Lots of entries this week for the anlmal competition. Many of you Have Incorrect answers for the Record a twelfth anithals. The second was a Natoa and the twelfth was a paucin,

After carefully lunking through the correct entries and taking

age and neatness of handwriting Into consideration, deelded to award the prizes this week to:

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Mackle. Cloud Coom, David Lindell, Yeung C. Ross, Daniel Choy, Joan Gordon, Kit-wa, G. Jumat, G. Remedios, I. Osinund, Yung Yhn- yiu, Mabel Swaine.

Intermediates: Eileen Peters, Anne Cullimore. Francis Rozarlo. D. Tavares. S. Clarke, S. McIntyre. Roberto de

Pirie. Sousa, Eleanor Wendy Barton, Paddy Grimmitt, Roy Holmes, Rehmat Samy, J. Strange, Joan A. Daniel.

Junfor: Pauline Neubronner, Aw Slan, Anthony Cutcher, Tony

Susan Gehring (aged 12), 118. Rozarlo. Waterloo Hond.

David Carvalho (aged 81⁄2). 15. Ashley Road,

This week, kiddies, we are having a simple interesting competition.

The puzzle is to make a double 5, word-square based on the key-word "Batsman." The sketches give you the words needed-note that each word fits in twice, across and down! To start with, at the top corner you right will see that LAMB is the word (as it ends with 13); in lower square the letters of the key- word will be the first letters of the words to be fitted In,

Ronald Holmes inged 14), Gun Club FRIL

Coupons have been sent to Susan, David and Ronald which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" offres in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

I want to specially commend the following for éxcellent work:

Seniors: Wong Yung-tsing, Eunice Schwender, Beryl Wong,

the

If you can complete the puzzle, copy out you solution neatly, Fil in the name, age and address coupon David and send your entries to Uncle Eddie

Simple "mask box" makes it easy to take pic tures with trick "frames." Above, 'kayhole" pic ture. Right, box showing placing of camera and cut-out mask.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: WEEK-END SECTION

Upper right, various cut-oute: keyhate, gothie window, field glauses, atairway window, glant cactus silhouette, porthole and rocky cave mouth.

SNAPSHOTS with trick "frames"

are easy to take, and fun to show. You can get pletures appar ently made through koyholes or feld glasses-and many other novel

effects,

the small rear opening, and adjust

box until it frames the acone you want to pleture, Lino up the canicra with the rear opening, as shown-

and take the picture. Uso a small lens opening, making a "time" ex- posure if the light requires it.

Obtain an ordinary cardboard box.

For other offects, just use a dif It should be about twelve inches one ferent cutout, such as thoro abon way, and eight inches or more the jabove. Mako cut-ouls with simple other two dimensions. Exnet alzo outlines. When you uso a mask box doesn't matter. Cut a hole in the twelve inches long, a est-out open- middle of one end, a bit larger than ing about six inches high or wido in your camera lens. Cut a large open-usually satisfactory! After your frat Ing in the opposits end, and over this place a largə “keyholo" cut out of cardboard (see drawing abovo). It is a good idea to paint the inside

roll af pleturen, you can tell if larger or smaller masks aro proforable.

Síaco the cut-out masks are close to the lens, they will be somewhat

of the box black, to guard against | out-of-focus and "fuzzy." This helps stray reflections.

conceal the faking, and adds to the

New, place the box on a firmi sup | effect. jørt, such an a table, Sight through

Wynd. e/o "Hongkong Telegraph", ham Street. The competition closes atp.m. on Wednesday..

Prizes will be awarded for entries which

correct are

and, in my opinion, best written or printed.

The Simple Cold

John van Guilder

Lots of luck, kiddies.

Uncle Eddie

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Engineers make

good reading

GREAT ENGINEERS:

BY PROFESSOR C. MATSCHOSS I'mnalated from the German by Dr. H. Stafford Hatßeid (Q.. Bell and Sons, 134, 68.)..

NGINEERS, no matter how great, are not held in much honour. Which is odd, because you and I live in a civilisation-yes! Let's still call it that for convenience -conditioned by the haphazard results of engineering initiative.

Because the steam engine was Invented in the eighteenth cen- tury, grew up and became locomo- tive rather more than a century ago, we are what we are.

alber pioneers of aviation? Why is Count Zeppelin left out?

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Engineers, even more than purc scientista, loose forces they cannot con. irol. Their gentus has poured disor. ganisation, war, unemployment, aluma. disease, poverty and prostitution on the world. It would be unjust that they have regarded these horrors with indifference. Rather they have ignored them or not noticed them, whllo they went on eliber to solve new technical problems or clao rubbed their hands with horrid joy at all the money they were making.

Any sensible society would impound every new engineering process, examine it cautiously, and then only introduce it to the world once adequate safeguards had been arranged against its commer- elal exploitation for profit by the fow and for kiss to the many.

A homicidal maniac with a bomb hovering over a city in an airship is a much more benevolent erenture than An engineer bent on making hia for- Luno-so far as human happiness Kocs. then

Great engineers have been the hap hazard, unconscious architects of modern history, On the whole I feel that James Watt, Trevithick and the Stephensons changed the world more convulsively and drastically Napoleon and tits marshals,

Marconi was a much more impor cant taller than Mussolini can even hope to be. The whole motor-car in dustry of the world reste on the achievement of three Germana-

Hier Daimler. Benz and Maybuck. will never niter the hablis and outlook of mankind as they have done.

Therefore, I welcome this book, which is the first modern attempt I · remember to give an intelligent, non- technical account of some of the great- est engineers, and of their most im- portant achievements.

Unfortunately, I must add that Pro- fessor Matschoss has written a very bad book.

He has left out all consideration of social implications, National pride has' led him to dwell on minor German funnies of no interest or importance. We hear all about Hellzhauzen, Din- nendaht, Reichenbach-of whom I never heard before. But what about Lilienthal, the German father of

What powerless fight?

about the

This book is a better argument for the common sense of Bocialism than most Labour speeches or pamphlets. even though it is written and trans- Inted without form or any feeling for words

And-besides all that, Professor Mat- schoss manages to be so interesting. I liked reading his book, and I do hope more and better books will follow this morning star of engineering biography. Professor Malschoss has left out plenty.

Puzzle Corner Answers Cryptogram: "Parody" is the name that is generally given to a fiumerous Imllation of a serious poem or song.

A nebus; Dy La Wiby law).

Letter Changing: Opine spine, shine 1. tbk.

How Many Members?: 20,

Fun With Synonyms: Follow-suc- ceed; urge-push; predict-forecast;. prohibit-debar; forgive—pardon; re- linquisirenouncet freeliberate: crusli-oppress; please—satiate; Halter

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Refugees

YOU AND TUE REFUGER By Bir Norman Angell and Frances Buxton

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(Peuquin, dd.)

"HAT a lot of uenzenaq is being talked about re- fugees. Actually the prob- lem is not at all what it seems to bo at a first glance.

England takes very few rafugees-- only twentieth of those being taken by France.

And, it is not true_that_refugeco pul English people out of work.

The real threat to employment lles In the fact that in a year or two the population of Britain is going to fall.

Consider Just one effect of that. The railwayn say that even with our present population they find it hard to get 'square deal." What sort of a deal are they going to get if the num- ber of possible passengers fails year by year? How many Taliwaymen whil keep their jobs?

At all costs we must stop our papu- Jation from falling. That can only bo dane in one of two ways: by raising the birth-rate or importing refugees,

If you want to discuss the refugee problem with people you meet, then begin by having the facts. Learn them up from this concise and read- able book.

Are You Sure?

QUESTIONS ON PAGE TWO

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Canada To Help Refugees

VANCOUVER, B.C. Between 45 and 50 families of Catholle Sudeten Germans, refugees' from strife-torn central Europe, will be settled on lands controlled by the Canadian Pacifle Railways, the Pro- vincial Minister of Lands, A. Wells Gray, announced,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

By J. NORMAN LYND

*--AND AFTER

THAT I'M

GOING TO

PUT A MUSTARD PLASTER, CN

YOU!"

THE LITTLE WOMAN GENERALLY ASSUMES COMMAND IN CASE

OF A COLD ... AND YOU

GET THE WORKS

ISOME USE THE OLD CURE TO

CLEAR, THE THROAT AND LUNGS -NOT THAT IT DOES ANY GOOD;

BUT IT MAKES YOU FORGET"

YOUR TROUBLES.

SHE SLEEPS IN THE VALLEY -IN THE VALLEY. AND THE

MOCKING BIRD IS SINGING ON

THE TREE

· ITS WISE TO GIVE THE

RIGHT OF WAY TO THE ~~PUBLIC-SNEEZER AND-

HIS GERMS

NORMAN LYND.

́WOMEN DON'T SEEM TO CATCH COLD NO MATTER HOW THE STORMY WINDS DO BLOW.

BLOW!

*AS. IF

YOU

MEANT

IT!

IT'S YOUR OWN FAULT!

I TOLD YOU IT WAS TOO SOON TO TAKE OFF YOUR WINTER UNDERWEAR! *

WERE AFRAID TO CALL IN THE DOCTOR... HE'LL MOST LIKELY DOSE US AND PUT

· US TO BED AND MAKE US-,

MISS A WEEK'S WORK