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March 29, 1940.

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German Fun with the A.T.S.

Here are some Gorman cartoons. This time the cartoonists make the girls of our A.T.S. their target.

THE CAMERA

Take Photographs: From Angles

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VERICHROME

Gets the

picture where ordinary films tail

Mummy arrives home on leave

(Kolnische Zeitung)

**Stand at Easo !"

(Kolnische illustrierte Zeltung)

Prophetic Picture: After 12 months in France

(Kolnische Illustrierte Zeitung)

Still at her post

(Kölnische illustrierte Zeitung)

Exports in the art of Camouflage

(Kolnische Illustrierte Zeitung)

(Lustige Blätter, Berlin)

"It passes the time on sentry duty"

"We must find her another job. She doesn't

suit this platoon

IN one.cor-

ner

"

(Lustige Blätter, Berlin)

The

of the room Bridget, my youngest daughter, is playing happily with a doll's

house.

It is her idea of home- planning, and I know how acrious it is, for I have just been called in to help with the decorating.

When 1-pointed out the bare- ness of the windows I was told that in her street there was na The information has black-out set me won

wondering. What will the houses future look Uko? They may bo camouflaged or even built below they may have to

30.

of the

And nothing worso than bad

weather.

But it is of their owners, our children, that I am thinking. It seems unfair to leave them with such a rotten world, and 1 confess that whenever I sco'n child with a gon-musk I feel ashamed.

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Can you identify this subject? The answer is below-with other ideas for novel and amusing pictures you can take.

WHEN you run out of ideas for the usual type of pictures try your hand at unusual pictures.

Look out for novel angle shots, and opportunities for "puzzle pic- fun--and such tures." This is

10 your shots will add novelty snapshot album.

There are all sorts of unusual things worth trying. For example, odd lighting effects when you are taking night snapshots. Instead of having your photo bulbs at eye level, put them on the floor for a few shots, so that they shine up toward your subjects, and cast long shadows on the wall. It's a stunt that yields surprising effects.

Try shots at unusual angles. Take a picture from an upstairs window, with a subject directly below you looking straight upward. Try a steep up-angle shot of a tall building. Shoot straight down n stairway well.

The picture above is a shot of a deep circular staircase, inken with the camera pointed almost straight down. You'll agree it makes n novel effect.

For anollier slunt, try tricks with perspective. Take a shot of a sub- jeet sitting down, with his feet ex- tended toward the camera.' If the fect are fairly close to the lens, they will show up absurdly large in the picture.

For shots such as this, use the snkallest lens opening on your cam- er, as you need extra "depth of field." It won't matter if the near- est objects are slightly out of focus, but they shouldn't be too "fuzzy."

Try some double-exposure tricks. For example, a close-up shot of a newspaper page and then a close- up of a person on the same film. the Use. a dark, background for shot of the person. You can pro- duce some unusual "combination" effects in this manner.

World Needs

My generation inherited a world

which was merely a time-bombs in disguise, walling to explode. The

next generation has received much the same, but with a generous supply of bigger and better gas- maska. Horrors still mare devillah may be in store for our children.

The amazing thing is that

of human the vast majority beings loathe aggression. They want a world at for children to live in.

But they Incit the power to get It because they have nothing to draw them together. It only they could find one simple iden to work upon a kind of highest common factor of all their differ- ent ways of thinking-the new world would be theirs.

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PLANS there are in plenty. But will they work?

Most of them seem to me to start at the wrong end. They deal with maps and not with

God

not wise the freest-government la

BY E. R. Appleton compelled to be a tyranny." And

Founder of the famous B.B.C. Sunday evening "Silent Fellow- ship" broadcasts.

men. They expect to join nations like pleces of a lg-saw puzzle. And I confess that I am suspicious of any plan which starts with World Committees and Intergia- tional Federations.

Sooner or later they get plàs tered with protocols and tied up with their awn bureaucracy. The League of Nations falled be chuse, to quote one of its leading delegates, there was no enough falth for so big a church."

My own plan deals, first with individuals. It includes a simple -charter of faith as a guide to the overy-day relationships of man with his fellowmen.

For I agree with Willard Blako when he says that "if people aro

history shows that the greatest movements are those that spring from the people.

Over-organisation, as we have an evil. Just seen; can itself be But the three evils that most affect us to-day are fear, lonellness and oppression. Once wo them away we shall see the dawn of our new world,

can clear

My plan, therefore, is based upon one idea which has within it the seeds of deliverance from these evils This idea can be ex- pressed in one word-companion- originally ward which slip- meant the charing of bread.

But the companionship that I mean is ke that of the Good Samaritan; it looks upon all people na the children of a loving Giver of Life,

vague I am not suggesting a Idealism.,Starting with this one

Try all these stunts-and keep your eyes open for other novel pic- ture chances. They'll give added spice to your camera hobby.

John van Guilder

Spotting the Rank

LIEUTENANT

There are moro officers of this rank on the activo list of the Royal Navy than any other, the total at the out- break of war boing over 1,300, But on the retired `and~~ emergency--lists--thore....

were only 763.

Like Captain, the rank of Lleu- tenant is derived from the French, by way of the Army. When war- ships were produced by the simple method of arming merchani vessels and embarking fighting men in them, the officer appolated in com- mand held the military rank of Captain.

When a second ofBeer accom- panted him as his deputy, he was given the rank of Lieutenant. Literally this implied "tenant in to whose leu" of the Captain, dafies he would automatically suc- ceed if the latter were killed or incapacitated.

Since those carly days the in- troduellon of the intermediate ranks of Commander and Lieuten- ant-Commander has caused the relative importance of the Lieuten- ant to decline. But this is some- what mitigated by the fact that he automatically becomes a Lieuten- ani-Commander after eight years.

word we have planned in delali, amidst other things, a new system of education,

a bridge between de-

⚫ nominations, #afe- guards for the roads, and a new charter for Industry.

Our plans have been tested qitetly for two years and are now action. be put into ready to Numerous small companies are being formed for study as well as recreation.

.

But we want an army of helpers-everyone who is ready to be a real companion and who love particularly those

Hiile children.

We can expect some people to aneer at our efforts, just as the Horonites and Ammonites ancered ut Nehemiah.

Let us answer them in Nehe miah's own words: "The God of Heaven, He will prosper us; there- fore we ills servants will arise and bulld."

There must be no mora black- outs.

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