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April 18, 1940.

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SHORT SCANDINAVIAN STORY

E af night.

ARIC saw a moving plcture

At least he thought he did.

Ho fell to sleep over his books and as his eye lids went down, a curtain went up-on a mar- vellous drama.

Eric is a high school stu- dent. He lives in a log house In a little forest town of tower Sweden, milks a cow, chops wood, daily tramps five miles to school, does his home work in a bare room on a rough table, sleeps on a rather hard bed under coarse blankets, and is surrounded by snow six months of the year. It's a monotonous life with nothing more exciting than fighting storms or sending giant loga down ice-covered slopes. Eric dreads spending the rest of his life in such a place; he longs for a great day, when he will go places and

things.

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LAST night he saw things. They were Vikings, in grace- ful ships with high defiant prows, billowy sails and rows of long strong oars.

The men had stringing mous- taches, flowing hair, high fore- hends, bristling eye brows, blue eyes that pierced through mists and clouds, rend all the stars, lept over all horizons.

The Vikings bore such names as Erle the Red, Olaf the White, Knut the Curly, and were wild adven- turers. They curried swords, clonked about In wide-topped boots, whistled through their teeth, yelled "heave ho" here, "heave ho" there, and sailed seven seas, in raids on half the continents.

Fierce

mich, accompanied by fereler women with long braids of golden hair, were discovering America, Invading Ireland, plun- dering Scotland, subduing England,

Russin, overrunning ruling many, establishing themselves in France, preparing to reign over Britain, penetrating into Turkey, sacking Italy, exploring Africa.

That was a grand sight for Eric. If he had known he was asleep he'd have asked never to be awakened. He'd have wished he might climb into one of those Viking beats and sall through the centuries.

of long, strong cars.

Spotting The Rank

อ

VICE-ADMIRAL

The rank of Vice-Admiral, equal to Lieutenant-General in the Army, has especial interest because it was hold. by Nelson when he fell at the battle of Trafalgar.

There are 20 Vico-Admirals now on the active list, in- cluding the Commander-in- Chief of the Mediterranean Floot, Sir Androw Cunning- ham, who is an acting Ad- miral by virtuo of his appoint- mont. On the retired list there are 145.

term Though the

Vice- Admiral was originally in- tonded to imply the second- In-command of a fleet, only ong now on the activo list was actually in such a post when war began.. Ho is Vico- Admiral Geoffroy Layton, socond - in - command of the Moditerranean Flect.

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An Admiral on the ratired fist, Sir Montague Browning

(known in the servico "Hooky" through having lost a hand), holds the ancient appointment, normally a sino- curo, of Vico-Admiral of tho United Kingdom' and Llouton- ant of the Admiralty. Wore

the whole of the Board of Admiralty to be wiped out by some calamity, he would ba legally entitled to reign over the Navy in their stand until succotiors wore in office.

INSTEAD of that a big tall Viking left the stage and came to him, stomping grandly down the alale, iofly hölmet on his Head, swinging sword at hils. side.

"Hello, mate," he said, stopping before the

youth.

THE

"Hello, shlef," the young wood- chopper exclaim- ed n-quiver from the honour that

VIKINGS

COME

BACK

had been given him.

"What's your nome?"

Viking nsked.

"Eric."

"A grand name, continued Viking. "He Was Dur greatest explorer. discovered

America. Be proud

of your name."

"AW, Chief" objected the milk-boy pighing,

"I can't be proud, I'm ashamed. Here I am an Eric. But all I do is milk a cow and study geomė- try. I want to be a Viking, stand up in a bont, discover new worlds, conquer England, rule Russia. I want adventure. I came a thousand years too late."

the

"No, my son," Viking Interposed. "Now is

tline

for adventure."

What do you mean, Chlef?" protested Eric, rking

respectfully, but puzzled. "I'd like to go down into Germany, as Gustav Adolfus, to save somebody, or Invade Russia, as King Charles, to drive back barbarians. We Norsemen used to be a mighty power, but look at us now, cooped up In this little country, milking cows and sawing wood"

"We never were a greater force than to-day." Viking said firmly, "Now is our epoch. This is the moment for adventurous Norsemen,

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"WE old Vikings destroyed; you new Vikings build. Take from us old pirates daring, self-reliance, love of new paths, and a passion for freedom, but nothing.

more.

"We robbed people; you give to people. Be- cntise of us, Norseman meant terror; because of you, Norseman means blessing. Where we went, lights went out: where you go lights are kindled. We brought war; you bring pence. Our songs were battle hymns; yours are hymns of love to God and mall.

We old Vikings turned things upside down; you new Vikings consolidate and stabilize. Norse poets set the hearts of the world n-singing. Norse story tellers put half the world's children to sleep; reforms. Norse prophets inspire mankind to Norse scientists snatch golden secrets from nature as we snatched golden plunder from churches.

"Norsemen give an example of centennial harmony to a warring world. They show N machine-ridden epoch how capital and labour moy be friends. While others deepen the abyss that divides rich and poor, Norsemen close B. "Tis they who best show quarreling world the way of brotherhood. Among Norsemen city helps country, state helps state, nation, aids nation, the factory supplements the farm, buyer and seller -clasp-hands-at-the market place:-the-artist alis-at-

the pig herd's hearth."

✰ ✩

THE old Viking grew eloquent and his face glowed as though he were sailing into a morning sun, or cleaving a raging

BCL.

"We old pirates saw but the edge of life," he said. "We only skirted winding windy shores and clung to straggling rivers. We kept on the fringe of things. But the whole world is yours. The nations come to your doors to learn. They stop at your thresholds to listen. They pause at your gardens to gaze.

"Erle the Red, discovered a new continent, but didn't know. It from a sen gull's cove. You modern Eries make new worlds. You squeeze them out of atoms, lure them out of neons, charm them out of ether waves. We old Vikings are as toy adventurers beside you; our ships, for ponds where kiddles play. I was born a thousand years tou soon!"

A book dropped. Eric started. He rubbed his eyes and sighed and sadly said, "What do you think of that?***

How You Look To Your Dog

THE world as the animal lángdom sees it is a vastly different

world from that seen through human eyes.

These remarkable scientific pictures, which reveal just how startling are some of these differences, are the results of years of intensive research and have just been placed on exhibition in the American Museum of Natural History.

Study In Black

And White

Hero is how your study ap- pears to your dog.

The dog, like all animals be- low the primates (humans, apes, tarsiers, and lemurs) is colour. blind and so this room to lifm In black and white.-

In addition the dog has a poor discrimination of line and thus the pattern of the furniture and the lines of the room itself are modified.

A Fly Looks At The Barnyard

The fly's world is broken into honeycomb pattern spots because it has mosaic eyes,

A fly's eyes can utilise the short waves of ultra-violet light, which is invisible to us, but they are very in- effective where the longer- rayed light, visible to us, is concerned. Thus to a fly the red barn appears as So many purplish spots.

QUIZKRIEG

НЕПЕ

ERE is a further batch of questions about the war which

most of us think has been so uneventful.

'Give yourself two points for each correct answer, and

If your total passes 20 you can pass the list on to your friend, with a feeling of superlurlty!

The correct answers are printed sideways at the foot of

this

(2)

Who is the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff? Who is his French equivalent?

(3) Has the French Navy sustained any losses since -war began?

(4) Is Britain bound by any guarantee to go to the nid of Rumania If she were attacked?

(5) Did the Russian Invasion of Finland take place be- fore or after December 17

(0) What was the name of the

British armed merchaniman Bunk by the "Deutschland" ufler n gal- lant fight of Iceland?

(7) Which ship was the frat published casualty of the wart

Ta

(0) On what day did France declare war?

(9) Was the "Graf Spee" the first German warship (apart from submarines) sunk in the war?

(10) Which city is the present capital of Poland?

(11) Who is Chief of General Staff of the German Army?

(12) Who la Chilef of the Im- perial General Staff?

(13) Who is his French equiva-

lent?

·(14)

Who is in charge of Lon-

don's nir refences7

Answers to Quizkrieg

1. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound

3. Yes. Two warships totalling

2 Admiral Darlan.

5,822 tons.

4. Yes, a guarantee given in

April, 1939,

6. "Rawalpindi," formerly of the 3. Before. November 30, 1939.

P. & O. Line.

7. S.S. "Athenia," torpedoed on

9. No. "Graf Spee'' was sunk on December 17, 1939, "Leipzig" and i another cruiser were sunk on Decem- ber 14, though not announced fil

8. September 3, 1939.

September 3, 1939.

December 19.

10. Angers, in Franchitsch.

12. General Edmund Ironside.

14. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh

13. General Georges.

11. General van

Dowding.

Hens Have A Social Scale

This is how the barnyard looks to the hen in the fore- ground on the right.

There is a social scale or hierarchy in the barnyard and each individual hen is larger or smaller paycho- logically than other hens.

Because of this hierarchy, -which owes its existence not to strength but to psychic factors, one hen has the right to peck a second with- out being pecked back.

When two hens meet, the one which carries itself with the greater polse has the "peck - right” over second.

the

The Angler- As A Fish Sees Him

This is how a fish sees a wading angler.

The physical condi tions of the stream distort the figure of the fishermKAN.

He appears to have no middle and the head is broadened out of all proportion.

The angler, however, appears to a fish in.ali the colours a human sees, because, unlike dogs, fish are not colour-blind.

M

Spend Half Lunch Hour In Church

When factory lunch-hour bells clang in Tunstall, Staffordshire pottery town, they not only signal the break for the mid-day meal; they also tell the workers that the time for worship is approaching.

The factory hands ruch home, has-

ly eat their meal, and then, still in

overalls, hurry to

their

for

to Christ Church a twenty minutes' service? hymn, a talk and prayers-conducted

by the vicar, the Rev. 5. L. Linsicy. The talks are illustrated by Intern slidea in the blacked-out church,

Most of the worshippers are women

and girls, and many attend specially to pray for their men in the Forces.

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