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1. September 22 the anni- versary of the birth of Thes- dore Hook, who was famous

British divine, practical joker, founder of Dutch merchant navy, one-armed pirata?

2. If you saw a field of neat they would probably bom

Grazing, wasing in the breeze, stacked tn sheaves, drinking from a bottle?

2. At the head of the British judicial system Is

Viscount Simon, Lord God- dard, Viscount Jowitt, Lord Grethe, Viscount Sankey?

4. Every inch a terrier, Do you know hits type?

& One of these musical in- struments is named after Its inventor-

Oboe, piano, violin, piccolo, saxophone, bassoon?

6. The Hlale 15-

V.B. Secretary

of

Harold E. Stassen, Henry Ellott Roosevelt, Wallace, George Marshall, Arthur Van- denberg?

7. A pennyroyal is- Rare stamp, top-sall, kind of malet, naval pennant carly bicycle?

B. What is a campansio

Watchmaker,

hiker, canoeist?

bell-ringer,

9. Handel wrote the "Larço“ for---

Oratorio, comic opera, ballet, Mass in C?

10. Which of the following

is not an insect-

Hornet, ant, spider, carwig?

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Soviets Seek Super Racing Cycle

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1947.

DELINQUENT TO HERO

Canadian Mounties Get Their "Kids" by

Talks, Movies, and Example

THE OLDER boya shoved into the schoolroom's rear sents, where they could cut up without being caught. were, Nicky The tougher you Peltier told himself, the quicker you could join Tony's gang.

Big guy, Tony. Mado six bucks last week swiping stuff If he was here he from cars. could make this guy who was going to speak quit. The guy was coming now. Look what's here-a Mounty Nicky felt a bristle of Interest straighten his spine.

BY T. MORRIS LOngstreth

Look at Jules standing up! He was but I was felt at Headquarters that slightly bullt, pale. Pulling himself these juvenile Jawbreakers must be to his full height, he said, "Do you shown a new pattern of living. think Fill grow big enough to join Educational authorities across Canada were consulted and a new approach the Mounties, alr?".

to the youth of Canada was for mulated.

"You'll never make it! You'll never make It! Sit down" shouted his com panions.

"Who says he'll never make it demanded Corporal Quain. "Let me tell you about a young trumpeter I know." And the Corporal launched

unother story.

This scene, with variations, fins been carried out many hundreds of Corporal Quain of the Royal times throughout Canada in the past Canadian Mounted Polico walked

your. One wonders, like Nicky, what smartly onto the platform. He the Mounted Police are up to. The was dressed in.review order Commissioner's report given the clue: stripped Sam Browne, breeches, long boots with spurs, the'

scarlet tunic.

He was only a handful of years older than Nicky and his At their age he had crowd. been lively enough, and under- stood. Now he was six feet of with muscular

officer peace frank, clean-cut features ind disciplined bearing.

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the

Nicky's

Sergeant W. H. Kelly gave an in- spired definition of this officer: "One of the referees in a game whose rules have been made by members of the Community for the greater comfort and security of all,”

The success of the new movement was almost embarrassing. It looked nu If the 3,000 Mounties would have something like a million new friends on their hands, in one community juvenile delinquency was reduced 80 per cent. The hero cure worked.

The Mounted Police like it, too. "The mure one does of this work the more enthusiastic one

res poris Sergeant Kelly. They sea the enormous possibilities for good.

Success in winning the youth of Canada from the tawdry to the Presenlly

and the wholesome will put the Dominion, Marica of Canada were astonished already a great and inspiring country, and dallghted to have their school into an almost impregnable position. routine interrupted by Mounties For as youth goes, so goes the nation.

then straight-from-the- giving shoulder stuff about their work.

Earmarks Of Genius

The plan hnd the carmarks of genlus. It was a natural It offered an irresistible attraction to youth at its most Impressionable period. Each ambassador from the hitherto rather remote Force looked like a hero, and very often was one. And now this hero was offering them his friendship. Who could refuse such an offer? In

ICE BRIDGES

MAY SPAN

ARCTIC

Wartime plans to use ico as a reality this was one of these quiet building material were cancell- change theed, but research is now concen- historie moments that

trated on its use for peacetime course of a nation.

In Saskatchewan alone, 471 talks construction, were given to 19,902 children in the first season of the experiment. Veterans of arctic service told their

with

blizzards ,and Eskimos. experiences

Oficers Instanced the dramatic exploits of the Force's his-

audiences

tons

Ne-

It was

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long.

RESUMING A 'PREWAR TELEGRAPH' · FEATURE

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

High frontal lighting produced-the dark shadows on the face of the modal here. To avoid such shadows try aldelighting, or backlighting, or shoot when the sun'a low in the sky,

FRONT vs. BACK

A few years ago, Deputy Commis- loner F. J. Mead conceived the iden that this Force might originite and develop a movement among the youth

In 1942 Canadian National of the country which in due time would bear fruit in increasing the

search Council Physicist Dr C. D. Niven desired HMS Habakkuk,, an number of Inw-abiding citizens and

anil-U-boat Boating air station,

Made decrease the number of young per

of 30 percent lee and 14 percent wood

puip with under the being dealt

Films of the work were im-

have and Juvenile Delinquents Act.

flight

feet with

deck aplomb.

Eager Elaborate Lanky, energetic Jack Mend had listeners heard the great stories of e the icc frozen. Habakkuk's

If you look closely you will notice the other day from a young that this has left deep shadows on "Before I run the sound film dimbed the many-runged Mounted duty carried out. Ambitions kindled.p

Quiz Indder, from constable to

periods

followed the talks. speed was an estimated seven incts.

when girl in her teens. She enclosed her face. Most of her forehead la order was cancelled The called 'Making Mounties, I'll Police

"Doca

ever come back the submarine menace faded toward a number of prints. "I always casts a shadow over her mouth and shaded by her hair and her nose tell you how this outfit I have second in authority, raising a fine

without his

Reply: "The R. C. He had had to M. P. never

the end of the war, family en route.

old solentists at Ottawa take my pictures," she wrote in much of her chin. As a result; the Niven the honour to be a member of

deal with hundreds of boys and girls until successfully concluded, or the recently that the same principle her letter, "with the sun over features less easily recognised,

light on her face is uneven, gol started."

is officially listed as dead."

could be applied to building bridges

my shoulder. Do you think of the mo

moment

Here, then, is a case where the does not call for gunplay, so

these are good?" so not wearing a re-

How it is Built

young correspondent might well volver is a measure of safely." "Why

Ho described how an Ice bridge

forget the rule of having the sun After I had answered her behind her when she shoots. For ra red cost when it makes do you wear a

could be bulit. The never seemed to be example, such a good target?" Reply: "During Botter Boys brought up in Mounted Police- the earllest days.mbol of honesty simbling slove plpes. Water would about it. Specifically, I got to ty yleis more pleasing results than

mensely popular. Police dogs fuced to weighs un plant

would A BULKY envelope reached me un-a brilliant, noon, summer sun.

from

the

aiders a case closed

in trouble, and asked himself whats

your fun?" Reply: "The and roads in the Arctic.

It was that these unfortunates Jacked

;

that his own children and those of his brothers in uniform enjoyed,

A Swell Bunch Nielty wondered if the Mounty had got wise to the oranges he had lifted

Greck's staud. listen. Gre! i was as good as men's home, soaked up

Indians, and a sense of fair play. They were a western-policing rounding up rustlers, getting pro- not afruld of the law, for the law moted, going North and having your was their fathers. Yet they learned

This was the kind of ewn dogs.

a healthy regard for going right. We he'd like and be good at.

the

The movie clinched Nicky's con- vielion that he must join the Mounties. He could take it if they could. When the film inded he was astride one of these horses.. The op-

The Itussians are seeking to per- feqt racing noter cycle that will excel anything used at international eycling competitions in Europe.

Recently 21 test machines, prplase showed that all the fellows ducts of six different factorles, were felt like he did. This Corporal was put through a gruelling 5,000 kilo-

Soviet sweil guy and belonged to a swell metres test run by leading motor cyclists-Associated Press.

hunch.

ther

call

backlighting

her

would be anade into cylinders re-

Sheets

tor of ordinary paper note I got to thinking further with pictures of people out of doors, of the Force, the

or sidelighting general- scarlet tunic was n discipline

und fair-dealing on soldiers

be sprayed on

And in this of the part

the tar paper and thinking about the business of full, frontal lighting. whom the of the Queen,

frozen to

any length desired and the sun and her shoulder.

connection, too, the slanting sun- Indians had leamed to trust, and it about three feet in diameter.

It light of mid-morning or afternoon is retained as such." Fan mail fol-

The blocks would be laid end to gave me an idea for today's is to be preferred to the direct, end and cold air fanned through lowed the 'speakers to their barracks.

overhead sun of noon.

They became able, self-respecting young men who would never need a Anishing course in the House of Correction.

Since the kids of Canada could not all cat at Mounted Police tables, the next best thing was to take these in- fluences to them. The Force did not want to barge into the work being done by organisations in this field,

Major Theme .

Through each of the thousands of

appearances ran the major theme:

from a tank of brine and ice. Dried column and 1 dug out the muskeg or peat, which is plentiful snapshot shown here. in the North, would provide insula-

Construction costs were many

tion

bridges.

This pleture was made with the times cheaper than steel or concrete der. b's properly focused, properly sun over the photographer's shoul- the policeman wants to be your friend. The policeman is no kill-joy, Arctic roads which become un-exposed, and pretty well composed. avid to arrest somebody, but a man usable in summer could be made Yet it is not a fine snapshot. willing and eager to be lie friend and passable all the year by this method, counsellor of every boy and girl, He because the blocks would rest on is public servant essential to the well-the "permatrost" level, which

mains frozen all the year. being of the county,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

RUSSIA

VETOES

RECK

BOOM

BUST

STRIKES CHINA PRICES

DISPUTES/

WAR CRIME

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

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And the reason it's not is that the sun was behind the shoulder of the photographer. The model faced the

“Thanksgiving

Two last points, however,, which it's well to remember. When your subject is backlighted you must be

find, too, that you need a somewhat sure thal no direct sunlight falls on your camera lens. And you may longer exposure. Where this shot was made at 1/59 and f/11, a back- lighted shot might be mandé at “1/50 and 1/8.

BY KEMPSTARRETT

---John van Guilder

WELL, HERE

WE ARE

LIOME AGAIN:

YOU BRING

THE MAILL I'LL TAKEN

GROCERIES!

E

WE'VE HEARD SOME

| SAY THEY'RE THANK-

FUL THEY ARE NO YOUNGER..

SOME FOLKS ARE "HIANKFUL THERE ARE SO MANY JOBS .......... AND THAT THEY'RE TOO TIRED AND LAZY TO WORK AT ANY OF "THEAL,

"SOME PEOPLE. VEÅR THE MOST OUTLANDISI

THINGS

OTHERS ARE THANKFUL THEY DON'T HEAR ANY TOO WELL.

? DID YOU EVER SEE SUCH RIDICULOUS LOOKING CLOTHES

'SOME ARE JUST THANKFUL THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO

EAT AND THAT THEY DON'T- HAVE TO GET ALL DOLLED. UP TO EAT IT.

Ledger Syndicate

LOTS OF FAMILIES GUE THANKS EVERY TIME THEY ALANAGE TO GET SAFELY BACK TO THE GARAGE,

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· LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE JUST THANKFUL THEY'RE NOT LIKE OTHER FOLKS. "

THANKFUL IT'S ALL OVER, "THE"" EQUESTS HAVE GONE AND THERE'S

HOMING TO DO BUT CLEAN UP THE MESS....... CAND HAVE THE

•FURNITURE MINDED).