Vapaus, April 19, 1956

              rÄTÄ
=3 ja asuusi'
Iti tuimetuijj
•^fcän. -Pariisi
aeita j i s:ris-mirääa
sivisi i
elä. puhuivat-1
arxnarin poj.
pyydetty vie-
3. larmiUa.
Eävei;es2ä he
pasi>an nuo-äilloln
poijca
ifaiut. halaa-ttö,
"senhän
oiHtavat
leella palau-.
.1950 suur-aeet
tulvat
a että Red­it:
tulvia yli.
i.
m ennuste-jalkaan
yli
en ilmoista,
lan Ja tulvi­lle
20 jalan,
padot ovat
•korkeudella
urvattomal-
Ltaa tämän
ien. lumen
ärä sattuisi
aisi malnit-uduttu
luo- 1
istalvfarmi-r^
almlstau-evakuoimi-etelään
si-asti
odote-olaista
tur-
Picfiersgiirs
Latest Siunder
Toronto. — soiMr. KckersgiU has
done it again! Once more lie has
! made the headlines. lliis time a
[ Blunder.; by refusing to ial'öw Paul
r Robeson to come to Canada on a tour
I of 17 Cana<i^an citles arranged by
Jerome Concerts and Artists Ltd> •
Besides refusing permission to Paiil
Robeson, hejhas also refused permis­sion
to five distinguished womeailrom
the IJSSR, invited to Canada byöie
Congress of Canadian Women. So
this is democracyl
Are the^-little-a-omen" going to take
: this Eitting down? Not on your life
The Congress is sending a deputatiot
to Ottawa to see Mr. Pickersgill and
Members. of Parliament to pfotest
this refusal.
: Many distingaished Canadian arr
1 tists have expressed distaste at such
>actions against a renown figure such
tas Robeson. aiany thousands of Ca-t
nadians across the country are get-
[ting rather hot under the.coUar, and
'lit wouldn'i be too surprlsing if they
jf olIowed the -example set by the wo-jmen
and sent a deputation of Robe-
[son fans to see ' O l d Pickerel" them-
Uelves.: It is time that we .the Ca-
[nadian People reminded fo'ks in Otr
itawa who it is they are representing.
mmm^msm
THE AMAZING RECORD
OF HUNGÄRIAN RUNNERS
With only s i i months to goto the
1836 Summer OIympics,speculation
is rampant as to which country xrill
*• vin". As 'was the case in 1932, most
people feel that' the -US and the USS
R will dominate the games.
After ali, say the experts, ivith' tl>e
tremendous reservoir of man-power
and the large percentage of participa-tion
in sports, these countries sbould
have no trouble winning xoost of.tiie
events. a ,
However, in. the excitement of: the
last Olympics, tlie third place fmisher
was almost forgotten. Hungary, v i th
only 9 mriion population,vfielded a
powerfui and large enough - team to
collect more poihts than -countries
consldered sports strongholds — B r i ­tain,
Sweden and Axistralia.;
Of course, since then.all,the coun-tr:
es concerned have beenv seriously
improving thelr chances. Britain af-ter
a poor: showitig in Helsinki, re-organized
her jport setup and won the
British Empire Games in *1954:-r: an
amazing performance af ter only two
years of serious effort. ^ -
But ^an even more remarkable
achlevement has been the. record-breakingof
the middle-distance team
from little Bongatj. Led ta(y Sandor
Iharos'and Laszlo Tabori. :the two
greatest runners i n the world today
the Hungarians smasbed eight world
standards in,just six months.
Tt ali began 'ast May. UutU then,
Eungary held only one record i n track
and fleld. — the 6.000 metre relay.
And then Iharos arid Tabori, set to
work ably assisted; by' teanunate Is­tvan
Rozsavolgyk ,
By November'!, ali. the middle dis-tance
eventsr exccpt the mlle, had-
Hungarian record • holders. Bven
Landy's 3:58 didn't look too secure
after Tabori ran the distance in 3;59.
This -pageant of record-breaking
would be sufficient cause for asto-nishment
— one record every three
weeks is almost uhbellevable.^But the
decisve way in which it was done is
even inore amazing. Here are some
of the more outstanding results with
previous world repord times in hrac-kets:
2.000 m. 5:025 (5:07): 2 nöles
^ S:33.4 (8:40.4>; 3 mies — 13:14.2
(13:26.4); 5,000 m — 13:40.6 (13:51.2).
If coach Mlhaly Igloi'5 boys contl-nue
to topple records in this fashion.
MeEborune and the World may be in
for some real surprlses next Novem­ber.
hThe Cruise of the Tilikum
1
1 öljyntuo-!
Kset viime.:
of Stastis-ta.
in tuotan-
. ja muut
-Euroopan,
tilille, r -
kan'ö2jyn-len
lisäys'
ssa, mutta
teen osuus •
uaan Ja oli
)ros. sotaa
;taan.
nme mah-retyiksi
ja
. Tämän
va jäykän
jota vielä
in tilalle.
- järjestö- _
ca se voi
i: ja oma-suvaitse-itaamiseen
iden koh-läärä.
Mi­an
hetken
likki rau-
(Oliittisella
nnofllsella
.virraksi,
telua sille •
mnie löy-
»ne ole
on tehnyt
a nyt, ku-kirjoitta-rervetuloa
joukkoon
elä; vähän
tää", että
nan tun-un
varaa,
losta voi-
-mlkä on
icriskum-
S. joutuu
Jttei Yh-inika
mi-aan
näh-ssa
mm-vehkeilyä
i oleole-a
mitään
Imia Ca-likatemp-;
yt sflkkl-ilazT
että
IlsestI on.
kaan, et-
L-Tiyviä"
^— vaan
nimmäis-irtapiauk-
,
kustan­si"
Kyllä
Emänkin.
tumatta-
It wäs in 1903 Ihat r iirst met Vo8s. I^^ w
äches of Table Bay,- South Africa just then, and one iine
iay I came upon a strange and tmy craft hauled out upon the
ids. A liitle man was busily tacking pieces of kerosena tin
>n her ragged bilge.
'Mörnmg,'^said I. ''That's a queer-looking boat you-ve got
ithere. Mister/'
"Oh, she's ali right," said <the i^mall man.
"Maybe," I replled, "but she won't do for these waters. It
|blows hard in this bay at times and our sou-easters raise a sea
fthat would sink that little thing in two seconds.^^^ W
?-ou g&i her f rom?"
''Victoria, B. e./' said the small man. "Just sailed^^her over
[here via Sydney and Auckland."
As I object to having my'^leg pulled, I looked knowing and
lleft thai place. And as I went awaY I said to myself,"That's
[only a very small man; but. by Jovc, he's certainly a most
rmonumenial liar!" •,-
Now that littleboat wa£r'^the Tilikum, and the little man
ras Gaptain :J.: C. Voss, F R G S t h e smallest ship (and the
lallest mani too, I expect) that ever sailed around this world
ice this World was made.
-Weston Martyr; in his introduction to Voss' book,
The Venturesome Voyages of Gaptain Voss.
• 3Y BERT WHYTE
•strengthened their belief that in
däys' of yore their ancestors had emi-grated
in large canöes to New Zear
land fromsome distant region of the
Pacific." . .
• • •
PM Official; länguage tums gold to
Idross; the clearance fUed at .the cus-r
toms house in Victoria on May 20,
1901 gave no indication that one of
the greatest ocean adventures in
man's history had begun:
"Cleared: Schooner yacht Pelican,
J C. Voss. master; f our tons, twö
men; for Tahiti, South Sea Islands,
.with ballast and stores."
The Pelican (soon to be renamed
the Tilikum) was a rebuilt Indian
war canoe, 38 feet long, ho"lowed out
of a single log of red cedar. -
Tahiti, lying 4,438 miles away in the
Southern Pacific seas, was only the
fu-st stop in a. three-year voyage whi-ch
ended at Margate. England after
Captäin Voss faided by a succession
of mates) had crosscd the Pacific. I n ­dian
and South Atlantic Oceans, on a
route whlch had taken him to Aus-traha.
New Zealand. South Africa,
Pemambuco in South America, and
the Azores.
• Reclaimed f rom the banks of the
Thames in. 1930, wheTe she laynegr
lected and rotting. the Tilikum was
brought home to Victoria, repaired
and repainted, and now rests in state
in Thunderbird Park. .
Here is the story. of her travels. as
related in newspaper files and in Voss'
own book.
Vcss, a small man who sported a big
moustache, was a seaman of the. old
School, who mourned the passing of
square-riggers and hated the victory
of steam.
He first went to sea in 1877 as deck
boy on a saihng vessel, and in the
next two decades worked his way up
io master. Before the tum of the
century he had made an abortive trip
to Cöcos Islands in search of buried
tfeasure; after the expeditioa failed
he settled down in Victoria and be-came
a hotel keeper.
Life aShore irksd the doughty capr
tain. Living wa5 cheap ffor 50 cents
he could dine at the Poodle Dcg on
puree of game soup, stuffed?^young
turkey, £tewed tomatoes, mashed po-tatoes,
strawberTy short cake with
whipped cream, and cöffee) but there
was little excitement,;except; for the
occasional runaway horae on Govem-ment
Street. ^
•When a magazine' writer 'named
Norraan'K.Luxton. ran into Voss one
day at the Queen'5 Hotel, and'spoke
znysferiously df $5,000 they could ^ l i t
by travelling in-a two.man öiip across
three': oceans, he found a willin^ Jis-tener.
It wasn*t long bffore Voss had
bought a stauch, salmoiv-smelling
war canoe from one of the "il-ahees";
of the West Coast of" Vancouvei^ Is-land,
and was busily remotfelling it.
He fitted her with a keel, added oak
ribs braced :with iron, secured ballast
SO she wouId, right-herself in any sea,
built two water-tight compartments,
and put up three. masts: ;,
Loaded down with' enough provi-sions
to last eight months, plus guns,
ammunition, medicine, two . cameras
and an assortment of Indian curios,
Voss and Luxton cleared customs
May 20. 1901, and began their voyage
the following day.
The adventurer.5 were in no great
hurry. At Dodges Cove.; five miles
iicrthwest of Cape Beal, they tied up
at an Indian village for several weeks.
Pinally they headed out into the
Pacific; running 150 to 170 miles^ a
day under full sail.
At Penrhyn Island they- found
friendly natives, and'went aShore to
gather cocoanuts, bread-fruit, yams
and taro, pigs and poultry. : ,
Luxton left the 'TillKum a t Suva,
capital of the F j i Isländs, .and took a
steamer to Sydney. Voss signed on
Lous Begent; a 31-year-old fnative of
Tasmania, but they were only; a' few
days out to sea when a breaker struck
the. canoe and wa2hed Louis over-board.
V
Along wilh Louis went the compass
and binnacle, and Voss had- to head
for Sydney, some 1300 miles jaway,
' guided on y by the sim, raoon. stars,
and the ocean sweir."
At Sydney the Tilikum waspnt on
exhibition in Manly Park, (admission
sixpence); and Captain. Voss tiimed
showman. hanglng photographs of
natives -of the South /Sea Islands
arcund ifie canoe to attract customers.
Whea the Tilikum wafibeing hois-ted
ashore f or repairs i at Melbourne
a rope broke and part of the canoe
was caved In. To eam money for re­pairs
Vcsaaccepted aa invitation
from some residents of BaSarat to
bring his b3ät^ 100 miles .ipland-to
their thrivii^:nnniiJgcom^
40,000 pecple,
On to Kew Zaaland, where Voss
gave a T.ablic lectnre i n ; WeDÄigton,
and sgaia shipped his craft by raD to
an inland city, Palmeiston ifoHh, at
invitaticn of a Maori chieL _
The Mäoris came ,by the hundreds
to examine the T^ikum, and seeing; It
Af ter a short respite in Auckland*
Voss .put out to sea agaln, wlth an-other
mate aboard, and west of Cocas
Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean
he speared a dolphin.
- "The following moming," he wrote
'.'our bill of f are consisted of cream of
.wheat with cream, fresh fried dol­phin,
hot biscuits with New Zealand
butter and coffee ; Such was our
breakfast af ter 85 days at sea. •Now
you landliibbers. do you tliink yoii
can beat it?" '
At the urging: of an old Victoria
friend -frhom he ran across in Durbari,
Voss sent the Tilikum 600 miles i n -
land to .Johannesburg, where It ,was
'placed on . exhibition in a footba!!
grounds.
i "You have establlshed a world's
reccrd," commented one visitor, "We
are here about 6.000 feet above sea
level, I feel pretty sure that no other
deepsea vessel has ever feached such
an altitude."
In Pretoria a horse kicked the In­dian
figurehead off the Tilikum
while it was on elhibition, but the
canoe itself was not damaged., '
Just 17 days after leaving Cape
Town the Tilikum droj^ed anchor
off the* coast of St. Helena,: and Vosis
visited Napoleon'» last residence.
' It took ahother 18 days to reach
Pernambuco, and Voss noted that the
date was May 21 1904, exacUy; three
.years since he had set out from Vic­toria.
He had succeeded in crossing
three oceans" and. his contract with
Luxton was fulfilled.
On June 4, headlng for England,
the wanderer tumed.phlosophical and
wrote:
"Who will wonder that the little
vessel by that time had become to me
something more than inanimate;
wood? Patting her side, I said, T i l i ­kum,
after ali the ups and downs you
have experienced in surveylng the
three oceans you have taken It cheer-fully,
and it was to you like a picnic.
You have weathered heavy gales;
seas have broken over you; every bone
in your body was crushvi at Mel­bourne,
and at: one time even your
head was. kflocked off. . Still, here
you are, looking as well as ever, and
working d;li3eat]y your way over the
sait waves towards your fina! destfna-tion.
Sure enough it is quite a long
way yet, 6,000 miles across the ocean:
but ifwe look af ter each other as we
have done in the past we are bound to
: make it! We shall then, on our arri-val,
in London, have the satisfaction
of laughing at aU those didn't-I-tell-you
people afid- other skeptics who
prophesied; at our oufesct from Victo­ria
that we would perhaps get to sea
but never return to land again."
On September 2 at four o'clock the
Tlllkiim rounded the.jetty at Margate
whiJe thousands of people cheered
from the banks.
In the foUowing months Voss !ec-tured
at Edinburgh and Gla£gow. W3s
elected a Fellov of the Boyal Geor
graphical Society in London, lived the
gay life of a man-about-town.
Then the. glanunu' faded, and the
little ,captain became restless again.
:3oon he disappeared from public view.
People foTgot abont VOKS^ and they
Dandruff And
Scalp Disorders
Most people wbo complain of dan^
druf f iisually do not reallze that tiie
annoying flakes are caused by a per-fectly
natural ^unction. The botty
is continnally shedding Its outer lay-er
of skin. but this process isn't par-ticularly
notlceable except on the
sca"p where scales are retained by the
tiair. Modem : advertislng deludes
the public info beliving that dandruff
is a forerunner of falling hair. ba"d-ness
and everythlng else.
• The two most common scalp disor­ders
are seborrhea, stemming from
glandular disturbance and dandruff
which has innumerable causes. Bangr;
ing a brush on your head:too strenu-ously.
not only harms a sensitive scalp
but you are apt to beat yourselfv un-consciöus
at the same time. An over-heated
home. digestlve dlsturbances
and fat-free- diets ali contribute to
the condition of your scalp. . ,
• • *
In the case of ordlnary dandruff a
little scalp birilment or oi' used after
a shampoo will help repla.ce natural
oils and avoid f laking. Place a tiny
mound of oil, about the s!ze of a dime
on your wrist and rub.it :in, :,
Seborrhea involves a dlsorder of
the sebaceous glands whlch secrete a
fatty substance.. Under normal con-ditions
these glands put forth.a slight
ooat of oil whlch usually evaporates
from the surface of the halr shaft. If
the glands are ovtractive an oi"y film
forms, flakes off af ter it has dried and
Is often mistaken for dandruff.
Quite often women blame perman-ent
waving for their dandruff because
of the drj'ing effect of the machinea;
Actually the machine makes the halr
shaft porous. ' The surplus oli- which
iisually coats the halr Is absorbedby
the porous strand and the halr seems'
to be drler because of this, however.
the spalp continues to be as oily as
ever. and the condition of it does not
change.
A normal scalp can lose up to 150
hairs a day without thinnlng notlce-ably
because new hairs. are constantly
replacing the old. The number qt
times for the hair to. be washed de-pends
on how oily it Is; Ölly hair may
need shampooing twice a week .whlle
otherwise dry norma': halr can go for
as long as two weeks. Conditions of
the scalp may be cauised by. faulty
metabolism so consult your ,,doctor if
your scalp fails to respond to ordlnary
treatment.
A LESSON
The baby pulled brother'8 halr imtil
he yelled from the pain of it. The
mother soothed the weeplng boy: i'Of
course she doesn't ,know how badly it
hurts." Then she lef t the room.
She hurried back. prcsently on.
hearlng frantic squalllng from the
baby. 'What in the World is the mat-ter
with her?'' she questloned anx-iously
"Nothing at aU" brother rep'led.
contentedly. ^'Only now she knowsf"
FAST
Hollywood remains • inimitable.
There is the stofy of the producer who
received a cable offering a Somerset
Matigham Story for $8.000. At once a
reply was wired: ' I'll give you $4,000."
Back came Word:"Typographical
error, Price shouldread $80,000." To
whlch.the film chief cabled: "O. K . , !
glve you $«0,000."
Tbe almanac tdls us thai springarmitd in Marc^ but apparenily
»obody told the ««athennan, because for the last-feuv d he has
bssn predictUig colder «neatber and snov and the wor.^t of it Is thai
Ydespjie the faci the «eathermn is ^generally up„ in the clouds with
h'^ predictions, thb time they haiv come true., A i leasl as far as Sud-bury
is concered Easter togs had to be padied away and »vintcr clothes
jietrieved from among the moth balls where they had been deposiied
during a brief pcriod of balmy spring weather.
' But despite the set-back, irhich nre are convinced is lemporarj-,
we have had enough of a laste of^ring to begin dreaming about the
summer ahead. E%-erbody isof course aware«f the fact ihai this wiU
be an e.xtremely active summer vith many things to do thatwill re-
^uire a lot of planning and work.
This time w are not so concered with these aspects as \ve are
cominced that aH thedubs will soon be getting into high gear as far
as track and field sports and other summer activities are concerned.
But we are concerned about hearing about these acli\'ities and letling
ali our readers know about them.
Readers wiH recall that throughout the past j-ear this section of
the Vapaus has.carried many Interestingarticles about >*oulh activities
: that have created a vivJd piclure of activities in numerous cenires. The
only trouble is that there ha\'e not been enough of these write-ups
concerning^oiir own activities \vhich after ali ilfe the prime purposc of
thi-> i^tion.
Because the Vapaus has very limited financiäl rcsources it is im-pos.
sib!e to have reporters roving the length and breädth of this ex.
pansive land of ours. The paper itself can bnlyprovide an editor to
do the actual editing of the section and to do a limited amoimt of
vrriting about happenings on the local sccne. Therefore it Is essential
that ali centres write in regularly on what is happening.
: ' \Vhat to wr|te about? There are any number bftopics that are
worth writing about. For amateur vvriters the easiest form of vvrit:
ing is to explainsomethmg' that has happenedor; is tö take place.
Such topics could embracealmo.st any aspect of club actlvltieä; gym-
-pastics, track and field, activities at the hali or summer camp;drama;
an important concert or other events and a host of other activities,
which might seem trivial but quite often are very interestlng for other
people to read who live in another community. It should always be
kept in mind that the readers will not be as familiar w^th the lopic as
the wf Iter, so too many things should not be* taken for grante<l.
Then there are the more experienced \vriters who can make an
excellent job of proposing new ideas and new forms of aclivitles and
who can also fill up sheet upon sheet on any subject and producing
something that is interesting readlng.
Then \ve have a whole host of young people whö are "experts" in
various fields. These people could do a great service to this section
of the paper and to the wholeFinnishrCanadianyouthmovementby
writing artides dealing with problems in their -various fields of activi­ties,
envisbning improvements and exposing weaknesses. We have
had numerous articles of this type that have been very Interesting and
informative, but again not enough.
Provocative articles also have been very popular and canserve
a very good purpos*. For instance the grapcArine has • informed usv
that the Beaver Xake Jehu A. C. has already got the volleyball
championship sewn up and other clubs are advised to forget about
enlering a volleyball team in the volleyball competition at the liitto-juhlas.
Sudbury volleyball fans, however, are apparently from Mis­souri,
because they are also beginning to taik volleyball. Toronto of
c^t» is out of the running this year. ' ^~
* Some young people hesitate to write, becau.se they feel that since
leavingschool their spelling and writing3bilily has deteriorated to
the point where they are not satisfied with their-product. The on1j^
way to overcome such a difficulty Is to begin writing regularly iore-capture
the lost art. We assureyou> that desplte the fact that we are^'
no professorin English, and am in the hafoit of makingmistakes, ali'
articles submltted for this section vvillbe closely scrutinized and cor-rcctions
made where we feel they are ncce.ssary and will add to the
quality of the article; The wriler of course willbe the finaljudge of
whether we sUcceed or not. We .still have redears from some unsuc-cesfeful
attempts in this field.
We feel confident that with the new cniSrgies that the warmcr
veather brings with it and everybody just ilching to do something, the
situation will improve. And of course with a busy summer approa-ching
there is much to write about.
The matter is of such great importance that .we suggest every ,
club includeit on the agenda of their next meeling.; Perhaps to .start
the ball rolling someone should beassigned to wrjte about the hieet-jns.-
People in each activity should be designated to write about their
activities, Perhaps some person could be made responsible to see
that riegular dispatches are sent, although the task of writing should
not be made the re.sponsibility of any one person. It must be a col-lective
responsibility. . i
<If these suggestions could 5ecarried out in practlce.thi.? section
could become a lively and central pari of ali youth activities. Yes^ it
would certainly be worth readlng. I>et's give H a try.
forgot the Tilikum, too. The vessel lay
on the banks of the Thamesjuntil 1930
when a London publlsberlssued a
cheap reprint of Voss' book. The Ven­turesome
Voyages of: Captaih Voss
If irst pub'Ished in Yokohama in 1913)
and.interest in the voyage as an h!s-toric
saga^of the sea revlved.. Some
Victoria citizens found the ancient
Tilikum brought' her home repaired
her,, and placed her on exhibition in
Thunderbird Park,
WHAT'S COOKING?
SPRING-TIME AGAIN!
Grectlhgs: f rom the city where the
crocuses are In bloom, and the gra»
getting greenerevcryday- Where'«
that? Toronto of course Why anyday
now we|Il be off to Tarmola for a dlp
in ,the Humber. But unfortunatoly,
the Northemers will «til have to
itick to the hole in the Ice.
Ah yes, beautiful springtime again!
Ttttr VACAT lONS HtRt ARt. VEt^Y SUOieT ^
UST YEAI? IT WAS OH Ä TUURStOAY/
The time when bar» come out of their
lalrs for a peek at the World, V hy
every one Js wak Jng up, Including va­rious
sport« club» and young people**
group» across Canada. <P, S,"Cana­da"
wa8 put there :to include Vancou­ver
>.
It is the time of year whenwe be­come
very curiou» as to what Is go-ing
on amongst the Flnnlsh-Cana-dian
Youth, Is anyone planning to
come down to Toro;ito for the Laulu­juhla
» or to particlpato in the Onta­rio
Youth Festival? Are the fölks out
in the Lake-Head planning a Youth
Festival out there agaln this year?
Everyone planning to go to Sudbury
for'the LUttojuhlas?
There 1» a good way to eam dough
for your club, that is by helping the
Ontario Youth festival by «eUlng
tlckets. Each club' gcts a cut If they
meet thelr quotas,
Looks as though the Liittojt^lAs
thl» year are building up to rgally
something, There are rumours l^ylng.
Several In fact, One 1», that there
just may be particlpants from as far
away as Vancouver. A*«o the To­ronto
Women's Gym Group wbich for
several years won the; trophy in Wo-men's
Gymnastlc» Compctltions are
ruoiouredrto be conslderiog a come­back.
And who .know:^:if things go,
right at Chlldren^e Camp this «um-
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Canada 9 Aquatic Giris
Oubhine Male AtMcttes
In our fiodety, few chances aro in the 2954 British jEmptt» Oftme»'«U' "^fi
available to uomen. although muchj Vancouver bodessrell for oux pOtoii ^ ' '
lp «r%'ice Is» constantly pald to
eQuality. However. In ileld of sport
where particlpatio» has .been on a
more or less equaJ basis. the so-cal-led
'*we{ikcr sek" has achleved rer
soimdlntf suocesses.
Canada'5lOth: place in last month's
Winter Olympics was inalnly due to
efforts of our female athletes. Of
the 16 polntA wonby the Canadian
team <unofficlally), the women were
responsible for 12. Lucile Wheeler^
skier. Frances Dafoe, Carol Wagner
.and Carol Pachl, figureskaters. sav-ed
our representatlon from tinlahlng
way do«>n the Ilst
' The 1955 ::I^n-Amc'rican Games;
he'd In' Mexico City, 7.000 feet above
sea levelrwere also noteworthy for the
fIne showlng of our.women swtmmer8
whowon several;medals against top
US athletes/ 1^ Indlvidual star of
the games wa5 Montrcars Both Wl-tholl
with two flrsts and a second an
amazing performance. considerlng the
competltlon and the aUllude. -M
Wlthali, Incldently. last weck was a-warded
the Lou Marsh Mcmorlal Tro­phy.
as Canada's Athloto of the Year
fora955.
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Although our record in nternational
competitlons since the war ha$ not
been too. brght.wlthout the g a l s l t
would have been a .'ot dnlier. In fact
Oanada'sstandlng at Melbourne next
November wlU hlnge matnly onour
women8Wlmmers .and track and •. fleld^
Stars, who have tho best chance to
wln some Olympic mcdals or ccrtlfl-cates.
Led by Beth fknthall, Virginia and
Susan Grant of Toronto, Helen ; Bte-f
wart of Vancouver and Brantford'^
Sara Barber, Coaoh Tommy Wrtlker's
group of yjpooi ^ artlsts: canbe;classed
among#the world's bcai. -^Itaisome
«ovemment subsldy, thcrCs no telllng
how good they'd be.
Outstanding > among, the. currcnt
crop of trnck and ficldcrs la Toronto'»
Jackie MacDonald, echool teächcr
iturned dlscus thrower. Her «howing
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brtgade. at the '56 Olympics. r. ^
Perhaps one of the best bet»'^fif ; •
Olympic honor» is 17-year*old ErmtBf » -
tine Russell of Wlndsorr «ortb Ame-' */
rlcati gymnastle champioa. TSiJa
>oung loss at 16 defeated. the bta^ '
gymna&ts in the .US olndvaa tbfi
first person to win ali three evento'.
at the national vU3 championtiilp '-"'^
meet m Rochestor,' last sprlng. T t-
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Before Emestine, thl» country ,
duced other world-renowned athleteiiv-whose
cxplolts are not too well tämirjil^
^odoy, Twenty eight years ogo,' tl>« ;
'sports World was startled' by a yonng^i
lady from Saskatchewan. Ethercätr,.
therwood lett her natlve S a s k a ^ i i,
and burst upon the 0.'ympic acene i h '
Amsterdam bydefeatlngithe-vbrtd'*'^
best In hlgh Jump.Her record tn .
vfos flve feet, three lnche«, ' „ l]i
Four years later the' Winter Oäifii^ft /
01 Lake Placld. N . v/aa the scenel;
of another Canadian trlumph. topi^m . i
to born Jean Wilson, holder, at<äl/ i
p( Canadian and US ^Ked-skatln^ :
champlonshlps, won the SOO-tnetre ^
rnce wlth a time of 68 secondi». ;1
The year the )plrat World Warti)ewi^
gan, a group öf Edmonton hl^lf] {
School glrls deolded to jfi&y basket^;.
bäU ond askcd thelr teachertö CMäi','
.tliem.' From thls.tnauspjclpus beg&i*.'-
nlng the Edmonton Grads vent 6ii -
to become the world'8'best. ' : '
Chbscn Cftnada's alUröund vonpuuji , 1
athlete of the half>centuiy, Bobby
Aoscnfeld began her'amazing catv^l^
almost as soon as »he anived in* ttUs
country aa a youngster aboUt 28 jneari
ago.^ Bobby hlt championship «trlde
tn any sport in whlch she competed*'
Track and field. basketball. hoek^
and .söftba'1 ali succumbed to
prowes8. ' , - r , , '''-'v
Ho artlcle on athletlc aehivemen^ ' , ,
maio p r femäJo,'.wouId be (?omplelft-^iV
without mentlonlng "Canada'» Swe^t >Q'/s
hearl". MarUyn fieU, fhrst and oö^' ^^'^ti
conqueror of Late Ontario <29,bthe»., ; '^V?
trled ond' failed> and the yöunge«t , ' 'A-woman
to swlm'thQ English Cbannetl
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Doh't Be 8 Slave
To a The rmometer :^::v;?;^te m
Some parents nttaph such extraor
dlnary: importance . to> thermometer»
.that I ^mctimes feel Ike saying. In a
thoroughly crusty and reactlonary
way. 'Throw the blooming thlng
away."
A chl3d's general, appcarance' and
i behavlor Is »o much more important
than hl» ^temperature as a guide to
whether he Is rcally 111 or not,,
A dinlcal thcrmometer has its uscs,
because a high tomperaturc is a slgn
that the body la coping with some
infcctlon, and of course, we waht to
help It cope.
, A hlgh tomperaturc, however. Js
not nccessarlly.. Itself dangerous, and:
doctor» ar not concerned wlth "brlng-
Ing It down'' except tn so f ar as ^hc
tomperature falling is a i;)gn that the
mfection has been defeated.
Our bodles are adiufitod to stay at
"normal'( tomperatureof 98,4 degrcer
Pahr'enhelt,whloh la aorocwhat above
the tomperaturc of our- normal cnvlv
ronment, wlth ali Its varlatlons.
We adjust ourselve» to chongcs Ir.
the tcmperature around us. For exam­ple,
we «hlver when It gets cold, and
the muscular activity of shlvering
tcnds to produce warmth.
And when the envlronment gctfi too
hot, or we engagc in vlolent exertloh;
thl» tends to make the tempcraturt
of our bodles rise and we/!weat, ^hiclv
makes us cool through cvaporatlon.
An Important devcJopment in sur-gery
«Incc the war is artlflclal cool-mg
of patientBilJkc animals In a stato
of hlbernatlon, before performlng
prolonged and compllcatod operations.
Our temperaturemechanlsm kcep»
our bodles normally at a heat of 97 or
98 degrce» Pahrcnhelt; Actually thl»
odd choice of 93.4 degrees Pahrenhelt
as "normal" records a mlstoke made
•by. Herr Gabriel Fahrenhelt whcn hc
wa« Inventlng hl» thcrmometer at the
beginning of the ISth century, •
. He intondcd to flx hl» degrees eo
that 109 degrees cqualled the normal
temperature of the body, but he wa»
a blt off,
Stnce then, countle»» test» have
proved that the average normal tem­perature
1» between 974 and 93.4 de­grees
(or about one degree higher if
taken In the rectum instead of the
mouth), and ellghtly higher In the
evenlng9.
If we cateb an infection, our body
mecbanlsm controlling tomperature
get» »et at a higher level. A» a re-
»ult of extra. cnergy and Increascd
circulatlon we fight the germ with
greator energy; and the outv/ard ef-fect
of this is fever.
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mer TjOi' will give the Port Arthur
Chlldren'». Gym Group a little com-r
pctltlcn thl» year- Port Arthur i» com-ing
out again I hope.
Come on ali.you lazy hound-dogs,
the time for, the hunt Is now! How
about us hearing about your activities.
You know> the;thlng to do is adver-tise.
As the mcchanism ralse» the teair
perature» the patient begin» to feel
cold and fihiver,.whlch help» ib' i»l«e^ -X, AI|
the body tomperature. Ex^a warmtÄ , '
13 ncedcd or the envlronment wlll nptif
Äcem much too chiHy^ ' V ,
Whcn tho"' temperature begbq» "tp / {^
come down, the body*«weat» hard, .to \ ' ||
help the procm niong, and t h e " 1
tlcnt feel» terrlb*y hot, \ , . ;'/|
Naturally it i» part of the doctor**
and the mother'» Job to majurille
patlcnt a» comfortable a» poifslli^ ;
during this prqccss, »o if he i» t^iJsarf |
ably hot wc »pongo hlm dbwn''ana
give him cool di^nks even ttuiugh thia
wia,sl!ghtly reduce the «peed. a(i'
wbich hi»'tcmperature refcum» to tUKr
But normally what ha»' to be ,dj^f^
wlth 1» not the^ tomperature ItMlf,*
but the'mfection that cau»ed It:'/'^?
Occafcionally ho^ever, a patient^s,
temperature goe» so high that i t cati|
cause damage to the cell» of the body:'
;hcn »peclal mca»ure8 mti»t 1)e >tälMii
tc brlng the tomperature down, J^j S
Th!» may occur if a chl'd'» temp^-
ature ri»C8 to about 107 degrees oi* 'iih
idulfs to about: 105 degree» for c h l l d i|
ren'B tomperature» natiurally tlyi^p
and down muoh. fa»ter and fa^ttttff ,
than J8 norma! in adult». " ' V , ' -
Soihetimcs wben a »mall baby'eäi'
ches an infcctlon. though, we getireäl-
:y •worrled, because hi» temlTerature ^
does not go up.
Then we know hi» body i» not CO!^-
ing with the invader and wben"hi»
tomperature begin» to ri»e it I» a good
slgn that i t l« reactlng at Ja»fc. ^ '
Some people seem to tielieve that i f
Or child has a normal temperature ~
there "cannot be anything »eriou»;
the matter/' That 1» not ao." ; ;
There are »ome eerious infeeti<ms
whlch are not accompli»hed by--riiie '
'Of temperature, »uch a» whoop}iig
cough, or tuberculdsi»,
Most: ordlnary dl»ease» of childliobd;;
howevcr, ar accompanied by.tempaa
ature, and a» most of them iieiginviiui):':
a eore throat, and other »ymptonis
that/-may ea%ily be mistaken fOr.^n
ordlnary cold. It I» useftil to Jcnonr if
the chlld'» temperattu'e goe» t V . ' ' '
One mlld infection whicb ha» been,"<
golng around of lato is glandulat
ver. in whlch the »ufferer dörelpps
cnlargcd gland», a sore throat axUL ^
temperature that keep» golng tipttut
'dovn. 'O'---;S-Mf:i^:3:^^
Likc everythlng that provokes chaiU
ges ot body temperature glandular-fever
makes a child rather iovaai
miserable whOe it la»ts.— which may
be several week«. '
But the only treatment is to liueeP
the chlld qulet and varm* and'g;tv«
him what he feel» llke in the w y pt
food and drlnk,.reuling and-öueds..
Thl» 1» not a vcry^serlou» diseaaa
and not at,a'I,contagibu»„bti|t,Jf-li»'^'
worth-'i»olating a oblld/wlio "^bas''jlt
partlcularly since he ^on't feelilik3 ^ ^
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