Vapaus, February 16, 1956

              SJiBBr CBEE1P8G OB
GOOEY VALENTINE
JJy BOB \\'ARD
We see by tb» calendar that St. ValenUne s Day ,and Pancake
^äaycame flap o» tlje saaie day this year. *
Mayife äts partiöilar cmndden^ coindded before; but if
faas we didn^t notijpe it. i{owever, roaybe it's batter tiiisvvray
ausc it'g?«s M tö the iiappy thougbt
, began to stlf in'o»r little red (excuse it please) head.
We^inig^ just as wel| come right out with it; or by the tirai we^
• the end of tiie colmnn our idea wfll l>e as old and outdated as
ay's timestudy rate.^^ >^ man will teli ydu
at is sure: old and outdated; particularly so if ifs a rats that a
emotktt can'Iive with. ' -
But to get to,our happy thought. 'Gadzooks, gadzooks, said
>Ttle Crooks,'What it Is?"'
To which we icplied: ",WeU, Myrtle, why not make this year^s
\)p oi Valentines.out^f pancake 'mix, Pray, ivhy not?"
Thittk of-äie thing fcr a moment'— rationally.as the industrial
itons officer put^ it when he introduces an idea designed to make
company richer — and the worker poorer; but wi£er, mmd you.
Just pause imd cons!der — rationally.
Imagineopeiungyour Valentine m^ fmding, instead of
customary frflly-.type, bne cozing with sentiment, a beadtifully
led and scroU-ded pancake cozing with synip.
Novr grant you €be little poeni on the Pancake Valentine might
just a litäe bli^rred; but after lickjng away the syrup, we'd still
i able to make out a happy, ssntrmsntal thought which might go.. -
A SUCCESSFPL MEETIXG
Sisu Plans För A n Even Busier Vear
' ' - IVhen I look into yöux eyes /
^Afy heart begim to stir up ^
- ' . You'U jind out hozo I go for you,
When you lick ojf-the syrup.
I Then, of ODurse, when we lick the syrup off, thi^re would be some
pet thought like "Fläp dead, Jack."
Of course, another vronderful thing about a Pancake Valentine
|t's practical. v . -
Take the usuarValentine-typecard. W'hat can we do with them
er Febhiary 14th bgtomes, say February ISth?
But \fith the Pancake variety We could read 'em and eat.
Take a Pancake Valentine which might read: ''
f
J love you,George, I think you're sweet
' i love your smile and your size itvclve feet
Somefolk may say Pm just a dumb lummock
,\ , 1 : But I^hnCtv the ivay to your heart; it's via the stotnach.
,. Sp afte^ you get this and read it up,
- Dc9ftioss it aivay, you can then eat it up.
My love for you cannot squelch
' You'll think of me, each time you belch.
' • » *
We'll 'havc'to admit that a card-which flowed with ali Ihe^e:
H.Hhoöghts and sypiq>, too —- would be a big advance over the •
dqx yalentine. After ali, vrho could digest ali that fancy lace
puti)n:thesedges? \ : - - ^1 ' ^ '^'^
• Another • äspect of a Pancake Valentine is it's someöring we
Id make ourselves. . -
I •Thereiwe'd be before the big day whipping up a big batter of
K.^:,And while we're^^m this big blob of blob-bish looking
B> ali; kinds of svveet and goo-ey thoughts wouid flap through our
pinhfeminding us of true love.
- -Ofther sweet thoughts wouId be conjured np as we flapp^d our
|icakeValentines into the air; waftch,them flip — then mjss the^pan.;
Finally we succeed in getting our Pancake Valentine whomped out.
|n we have to work out the verse. Like:
' ' "fVe aimosi flipped Our little ltd,
Ohi' yes, Hortense, indeed we did;
The batter turried out far too lumpy
And this sure made us .mighty grumpy;
But the rhytmng job was much, much loorse,
But please darling take us for batter or verse. '
Veli admit that this doesn't even begin to scrape the bö.ttom
|ihe pan iiisof ar as the Pancake Valentine idea is concerned. . i ; - •
We don't •know whether anyoneelse will consider the idea^ 'has
Iit — the type of suggestion that a company might be villing to
for if it tumed up in a Suggestion Box — say.
But it Uckled our fancy.
LOne thing for sure ttte syrup on the Pancake Valentine couldn't
|any möre g o o ^ than the verses contained in the nsual Valentine
Vit^ti ^oing to try the Pancake Version on our own Missus
'VaocoaTcr, C. — As ivas -an-nounced
some time ago in Club News;
the Sisu P.C.Y.C. held its Ist annual
masting on Tuesday, Jan; 31st to öie
Clinton HalL
The meeting was opened by Jeanette
IiOwei cliainnan of the out-going exe-;
cutive. who also cliaixed< the mfceting
until Arnle Lind and K. Ww Juvoijen.
were elpcted for the positiona of
chairman and Secretary: respectively.
Jeanette.IjOwe, in her report of tlie
outgoing executive. recommended that
the executive hold its meetings prior
to and on the same date aa;the regu-lar
club - meetings. This was con-sidered
more practical than tying up;
^the}executive every Week. I^^^^
motion: • tliis recommendation
jMissed.
(Henry; Lahti -next gavei a :brief re-port
onv the youth activities around
that the ;WeWer\sCornHrs'site^^^^a^
soon be glven' up' bjr: the local ,P^^
branchlbeeaUse oZ the f act tliat % k
never used. The meeting felt ^very
keenly on this qiiestton and; <declded
to send a iresoIuHon to Uie Vancouyo;:
Branch opposing any m6v6 that niiglit^
take the Webster's Comers HäU iBtwäy
from th'e 'B.C. Finnish Community;
In jthe opinion of Sisu we shp^iäd
develop the :site räther thän gi^JÄ;
away. Before movingavay frofif ;t|t^;
subject the clubr^also / eip^essed Itä
viningness to do what ewr-poaiblc;
towards keeping the site.
The club after ;TevIewirig work
in the Scandinavian"'Central^Cfcm^
mittee, wliich was hot a small task;
wa8<'decided^ to continue in the S.C.C. In-,
'dependenOy^ ; Two:' delegatw. were
the Hall prior to the forraation of th6
Sisu Club. i Even though the young
people Md taken a very active part
ta many- events, he potated out, the
lack: of real .formal. organization liad
been a great htaderänce to the "tade-;
pendent activities of the younger
people".. Evidently many serious at-tempts
had been.made to Vorganlze",
but until Sisu PCYC had been foimd.
ed none of these attempts hadibeeh
successful.
Dagmar Nissilä, Organizer r of th^;
outrgotog executive, reported on Sisu^
since. its fcrmation. Memberfihip. in
the club has doubledfrem its orlgtaal
figure • and now stands at. 16. The
report also' mentioned some of -the
accomplishments of the club. as; well
as some of the weaknesses.
Kdsel Nissilä, secretary-treasurer of
the out-gotag executive, to =the finanji;
cial report stated that the club's ca^:
amounted to $4.42. This will certaihly
have tobe corrected^ta-very^Short
order;— seemed to be the (^inionof
the club.': The auditor's. report was
read and accepted , after whljdi the
Qut-gomg executive was released from
financial responsibUity. .
The electlonof ia liew execuHvl^;
followed. The results were: ' .
^ Chairman; Jeanetto Ldwe>^(retuined
to officeV; Secretary-treasurer, Edsel
Nissilä; (retumed to offIce); 'Organi­zer,
-Dagmar • Nissilä; (retumed to
Office); Amie Llhd and Etoo Suon-peip.
i' - '
The . elections" were • followed by a
coffee break for ; which ftwe;-should;
thank Aili Lahti very much.
One of the important potots of the
meeting was the readtogariddiscus-;
sion : of the draf t constitution which
the out-gotog executive had: placed;
before the^meeting for final approvaL'
The discussion on many potots .was
very good and to my opinion- itwas
one of the best educationals 'that I
haveever heard, This repoi1»r
try to write another artlcle on ^ the
constitution because it was Just too
much to try /and put it toto ttos one;
Beit sufficientito say faere that aftor
a few changes and: additions the
constitution was accepted. >
The next guestion to receive the
attention of'the meettog was the re-t
lationship' between the youth and the
hali. It was decided that Sisu\shouM
send; three people toto a Jotot com-'
mittee vwlth: the iidUlt organization;
Here tbey could consider how every-;
'^«'Z ^us o„ . ! « .«hand W r e »ot »«ring a pan^e
h Jack m the middle of our puss as it were, youJll know.that, Amy -T . . ..
fcght it was.a sweet idea.^ "^Ve wonder what the Postal Airthorities
thmk?- ' • ^
dected, Mary-Ann Luhtala and Hemy
Lahti
v/Pinaliy. it was resolved that regular
meetiogs would conttoue to be held on
every second Tuesday at 7J0p.m.
: >'And- that is ali •• for now, except to
aay that Sisu had a vei^ wonderful
meeUng and that if the same spirit
prevails throughout the year, and
there is no reason it should not, when
Sisu meets agato it may have many
more achievements .to-^ claim than
many.' of our eastem brothers expect.
iSils year we are very happy to have
liad'"a goodly share" of the "Club
News" columns, But please do not
misunderstand me ~- we out here are
a rtrlendly people- and would never
think of disturbing the "status quo."
— H.
GOODW]iLL BETWEEN NATIONS
FRIENPSHIi^ pitEVAILED
AT WiNtER 0tYMPICS «
Baron de Coubertto, >who revlved
the • Olympic Games to 1892 to pro-'
moto' goodwilI between nations^ can;
rest' to peace. The VZfth Wtoter
Games were run off to:an atmosphere;
bfcordiality that was to the spirit'of
last summer's "summlt" conference
to Geneva. ' ' *^
Perhaps.lhe,best :acample of^t^
frlendly attitudewaa; to 'tie found; in
the hockey- gäme between Canada and^
Bussia. Late::to the match, w l ^ ;the
action hot and heavy anä ^tempera
slightly frayed;' Kltohener 'broke :away^
from a Soviet: gangto^ attack:' The^-
be'ifee' went_rlght'to on goal but Bhot
over the net toto'the crowd.' Trytog
to avold crashing the boards, he lell
lieavily to thelce;-'Puchkov; theRus^;
sian 'goäUe,';promptly; hefped- him ;to
his feet^ shook his hand and the
festivities conttoued. '—
< Besides-the f rlendly sphrlt, the 19.56
Games were remarkable;to pther. res-j
pects. The Soviet UziioEi; ln.its ^itki
crack' at alptoe: competltion^,; finlsh^^
on top in the unbfficial team sttod4
tog with 121 potots. ^ "
; There, were many upsets.» RU^ia^
won the OlympIc and World t|tlesfii»'
hockey. <:TDronto'sNorrisBowdenä^
Frances Dafoe, favdr^^^to win the
pairs-figure rfaittog, were'nosed'oul
by an Austrian^ coiiple. -;NorwSay;
which won ttiC;; last pljrmpics: wlth'
125»^ ipotots;.and seveu.-gold'^^^
f inished' to: seventh^^-piaee ;With ''only
47 potots.
The contrlbut^n of ;> ^he Austrlan
team'was highlightod.by the brlUlant
performance of-Toni Sailer who won
three^gold medals and was the indi-vidual
Star bf tlie games!' Toni led
tHe field to the.giant slalom, th^
downlull: race, and the speclal slalom.
Canada's best goodwiU ambassadors.
(• • •
•.:;A!l;to ali, the Canadian toam made
a flh(f'r showing, winning 16 potots to
Itoisb;to löth position. But we can
and must do much better in future
Öl^pics.
PRETTY GOOD
: :vThe;ktodergarten:teacher was try-
' tog ^''^teach her class. how to count
money. Placing a half dollar^on the
deu^ jShe said sharply, ^ "What .is
öiat?',.
Ä small voice from the back row.'
•Tälls."
•V A lil[tle girl was explalnlng to her
youijg^ brother that It wa5 wrong
to woriq on Sundays.
"WJ»)j, about policemen?" asked
''the;boS^^They,hayp,to voxk on sun­days!
pon't they go to heaven?",
""Of cpurse not," she replled.
"TheyTepot needed there."
The fCASF m
Port Arthur, Önt^ Hello skl en^!^
thusiastsi Thla is your skiing^ rqiort«r
again. After a few days of warm
balmy weather, spring lever: almost
set to and suddenly I reallzed I have
to writo another new8 east from the
land of the big snow.
Last Sunday the Elo Skl meet went
over very: well to splte-^of a 'snow
storm durtog the m^t Allan Lam-patoen
of; Elo 8howlng very good form
came to first in the 8 kllometer event
with a time ofi 20.47.; Altogether ntoe
skiers were on the trail. For a more
detailed reiiort of this meet read the
Ftonish sports seotion to laat Satur-day's
paper.
On February löth the Btom Tigera
are hosts tp the skiers and' they are
arrangtog for a ten kilometer run for
ali classes 17 years and older. There
will be no upper age limlt. For the
women skiers and girlsunderlif there
will be a 2.5 kilometer race. The
small fry wlll compete to^a one kilo­meter
event. I faope to see a good
,gang on the trail next Sunday.
This wiUbe ; the laat meet before
the FCASF championshlp meet;r 60
the results of this' meet wiU give some
indlcatlon30f the condition our skiers
willbe to for the big event/; Of course
I cannot let everypne to on the sec-rets.
we have to atore for vlslting
skiers. We have to have a few darfc
horses for the race. But I can say
that .we have some Juniors^inpretty'
good form no^r. so that. the cham-pionships
wona be easy^to take away
from here. ' ^ ^
Paavo has been wbrking with aU hia
energy ;jvhipptog up a program f ot a
bang-up ' ooncert to' wtod .up the
championship meet on March > 4th.
The gymgroup has been jiehdtogiand
twisting on ali fOrms of apparatus and
Tm sure' we wlll see some results of
this;hard work to the concert.',
sb once more X VlU im^lte^you one
and aU to a t i e h d l ^ FCMBF^j^
ohämpionshlpi] haeet^? to);'!^^
So-long for now; X have a date'wlth
a pair of skisagaln. >->'A1. ' ' '
Vancouver*s Association of United Ukrainian Canadi^ns
"Kdbzar Dance Group" toured many B.C, centres, in
honour of Champ's 5th blrthdayand to raise>fiinds-,tO'»vt^ "'/.A
keep the paper roUing for the sixth.year. ; ' * v , L.f^;,i ^ *' ^ ' i
•Il
- . ^_ ,J,-^.fs^>5'^*^?fi||;,fe^^^^^
The Vancouver Youth Singers also paijticlpated in 4he , . J\
B.C. tour to win new triends and supporters for CvLtioäz^Sihi % - < H
only Independent youth paper. The .drive for $10^000 v,-,iL '
ends Märeh 18th. ' ' - . r . - " 'k
APFLYING SCIENCE TO SKIING
Wil| jPlaslic SMis Repbe^ i i l B i i i i l i ^ » ^ Science can have W big cffcct upon
spokrt' 'Golf wäs revolutfonlzcd^by tho
Introductlon of the-rubber-corcd'bati
'whtch'could be hit'twlce as far aa
the Old Vblld "gutty." ' ;< ^
Now'^ British'Scientist has'8Hown
that 1 the'' speedsot' skiers • c(to bö
greatlyincreasedlychänklng tho dc:
slgn of the sKi.' < . " -
' And this ali arlsos, surprlsingly
enough.^froma.stildy öf tho frictlon
l)etween' slidtog 'ihetal ;sur/acös,'. ^ 1''
''Dr. Bojvxien, FRB, ia ä dlstln^ulshcd
Wörker,bn fjrlctlon. Infactt herVas
electeä to FellowshIp of the Royal
TRADE FLOITBISHING IN TIBET
Trucks Replace Yaks On Roads
Winding Across Rpof; Of W6r\d
It is «liite t^fc^tofthe: wp|*te«'^^
of science ~,'and ^ihe.'ventatiUty j»f v. ' »
Dr. B6wden -^[^t^fie-shouUl jpiretnatT> "H
tvro papers aJongslde^eäch^otÄer.in "
. Although; the Canadian team didn't
wto as manyr potots'aa -4|i 1992/: our
showing was spi^ead amon^ more
.events.' Lucille ^eeler, of Qt. JFovite,
Quebec, earfied a placeamong: the
world's top womeh iUers hy cpmtog
to sixth in thejr' ffiant slalom^ and a
, . good third to the dbwnhIU. The men
one concemed ' could best Aelp to skiers dldn't wto any potots, "iut
Clarence Servold^ of C^mrose^ Alta.
turned In the best Ume&teit xe^orä&l
by a North American in the°SÖ-kilo-
•toefej^vbi^^
The United Statä awept'the shigles
matotato the halivand at:the same
time best benefit>fro"m It. The three
The problem of not having good
facilities for summer activites was figures skating '-wf<thout too m^&;b
raised to conjunction with the report
fri m Spin^er
uOldOrlgih
liss Leonara Starr. ä resident of
pnatkeC Ont, dlslikes the word
pster^ to regard to ani munarried
pan. She says the term makea her
Pd<9' vtaen she setrit on the vot-iists.
6he sudesta the word
or "gentIewoman''... "Sptos^
ahevsays;V ^'labels a woman as
fcttkingr from: another century." v
pas-Starr Is light . . 1 Its orlgin
Is from about 185 years ago when
prrlght tovented hia machtoe for
ptag y a m s : ; ; These machtoes
cshiefly operated bjr unmanled
ten. and as spinners they were
FH to the trade as "sptost^rs."
ketfae term cameto applyto an
batried wc«ien.
pree yeais ago -UOss Starr wrote
Prime iMinister St. Laurent sug-pig:
a change to description, and
r^lied that, the matter wouId be
pd toto. There bas been no
k i ^ stoce —
[e are toclined to thiiik that
PMter" and "gentleman" ahould be'
pnated bawi the ftaHots.^ Pexhaps
lor male and F for female would
IboOi 8en9 onucqoalify. .
ON THE SCREErf
The African Lion
By GWEN WH1TTAKEB '
'< Walt Disney, long famous for his
ähimated cartoons, has to recent
years brought.to the screen the toti-mate
lives of-the anlmals of desert
and prairie. In The African taon he
has done fhe same wlth those crca-tures'whlch
inhabit tlie "plalns of
Afiica.
' Häving enjoyed The Living XTesert
and The Vanishing Prairie very mufch,
I Idöked forward to;seeing this latest
movie to the series. But somdiow
X found it disappotottog and not so
exdting as the two previous ones. It
may be that with the third oM'thls
type of movie begins to palL How-ever
I donot thtok this was the^only
reason for I found the pace rather
slow to some parts. miere is also a
sameness to the narrative style whlcfa
becomes monotonous whcn used too
oftm
pressions the vlewer getsis thathere,^
as with ali .wlld animals, the struggle
for food is almost a full time .Job and
a hazardous one. Even fOr the mighfy
lion it is not:soeasy« and to'kiusan-other.'
animal for food requirear; con-*:
siderable strategy. : And while'spytog
on i Oie lion: famUyiwe; discover that
trouble,' r wtontog the first two sttöts
to 4x>tti the men's and ''women's
events., Canada's Carol PachI, of
Montreal, came sixth bfhtodTenle^
Albright and 8howedpromlse'bf ^better
thingsTto:come;when she gäins;ffl^
experienc^.
The most popular performeia ät the
Games wereToronto!s Carol Wagner
and: Bob :PaUl .who; yron a sixtb?^
! to the paira.' Th'e young teenagers
captivated the'aodUence ;wlth\t]ieb'
chartn: ätid IjmSbltog 'enthuslasm>' and
cext T'to ithe hocki^ cont]ngeiit> */efe
the f emale äppareptly^ does most>bf
the_^ hunttog whilerthe. mOTe impresr,
iiye-Jo&king^^^^
only gets up when it is time'to eat.
; One of the most toteresttog scenes
to the moi^e shows;a chieetah, a ihem-:
ber of the cat family, streaking aäfots
the plato and almost making a blur
on the screen asitchäses some hids-less
graztog animal it haa diosen for
ite prey. >Tixis.ama3^^
leave; Bannister: or^l^ndy far; f>e^
for^ it cain: run. at. a iqieed bf W fmilea
perbour or one and one-thirdtmlle»
permtoute.
Kerörtheless The African Lion is 4 At' one potot wc «uddenly hear a
fttin a VCiy"ffP£ :tom^ 1n»<ll^^ »hftniTrfrt» « r f « A ' . a t i . f .*«nÄ««««r^^
8hown of life and deäö» amonfe such
varied spedes as lions, *aboons and
fnasaxOB., One of the «tamgert Im-ibodf
thumjrfng tuOse. and follöwtog'a'
h''uge elephänt rwhO! is also coiious; <we
see that thisnoise Js hetog jgiäde by
a xhiaoeexos^ Uzpped- i a : qolcksand
By ALAN WINNINGTON
- The:followtog Is. the acventh to
a series of articles-by British cor-.
respondent Alan)Wtontofton «ho ;
In earller artlcles haa ezplataed'
many BSpecta of Tibetan life and
the effect that the new road from
China has had to,: the develop-ment
of ,Tibet.
neara, waterhiiJIe. pnable to eseape,
the wretclied;bcast:l8 "Bangtog its ftead
on the ground to rage ahd^frustra^
tion, SeverfA - other' änimäls ^sattier
round, watoh the'"^8cene wlth some
toterest for a time, and then. leave
him to his fate. ^J, ' '
' Very - toteresting to }Ui, > thoiigh,
bardly to tiie rhtoo> is the'narrator's
explanatlon this is a finssil in the
making and that fhe^fossils of i:iant
; Eighteen cents to the dollar off tca
and an average of 14 cents to the
dollar for ottiernecessities.:
This is :wliat the new« roads mean
to the peopIe>of Lhasa.
Tibet Iisa vast plateau, averaging
16,000 feet above sea level/surrounded
and crossed by still higher mountato
ranges. / Some huge convulslon of the
^rth threw it up and the whoIe area
is still changtog.
Across i,700 mlles of this plateaiJ,
over 16 of its major mountato ranges
an 12 big;; rivers along perpendicular
rock preciplces^ mountains of sllding
sand, over hiddenwater8,8wamp8 and
glaciers, tti^ Chtoese People's Liber­ation
Army andits Ttoetan helpers
drove the road tp Ltiasa by Uie end
of 1654 and now is pushtog it to the
Indian border.
v''Fightto9:the mountains and wea-ther
was: liard enough/' Lang Ming-teh,
told me; ^but f Ighting antiquated
ideas wa8''even härder."
Ohinese engineers, tralned^^i» the
Wc8t, held ujr thclr bands and said
that such aroäd simply could not be
built. ^ .
There were no facts to go on, they
said. There was no data. Nothing
was luiown of;: soil C^ Loflrr;
land people could .not work in such
prehistorfc beasts were df ten made
to thia way^when they were trapped'
and OiOr txoes impressed to'^il
whlch later tumed to «stone.
' These are oxily a few ot the sights
to be seen to Tbe Afrlcaii Lkm wlik:h
is fihned to tet^mJeoIor/ It Ja a^Very
infOrmatlve animal documentaryi>jire^
Kented to an totereattopTinanner and
having^ita lull abaxe of action and
striklng three or four bIows wlth the
sledgehammer. ' • '
Tibet liad no .aurplus food and ali
the People'8 Llberaubn Aimy'8 needs
had to be carried £c^W inland Ohlna;
AnlyyakBcouldfdo the Job^and; then
only with the support of the Tibetan
nobllity who ottrned' t h ^ and the
serfs, who herd-them. Unllke the
Kuomtotang and tiie Ghtoese empfr-:
ora, who used forced transport, the
People'8 Liberation :Army patd Weil
for every load carried.
iTibetens h^lped the road and the
road helped them. - Attracted by ,tbe
high wage8; even some monks worked
on the road — after t>orrowlng dif-fefent
clothes.
' V/ork. on the road never stops along
its whoIe length. 1^ouw
matotonance vorkers are stationed to
cosy bungaIows ali along the road at
six-mlle' totervals.
.three timcs a' year Instcad of once,
and my prof its .are steadier ^because
prlces are äown and salcsare up."
As we chdtted, he sat with bis Icgs
crossed under him, taking enormous
pinches'of snuff'mixcd wlth tocense
ash, whiieiie offered mc buttercd tea
and '1llorton'8iSjycets of Dls^lnctlon'?
brought by' yak from Tndia.
"X can go to Indla when I like and
get rupees for fofeign tradc simply by
golng to: the PcopIe'fi Bank here," thls^
clvillän-looklng^monk went on. "And
lt'8 not only a mattorof spccd now
— we don't have to bothcr abo^it ban.
dits. More mcrchantij and.goods: are
golng tolndlajthan bcforc as.wcll as
Inland, and this "is ^nly the begln-nlng."
^Mot)k-merch;Jht ClUlmba^was rcaUy^^
saytog how theVew roads and tradlng;
pollcy of the Chincsc govcmmc^t
have made markcts for stagnant
Tibetanproductsand raised purchasr
ing powcr for manufacturcd göods.
Whcn everythlng went by yak at
eight milcs daily, the cmphasls ,was.
on lightness and high; profits because
of the 8low turnover.
; Wool, and even the cofttlyvmusk,
werc not worthwhlIe because/ of low
prices offered in the We«fc,. Now the'
emphasi? is exactly rcvcrsed,
- Stato buying companies arc ^ paying
top prlces; for .wooi; and three <,tfmes
the previous' prlcc, f or musk.: And by
selling commoditiesv to • mcrchants
rarified air and there was not.enough
manpower ;toy Tlbet.
'Nobody..!ever;i»uilt a road at this
hetebt," ther said "It will take a
ccntury." ^
But the 5.People'8 Liberation Army
men whd'/didttoe Job could see for
themselve«',that there had to be a
Along these two mlracle hlghway8
which the Chinese' modestly describe
as "not yet up to Westem standards,"
thousands of trucks are running wlth
Chtocse-made goods and te&Jn ex­change
for Tibetan wooI,m.usk and
herds.
Tibetan merchants who used to
trade only wlth the capitallst world
— by yak-^'now f tod it better to hlre
a truok and trade with thcrl^omeland.
. ,Now you can often see a truck- or
two parked near a road matotenance »f"'"» V W . . J U W S U W C O W
station, wlth a yak hair tent pitehed ^^^^^^ provldto^ cheap,. fast
nearby and a young Tibetan potter-big
with the englne wblle aomeone
else blows a yak dung fire with yak
skto bellows to make tea^ witb.yak
butter. ' > , f
A monk named Cham6a,' chlef^
monk-merchant otK&nzemoaasteryif
told me about his trade aa we sat
among the images, butter lamps and
Iron; njoney chests to his Lbasa room.
He wa8 dressed to ordinary; clothes
and on a scttee by his side were ele-ments
of his calling — a leather
road if Tibet was to make any social ^ ^ an. abacus , for counttog
advance and>j»)t remato a baclnvard
region '--^;ävtemptation to imperlalist
totrlgue. ' • ,
Tbey Went to wörit on ropcs, faang-ing
over TAvii^ you slck
tolookdmnx;-
UntU thejro^ was biillt they could
not transport , air ccmipressors, so
mopey, and a rosary.
Oie trades to Tibetan wool, musk,
saffron and a strange Tibetan medi­cal
speclality called *worm^graa8/ be,
cause half of tfae creature^ is a wonn
and the ottier half is a vegetcfble.
"I buy tea and Shangbai«manu-facturcd
goods," he told me: "to 'two
mä
every blasttog Jiole had to be driUed | weeks now witb five trudu I can do
to^the gr8iiife"ty hanmier and cbisel. what used to take me two snoiitlis
At first tiiey:w^e exbaosted after wlthS00yak8. r tum my eapltal oirer
transport there is .now. every .^Inccn-tlve
\o • break wlth: the, centuries^old
bablt of• maximum profIt on a mtol-.
mum turnover. ~
iAlready some merchants are ^actlng.
as tea agents for stato companie^.
This enables them - to buy tea cheaply
on agreement: to scll at a fIxed: prIce
and a fIxcd profIfc .Thc»o pollcJcs are
working,
• Stato buyers in'Chambo last year
bought. threectifnes as much of local
Products a» to the previous year, while
exporfas.,to ,]^dia aJ90. rose to the
comparable periodi
Xnilie iint paper He wrote,aboti^''^
wH8t""happen8Vwhen you^jruö^aäet^tt" ' ^
together at higher speeila'tlianfebgl*^^ :M
neers normälly use. 'In' thX^itÄbndit ^" ?3v
the theory^wä8 develo^^d Ut' äeslgn-^v |i
mrfMt-runntog «kte; ' 1 ' \ ' §
' What was the llnH?> - "
tn normal engtodcrtog^rm^tab^mäyT ~ {|
slide over each other,at ^eeds^yp toa^^ M
70 miles' an hqu»'.' If, yoU Jxutjxt^f^ ' i l
the speed to^oyer 3,000mJIe» an.luiva:,ti.
tl^e ^tylc of Blldtaff chatijgea ftom "flÄfii/, T' U
form' — Where the metal makes^^ancl ^ - JM
break» little < tvelded'rldge8-^'*into"ttr^^'
;iijeW'ionfe:i||^^
The reslstance tb'!eiÄdIng fepto-dö^l^'1 J
to very low valucsi As' Öio ^ffl^^to ^ - ' |
rub agalnst each other they'get bol^if^.-- ,
l^Isproducesathtolayej^ltmi^^ x |
metal which acts es a lubricant^vif^^^ ^'
a etoel ball Is^rubbtog on copper of^ / .^,r>
coUrse thia lubrlcant only appeaftla^^;' |
a tömperature "of 1,083"degtreeö ceStl-^s ^ i
Can this reaUy help te*'pn«^i«ej,;^ .m
fastcr skis? • On Bnow! ' > 'i ^ |
Long ago, a'ploneer of scienee, 'Os^t < " |
bome Reynolds, euggested' tSiat we ' ^ ' S
could sUdb along |ce on.slt^tes, m_
casily because a fllm of watef.wa8
formcd under the blp.des. The p^^f^l
sure mcltcd^thc Ice. '\ ' ^ieti^'. '->~ #
n this thcon^ wcre true; It-sbouM^ /
follow thatas you dropped^^fetÄii^^ f i
peraturc of the, ice It wouId he mbre^, 'v||
dlfflcuit to melt it by pressure^^andS ^^1
sUdtog should become more difficullU''
This was trled and found to, ^'txvfi,.^ ' ^1
But pr.'BoWden poliitedout tbafe-^ .< , - V|
the bcat ^>roduced iri slidlng^vbdld'. '«^
also melt ice and produce watery M
lubrlcapt.' Zn^ sllding on snow'lt ^Mts <p
just a matter of one solld <the'6kl>"
on another solld <the 8now^. ^ .
From the VbM( onmetaiait seemed
Ilkely thatmelted ice was belnglprd^ '
duccd. This was the link ibetween!'
the two Itoes of «work at such <Uf f er^Bi^lt r \
tcm^eratures. , 7 '
And it shoUld become easler ti) sIMe^l
If you used a. good heat insulatbrHkSe?
wood iaste^ of metaL Because VUb^V.
an^lnsulator the heat prbducc^vould;:
not leak away 8o quickly. n-^^, ' J^l
Finally, as you went faster it'staoiddi , |
become much easler to slide beca^e^'
more heat was produced^to nielt the/^^/^^vffl
snow or ice. - '•''Jr.r
On putting'those theorleS to t|ie^,
test they wcre älap vindlcated.' ^
^There was one'iurtherxcfInemcnt„^' ,^
One faU-ly iWEW'?pla8tlc;'called|Äi^ ' V " I
tetrafluörethylMe — .we,can'caJl''iri' ' \'
PTFE — Is a partlculariy gbbd SUderJf
and Is not wetted by, water,:Jiai%^ -'^^fM
skis out.lt cut the timesof d^spenta
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A Hollywood producer recelved a
Story cntltle,d,.!Thc OptJrolsL" He
called his. etofftogether 'and; said:'
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to sbmetbingalmpler.' We know
wbat an optlmlst is, but hbw many
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