The Bermuda Recorder

              saturday april 29 1961 the bermuda recorder page five yo ur weekly feature pa g e scientific knowledge from the antarctic what price unity ? britain makes diamonds western ways sweep japan west seeks to consolidate the first artificial industrial diamonds ever to be made iu britain were produced at the notional physical laboratory near loudon early this year reporting in the bbc's ra dio newsreel on the achieve ment david wilson pointed out that these liny diamonds by john allan may in christian science monitor by llewellyn chanter london — t h t hnpre sion is gaining strength heie rest of europe still outside or closed a door on canada sen ous damage could be done to the alliance tokyo — a big change in the tastes and way of life of the japanese people has taken place alongside the general rise in the level of consump tion according to a report re leased by the japanese minis try of public welfare dation for an increase in mass consumption the disorganiza tion of the family system has broken up large families into smaller units allowed women to seek outside employment and permitted wives to work tor additional income another antarctic season lias just ended and another chapter written in the history of the falkland islands de pendencies survey each year parties of young men from all walks of life leave britain unostentatiously to winter for two or more years on th nine or so bases set up on th british sector of the huge an tarctic continent they haw beeu iloii g this ever since of knowledge in the posses sion of the survey that new action is likely to be taken very soon lo eonsoli sir vivien fuchs director ot the survey and leader at the famous trans-antarctic expedition is wholly satisfied with the season's work in the antarctic the base of ston ington island was successfully relieved by sea for the first time for three years and two new base have been estab lished one of these is on ade laide island off the west coast of the rahamlaiid pen insula and the other on alex ander land 2s0 miles to the south now known as fossil lllnft a prefabricated hut to gether with supplies were flown to the area by the two otter aircraft maintained be the survey and this base will now be the most southern out post of the chain of survey bases on or near the penin sula in point of fact a topo graphical survey of something like half of the peninsula hav ing been completed operations arc now moving southwards down that huge tongue of land leaving the geologists to complete the work on the ground date both european a u il a the aim of any action the british government feels must be to unite europe and at the same time to tighten the bonds thai hod together the atlantic alliance lautie iinitv — barely one-lhousandth of an inch in diameter — were a mere by-product of a mucii wider project of research and the basic machine that produced them was a fairly ordinary industrial press the scientists at the national phy sical laboratory directed 200 tons pressure of this machine on to a very small piece of graphite and thus achieved a pressure possibly one hun dred thousand times that of tlie ordinary air pressure we live in in the opinion of sir gordon sutherland director of the laboratory the import ance of this british develop ment is to show that it isn't all that difficult to make dia monds and be added that it will undoubtedly have indus trial applications so the scien a f t e r learning presideni kennedy's view prime min ister harold llaes illau ha been reminded of those of canadian i r i in e minisld john j diefenbaher the change extends over a wide front aud says the re port may be summed up as westernization these all woulil agree ar the criteria by which polic must be judged one inuv ask does this actioih installment buying 4 a change in the social at i it tide of the japanese people from feudal times uutil the end of world war ii thrifti ness in dajly life vas regard ed as one of the greatest vir tues iu japan all till'ce views lifer 111 detail bal thev all now meet on one point : i.uropeau unity and atlantic unity are indivis ible one cannot li favoured at the expense of the other that would be no solution nee japanese consumers prcfer i nces have been shifting ra pidly from rice and fish to meat dairy products and fruit from japanese cakes made of rice and bean powders to western pastry candy and chocolate and from japanese dishes of vegetables and raw fish to western and chinese cuisines recently the six and the seven or with the addition of new associate on either side the seven ami the eigh ) have closed the gap between those aims operation tnharin a bri tish wartime manoeuvre es tablished to deay antarctic shelter to nazi commerce raiders was converted into a peacetime undertaking to car ry out a detailed survey of the british sector from every seientific aspect but now uew ideas have been introduced from abroad and taken root here they en courage the japanese to eujoy life rather than merely save money by economizing al though a greater percentage of japanese still save more than western peoples an immediate need there fore appears to be io clarify once and for all the answer to this question : them great britain has offered to give up its own advantages in the commonwealth and to accept the eouunec external tariff of the six is a british decision io join the common market the price reiplired for complele west crn european unity so much of the work of the survey is unspectacular it hardly ever breaks into th news unless in the course of its work it 1 ts with som i minor disaster yet it can bj claimed for the survey that as a result of its sixteen years of continuous exploration the british sector which include the great rahani land pen insula together with the south shetland islands the south orhneys south georgia and the south sandwich islands is the most thoroughly sur veyed region of the whole of the continent it may be that other interested nations amer ica and russia for cxampb , have made vast sweeps ove the continent and presented the world with almost breath taking photographs of it topo graphical splendours for de tailed knowledge however of what lies below upon and above one sector of that con tinent the survey remains un surpassed home revolutionized it makes two reasonabli provisions : japanese women have adopt ed western dresses tradition al japauese kimonos have been modified in design and cut to satisfy westernized tastes sales of foreign-style furniture curtains and car pets have increased indicating that the revolution has ex tended right into the home ... high-pressure sales me . hods and intensive publicity through mass communication media current credits for in stallment purchase sales arc estimated at about 500^000 000,000 yeu about 1,325,000 000 or 5 per cent of the na tional income definite answer needed 1 . that c o in in o n wealth goods like caaada's manu facturers be allowed to r't taill the free entry they enjoy to the british home market a ves or no answer is need ed maeh lists oil l'lesidell tie gaulle continued on page 7 the visit of mr maeniluvi to mr diefenbaker howevi r brings up a secondary ipi -■- lion : 2 that the other countries of the seven arc allowed to have a share in european unity too be united without some new formula is british membership als • the price for bringing canada land also australia ml » zealand india a s d the real of t ii c coniliionw a't'i | closer to europe i a second principle in voked then was no gaps in the common tariff no gap stand the document gives three underlying causes for these changes in food clothing and housing on the debit side the report points to a certain lack of bal ance in the development of consumption here on its side the common market has offered a compro niisc on the tricky problem •>: agriculture during the past season too the shackleton which has been supporting the john bis eoc in the relief of the bases has taken part in a magnetic survey of what is known as the scotia arc a vast sub marine ridge running from south icorgia through the various groups of islands to the south shetlands by mea suring variations in the earth's magnetic field the young scien tists aboard have been study if this position has been modified too aud it is agreed common wealth countries can keep their open door to th british market the final htep to what may be the closest practicable atlantic union may even be possible 1 japanese housewives want to save labour a tendency which is reflected in a phe nomenal increase in the sales of canned food ham sausages and other processed foods in stant curry and rice instant soups and chinese noodles japanese women no longer spend the time they used to on making clothes tttey now prefer to buy readymade clothes both for themselves and for their children nearly one-third of the ja panese households still remain in the low-income bracket al though their percentage in the total population has declined yet the atlantic powers would be deluding themselves if they failed to see that th two trickiest ipiestions re main unanswered if the answers prove to be yes then there is increasing conviction here that it would be britain's duty to apply for membership misleading ads for instance no form of as sociate b-hmbt libit has yet been offered by t h e common market to switzerland aus ii iii sweden norway den mark portugal and others consumers costs particu larly the price of services and house reuts have risen by about 1 per cent each year since 1951 this the british und stand is also the view of the new l'nited states adminis tration the british aim is an atlan tic union in which the six and the seven arc associated eco nomically in a single com moii market tariffs against the l'nited states are reduced and canada retains its parti cular link.s with britain btti it is necessary to get the answers absolutely clear it is felt here because if th answers were not yes n s i only new thinking would hi necessary but urgent new ae ing the nature of the rocks below the ocean floor thereby tracing the connections be tween the scotia arc and the andes mountains of south clearly europe cannot be improvements in the way of life have taken place mainly in phases of secondary import ance protein continues to be the staple food for many jap anese while new houses built here are below western stand ards united while these countries are excluded some are als > members of nato and dis parate treatment of them is simply unthinkable 2 the use of durable con sumer goods has spread rapid ly iu reci nt years before world war ii it was the sign of the upper middle class to own a radio sewing machine or electric fan naur every other household iu the cities has a television set a camera and a washing machine while the sale of refrigerators an 1 vacuum cleaners is increasing three vessels the john bis coe the shackleton and the the question is if britain asks to join the common mar ket will this aim be further ed i america kista dan the latter charter . . ___.•_.• ed to supplement the work of , " £? 1 " , ' c *"**» w ot the other two serve the sur s *''' lltlfi ** la,a l *»» ous p vev in antarctic waters the ncna sometimes occur which kista dan has recently re t 11 , ' 1 ' a " en i r *' 1 >' u " v fie1 ' 1 turned to britain bearing , t b 2 has wf aboard hei the first party of i 1 w,,h *■ surve >"- durlu " young men to return home *• » a '? t u \ w **" p m this year the two other ves £"* has j f "' th ' sels will he back within the *&**. () " t 1 '** <' arth s surface space of the next few weeks "*, . j » 1 i t ' t v tes " ith bringing witl them their com w .' k ' h ! he °» r,h . ls }%** c0{x ' plemeiit of scientists and tech " u1 "" ,| v bombarded from nicians who have not onlv " ut ' r spae '- those fa,1,n * m withstood the rigours of two a,,tar '* tl *' a ■» nf peculiar ln antarctic winters at the bases ,, ' n ' st *""''' h "' v an ' «"*■■»> maintained bv the survcv but un *" ta,n u:lu ' ,] '*> **"*•*•* in who also bring with ' them *■" l r " xl,1 » , . v - li british membership <. he common market left th ion yet during the unsuccessful free-trad area negotiations one principle on which france dug in its toes along with the officials of the com mon market was this xo benefits without duties there is still a serious lag in the adjustment of social ameni ties including city traffic running water sewage waste disposal and roads to west ern ways and there is insuf ficient protection for consum ers against misleading ad vertisements and high-pres sure sales methods tyler refrigeration international c.a modern self service refrigeration modern shelving a free store planning service gilbert darrell phone 2-0349 free napkins countries should not get the advantages of membership it was declared without accept ing the obligations has this position been modi tied if it has a dramatic step to fuller unity becomes possible ivisonali/ei with every order of income increases wedding invitations 3 there is a notable trend toward leisure consumption including television viewing travelling and sport during the last year 47 per cent of urban households made excur sions lasting more than two days excluding travel for business or trips organized by schools for educational pur poses five basic causes have help ed the japanese to implement these changes says the report these are : the unity press princess st dial 1 3384 if it has not went em europe obviously cannot yet brooke painstaking scientific data samples of ice from surface level down to some sixty feet containing these meteorites were brought hack tt britain two seasons ago for examina tion by dr parkin of the liverpool college of techno logy on opening the bottles dr parkin to his great sur prise found that they con tained fungi bond which will increase the edifice comics tea comics planned parenthood is clinics 1 a sharp rise in the gen eral level of income the cur rent level of consumption is about 25 per cent above the pre-world war ii standard 2 the results of technologi cal innovation which has pro duced new products such as plastic rcsiir and synthetic textiles and reduced the co-t of production of many goods a television set priced at 143,000 yen about 379 in 195*1 wm sells for 63,000 yen about 167 economical every saturday phone 1-3121 for appointment the ijuestion immediately arose a.s to whether this fungi had lain inert in the antarctic for perhaps half a century borne there from the upper atmosphere or whether the ice samples had become con taminated in transit from the antarctic this year specially prepared bottles were sent down for the collection of fur ther samples and arc now being examined to find out whether there is yet another fascinating aspect of the an tarctic deep freeze system sensational new recorder comic f i amilton : kingsley clinic section worthwhile • reading • • . containing somerset 10 pages with 14 different features aimed at . . . for your whole fomlty bllthn world-famous pogos nfvfh chrlstlon science usnaor enjoy erwin x canhom's newest storios penetrotlna notional ond ln tnmottonor news coveroge how-to-do features homo making ideas evnry issue brings you helpful eosy-to nodartlcle the armoury st george's pleasing both young and old alike 3 changes in the social structure which laid the foun the armoury meet once more your old friends alley oop the little people boots in addition to boots cut-outs captain easy the nut bros the wide view sir vivian fuchs is now looking ahead to the next sea son's projects and hopes to go south again himself being anything but an armchair ex plorer the antarctic treaty which has called a halt to painful and costly rivalry on the continent has obviously opened up a new era sir vi vian and his survey colleagues are more than satisfied with the way it is operating bring ing about a completely free interchange of scientific in formation and planning where once secrecy was the order of the day i you eon get this interna tional doily newspoper from boston by mall without nxtro charge um tho cou pon below to start your subscription we deliver farm-fresh wc don't want history written simply as though the historian can only see from london from paris if he is sitting in paris from bombay if he i»s sitting in bombay from peking if he is sitting in peking we want the histori an to try make a point of view which is greater than any of those senarate points of view and which stands above and apart from them — geoffrey barraclough re search 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