1948 May 27 Young America Magazine Peru X-Ray Cameras Fishing Cover Olympics

Description: Good condition. 16 pages Photo of Cookie Lavagetto Greyhound ad, Nesbitt’s California orange soda ad, Kodak Duaflex full page camera ad, Union oil company of California full page ad, Fighting Father Dunne Pat O’Brien movie ad. Some of the contents. GREATEST OF ALL SPORTS EVENTS. Flags of 48 nations were carried at 10th Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1932. Ancient Greeks held first Olympics ----------- 2 ----------- WIN A FREE TRIP TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN ENGLAND! ----------- 4 ----------- HOMES FOR THE ATHLETES. The British Olympic Committee is building a village (above) where 1,500 visiting athletes will be housed this summer. WEMBLEY STADIUM, where track and field events will be held, can seat nearly 100,000 spectators. Photo below shows the crowd at a soccer qame. ----------- 4 ----------- SOME OME YOUNG AMERICA reader will receive the thrill of a lifetime this summer.. , an all-expense-paid trip to London to watch the historic Olympic Games! You may be that reader, if you follow these instructions: 1. Write an essay between 200 and, 500 words on the subject: BUILDING INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP THROUGH SPORTS. 2. Mail this essay to YOUNG AMERICA Olympic Contest, 32 East 57 St., New York 22, N. Y., in an envelope postmarked not later than midnight, June 15, 1948. That is all you have to do. YOUNG AMERICA'S judges will read each en- try and pick just one winner on the basis of neatness, clear thinking and content. The decision of the judges will be final and the winner will be notified of his selection by mail or telegram before July 5, 1948. The contest is open to boy and girl readers. Here is a picture of what lies ahead for the winner: During the last week in July, he or she will be brought to New York City by the editors of YOUNG AMERI- CA and placed aboard a British Over- seas Airways plane bound for Lon- don. ----------- 6 ----------- Page 4 YOUNG AMERICA Peru Once Ruled a Mighty Empire FIRST INCAS, THEN SPANIARDS HELD SWAY ----------- 6 ----------- FIRST IN WHICH HAS BEEN the richest and most powerful country in South America through most of its his- tory? Brazil? Argentina? No, the answer is Peru. That answer may surprise you. For Peru today is only a shadow of her former glory. We think of the Incas in connec- tion with Peru, but the greatness of the country dates from long before the Incas. When Paris was only a cluster of huts, the Indians of Peru had built cities of huge stone blocks. They had built irrigation systems that are still in use. W was an Indian word for The Incas were really the ruling family which conquered Peru in the 1100's. The Incas ruled an empire, stretching for 3,000 miles, now Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and half of Chile. "Inca" "ruler." including what are Complete Dictatorship Under the Incas, Peru was a com- pletely socialist dictatorship. No one owned property. Everyone worked for the government. The people were told where to live, what to eat and even how to cut their hair. Peru had an excellent system of highways, better than it has today. There were two main roads running north and south, 2,000 miles long and 10 to 20 feet wide. These roads were paved with a material like con- crete, They ran through rock tun- nels and across suspension bridges. The early Spaniards heard of the gold and silver jouul ----------- 8 ----------- HE DOCTOR shakes his head. "There may be a fracture," he says. "We'll take an x-ray." You stand in front of an x-ray screen while a photo- graph is made. Then the doctor can see for certain if a bone is broken. Most people know how x-ray pho- tography helps doctors and dentists. Not so well known is the fact that X-rays are widely used in factories. A machinist suddenly discovers a flaw in a piece of steel on which he has been working. The piece has to be thrown away, and the man's time has been wasted. To avoid such losses, many facto- ries today make x-ray photographs of the metal before it is sent to the machine shop. The x-rays can detect any hidden cracks and air holes. THEY Teach as Well as Amuse You have seen moving pictures that entertain and educate. Films are used in the classroom as well as in the theater. You may not know that movie films are also helping scientists and factory workers. There is a movie camera which can take pictures at super speeds, It can take as many as 3,000 pictures each second. The average movie cam- era snaps 16 pictures per second. Super-speed cameras can photo- graph action that is too fast for the human eye to see. They can photo- graph a fast-moving piece of ma- chinery, or the splash of a heavy object into a liquid. Then the film can be shown at slow speeds, so that every detail can be studied. Super-speed photography can show, a factory engineer why a cer- tain machine isn't working pronerly ----------- 8 ----------- FINDING FLAWS IN IRON. X-ray cameras save much time in factories by detecting flaws in metal. Here a worker prepares to x-ray a large casting. X-Ray Cameras Aid Industry SUPER-SPEED LENSES ALSO USED ----------- 9 ----------- IN STRIFE TORN PALESTINE. A horrified Jewish mother carries her chilc as she flees from her bombed home in Jerusalem. The explosion kille 52 people. Jews and Arabs are dying daily in the 'war for the Holy Lanc MOURNING FOR A MAN OF PEACE. Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India" millions and life-long foe of violence, was slain by an assassin in January Photo below shows followers of Gandhi praying before his portrait in Lor don. All over the world, men paid tribute to this great fighter for peace ----------- 11 ----------- May 27, 1948 YOUNG AMERICA SPEECH for Memorial Day ----------- 11 ----------- YOU HAD asked any of the stu- dents of Bournemouth what he thought of Charlie Fischer, he'd have wracked his brains for a moment. "Charlie ?" he'd probably have said. "Charlie's a nice guy. Always going out for some team or other, but he's just too small." Charlie was small for an athlete. What the students at Bournemouth didn't know was that Charlie Fisch- er's father had been a great all- around athlete in school back in Ohio. Charlie was determined to fol- low in his footsteps...or at least to try his best. There was another reason, to0... Charlie was second string quar- terback on the Jay-Vees, reporter on the school paper (his father had been an editor of his school paper), substitute forward in basketball, and a member of the second baseball squad. His one moment of glory had come when he was winner of the wrest- ling tournament in the 125-pound class, a sport where he could meet an opponent on even terms. Once when the Varsity scrimmag- ed the Jay-Vees and Charlie had stopped Denny Mitchum, the 190 pound fullback, with a bone-crushing tackle that could be heard in the locker room, the head coach shook his head. ----------- 13 ----------- YOUNG AMERICA Four Days of Fun in Old Virginia GIRL SCOUTS MAKE TOUR OF HISTORIC SPOTS ----------- 13 ----------- May (Continued from page 10) ize which has prevented him from outstanding athlete. becoming Behind Charlie Fischer's efforts lies a story which very few people know. Perhaps someday Charlie himself will tell that story." Of course, Charlie's friends con- gratulated him, but they also kidded him...with the usual remarks that referred to his size. Corny gags like, "Your words won't carry enough weight," and "You haven't the strength to grip the audience." Memorial Day dawned bright and. clear, and the weather moved re- verently in, with a blessing touch. It was a big day for the school with an exhibition of arts and crafts, a luncheon, and a Bournemouth-Col- ton baseball game. The auditorium was crowded with parents and alum-, ni veterans. On the platform were gathered many important people of the town.. an "Help Them If You Can" When Charlie Fischer stood up he seemed to have grown in stature. The audience seemed to sense his deep sincerity. He spoke first of the handicapped veterans in hospitals who are leading not their real lives, but substitutes for them. "Visit them," Charlie urged, "and help them if you can. Treat them as if they were whole and well by meeting wounded veterans have given up the them half-way. These ----------- 15 ----------- Page 12 YOUNG AMERICA Sports Roundup for the School Year OLYMPIC GAMES TO HOLD SUMMER SPOTLIGHT ----------- 15 ----------- RE YOU a sports fan? Do you en- joy traveling? Would you like to fly to England this summer for the Olympic Games...all expenses paid? If the answer to these questions is "yes," you'd better look at Page 3 of this issue of YOUNG AMERICA. Believe it or not, you might win such a trip! The Olympic Games, by the way, are by far the biggest sports event in the world, Almost every nation sends its best athletes to compete in the track, field, swimming, row- ing and many other events. Because of the war, there have been no regular Olympic Games since 1936. This means that many of you readers have probably heard very little about them. Perhaps the first you read about them was the news coverage of the Winter Olympics this past winter in Switzerland. Believe your old Uncle Bench Warmer...this chance for a reader of YOUNG AMERICA to go to the Olym- pics is really extra special! The contest, by the way, is not really sponsored by YOUNG AMERICA, but by the British Olympic Commit- tee in London. This group is bring- ing representatives of several na- tions to the games as sort of "Am- bassadors of Good Will." You can imagine how proud we ...

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