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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-11-09, Page 244,0.14 -AL; 1. SALLY'S SALLIES 77/ l eeee-enneennie 'I can't learn to love Homer. My education's neglected," yOu been BOY GIRL? Someday sodn doctors May deliver oil order, QUINT'S TWINS—One of the famous Dionne quintuplets, Mrs Cecile Langlois, presents her twin spns, Bruno (left) and Bertrand, She and her husband, Philippe, like i n. Sillery, just outside Quebec. They have two other sons, one 3 qnd the other 14 months. (Photo from Redbook Magazine.) 13ritish Cuotonieo.. A.re Still Patjent We went bowling the other night .in, a London sttburb„ rather, we tried to, When our group arrived, we were told there was a waiting list fOr leys. Our pame went down as eighteenth on the !ost. An hour later, after we had studied the style .of the other bowlers and eOnstrined a considerable qUen- tity of hamburgers arid. milk shakes, •we departed • without having downed a single pin. that time, our name had worked itself up to about tenth on the list, Conclusion: Britain can use more bowling centers.. Addition- al installations, one knows, are planned. The,• are very expen- sive, it is true. But one wonders if there could not be a little un-British haste in meeting an obviously booming demand, Or take cars. At the request of an American friend, we tele- phoned the London agency of a certain fine, not inexpensive motor vehicle, Could we order a certain model for people ar- riving two weeks hence who wished to avoid a delay upon arrival? They were willing to cable whatever deposit was nec- essary. "Oh, no," was the reply. 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'Then what about the new model?" we inquired, they replied, "but of course there is big backlog of orders and a five-month wait for that one," ConclUSIOnt If a, few mere of these particular cars Were prO- duced, one suspects they could be sold, The next day, we were so,p, prised to read 1,000 workers of that particular company had been laid off, due to a shortage of carburetors. The carburetors were in short supply because one man of the carburetor fac- tory refused to join a union net Of his choice. Fewer carburet- ors, fewer cars. Thus one man's impact can be felt by a would- be purchaser on the West Coast of the United, States. Or take school clothing out- fitters. Many a mother and dad have had the experience of try- ing to replenish a child's ward- robe at stores devoted only to such outfits—or at establishments maintaining a major school clothes department — only to be told that perfectly standard needed items are out of stock for weeks to come. One can understand why per- sonal name tapes should take a long time; they can't be kept in readiness. But how about shirts and socks, dresses and &twee? The popularity of bowling may decline, and expensive cars be replaced by "minis," but chil- dren are always going to school. and the numbers are increasing. Would a store lose by ordering a few dozen more pajamas and blazers than it knows it sold last year?, asks Henry S. Hay- ward in the Christian Science Monitor. These random examples in the fields of entertainment, tran- sportation, and personal wear illustrate one feature of the British economy of today. In certain areas, it tends surprising- ly to tolerate long-term scarci- ties, Articles in short supply remain in short supply indefini- tely—the buying public seems inured to the situation. Yet individuals here will com- plain vigorously about the lack of courtesy or service. We re- cently heard a woman give a whole busload of passengers a tongue lashing for failing' to of- fer their seats to a man whose physical handicap was not im- mediately apparent. Others write letters to newspapers cit- ing in full detail the shorthorn- ings of a restaurant, a train meal, or a vacation resort. Yet if they are told very poli- tely a certain article cannot be obtained, they usually accept this situation without protest. Perhaps this is a holdover from the days of wartime and •post- war shortages. But it suggests a certain lethargy in production and merchandising that Britain may not be able to afford when it finds itself in full competi- tion with the European Com- mon Market group. The theory seems to be that it is preferable to be sold out while demand' still is brisk than to be left with some unsold items on the shelf. For a tight- knit country, carefully balanc- ing its imports and exports, this doubtless is less wasteful than the American system of produc- ing to the upper limits of de- mand—and a bit more, One thing you can say for the British .scarcity system is that when you do obtain the desired car, house, bowling alley, or football boots, you appreciate it that, much more. The man who sold his 100-acre farm for $10,000 some years ago has a grandson who carte back to the farm—now "Rifle Ridge Acres"—and paid $30,000 for a house on 10,000 square feet of whet was once grandpa's prop- erty. DRIVE WITH CARE I Last weekend I was gadding, this weekend I am very much at ,home — canning, pickling, baking, mending — and for re- creation trying to find something on television that isn't football! Just imagine we have six view- ing stations around here and. the program on each is a foot- ball game! No alternative any- where. Now that's what I call going to extremes, Partner en- joys football games but I couldn't care less. However, I can use my time getting this column underway especially as I have a very interesting subject to write about, Upper Canada Village, no less. No doubt you have read quite a bit about "The Village" al- ready—there was a wonderful write-up in the June issue of "Canadian Homes" but I sup- pose everyone who attempts to describe it sees it from a differ- ent angle. My enjoyment of the visit was increased because I was one of a group of thirty who travelled by chartered train coach, bus and boat. We were five hours on the train each way but since we had a coach to ourselves it was five hours of chatter, fun and laughter. At Cornwall a bus was waiting for us and immediately took us some miles out of town to a very comfortable motel and restaur- ant. After dinner we did as we liked until bedtime. Next morning our sight-see- ing began in earnest. A bus took us down to the docks where we got on a boat for a two-hour cruise through the seaway, But I forgot—en route we first stopped briefly at the monument at Chrysler's Farm, it was im- pressive, as were the murals symbolizing thaBattle of 1812, The boat trip was most inter- esting and enjoyable. All the principal features were described to us by our guide and commen- tator. For instance we were told when we were passing over old cemeteries and graveyards now flooded by the seaway. Before the floOding owners of cemetery plots were told by the Ohtario Government that family remains could be moved to higher ground at government expense. Or, if the owners so desired, headstones could be moved and the graves left undisturbed—in which case tons and tons of rock would be dropped over the site to prevent erosion, In most cases relatives of those long since buried preferred to leave the graves as they ware. Then the guide pointed out to us a large cemetery in the distance that had been set aside to accommo- date either the remains or the headstones from graves in the Old burying grounds, This com- munity cemetery was divided into three sections to suit the various religious denominations. We did not go through the locks but we passed them, And of course the huge Bobert Sehh- ders Power Station,- both really impressive sights. After the boat trip we were given lunch by the Ontario Government at the old Willard's Hotel in the Village. It was a lovely lunch that fitted right in with the environments — cold turkey, home-cured ham and all the ft-Ifni-Mho, with gobs of Wonderful homemade bread Made right in the village bake- shop. After lunth we toured the buildings—the parson's house, the doctor's, the schoelmaster's and so on. What particularly appealed to me was the village store, also Cook's Tavern, It was so easy to imagine it peo- pled by the storekeeper and his customers and the inn-keeper and the frequenters of his tav- ern. They both looked like something out of Dickens. And there was the blacksmith shop. The forge was actually in op- eration and as the embers died the "smitty" would work the bellows and revive the embers, In the handicraft section wo- men in period costume were spinning, weaving, quilting and mat-making in rooms furnished according to the period in which they lived. In the kitchen were masterpieces of authentic prod- uction—white ironstone dishes,. Gay, Thrifty Gifts eam.W6efki. Whip up a pair for yourself, other for gift-giving! Choose corduroy or a plain cotton fabric, Jiffy! Two pieces plus sole for boot or ballet style, Pattern 944: cross-stitch transfer; pattern pieces for small, medium, large, extra large sites included. 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On the other hand there is the preservation of the essentials of life to the early settlers 'of Upper Canada who sowed the seeds of our prosper- ity. They lived in an age when no one could exist without courage and fortitude—and re- sourcefulness, They endured hardships that can scarcely be imagined by our present gen- eration. Only they did not look upon them as hardships, To them the extreme forces of na- ture; the "black death"; the"day by day privations were all part of the price that had to be paid for the privilege of living in a new land with all its opportun- ities for the future. I wonder —do you think those brave souls —if they know—are;:esdatisfiecl with what their descendants `have done with their heritage? Summer Vacations A Month Too Long? A symposium of youths-on- the-street concerning proposals for an 11-month school year drew a preponderantly negative reaction, as we had every 'reason to expect. Who but the inordin- ately ambitious or impatient among them could be expected to favor a reduction of vacation time from two months to one? And perhaps it ill behooves any adult, with all his school vacations safely behind him, and their memories securely pre- served, as it were, in amber, to suggest that the younger gen- eration should foreswear sum- mer loafing. Yet we suspect the handwriting, as they say, is on the wall. As *far as rest and recreation —the reasons put forward bed' the young objectors our staff in- terviewed—are concerned, we would guess that the older gen- eration needs these benefits more than youngsters. . . Even with an 11-month school year, kids would still have a month of freedom, a vacation longer than most adults enjoy. This does not take into account the generous respites they get at Christmas, and Easter, The most compelling reason for the 11-month year is that it would make more economical and efficient use of school facil- ities in an era when they are unequal to the demand. It would also turn out graduates with a great saving in time, a consid- eration that may come to be of critical importance in the great international competition f o r trained minds, The way we have it, the two- month vacation originated out of the need a 'couple of generation's ago,_ to put the kids to work on the family fariii during the sum- Men If we are going to keep it perhaps we had better arrive at some justification that is more in tune with the realities of our day. — btar-News (Pesidena, Calif.) Modern EOqtiefte Be, Anne Ashley 0, When a imzn calls a tz:i for a woman, Wheel he is Min 'able to acconipithy to her deetiin atibrii how floes he arrange 10 pay her fare? It seines asvinvattl to give het the. Meilen A. No, don't thrust the cab fare at the woman. Ask the driver what the approximate fare will be,. a pay him in advance, includ—g a tie. iISSCE-- 41 16U Two Survived the Green Jungle Some 000 miles northwest of the political uproar in 13rasilln lies an area that few white men have ever dared to explore and fewer still have ever survived, This is the "green heir belov- ed of! Hollywood adventure wri- ters, an nhri* inineneteable jungle of 100-foot-high trees, orchids the size of soup plates, and deadly al44amPs, Here, around the still uncharted head- waters of the leiri River, which runs into the Xingu and then the Amazon, ancient Portuguese chronicles reported' a fabled "post City" where the wens were marble and the rivers ran with gold. One famous explorer who tried to find the lost city Was Britain's Col. Percy Fawcett who entered the jungle in 1925 and never returned. Though his wife kept insisting that she re- ceived telepathic messages from him, several different rescue parties returned empty-handed, convinced that Fawcebt had been murdered by the poison darts of the few primitive tribesmen who inhabit the jungle. Last spring, another Englishman left London to follow the same trail. He was Richard Mason, 26, an Oxford graduate in his final year as a medical student at St. Thomas's Hospital. Three years ago, he became the first man to cross the continent of South America by jeep at its widest point, from Recife, Brazil, to Lima, Peru. Last April, after bidding fare- well to his sweetheart, a beau- tiful model named Penny Knowles, he set off with two 'friends to chart the 'headwaters of the Iriri and then navigate down it to the Xingu River and thence to the great Amazon it- self, 800 miles away. In Brazil, the three joined forces with seven Brazilians and flew to a base camp at Cachim- bo. From there, they set out on By WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK -- (NEA) — "The lab report is quite satisfactory," the doctor tells the young cou- ple, "so you should certainly be able to have a baby, "Now, what would you like: a boy or a girl?" This seemingly ridiculous piece of business is being' trans- acted today in an increasing number of U.S. medical offices with anywhere from 60 to 82 per cent success as the science of experimental genetics begins to solve a problem as old, prob- ably, as mankind. Geneticists have suspected for many years that the child's sex depends on the father's genes. But only recently have labora- tory techniques isolated the male and female carriers in sperm, Which one gets through to fer- tilize the egg depends, research- ex's are finding, on answers to three rhaih aveunes Of inqiiiry: The time of conception, Stu- dies show some 60 per cent more boys are born to young mothers than to old, and to Mothers who conceive at the peak-point , of ovulation rather than before or Afton The means of conception.. In one series of artificial insem- ination cases under controlled conditions, 76 per cent of the- births were boys. Predictability might be even Mare aedutate, some experimenters 'reason', if the union of egg arid selected sperm were managed in a test tube and then transplanted to the mother's womb, It has' Worked quite Well in The in ether's 'frame Of Mind. In one c-ritiritiing, 15-year-old stutlyi, vr,..spealve Mothers are ley thought was the ut after several weeks, they found it was the wrong river, With supplies and fuel running short, one of the Britons, John gemming g(l, son of a London Publisher, was sent back to summon help — but the Air Force was too busy with the political crisis to airlift supplies. desperation, Hemming radio- ed Rio to ask the Hritish Erne bossy to organize a relief air- drop. As rescue operatiOns were set in motion, another message came from the jungle airstrip at Ca- chimbo, Harra,ssed by savage Indians, the party had hacked its way through the rain for- ests. A plane flew in with food and medicine, but it was too late to save Richard Mescal. While he was hunting fox food, e band of tribesmen, startled by the sight of a white man, had ambnehed and killed him with their blowguns, As the two sur- viving Britons prepared to bring his body home, the mystery of the Lost City remained locked in the jungle. — From NEWS- WEEK. Now that they are bringing back many reminders of other years why not reintroduce the factory-type of whistle for office workers who need a more effec- tive reminder than a time clock. given a picture of their choice— baby boy or girl—and asked to look at it carefully and thought- fully every day, even after con- ception. In these mind-over-mother at- tempts, researchers report 82 per cent success in 360 cases, Well, you can see how it's all beginning to add up to easier living. No muss, no fuss, no tedious hours of picking out al- ternate names or last-minute rush to color-coordinate the nursery. Only one small problem re- mains—the human race. Under the obsolete system of nature, the birth rate of the sexes was about equal-105.5 boys born for every 100 girls. But it doesn't take a very bright cultural anthropologist to recog- nize that babies-on-order can lead to chaos. SERGEANT AT EASE—The answer to on army private's drearrii model' Yore/ Yecilin relaxes by d pool In Toronto. Yard was once eeenearit the Some Day You Might Be Able To Choose The Sex Of Your Child The results Of genetics expert, merits already indieate that peo- ple want more boys than girls. Arid as geneticists can tell you, it's not a very good choice for the race, The human male, studies show, IS less resistant to disease, radiation, arid the stress and' strain of everyday life than the .female. The male is a poorer operative risk, expends more energy in muscular work, re- quites More food, gets less good out of it, and lives fewer years, than the feinale, There is, of course,, some dis- tant likelihood that the Male Will no longer be necessary for reproduction, Experiments in parthitiogenesis: li a v e already produced animals from unfertil- ized eggs. But in the mearititrie, another federal i'egulatory agency On the horizon