The Brussels Post, 1948-3-3, Page 6A Different Sort of "High Wire Artist".—Although designed
primarily to show just what electric current means to Cana-
dians, the National Film Board picture "ELECTRICITY" does
so in a most interesting manner, far removed from the style of
the average 'educational' film. ,This is just one of the many
exciting scenes.
Film Shows What Electricity
Means to Average Canadian
"Electricity" is an interesting
example of a film technique which
is becoming increasingly popular.
To begin with, an educational or
instructional angle is involved —
here it happens to be explaining the
how and why of electricity to
yoting people. But the technique
is not that of the dry fact and
figure -laden text -book, as you might
e x p c t from the title. Rather,
it is a picture story from real
life, in which electricity is explain-
ed in terms of the uses to which
it is put.
"Electricity" opens with a young
lad who lives in an "average"
Canadian town. In his home he
has become accustomed to a num-
ber of electrical appliances—irons,
heaters, lights, and so on. He is
so used to these things that he
takes them for granted — never
wondering how they carte to be,
or what makes them work.
Voyage of Discovery
Suddenly he does begin to won-
der; just what is this electricity,
and where does it come from? So,
taking the last point first, the
yuung lad and a group of his
friends trace the electrical con-
nections in his hone to the power
wires which bring the "juke"
from the hydro wires on the street
to the house.
Having made this discovery, our
young enquirers set out to dis-
co er where the hydro wires lead.
They trace then along the streets
to a transformer, and from there
to a hydro -electric plant. At this
plant they learn a great deal about
the fundamentals of electricity.
Practical and Interesting
Thus the instructional angle of
the film is purely practical — and
it is blended into an interesting
story. The story becomes all the
more interesting, from both dra-
matic and educational viewpoints,
when the hydro -electric plant is
temporarily put out of action —
and the community's power supply
is cut off. This gives an excellent
opportunity to illustrate the vital
importance of electric power in our =
complex world.
"Electricity" is being shown cur-
rently on the rural circuit school
film programmes in Ontario
counties, under the sponsorship of
the Federations of Agriculture, the
Department of Education, and the
National Film Board.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By William Ferguson
"A WELL DRILLER MAKES HIS
MONEY BY GOING? IN THE
HOLE/' Says
GILBERT A. HANKS,
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COMES FROM THE LATIN
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M ANCIENT ROMAN SOLDIERS
PAY WHICH WAS PAID IN
SALT,
BODE SSIAND,
OVER NINETY
PERCENTOFj,'IB PEOPLg
LIVE IN TOWNS MP CITIES,
COrli 1944 eV NEA SERV .INC.
T, M eta b, a Set Orr.
The Other
Woman
By
MARION BOMBED
Whet the alarm rang at seven in
the grey morning. Henry reached
out quickly and shut it off before
it wakened Isabel. Quietly, Hen=
ry got up and groped his way to
the bathroom.
It was the usual beginning of
his day, but on this particular
morning he felt a little rebellious.
He thought of Isabel, still lying
asleep, her dark hair spread out
on the pillow, ..er red mouth curv-
ed in a hrtlf smile. When they
were first married she used to get
up and prepare breakfast for hint.
Now that the children were old
enough to fend for themselves he
had to make his own coffee and
toast as best he could before hur-
rying down to the store.
m s •
He couldn't say just when it had
happened but sometime during the
10 years of their married life, Isa-
bel had changed from a devoted
young bride to a spoiled wife who
took her husband vary much for
granted. It was probably just as
much his fault as hers; he was so
mild and easygoing that it seemed
natural for people to impose on
him. Even at his own table, the
children seemed .in league with
Isabel against him.
Look at Morley Campbell and
his wife now- Morley was a sales-
man in the department store where
Henry worked as a window dres-
ser. He had been married a good
many years but his wife always
was fussing over him. Henry
thought of Morley a little envious-
ly and wondered if he dared ask
him the secret of his marital bliss.
The opportunity presented itself
that very day when they happened
to be lunching together. A little
timidly, Henry broached. the sub-
ject:
"Er . . . uh . I've noticed
how your wife always makes a fuss
over you, Morley. How do you
do it—hold her interest, I mean?"
"Oh, 1 keep her guessing. Fou
know, let her feel that you still find
other women attractive. That's the
'ray to treat 'en,, Henry old wan.'
At supper that night he started
his campaign. Isabel was talking
about a new way she wanted to
have her hair done.
"I think that's the way Linda
wears her hair and it certainly
looks smart," Henry commented.
Isabel looked up in surprise.
"Linda? Who is she?"
"One of the girls at the store—
very attractive. She ahvays wears
tine smartest clothes."
"Really, Henry, I didn't know
you were so observant." Isabel was
a little piqued but she looked at
her husband with new interest.
* * •
After that hardly a day went
by that Henry did not mention
Linda and his casual remarks were
not lost on Isabel. Though she
,would not have admitted it, she
was a little jealous and more than
a little curious. Never before had
her husband appeared interested
10 another woman.
So she sat up and took notice of
her meek husband as she hadn't
done for years. She put herself•
out to be amusing and helpful.
When he cane home at night there
was always a good dinner, with his
Too Much Rain
For Rainmakers
A scientific rainmaking expedi-
tion, well supplied with dry ice to
drop into clouds, went to Rich-
mond Airdrome, near Sydney, Aus-
tralia. to do something about the
weather. The weather was hot and
dry, the air clear.
The scientists briefed the pilots
of special planes from which the
first suitable cloud was to be struck
by dry ice. Observers set up instru-
ments to record the experiment.
The expedition waited tensely for
a suitable cloud. One. came and
rain started before the scientists
could get the dry ice unpacked. It
rained the next day, also without
help
The rain turned into a blizzard
that capped tine mountain peaks
around Sydney with snow. It rained
a total of twenty-five days, the
longest wet spell Sydney had had in
summer in twenty-seven years.
The scientists packed up their
equipment and went home.
Aims To Please
Husband (irritably) : "That's the
second floe you've naked what
tromps are dear."
Wife (sweetly) : "Well, you want
me to show a little interest in the
game, don't you, dear?"
favorite dishes carefully prepared.
When he had to work late one
evening, he made it a point to let
his wife know that Linda had been
there too. The next morning Isa-
bel actually hopped out of bed
when the alarm rang, got his
breakfast ready and kissed hint
goodbye,
He was busy changing a display
that afternoon when he looked up
to see Isabel coming down the
aisle,
• * •
Isabel chattered away for a
while and finally asked. "By. the
way, is that girl, Linda, around?
You've been talking so much about
her lately that I'd like to meet my
glamorous rival."
Henry flushed guiltily.
"Matter of fact she isn't here to,
day," he stammered. "She ]las a
cold and couldn't come to work."
'Oh . that's too bad," Isabel
sounded genuinely disappointed.
"Will you be home early, Henry?
I was able to get a steak for din-
ner."
Henry looked after her depart-
ing figure and breathed a sigh of
relief. He had got out of that
situation neatly, he congratulated
himself, but he hoped Isabel
wouldn't come and ask for Linda
again.
It would never do, he thought, for
Isabel to discover that Linda, the
"other woman," was a very beautiful
but very lifeless mannequin in the
store window.
Do You Know Who Said That
The world is full of famous say-
ings which everybody knows, and
most people occasionally quote. But
do you know whu was first respon-
sible for saying them?
Below we give 15 of these, and
'underneath each the names of four
people, one of whom was the or'.
ginator, Answers are printed, up-
side-down, — but no fair peeking
till you', • reall- decided which is
which,
1. A woman is only a woman, but
a gocd cigar is a smoke.
a, Jimmy Durante; b. Tommy Man-
ville; c. Rudyard Kipling; d. Win-
ston Chu"chill.
2. Water, water everywhere, nor
ant drop to drink.
a.. Captain Scott, b. Coleridge; c.
Eleanor Holm; d. John Barrymore.
3. I awoke one morning and found
myself famous.
a, Papa Dionne; b. Barbara Ann
Scott; c.' 3rd Byron; d. Duke of
Windsor.
4. All the world loves a lover.
a, Ralph Waldo Emerson; b. King
Solomon; c. Robert Taylor; d. Babs
Hettot,
5, A man's home i his castle.
a. Sir Henry Pellatt; b. King
G.orge; e, Walt Disney; Edward
Coke.
8. I came, I saw, I conquered.
a. Hitler; b. Genghis Khan; c. Juli'
us Caesar; i. General Patton.
7. The public be damned.
c. Sir Adam Beck; b. John L.
Lewis; C. J. P. Morgan; d. Wut•
8. Gone with the wind.
a. Ernest Dowson; b, The Mayor of
Miami; c. Ernest Bevin; <1. Leif
Ericso.t.
9, Nothl• is certain except death
and taxes.
Premier Drew; b, Benjamin
Franklin; c. Lenin; d. Bernard
Shaw.
10, There's one Dori every minute.
a. P, T. Barnum; b. Dr. Defoe; c.
Gandhi; d.MacKenzie King.
11. All men are great in their
dreams.
a. William Shakespeare;, b. Sig-
mund Freud; c. Mussolini; d. Hen-
ry Wallace.
12. Yet each man kills the thing he
loves.
a, Oscar Wilde; b. Keats; c. Blue -
beard; d. Jeremiah,
13. What is so rarr as - day in June.
a. Tennyson; b. Cowper; c. Lowell;
d. Browning.
14. England expects every man :o
do his duty.
a. Cromwell; b• Nelson; c. King
Alfred; a. Benjamin Desraeli.
15. Let them eat cake.
a. Marie Antoinette; b. Kate Ait-
ken; c. Madame de Steel; d. P. K.
Hunt.
ANSWrRS:
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Quite
Suitor; "I have come to ask for
, the hand of your daughter."
Father: "Which one, Jane or
Helen?"
Suitor; "Jane, sit,"
Father; "Do you make enough to
support two?"
Suitor; "No, sir, One will be
enough."
MOST MOTHERS DO THIS
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throat, chest back
with VapoRub. Re-
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starts right away...
a
WORKS FOR HOURS
while child sleeps.
Often by morning
most distress of
the cold is eased.
nest -known home remedy
you can use to relieve
distress of children's colds is
comforting Vicks VapoRub.
Even while you rub it on,
VapoRub starts to work•to
ease distress ...and 1t keeps
onworking during the night.
No wonder most mothers do
this when a v M KEa
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Freedom, like anything worth having, carries a price tag.
We can't enjoy it without accepting its responsibilities.
There's freedom of speech—and we have to accept the
responsibility for what we say.
There's freedom to worship as we please—and the respon-
sibility is ours to see that others aren't persecuted, either.
'There are lots of freedoms, and they all have their
responsibilities.
The freedom to use 'whiskey for instance.
That carries a three -fold responsibility; to ourselves,
to our families and to our communities.
.4s the House of Seagram has so often said, it is to drink
moderately or not at all!
make ✓/%d�nliafe Jct i!'
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