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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-10-29, Page 6AN NE RIRST "Dear Anne Hirst: I admit right here that I was largely to blame for my wife's divorcing me two years ago. After the first year I took to drinking and sel- dom stayed at home because she had grown lazy and careless, didn't keep the house clean nor take proper care of our baby son. Finally she applied for a divorce, which I didn't want because of the baby, but since she was admanant, she got it. At first I was terribly lonesome for my son, but these past months have reconciled. me to that loss. "Now 1 have met a delightful young woman whom I have come to love deeply, She is four years older than I, and insists that the age -difference is im- portant. We get along wonder- fully, and understand each other better all the time. Each hour I spend with her only increases my love, and I am certain if I were her age she would not hesi- tate to become my wife, "As for me, I am not afraid to marry again, I have learned so well what marriage demands. I Smart School -Set Llama F/7 6)% One bright set for school, one flower -trimmed for dates with Dad! Fun, thrifty to make. Whip up cozy cap 'n' mitten set in wool, cotton, felt. Pattern 586: directions; pattern pieces for small, medium, large size; transfer of lazy -daisy flowers. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: embroidery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quilting, toys. In the book, a special surprise to make a little girl happy — a cut-out doll, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. knew I had to find a new life to live, and the only way was through will power, I have heen promoted to a responsible posi- tion, I now stay away from tav- erns and drink almost nothing. This experience, I know, has aged me. "How can I convince this love- ly young woman that I am as old as she is, if not even more mature? I don't see how I can go along without her now. BILL L." FINALLY MATURE * Your letter (which I had to. * shorten) defines your coming- * of -age. These lonely years of * self-discipline have not been * Wasted, you saw the folly of * your former ways and cast off * those habits that weakened * your character, Now you are * ready to practice the true es- * sentials that make 'for a good * marriage, It is not how many * years one has lived, it is how * one has learned to master him- * self that determines his value * ds a worth -while citizen in all * its varied relationships. Actu- * ally, in my opinion you are * older than the usual man of * your years, * This truth, coupled with the * love and understanding you * have developed for this young * woman, should be sufficient' * proof that you .have achieved * the appreciation, the tolerance * and the will to be her sympa- * thetic companion. * I hope she will not' weigh. * the calendar, but recognize the * man you are now. If she will * read what I say today (and I * have concluded my opinion * from your revealing letter) she * will no longer count the differ- * encs in years but appreciate * the manner of man you have * grown to be, and gladly give * her future into your keeping * without a single doubt. * Tell her, for me, that one of • my best friends married a man * 10 years younger, and those * who don't know her , history * believe they are the seine age, * * DANGEROUS SITUATION "Dear Anne Hirst: I am a widow 48, with five children home and five married. Some time ago I met a man who though married is getting a div- orce. He says he loves me, and I really love him. "He is at present in the hospi- tal sick. I have tried to break. off with him, but I have node- sire for any other man .Please advise me. — M.C." * If this man is getting a div- orce, ivorce, you are treading on clan-. • gerous ground to keep on visit- * ing him. Until he is free he o has no right to be seeing an- * other woman, and his wife • could make the situation very * unpleasant for you -1 fyou keep * this up. * Tell him in all kindness that, * for both your sakes, you will * have to cease these visits now. * When he can ask you to marry o him, you will consider it. • Meanwhile, stay clear of * trouble, if only for the sake of * your children. * * It is not one's age, but self- discipline one has practiced that determines his fitness for .mar- riage. If you are in doubt, write Anne Hirst about it and 'receive her honest opinion. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ROMAN HOLIDAY — Swedish actress Anita Ekberg and Italian fashion designer Emilio Schuberth smile it up in Rome, Italy. scene was an award party in which he received recognition for his fashions created far television shows. BALANCE OF POWER — Farm tractor apparently balanced on one huge finger awes visitors to a Munich, West Germany, agricultural show. The fair Is part of the country's famous October Festival. ✓ ./ r.Tl� �.�117✓.'Y-i✓ HBONICLE A‘. SINGERI7ARM I bought a hat! Actually I bought a • fall suit and a top coat first, They' met ;with fam- ily approval: Then Partner said "But what about a hat — you've got to have a new hat to go with that. outfit," So I went to town - alone — and, as I say, I bought a hat. It's about as modern as tomorrow! Really, it's a lovely number — velour felt with a high crown and scoop brim in a soft beige col- our. I wore it home and you -should have heard the com- ments. I'll give you a few sam- ples: Partner: "Holy smoke, what have you got on your head?" Dee: It's a lovely hat but it's so different. I'm not sure that I like it." Arthur: "What are you talk- ing about — your mother .looks very nice in that hat — it suits her." Bob: "The coat's all right but I don't think much of the hat." Joy: "Oh, is that ever pretty —so new and so soft and nice. I LIKE IT." V a r i o u s friends: "Really .smart ... not quite your colour .. wish I could wear a hat like that ... my word, are we ever modern .. you're not going to wear THAT — it's a joke!" So there you are — just a few of the comments, for and against, one poor little hat when mother goes shopping. A crea- tion, I must admit, that isn't quite so conservative as I've. been used to wearing. What does it matter anyway, just so long as it stirs up a little In- terest? After all it IS perfectly plain — no flowers or feathers Its only claim to smartness is its simplicity and shape, Thirty years ago the same style of headgear was very much the fashion. I can prove it by old family photographs. Nof for a Tittle matter that Is probably of more vital interest to readers of this column than my new hat, And that is Bonus Stamps! Are you for or against them? The Canadian Consumers Association is very much against them. Heads of chain stores using stamps say their customers just love therm I wonder! Well, I must admit most wom- en like the idea of getting a bargain, They love that "some- thing for nothing" feeling. The fly in the ointment is that no one ever gets anything tet nothing. We never have done. But open the newspapers and What db you see? Double -page advertisements giving all the details about the bonus gifts your trading stamps will bring you. Who do you think is pay- ing for all that advertising? We are, naturally. Chain stores soon cover' the initial cost by an ex- tra cent here and there on what we buy — and we are so used to prices going up we hardly notice the difference. Now just multiply those few odd cents by the thousands in returns to the retail distributors and it be- comes quite obvious they are having a field day, trading on the gullible nature of the aver- age housewife. Everyone knows the cost of living is sky - high. Retailers know it too. How much better it would be, and what a great service to the public at large, if retailers got together and' agreed to cut out all this "come- on" nonsense and instead ad- vertised they were offering goods to their customers at low- er prices, in proportion to the amount that is now spent on trading stamps and give-away bonuses. Sure, there are occa- sional genuine price reductions - known as weekly "loss - leaders" — 150 less on 10 pounds of sugar; or two cans of this and that for the price of one. But look around the shelves that same week and you'll probably find a mark-up on quite a num- ber of items — just to make up the difference. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, so to speak. Let Chain store officials say what they will, ALL women are not in favour of trading stamps. Many think just as I do that. they are nothing but a nuisance and increase the cost of living. For those who do collect them they are often traded in for something the person neither wants nor needs — just accept- ed to make use of the stamps. For little extras that are really needed fifty cents set aside every shopping day, and spent through t h e regular channels. would bring the same results. Well, having let loose on the subjects of hats and trading stamps I'll now come down to earth and get my jars of newly made 'mustard' pickles labelled ready for storage in the base- ment. Six pint and six half-pint jars — and the house smells like a pickle factory! Alter that is done . I must go out and get what may well be our last pick- ing of mushrooms. Bob and Joy were here yesterday and we had a big feed of mush- rooms ush- rooms for supper and there were still plenty left for them to take home. They think the wild mushrooms have far more flavour than the ones on sae in the store. I wouldn't know - we either eat what we find or go without. The Big Fight Over "Featherbedding" In New York, four stand-by musicians draw about $70 a "per- formance" for listening to the two pianists who actually play the accompaniment to Broad- way's "Billy Barnes Revue," Across the country in San Fran• eisoo, a bunch of brawny Teams- ters helpers collect a total of about $1,000 a day for watching fork -lifts unload trucks for them mechanically, And throughout the nation, railroads pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to employes they don't want and can't use. It all falls under the name of feather -bedding, the "make work" curse that costs American industry" (and, in the long run, the American consum- er) an estimated total of $2 bil- lion a year. Last month, with featherbed- ding the big issue in labor nego- tiations or outright strikes in- volving nearly 2 millions work- ers, the economic fat was in the fire. Bolstered by steel's un- yielding stand, company after company was girding itself for the showdown battle. After a quarter-century of giving in to labor demand's, American indus- try was showing labor that the boss is still really the boss, "The basic question," says John E. Swearingen, president of Standard Oil of Indiana, is whether management or union is to determine how many people are to be employed and at what work." Wayne A. Johnston, down-to-earth president of the Illinois Central Railroad, puts it this way: "There is no desire on the part of management to rule with an iron hand . . to be cruel,` But featherbedding is wrong and destroys the funda- mental principles by which a man makes his living," No one doubts that rank -and - file unionists are ready to fight, as in the case of steel, to pro- tect their time -hallowed work practices. Employers, in many cases, must take the risk of a lengthy strike .for the .simple reason that they can't afford not to. Inflation is boosting costs at the same time that foreign com- petition is growing, cutting into sales. Then there is automation. Companies find all too often that new automatic equipment fails to produce -the expected; savings because union rules keep extra men on the payroll. "We have no alternative," says Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association. of American Railroads. "The million men and women who, work in this indus- try can no longer tolerate the bloodletting imposed by feather- bedding." "When times were good," observes a West Coast businessman, "it was too easy to give in to union demands. But last year, many companies found their responsibilities had been whittled away to the point where they couldn't discharge their duties. Now, they're trying to remedy the situation." Railroads probably suffer the most. Industry spokesmen fig- ure the cost of "make work" on the rails at more than $500 mil- lion a year, roughly 10 per cent of the railroad's total payroll and about 5 per cent of all revenues. "What hurts most," notes one railroad observer, "Is the fact that 23 states have laws legaliz- ing featherbed practices," and sixteen even contribute to fea- therbedding via 'excess, crew' laws requiring unneeded person- nel on trains." Clair M. Roddewig, president of the Association of • Western Railways, says that the rail heads have known ever since diesels started sending steam locomotives to the scrap yards about ten years ago that sooner or later they would have to come to grips wi'els the problem. With the industry's three-year moratorium on changes in work- ing rules ending Oct. 31, at the same time that present work contracts expire, Roddewig and the nation's other railroad lead- ers figure the time to redraw the line is now. The Association of American Railroads has already .announced it will try: (1) Yo end the anti- quated rule that 10Q miles et freight travel or 100 to 150 miles on a passenger train is a day's work;- the rule was set 40 years ago, when 121/2 miles an hour was the average speed (count- ing stops) of a freight train and 20 miles an hour of a passenger train; (2) to eliminate unneces- sary firemen from diesel engines and to eliminate station agents or telegraphers in situations where their services are no long- er needed; (3) to eliminate juris- dictional work separations — rules that ban road crews, for instance, from working in yards and forbid train crews from crossing district or seniority boundaries. To bolster its case, the AAR has asked President Eisenhower to set up a special commission to study feather- bedding, In the meantime, railway rules are still full of "arbitraries," the term used to describe a bonus for doing extra jobs not consid- ered part of a regular job, In the past, "arbitraries" have been paid in some weird cases. One, in the files of the National Rail- way Adjustment Board, involved two maintenance men paid to operate a construction machine on a track in a railroad yard. Because the machine used steam and moved around, an engineer and firemen were assigned to the job to sit by and watch. When one of the maintenance men failed to report for work one day, the firemen was assign- ed to fire up the machine. He got two days' pay—one for doing the job, and one for not doing it. From NEWSWEEK. Simply the Smartest PRINTED PATTERN 4906 SIZES 10-18 ' Fashion's shapely .sheath in a beginner -easy v e r s i o n .— no waist seams. Versatile for any hour, jersey, or fluid crepe. Wear 11 with or without a belt. Printed Pattern 4906: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 10 takes 2% yards of 54 -inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern pare Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this 'pattern. Please print plainly SIZE., NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1,. 123 .Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. , ISSUE 43 — 1959 NOW HEAR THIS — Every employe' at lnvalides Air Terminal Paris carries one of these tiny receivers which sounds off with a discreet "beep beep" when the bearer is paged, He need only place it to his ear to listen to rhe message. . No wires are involved and waiting passengers are spared monslant calls over the loudspeaker.