HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-30, Page 2When Employees Had
To Toe The Mark
Everyone Is familiar with the
stiles covering those employed in
Offices and factories today. Gen-
erelly, the regulations are mod-
erate—entirely too lenient, many
employers complain,
The work week for most work -
ere is now 35 to 40 hours, and
i
leisurely lunch hours and morn-
ing and afternoon refreshment
breaks and rest periods are'corn-
monpiace, Conditions u r d e r
which work is done are as cora-
Portable as possible, and the
Work itself has been eased con-
siderably, Onerous and some.
times humiliating tasks and reg-
ulations ' which once character-
ized malty areas of employment
have been eliminated.
There are still complaints, of
course, Many are the inevitable
routine complaints of ordinary
workday life, a supervisor's cri-
ticism, a lack of balance of work
in en office or shop, favoritism,
that sort of grievance. Some
complaints are more justifiable.
But have you stopped recently
to think about the conditions of
employment in the last century?
Today's easy-going rules would
have been unbelievable for em-
ployees who worked under these ..
company rules in effect in 1854:
"Any employee who is in the
hent of smoking Spanish cigars,
getting shaved at a barber shop,
going to dances or other places
of amusement, will surely give
his employer reason to suspect
his integrity and all-around
honesty...,
"Each employee must attend
Sunday School every Sunday.
Menemployees are given one
evening a week for courting and
two if they go to prayer meeting
regularly....,
"After 14 hours of work, leis-
ure time must be spent In read-
ing good literature."
A few years later, on April 5,
1872, Zachary U. Geiger, Sole
Proprietor, posted regulations
for employees in his Mt. Cory
Carriage & Wagon Works which
included the following:
"Office employees will daily
sweep the floors, dust the furni-
ture, shelves, and showcases.
"Each day fill lamps, clean
chimneys, and trim wicks. Wash
the windows once a week.
"Each clerk will bring in a
bucket of water dud s scuttle of
foal for the day's business.
'Make your pens carefully.
You may whittle nibs to your
individual taste.
"This office will open at 7 a.ni.
end close at 8 p.m., daily except
on the Sabbath, on which day it
will remain closed.. -
"Every, employee should lay
aside from each pay a goodly
sum of his earnings for his bene-
fits during his declining years,
so that he will not become a
burden upon the charity of his
betters. , .
"The employee who has per-
formed his labors faithfully and
without faults for a period of
five years in roy service, and
who has been thrifty and atten-
five to his religious duties and
is looked upon by his fellow men
as a subtantial and law-abiding
citizen, will be given an increase
offive cents per day in his pay,
providing a just return in profits
from the business permits it"
Earlier in the 18th century,
Amassa Whitney posted rules in
• his Winchendon, Mass., plant on
July 5, 1830. Excerpted, they pro-
vided:.
"The mill will be put into op-
eration 10 minutes before sun-
rise at all seasons of the year.
The gate will be shut 10 minutes
pest
arsunset from the 20th of
eh to the 20th of September,
at 30 minutes past 8 from the
10th of September to the 20th of
March. Saturdays at sunset....
ISSUE 12 — 1861
"It will be required of every
person employed that they be in
the room in which they are env,
ployed at the time mentioned,.:.:.
"Hands' are not allowed to
leave the factory in working
hours.
"Anyone who by negligence or
misconduct causes damage to the
machinery, or impedes the .pro-
gYess of work, will be liable to.
Makegood the damage for the
"Any person employed for no
certain length of time will be
required to give at least four
weeks' notice of their intention
to leave (sickness excepted) or
forfeit four weeks' pay, .
"Anything tending to impede
the progress of manufacturing in
working hours, such as =neces-
sary conversation, reading, eat -
Ing fruit, etc., must be avoided.
"No smoking will be allowed
in the factory, as it is considered
very unsafe, ,
"The hands will take break-
fast, from the first of November
to the last of March, before 'go-
ing to work. [At other times
25 minutes will be allowed for
breakfast, 30 minutes for dinner,
and 25 minutes for supper, and
no more front the time the gate
is shut till started again."
These were typical company
rules. The similarities in some
of the regulations were not
coincidental; the provisions were
so common that even the word-
ing was much the same, place to
place. And the penalty for vio-
lating the rules? Discharge, of
course, and frequently blacklist-
ing with other employers. — By
Ed Townsend in the Christian
Science Monitor.
Saying A Lot
In Small Spare
A new sort of doodling is go-
ing on at The New York Times
copy desk. Late at night, be-
tween editions, headline writers
have been preoccupied with -a
pastime called "Through History
With Times Headlines," The
idea: To tell history's biggest
stories with typical Times re-
straint if not understatement
To make the task tougher,
rules of the game restrict the
heads to 14at units, the maxi-
mum under the rigid typeface
(24 point Latin. Antique) The
Times has used since 1007 over
ne t -celu F t o r i e s continue4
front page one. These samples of
the head writers' humor were
reproduced recently in Times
Talk, the paper's house organ:
JEHOVAH RESTING
AFTER 6 -DAY TASK
0 II O.
METHUSELAH DIES:
IUDEAN WAS 944
p * *
MOSES, ON SL! AI,
GETS 16 -PT. PLAN
FRENCH ARE URGED
TO CONSUME CAKE
e
HOLLAND SETTLERS
IN 52.4 LAND DEAL
BLAZE L'v CHICAGO
IS LINKED TO COW
s x :
Butno matter how long Times
copy editors doodled, they'd
have to work hard to beat the
actual Times headline announc-
ing the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln: AWFUL EVENT.
The young and ambitious
clerk's desk was close to an area
frequently traveled by the exe-
cutives in his organization. Stra-
tegically placed on his desk, and
readable at five to ten paces,
was the quotation, "Everything
good In a man thrives beat when
properly recognized."
Obey the traffic signs — they
ere placed there for YO UR
SAI re Y.
SWEET ON J. F. K. -'Met. Marion Tucker has created o unique
portrait of President Kennedy, The painting is done in cake
king, framed in marshmallow. Cake topper and Bible com-
plete gift, presented by Me,. Tucker at the Democratic Notional
Committee..
RULES BRITTANY—Jeanine Levesque
France, The 19 -year-old hairdresser
"Duchess of Britanny — 1961" at
natives in the province.
is a vision in lace in Paris,
from Painpont was elected
the annual banquet for
TABA E TALKS
dsews
Nine hundred persons enjoyed
a Swedish smorgasbord at the
headquarters 'of the Salvation
Army in Kansas City recently,
and hundreds more who wanted
to attend were turned away be-
cause of lack of space. This is an
annual dinner — it was started
five years ago -- that has be-
come increasingly popular until
e big overflow was reached this
year.
Menu for the dinner included
Swedish meat belie, potato sau-
sage, hickory s m eked ham,
steamed halibut, pickled herring,
bruna beans, boiled potatoes,
molded salads (they needed 65
of these), tossed salad, assorted
cheese, cottage cheese, cote slaw
(100 pounds of cabbage!), dew -
led eggs, relishes, pleaded beets,
llaipa, t`i'e crisp, white bread,
rice pudding, lingonberries,
cookies, and several hot and' cold
drinks.
When guests presented their
• tickets at the door, they were
given a leaflet with recipes for
foods they were about to be
served. Here, according to Elea-
nor Richey ,Tohnston in the
Chrislian Science Monitor, are
some of them, which I am happy
to pass along to you.
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SWEDISH MEAT BALLS
1 pound ground beef
ee pound ground lean pork
' I egg, slightly beaten
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt.
l teaspoon pepper
teaspoens savor salt
le teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
1 small chopped onion
Bread crumbs, coarse—enough
to be absorbed by the milk
Combine all ingredients. ?mix-
ture should be moist: add more
Milk if necesar . Form into
small balls;. fry in butter, turn-
ing constantly. Do not overcook.
One hundred seventy pounds
of chicken halibut were used at
the snorgas ord, It was cooked
this way:
BAKED FISH
Wipe fish dry. Rub with salt
inside and out Brush with 'but-
ter and place in greased baking
,tWi Add a scant cup of water.
Cover and bake 10 minutes at
500' F. to sear. Reduce heat to
450' F. and bake 10 minutes
more. Remove from oven. Skin
off top of fish. Dot white flew
generously with butter • sprinh'e
with papr ka; return to oven.
Coe& 10 minutes tint ever ed,
Time may vary somewhat ac-
cording to size of fish. i 3'his , _-
cipe is for a :amileesized fish.
On a small scale.a 'Dip" per-
. ty may be considered to be rims'-
lar to a sm,:r asbord in the sense
that each persee goes around ,he
table and saleets the food thet
he wants. I went to mala a dye
p`_y en a recent Sir day eve -
!sing. Small. elaborately deco-
aled paper plates were used by
i those serving themselves cu
bee -:s and a treating e;.s'h. We
dipped v.-lte torn chips, potato
chipe.ern all
aa parrot and
celery cks. taking mime of
every kind el dip offered and
''ben settled around an ogee fire
for talk and eat ng. We went
back often — and we needed
nothing else for Our supper —
though the ib tens did pans
homemade cookies with the sot
beverage that we pouted for our-
selves when we had finished the
dips•. Four or five, varieties are
e good flambee, For a hot dip,
try this one. It is made of dev-
fled ham, Breese. nayonns;_e,
Tabasco and tomato juice.
CHAFING DISH DIP
ii pound processed cheese
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 can (4% -oz.) deviled haps
1 tablespoon finely chopped
onion
144 teaspoon Tabasco
3 tablespoons tomato juice
Melt cheese over low heat. Stir
in mayonnaise, deviled haze,
onion, and Tabasco until well
blended. Gradually stir in tome.-
to juice, mixing very well. if dip
seems too thick, add more tomato
juice; transfer to candle warmer
or dialing dish and serve with
chips and raw vegetables. Serves
8. s
Dips made with sour cream are
popular and any clip party should
include at least one Of these.
Here it one to serve cold.
CLAM SOUR CREAM DIP
le cup sour cream
cup minced clams, well
drained
Li teaspoon each, onion and
garlic powder
Dash ground black pepper
Dash ground cayenne pepper
i teaspoon ground bail! leaves
?'s teaspoon salt
Paprika for garnish
Combine all ingredients except
paprika. Mix well Pour into a
:mall bowl, sprinkle with pap-
rika. Serve on a tray surrounded.
by carrot and celery sticks, raw
meliaiower, raw broccoli flower -
lets, radish rotes, chinas, and small
crackers. e -
For an unusual dip, try one.
made of avocado and ripe olives,
BLACK OLIVE-AVACADO DIP
1 soft ripe avocado
1 tablespoon minced onion
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons lemon juice
ie teaspoon salt
teapsoon Tabasco sauce
le cop chopped black olives
Peel avocado and mash. Stir
in onion, mayonnaise, lemon
juice, sal--, 'and Tabasco. Blend
well Stir in black olives.
PARTY EGG DIP
4 hard -cooked eggs
le cup mayonnaise
le cup tomato catchup
2 tablespoons milk
le teaspoon lemon juice
�.i teaspodn each, salt and sweet.
basil
Chop eggs fine and place in a
bowl; add remaining ingredients
and blend well. Chill before
serving.
Making A Comeback;
After A Stroke
Over BBC radio one night re-
centlycame a' voice from the
past, The nigh baritone accents.
were those of Douglas Ritohle, a
popular news commentator dur-
ing World War 11 whose "Col-
onel Britton" broadcasts were al-
most as well known as the in-
spired exhortations of Winston
Churchill,
Now, after a long silence,
Douglas Ritchie spoke again, Not
as a news commentator but as
the author of a personal-eXperi-
ence book, "Stroke," winch had
just been dramatized on. the
BBC program "True Stony,"
"I' didn't know I would ever
again be talking to you from this
microphone—or from any other,"
Ritchie said, "Four years ago, I
was dumb and paralyzed. I can't
speak quickly now, but I can
speak, and I go on improving,, T
go for a half -mile walk with a
stick every day. My right arm
and hand are still useless, but
I've learned to write with my
left hand."
After the broadcast, the BBC
switchboard flared with calls
from listeners who wanted to
know more about what had hap.
paned to the long -remembered
news commentator. To his cozy,
gray -flint and red -tiled house on
a steep hilltop overlooking the
River Mole at Mickleham, Sur•
rey, where he lives with his de-
voted, charming wife, Evelyn,
came a sheaf of letters. "Your
voice has the same timbre and
clarity that I remember during
the Battle of Britain," wrote one
woman.
Ritchie's book "Stroke," tells
the full story. On May 7, 1955,
the robust, fidgety perfectionist,
then 50, suffered a severe brain
hemorrhage. At first it was
thought he would die. Eventual-
ly, relieving his paralysis (the
complete right side) and aphasia
(Ioss of voice from Injured brain
cells) became a job for the re-
habilitation experts.
"Stroke" reveals with poignant
perceptiveness the various stages
of Ritchie's ordeal, from the first
efforts to exercise his paralyzed
muscles, to the painfully slow,
frustrating task of relearning the
language he het used so well
To stroke victims everywhere
(750,000 annually in the U.S.),
Ritchie offers this practical ad-
vice: "You must be patient, 1te
matter how slowly things go.
You must set your sights lower
. learn to accept your limita-
tions."
Sausage Skins
Hid Big Money
As the grey truck pulled to a
stop nearby, the Milan police-
man stared suspiciously. He had
noticed the van delivering sa-
lami and other sausages many
times before and had noted that
it always seemed to stop at the
same spots—and always the sante
wary - looking customers were
served. The matter needed look-
ing into.
A report went in. Milan's po-
lice chief decided to investigate.
The next time the van pulled
up at a customary stopping place
to serve a waiting man, a squad
closed in. The driver pushed his
engine into gear and tried to
drive off, but the squad was too
quick for him.
When the sausages were ex-
amined, the police found a few
genuine ones but the others had
tight skins stuffed, not with
meat, but counterfeit American
dollar bills.
When the police traced the
source of the notes they got a
surprise—they came from the
local Palace of justice. The bills
had been sent there following a
raid on a printing shop and seiz-
ure of its output -40.000 coun-
terfeit dollar bills.
A Ministry officeal had been
delegated toburn the .fake poles,
Instead, faced with the tempting
pile, he had hidden- them be-,
twoert the wall and .a Rotolo his
office. As tcgtllutiMM demanded,
he certified' that he'd destroyed
the notes. Top offici,?is made ap-
propriate entries in their -records
and the matter was forgotten.
The holes roinalnecl in, their hid-
ing place.
Later, however, the official
was arrested sod found, guilty
of 't nolher charge. He was jailed
plot' six months. While in prison
he, often thought of his hoard and
the tittle passed in pleasurable
all tie 1pati en,
hinmedieleiy after his release
he returned to the palace, sneak-
ed past the guards, and made
his way to his old office.
Feverishly, lie removed wads
of the counterfeit notes, stuffed
them under his shirt and crept
away, Ile repeated the visits•at
Intervals,
Accomplices helped him to
pack the dollars into sausage
skins, organize a "sales round"
and distribute them. The truck's
oustolners were illegal money
vendors. Passing off the dollars
as genuine, they exchanged there'
for Italian lire,
By the time the police swoop-
ed, their system had worked so
effectively that only 54,0.00 of l'ee
hoard retrained, The car-offl^ial
had done well for himself bet -re
he stood in the dock again,
charged with burglary, swindl-
log, false pretences and conceal.
ing stolen goods,
In the last five years, Interpol
has uncovered and smashed sev-
enteen workshops for printing
counterfeit currencies, documents
and passports in France, .sixteen
in Italy, eleven in Germany and
eight in Belgium.
In a basement workshop in
Paris a gang was busy printing
millions: Not content with pro..
clueing false franc notes, it ran
off thousands of German D-
marks, Dutch guilders, Spanish
pesetas and American dollar
bills,
But, unknown to these clever
operators, the police got wind of
their activities. Inspector La-
eroux waited until the next bit
press day. Before daylight, 'on
a drizzling winter morning, hie
squad crept into tactical positions
near the counterfeiters' den.
He listened intently — and
heard the click and whirl of
printing machines in full cry.
lie tossed a stone into the base-
ment window and, as the glass
splintered, his men closed in.
The three counterfeiters tried
to bolt, but they were soon. hand-
cuffed. The cellar was littered
with wet notes, and stocks of
Waterproof paper, some of it
stolen from the Bank of France.
ROCKETEER — Professor Ala
Masevic is vice president of
t h e Astra - Physics National
Council of the U.S.S.R. The
lady scientist, shown in Rome
on a lecture tour, has worked
on several Russian satellites.
YES, SHE CAN, BILLY BOY -- These girls have been judged the U.S, nation's best cherry pi*
bakers in a Chicago contest, Sherry Shirley, 18, (seated) iJ number one,