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Zurich Herald, 1950-06-22, Page 30 «l First Job for New G rads Is Tremendous Hurdle --- These Hints by Experts Will Resp "Them 'Take It BY DOYLE SMER 4%l verybody, tells me it's tough to f get a job tiles se da 3' ," says the wor. x x r Tied graduate of 1950, "But the fact r is, I have to get a job, S0 what do ` 1 do now:" ` Even equipped with the most val. s . uable information, the Youngd.; Jolt• ;s seeker often finds getting, his first 3011 a tremendous hurdle, Mildred. r> M. I-l:ickman, placement director, spends a lot of her time giving be- ginners a vitally -needed lift. s, "What the beginner must do in c his first job," she says, is to estab- J t�s• lish a good reputation, a good reference for future use. The best` way is by .taking. part-time jobs while he's still, going• to school He learns the basic things—to get to ' work on tinie, to face people, to follow orders." More and more employers are demanding The Interview --Te mall behind the desk is a corporation - experience as a qualifi- cation, and part-time work during sannel manager waiting for a The scene will be repeated per job applicant to "sell" himself. school years is about the only way a million tines for this year's new grads, who'll fncJ getting a job can be hard work. a young graduate can get it, Employment officials declare that most who ,fail to find jobs simply what he, is best. fitted for—if he hasn't already made up his mind, 5. Set your sights low. 1'ou Must aren't persistent enough, One offi- but most graduates have a pret- be ready to swallow your pride and starcial of a state' employment service cited this tppical case: ty fair notion of what they're best Don't expectat tootoo le ti �uch dors asks too "A graduate chemist came in looking for equipped to do, It's not easy to 3 get just what much. Once you get , the job, you can demonstrate a g job --manual labor,, anything. In interviewing you're looking for, but here are your worth and advance accordingly, him I learned he had applied at nine6. coil- some hints that may help: I. Be methodical, now yourective em- ptoola pailies, without success. 'I Make a list of all employers in field, ployer. I s smart learn ally u named a dozen places that hire your and go down the Iist, applying at each can about ever place f chemists, and lie hadn't heard of one, 2. Be persistent, Don't You'll attract th e attent o n o the them. I gave him the classified tele- give up after a few interviews. Keep man who interviews hundreds of Phone book and tole[ him to mance a list on if it takes 100 calls. Your job is applicants if you know what the of 200 places that might hire chemists, and then try them finding a job. It's hard ,work, company makes, some facts about stogy it's done,reuoak to"demon- all. "Not Long afterward he got a job as a chemist," 3, Sell Yourself, It's common sense to be neat and clean at all strate that you're awake. 7. Prepare a resume, Have Many official employment service interviews. But that's not euou h. You must have a sales talk ready, a neat (type, if background possible Offices offer job -seekers many worth -while services. All answering the interviewer's unasked "Why Make)enough c P esoso you canone at each call. young graduates are urged to register with question, should I hire this Ile 11eave c ude Pertinent data, but clod t don't them, person?" won't ask but you must tell hint anyway. "enough. write a book One page should be One prime service is the aptitude test, which also can be taken in 4. Be modest, Although you have 8. 'When you're answering a imany college placement bureaus to sell yourself, don't oversell. The employer wants someone fit newspaper ad, it' a s good idea to and in some business establish- who'll in with the other workers. If lie include a co Y=o f file res lnethts. A test of this sort helps the prospective job applicant decide thinks you're too cocky, he won't a picture of Naturally, they'll want to known what _ want you. you look like. FJOWer Garden Tips Dinosaurs Cavae In ,ill Sizes, Crowded iris clumps should be Some'Small As Collie Dogs divided and replanted as soon as they have finished blooming, Re- r u h I e spent flower heads of peonies and iris as soon as they appear. 1'y doing' this all season, your flowers will produce more bloom. Lift spring -flowering bulbs such as tulips after bloom and store in a cool, dry place until fall plant- ing time. Allow the foliage to start dying before digging. Then plant these vacant borders with glad$, vannas, bedding plants, or even Hardy mums. Thrips cause much damage to gla- diolus. For control, apply a 5- t-cr cent DDT dust at 7 -day inter- vals. Start these control Measures as soon as the third leaf appears. If you wait until the thrips have worked their way into the husks, the battle is lost --all ounce of pre- tention is worth a pound of cure. During rainy weather more appli- cations will be needed, and when weather is hot and dry; apply less often, Keep leaf spot and mildew oil roses under control by weekly doses of dusting sulphur. If you notice some fiery small worms skeletoniz- ing tl,e rose leaves, mlix i part of lead arsenate with 9 parts of the dusting sulphur. What to Do? Johnny had been commissioned to mind his baby brother, Presently, loud cries from the garden reached sus ",other's ears. "What ill the world is the Inat- fer?" she called from the kitchen window, "Can't you keep your little brother entertained for it few min- atcs?" "I'm trying to figure out what to do," replied Johnny, 1,10's dug a hole in the ground, and, lnoiv lie wants to bring it into the house .1011 him." Once Speed Ding, Now Junk-* Slowly rt.tst;ingg in this London car dealers' joule ya,t'd is the late sir Malcoltza, Campbell's famed 13luebird; toruzerly the world's fastest racing ear. The once - sleek racer Was the first land vehicle to travel at 300 ((miles per haul; and broke the worlil's„ laud speed record fol• Great Britain no less than fide. tilues its ,glory is now fading with its paitlt•. at were e the Dinosaurs th occupied the ancient 'World 'real. like? Dr. W. E. Swinton 'of the Bi tisk Museum of Natural Histot recently went to Canada and ti; Vnited States to study their collet tion of Dinosaurs and compare thei triol European ones. In a radi talk he told listeners soniethin about these pre -historic creature which were the dominant land ani l,lals for mcarly a hundred milliol years. The first inisco ception he cora rected was that all Dinosaurs were huge. Some were enormous but others were as small as a collie dog. They were all reptiles, distant relatives of snakes and lizards and rather closer relatives of croco- diles. They were cold blooded, often scaly in appearance and the females laid eggs. They are known from; their fossilized remains, the only contact between them and modern man, for the last Dinosaur had beet, dead at least sixtymillion years before the first man appeared. Nearly a hundred different kinds of Dinosaurs, who adapted them selves to various ways of life, have been found. Dr. Swinton distin- 8'uished them its the easiest tt•ay, Ly their habits. There were flesh eaters with two short fore liinbs and two Strong hind ones oil ,which.. .they walked, Their toes and fill - gets were clawed and they had one row of sharp, knife-like teeth. Some were small, sone more than tech feet high, -the climax of their Cevelopnlent being reached in Ty- rannosaurus, nearly fifty feet long from his snout to tine tip of his tail. These flesh -eaters were closely related to as even larger vegetarian grotip, with very long necks and tails gild elephantine bodies, at Tltesc animals -still had long hind lY legs but waNced on all fours. Soule• i- were only thirteen feet- long, the y famous Brontosaurus was between .e forty and sixty feet, whilst the big'g'est of all, Dplodocus, measured It dearly ninety feet and probably 0 weighted twenty-five tons. They spent nluclI time in lakes and rivers s (where they used their strong teeth, - on the softest vegetation and their I claws to grasp a foothold. A third group of Dinosaurs walked erect and had beaked mouths and teeth suited for feeding oil the evergreen palm like Vegetation of the time. Some of the smaller kinds may have climbed trees. The fourth group, four -legged cousins of the beaked animals and up to twenty feet long, were called armoured Dinosaurs because of the bony plates and spikes they bore, Soule were entirely covered with such things; others had a double row 'of plates' along the Centre of the back, others had spikes oil the face and brow and a great frill of bole over the neck. Complete skeletons of solus Dinosaurs are it, existence, others are just isolated bones. Impressions of skin are found -on the rocks in association with the bones, and there are remains of eggs, with very occasional portions of embryos, From fossilised teeth information about their food is deduced and the type of rocks in which ti,e fossils are preserved tell of tine geography and climate. There is a good collec- tion of Dinosaurs in London and others in Europse but by far the fJlest collections are it, Canada and Elie United States for the types Of g'eolog'ical beds which preserve 'lie hones arc more amply repre- sented there. :Dinosaurs lived for a hundred trillions years and then vanished dying without descendants, Towards ti,e end of their Ora there were wide changes in topography, cls - mate and the nature of plants, all Of which made demands oil a stock aeons old in habits, They had their shortages of food, shelter and, most potent of all, shortage of brain. Dr. Swinton Concluded by describ- ing this visit to the world's largest telescope oil Mount Palomar in California. With it nzan can see systems incredibly remote, whose light Calces one hundred and forty Million years to reach the earth, "Light that left the outer nebulae when the Dilzosattrs were dive and were masters of the world now gleams upon their honoured bones," Ile said, Load Webb-Johnsoll, ex -"resident Of tite Royal College of Surgeons, tells of a doctor's tombstone Ile found in a .Dublin cemetery. The ill- scriptiot ta`as: "if volt want (o We. Illy around you." "1'eac no store the heat of the sun" play be all right as the start Of a funeral dirge—and what a love- lY one it was—but folks whose daily tasks must be done out in the open air,- would do well to treat the source of our light, heat acid energy with due respect. 1wery summer countless thous- ands of Canadians suffer, to sone extent, from the Ilea(. The conse- quences can range from mere dis- comfort to death, These conse- quences are better known as heat exhaustion, heatstroke, and sun- stroke, Each of these conditions has different symptoiris and sighs, and each varies in tile. treatment re- quired. Take heat exhaustion first. This is due mainly to perspiring in such great amounts that tilt body is drained of most of its water and salt. It is not necessarily related to Physical exertion. It usually conies suddenly with marked weaknesses, dizziness, nausea,, or vonniting. If the person is standing, lie may reel, His skin will be pale and moist, his pulse weak-, breathing rapid, per- spiration profuse. x: x: nc Sbrheat exhaustion, do this: ave the person lie down, if pos- 1 e, ,ill a cool place where the air is circulating freely, Loosen his clothing, If the patient is chilly, no matter how hot the day, keep flim warm with a ]lot water bottle or blanket. If he is conscious, give him sips of salt ,(rater (I teaspoon of salt to 1 pint of water) and a stimulant (tea, coffee or aromatic spirits of allnmollia in this propor- tion: ;a teaspoon in ,'%z glass of water). If the patient does not iin- prove quickly, call a doctor. 4g x•: x Sunstroke and .heatstroke have the same symptoms and effects but Suns trooke comes frons exposure to the sun and heat'st'roke comes from exposure to extreme indoor heat. Both are fa2"'More serious thann, heat exhaustion and, require prompt ac- tion to save the persons life. Since cause and, treatment of sunstroke arid heatstroke are the same, we shall refer henceforth only to sun- stroke. It may occur with surpris- ing suddenness; it may be preceded by acute headache, dizziness, and Ilausea, rapidly followed by uncon- sciousness. The skin of sunstroke Patients is dray and hot, the face flushed, the pulse rapid, and the temperature high. For sunstroke, do this: Call a Physician at once, While waiting for him to arrive, take the patient to a cool place 'where lie, can lie down with his head slightly raised, Re- nlove as much of his clothing as aossible. Futan ice bag or very :old cloths oil his head. Then try o;educe leis temperature by spong- ng his body with cool (not' iced) eater or by wrapping him in a beet and spraying, or gently pour - ng, cool water over hits every few linutes. Do not give stimulants. ,fter the patient becomes con- :ious, give him coal water to drink. onset is sudden with painful cramps of the abdomen or limbs. This con. dition May last for about 24 hours, but rarely more than that. For heat cramps, do this: Have patient rest in a cool place, Apply warm cloths or a hot water bottle to the abdomen. Relief should come quickly; if it does not, give the same care as for heat exhaustion. Sunburn is another consequence of too much exposure to the sun, However, one may be sunburned on a cloudy day. Sunburn is a real burn, and in its effects it is just like any other burn, Mild sunburn can be painfully uncomfortable, and severe sunburn which covers a large portion of the body is dangerous. It play cause stomach and intestinal disorders and sunstroke. x• � x: Serious sunburn usually is avoid- able if exposure to the sun's rays is brief until tanning has begun. If a person must be out in the sun for any length of time before he has acquired a coat of tau, clothing should be worn. The oils and lotions Oil tine market for the prevention of sunburn also are helpful. For sunburn, do this: Apply bak- ing soda and water, a burn oint- ment, tannic -acid jelly, or calamine lotion. When you purchase the cala- mine lotion, have druggist add enough carbolic acid to make a '",2 - per cent solution. If the burn is severe and extensive, or if there is a fever, call a physician. It is wise to keep ill mind that severest effects from the heat and sun are suffered by old people and infants ill their first year of life. Also, those who are very much overweight or in poor health are most liken- to suffer from the ef- fects of heat, especially in Ion-con- tilned ]tot spells. Heat Weather Dove And Doults Do as much of your work ata Possible in the coolest hours of thct day. The sun's rays arc, most 4a. tellse ill May, June, July, and, August between, JO a.m. and 4 p,m. Don't stay in the sugtl]gltt too long at a time Take time off nOw and then to rest in tine shade. Do keep your ]lead covered when working in the sun. File sun's rays are most harmful when falling di.• reetly oil the head, W Do wear light, loose clothing, Don't overeat, Choose easily di- Fbested foods. Leave out fats and. cut dottnzn on meats, egg's, and other proteins which serve to "steam up" the body. Fruit juices arc helpful, -(o light on tea, coffee, toilacco, atld alcoholic drinks, Do try to create a breeze by open waidows or fans (ellen tt orking ill intense indoor heat. Do drink plenty of cold (not iced) NI'ater. From 8 to 12 or 15 glasses a clay may be needed to replace the fluid lost through prespiration, Do use plenty of salt with your food and acid it to your drinking,, NAa•ter, unless your physician ad- vises otherwise. Or, if you pre•- fer, use salt tablets. Extra salt is needed to replace what is lost in Perspiration. Don't overdo in any t1 -ay. Veep in good condition with healthful living- habits. Get plenty of rest and sleep, avoid too much physical activity and fatigue. IN + Don't worry. Relax frequently and completely, The Professor Again "Hello," said the absent-minded Professor, "How's your wife?" "Oh," replied the man, "Pin not married yet, you know." "To be sure," nodded the pro- fessor, "Then your wife is still single, too." Propaganda Battle in Berlin --Latest weapons of the cold war in Germany's capital include "hatch boxes and balloons, used in propaganda offensives and counter -barrages. The snatch cover, left, is one of "zany zvlzich were smuggled into Berlilz's Z�Test Sector b3 Colnlzlunists. On it are inscribed the words; Heat CMIllps usually develop in ' . ill Strength fol- the FDJ { Communist youth organization)., those who work indoors in high.. �'L'illing to Work and Defend Peace," The balloon at righttemperature and 11-110 perspire pro- is One of hundreds released by anti-Communist Berliners, bear•- fusely.. The resulting loss of salt ing tine letier "F," for "Freedom," and the words: "FD for from, the body causes cramps. The whom are you niarcliing'?" Anti -Red leaflets are attached. y y Z--, — «aV Q-g—inay P"ver, is the site of the earliest Christian Mission in Canada. The first chapel of boughs brad bark event up in 1600, and this little White izttilding erected in 1747 On the same land, still stands, icteric Canacnan Beauty t