HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1950-12-28, Page 3Flood :Brings Apple Jam—Bobbing for apples would have been
.a cinch ;a Tuscarora Creek after
a flood janilued
with 200,0010 bushels of fruit.
the stream
The apples were swept from a
fruit pacl:illg compally's outdoor stockpile and bobbed merrily
downstream.
Husbands In Revolt
Many more men are therefore
Choose Jail Instead
likely to choose prison rather than
Hospital wrote that "The Thing"
payment, urged by the slicer
this:
unemotional sanity of cold econo-
Dritaiii'4 great post-war marriage
inics, for in most cases mainten-
muddle ii creating a new. race of
ince arrears are wiped out by the
jailbirds. (.).lie mail in eight
maximum three months' sentence.
who goes to prison in England and
Admitted, this is -a sympathetic
'�Vales toda - r is there for non -pay-
presentation of a man's point of
nient of a maintenance order. A
view. Husbands can gain separa-
sullen, embittered army of 3,400
tion orders oil only threc'coljllts_
husbinds defiantly chose Jail last
the wife adultery, drunkenness, or
'year rather than contribute to their
persistent cruelty to the children.
wive-' sm-ot-t, Many of these de-
A wife has eight counts against a
remained tell consider themselves
husband, some of them Ili -illy
the injured party.
technical.
,Membei%i r, f Parliament and nia-
Commonest grounds, arc desertion,
No fewer than , 25.00U women
gistrate-s are urging the appoint-
ment of a Royal Commission to
were
deserted by their husbands last
-marriage
set things straight. Says Mrs. Bar-
year, One in every six -
teen breaks down in this way,, And
bara Castle, M.P.: "I don't believe
what of the woman's viewpoint? A
I-Aii are naturally the errant sex,
There are cases where tile wife is
deserted wife may be too elderly
the exploiting party." Says Lieut.-
or too frail to work. She becomes
a charge on relatives or on
Col. M. Lipton, M,P..- "The •-great
majority of these imprisoned lius-
public
assistance . . . unless her rim -
bands are being hounded by vindic-
away husband can be traced.
Many -men clear out of the coun-
tive wives!"
try. Legally, maintenance orders
There are young husbands driven
can be upheld and enforced to the
to desertion by their wives' wild
behaviour, men who know' their
-point of imprisonment in Belfast,
I -Tong Kong or tile Falkland Islands.
-wives are committing adultery but
'legal
Under existing law, however, a
cannot obtain conclusive evi-
maintenance order cannot be en-
dehce. The,,e are men who agreed
forced in Eire or the Channel Isles.
to a separation from a guilty wife
"for
The Attorney -General of Guernsl6y
the children's sake" only to
stated recently that over 300 Eng -
find themselves dragged into court
lish husbands have taken employ-
-it few months later.
nient in the Islands deliberately to
Admittedly, a'percentage of the
avoid payment of maintenance
maintenance naen—in jA it. at the
orders.
taxpayers' exPense—are callous rot-
lei en`ii malh-
ters who have shirked their respon-
tenance and the husband tails to
sibilities. Yet some husbands feel
pay; she takes out a summons for
so aggrieved at the present system
default. Eventually a warrant is
that they go to prison rather than
issued to enforce payment. If the
pay allowances of $8.00 or so a
husband still refuses to pay, jail
week. -
results. Small wonder, then, if
"I married a girl who bore two
court officers usually advise wives,
illegitimate children, who robbed
"Better wait. Maybe he'll pay up
and nearly ruined Ine, and finally
next month. What's the use of
arranged a desertion charge. Why
killing the goose that lays the
should I support her?" Such is a
golden eggs?"
typical statement made to a former
Jurists have yet to grapple with
chaplain of Worinwood Scrubs.
this outsize matrimonial jigsaw
"No matter ]low many kinds of a
puzzle, A man who leads a reason -
devil a woman may be, she has
ably steady life may be marching
only to adopt a pathetic attitude in
along the maintenance highway to
court, squeeze out a few tears, and
jail. Yet the mail who walks out of
the day is hers under the present
his home, changes his name and
laws," said another man, who has
disappears, has the laugh of the
become a pioneer member of the
law.
newly -formed Married Afen's Asso-
In Scotland, maintenance pay-
ciation•
In 1950 the problem is compli-
ments, are deducted from wage
packets on the P.A.Y.E, system,
cated by all impending gold -rush.
England and Wales, it is* argued,
of some 200,000 wives. Last Janu-
could set up a similar system. But
ary a new 1 -tarried Women (Main-
perhaps the King's Proctor should
tenance) Act raised the maximum
be charged wjth,tJie task of prob-
allowance frons $4 to $10 a week
ing all maintenance summonses,
and from $2,00 to $6.00 for children,
exposing vindictive motives on the
Many wives -,vlio did not press for
part of either husband or wife and
committal orders for a meagre
ensuring utmost impartiality in this
$8.00 are iioW having second
tragic aftermath of smashed nlar-
thoughts,
riages.—Froin "Tit -Bits".
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Boom - Boom - Boorn Is Booming Grean himself says that most
But 'What IS That Awful Thin.g? people he's talked to seem to think
the scary Thing, is a skullk. Most
skunks disagree. If Grean had to
say what answer he's heard so
By Richard Kleiner That's the cold-blooded history far he likes best, he leans to (curt -
of "The Thing." But it won't stop happiness," because it's a serious,
The music business is going People
froin,gvessing at what "The straightforward idea.
through a booln in boom -boons- Thing is. Niw York disc jockey "The Thing," incidentally,
booms these days. And it's all be- Martin' Bldck conducted a contest. published by Tin Pan Alley's"'phe!
cause of a song called "'The Thing," Here ar'6 some of the things people, 110menal young success,
a bouncy I y tune that is sending happy thought "The Thing" was: Howard
Richmond, Richmond has been in
shivers up and 'down juke boxes A transcribed commercial; Chloe: the business less than
all over the country. unhappiness; a nlarriigellcenm the a year, and
tail -end of "Ifule Train"; a deck of already -hag Pliblislidd such hits ar",
In case you don't recognize it canasta cards; a woman's hat; an "Music, Music, Music," "Goo4_"--
by its official title, "The Thing" is Night, Irene," and 'Tze-Na, Tz6-
that number that uses three roue- 8 -by -10 color shot of my mother -in- Na .l_
law; my landlord; one falsie, my
int boom -boom -booms of the bass
drum as part of the Ivrics. To boss; a K -ration; the little man
14 p ee,
refresh your memory (which needs
w
who wasn't there singing a chorus
no refreshing if you liv6 within
of "Good—Night, Irene."
carrying distance of a full -lunged
The student nurses at St, Luke's
ea,M,
disc jockey), it goes, in part, like
Hospital wrote that "The Thing"
Yours. Four designs; use as is or
this:
was undbubtedly an interne at St
I turned around andgot right
Luke's Hosital,
531
out a-runnin' for my life,
One woman wrote that "'The
the horrible thing, anyway? *
And then I took it home with
Thing' must be my husband, I
directions; charts for
me to give it to my wife.
have been looking for him,"
But this is what she hollered at
"It's just a moral or a lesson to
Pill
me as I walked in the door:
tile public that People should mind
department and the song's coni.
get out of here with that
their own business," wrote another
makes crochetand knitting so
x x x and don't come back
entrant. In the same serious mood,
T
no more j`
someone else said that it "must be
^(CopyrJght, 1950, Hollis Ilusic Inc.)
a mirror—nothing else could scare
"I just put some clean I yrics to
Where those x's are, the lyrics
so many people."
Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
give a direction to "s—tc 11
Happy Reunion --The Duke and Duchess of Windsor exchange
warns greetings in a reunion aboard the SS Queen Elizabeth in
:New York after his return from :Europe., The, royal couple
laughed off ritiniors that their. marriage, for which the Duke
gaye 111) the thone of England, had become shaky.
Acivally, most recordings have
It's easy to have exquisite smock-
substituted three booming booms
ing on children's- clothes or on.
on the drum to hide the identity
Yours. Four designs; use as is or
of The Thing." Which has a lot
repeat for wider bands.
of people puzzled. Just -what is
Sni a ckin g -made- easy Pattern 531,-
the horrible thing, anyway? *
directions; charts for
Take it from Charles Grean,
designs. 2 shown,
manager of RCA's popular records
Laura Wheeler's inn proved pattern
department and the song's coni.
makes crochetand knitting so
Poser, there ain't no such tlling as
simple ivith its charts, photos and
a thing.
concise directions.
"I just put some clean I yrics to
Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
an old song I've known for a long
M.
in coins (stamps cannot be ac-
time. We used to sing some dirtynes
A
cepted) )for this pattern to Box 1,
words to it and it was known as
123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto,
'The Tailor's Boy,'" says Grean
k
Ont. Print plainly PATTERN
(pronounced Gre-on.)
NUMBER, your NAME and
"I've been trying for a long time
ADDRESS,
to write nice lyrics for it, but I'd
New! Household accessories to
always Put saillething definite in the
knit! .!Motifs to paint on textilesl
Place -where we stamped out feet.
Send Twenty-five Cents (coins) foi
That would ruin it, somehow,:
our new Laura Wheeler Needle-
Finally, I decided to have nothing
craft Book. Illustrations of crochet,
for the thing in the song. Then I
embroidery patterns plus many
worked it alit it, allhour and a
fascinating hobby ideas. And a free
half.",
pattern 6 printed in the book
Grean says lie changed a few
notes in the music of "The Tailor's
Second Front. In Oklahoma City,
Bay," which be thinks had all
Irish origin. Then lie took the song
while Patrolman Sam Billings and
Travis Brown were questioning a
Out to California, where RCA's
motorist stopped for speeding, two
West coast recording director, Henri
Three X's Mark The Spot: For all the "boom -boons -boom, s"
armed thugs made off with $30 from
filling
Rene, thought it would be a natural
for Phil Harris. And it has been
ouve been he
y hearing lately, you can put most of the blame on
Phil Harris (left), who doesn't look happy it,
station directly across the
r
aoad,
—his record is selling at I record
pace,
very about
and recording director Henri Rene, Nvllo encouraged the
song's author.
JITTER
I -__
By ArthurPointer FZ_Mllm
Happy Reunion --The Duke and Duchess of Windsor exchange
warns greetings in a reunion aboard the SS Queen Elizabeth in
:New York after his return from :Europe., The, royal couple
laughed off ritiniors that their. marriage, for which the Duke
gaye 111) the thone of England, had become shaky.