The Brussels Post, 1961-03-23, Page 2Jam An.C.TeNS,
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YEE, SHE CAN, BILLY •BOY — These girls` hove been judged the U.S. nci.tion's best cherry pie
bakers in a Chicago contest, Sherry Shirley, 1 8, (seated) is number one,
When Employees Hod
To TOO The Murk,
Everyone is familiar with the
roles covering these employed in
offices and factories today. Gen-
erally. the regulations are mod-
erate—entirely too lenient, many
employers complain.
The work week for most wOrks
ers is now 35 to 40 hours, and
leisurely lunch hours and morn-
ing end afternoon refreshment
breaks and rest periods are com-
monplace. Conditions under
which work is done are as com-
fortable as possible, Lied the
work itself has been eased con-
staferahly, Onereus and same.
times humiliating tasks and reg-
ulations which once character-
ized many 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
habit of erneking 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.
Men employees 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 goad 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 and a scuttle of
coal for the day's business.
"Make your pens carefully.
You may whittle nibs to your
individual taste.
"This office will open at 7 a,m.
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 my service, and
who has been thrifty and atten-
tive to his religious duties and
Is looked upon by his fellow men
as a ssubtantial and law-abiding
citizen, will be given an increase
of five 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
past sunset from the 20th of
Meech to the 20th of September.
at 30 minutee past 8 from the
20th of September to the 20th of
March. Saturdays at sunset..
`It will be required of every
person employed that they be in
the room in which they are ern-
ploysd at the tirflo MCO•tiona d.
are hot allowed t o
the taIttor$ In %writing
bows:
"Anyone wild by negligence Or
misconduct causes damage to the
machinery, or impedes the pro-
gress of work, will. be 'liable:to
intake good the damage tier the
same, .
"Any person employed for no
certain length of time will be
required to (.ave at het et four
weeks' notice of their intention
to have (sickness excepted) or
forfeit four weeks' pay... .
"Anything tending to impede
the progress of manufacturing in
working hours, such as unneceS-
ry conversation, reading, eat-
trait, -W., must be avoided.
"No smoking will be allowed
in the factory, es 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. fAt ether times]
25 minutes will be allowed for
breakfast, 30 minutes for dinner,
and 25 minutes for supper, • and
no more from the time the gate
is shut till started again."
These were typical company
rules. The eimilaritieS in some
of the regulations . were not
coincidental; the provisions were
SO common that even the ward-
ing was much the same, place to
place. And the penalty for vie-
lating the rules? Discharge, of
course, and frequently blacklist-
ing with other employers.— By
Ed, Townsend in the Christian
Science Monitor,
Traffic That Is
Really Congested
The Japanese railroads, blame
winter clothes for some of To-
kyo's rush-hour problems.
Heavy winter clothing they
say, reduces the capacity of pas-
senger coaches by 20 per cent,
Where 100 people can normally
squeeze into a coach, only 80 can
do so during the winter.
So great is the crush that
Shinjuku, one of the major sub-
urban railroad stations in Toyko,
is o5fering rush-hour victims
sandals to replace shoes they
have lost in the wild scramble
to get aboard.
A "button box" collects hun-
dreds of buttons every day —
"donations" from railroad em-
ployees sweeping platforms after
the trains have pulled out,
Special squads of police link
arms with station staff in an at-
tempt to cote of the crowds—or
apply pressure to get the last
person into a coach.
As the people go in, the win-
dows sometimes come out, Some
mime-capers there assert that 100
windows are broken each day.
Tokyo neweseapers have been
running a series of photographs
showing the rush-hour life of a
Toyko commuter. He is pushed,
shoved, kicked, trodden on,
prodded, tripped up, elbowed,
and scratched. If his ear itches,
he must wait until the end of
the line when, with pressure
eased, he can lift an arm to
scratch it,
The photographs were aecorn-
panied by warnings that unless
congestion was eased, fatalities
or serious injury might occur,
Jostling on platforms, for in-
stance, might push someone into
the path of an oncoming train,
Enough pressure inside the
coaches might one day force open
the &gr7, spilling people onto
the tracki.
The worst line in Tokyo is the
Chuo Line, popularly known as
the "hell line," The construction
of blocks of apartments along
this line has so increased the
number of people traveling to
and from work that the rush-
hour timetable of one train every
two minutes has been started
earlier to try to cope with the
morning rush.
WORLD IN BLOOM .Embrac-
ing the earth made of flowers,
Babette Green decorates the
United World Federalist booth
at the Cleveland Flower Show.
The group urges "world peace
through world low."
Making A Comeback
After A Stroke
Over BBC radio one night re-
cently came a voice from the
past. The rich baritone accents
were those of Douglas Ritchie, a
popular news commentator dur-
ing World War U 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," which 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. r Can't
speak quickly now, but I can
speak, and I go on improving. I
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-
pened 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, 1055,
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
(loss 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
thteelee, to the painfully slow,.
frustrating task of relearning the
language he had used so well.
To stroke victims everywhere
(750.000 annually in the 'erS.),
Ritchie offers this practice. ed-
vicet, "You must be patient, lid
Matter how slowly things go,
YOU must set your sights 'ewer
datti to accept Vent
tient -4
see . • .
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
a 'big overflow was reached this
year. •
Menu for the dinner included
SWedish meat bails, potato sau-
sage, hickory srn o k e d ham,
steamed halibut, pickled herring,
bruna beans, boiled potatoes,
molded salads (they needed 65
of these), tossed salad, assorted
cheese, cottage Cheese, code slaw
(100 pounds of cklbage!), dev-
iled eggs, relishes, pickled beets,
limpa, rye crisp, white bread,
rice p u dd. i it g, lingonberries,
cookies, and several 'hot and cold
drinks.
When guests presented their
tickets at dthe door, they were
given •a leaflet with recipes fore
foods they were , about to be
served. Here, according to Elea-
nor Richey Johnston in the
Christian Science Monitor,. are
same of them, Which I am happy
to pass along to you.
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SWEDISH MEAT BALLS •
1 pound ground beef
i pound ground lean pork
1 egg, slightly beaten.
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
2, teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons savor-salt
1.:4 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 necessary. Form into
small balls; fry in butter, turn-
ing constantly, Do not overcook..
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One hundred seventy pounds
of chicken halibut were used at
trie...iNtoriashord.. 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
dish. 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 CI fish. Dot white flesh
generously with butter sprinkle
with paprika; return to oven.
Cook 10 minutes uncovered._
Time may vary_ somewhat ac-
cording to size of fish. (This re-
cipe is for a tantily,eized fish.) , *
4,
On a small scale, a "Dip" par-
ty may be considered to be simi-
lar to a smorgasbord, in the sense
that each person goes around the
table and selects the food that
he wants. I went to such a clip
warty on a recent Sunday eve-
ning, Small:, elaborately decor-
ated paper plates were used by
those serving themselves f.ro,:et
bowls end es chafing dish, We
dipped with corn chips, potato
chips, small crackers, carrot and
celery sticks, taking Wane Of
every kind of dip offered and
then settled around an open fire
for talk and eating, We Went
bade often and we needed
nothing else for our slipper —
though the hostess did pass.,
homemade cookies with the hot
beverage that we poured for our-
selves when we had finished the
dips. Four or five varieties are
a good nitenbet, For a hot dip,
trey' this 'one, is blade of deVe
iled ham, cheese, mayonnaise,
Tabasco; and tomato juice.
18.8a1 -, 1951 -
CHAFING DISH DIP
'e pound processed cheese
2 tablespoons mayonnaise.
1 can (431i-oz.) deviled ham.
1 tablespoon finely -chopped-
onion
teaspoon Tabasco-
3 tablespoons tomato juice
Melt cheese over low heat. Stir
ixr mayonnaise, deviled ham,
onion, and Tabasco until well
'blended. Gradually stir in toma-
to juice; mixing very well. If dip
seems too thick, add more tomato
juice; transfer to candle warmer
or chafing dish and serve with
chips and raw vegetables. Serves
8.
Dips made with sour cream are
popular and any dip party should
Include at least one of these,
Here is one to serve cold,
CLAM SOUR CREAM DIP
i cup sour cream
IA cup minced clams, well
drained
• t4, teaspoon each, onion and .
garlic" powder
Dash ground black pepper.
Dash ground cayenne pepper
14, teaspoon ground basil leaves
teaspoon salt
Paprika for garniSh
Combine all ingredients except
naprika. Mix well. Pour into a
small bowl, sprinkle with pap-
rika. Serve on a tray surrounded
by carrot and celery sticks, raw
cauliflower, raw broccoli flower-
lets, radish roses, chips, and small
crackers.
For an unusual dip, try one
made of avocado and ripe olives.
BLACK OLIVE-AVACADO DIP
I soft ripe 'avocado ..
1 tablespOon minced onion-
2 tablespOons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons lemon juice
t42 teaspoon salt
tcapsoon Tabasco sauce
cup chopped black olives
Peel avocado and mash, Stir
hn onion, mayonnaise, lemon
juice, salt, and Tabasco. Blend
well, Stir in black olives.
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PARTY EGG DIE
4 hard-cooked eggs
14. cup Mayonnaise
Cup tomato catchup
2 tablespoons milk
1'2 teaspoon lemon juice
teaspOo'n each, salt and sweet,
basil.
Chop eggs fine and place in a
bowl; add remaining ingredients
and blend well, Chill before
serving.,
Pleasant Way To
KW Your Husband
Listen to this, you cookery-
Conscious wives! You can kill a
man with a too-rich dinner.
If you don't believe it ask the
Life Underwriters' Association,
They've diseovered that wives,
lack of exercise and beer make
half of Australia's men, aged' be-
tween thirty and forty, about ten
per cent, overweight and another
quarter of them twenty per cent.
overweight.
"The trouble is." says the , asso-
ciation, "that most Wives believe"
that because a man has had a
light lunch he Must have a big
meal in the evening."
The' fact is it's the wife. who
usually needs the big meal be-
cause she's been Wing up Much
More energy doing the house-
hold chores,
A Cleveland. heartspecialist,
Hellerstein, says that a Maid
at an office desk uses up only
one and a half times the energy
lie expends when he is lying
about doing nothing, This is
Called "restirig .eteergys"
Remember that, Men, when
YOU slump in an tittnehair and
let the missuS get on with Wash ,
in the dishek
SH7c.ri- 76°
As the grey truck p•ulit d 01.a
F,tcp nearby,. the Milan police-
man stared euepichniely. Ite.had
noticed the van dOlvering sa-
lami and other .,:msages many
times before and bad noted that
it always seemed to stop at the
same sirts—mid always, the same
wary looking customers were
served, The matter needed look-
ingA into, report went in. Milan's pct.-
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
driveuick
for
off, h •btin, tl the squad was too
quick
When the sausages were
amined, the pollee 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 official had been
delegated to burn the fake notes.
Instead, faced with the tempting
pile, he had hidden them be-
tween the wall and a safe in his
office, As regulations demanded,
he certified that he'd destroyed
the notes, Top officials made ap-
propriate entries in their records
and the matter was forgotten,
The notes remained in their hid-
ing place,
Later, however, the official
was arrested and found guilty
of. another charge. He was jailed
for six months. While in prison
he often thought of his hoard and.
the time passed in pleasurable
anticipation.
ImMediately after his release
he returned to the palace, sneak-
ed past the guards, and made
his way to his old office,
Feverishly, he removed wads
of the counterfeit. notes, stuffed
them under his shirt and crept
away. He repeated the. visits at
intervals,
- -Accomplices .helped. him to
pack the dollars into sausage
'skips, organize a "sales round"
'and distribute them. The truck's
'customers were illegal money
yetiidOrs. • Passing off the dollars
as genuine, they exchanged them
for .Italian
By the time the police swoop-
ed, their system had. worked so
effectively that only $4,000 of the
hoard. remained. The ex-official
had done well for himself before
he stood in the dock again,
charged with burglary, 'swindl-
ing, 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-
ducing false franc notes, it ran
oft thousands of German D-
marks, Dutch guilders, Spanish
pesetas and American dollar
bilBitt, unknown to these cleVer
operators, the police got wind of .
their, activities. Inspector La-
croux waited until the next big.
press day. Before daylight, on
a dritzling winter morning, his
squad crept into tactical positions
near the counterfeiters'. den.
He listened intently — and
hi tad the viii4g
ptirtalg full 14114
lie t:.sAll a H.orw into the beet!,
mom window and, aA the gitisi
.splintered, his men closed in,
Tkw three ecunterfeiters tried.
.to bolt, but they wore soon hand-
Inffed, The cellar was littered
with wet notes, and sto c ks or
waterproof paper, some of it
stolen from the Bank of France.
Saying A tot
In Smolt Space
A new sort of doodling 6 go-
leg en at The New York Thnet
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 taste tougher,
rules of the game restriet the
h ea d s to 1412 units, th e ine,„\
- mum under the rigid typeface
(24 point Latin Antique) The
Times has used since 1007 over
one-column stories .continued
from page one. These samples of
the head writers' humor were
'reproduced recently in Times
Ihe paper's house organ:
JEHOVAH RESTING
APTER, 6-DAY TASK
*
METHUSELAH DIES:
;JUDEAN WAS 944
MOSES, ,ON
GETS 10-PT, PLAN
FRENCH' ARE URGED
TO CONSIIME, CANE
*
HOLLAND SETTLERS
IN 421. .LAND DEAL
BLAZE IN. CHICAGO.
IS LINKED TO COW
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But no 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, end
readable at five to ten paces,
was the quotation, "Everything
good in. a man thrives best when
properly recognized."
ROCKETEER — Professor Alla
Masevic is vice president of
t e Astro - Physics National
Council of the U.S,S,R, The
lady scientist, shown in Rome
on a lecture lour, has worked
on several Russian satellites,
SWEET ON J, _=-Mrs, MariOti Tucker hos Created a unique
portrait' of President Kennedy. The painting VS done cake
itingi feat td in triarshtliallOW, Cake topper and Bible cotta-
plete gut, precented by ivktS, tucker at the Dertiocratic
torn &Mite,
R1.17, "3 illiTANY—Jeonine Levesque IS .6. vision' In lace in •Pariii
Oralice', Ike I0-year.eld hairclrester 'frairt Wels-eletted
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