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The Brussels Post, 1961-06-29, Page 2c;14 Memo To Mrs. Jones RE: Soviet People First, my apologies for hay- ing neglected you, Mrs Jenne, since the qeneVa conference of 1959. You will note that they are still conferring in geneva. This report, however, is based on observations farther east — in Minsk, Moscow, Leningrad, and way stations during a 10-day visit to the Soviet Union as an ordinary tourist. Two. Western couples in a car encounter a lot of people, Mrs. Jones. So I am going to skip the usual political and diplomatic details. Instead, here are a few highlights of what one finds and feels — in terms of people. First of all: their humor, We half expected Soviet officials to be very difficult at the border. But in our first encounter, at Brest, a Russian-speaking Eng- lish fellow tourist turned on the sunshine at once with a joke. "They want to know," be boomed as an echelon of cus- toms men formally approached our car, "whether or not you are carrying any atom bombs, One is all right — but two, nyet!" Broad smiles lit the' faces of the examiners at that. "Da, da, one is all right," they chuckled, "but two is above the quota." From that moment, the inspec- tion went off smoothly, with high good humor. They even passed some suspicious-looking West German oranges and numerous. American magazines se , elected of being propaganda-ridden. Lesson 1 therefore is: don't get yourself — or them — all tensed up and you'll get along better. In this respect, they're no dif- ferent from you there in the Am- erican Midwest or your cousins Jiffy-Knit Gtr CA4t44 Matt Add rich interest to a bedroom with this textured spread—smart in one or rnulticolors. Perfect pick-up work! Shell medallions—JIFFY-KNIT on 2 large needles—join to form a lightweight spread. Use rug cot- ton. Patteirs.814: directions. 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The dining rooms Of each hotel at which we Stayed were packed each evening with Soviet couples and. party groups, obviously having an expensive night out on the town — and spending their rubles hand over fist, Without a quiver, such rev- elers paid the equivalent of 50 cents apiece for oranges and nearly $3 for a fresh pineapple, To us, their willingness to spend lavishly on entertainment under- scored the continued shortage of worthwhile items to purchase in the stores, Nevertheless, M. Jones, an ePic change of climate already has occurred, Soviet citizens have begun to relax for the first time since the repressions of the Stalin regime ended, Nowadays, people can afford to be more natural, more pleasant. The contrast with eight years ago is marked, This coincides with the emer- gence of new vested interests in the officially classless society of the Soviet Union — people whose managerial or scientific skills are rewarded with surplus money and possessions, people no longer satisfied with the lot of the laborer or peasant. Meanwhile, one cannot travel through their country, watch them, and talk with them with- out noticing certain basic points: First, most of these people not only take profound pride in their nation's achievements but also identify themselves with a his- toric movement. Their outlook is oddly akin to that of Americans during the westward expansion a century ago. Second, they have a tremen- dous sense of competition, par- ticularly with the United States. Although Americans no longer are a novelty in the major cities, they study them like laboratory specimens. And they like it best when they can emphasize Soviet 'superiority. They suggest, for instance, that the. Shepard flight was really a failure because the United States astronaut did not go into orbit. They inquire about racial segre- gation. They. point. out that their income tax is scheduled for abo- lition — although it is not a major revenue source anyhow. Finally, they exude an over- powering confidence in the even- tual success of their system over democracy. ,So strong and calcu- lated is their optimisM that one literally has to guard against ac- cepting this constant smiling sug- gestion of their ultimate victory — and of democracy's eventual ruin, However, they cannot hide from any open-eyed tourist cer- tain gargantuan shortcomings of their .own system — shortages, wasted effort, regimentation, pri- mitiveness, the sacrifice of many ordinary freedoms. Some observ- ers consider it a miracle that the Soviet Union has held to- gether this long. Yet it has, Mrs. Jones It is all there, both better and worse than you might expect, Ard the Soviets seem to be working harder to beat the West than the West is to keep ahead of them. You might give Mr. Jones and the neighbors a reminder about that. —By Henry S. Hayward, Chief of the London News Bureau of the Christian Science Monitor. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Does a woman ever take the aisle seat when she is attending the theater with a man? A. Never. She always enters the row first, and her escort takes the aisle seat. Q. How is the best Way to in- vite a wedding guest to the reception? A, By including a small card with the, wedding invitation. °reading: "Reception immediately after the ceremony (or at such- and-such a time) at such-and: such address — R.s.v.p. RONICLES 6%4, 11, eessi AtSlat • we are lise'ne war4,/e,ather — and how we appeetiate it. But it works for and.atainst us. It gives us plenty of oppo'rtunity to work in the garden but it also gives us the urge to get out and see things and go places. Of course weedon't feel so guilty about going places if it coincides with doing things. For instance I had to go around with the hospital sewing I men- tioned last week and that little job took me to beautiful homes I didn't even. know existed. One place was a fruit farm with all the trees out in full blOom. You can imagine how lovely' it was. I don't •know what -the set-up is on this particular farm, whether the owners had sold off lots or what but there were at least six houses with driveways run- ning off the main farm entrance. So, although the owners were away out in the country they were still not isolated. In fact most of the women were congre- gated in one house when I got there. Another place I went to was a single dwelling amid about ten acres of land, much of it wooded. The house could , not be seen „from the road so to get to it one had, to drive along a narrow, winding, hilly , farm lane.. I was enthralled with the beauty of the place. I thought this would be an ideal place in which to live. But now every time. I think of it I remind myself of that narrow, winding lane and imagine what it would be like to get out of the place in-winter-time — especial- ly after an ice storm. Partner and I, although loving the country, have managed to convince our- selves, that at our time of life we are better off in a built-up area. After all we can always get away to. the country for an hour or two any time we want to — or anywhere else for that mat- ter. Last Thursday we did. just that. Joy and the boys came up from Milton then we all drove to High Park in the west end of Toronto. It is one of the nicest parks I know. Flowers, animals, water- fowl, nature trails, plenty of space and several playgrounds for the children. Ross and Cedric were able to run loose and teal- ly enjoy themselves — and with little supervision. The tulips and rock gardens were lovely but of course we were too early for the roses. We shall have to make another trip later on as the rose gardens at High Park are real- ly worth a visit. High Park is only about ten minutes walk from Dee's place so after our outing we etopped in there for lunch, She was in the middle of painting her bedroom but seemed quite willing to stop for a visit. And so were the boys. David was home for lunch but after he had gone back to school the lour little boys played around as hap-. py as could be. ,Sometimes we couldn't hear ourselves-think but that was to be expected. Yesterday we had another out- ing. Art came out for us and then we all went to see the Oar-, tiger: Parade alotg "University Averiue. We were lucky in find- ing a place to park — in the shade — and with a good view of the parade. One thing is eeP, tain, it was much cooler waiting and watching than it, was =tells ing. Partner, being an "old vet" of the first World War, and Art of the second, they were both in- terested in picking out the Well trained men from the round- shouldered loose-limbed recruits. Outstanding were a le*iergearit- itajoit who had the typical bears Mg of the traditional §ergearit- majet who had; eerVecisin coinhat duty. And while the parade was MI President Xerniedy was int coriferende with Premier Khrtisli- they, (incidentally Mr, 1<hrtish- chev Might be enraged to knoW that hi spite of his name being so well known I can never fr,trietri-, BALI BALLET — Starting her career early in life, this 5-year- old girl practices intricate dance maneuvers on the island of Bali. The girl is one of 35 mil- lion children in Indonesia (which` includes Bali); many of Whom are being aided by U.N. bey how to spell it!) I thought of the conference and wondered . . would the outcome of that little get-together bring us nearer or driye us further away from ac- tual war? Would the men now marching in parade ever be call- ed upon for combat duty? It was a sobering thought 'as the sun shone brightly upon the crowds moving freely through the streets and planes flew over- head saluting the troops. While we were waiting for the parade to .start Dee and I took a few minutes to 'visit a friend who has been a -patient in • the Toronto General Hospital for seven months. In the same room with her is a patient with leu- kemia. Thinking about them both I woke up this morning feeling thankful for the ability to be up and around, After the parade Art drove us over to Cherry Beach just to take a look at the old lighthouse. We always welcome an opportunity to be near the water for awhile. Then back to Dee's place to an appetising dinner, After the dishes were done,the drive home. It was quite a day. Today the "probe" are for 85° temperature so I am starting early to do what had' to be done, before it gets too hot: In between' going places we still manage to do a little work! Sweden Gets Toughs ',Oil Its Juveniles ft takes' more effort tO'get Into trouble in Stockholm than in any other city in the world: Drink- 11. ing ie. rationed; night ,clubs ,are, controlled; " autoniabile': fraffie 'A moves at a moderate pace. It is 'all highly efficient—and deadly Despite this, StockholinTs, young people manage to 'blow off steam every 'new arid then by.; rioting er overturning auteino.ee biles. At other times,-'young: Ole 7'.t. and his girl Irictel, lareale,the lativ by .careening arounds on motor scooters, (Swed.enls juvenile de- linquency rate' has, doubled in the postwar yeara. Recently, Sweden's Welfare- Minded 'Legislators"' passed a laW asigneel to bring 'young Ole tip short by chopping Off his spend ing money. Hereafter, a h $Wede tinder 21 'Who has .a job; but doesn't behave himself, 'will. ,:be required to. Pay ,roorti ;and board at home-cif his -*rents request it, The idea is that the l'ess thoneS/ a tdeitpagelt hgethe better 1,rhe wit behave—a thesis that May not be foolproof but it At Nast should tioke it CVdti harder to get into trouble in. Sweden. pectiOck" struts his Greek's Wiant' Their Treasures Back Frown not' on England; England owns him not! Athens, no! Thy plunderer was a Scot. "The Curse of Minerva" was hardly Lord Byron's best poem —in fact, it was one of his worst. But when he published it in 1815, it served to draw the civil- ized world's attention to the re- moval of a magnificent marble frieze, from the Parthenon and other sculptures from the Ac, ropolis in Athens. The deed was done by the Scots peer Lord Elgin (pro- nounced with a' hard g), who procured the "marbles" from the Turkish masters of early-nine- teenth-century Greece at a cost to himself of £74,000. More, than 2,000 years old, they depict- ed the life of the gods and were largely the work of the fifth- century B.C. sculptor Pheidias. Elgin took' his marbles back to England and .sold them to the government for half of what he had spent. Ever since, the schol- ars of Athens have been trying' —Unsuccessfully—to got their treasures back, Last. -month in the House of Commons, an ardent Hellenop, ,hile, Francis. Noel-Baker, put the question to Prime Minister Mac- millan. The Elgin marbles should 'be returned, he. said, as a gesture of "graciousness and good will" to the Greek people. Busy with other matters, the P.M. said it was a -problem that "I will not dismiss from my mind." This was no commit- ment of any sort but it was enough to start an .argument, From. the mayor of Athens, from savants at the University of Athens, the Academy of Athens, and the Hellenic Arche- ological Society, came an elo- quent selee. By returning the marbles, they said, Britain would be fulfilling "an intellectual and moral obligation toward that ancient world which conceived the loftier human ideals that giVe substance to contemporary free man." Others cited prece- dent: George V had returned the crown of the Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia to the Regent Ras Tafari (later' Emperor Haile Sel- laesie I). But the British Museum, where for 145 years the marbles have been displayed as one of Lon- ' don's greatest, art treasures, wasn't giving up that easily. If the frieze and other sculptures had been left in Athens, the mu- seum . argued, they unquestion- ably would have been destroyed during one 'or another of Greece's wars. By contrast, the. British had „carefully preserved thee; marbles dUring' World War Why hiding them in 'one of Lon- - 'don's deepest tube stations. The Elgin marbles are no,t, loot, said The Times., "They were bought and paid for." Patriotic Britons agreed,• When a visiting Frenchman told an attendant of the museum that the British should return the collection "because you.. have al- ways stolen .everythingy,ou can get your hands, on," he "was ask. ed what the French- intende'd tto do about the Statue of the Wing- ed Victoity in; the Paris Lettvre —which the trench -excavatecleek Samothrace. As for rthst Elgin marbles, another attendant said:. "Don't worry &latst theit they'll be returned when llord Nelsoh gets hif eye ',back." 1/ Cartoon Movies Show Signs Of-'J.ife It appeared last month that the rigor mortis that has been setting in with the movie car" toon short was really only a temporary state of suspended animation, In 1958, the number Of .such horts made annually had shrunk in ten years from almost 200 to 50. This year, New York and Hollywood eartoonists will probably turn, out 95. Walt Dis- ney, who abandoned. Donald Duek and Goofy in 1958, is bringing them back for three dhorts this year, M-G-M, which destroyed its Torn and Jerry- built cartoon empire M 1957 by sacking Jerry's creators, William Hanna and Joseph Berbera, has revived the eat and mouse and turned them over to William Snyder, creator of 'the Oscar- winning Munro. Snyder will make thirteen •in the series, plus ten cartoons based on the works Of Such as Ludwig Bemelmans end Crockett Johnson.Hanna- Barbera themselves, who have grown rich and famous on their Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound television cartoons are again taking up serious movie cartooning, with twelve shorts about the do-good wolf Loopy de Loop. Walter Lantz, creator of Woody Woodpecker, is plan- ning nineteen shorts. Warner Brothers (Bugs Bunny, Tweety) will have twenty, and Formal Inc., a new outfit, will make ten science-fiction cartoons based on Ray Bradbury stories. The cartoon doldrums set in when costs soared and the prices distributors were willing to pay did not, But the public complain- ed. Now producers have found new ways to keep costs down. All Snyder's cartoons are dream- ed up in New York, for example, but drawn in Europe, where artists come cheaper. Hanna- Barbera severely limit their ani- mation, and therefore the num- ber of drawings required. Lastly, the standard length of cartoons has been cut from eight minutes to six. To old-liners like Walter Lantz, who began cartooning in 1916, all this is saddening. "The cost has become so high that it is all but impossible to get your in- vestment -back in less than four or five years," Lantz complained recently in his sedate Hollywood office. "The characters we used to put in the movie cartoons lived and breathed like human beings. These TV cartoons have so much mouth action and so little body action. They simply are not of the same quality. What you have today, even in many movies, is very little motion with a good radio script, lots of dialogue." However, Joe Barbera, who got into cartooning from account- ing some 25 years ago, is con- vinced that minimal motion is here to stay, and he's happy about it. "What Lantz says we can't do, ,we're doing," he said in the chaos of his own hyperactive office. "You can still turn car- toons out for the same cost as in the old days. Today, you cut out every gesture you can, and the cost -comes down. You have to give people good entertainment, good stories, and good dialogue, All that motion is passe. What we're back to is the original con,' cept Pt the cartoon, to satirize, people, their walk, their general appearance, We're back to ha- mar." From. NSWSW,S4K, qtriog. Agsrois'$g. The head of a largo. business concern was eNtrernely Interest, tad in; psychology. One day h.. ptit up a number of signs read,- ing "Do: It Now" in his .offices to increase efficiency, A little, while Igor A. friend asked hint whether the scheme had any ef feet upon his staff, . yes," said the boss, "but not exactly what I'd hoped. The cashier absconded with .$10„. 000, the head bookkeeper eloped with my private secretary, three clerks asked fora forraise, and the! office"boy left to join -a circus." To Size 48 PRINTED PATTERN 1#40.-44.4 . Exclusively designed for hip- slimming flattery plus comfort- in-fit! Classic shirt, pedal push- ers, shorts, slacks—all are easy- sew in crisp cottons. Printed Pattern 4794: Women's Sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 36• shirt takes 1% yards 35-- inch; • pedal pushers 21/2 yards. 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. 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