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The Seaforth News, 1961-10-19, Page 2British Customers Are Still Patient We went bowling the other night in a London suburb. Or, rattier, we tried to, When our gzotip arrived, we were told there was a waiting list for al- leys. Our name went down as eighteenth on the lost. An hour later, after we 'had studied the style of the other bowlers and consumed a considerable quan- tity of hamburgers and. milk shakes, we departed without having downed a single pin. By that time, our name had worked itself up to about tenth en the list. Conclusion: Britain can use more bowling centers. Addition- al installations, one knows, are Planned, They are very expen- sive, it is true. But one wonders If there could not be a little un -British haste in meeting an obviously booming demand. Or take cars. At the request of an American friend, we tele- phoned the London agency of a certain fine, not inexpensive motor vehicle. 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They were willing to. cable whatever deposit was nec- essary, "Oh, no," was the reply, "We are discontinuing that par- ticular model. -and all that are going to be produced already are sold," "Then what about the new model?" we inquired, "Fine," they replied, "but of course there is a big backlog of orders and a five-month wait for that one." Conclusion: If a few more of these particular cars were pro- duced, one suspects they could be sold. The next day, we were sur- prised to read 1,000 workers of that particular company had been laid off, due to a shortage of carburetors, The carburetors were in short supply because one man of the carburetor fac- tory refused to join a union not of his choice. Fewer carburet- ors, fewer cars. Thus one man's impact can be felt by a would- be purchaser on the West Coast of the United States. Or take school clothing out- fitters. Many a mother and dad have had the experience of try- ing to replenish a child's ward- robe at stores devoted only to such outfits—or at establishments maintaining a major school clothes department — only to be told that perfectly standard needed items are out of stock for weeks to come. One can understand why per- sonal name tapes should take a long time; they can't be kept in readiness, But how about shirts and socks, dresses and shoes? The popularity of bowling may decline, and expensive cars be replaced by "minis,' but chil- dren are always going to school, and the numbers are increasing. Would a store lose by ordering a few dozen more pajamas and blazers than it knows it sold last year?, asks Henry S. Hay- ward in the Christian Science Monitor, These random examples in the • fields of entertainment, tran- sportation, and personal wear illustrate ' one feature of the British economy of today. In certain areas, it tends surprising- ly le tolerate long -terns scarci- ties, Articles in short supply remain in short supply indefini- tely—the buying public seems inured to the situation: Yet individuals here will com- plain vigorously about the lack of courtesy or service, We re- cently heard a woman give a whole busload of passengers a tongue lashing for failing to of- fer their seats to a man whose physical handicap was not im- mediately apparent. Others write letters to newspapers cit- ing in full detail the shortcom- ings of a restaurant,, a train meal, or a vacation resort. Yet if they are told very poli- tely a certain article cannot be obtained, they usually accept this situation without protest. Perhaps this is a holdover from the days of wartime and post- war shortages. But it suggests a certain lethargy in production and merchandising that Britain may not be able to afford when it finds itself in full competi- tion with the European Com- mon Market group. The theory seems to be that it is preferable to be sold out while demand still is brisk than to be left with some unsold items on the shelf. For a tight- knit country, carefully balanc- ing its imports and exports, this doubtless is less wasteful than the American system of produc- ing to the upper limits of de- mand—and 'a bit more. One thing you can say for the British scarcity system is that when you do obtain the desired car, house, bowling 'alley, or football boots, you appreciate it that much more. AVAILABLE: FRONT SEAT PILOT — Flying instructor Mrs. Eliza- beth Overbury, 26, peers from the cockpit of a plane — with a problem on her mind, Seems she can't get a job anywhere as a commercial pilot, although she teaches commercial pilots how to fly. Mrs, Overbury, from Luton, Bedfordshire, England, blames passenger prejudice toward women pilots as the root of the "unsound barrier. SERGEANT AT EASE—The answer to an army private'sdream, model Yora Yedlin relaxes by a pool in Toronto. Yora was once a sergeant in the Israeli Army. G we r.l .oli.r.e P. C lazik, z Last weekend I was gadding, this weekend I am very much at home — canning, pickling, baking, mending — and for re- creation trying to find something on television that isn't ,football! Just imagine we have six view- ing stations around here and the program on each is a foot- ball game! No alternative any- where. Now that's what I call going to extremes. Partner en- joys football games but I couldn't care less, However, I can use my time getting this column underway especially as I have a very interesting subject to write about. Upper Canada Village, no less. No doubt you have read quite a bit about "The . Village" al- ready—there was a wonderful write-up in the June issue of "Canadian Homes" but I sup- pose everyone who attempts to describe it sees it from a differ- ent angle. My enjoyment of the visit was increased because I was one of a group of thirty who travelled by chartered train coach, bus and boat, We were five hours on the train each way but since we had a coach to ourselves it was five hours of chatter, fun and laughter. At Cornwall a bus was waiting for us and immediately took us some miles out of town to a very comfortable motel and restaur- ant, After dinner we did as we liked until bedtime. Next morning our sight-see- ing began in earnest. A bus took us down to the docks where we got on a boat for a two-hour cruise through the seaway. But I forgot—en route we first stepped briefly at the monument at Chrysler's Farm. it was im- pressive, as were the murals symbolizing the Battle of 1812. The boat trip was most inter- esting and enjoyable, All the principal features were described to us by our guide and commen- tator. For instance we were told when we were passing over old cemeteries and graveyards now flooded by the seaway. Before the flooding owners of cemetery plots were told by the Ontario Government that family remains could be moved to higher ground at government expense. Or, if the owners so desired, headstones could be moved and the graves left undisturbed—in which case tons and tons of rock would be dropped over the site to prevent erosion. In most cases relatives of those long since buried preferred to leave the graves as they were. Then the guide pointed out to us a large cemetery in the distance that had been set aside to accommo- date either the remains or the headstones from graves in the old burying grounds. This cotn- munity cemetery was divided into three sections to suit the various religious denominations. We did not go through the locks but we passed them. And of course the huge Robert Saun- ders Power Station, both really impressive sights, After the boat trip we were given lunch by the Ontario Government at the old Willard's Hotel in the Village. It was e lovely lunch that fitted right in • with the environments — cold turkey, home -cured ham and all the trimmings, with gobs of wonderful homemade b r ea d made right in the village bake- shop, After lunch we toured the buildings—the parson's house. 7'r the doctor's, the schoolmaster's and so on. What particularly appealed to me was the village store, also Cooks Tavern. It was so easy to imagine it peo- pled by the storekeeper and his customers and the inn -keeper and the frequenters of his tav- ern. They both looked like something out of Dickens. And there was the blacksmith shop. The forge was actually in op- eration and as the embers died the "smitty" would work the bellows and revive the embers. In the handicraft section wo- men in period costume were spinning, weaving, quilting and mat -making in rooms furnished according to the period in which they lived. 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Send 250, 'Ontario residents must include to Sales Tax tot each CATA- LOG rt _.; T.,:,. is n sales. tmc on the patterns. Sommer Vacations A Month Too Long? A symposium of youths -on - the -street concerning proposals for an 11 -month school year drew a preponderantly negative reaction, as we had every reason to expect, Who but the inordin ately ambitious or impatient among them could be expeeted to favor a reduction of vacation time from two months to one? And perhaps it ill behooves any adult, with all his school vacations safely behind ltitn, and their memories securely pre- served, as it were, in amber, to suggest that the younger gen- •eration should foreswear sum- mer loafing, Yet we suspect the handwriting, as they say, is on the wall. As far as rest and recreation —the reasons put forward by cradles and four-poster beds complete with canopies. Space does not permit telling you half what I saw but be- lieve me it is a wonderful thing the government has done, One the onehand we have the St. Lawrence Seaway that provides slipping facilities previously un- heard of. On the other hand there is the preservation of the essentials of life to the early settlers' of Upper Canada who sowed the seeds of our prosper- ity. They lived in an age when no one could exist without courage and fortitude—and re- sourcefulness. They endured •hardships that can scarcely be imagined by our present gen- eration. Only they did not look upon them as hardships. To them the extreme forces of na- ture; the "black death"; the day by day privations were all part of the price that had to be paid for the privilege of living in. a new land with all its opportun- ities for the future, I wonder — do you think those brave souls — if they know—are satisfied with what their descendants have done with their heritage? the young objectors.. our staff in- terviewed—are concerned, wet would guess that the older gen- eration needs these benefits more than youngsters, . , , Bven with an 11 -month, school .year, kids would still have a month of freedom, a vacation longer than most adults enjoy, This does not take into account the generous respites they get at Christmas, and Easter. The most compelling reason for 'the 11 -month year is that it would make more economical and efficient use of school facil- ities in an era when they at'e unequal to the demand. 11 would also turn out graduates with a great saving in time, a consid- eration that may come to be of critical' importance in the great international competition f o trained minds. The way we have it, the two- month vacation originated out of the need a couple of generations ago to put the kids to work on the family farm during the sum- mar. If we are going to keep it perhaps we had better arrive at some justification that is more in tune with the realities of our day. — StazNews (Pasadena, Calif.) " DIUVE CAREFULLY — Tho life you save may be your own. SALLY'S SALLIES "I can't team to love you Homer. My education's been neglected." ISSUE 41 — 1961 Some Doxy You Might Be Able To Choose The Sex Of Your Child By WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Assn, NEW YORK — (NEA) — "The lab report is quite satisfactory," the doctor tells the young cou- ple, "so you should certainly be able to have a baby. "Now, what would you like: a boy or a girl?" This seemingly ridiculous piece of business is being trans- acted today ,in an increasing number of U.S. medical offices with anywhere from 60 to 82 per cent success as the science of experimental genetics begins to solve a problem as old, prob- ably, as mankind. Geneticists have suspected for many years that the child's sex depends on the father's genes. But only recently have labora- tory techniques isolated the male and female carriers in sperm. given a picture of their choice— baby boy or girl—and asked to look at it carefully and thought- fully every day, even after con- ception. In these mind -over -mother at- tempts, researchers report 82 per cent success in 380 cases, Well, you can see how it's all beginning to add up to easier living. No muss, no fuss, no tedious hours of picking out al- ternate names or last-minute rush to color -coordinate the nursery. Only one small problem re- mains—the human race. Under the obsolete system of ne ure, the birth rate of the sexes was about equal -105.5 boys born for every 100 girls. But it doesn't take a very bright cultural anthropologist to recog- nize that babies -on -order can lead to chaos. BOY OR GIRL? Someday soon doctors may deliver on order. Which one gets through to fer- tilize the egg depends, research- ers are finding, on answers to three main aveunes of inquiry: The time of conception, Stu- dies show some 60 per cent more boys are born to young mothers than to old, and to mothers who conceive at the peak -point of ovulation rather than before or after. The means of conception, In one series of artificial insem- ination cases under controlled conditions, 76 per cent of the births were boys. Predictability might be even more accurate, some experimenters reason, if the union of egg and selected sperm were managed in a test tube and then transplanted to the mother's womb, It has worked quite well in animals. The mother's frame of mind. In one continuing, 15 yesr-old study, prospective mothers are The results of genetics experi- ments already indicate that peo- ple' want more boys than girls. And as geneticists .can tell you, it's not a very good choice for the race. The human male, studies show, is less resistant to disease, ir- radiation, and the stress and strain of everyday life than the female. Tr - male i_ a p orer cpsrat:ve risk, ex, ends mere energy in muscular work, re- quires more food, gaits less good out of it, and lives fewer years than the female. There is, of course, some dis- tant likelihood' that the male will no longer be necessary tor reproduction. Experiments in parthinogenesis ha v e already prcducecl animals from unfertil- ized eggs. But in the meantime, another federal t n "' -ty agency fesms on the