Zurich Herald, 1949-01-20, Page 7F�.
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By
ENDUE BELL PORTER
The newspaper advertisement
read: "WANTED: Sober, reliable
than td take complete charge of ad-
vertising department of large firm.
Must be able to assume full re-
sponsibility. College -trained men
only need 'apply."
Ted Shane read it over toast and
eggs. "Mona!" he exclaimed, "Lis-
ten ... this is what I've been look-
ing for • . ."
"Yes, it does sound good," agreed
Mona, over his shoulder.
Ted reflected. "It isn't that old
Todd is a bad sort . it's just
that he doesn't seem to want to
give me full rein, and you know
I work better without so much
supervision."
Mona raised her hand in a dra-
matic sweep, "Onward and upward,
my lad . . Let's enter greener
fields via this ad ... let Todd feed
hi business to the birds!"
Thirty minutes later Ted leaned
back. "Read it to me, honey .
let's hear how it sounds."
"Dear Sir: If you are looking for
a than with initiative, willingness to
work and a capacity to handle your
advertising, look no further. How-
ever, I would have it understood
from the beginning that I am to
have full charge and not be hinder-
ed, swayed or crippled by any
supervisor, helper or owner. I am
at present employed. but unfortun-
ately my present employer is afraid
to trust me to stand on my own
feet, in fact, I 'do not believe he
fully trusts his own feet. I know
what I can do and all I ask is
a chance to prove it.
Respectfully, Theodore Shane."
Mona's eyes glowed. "Oh, Ted,
that is a good letter, but is that
part bad about your boss not trust-
: ing you?"
Ted's jaw set. "All spy cards are
on the table, honey ... might as
well let him know where I stand
right from the beginning."
Kissing Mona goodby, Ted whis-
pered, "Keep your fingers crossed
for luck, sweet."
At four o'clock that afternoon
the buzzer on Ted's desk itnpati-
tntly summoned hien into the in-
ner 'sanctum of the Big Boss—J.
Anthony Todd, himself. That illus-
triousjindividual sat stiffly erect, his
halo of steel gray hair bristling
excitingly.
"Sit down, Shane!" he thundered.
"Sit down. I want to talk with you
about that Finkle advertising deal.
Just how would you handle it?"
Ted blinked in surprise. "Why,
.sir, I would channel it through the
mediums of the small retailer for
there's not enough valume to inter-
est the large concerns."
The owner of Todd and Todd
nodded in agreement. "Right! That's
•just what I've been telling my part-
ner should be done! Go ahead with
it!"
"Thanks!" agreed Ted. "That
should be quite a deal if handled
properly."
"By the way," inquired Mr. Todd,
his eyes twinkling, ;'just how would
you handle the new plastic deal
with the Denver people?"
Ted outlined in enthusiastic detail
the plans he had been longing to
put into action.
When he had finished, the boss •
looked at him in astonishment. "My
boy," he instructed, "Go right
ahead. Call the in for a conference
only if you feel you need moral
support," He shifted his weight and
Ise ushered a dazed but happy
.Ted to the deer.
smiled. "Corrie back tomorrow. We
will draw up a new arrangement s
well as full authority in your de-
partment,"
After he had ushered a dazed but
happy Ted to the door, the head of
Todd and Todd drew a. letter from
his desk. He chortled, "This is
really good!" Adjusting his glasses
he read:
"My present employer is afraid
to- trust the to stand on illy own
feet, in fact I do not believe he
fully trusts his own feet,"
Putting the letter back, he smiled
again. "I guess young Shane will
always wonder why he never re-
ceived an answer to that letter. It
v.as a good thing I made that ad-
ve isetnent a blind one, otherwise
I might have never discovered
what a tip-top advertising fireball
I had right here all alongl"
Veteran Fights—And—Wins—His Toughest Campaign—During World War II, Jack Jacobson
was wounded by shrapnel in Europe. He became a disabled veteran, paralyzed from the breast-
bone down. But, quite naturally, he wanted to get around, so went to the Institute for Crippled
and Disabled Veterans where—as these pictures show, he was taught how to overcome his
disability. Above, left, a therapist puts him through. his paces on the -parallel bars, to develop
his arms so they can handle crutches. Gradually he advanced until now he could walk dovrn
stairs.r.
Great Britain
The United Kingdom has had a
little over six months experience
with the news National Health Act
—and opinions are sharply divided
as to how it is working out.
Although the expenditure for
medical and dental services was
budgeted at around 520 million
dollars for the first nine months,
'it is freely admitted that the coat
will be much more than that—
probably closer to 800 million. And
out of this vast amount, the British
professional men, who have to do
the actual work, are.complaining
of getting an unfair cut. The doc-
tors' first quarterly payment from
. the health service was disappoint-
ingly low, and what is even more •
serious to them, is the loss of a
high proportion of their private
patients, who have gone over to
the health scheme.
But whatever the doctors and
dentists may say the British popu-
lation, in general, has accepted the
Health Act with enthusiasm. With
winter weather setting in the doctors
were overwhtned. People with
imaginary diseases as well as those
with slight colds—for which in the
past they wouldn't have troubled a
doctor—flooded the offices.
The stage and radio humorists
are having a field day poking fun
at the health Act: One popular bit
of doggerel has a verse which runs,
" Oh to be in England,
Where pills are running free—
Help yourself to wooden legs,
Ne'er a pepny fee,"
Nor are wooden legs the' only
things provided by the free service.
Bald folks, both made and female,
are getting wigs free of charge and
the two dozen wigmakers engaged
in the health plan estimate that
demands may reach as high as
100,000 such pate -coverings per
year. At $40 apiece, the Government
should have an annual bill of 8
trillion dollars—as each applicant
gets a spare.
Other articles in which- the
supply has not caught up with the
demand include spectacles, false
teeth, hearing aids, electric wheel
chairs and trusses. The altnoat
9,000 dentists working in the plan
are so busy that some have put out
signs "No new patients for a year."
Although there is some doubt as to
whetter the Act actually contem-
plated such supplies, people have
been demanding — and getting—
such things as headache remedies,
simple laxatives -and the like. One
woman got as many as 500 cascara
tablets ---and a druggist tells of an-
other who tried to get a free bottle
' of hair shampoo.
Inspired both by dissatisfaction
with present conditions, and fear
of what the future may bring,
angry doetprs are snaking an effort
to rally support for a physicians'
strike. As one medical man puts
it, "The alternative to a Ministry
refusal to give adequate living
facilities to men who have spent
a lot of time and expense in acquir-
ing their skill seems to be a whole-
sale resignation from the health
Plan and a return to private prac
tiee-•--or emigration."
Meanwhile, the Health Phan
speeds on its more or less merry
way,
J.ortnanBIaiv
Italy
Russian propagandists, for some
time back, have been making great
efforts to win the people of Italy
over to the "beauties" of Commun-
ism. But the Kremlin variety of
propaganda has been very clumsy
indeed, and so far as can discerned,
completely unsuccessful: with the
rank and file of Italia*.
In Rome there are at:'•least three
Russian libraries, with' still more
in other parts of the country. But
all the books and magazines Bare in
the Russian language, and •so un-
intelligible to more than one or
two per cent of the population.
More than that, those using such
libraries have their credentials
scanned very carefully, with the
result that very few people bother
to use them at all.
Russian films, which are rented,,
out on a commercial basis, have
had almost as little success. Most
of them are in Russian, and on one
occasion at least the Soviet repre-
sentative in charge of the showing
admitted that audience reaction—
especially in the smaller places—
was downright hostile Wit= at best.
simply indifferent.
Germany
The worst season for fog and
overcast skies in the Berlin district
is around the end of December,
and it is no secret that the onlook-
ers in the Kremlin were expecting
such conditions to cripple seriously
the' Allied air-lift or even, perhaps,
wreck it altogether.
But their hopes proved ground-
less. Allied planes somehow man?
aged to keep Western "Berlin going
and when, with the New Year, the
annual fog season drew to a close,
'Western air power;: stepped up its
efforts against cold 'and hunger in
the blockaded city.
An allied pilot, early in January,
flew into Berlin with the hundred -
thousandth • cargo for the city,
while Allied officers in charge of
the operation were making plans
to up the $'daily arrivals to an aver-
age of 8000 tons—this being almost
four times the minimum subsist-
ence level for the Western Berlin.
The whole Air Lift business has
been a truly remarkable achieve-
ment—one that has probably done
more to astound the Russians, and
to put them into a more receptive
frame of mind toward settlement
of the Berlin question than any-
thing else could possibly have
done. British and American pilots,
who made the operation possible,
deserve the thanks of the whole
world --and, more especially, the
thanks of the people of Western
Germany. But whether they will
Socialism And
Corruption
The ' current investigation into
allegations of fraud among high
officials of Britain's Board of Trade
has -a shocking effect perhaps out of
proportion to the corruption that
may be involved.
British government services have
for so long enjoyed a reputation
for high-calibre integrity that people
are reluctant to believe the men
who head them are susceptible to
the blandishments of slick lobby-
ists • or string -pullers who peddle
remunerative directorships, expen-
sive gifts and lavish hospitality for
"value. received."
The "value received" appears to
have been. favorable decisions made
by Board. of Trade officials, the
:wangling of special privileges and
all the other under-the-table deals
invariably .ssociated with govern-
ment graft.
During the last war, there. was
_
remarkabiys":little of this sort of
thing uncodered in Britain, Canada
' and the..United States; and there
is every reason to believe that little
of it went on.
But itis perhaps not so surpris-
ing, after the first shock wears off,
to see it happening in postwar Bri-
tain where, under a Socialist govern-
ment, politicians and civil servants
have retained wide arbitrary powers;
where they can make or break,
help or .hurt businesses by their
decision about the granting or with-
' holding of a permit, the allocation
of materials, and so on says The
Financial Post.
Socialism in postwar Britain, with
its more stringent control, its super -
regimentation (in quintuplicate), its
burdensome supervision from morn-
ing to night, from cradle to grave,
has created the atmosphere and
attitude that may smother all, public
virtue.
Britons have been made into
bootleggers, spivs and black market-
ers. Every new regulation has
brought with it the search for a
loophole; every new control is ac-
companied by a platoon of "fixers"
who know how (and the price) to
get around it. Such regimentation
invites corruption; some will always
pay for fast passage through the
bogs of officious officialdom.
Canadian and other visitors to
Britain are almost always appalled
at the extent to which influence and
favoritism has become rampant.
There is no reason at present to
believe the current inquiry has done
more than lift the lid of the scandal
yet to be uncovered, or wilt end the
system that has allowed it to grow
and flourish.
Knew Better
A woman leafing through Dorothy
Parker's "Enough Rope," at the
Public Library found this remark
pencilled in a feminine hand under
the crack about men seldom making
passes atgirls who wear glasses:
"That's what SHE thinks!"
receive the latter—that's quite an-
other matter as the Western Ger-
mans are apparently too angry over
what has happened in the Ruhr to
be grateful to anyone—even those
who kept them from starvation.
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ONLiI
Good news for a lot of farmers
is found in a recent report that
Red Clover seed production in
Canada in 1948 was the biggest in
at least 20 years. This record crop
is largely attributed to production
in Ontario where over seven
million pounds were produced. The
Dominion crop—around eleven and
a half million pounds—is more
than double that of 1947.
* * • *
In normal times Canada's sur-
plus of Red Clover seed—recog-
nized everywhere for its quality
and hardiness—is exported to the
United Kingdom and some West-
ern European countries. But import
restrictions caused by exchange
difficulties are likely to limit such
exports. So with plenty of top
quality Red Clover seed available,
at fair prices, many more farmers
than have done so in the past
should take advantage of the op-
portunity to make greater use of
this highly valuable legume crop.
* * *
So many people—both those al-
ready on farms and also those who
dream of retiring from city life and
"Taking it easy"—think of going
into poultry raising on a commer-
cial scale, that perhaps a few hints
from an acknowledged expert
might not be out of the way, For
while there's money to be made in
poultry, there's also a chance for
severe loss, if gone into in a hap-
hazard manner.
* * *
The proper place for locating a
commercial poultry farm is near
a medium or large city, where the
products will be used. Markets
should not be more than ten miles
away at the 'outside, and roads
should be good.
* 4x *
Electricity and a pressure water
system are essential. Sandy soil,
that is well drained, is most desir-
able. The amount of land avail-
able can vary from one to ten
acres.
* * *
Chicks for future layers should
be obtained from a reliable breed-
er-hatchery—one that can supply
disease-free stock from well-bred
flocks, and which you can depend
on in 'tlie matter of filling orders
on time. Naturally -as in ether
purchases—you should expect to
pay a reasonable price for such
chicks, and not expect to get them
"at a bargain."
* * *
Unless you have plenty of both
experience and capital, it is best
not to start on a full-scale pro-
gram, but to begin moderately and
build for the future. To be econ-
omical, start with a flock of not
less than 2d0 hens—which might
go as high as 500 if you are sure
you can handle such a number.
* * *
Breed or breeds? Well, that's
pretty much up to the individual,
but White Leghorns, Rhode island
Reds, Austra-White and Red Leg-
horns are probably the most popu-
lar, although many have had good
results from some of the cross-
bred strains. Layers should be
housed in one long house, either
20 or 24 feet in width. Each leg-
horn
eghorn hen should have 3 square
feet of floor space—heavier hens
three and a half square feet.
* * *
Layers should be confined to the
house at all times, and those with
small acreages of land will also
do well to raise their replacement
pullets in confinement. Those with
plenty of land will possibly allow
their pullets to range from the
time they are around two and a
half months old until they start
laying at 5 or 6 months.
* * *
Because of over -enthusiasts a
beginner at the business is quite
likely to overestimate his income
and not take into consideration all
costs. Anyone just starting out
would be well advised to pay a
visit to some established producer
and take notes under three head-
ings fixed investments—operating
costs—and income.
* * *
From the very beginning make
out a budget and don't miss put-
ting down a single item, but snake
it as complete as possible. "Fixed
investment" should include land,
buildings, equipment, stock on
hand and feed on .hand. Your
"operating costs" should include
feed, hired labor, building repairs,
medicines and vaccines, equipment
repairs, litter, water, electricity,
egg cases, also taxes and interest
'on your investment.
* * *
Under "income" should be in-
cluded sales of eggs, sales of cull
hens, fryers, feed bags, manure—
also whatever products you use la
your own home. Such a budget, of
properly started and kept strictly
up to date, will give you a complete
picture of the operation—also add
very materially ;to your chances el
success in such an undertaking.
* * *
Which should be about enough
for one session—except to pass
along the very ancient one about
the city man who asked the
farmer how far it was to Oshawa,
"Well, replied the farmer, "the
way you're heading, I figure it
would be around 24,992 miles. But
if you turn around, it's only about
seven."
Paralyzed From Breastbone Down, Now Drives Car — Jack
Jacobson, disabled by sharpnel in Europe, after .special therapy
now uses crutches to walk to his hand -controlled car. It took
18 months of hard work, but he's now physically independent.
' Arthur Point
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