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"J PAGE FOUR THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILL, ONTARIO TRURSDAY, AUGUST l7th, 1950 •p• i ' a sAtklnson Foundation -seseVisIOns AhEVO 8 8 Maken $10.000 Grant Child Hearing Clinic c - By West Peterson, reprinted from "Mechanix Cllustratedn So many people are having sets So far as TV viewrrs at home It% A tret itttnf ' we' 't'trecorded ifistalled in this area, that we were concerned. that was ithe qn u the'ç ,'nIiiims hlat the Atkinson d'id'ed to use the following ar- of the act. They saw the oin tiChitate 1 undtti on nf Toron- ficl* from the Canadian Broad- on their screens dassoie into a t. had mad ta ant io$100,000 C.tér-.to show that boners which series if jitterig lines Tn'l'u o hi in deîonitratîîn a 2-year have been pulled due to the rapid there wNas nothing but thtitrs rcnai 'r i% miit oiî at the Westernt expansion of this new entertain- CBS. jh .tt Tnitîî ment and advertisng medium. in the' nantime. howevruA. the t werrk firther grant of e heartily recommend it to any- mike was still operating an tith 1%.r fi tiih Atkinîson Char-1 ne who needs a good laugh. disappointed TV ouiners muih ital ir îîut lti to hthe Clinic 0:To see or not to see-that vas hear lusty shouts: "Take it off. for lirdni f tharîig Children atf the question. It was one of tele- Gypsv: Take it off" lthe te iospitail for Sick Child-1 vision's most embarrassing mo- Vhen Gypsys performa n c r ren. I'oroito. was announced. i.was over. th<' caieraT su This ts thi third grant receivedi iheers of CBS-TV w'ere on back inito action and pre'seltted froi the l"ouînd tion toward the with their equipment at the the remainder of the show. eqmijuipintitr shing and gen- ster reunion show of tie A i Pressed for an iphtiti ral preparations for the opera- çe -Association in Madison next day. Colunmbia officials inut- t atis if this clinie which it hasc care Garden, New York City, tered somieting about a blon uindertiken to foster during its Octaber, 1948. fuse. It was a m're comcideîce, formative years. -or an hour everything went they said. that the technical dif- Previously they had received othly. There was a succes- ficulty cropped up just as Gypsy two separate grants of $1,500 and ,ion of screen stars on the stage. was giving the' boys what the' $5,000 respectively, both based on The camera took them in closeup wanted. To which eymitral view- the funds indicated could be for the TV fans. Then along ers. responded; put ta goad use at the tue. The cine Gypsy Rose Lee, the emin- Ohyeah. latest grant brings the total so far ent strip teaser. Since TV-the big, brawling received to $16,500. Would she be a good girl and infant of the entertainiment - This money will be used for leave her clothes on? Or would that is not only heard but also yrthe Nyield t the clamar of the vets seen. its fabuloius "fluffs" Or bon- . i er equipment and to organ- NKdseo something tao shock tele ers are twice as nortifving as the aze a staff, that the9new clinic vI4Pt' s self-appointed censors? mistakes made on radio. ma open early in 1951. $iinl, then engineers didn't There's double the' opportunitv First major project of the knôW. They nervously trained the for embarrassing moments, too. Foundatian, the Clinic for Hard- camera on Gypsy while she sang 1T cameras can take in too much entitled Pschology of the Strip territorv, pick up the wrong peo- field," said Godfrey, extending a Tease. ple, deteet the unbuttoned button, pack. "Thanks," Odom replied,1 At lpst, with a wink at the penetrate diaphanous g o w n s, "but I never smoke." Recently panting spectators, the stripper make smooth-shaven gents look Godfrey was previewing General queen reached up and unfastened like bearded bums--and in gen- Motors' 1950 auto show in New1 one o the straps of her evening eral play all sorts of unpredict- York before the TV cameras with gown and let it fall. able tricks. Harry Klingler, Pontiac's general After talktng with producers, manager. Kringler pressed a0 directors and announcers - and button on the automatic window1 with plain John Q. Viewer-you of the new Pontiac hardtop con-r realize that the collecting of am- vertible. The window quicklyE using television fluffs has become shd down. He pressed a buttont a new indoor sport. again-but the window stayed This is not to disparage TV. down- stuck fast. "Better get The infant is rapidly coming Of that fixed before the big show age, and errars aren t neariy as opens tomorrow," Godfrey crack- preCaient as they were in the ed before the camera could shift C REAPA ROUG&E past. The' surprtsing thing, in frain the' embarrassed GM execu- aact, is that th ranciers of baners tive. MADE FROM THE don t have many, many more in On "We the People" a can of their collections! Gulf oil was frozen inside a block O Not long agaantheCESpro,; iof ice. The idea, of course, was MIXED WITH COLD gram "Missus Goes A-Shopping" to show how the oil would flow a duck named Pierre was a "sup- under the most frigid conditions. CREAM MATCHES porting player." He wandered Came time for the commercial. about the stage while the human Thecan was broken out ai the THE NEW LIPSTICK. performers went through their ice and a hole was punched in it. paces. The announcer up-ended the ice- Pierre made half a dozen ap- cold can. But the oil definitely pearances before the cameras did not come running out! and mikes with 'nary a mishap. Clothes can be a headache on He was getting to be a realham. television. One veteran director The duck's protest against md recalls a show he handled several Te pdumkng'faclites promd- years ago on which a well ropor- ern plumbing facilities proved tioned singer appeared. he up- quite shocking to others in the per part of her gown was of a N . cast. John Reed King, major- diaphanous material. That was domo of the program, called OK under ordinary lights. But • *Fowl. And that put an abrupt under the powerful spots needed ending to Pierre's career. for TV at that time, the stuff • • • * At that, Pierre probably wasn't was just about invisible. •* • as nonplussed as was Sid Caesar, R'aymond Neson, who staged ... . N Rayait' Nueusan, anotht' NE Sthe comedian, on the NBC pro -'Fash~ns an Parade" for Du- •*gram "Admiral Broadway Re- mont, bas dscavered along with •'vue." Caesar went to open themothadicvrdangwh Cv•udoo Cfsa spont en er r other TV workers that you must - . .Adora is spansor's reirigeratar take care with color '°n' ta ealda gerior maris "Gowns of a certain shade of and the danged door insisted an red positively make a woman ap- remanng tightly closed! pear undressed," he says. For Tht same thing happened ta the same reason, negligees, foun- ~ shony , bgt in rev ase. is earl dation garments and nightgowns _______________________ sows bu inreers. Ateranmust be avoided. appropriate buildup this funny- During the early days avotele- man began demonstrating how vision a leading lady in Romea en Rae's MîJk ... geasiy "you°couidopen the' re- andhJuetdas detected tugging gram. The door not only swung was an accidentai pickup. The WB est freei-it dropped right off the camera shau d have been pointed AKnowingiMlsohrgmany vîew- [aththe action taking place on an- ersfigdMorgan, ai the stage ers figured it was a gag. What ot-Nprtft enR'smilk is one food the sponsor thought is not record- inMore recently a similar mishap GIten àl ,m aiik st d.ivov tht' ventriiquist Paul tt a tWinchell in the show which fea- e4ery day of -the year, Commerciais otendcausea fufis, tures him with Joseph Dunnin- wintr ad smme - ud o. Eetween rounds in a figbt ger, the' mind-reading wizard. A s gooèad suo ersand telecastsponsored by Gillette Ra- stage-band puiedithecurtain Wtl as good for oldsters- as zor, the' annauncer gave a big back a littie taa far and the cain- children. Many over 50 spieln how it was child's play era shawed Winchellain the midst helpni s ~ ta insert a new blade. ai makmng a costume change. Ht' hâverfound it ae caa t"Arsimpleptwist-of the handie was very nearly caught literally meaitime beverage because the razar opens, yau insert th t i at on iteis 'easy to digest and does Ya e. An oherrtwist anderist hI "pan" shots oi crowds, an- not 'interfere with sleep. ful shave!" nouncers have learned from bit- Order Glen Rae's milk to- But the particular razor used And t eres good old u saying 4y. by the announcer for his demon- zis and his charming wife." stratian was fauity. Twistin g It migh o beGsléa the' bandit' with al bis might h o eGs ea aiter putttng in the'blade, he spouse at ail. And if the ereai couldn't get the thing to close. Mrs.,Whoozis is watching the tel- He banged it on a table and stili ecast at home there's hell to pay! __________________________it wauldn't function. Finaiiy the Then there was tht' tint' that fiustered announcerhad to aban- cutup "Ktngo a Televîsion," Mil- GeI.ENIRAEiDAR S don the attempt and go back to ton Berie, came withtn an inch of descibin th' fiht.being"berled" like a labster. - Comti Arthur Godfrey had as A "Make Mine Manattan" skit Phone 444 "he_________ aguest an ont' of mhisrograins ceaied for ere ap waik int a worid flier. "Have a Chester- subject it ta every passible test prior ta purchasing it. Ont' ofi the' tests, ai course, was writing with the' pen under water. A tank was erected an the' stWP 0 N Ba, its sies extendin up close NEW PH NE UM ER the' telhecast was scheduled toaegn ide was tfilleih wasta The- nese himself, togethewawit h for wonderiul pen. . Qutte accidentally the' comedi- ~flf t~fl fl aiy sthrust bis hand intondt a- ter. It almost scalded hum. Un-. Iâva'AIu Mder the' lights the' water had heat- boiling. For Berle' thtngs had PLEASE CALL KING'S TAXI - 561 ing"poicedanet.ere AsTV marches an mishaps sucb as these will become mort' __________________________infrequent. Nor will there be as ¯ - - - many mistakes like the' ont' that embarrassed announcer John Till- man, in station WPIX's New UYorkRtelSvision studio. n5hwas a couple ai minutes be- adesk going aver bis notes. Meanwhi e th station was N R A D IO iingYorkftlevsionrtuldi Mu umr, äingdesmovieaera tes. "And now," Jimmy Fidler, the tarrator, paused dramatically, 'we reach into our Hollywood picture morgue and bring you -)ne of the greatest performers of film history-that grand old lady of the silver screen who will nev- er be forgotten-the late Marie Dressler!" In the control room an engineer punched the wrong button. In- rhone: Day 561 - Nighls 561 - 707 - 922 1uce h rn utî a stead of the actress, viewers saw Six MODERN CARS ....*Tillman reading his n o t e s, ALL PASSENGERS INSURED scratching his head, tugging at his necktie. PROMPT EFFICIENT SERVICE "That happened several months ago."'Tillman says. "but I haven't Operated by Lathangue Bros. lived that Dressler fluff down yet. People are still calling me ..Marie." of-Hearing Children was announ- ced February 23, 1949, as a joint effort of the hospital and the Foundation with the Toronto Board of Education an interested and willing assistant and observ- er but not an official partner. Its principal purposes are to foster the discovery and treat- ment of ear defects in young chil- dren; to promote proper educa- tion of children so handicapped; and to demonstrate any result ob- tained to doctors, teachers and parents. Its conception was due partly ta the interest in thassubje pai tht late Joseph E. Atkinson, publisher i tht' ,Tronto Daiiy Star and illustrious native of Newcastle, who suffered impaired hearing for most of his life, and the devotion and zeal of Dr. D. E. S. Wishart, otologist of the hospital and head of the clinic. Sea Scouts Render Timely Aid Water rescue practices paid off for the 5th Lakeshore Sea Scout Troop this summer when a 12- foot sloop capsized in Lake On- tario. Its occupants, Eleanor Wal- lace 17, and Bert Trollope, 19, were rescued irom thFrough wat- ers by Sea Scouts Freddie Fel- lows 12, John Shoesmith 14, and his brother Harry, 13, using a Sea Scout rowing craft. Indian Boys Ask to Become Scouts At the request of boys on the Eskasoni Indian Reservation in Nova Scotia, the Maritimes' first all-Indian Boy Scout Troop has been formed there. Charles Ber- nard, a Micmac Indian, is the Scoutmaster. For the Reserva- tion's 8 to 12 year-olds, a Wolf Cub Pack has been organized with D. F. Mundy, of the R.C.M.P., as Cubmaster. Facing the Future By R. J. Deachman I raise a question. This is the proper time to discuss it. We have been fairly free from un- employment during the last few years but sooner or later its ugly head will rise again. Before the days of the indust- rial revolution the, standard of living was low. Men, women and children worked desperately hard. Imagine the kind of world this would be if all the labor saving devices of the last hundred years were wiped out and we started, from scratch, to rebuild what we had lost. In the earlier stage of the in- dustrial revolution there were no great accumulations of capital. With' increased capacity to pro- duce came the demand for more and better machines. The mind of man began to function. In- dustrydustry was on the march- labor moved with it toward higher pay, improved working conditions, shorter hours. * * * Not only is a railway strike unnecessary now, bît fnrthermore, hecause o the tense inter- national situation, it would endanger the entire Dominion. As the presidents of the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways said in a joint statement ta the representatives of the unions last Thursday: "The present situation ...imposes a nerve strain on all concerned at a time when we badly need ta devote all our energies and thoughts to the grave threat of war and a national emergency ...It leaves the railway employee in a most uncertain and unhappy frame of mind be- cause we are morally certain he does not wish ta walk out on his job at a time like this, no matter what issues are involved . . . this opinion seems diametrically opposed ta the supply of credit. "Talk about the blessings of capitalist enterprise came to be less a mockery in working-class ears; and, for the skilled workers especially, the most urgent tasks seemed to be those of building up their Trade Unions and Co- operative Societies into solid in-1 struments of protection, rather than beating their heads against brick walls." - In a sermon delivered in Lon- don, May 12, 1839, Joseph Ray- ner Stephen used these words: "Are the Spitalfields workers protected when not a hundred of them after working twelve hours a day can earn 12 shillings a week. I have known girls eight years of age working at the anvil making nails from six in the morning until eight or nine at night and on Friday all night long and after all this could not earn more than one shilling and sixpence per week." These words carite from a man who knew the facts. lis heart was on fire with sympathy for the people. It was not the cruelty of man to man which brought Ini his brilliantly written vol- about these conditions, it was ume "Chartist Portraits," G. D. H. simply a problem of production. Cole sketches the changes which Strip this nation of the tools of took place: modern industry and how long "Employers, getting rapidly would present standards ofr living richer and less 'abstinent' them- be maintained? selves, shed some of their relig- * * * ious zeal for enforcing abstinence We face today a new and dif- on their employees, and accepted ferent problem. We have im- both higher wages and shorter mense capacity to produce but if hours as the pressure of competi- the distribution of the products tion grew less severe with the of production are to be deter- enlargement of rnarkets. mined by the strength of the con- "Joint-stock companies provid- tracting parties there may be the ed new ways of raising capital widest possible differences in the for industry, and made it less distribution of earnings. necessary for the employer to set Consider the case of the recent aside every penny he could spare agreement between General Mot- out of profits for the extension ors and the automobile workers. of his business. In that agreement labor admits "Banking practice ceased to be that technological changes enables deflationary as new gold began the worker to produce more. to pour in from California and Common sense should tell him Australia, and as the use of that this should enable industry cheques spread and amplified the to reduce the cost of productioni strike ballot which has been reportéd by the unions, but railway management retains too high an opinion of the loyalty, stead- fastness and sense of responsibility of their employces to believe a strike would not mean a heart-breaking situation for them. That is not to say they will not carry out their undertaking to strike if union leaders decide to cal] upon them to do so but as already stated, it will cause great unhappiness and self-reproach'Y The importance of the railways in Canada's economy cannot be exaggerated. Never was that importance more apparent than in World War Il. And without the loyalty and in- tente effort of all railway employees, Canada's magnificent war effort would have been im- oral obligo ect to neg covering 1% increa and thus increase sales. Labor, however, takes no such view. Its reply is the ancient query: "Am I my brother's keeper." Its claim is that these gains, whatever they may be, belong to the workers. In the conflict between higher wages and full employment labor is quite willing to téke the high wages and let the unemployed look after themselves. * * * After all the consumer has some rights. Labor for years has taken for itself the gains which accrue from improvement in the means of production. Capital provides the machinery which makes possible more leisure for the worker, shorter hours. These gains should and could be used to lower prices, increase pro- duction and employmént. Labor stoutly proclaims that these gains belong to labor. This means that the consumer, the man who makes industry possible has no rights whatever, he is to be kicked off his own doorstep. The agreement between "Gen- eral Motors" and the workers contains some rather important clauses. Both admit the gains from technological improvements. The workers are to get a 3c per Staiesman Want Ads. Bring Resulis ! Crcnc Ulectric Phone 55-r-1 Orono FARN AND HOUSE WIRING E REPAIRS. AND ALTERATIONS . . . ... POLE LINES A SPECIALTY EI - FREE ESTIMATES -...............................-............. hour increase each year for ,he next five years. This comes from what is termed the "improvement factor." It reflects the capacity of the worker to produce without extra effort upon his part. The agreement also provides an escalator clause to protect the workers against increases in the cost of living. - Starting from an index of 164, the present coqt of living index, labor is to be allow- ed 1c for each 1.3c rise in the cost of living above the base level of 164. This does not operate against a fall in the cost of liv- ing index below the base level of 164. If the cost of living de- clines in the next five years this might well mean a rich harves for labor without even the co of putting in a crop. I wond what the farmer will say whèn he finds that the gains from improvement in the means of production are the perquisites of labor. All the farmer has to de is to take the gaff and say nothing about it. We shall solve our problem of full employment and lower cost of living when the gains from techno'logical progress are passed on to the consumer in a lower cost of living. .......... ... .... ... o. IIIII o I llIIIIIIII iM Il 111111111411 lIEII fl~ASZ----------- - LROADERS t PUBLIC z k " » ~½4îa t . ,x~ ~ . '~. .' .".'. possible. The same holds true today. As the presidents further stated: ... the general public is inconvenienced and business arrangements are made uncertain sa long as the likelihood of a strike persists. Moreover, a railway strike would so cripple our economy that it would weaken for a long time our ability to take a strong line in inter- national affairs and thus give great camIont taothtoenemy. Therefore, railway manage- ment feels strongly that the issues must be faced resolutely sothat all interests, theworker, the public, and the Government, as well as the unions and railway management, will know precisely what is facing them. The time has come to remove this uncertainty which hangs as a blight over our day-to-day life." WITH THESE CONSIDERATIONS IN MIND, THE RAILWP ~'%DE THIS OFFER AS THE ULTIMATE THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE EXPECTED OF THEM, an. spGIES A SETTLEMENT WHICH WILL LEAVE RAILWAY WORKERS IN AN EXTREMELY FAVOURABLE POSITION COMPARED TO OTHER INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. 'Y' ::'-, -$ t...-.. a'- -- '---'-. -. - *44.0' UC flEEED . ...'" ' *ULflb I ».;~. A ~« -- ,, S.......~-*44&~tL~M.,. so as to maintain "take home" pay. In regard to monthly rated clerical employees there wili be an understanding that a 5-day actual work week may be granted by local arrangement in selected ataon towmmpaementy-...ntd yloalarageet n1e. ce cases where the hours now actually worked are less than 44, on condition that the requirements of the service are protected otiation in detail, up to 44 hours per week. 1working rules to OR (8) A graduated increase in basic wage rates approximately equivalent in expense te that involved under Plan A. When applied te ail employees, this would cost the railways $37,000,000 per year, and se in hourly rates would average 8½ cents per hour. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY ONTARIO NORTHLAND RAILWAY j<2 TO CANADIAN RAI ANO THE CANAD I! lt is important that jyou Understand ciearl# why the managements of Conada's railways believe a rail- way strike is obsolutely unnecessary. Our reason for this conviction is that we have made the employees involved in the present dis- pute a fair offer of wage increases and improve. ments in working conditions which, if applied to ail employees, wilI cost us $37,000,000 a year. We have further acknowledged a moral obliga- tion to implement the 40-hour week at the appro- priate time, and we have explained why, in fairness ta Canadian industry and ail other employers of labour, we cannot put it into effect now. To do otherwise would be to perform a dis- service to industry in generai and to ail employers and employees alike. The railways, after making two previous offers which the union leaders rejected, have now made a third and final offer which gives the emplojees fte choice of either: an increase in wages averaging 8½ cents Fir hour, or a reduction in the basic work week from 48 to 44 hours, with an increase in wage rates of 9.1% so as to maintain or in some cases improve present "take home" pay. The labour leaders have made no concessions at ail and have refused to Budge from their original demands for a 5-day 40-hour week with mainte- nance of present "take home" pay, and in addition increases of 7 cents and 10 cents an hour. The railways are thoroughly conscious of, and syrnt0athetic to, the problems of their employees re- sulting ftom higher costs of living. Drastic, unwarranted reductions in hours of wor instead of decreasing these problems will inevitably increase them. water transport employees The final offer which excludes hotel andw ls as follows: (1) Recognition by railway management of a ma the 40-hour week at the appropriate time. (2) Recognition by the unions in principle, subi of minor amendments to existing contracts bring about more efficient operation. (3) EffTHER (A) A 44-hour basic work week with a 9.1 o) t' CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TORONTO, HAMILTON & BUFFALO RAILWAY i e - THURSDAY, AUGUST 17th, 1980 i nt i lom .