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Jim Bell What’s asa with the World? . Or. is there anything? be the old fogeys, as we are oft ed, think that the world is re completely nuts. We think the way girls and women too, dress is terrible. Why their. grand- mothers would have been horri- ¥ fied to see a daughter or grand-| daughter in a pair of those skin- tight slim. jims. The funny thing about it all is that our grand- fathers thought the same thing about us when we were young. So people do not change so much after all. Times and conditions do however and they’ have changed a great deal since the beginning of the century. In those early days, a working man knew that unless he saved some- thing for his old age, he and his family were likely to have a hard time of ‘it. How different it is to- day. You can spend every cent with the assurance that when you are old, the Government will take care of you. When we were young,. the ma- jority of young people, when they got married, started > i Send I REMEMBER ing with a "bed, a table; two! chairs, a cook stove and i _a set of dishes that they pape lucky enough to get’ a! wed- ding present. The wife had to heat the water for washing over the cook stove, sometimes she had to melt snow to get enough, then with the help of a cake of hard soap, she scrubbed: the clothes clean on a washboard in a wooden tub. Now, she has lots of hot water on tap and an ; auto- matic washer and dryer or she is * a back number. I remember when my oie ane I were young and taking in al the local hockey games, her fath- er said that the world was going. sports crazy. I wonder what he would say about it to-day. Of course sports have become. so commercialized that they are now big business. Just think of the huge sums put up as. prizes for some of the big golf tourna- ments. Sums that would have been fortunes to the average man fifty or sixty years ago. Think of the big-figure salaries paid to professional baseball and hockey players. Salaries that equal that of executives in some of our big- gest business establishments. Think of the tremendous amount — of money squandered on horse ' races and sweepstakes tickets. Really it does make one ‘wonder , if we are not a little off balance in the art of living. years has brought to them. Sixty Now, I wonder just how con- | ditions to-day are going to effect the coming generation. With the facilities for recreation, now available for the youngsters, al- most from the time they (can | I remember at a hockey match, some boys had arranged, one fel- low turned up with a pair of old corsets of his mothers for shin- pads. and, regardless of the big laugh he got, the shin-pads were effective in helping him win the game. He was the goalkeeper. All of these things seem amusing now and they are but what I am trying to stress is that these hings developed the ingenuity and resourcefulness and _ yes, their self-confidence too. I ven- ture to say that many a man has looked back to those young days as the key to his success in after life, pes let us take a look at the older people. What a change the years ago, men of sixty or ‘sixty- five were considered beyond the working age. To-day there are lots of men, that age and over, who have just reached the peak of their careers. As for the wom- en, at the age of sixty-five, most of them wore a black dress, a bonnet, a shawl and sat in a rocking chair. To-day, the older women are just about as perky as they were at the age of sixteen and their clothes are as smart too, in. fact until one comes face}, €0 to face with a woman, he would) not know whether she was a baby |: doll or a grandmother. There are many things to keep up the older people’s interest these day's. Church activities, Senior Citi- zen’s Groups, Hobby Classes, good libraries and lots of other things. It would be a great life if it wasn’t for taxes and the fact that ve are getting older every day. forgot to mention that the exra n dollars will be a boon to some| ‘us too. walk, what is it going to do to | them? When we were kids, we « had to form our own ball teams, hockey teams and games, in fact)" almost everything except ithe ¢ Christmas Sunday School con- t cert. We had to furnish most of r our own equipment too and the|t inventive genius of some of the|f youngsters was really nel a8 ap ys Ee = 7 ok? See ee ees a OE Th eet orn c wae eA