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grab U\LY - [ANNE HIRST | family (bunaselot "Dear Anne Hirst: I admit right here that I was largely to blame for my wife's divorcing me two years ago. After the first year I took to drinking and sel- dom stayed at home because she had grown lazy and careless, didn't keep the house clean nor take proper care of our baby son. Finally she applied for a divorce, which 1 didn't want because of the baby, but since she was admanant, she got it. At first 1 was terribly lonesome for my son, but these past months have reconciled me to that loss. "Now 1 have met a delightful young woman whom I have come to love deeply. She is four years older than I, and insists that the age-difference is im- portant. We get along wonder- fully, and understand each other better all the time. Each hour I spend with her only increases my love, and 1 am certain if 1 were her age she would not hesi- tate to become my wife. "As for me, 1 am not afraid to marry again, 1 have learned so well what marriage demands. 1 Smart School-Set One bright set for school, one flower-trimmed for dates with Dad! Fun, thrifty to make. Whip up cozy cap 'n' mitten set in wool, cotton, felt. Pattern 586: directions; pattern pieces for small, medium, large size; transfer of lazy-daisy flowers. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: embroidery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quilting, toys. In the book, a special surprise to make a little girl happy -- a cut-out doll, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. knew I had to find a new life to live, and the only way was through will power. I have been promoted to a responsible posi- tion, I now stay away from tav- erns and drink almost nothing. This experience, I know, has aged me. "How can I convince this love- ly young woman that I am as old as she is, if not even more mature? I don't see how I can go along without her now. BILL L." FINALLY MATURE . Co * Your letter (which I "had to * shorten) defines your coming- * of-age. These lonely years of * self-discipline have not been * wasted, you saw the folly of * your former ways and cast off * those habits that weakened * your character. Now you are * ready to practice the true es- * sentials that make for a good * marriage. It is not how many * years one has lived, it is how * one has learned to master him- * self that determines his value * as a worth-while citizen in all ¢ its varied relationships. Actu- * ally, in my opinion you are * older than the usual man of * your years. This truth, coupled with the love and understanding you have developed for this young woman, should be sufficient proof that you have achieved the appreciation, the tolerance and the will to be he: sympa- thetic companion. I hope she will not weigh the calendar, but recognize the man you are now. If she will read what 1 say today (and I have concluded my opinion from your revealing letter) she will no longer count the differ- ence in years but appreciate the manner of man you have grown to be, and gladly give her future into your Keeping without a single doubt Tell her, for me, that one of my best friends married a man 10 years younger, and those who don't know her history believe they are the same age. * * LJ 4d e 0% + 2 2 @ * 6 8 6 2 0° 0 6 6 8 + 0 be 0 + 0 DANGEROUS SITUAT ON "Dear Anne Hirsts =I: am a widow 48, with fy E® thildren home and five airied. Some time ago I met +a. man who though married is! 'getting a div- orce. He says he lovés me, and I really love him. "He is at present in the hospi- tal sick. I have tried to break off with him, but I have no de- sire for any other man .Please advise me. -- M.C." * If this man is getting a div- orce, you are treading on dan- gerous ground to keep on visit- ing him, Until he is free he has no right to be seeing an- other woman, and his wife could make the situation very unpleasant for vou i fyou keep this up. Tell him in all kindness that, for both your sakes, you will have to cease these visits now. When he can ask you to marry him, you will consider it. Meanwhile, stay clear of trouble, if only for the sake of your children. * * Ll It is not one's age, but self- discipline one has practiced that determines his fitness for mar- riage. If you are in doubt, write Anne Hirst about it and receive her honest opinion. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, * 8 © © © 0 » 0 os 2 + 8 8° ROMAN HOLIDAY - "Swedidh actress Anita Ekberg and Italian fashion designer Emilio Schuberth smile it up in Rome, Italy. Scene wos an award or in which he received recognition for his fashions create for television shows. \ Back To The Days Of Al Capone Little Augie Pisano started his underworld career as a trigger- man for Scarface Al Capone in the 1920's. He did so well that he moved up to Brooklyn rackets czar, associate of New York mob- sters Joe Adonis, Frank Costel- lo, and Albert Anastasia, and to a place of power in the national crime syndicate. Like most gangland: charac- ters, Little Augie liked to spend big, ride in big cars, and be seen with * beautiful women. One of his frequent companions recent- ly was Janice Drake, hard-jawed blond wife of night-club com- edian Allan Drake. But few doubted he was living on borrowed time. One night last month, Little Augie and Janice Drake drove in his 1959 Cadillac for dinner at'a restaurant near New York's LaGuardia airport. While they were inside, two men crawled into the back of Little ~ Augie's car, lay down, and wait- ed. After the couple came out and rode a short distance, the gunmen shot each in the head. Few mourned Little Augie Pisano; but people did feel sor- ry for Janice Drake. A beauty- contest winner, she had been dancing since she was 16 in chorus lines of New York's Latin Quarter and other night clubs. Friends used to warn her about going out with the mobsters. "Oh," she would say, "I can take care of myself." She was 30 when she died. Now TV Fvedes The Supermarkets In the supermarket J. Fred Muggs, a chimp with a mission, gazed from the TV screen, pop bottle in hand. "Now," sighed a mother, "my son will probably want me to buy him some soda . .."" With television invading the . supermarkets, it seemed there were few places left to hide. Big Brother was not only watching you, he was selling you. Muggs was starring on a new TV gimmick called "Store- vision." It involves installing TV sets in strategic corners of a gro- cery and then hitting the custo- mers with a thin salad of special programming peppered with commercials. The mother was one of hund- reds of shoppers subjected to a recent three-day, closed-circuit « TV trial at a Bayonne, N.J., store where Storevision was tested. The success of this dry run led the New York area station WNTA-TV into budgeting $600,- 000 to install 3,200 TV sets in 400 supermarkets and 300 launder- mats beginning in early Novem- ber. This Storevision will not be closed circuit. The station will revamp its daytime schedule to broadcast 54 hours a week of one-minute programs, inter- spersed with profitable 10- to 20-sccond commercials. So a typical segment might run: News (plug), weather (plug), house- hold hints (plug), J. Fred Muggs (plug). Eventually, local Store- vision may be sold in eight other cities -- Milwaukee, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston and Hart- ford. These Fish Are Really Dangerous Fishermen in America have decided that the most danger- ous fish in the world is not the shark, as is generally believed, but the barracuda -- a large, savage pike-like fish found in tropical seas. The barracuda frequently at- tacks human beings, sometimes causes death and occasionally the loss of limbs. It is recognized by natives of the Caribbean Gulf region as more apt to attack man than is the fiercest shark. It grows to a length of six or seven feet and has "knife-like teeth and the ferocity of a tiger," reported a scientist who encountered a barracuda off the Florida Reef. Natives take this fierce fish by spearing it with a three-pronged spear. One caught in this way was placed alive some time ago in the well of a sloop, One of the crew going down into the well, and for the moment forgetting its deadly occupant, was scized by the barracuda, which bit him through the thigh, laming him for life. Another "wolf" of the waters is the swordfish, which has an enormous dorsal fin rising four or five fect above its back. It has been known to turn on a boat when harpooned and, dashing upon it like a shot from a cata- pult, wreck it in an instant, A boat was once found drift- ing in Galveston Bay, Texas. In it were a dead tarpon and a dead angler. The tarpon, in one of its wild leaps, had fallen upon .its would-be captor, breaking his back. --_-- details abcut the BALANCE OF POWER -- Farm tractor apparently balanced on one huge finger awes visitors to a Munich, West Germany, agricultural show. The fair is part of the country's famous October Festival. HRONICLES HGivGER Farm Gwendoline DP .Clarke I bought a hat! Actually 1 bought a fall suit and a top coat first. They met with fam- ily approval. Then Partner said "But what about a hat -- you've got to have a new hat to go with that cutfit." So I went to town -- alone -- and, as I say, I bought a hat. It's about as modern as tomorrow! Really, it's a lovely number -- velour felt with a high crown ani scoop brim in a soft beige col- our. I' wore it home and you should have heard 'the com- ments. I'll give you a few sam- ples: Partner: "Holy smoke, what have you got on your head?" Dee: It's a lovely hat but it's so different. I'm not sure that I like it." Arthur: "What are you talk- ing about -- your mother looks very nice in tlrat hat -- it suits her." Bob: "The coat's all right but I don't think much of the hat. Joy: "Oh, is that ever pretty --so 'new and so soft and nice. 1 LIKE IT." Various friends: "Really mart . . . not quite your colour ish I could wear a hat like that J . . my word, are we ever modern . . . you're not going to wear THAT -- it's a joke!" So there you are -- just a ~ few of the comments, for and against, one poor little hat when mother goes shopping. A crea- tion, I must admit, that isn't quite so conservative' as I've been used to wearing. What does it matter anyway, just so. long as it stirs up a little in- terest? After -all it IS perfectly plain -- no flowers or feathers Its only claim to smartness is its simplicity and shape. Thirty years ago the same style of headgear was very much the fashion. 1 can prove it by old family phetographs. Nof for a liftle matter that 1s probably of more vital interest . to readers of this column than my netv hat. And that is Bonus Stamps! Are you for or against them? The Canadian Consumers Adsociation is very much against them. Heads of chain stores using stamps say their customers just love them. 1 wonder! : Well, I must admit most wom- en like the idea of getting a bargain. They love that 'some- thing for nothing" feeling. The fly in the ointment is that no one ever gets anything for nothing. We never have done. But open 'he newspapers and v-hat do you see? Double:pige advertisements giving - all - the bonus pifts your teodina ot ciacs will bring you. Who do you think is pay- ing for all that advertising? We are, naturally. Chain stores.soon cover the initial cost by an ex- tra cent here and there on what we buy -- and we are so used to prices going up we hardly notice the difference. Now just multiply those few odd cents by the thousands in returns to the retail distributors and it be- comes quite obvious they are having a field day, trading on the gullible nature, of the aver- age housewife. Everyone knows the cost of living is sky-high, Retailers know it too. How much better it would be, and what a great service to the public at large, if retailers got together and agreed to cut out all this "come- on" nonsense and instead ad- vertised they were. offering goods to their customers at low- er prices, in proportion to tha amount that is now spent on trading stamps and give-away bonuses. Sure, there are occa- sional genuine price reductions -- known as weekly "loss- leaders" -- 15¢ less on 10 pounds of sugar; or two cans of this and that for the price of one. But look around the shelves that same week and you'll probably find a mark-up on quite a nuin- ber of items -- just to make up the difference. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, so to speak. Let Chain store officials say what they will, ALL women are not in favour of trading stamps. Many think just as I do that they are nothing but a nuisance and increase the cost of living. For those who do collect them they are often traded in for something the person neither wants nor needs -- .just accept- ed to make use of the stamps. For little extrag.that are really needed fifty cents set aside every shopping. day, and spent through the regular channels would bring the same results. Well, having let loose on the subjects of hats' and trading stamps I'll now tome down to earth and get my jars of newly made mustard pickles labelled ready for storage in the base- ment. Six pnt and six half-pint jars -- and the house smells like a pickle factory! After that is done I must go out and get what may well be our last pick ing of mushrooms. Bob and Joy were here yesterday and we had a big feed of mush- rooms for supper and thete were still plenty left for them. to. take home, 'They think the wild mushrooms have' far more flavour than the we cither eat what we find or go without. « \ duties. nes on .sa.e _in the store. I wouldn't know = The Big Fight Over "Featherbedding" In New York, four stand-by musicians draw about $70 a "per- formance" for listening to the two pianists who actually play the accompaniment to Broad- way's "Billy Barnes Revue." Across the country in San Fran- cisco, a bunch of brawny Teams- ters helpers collect a total of about $1,000 a day for watching fork-lifts unload trucks for them mechanically, And throughout the nation; railroads pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to employes they don't want and can't use, It all falls under the name of feather-bedding, the "make work" curse that costs American industry (and, in the long run, the American consum- er) an estimated total of $2 bil- lion a year. Last month, with featherbed- ding the big issue in labor nego- tiations or outright strikes in- volving nearly 2 millions work- ers, the economic fat was in the fire. Bolstered by steel's un- yielding stand, company after company was girding itself for the showdown battle. After a quarter-century of giving in to labor demands, American indus- try was showing labor that the boss is still really the boss. "The basic question," says John E. Swearingen, president of Standard Oil of Indiana, "is whether management or union is to determine how many people are to be employed and at what work." Wayne A. Johnston, down-to-earth president of the Illinois Central Railroad, puts it this way: "There is no desire on the part of management to rule with an iron hand ... to be cruel. But featherbedding is wrong and destroys the funda- mental principles by - which a man makes his living" No one doubts that rank-and- " file unionists are ready to fight, as in the case of steel, to pro- tect their time-hallowed work practices. Employers, in many cases, must take the risk of a lengthy strike for the simple reason that they can't afford not to. Inflation is boosting costs at the same time that foreign com- petition is growing, cutting into sales. Then there is automation. Companies find all too often that new automatic equipment fails to produce the expected savings because union rules keep extra men on the payroll. "We have no alternative," says Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads. "The million men and women who work in this indus- try can no longer tolerate the bloodletting imposed by feather- bedding." = "When times were good," observes a West Coast businessman, "it was too easy to give in to union demands. But last year, many companies found their responsibilities had been whittled away to the point where they couldn't discharge their Now, they' re trying to remedy the situation." Railroads probably suffer the most. Industry spokesmen fig- ure the cost of "make work" on the rails at more than $500 mil- lion a year, roughly 10 per cent of the railroad's total payroll and about 5 per cent of all revenues. "What hurts most," notes one railroad observer, "is the fact that 23 states have laws legaliz- ing featherbed practices, and sixteen even contribute to fea- therbedding via 'excess crew' laws requiring jinneeded person- nel on trains. Clair M. Roddewig, president of the Association of Western Railways, says that the rail heads have known ever since diesels started sending steam locomotives to the scrap yards about ten years ago that sooner or later they would have to come to grips with the problem. With the industry's three-year moratorium on changes in work-: ing rules' ending Oct. 31, at the same time that present work contracts expire, Roddewig and the nation's other railroad lead- ers figure the time to redraw the line is now. The Association of Anjerican I. Railroads has already announced it will try: (1) To end the antl- quated rule that 100 miles of 'on a passenger train is a day's work; the rule was set 40 years ago, when 12% miles an hour was the average speed (count- ing stops) of a freight train and 20 miles an hour of a passenger train; (2) to eliminate unneces- sary firemen from diesel engines and to eliminate station agents or telegraphers in situations where their services are no long: er needed; (3) to eliminate juris- dictional work separations' -- rules that ban road crews, for instance, from working in yards and forbid train. crews from crossing district or seniority boundaries, To bolster its case, the AAR has asked President Eisenhower to set up a special commission to study feather- bedding. In the meantime, railway rules are still full of "arbitraries," the term used to describe a bonus for doing extra jobs not consid- ered part of a regular job. In the past, "arbitraries" have been paid in some weird cases. One, in the files of the National Rail- way Adjustment Board, involved two maintenance men paid to operate a construction machine on a track in a railroad yard. Because the machine used steam "and moved around, an engineer and firemen were assigned to the job to sit by and watch. When one of the maintenance men failed to report for work one day, the firemen was assign- ed 'to fire up the machine. He got two days' pay--one for doing the job, and one for not doing it. From NEWSWEEK. Simply the Smartest PRINTED PATTERN 4906 SIZES 10-18 Fashion's shapely sheath in a beginner-easy version -- no waist seams. Versatile for any hour, jersey, or fluid crepe. Wear it with or without a belt. Printed Pattern 4906: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 takes 23 yards of 54-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- t&n part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this patfern. Please print plainly S1ZEs NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. freight travel or 100 to 150 miles ISSUE 43 -- 1959 NOW HEAR THIS --~ CoH Sinplore at Invalides Air Terminal Parls carries one of these tiny receivers which sounds off _ with a discreet "beep beep" when the bearer is paged. He nesd 'only plage it t6 his ear to listen to" the message. No \ wires de involved and wailing passengers are spared monstant cals over the loudspeaker, 4