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-- Tn CC a TR "in vast - the \ 5 ; x x a AL ki a Millions Slip deposit vaults far beneath bank's street level. If anyone From Her Fingers needs protection against this ee ; brand of goldbricking, it is tin A certain young lady in M chaps who heave the gold bricks hattan lets $25,000 to $300,001 around. They wear heavy stect go through her fingers every day! The explanation is simple, She's -a- counler down at tha Federal Reserve Bank on Liber- ty Street. She inspects bundles of greenbacks -- $1 to $20 bills -- and although an electronic machine verifies the count (1,000 in each bundle) she watches for counterfeits, damaged and worn bills, and rebundles the thou- sand for recirculation, As we toured the giant "Fed" of New York, largest of the nation's 12 regional Reserve Ranks, and apex of Wall Street's and the nation's financial struc- ture, I hod visions of that old hoarder, Silas Marner, and that miserable miser, Scrooge, both of literary fame. Would they love it at the "Fed!" I thought, too, of all those reaklile characters who are al- ways saying, "If I could just lay my hands on a little money." They might land a job as a counter at the bank, and lay their hands on plenty. But it would, alas, not be theirs, but ours. All employees of the "Fed" are tried and trusted, ond those in positions of trust have usu- ally been with the bank for many .years. Currency and coins ~amounts--are--a highly serious matter to the people who work in a building which houses more assets than any other-bank in the world. When we want to. think big -- in millions and billions -- we take ourselves down to Wail Street to that jumbled cong!lo- meration of banks, markets, and stock exchanges, and imbibe the - bustling atmosphere of high fi- nance, We eat lunch in a nice cak-panelled dining room with merchants, brokers, dealers and bankers, and think what nice, intelligent faces such "ca- pitalists" -- always the target of Communism -- exhibit. . It was, however, the giant money operation at the Federal Reserve -- that neo-Florentine palazzo on the northern boun- dary of the financial district -- which lured us to the neighbor- hood this time writes Marilyn Hoffman in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. For those inter- ested, four tours a day enable visitors to look behind the scenes and cast eyes on at least a portion of the $7 or $8 billicn , . oe, cash and more than $100 bil- | lon in securities held there. "Goldbricking" at the "Fed," it should be explained, has no connection with shirking the job. It could mean seeing that the gold of 70 friendly nations gets properly stored in their protecting mitts over their shies so they won't do any damage jf they drop a few of the 28-poudd bricks, worth $14,000 cach. Touring the "Fed," at some points, takes on 'aspects of a cloak - and - dagger television show, There are locks and keys, bars and inner rooms, sanctums andl inner sgnctums, vaults and safes, five sub-basements, and enough armed guards to police Precinct One and make a thief think twice before making off with so much as a dim. Selling Movies By The Mile! For "Ben-Hur," they now have three prices: Adults, children under 12, and children who will become 12 while the movie is on. HE. "I saw 'The Alamo' last month." SHE: "What did you do this month?" Then there is the "Spartacus" concessionaire who is putting up his popcorn in special three- pound boxes. At one motion-picture theater showing "Exodus," they've changed the name sion' to "Visiting "Hojrs""™ Short jokes about long movies are rife, and with good reason: On Broadway, for instance, there are now four theaters showing the joked-about pictures, all of which last almost. four hours (with intermission) and will probably play for at least a year. More longies are in the works | ~--("Pepe,"at three hours, arrives this month), and soon Broadway moviegoers may have to be pre- pared to spend the night. With all this filma footage, a few characteristics of the longie are now clear. A longie is stud-' ded with top talent and high purpose. Instead of having a . single, coherent plot, it offers a series of loosely connected epi sodes. Finally, it gives the cine- matic equivalent of the Grand Tour (so far, only "The Alamo" has stayed home), All the longies seem to be doing well (the advance sale of $600,000 for "Exodus" is an all- time movie record). It_ will be several years before anybody knows just how well, since "Ben- its original cost. Meanwhile, crit--- "ics of "the longles "havea new name for conventional movies: Compacts. Sometimes that dotted line you signed was the fine print vou should have read. -Smart Bulky Knit Pull-over ~~ This cable- stitch, turtle-neck sweater, designed by Laura Wheeler, our Needlecraft Designer, is quick to knit. Jiffy-knit this beautiful, bulky pull-over to Use extra-large needles, 2-strand knitting smart: cowl effect. top skirts and slacks, Cables give wo Pattern 949 includes directions for sizes 32-34; 36-38, Send Thirty-five Cents (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal - note for safety) for this pattern to. Laura Wheeler, Box 123° Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. your Name and Address. ; JUST OFF THE PRESS! Print plainly Pattern Number, Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave --- fashions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, 'bazaar hits, Plus FREE -- instructions for six smart "veil caps. Ly © Bend 26¢ for this Needlecraft Catalog. "Interwmis- ~t--er--sofemnity, ----and--peace, a midnight services J| ..is just too bad. ___to_come-by-in-the-days ot "Omar " New Year celebrations for noise © "Old Lang Syne", jusi as the old particularly among the Scottish is precious little solitude: Or for NEW VIEW oF WASHINGTONL -- The thumping blizzard which raced up the East Coast--fouling things up generally. was not without its finer moments. The serene beauty of this view of Wash- ington's Capitol building is an example of nature's artistry Surind the big. storm. . HAPPY NEW "W YEAR, every- -body. I hope all of you had the _very best of Christmases. "Now the New Year, reviving: old desires The thoughtful soul ta solitude retires." Solitude . . . at New Year's? What a chance. If that's what we want it is just wishful think- ing. Maybe solitude was "easier "Khayam. But Christmas can't now --- even - compare with and frivolity. That is, if you associate with those'who like to greet the New Year with tradi- tional fanfare. Can you imagine Times Square or St. Paul's Churchyard in London being quiet after the stroke of mid- night? Even Toronto and Mount- real are getting the habit. And of course there are house parties all over the country with every- body joining hands and singing year dies and the new year is ushered in. It is a nice custom. However, for those who wish to "observe the occasion with great- | and in quietness a is still held in most churches. And a very beautiful service it is. Yes, there are many ways to see the New Year in. It's a case of each one to his taste but I __often-wonder-which-way of cele- brating brings the greatest satis- faction, Then comes New Year's Day -- in many homes a family day, folk. And while there may be _ "thoughtful souls" around there a week afterwards -- at least not where. there are children. Little tots, over-excited with new toys and extra people coming and going, get slightly cantank- , erous, and tired mothers need the patience of Job in dealing with them, Older children, anxi- ous to make the most of school holidays, are eager to try out - skates, sleighs and toboggans, If there isn't any snow and ice that "Teen-agers , . . who can hazard a guess as to how they will want to celebrate the first week of '61? Parents and standpavefiis . what they want t --de~ - perids a lot on age, ch A of en tertainment , . . and endurance! Anyway, no matter in what bracket you fall, or what your plans to celebrate, 1 hope--you - "have a wonderful time, Sometimes the pattern for hristmas and New Year's @s- ablishes itself. For instance, of late years we at Ginger Farm: have developed a family plan for holiday celebrations. On Christ- mas Day we all have dinner at Daughter's, Bob picks us up here in his car so we all arrive in Toronto at the same time. Then comes dinner and the Christmas Tree . . . and inevita- bly the dishes. About nine- thirty we pack up the car again, Ross and Cedric-in-the-back seat -- still very much awake; unwrap- ped toys and other presents in the trunk of the car, and the rest of us jammed in wherever there is an inch of space, Then we go --for-a-drive-through---the gaily. decorated Bloor and Kingsway residential districts, and also - Exhibition Park, It is a real treat for the boys -- in fact we all en- joy it. When it comes down to bright lights we are all children - at heart. Upon arrival here Bob and-Joy come in for half an hour or so and we have a cup of, tea to wind up the day," "On New Year's Eve, which is also Bob's birthday, things are quite different. Ross and Cedric stay with grandma and granda while Mummy and Daddy treat themselves 'to a dinner down "town. The boys like being here; their parents enjoy a night out alone; the .grandparents don't mind baby-sitting, and so every- one is happy. New Year's Day tains her "in-laws" and a few extra friends." Partner and I usually stay at home, glad of a little quietness after all the ex- citement. It is a good time to relive --our--most---recent--family | gathering; to laugh and chat as we recall the antics of our five grandsons; to discuss the change in them and to wonder what they .will all be like a year from now -- and whether there will be any additions! It is also a Dee enter- nice time to re-read all the let- ters and cards that have come our way and to look over the gifts, that are "just exactly what we wanted". With a few variations don't you find your holiday season just about the same? Hasn't it : "been a time of family gatherings for you and your folk too? A time of happiness and goodwill to carry with you in memory throughout the coming year. We all have so much to be thankful for. Let us determine, insofar as we are 'able, to make Sixty-one the best year ever. Wouldn't that be a good New Year's reso- lution? po SALES Bg on Ran NE A *Of course you liked your mother's cooking; ft cost you nothing." said a "Wrong - -- - twenty- five days, " Fortune Telling : When a fortune teller was on trial in the United States a short time ago she was told that her prison. sentence would be sus- pended if she could foretell how many days' imprisonment the court had decided to give her. "Tt will be thirty days," she LS SE snapped the judge--and the wo- man went to jail for that period. Fortune telling is an "art" as old as humanity, and still flour- {shes in many countries. There are millions of men and women who consult "seers" to try to find out what the future holds for them. - - In France to-day, for. instance, _ there are nearly. 35,000 fortune tellers whose advice "is sought by 100,000 people every day. They're not cheap to consult, _either. Sittings cost up to $15 a time. - : Fortune telling is' big business in Japan. Even tough business men planning a big deal and . pretty young actresses consider- ing a film offer consult fortune tellers -for- guidance. Many peo- ple there still believe in ancient occult practices cohnected with fortune telling. Thousands --of -Japanese- men- and women are full-time foiling 3 Mr tellers, They range from minor ~ wizards out to- make the price of - a bowl of rice to "great masters" who live in large mansions and list famous "industrialists, politi- cians and stockbrokers among --their clients. Weaving Tapestry Highly-Paid Work Who are some of the best paid workers in France today? Chances are you would néver guess that they are weavers, In their own region, at Aubusson in the heart of France, they are the highest paid and there is no un- employment. What created that healthy sit- uation? It is a revived demand for the. famous tapestries" woven on the "Aubusson looms. And, strangely enough, it is contem- porary architecture, the vast ex- panse of whose bare wall space demands some covering, which is responsible, It doesn't seem likely' that hand-woven - tapestries will be very much in demand for home ---wall-coverings--not unless the home-owner is very wealthy Aubusson tapestry costs $300 a square meter, and that price is (much) less than pre-war, "To many people, tapestry Bugs © gests medieval castles and robil- '| ity. It wouldn't be surprising if some enterprising individual cashed in on the snob appéal of the wall-covering. If so, we shall sea suburban eastle-manors, their walls hung with relatively inex- pensive machine-loomed tapes: tries.--Houston (Texas), Post. i iA Fuller Brush Man Still On The Job The first door Alfred .C. Fuller ever approached, brush in hand, was slammed in his face. But the self-styled country bumpkin who "was about to revolutionize the then-disreputable business of . . door-to-door peddling had a stub- born streak in him. He knocked on another door," then another, and before the day was over he had sold $6 worth of brushes. (Fitty-tive years later, the Fuller ™ Brush Man is ringing 140 million doorbells a year, doing $100 mil- lion worth of- business, No one is more surprised about his success than the Original Fuller Brush Man, as he makes" abundantly clear in his autobi- ography published last month. "The chance of my building anything or becoming anybody wag-so ridiculous that no banker would invest a dime in me," says the 75-year-old semi-retired chairman of "the first effective national direct-selling organiza- tion," He candidly admits: "The company is the product of medi- ocrity, Almost everyone who grew up with it in the early days was, like myself, a failure who took his job with me in de- speration, often in despair." Fuller was fired from his first three jobs (as a streetcar con- ductor, truck driver, gardener), _went into the brush business be- "cause it looked easy. Gospel: A religious young man from Nova Scotia, he set up bus- iness in Hartford because he had visited there once and liked the people--and his copy of the Bible had been printed there. He inspired his salesmen with mis- sionary zeal. "I considered my- self a reformer, eager to attack the dirt and domestic labor of _ the city, destroying the one and alleviating the ier "Fuller says. ; But Fuller wasn't all altruist. He was a hardheaded business- man who insisted on products "that would stand the test of use." His factory hands worked on a piecework basis; his dealers paid for their brushes before delivery. Thus "all had to pro- "duce. The foot-draggers soon eliminated themselves." Fulled preached that the prod- uct had to 'sell itself. "This re- quired action rather than words" "Fuller points out. "I washed babies with a back brush, swept stairs, cleaned radiators and milk bottles, dusted floors." He welcomed rainy days because . "bad weather keeps women at home." 'But he didn't welcome man was never supposed to run from a dog or kick it, though. That's sure way to lose a sale. Rather, "look the animal firmly in the eyes and walk up to the door as though you were a friend of the family, all the while keep- ing the durable sample kit be- "tween yourself and the dog." - The Fuller Brush Man's ad-~ ventures inspired countless car- toons and gags, many depicting him" as a charmer before whose blandishments female customers swooned. If happened cnce in a while in real life, Fuller admits. But he believes most of his men reacted as he did when a big '1ed-haired woman, coyly admit- ting him to her some, said: "Do not lead me into temptation." A quick mian with a scriptural re- tort, Fuller answered: "Madam, 1 am not leading you into temp- ISSUE 53 -- 1960 $15 million+ tation, but deAwering you from evil" She bought three brushes, Fuller admits that slavish de- votion to one's work has its dark sides. Big business, he says, "de- mands more of snany men than they can do without' neglecting their home obligations." His first wife divorced him, His eldest son, Howard, was a puzzle. With a mixture of pride and regret, -- : Fuller recounts how Howard el- bowed him aside to 'take over "4ctive direction of the company in the 1940s and then did away with many of his ideas, * Howard jettisoned the Fuuler tradition. of building character into its dealers with this com- ment: "Let's stop trying to build men, Even God hasn't built too many good ones. . Let's appéint the good ones, and go on from there." With his father's reluctant ap- proval, Howard introduced new lines (vitamins, toiletries, 'and cosmetics), Areata sales from n 1946 to $109 mil- lion before he was killed in an auto accident last year. 'Fuller's other son, Avard, is now presi- dent. "Human history seems to insist 'that every youth"must be put to the test of his own initia- tive industry, and self-reliance," Fuller says. "Those who pass, move up.'--From NEWSWEEK. "dogs because" they bite, A Fuller----= Pattern 628: Gay Chill-Chasers Ultra - cozy! Brave winter's chills brightly in this fluffy- looped cap and mitten set. Fashion loves - LOOPS! How smartly they contrast with shell stitches in this easy-crochet set. directions small, medium, large included. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps. cannot be accepted, use postal note for safely!) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. TERN NUMBER, your and ADDRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! 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