Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free press tuesday june 29, 1954 Loose ends by Bruce Hutchison it s mighty lonely without party line to is very sad it is a kind a Retreat from rustic innocence a Victory for Urban civilization another blow to Man s Freedom they abolish our country Telephone system and attach us to a City dial. And it leaves a dark Gap in our lives. For More than a Quarter of a Century the always Busy party Jine. Constantly growing in popu Gatior. Until it served some dozen fire hits Plant Montreal has been estimated at follow ing a fire and explosion during the week end in the repair shops of the Sicard company Here. The firm assembles and repairs Snow blowers and other Road equip ment. One Man Rodolphe Daoust 32, of suburban Lachine was taken to Hospital suffering from Shock. Damage to the building was Esti mated at and to the Mach Ines in the outbreak Satur Day. Hate a troubled housewife writes to or. Norman Vincent Peale asking How to Stop hating a Friend who treated her badly. Or. Peale answers her ques Tion in the current Issue of look Magazine. His advice on personal problems is now a regular feature of look to see How the famous author of the Power of positive think ing can help you look at pc i news stand today. Jacob and associates dentists new premises located Over metropolitan store scor. For tace Carlton watch for opening phone 92-8319 for future appointments sue enl Victoria families was1 our Only source of amusement and health. Now the Genius of science has repealed them both As it is repealing most things of value. The amusement Vas free or almost free at cents a Call Why a Busy could spend All Day sit sting at the Tele iphone and listen Ling to the most intimate affairs Lof her neighbors lit was better a movie and far More i prob Hutchison Able. The things we found out did some child have the chickenpox we All knew it within half an hour. Was some family contemplating a new automobile we had heard of it Long before the Deal ers. Was a love affair under Way we could hear the sighs and gurgles on the never failing wire. Was a new baby in Prospect we anticipated it before the father. Of we knew everything Worth knowing. Uch a Telephone was not an instrument. It was an Educa Tion. It was our sure link with life. Now the pleasant voice of the operator that faceless but Ever present lady has gone and we Are linked by a cold piece of mechanism Only to civilization. Where have that voice and its owner gone what is happening within All those secret family circles How about the Chicken pox the new car the baby and the love affair we shall never know again. Thus As always civilization to draw men together when its really forcing them apart of some Gadget like a Telephone a bomb. Thus the free a of information dams up Aji communication. Thus speech carried throughout the world induces Only the greatest silence our age. Thus men in the search for companionship Are More lonely than a band of Cave dwellers. Ceaseless exercise moreover the old Telephone provided health by promoting ceaseless exercise. At least 20 Imes a Day for 27 years i have raped from my chair and run quite a distance at the summons of the clanging Bell Only to find naturally that it was the wrong ring among 12 different combinations Short arid Long like the Morse code. I never complained about that inconvenience. It kept me and everyone else in lean and mus Cular condition. Everybody in the announcing new location of the health Supply Centre herbal remedies Vitamin products 120 Lombard ave. Number 92-6927 my Booklet phone write or rail in Lor a tree copy of our 100-Page Handy doctor a compact guide to perfect health. Telephone to say nothing. In Stead of a convenience the Tele phone like most scientific inventions will become a vice especially when we Don t have to pay four cents a Call and talk Day for nothing. Deep melancholy it was therefore with a deep country was full of health thanks melancholy almost with tears not to the outdoors but to the Canadian broadca9t1n0 corporation soul tag radio can Ada service International inter National service Dominion Observatory astronomer on Board . Plane reports findings in Morse to department of transport receiving stations at either Kapuskasing or Goose Bay. In latter Case findings Are relayed by teletype through department of transport stations via Ottawa and Toronto to Kapuskasing. Of transport station in Kapuskasing refers messages to Csc International service commentators. Dunlap Observatory Astro Nomer refers his findings from air port in Kapuskasing to International service commentators. Landline circuit internal Tiona service commentators feed the messages they receive to Mont real Csc International service Headquarters in both the English and swedish languages. Service producer re lays broadcast to shortwave transmitters in Sackville. F from Sackville broadcast is beamed to Sweden for use by International astronomers and scientific observers and to United kingdom for use by the British broadcasting corporation. The International service the Canadian broadcast ing corporation in co opera with the ., the de ment of transport the National research Council the Dominion Observatory and other principal observatories As Well As Canadian scientists is playing an important part in recording and re porting on the total eclipse of the Sun june 30. The information is being broadcast to More than 400 International astronomers gathered in Sweden at a Point which has been chosen As the Best located spot the observation of this eclipse. The illustration above indicates the extent of the operation by the Csc International ser Telephone. Also this cunning device v eloped the intelligence and Powers of reason. Only a Man of very High intelligence and efficient mind could possibly learn the Morse code and distinguish his own ring among others. Finally the Telephone taught us patience tolerance unselfishness and the other democratic Virtues. A Man Lead to be a Saint to endure it. In time we All became saints who could distinguish Between the few things that matter and tire Many that Don t. Usually we could not put Call through without several futile attempts and our City friends gave up trying to reach us which was an advantage not to be reckoned in now. I suppose we shall be impatient selfish and harassed like the hag Ridden people of the City who Are always Rushing to the that we saw the Good old Tele phone removed the other Day like a relative carried out in his coffin. It was with trembling hands that we approached the myster ious wire which carried a Label instructing us to Cut Why we should Cut Here we did t know it seemed a desperate sort of amputation. But we closed our eyes and Cut expecting the whole Telephone system to collapse. Well it did t. With wire Cut and All it boomed into sudden i life. We were welded at last after 27 years of apprenticeship to the pulsating body of civilization we had lost our innocence and joined the Universal March of Progress. But without the Jingle of the Morse code and the innermost secrets of our neighbors lives it seemed mighty lonely around Here ;