Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 12, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday october 12, 1955 Page 5 Box top contests plague bbb chief mrs. Edson s pantry is full of Cereal boxes without any tops. And Cedric Edson manager of the Winnipeg better Busi Ness Bureau does t like it one bit. But no matter How much to warns mrs. Edson that nobody gives away any thing for nothing she can t resist the lure of contests. Now or. Edson told the sales and advertising club tuesday in the fort Garry hotel contests Are a funny Way of advertising. Take a local sewing machine organization which last month ran a con test and in the papers Complete with a Coupon to be sent in. Wrong answer one Winnipeg woman sent in the Coupon then received a reply saying her answer was wrong. However a Consolation prize was enclosed a Coupon on a machine. Another City woman got 2 letter saying her answer was right but her letter had t been drawn. She too got a Consolation prize a Cou Pon on a machine. A third woman who lived in Churchill got a letter saying she d won a prize in the con test. Enclosed was the Cou Pon. She sent Back the Coupon and requesting that the machine be sent along to her. The company replied with a letter that the machine was sold by Home demonstration Only. Thus they were return ing her Money. So beware the Point according to or. Edson is beware of contests. Things Aren t always what advertisers crack them up to be. In other words was the machine a one or a one he also warned against comparative advertising per cent off regular this Type Only leads the Public to think that the merchant must have been making too much profit in the first place. He told the and men Don t spend your time thinking up gimmicks. Advertise a product on its merits and give the Public a Square Deal. But it packs Wallop this Art May not be your cup of Coffee modern Art burst on Winnipeg tuesday night when prof. R. E Williams of the University school of Art opened the Art gallery s major fall exhibition. The exhibition modern european Art since Manet is about evenly divided Between re presentational and non representational Art and there is no doubt that the abstract painting catches the Eye More quickly. I will also probably confuse a Good number of visitors. Yet said prof. Williams it is among these paintings tha modern people should feel most a Home because out of our own times have come the impulses that Havi created them. Cubism reflected the Confidence generally Felt before the firs world War expressionism was revolt against that Confidence More impetuous than reasonable and surrealism dealt with a dream world with psychology. Greater demands modern Art makes great de mands on the viewer. The Mobil by Alexander Calder is an arrange rent of eight pieces of wire or the ends of which Are balance nine disks two White three Black three red and one yellow. I 5s delicately balanced and com Sparton to dealers Home appliance co. Ltd. 670 Portage ave. Siruet 3-1296 posed and is called three Black flags. The tendency of most people Wil be to ask what is it what use is it what does it represent it is of no use and it does nol represent anything. If the viewer is satisfied with this and still likes it simply because he finds it at Tractive he is in a fair Way to Lik modern Art. If he insists that a painting or sculpture can have meaning Only if it looks like some thing recognizable modern Art i not Likely to be his cup of Coffee incomprehensible there Are a number1 of painting Here which Many will insist on re Garding As incomprehensible but almost certainly the Excel Lent collection of impressions and expressionist paintings in the main room will be popular. No one will find these confusing. In fact most of the pictures Are easily understandable. For in stance the bitter meaning of Paul Nash s Bleak angry landscape year of our lord 1317, in which the Earth looks like some pitted big to audience licences increased by to , prior to the opening of Cost Volany brands make heavy work today Cleveland Cap today s housewife works much harder than Ler grandma did says Ohio s director of Home economics. She gives this example it was easier for grandma to make an Iron Kettle Ful of soap than or us to do the thinking required n making decisions about which of the Many kinds of soap we should in a speech tuesday before the Cleveland heart society mrs Davis Whitfield said m o d e women Are faced with making decisions All Day Long especially when they go the supermarket and choose among different items. By such decisions women shape the lives of their London up television i total of in Britain in television. This is what happened after the car of vally Hosteller hit a rough Section of track and grazed a Section of Fence in a qualifying trial for an american automobile association midget car race at Terre haute ind. The car turns Over in the air top and then lands and seems to be crushing the Driver s head. Finally it comes to rest up Side Down Hosteller climbed from the car after it was righted suffer ing Only from an Arm injury. Bell is barbed wire strewn obvious. It would be too bad if the Label modern Art frightened the pub Lic away. Modern artists might be perverse at times they might be capable of producing Odd pictures with Odd names but they Are interesting and often stimulating and moving As this exhibition shows. The exhibition should in the next three weeks until oct. 30 arouse More Public interest than was indicated by tuesday night s Low attendance. B. R. Religion As link Between East West the Faith of Baha i was seen As a Bridge uniting East and West by Albert Rakovsky a Montreal insurance executive and a member of the National administrative body of the Bah a is of Canada when he spoke in Winnipeg. He Felt that religion and not sectarianism would penetrate the Iron curtain. Or. Rakovsky stated the Baha i Faith started in 1844. In Persia advocates the oneness of Mankind and the oneness of religion. While there were few adherents in this country or. Rakovsky said the spread of the Faith into every country of the world was largely through this continent. Norquay Home and school will Mark the opening of a new school building thursday with an open House Between 1.30 and 4 . And 7 and 8 . The initial Home and school association meeting will begin at 8 . With a program presented by pupils of the school. Eskimo carved whalebone Mace to Grace not the traditions of the Canadian parliamentary system and the rugged land of the North Are combined in a newly carved Mace to be used by the Council of the Northwest territories. The Mace a copy of the one in the House of commons at Ottawa was carved from whalebone by a group of eskimos at Cape Dorset . And has just been completed. The work was done under the supervision of James Houston of the Northern affairs department. The 30 Pound Mace is now in the department s Headquarters at Ottawa and will be used for Semi annual sessions of the Council which alternate Between Ottawa and the Northwest territories. Mosquito men want 20-cent bite for fight the greater Winnipeg Mosquito abatement District served notice on Winnipeg s City Council tuesday night that it was going to ask the legislature for permission to double the rates it charges municipalities for fighting mosquitoes. In a letter to City Council the District added however it did t intend to exercise that right fully next year. For 1956, it was going seek Only a 50 per cent boost rom member municipalities. The District s decision to seek More Money was reported three weeks ago. Its letter to Council Vas formal notice of this decision. At present the District Bills municipalities at the rate of 10 cents per capita population. It wants its charter amended to per Mit a 20-cent Levy though it plans Only a 15-cent Levy for next year. The letter was turned Over to civic finance committee without comment. Tuesday night fort Garry coun cil decided to go along with the 15-cent Levy for 1956. The Mosquito Board received 10 cents for 1955 plus an additional two cent Levy from All Mem Bers of the District when Money Tan out before the summer Battle was Over. The meeting of the fort Garry Kennel club scheduled for thurs Day. Oct. 13, has been cancelled. Winnipeg student wins scholarship William Owen 851 Clinton Street a graduate of United College has been awarded a scholarship at Chicago s George Williams College. He holds his . Degree from United College and has already spent a year at Williams College where he is majoring in health and physical education. He has been Active in the Myca. He was a Volunteer Leader from 1940 to 1951, and has also served As Fellowship Secretary assistant physical director and Camp director. Club supper members of the Good Neighbour club were entertained tuesday evening at a thanksgiving supper and concert. Entertainment was provided by the . Nichols or Chestra and concert troupe. Insist on att to lice Tehon you Btty to prompt sound front tuning transformer Type Chassis More Power assures a steady picture from All channels now All spar Tonto sets Are 20% More powerful than Ever before. 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