Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1955. július-december (4. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)
1955-10-20 / 42. szám
JL6_ AiMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ October 20, 1955. IjFamily jjPage Hungary to welcome more tourists Four to five times as many foreign visitors will be able to come to Hungary next summer as were able to go this year. This was among the plans for increasing tourist facilities announced early last month by IBUSZ, Hungary’s official tourist agency. In the next few months many visitors are expected for the coming sporting events in Budapest, including several thousand from Austria for the Austria v. Hungary football match, and many hundreds from Sweden and Italy. More long term plans include a big extension of facilities for foreign tourists to visit Lake Balaton. Hungary’s inland sea. Balatonfoldvar, Tihany, Balatonfured, and Heviz will be among the holiday resorts to be developed, to cope with the/ veritable “foreign invasion” expected in 1956. Two thousand visitors from Czechoslovakia alone are expected next summer, and many more visitors from countries such as France and Italy than at any time since the war. Tourists are also expected from the Soviet Union. Yugoslavia, the United States, Egypt, Scandinavia and many other countries. In order to attract more visitors to Hungary, the IBUSZ travel bureau in Vienna is to be expanded and the agency is also negotiating for representation at many European travel bureaus. Tourist information will also be. available at various international trade fairs in which Hungary is taking part, including those at Stockholm, Vienna and Cologne. WASHING IS CHEAPER: COMPETITION PAYS OFF Automation Hits Older Workers Automation, which can, if used wisely, produce a better standard of living for all. will hit older workers with three types of problems: 1— (Workers over 40 now often are discriminated against in hiring practices current in many industries. Automation will displace many of them from their present jobs. This means the difficulties will increase in proportion to the increased numbers of displaced older employes. About 33 per cent of persons now unemployed are over 65 years of age. 2— ,Increased hourly productivity will make it possible for lower retirement ages, as well as reduced weekly working hours. Thus more older workers will be pressured to retire earlier, whether they want to or not. Or whether they can afford to or not. 3— Automation-displaced workers—old as well as young—must learn new skills in order tof fill jobs in automatic factories. The young ones may be given more opportunities for retraining than the older ones, despite-the fact that an “old dog can be taught new tricks.” Meanwhile, the population of persons 65 and older is increasing at an accelerating rate. About 8 per cent (13 million) of the poula- tion now is composed of persons 65 or older. By 1970 it is predicted to be 12 per cent. The proportion is increasing at the rate of 1,000 persons per day. Each day 3.000 persons pass the age of 65 (on the average) and 2,000 persons die who .are past the age of 65. In the past 13 years, the number of citizens 75 years of age and over has increased nearly 50 per cent. Most of them are dependent on Old Age and Survivors Insurance under Social Security for their daily bread. Millions are helped by union- won retirement benefits. Some half a million live is nursing homes as public charges. Organized labor has taken an active role in seeking to get increased retirement benefits, both through government action and under terms of working agreements. Organized labor also has interested itself in the problems of psychological shock which accompanies retirement. HAW Pioneers Clubs The CIO Auto Workers, for example, have pioneered in the Midwest in setting up domino, checker, chess and card parlors and clubs, library facilities, hobby and craft shops and easy chairs and conference rooms for retired workers. The greatest problem facing a retired man or woman in this day and age is not where does the next meal come from, but what to do. A majority are women; 7.5 million women over 65 are widows. Too many of the latter also have to worry about the next meal. Some 45 per cent of these have incomes of less than $1,000 a year; a third of these eke out an existence on less than $500. They are excluded from- public housing projects in most areas for the simple reason that such housing is exclusively for “families.” There aie two and a half million senior citizens over 65 who live alone, 76 per cent of whom have incomes of less than $1,000 a year. It is not just their problem. The years are creeping up on all of us. • A Magyar Szó jó újság, ^ Nincs benne, csak igazság! Families who wash their own clothes can now sing the praises of competition. The high cost of low-sudsing or controlled-suds detergents, now widely-used in automatic washing machines, is being fractured by the appearance of some competitors for ALL, which up to now dominate this field. Until recently, if you wanted a low- sudsing detergent, you paid 37 to 39 cents for a 24-ounce package of ALL, or $5.49 for a 25- pound container. Or you could buy Spin, another low-sudsing detergent, at generally a couple of cents less for the small package, than ALL. So the cost came to as much as 9 cents a cupful— a real expense in a large family doing frequent washes. Three More Brands Now there are at least three more brands of low-sudsing detergents on the market, at least two at significantly lower prices, and the manufacturer of ALL/itself is now offering special prices. Among the new low-sudsing detergents are AD; Co-Op Controlled Suds Detergent sold by the Eastern cooperatives, and Spring. The new Co-Op controlled suds detergent sells for $4.49 for 25 pounds, and is very similar to ALL in performance. Spring sells at $4 to $5 for 25 pounds, depending on where you buy it. Both ALL and Ad now come in concentrated and lighter densities. You use more of the lighter than of the concentrated type, so the actual cost per load is about the same For either. The chief, real difference between the two types is psychological. As with all detergents, women tend to use too much, so the manufacturers are offering the lighter-density type as a way of offsetting this tendency. More Competition With more competition on the market, ALL is now sold at anywhere from $4.95 for the 25- pound package, to $5.49. Perhaps the least expensive way to buy it is from launderettes. They buy ALL in bulk, and many of them for some time have been selling it at around $5 for 20 pounds if you bring your own container. It pays to do this, because the saving is about 16 per cent over the price of ALL in the small one- pound package or even the 10-pound package. PEARLS OF WISDOM With the improbability that President^ Eisenhower will run again the CIO-AFL unions have stepped'up their drive to woo the farmers into their political camp. The result will be one of the most interesting aspects of the 1956 campaign . . . The farmer is, to begin with, a capitalist himself if he owns his farm, as he usually does. Why should he join political hands with the laboring class, even if actually, in a physical sense, he be o»e himself? —Yonkers (N. Y. Herald-Statesman) ★ Whole Family Tainted “Talk of Milton Eisenhower, Ike’s brother, for the Republican nomination bumps into the fact that Milton during the height of New Deal days worked for Henry Wallace...” —Lb S. News & World Report, Oct. 7. Also Dwight Eisenhower, Milton’s brother, was given an important job during the war by Franklin D. Roosevelt. There’s hardly. an Eisenhower who’s not a security risk. ★ “Subversion” Defined At Last “Throughout the Delta county (of Mississippi) the Citizens Councils maintain a vigilant watch against subversion. Down here subversion equals integration. “Our intention is to see that the new- generation grows up with the same ideas we have,’ said Herman Moore, Indianola banker and local Citizens Council chief. ‘All we want is to-maintain the status quo.’ ” —Homer Bigart, from Jackson, Miss., Sept. 23 ★ “Papa,” questioned the son, “what is the person called who brings you in contact with the spirit world?” “A bartender, my son,” was the reply. LET'S Lilli HBN&AMAN What is your occupation? — Mi az ön foglalkozása ? (Less formal: “Mi a te foglalkozásod?”) I am a printer — Nyomdász vagyok Barber — Borbély Shoemaker — Cipész Tailor — Szabó Cab driver — softer Policeman — Rendőr Banker — Bankár Salesman — Kereskedelmi ügynök Fin stores: kiszolgáló, kereskedő <egéd) Agent — Ügynök Electrician — Villanyszerelő Radio repairman — rádió javító, mdiószerelő Waiter — Pincér Cashier — Pénztárnok Supervisor — Felügyelő Foreman — Előmunkás Worker — Munkás Laborer — Napszámos Conductor —- Kalauz Writer — író , Bookkeeper — Könyvelő Stenographer — Gyorsíró Doctor — Orvos Dentist — Fogorvos Grocer — Szatócs Where do you work? — Hol dolgozik ön? — (Hol dolgozol?) I work in an office — Irodában dolgozom • A HALADÁS PÁRTOLÓJA, % A MAGYAR SZÓ OLVASÓJA #
