Vapaus, November 24, 1955

              Sivti 4 Torstaina, marrask. 24 p. — Thursday, %'ov. 24,195:^
CLINTON HALL AGENDA
OFFERS NEW ACTIVITY
Vancouver. "A4'iajnenleft and mek-c. There had bcen nt> annouiicc-lemonadef'
I i;:o;>ped clead i n «lyj rnenis of a mixed clais In Judo 1
tracks, v/hen chav v/c-ird call echosd
througlT CJinr-sn; Hajl, ThJs was de-llnlte^-
a mf .-ncnt for fast thinklng
and a clear ;;3a J, "Ciix-Je tlght and
c^Iccate!" c-.ia the iame. voice in
an anguished tone. I had my bear-ings
fixed n-v; ajtcJ, pieiing up a
hstty brocm lianal:?, rcaried .swlftly
fonvard to lenv/^r asjiiiancc. The
yells were cc-ni:;;; frc.j the reading
rcs.Ti. 'Unt'>u;:<ce:;>y .scriecne had
fiurpnstd . thiiJS b saidns j,ito the
•buUdlng... Jud^!::.-]; by thj itpmplng
going on they -.vcre puVJntj i'.p a
fitrong reslslanc,". .
The door vvas ti-^jiiu/ £hu: cnd I
T^entured a glanc: dtnsias Lefore cpen-ing
It. After ali, a person can't be
too careful; I migr»t neea two broom
handles. Befors my eyes was the
vJldest scens slnce the Yritys con-tlngent
arrived i n Pert Arthur for
the 1951 Sports Rally. Guys and
gals werc tossing each other around
vithmt äny: rcgard for life or llmb.
Slnce the partles invoived didn't
seem to be in a fighting mood, I;
figured It was none of my business
and tiptoed away.
However, the questIon.was still un-answered
as to the reason for this
being »tarted at the halJ, Nor had
tbere been.word of a new civil de-fencc.
exerclse, What therf was the
cau:ie of the commotion? I declded
to stlo^ around untU ali was quiet
and find out from one of the sur-
.vivors.
About iialf an hour later the door
opened and several bedraggled look-
Jng specimens emerged. I halted one
youn? felIow and put the question
to him • straight. v"Why," says he,
"that was just some of the.klas from
"Sisu" -brushmg- up on the fmer
points of square-dancing!"
He explained that they had been
attending the regular Sunday even-ing
square-dance sessiona with the
gang from other organizations, but
had dccided that simply .wa.sn't
encugh. So they were gathenng in
their own square every Tuesday even-ing
for additional practice. He also
gave an mvlte for any other square^
Interested in thls form of. dancing
to coma around/to the Chnton Hall
about 7 p.m. any Sunday eveping.
And that, fcr another v/eek is
thlrty from West of the Rockies.
— Gulliver. ,
Mi%r FMMI eiassic
WORK HAS NEVER HURT A TYCOON
New Discoveries Will
Help Conquer Disease
Medical science may well he on
the verge of crossing a frontierinto
a new land as exciting as that at-'
taftied by the physlcal scientlste when
they uncovered the secret of the atom.
A number of developments reported.
recently In the press/ usually deep in
the Inside pages of the newspapers,
EUbstantiate the cxlstence pf this pos-slbPlty.
Three such developments can
be summarized in this column.
The first of these discoveries to be
reported was that of a successful
technlque to break down viruses into
two components. Viruses are strange.
tiny substances wnich stand. on the
divlding hne between living and non-livihg
matter and which are capab-le
of causing a Wide variety of dis-eases
-ranging from the common cold
to polio. Not long ago,, viiuses were
SO difficult to study that they could
not be Isolated; that is, set aside from
the materials in which they existed.
ilow, however, biological chcmLsts;
have succeded m learning that a virus
consists of two separate components,
•vyhich can beseparated one from
another. Further, it is believed a
deadly virus can be rendered harm-
Icss if it is split, and t hen jifevented
from reuniting. This could be done
by introducing into the picture an­other
substancc which .would nat-urally
unite with half of the virus.
In other words, what is projected
Is a new route toward conquest of not
one, b u t ' a l i vu-us diseases, a route
farsafer than any yet discovered for
any one.
Asecond hlgtily promising discovery
was reported at the recent Chicago
gathering of*the American College of
Surgeons. A group of scientists at
•Western Reserve University in Cleve­land
reported to the medical meetlng
that they had established the ex-istence
of a substance in the Qiuman
b]oodwhich tends to incruase re-sistance
not to one but to ali diseases.
The substance, called properdin. had
previously been discovered to have
a powerful effect 111 "barring mfec-tions
in experimental animals. It had
been noted that the liigher the blood
level of properdin in the animal. the
greater the animars rcsistance to
disease. - ;
As a rcsult of tho latest experimen-lation.
therc are. strong indications
that the same relatlonsh^p of proper­din
to disease immunUy holds for hu­maus.
If this is finally established,
doctors may have an amazmg new
weapon. By ndministenng properdin
to men and women, they may he ablc
to establish general disease immuni-ties
which/will no longer be dependent
on exposurc to active and often dan-gerous
infections.
Previouslj". it has been . thought
that in order for a person to have
immunity to tubercuIosLs; lor ex-ample,
he must Jiave been repeat-cdly
exposed to the T B baciUi and
parhaps even haveTuffered a mild
attaclc of the disease. This type of
immunity is conferred by the develop-ment
of defensive antlbodiesm the
blood system. The advantages of gam-ing
immunity through a harmless,
non- disease causing agent like pro­perdin
are obvious.
, Plnally, an amazmg new surgical
success can be noted. This accomplish
ment, also reported to the American
College of Surgeons meeting, consist-ed
of the first successful transplant
of a healthy human kidney to replace
a diseased kidney.
Scientists long have sought methods
for surgical replacement of diseased
vltal organs. Up to now they have a l -
ways run Into one major obstacle; The
natural human defenses agamst
disease include the pounng out of
antlbodies in the bloodsjream to
counterattack a germ attacking from
the out.side. Ironically, this: defense
mechanism goes into action when
surgeons attempt to introduce a
transplanted ovgan. The organ is at-tacked
by the antlbodies just as if it
were an Invading germ, and until tnls
successful kidney operation by Har­vard
University surgeons, the antl­bodies
have ahvays "won" by destroy-
Ing the transplanted organ.
The kidney transplant, it should
be noted, was achieved under very
special conditions In that the donor
of the healthy or^an wa3 an identical
twm of the man needing the new kid­ney.
Nevert^eless, the success of one
vltal organ transplant undoubtedly
means that before too long more
generally appliCable techniques will
be develcped, not only for kidney
transplants but for the replacement
of other diseased vital organs such
as the liver and even the heart.
Splitting of viruses, discovery of a
new disease-fightmg agent and a.
successful Vfirst m surgery—three
wldely different achl*evements, taken
together-, make the day when we can
realistically taik of the "conquest of
disease" seem infmitely nearer.
By BOB WABIi
Jason Z <forz:Ilionaire> Porsooth
was a successful tycoon.
And altho* the press referred to the
laet that hLsheadquarters was in
Ihe largest fmancjal centre: in the
country; it could, be said that his
hindquarters v;ere all over the coun-
•try..-.'-,: ,?v.,.';
Tjason Z. was a man of many inter-e.-.
ts. He v/a.s a director of 39 com-panies.
He was chairman.of J;he board
on more boards than tnere ai-e in a
lon? board waliii ^
He also dabbleö in stocks, bonds,
•mortagages, real- citate, and sundry
ofner things.
Everytime there was a big drive.
.to ra'J3e funds for starving orphans
anyv;here m the World (except.Can­ada
i;.or on any Worthy Cause, Jason
Z. was. high on the list of sponsors. It
v.-as said about him that his exception
to Canada.was basedon thefact that
bo felt that no one In.Canada had the
right to be either .slarving or an
orphan.
Ja.son Z. refu.sed. to . sponsor; ju.«;t
one project. He mamtained that the
Community Chest sounded too much
like a Word that made him shudder
and. he proposed that they change
the name to Neignborhood Bosom
and that the symbol be a white, rath-er
than a red feather. .When those
m chaige refused to do this, Jason
Z. showed that this is mdeed a free
land by refusing to sponsor it.
Yes, Jason Z. had his fmger in
more pies tlian a pastry ch«f at: a
large pie making establisliment. OI
iittle talks about Labor needing to ^ the rules — and Labor obeyihg them.
roll up its sleeves and get back. to ; He eulogjzed the institutxons that
work, there were always a flock of re- i reaped m the proflt.,
porters present. And just as natm-ally i Laljor 'he saw as something whjch
all of his speeches found promment j needcd to use its brawn.
places i n aH of the papers m the land. | Yes Jason Z. really laid :t on.
The-papers called Jason -An Auth- I '•Workers should appreciate. all of
ority on Labor Matters/And this was
possibly due to the fact that the firms
he was connected with had tned to
break more strikes than any other
companies any other place in the
v/orld. Also Jason owned the news-papers.
• • •
. Whenever Jason spoke to business-men
the new£paper would have big
headlines which would declare',"For-sooth
Foresees Foreign Forces Fore-doomingPorefathers
Formula."
Jason Z. pounded out his theones
on work, the need for Labor to tise
its brawn, while bosses • used their
brains.
He w'ondered how long Labor could
go on not only wantmg .— but; de-manding
— that Jt eat regularly.
He rhapsodized the idea of the
fairness of Industry making all of
the things we do for them. They must
stop demandmg .thing.%; they mtist
get bacl^ to good — old fashioned
work."
Then one day while Jason:was
making one of his speeches 'about
labor to the; Coupon Clippers Cock­tail
Club a messenger boy came run-ning
to the door with a telegram. The
whrer was speedily dispatched to the
speaker's table.
Jason got out his readmg glasses,
disposing .with the jiair which he
usually used for gesturmg with. He
read the u-ire and famted.
Apparently the wire read "Work-ers
throughout country your plants
ref use to work stop. Have all gone on
stnke stop no work no profits stop
You'd better stop talking, stop. It
sure stopped-him.
DOUBTFLX
A self-made man paid his natjye
village the doubtful honor of a vJSit.
After a call on. ojd friends of his
youth he retumed to the station and
found a crowd waltin& to give h im
a send-off.
' Later, as the traln was- speedmg
towards London, a feliow passenger
spoke to him.
•'It was unfortunate that the train
should have started off while you
v/ere. in the middle of your farewell
speech," he mentioned. •
"Yes", said the man of wealthbit-terly.
^As I heard the cheers of the
crowd fading m the distance I -could
not be sure. whether they were app-lauding
meor the engme-dnver."
¥OUNGEB •
A :HolIywood Star had her photo-graph
taken and fumed at the result
which seemed anything but flattermg.
"I can't understand • it," she said.
"The last tune I posed for-you, the
photograohs were heavenly."
" A h yes," the cameraman sighed,
"but you must remember that I . was
eight years younger then.".
SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF ART
Ohe of the ways i n which science
has, helped art i n the; past has been
the provision of mechanical aids and
equipment.': •
Although theise. liiave, mbstly; been
i n the.nätiare of popular gadgets rath-er
than profound inventionö, ä few
iieyertheless played an impöriaht part
i n niaking art more enjoyable.
The majority of suoh contriyances
course, he was a director of the pie have been optical Instruments desig-making
company too, and /COUld go .ned to help the artist with his draw-
Grey Cup Game
On Saturday
TJext Saturday millions of sports
fans across Canada and a great num­ber
m the USA will be glued to then-
TV sets and .some 35.000 ardent fans
from all over the country will con-vergeupontlie
British Empire Sta-dium
m Vancouver for a first hand
glimpse of the outständing sports
classic of the year — the Grey Cup
game.
This year as last year Montreal and
Edmonton emerged as the winners
of eastern and western leagues and
will be doing their utmost to capture
the coveted trophy.
This is the fu-st year that the Grey
Cup game has been played in Van­couver
and the decision to hold it
there waswarmlyreceivcd.
Another welcome change would be
to . change the present one-game
championship set-up to a two out of
three series.
around any. old time and put his f m ­ger
i n any old pie he chose.
The strange thing about Jason Z .
was tnat despite all of the jobs that
he seemingly had, he never worked.
. New that statement isn't exactly
right coÄ sometimes just to test them-s^
ves. several of the boards .of direc-tors
that he sat on clippcd bond
coupons with? duU scissors. Oftimes
this arduous task would put a callous
on Jason's finger:
Jason Z. used to display those cal-loused
fingers to business men gath-,
ered at. busmessmen's luncheons.
"Hard work," he would say to great
applausö, '.never hurt anyone.";
And the reason everyone at the
luncheoh applauded, it • might be
said, was because none of the people
there had everworked either; •
•'VVhat: this country-needs to get
back to," Jason would say, "is good
old fashioned hard work.'.' And he'd
Epeli it out like that to make the
wcrd sound like hard work;
VVhenever Jason Z. spoke of labor
he ahvays spelt it wit.i a Capital let-ter,
•'Laboiv' he wculd teli his over-fituffcd
listener.s, -.Avants everything.
First thev want toilets-in the plant —
then.they v.*ant'them to flush;" :
' Labor." he wculd go on, "is never
satisfied. Tnev not only want bread;
they want butter.on i t . '
Sometimes ' J-Tson wouM be mov-ed
almost to tears when he spoke of
the demands that Labor was making
And his bu-sinessmcn listeners would
also sned ra"bTlter tear onto the tails
of their S25Rhlrt.^ and: vow. that Labor
nuist be put in its place..
Naturallywiien Jason Z. made his |
mg and perspective, or perhaps to
provide new ways of lookmg at pic-tures.
One of the simplest of such aids
was the Claude glass (named after
the pamter Claude Lorramj, a black
convex lens which gave a miniature
view of the scene confrontmg the
spectatcr and from which color and
detail were largely ehminated. The
resulting simplification proved help-ful
m judgmg the suitability of the
subject. • .
A century or so before Claude wa3
working, however, Leonardo da Vinci
had designed one of the first camera
obscuras as an aid to draughtmanship
and perspective.
This consisted of a lens which
threw a redifced image on paper and
enabled complicated architectural
views to be easily traced. Many en-gravings
exist of the early camera
obscura. Later it developed into a
portable contraption rather Iike a
small tent and was much favored by
the cultivated in the 18th century
when making the Grand Tour of
Europe.
Canaletto and Beliotto, Venetian
topographical artists, are said to have
used such a device, and the British
water colorist Citrin certamly did so
in connection with a senes of archi­tectural
etchings.
A further optical aid was the show
box,, a popular gadget in the L7th and
18th centunes for viewing prints.
There were numerous versions of. this.
Thomas Gainsborough, the landscape
and portrait painter.designed one. in
1785 which IS still in. existence:
It consists of a box w u h a lens
eye-piece. Through this, one looked*.
at Gainsborough's landscapes painted
on glass and lUummated behind by a
row of candles.
Among other mgenious ideas for
helplng the artist was the 17th cen­tury
peripectograph, which worked
out. perspective problems, , and a
mechanical arrangement for the
drawing of profile silhouettes.
But the greatest Scientific discovery
affectmg art, and profoundly far
reaching i n its effect was that of
photography. : .
,When the French government set
up a Commission to decide whether
Daguerre was to be compensated for
his invention leading painters gave
glowing testimony as to the discov-ery's
artistic-value. .
Hostility came largely from the en-gravers
who, naturally enough, saw
the daugerrotype as a serious- threat
to their hvelihood. I n thcspace of 50
years, i n fact, the engraver was • to
be almost entirely superseded by
photography. • ... • "
But the pamters on the whole
received it: warmly. Ingres, Delacroix,
Courbet and Degas were among those
v,'ho made pratical use of it. Degas'
portrait of PrmccHS Metternich, for
example, was painted from an ambro-type,
an early form of photograph.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED
A young midshipman reported to
the commandmg officer of ä battle-ship
for duty. The officer was a gruff
old sailor who had worked his way
up through the years. He sized up the
young man with anything but a
friendly air, and jsaid: "Weil, young
sent the fool of the family to sea." ,
man.I suppose that, r,s usual, they've
."Oh, no, sir." rephed the mid-shipman.
candidly, "they changed all
that since your time, sir;"
NO ROUGII STUFF
Johhny: Mom, I beat a boy up.this
mornmg.
Mon: Thafs ternbie! How did you
come to do such a tbing? .
Johnny: I got.up ,at six, and he
Uniimited Sports
Opportunities Open
To European Youth
Dale Schnee of Vancouver was one
of the young Canadians who went to
Warsaw last summer to attend the
WDrld Youth Festival and later visit-ed
Bulgaria, Bumania, Czechoslovakia
and other European countnes. In a
recent interview m Vancouver Dale
said the t r ip was an eye-opener to
him and he was bubbling over wibh
Stones about the athletic opportum-ties
open to youth i n the People's
Democracies. •.
"They produce good ^ athletes be-,
cause everyone is encouraged to com-pete,"
he said. ",Even men over 40
made a bid for a Festival Sports
Badge at Warsaw; ,To win this badge
an athlete competes agamst a stan­dard
i n various events, and has to
reach the standard m at least three;''
Schnee won his. badge by .beatmg
the standard m the 800 metres dash,
shotput and high jump,
One of his inierescing experiences
was meeting Austraha's great -vvoman
sprinter, Snirley Strickland, on a
Warsaw bus. It happened that Shir­ley
had lost that day to a Soviet
runner. Sc-hnee saw the race from
a distant part of tne stadium, and
didn't recognize the flymg blonde
when ne began^taikmg to her on tne
bus.- . • •' , .
"Too bad about Shirley Stnckland
losing. today," said Dale, opening the
conversation. "I thought if. the
distance had been a few yards more
£he'd have won."
'•May\je, but that Russian girl is
some runner," answeTed the Aussie
brain and he realized who he was
\••.:•:y•:''"^^<l. . . . . . . ..
With the football season almost
over, Jans" and experts .alilse have
been picking the "perfect" teaxr» —
made up i n the chooser'5 opixUon, of
the b^st players in the country.
I n Canada, these dream tearns,
until thte.year. have never left the
pages of the newspaper. Baseball and
hockey haye their all-star games.
but football fans have been forced
to imanJpe .tand argue about) how the
chcsen playexs would perform on the
grldiron. And, sometimes the paylng
public and the sportsvriters don't see
eye tft eye ,on.the selections.
How8ver, this year the f au wiU get
two precedents for the price of one.
For the first time m: Canadian foot-ball,
a genuhie all-star game will be
played between the East and the
West i n Toronto, the week following
the Grey Ctip. And, believe in or not,
the players wiU be chosen by the fans
themselves. .
Sporisored by the shnners (who
work with- crippled children), it is
hop ed the game will become an an-nual
affair. The Idea is to stage it
in the öppösite part of the country.to
the Grey Cup festivities. So, i f the
championship game returns to tihe
East next year, the all-star do w i l l be
played m Vancouver.
At the raoment; only Vancouver,
Montreal and Toronto have stadiums.
•large enough to handle the crowds.
Until other centres enlarge their parks
Cor build hew ones), both games will
Totate between these three cities.
Incidentally, Toronto and Montreal
could do„5vith larger stadiums of at
least 35000' capacity.
But, to get back to the game, Bal-lots
have been distnbuted to all the
iootbair centres i n the country ä nd
the fans have begun to make their
choice:' Because, most of our sports-writers
are, i n effect, press agents
for the pro teams, U.S. players get
ihost 'of the publicity. This means
that the teams chosen will be large­ly
Gompbsed of imports, since the
average fan is mfluenced strongly
by the sport pages;
Even the Toronto Star Weekly,
which . is handUng the. voting and
publicitj foi; the all-star affair, fotmd
talkmg to;--
"Say,;j«c^^^are Shirley Strickland!"
flash.
Then something clicked i n Dale's
: "Weil, yes' I am." respoiided Shir­ley
with a smile. -
As you'airknow. she came back the
next rday:and won two gold medals
and was. the heroine of the meet.
It seems that some stiffnecked
Austrahan 'officials didn't want Shir­ley
strickl^ad to compete at Warsaw,
and even' 'l3ireatened her with- the
loss 8f her amateur card; But she
was determined to go, so she went,
performed bnlliantly, and is now an
almost sure bet for the Aussie's
Olympic team.
CHungary" impressed Schnee as "the
greatest .'^orts country we visited."
'Every Hunganan seems to be i n ­terested
in takmg part in some
sport. • •
' I ' ve made up my mind that I 'm
gomg to §ittend the iWorld Youth
Festival'm=Moscowtwo years from
now" said Schnee. "I hope there will
be a , big Canadian sports delegation
taking part m the World Youth
Games. We'll have to send our finest
athletes if we hope to win any medals,
for belieVe me, those Europeans are
good." • .
Jt aecessary to stipuia
teapt fiJx ©f.the 24 piay<
teana t e Canadians. One
that there are only tv
natjve players wbo can slnce the majority of thi
are on the drtensive squ
X declded to see how n
we have who could mor
tbelr own "vvitbthe higi
from ;below the border. j
it difficult to choose ji
tae 200 o r 60 who play f o
And X d id not even includ
colleglate League. which
a dozen top performers, 1
any player i n Canada, 1
Here, for the first tin
years, is a really all-Canäi
aggregation, composed in
of 24 of the best plaj
country.
•Ends—Simpson, Ottaw
McNicol, Montreal; Neue
ton.
Snapbacks—Black, TC
kowski, Ottowa.
Linemen—Bennet, Macl
Toronto; Bevan and Toi
ton: Morris, Edmonton
Montreal; Rogers, Winnii
Quarterbacks—Getty,
Doucette, Toronto.
Halfbacks^Howell, Fri
soff. Hamilton; Brown ati
Toronto; James, Winnip
Edmonton: Korchak,
Montreal.
Ooaches—Annis Stuku
ver (and a l l points eas
Metros, 'University of Vi
tario.
NOT MUCH UI
Policeman: Madam, dic
me holdmp my hand?.
^ o m a n driver: I did r
Policeman: Didn't yoi
blow my: whist:e?
Woman driver: I did n
iPoliceman: I might ;
home. I'm not doing
here.
' A SLIGHT MIST
Customer: How much i
, -Clerk: Excuse me, n
name is Tom.
• AN APPROPRIATE
First Cowboy: My nan
Second Oowboy: From '
F i r s t CQWboy:iNope, froi
but •vvho wants to be. cal
•WRONG ORDE
' She: Dcn't you thiiik
ging the shore too dose:
'He: What you mean is
ging too close to shore.
T A K E YOUR CH<
Patient: How much do
for puling a tooth? .
• Dentist: Five dollai-s.
Patient? For two seci
Dentist: 'Weil, if you '
puli it out' very slowly.
A SENSIBLE DEDU(
• Visitor: My, what preti
have. Did you get it
mother?"- -
Little G i r l : No, I guess I
my daddy — because his'
RESPECTABLl
"Do you have fits of
a doctor asked a middles
looking woman.
"I certainly don't" cam(
py retort. ' T m a.respecta
womanl"
How Color Television Works
L I V E L Y PARTY
The father was trymg to cheer up
his daughter's rejectedsuitor: "Have •
a drink?" he suggested. 1
"I don*t drink." the young mani
answered gloomily.
"Have a cigar, then?"
" I don't somke."
" W e i l , would you like to turn on
the radio?" the father said des-peratcly.
'
" I hate the radio. I t h i n k l ' d better
be gomg. My sister"s givmg a party,!
and I promised to get back early!
to amuse the guests."
ACCORDI.NG TO INSTRUCTIONS
Father: You sure made a poor job
of paintmg this door.
Son: Weil. you said only yesterday
that it needed paintlng badly.
ARMY LOGIC
Sergeant: "Get off .that bunk,
Jones. You're supposed to be watering
the grass."
Jonej: 'But i f s raming outside.
Sergeant."
got a raincoat.'
Sergeant: ' Thafs no excuse. YouVe
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats, besides being a hockey club in the OHA, are also "one
big happy family" living under one roof in Hamilton. In order to develop a
"family spirit" owner Ken Soble took over a large home and billeted his club
there, Players' hours.meals and study periods — nine are still attending school
— are supervized by a staff of experts who send periodic reports to their parents.
Aboye Bill Binnie, left, Eddie Cook and Gerry Sullivan areshown with "rooter"
Anja Hurme. •
The first color films. which appear-ed
m the thirties opened a new
stage i n fihn technique. As techni-que
was perfected, and. as more at-tention
was paid to the"ar.tistic as-pect,
color gradually began replac-mg
the black and. .white pictures.
Television is now undsrgoing the
same develcpmsnt. Color television-has
been started.
A color Picture ireproduces its sub­ject
more faithfully. It not only
dopicts its shape and brightne-ss,
but also its origmal color. It sup-plies
more Infoiination about the
cubject. This additional Informa­tion
must b» transmitted from the
sendmg sef to the receiver, and
there you have the greatest teohm-cal
difficulty of color television.
The first color television apparatus
\vas constructed almost thirty years
ago. The physiological basis of color
print and photography tdevislon is
very similar. It is identical with the
generally •knowon basis of cclor print
and photographj-. In actual fact, a
colored picture is compcsed of three
partial . p i c t u r e s in yellow-green,
blue and magenta. Their coincidence
and mixmg results i n a pictture whlch
includes all the shades of colctr. Thus,
besides Information on the brightness
of each point required m black and
white T.V., color T.V. must convey
Information as to how many blue,
how many yellow and how many
magenta parts each p>oint on the
picture contains.
The first color T^V. apparatus
transmitted three pictures which the
receiv^r.vJiÄÄe up into one picture.
One color set was the equivalent of
thres ccdmary sets. The great draw-back
here v/as that since each color
picture needed one separate fre-quency
bandT the number of sta-ticns
in a given area would be out
by cne-third.
An important milestone towards
solvmg this problem was the dis­covery
that the human eye cannot
distmguish the color of small details
cleariy. That is why In color tele­vision
it is possible to transmit the
small details i n blaök and *whlle and
use color only for larger areas; It
IS possible to transmit the bladc and
whit2 picture, with three partial
color pictures which contain 'infar-maticn
only about the larger groups
of pouus- or surfacjs, This can help
save 3 .great deal on the number
of wayelengths for transmission.
One of the advantages of this sys­tem
is^ thac* ordinary- monoolu-jne
(black and white) sets can receive
the Picture. These sets conld not
receive other color television bn>ad-casts.
This system was develcped in
the United States by the National
Television Standaa-ds Conunittee and
put mto operation i n December, 1958.
It was not received enthusiastically
by the public. Pecple wanted, to wait
because sets were so expensive and
because the picture on the screen
was small.
In many countries the pictipre tube
has been the most weakly developed
and mosUsKpansIve part of the color
television system. The systems des-cnbed
above had a noru
front of which revclved c
or three picture tubes, eae
repixxiuced a partial p:(
certain primary color; tht
ture was put together wi
of optical prisms, mirrors
But these methods wore
convenient and that is wh:
and purely electronic s:>st
bemg^.soyghl today.
One of the most frequ
constructions has several
phospordots printed on t
shining i n three prunary
special perfora ted screen (
electcon sbream f rem thr(
guns fiö- fhat each pomt i
a certam electron gun ac
the respective color. Tl:
color dots merge at a sirii
<ilstance and create a pictu
shades of color.
In laboratories all over
feverishwork is under w
perfectlon of color telev
Great Britain, two dlfferen
been tested recently, but h
far been started. In 1954;
Union began expenmental
casts iising a receiver TMt
fUter wheels. Scientists
also •»•orking.on a' purely
set.
P r öm the Scientific and
point of view, color televi
ready for the pubUc.
television v e should be abl<
a mcre extensive repertoise
entertainment and educat
grams.