i } ' : Page 2, The Herald, Friday, July 9. 1942 ‘ Py * ? FA 7 i Pete ren prrernener tee, é 4 g b- ms a we este ane oe te D.awhs, ; fF Faia PHOT oe , Terrace: 7 “ . i . aN sede Ea th oe PDR DONTE a l ACh ally AT) { : ald *Yerrace;: B.C. “by. Sterling: ‘Publishers’ Ltd, : Author ized as second cpa aoe technologi " muich as we milght lke lo stop some ofthese changes we will . tg, create. new shopping habits to continue: 1 be e u Yo} ‘change - Out lives | uy sengumerd are changing dramatically a change. invades our shipping territory. As- ‘have. Fedponsible and aware consumers in-futute. ou've probably noticed a small pattern of tines, Ward ind | bers appearing on grocery and personal products when ouldo your sheppiag. This Universal Product Code (Ure) jap been introduced’ by the-grocery trades to make it” “ possible for the retail stores to computerize the ‘eho out” pracens. °- . The! UPC has several advatitages of importance ta rt | -ptores. | An putomatic dally record of gale streamlines in- ventory keeping.. By reduction of Jabor cost and human ‘error the stores have a great cost benefit. With knowledge m6 fuctuating consumer'demand, stock. can be kept at an -: ever level, keeping inventories low. In.the view, of the ° grocery trade, theae features should be cost saving i the _ Jong run for consumers. — Many people feel that they should be able to ‘read’ the: gade and that if they had the key one could find out such. ' details as freshness (pack date) and price. Unfortgnately “ the world’s greatest human sleuth could, not find. these + things from the'code.. In fact the code can-cnly.t * calling up of information fram the computer memory. ; ‘ of processing. {8 not included in the UPC but appears ~ asewhere in many different forms on the package or can. _..Ag an example; if the code illustrated-here was passed " over.a scanner the computer would, in seconds be able to ir the Date produce much information triggered by the pattern of hars ~and lines, The firet section would cause the computer to note the manufacturer while the last half of the pattern + sympolizes the type and size of the product, With this in- . formation the computer can consult the listing of prices to : find the current price for this item. : ‘As youcan see the store no longer needs to have prices on - individual items; in fact the manager can update the prices - when nécessary, This is felt by some to threaten the con- siimer's ability to maintain price awareness. Only through a change in shopping habite will consumers beable to track of prices: Two possibilities are: the use of ag pencil (most.storés have them) to mark individual items or. the use of a ‘small shopping notebook in which key prices - could be noted-for comparison. The provirclal, government has published | some guidelines in response to collective action taken by con- cerned consumers, Since consumers have expressed a preference for individually priced goods, the guidelines staté that two-thirds of the grocery stores in B.C. must continue pricing each‘item. Consumers do have power in the marketplace. We musi develop new habits and join with others to express our, concerns in order to make-the . marketplace changes work to our advantage. — ‘Babies bright __ VANCOUVER (CP) — ‘Every baby has the pent to beconie a genius, says Tom Tindall. - - He believes that if infants are atimulated at the right time -with the right materials by enthusiastic parents, they have the potential to outdo Leonardo da Vinci. ‘Findall, national director of the Better Baby Educa on “Course, bases his belléfs on work Glenn Doman has th brain-da acini ia anna aay ie Human children whose brains were pin before, during oa birth to read and function as well as children whose rains were not injured. This. lead him to question the reasons why ‘normal children were not reading by the age of three as some of his Down's Syndrome and hydrocephalic babies were... . , Today,.Doman runs a course in Philadelphia for | parents which teaches them how the brain grows in the ‘first ‘six, years of life and the stages it goes ‘through aa it: develops’ visual, auditory. t tactile. manual, mobility and language skits. Tindall videotaped Doman’ '8 COUFse and runs itin fiveday sessions around the United States, He will present it forthe . ‘first time in Canada this month In. Vancouver. - Achild moves through seven areas until at sin ix years old, ‘it neurologically. functions as ‘an adult, he says. . ” itis not a question of parenté pushing or 1 teaching a child, but rather recognizing stages of: readiness and having the appropriate responses - available when a child wants’ to learn. - . na . “And babies want to learn.” ‘ Teachers who complain that parents are pushing. babies at this age haye never tried to get a two-year-old. to ‘do. . something he doesn’t want to. do, Tindall says, . He became interested in Doman’ s, theories three years ; ‘ago when his son Christopher was born. He took the course — - in Log Angeles and says the program is working incredibly well. with his son.. “The three-year-old speed reads, jogs, awwims.. dives’ is learning different languages,- understands mathematical concepts and is able to do some math work in his head. “The level of bonding belween us developed go quickly. _ Within three months he was sshowing, me.he was ready to. a learn.’ | tes either two | guys carrying a canoe Or a feng horse ‘wearing aniealiors.” ays