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Thyrsday, April 16, 1958,

Former CBC Artist Speaks
In Defence Of Canadian Radio

“The most abused Canadian institution” -- the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation -- received nothing but praise from
a former employee when Mrs. Ken McKenzie spoke Monday

A veteran of 10 y before the |
CBC microphones, including the role, NOT EDUCATING
of ‘Mary’ in the
McKenzie drew
ences with the
her presentation
argument.

Carson Family, Mrs.! Two of the common eriticisms of
on her own experi-| the corporation is that it ‘controls’
network to bolster|the air and attempts to educate the
of an already strong | Canadian listener instead of enter-
taining him. Both of these charges
were refuted
claimed that the public network and
private stations were not in opposi-
tion to each other. To show that pri-
vate stations actually benefitted
from the CBC, Mrs. McKenzie said
that the corporation uses 90 private
stations to assist
grams to all parts of Canada. Entire

Tracing the history of the corpor-
ation since its inception, the speak-
er told the club that in 1929 radio
in Canada y in the hands of pri-
vate enterprise and that radio here
was only acting as an outlet for
United States programs. The people
then started to demand that some-
thing be done about radio in Canada
and the result was the CBC>a public
corporation operated by a board of
governors controlled by a parlia-
mentary committee and criticized by
its Canadian listeners far more than,
it should be.

| the corporation.

On the far more controversial
issue of ‘educating’ the listener, Mrs.

Was not interested in education, but

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in broadening your entertainment
outlet.
Being a public corporation the

CBC tried to bring to the Canadian
airways programs that are varied
enough that every person who pays
his $2.50 license would be able to
find at some time on the air the
type of radio fare that appealed to
his personal taste.

To do this, as the speaker ex-
plamed, the Corporation was beam-
ing programs that are as diversified
as the customs and interests of the
15% million people scattered from
one shore of the continent to the
other and embracing many races
and at least two official languages:

CANADIAN TALENT

And to bring these programs to
the listener, the CBC is using home-
frown talent as much as possible in

production and presentation. Of the

reseesoen

--- WITH IRENE

Having a baby can be quite an,
experience in more ways than the |
obvious one: You learn a lot of
things that you never knew before,
and you acquire a topic of conver-
sation that is good for many fas-
einating hours on your part — and
hours of boredom on the part of
your unwilling listeners.

Before we became the proud par-
ents of Elaine, -my knowledge of
babies was decidedly sketchy, if not
absolutely nil. There have been no
babies in my immediate family for
quite a number of years now, and

although I have innumerable cou-
sins who have had innumerable
babies, I never seem to have got

within changing distance.

I am constantly amazed at the
calm matter-of-factness of the young
girls — and boys! — who take on
the job of baby-sitting. The fact that
the baby might wake and scream
does not seem to faze them, and they
are old hands at changing diapers.

Baby-sitting was an unheard-of
thing, I know, in my Mother's day
tor 1 can remember her telling us of
going to dances and parking us kids
in the anteroom or cloakroom wheré
we slept blissfully through the
pounding of the orchestra and the
shouts of the revelers. But I think

the baby-sitting profession must
have been in its infancy at least
when I reached by teens. Fortun-

ately I was never asked to act in that
capacity. 2

Much as I hate to admit it, I
think I changed my first diapers on
the day I brought Elaine home from
the hospital.

I have always watched with
amazement people who gooed and
gushed over small babfes,
claimed over their cuteness.
all look alike to me, and far from
being cute, seemed to.bear a slight
resemblance to apes. My vocabulary
in. talking to small babies was de-
cidedly limited and usually consist-
ed of forcing a somewhat glazed
smile and saying politely “how are
you today?” Naturally I usually re-
ceive a protracted stare in return
instead of a delighted baby chuckle.

Occasionally fond mothers have
magnanimously -offered to let me
hold their offspring, much to my
dismay. for I felt my awkward man-
euvers to get the baby in a comfort-
able“position would be the occasion

1000 scripts used by the CBC last
year, Mrs. McKenzie stated, 900
were either written or adapted for
radio by Canadian writers.

Oddly enough, these products
from the pen of Canadian authors
are more appreciated by Americans
than the Canadian listeners. To dem-
onstrate this fact, the speaker gave
the experience of Canadian writer
Esse Ljungh in preparing a series of
scripts last year dealing with Can-
adian customs and folklore. When
the series was completed Mr. Ljungh
received 16 letters from Canadian
listeners, all critical. But from New
York City alone 2000 people took
time out to write the author — and
only one of them struck a critical
note.

“The CBC has done more to de-
velop Canadian talent than any
other single organization,” Mrs. Mc-
Kenzie stated.

That it has led in another less
publicized way too was outlined by
the speaker who said the Corpora-
tion had always been known as a
fair employer to artists and techni-
cians. When the Artists’ Union first
organized they took as their scale of
rates and conditions of work those
that were standard with the CBC.

Although Mrs, McKenzie admitted
that much of the growth of the cor-
poration could be traced to the free
(and plentiful) criticism levelled at
it by the public, she said it was time
that Canadians realized their own
radio network had attained the
highest possible respect in world
entertainment circles.

“This record of achievement of
the Canadian Broadcasting Copora-
lion is something of which we, as

Canadians, should be proud,’’ she
concluded.
Mrs. MeKenize was introduced to

the meeting by Dr. Larry Avery and
thanked by Walter Nisbet.

of much indulgent laughter from
the more experienced masses. To

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and eight months and walk between
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water and sugar which usually can |
be whipped up in a few minutes if
Tushed. And shucks, there’s nothing
to, changing a diaper!

What a wealth of knowledge to
obtain in six months. But did I hear
someone say — “Sister, you don’t
know the half of it; you've got a

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have had to change a diaper would
have floored me completely.

BY. (before Elaine) I thought
the all-important “formula” was
some mysterious potent brew made
up of a dozen different ingredients
which took hours to prepare. I knew
that colic and croup were baby ail-
ments, but I had only the vaguest
idea as to what they were.

If a proud parent told me that
the baby had cut his first tooth at
three months and walked at six
months, I would have taken my cue
from their attitude and remarked
in an amazed voice “‘Isn’t that won-
derful?” — but mentally I would
be saying “So What?”.

But time can wreak a lot of chang-
es. Now when the talk veers round
to bed-wetting and teething rashes,
I listen with interest and oceasion-
ally intersperse the odd intelligent
remark (they usually can’t shut me
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