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...businessmen the world over, the products of National Cash Register Co. are as familiar as Coca-Cola. National machines tot up their bills, figure the payrolls, keep charge accounts straight. They are operated by Eskimos in the Arctic Circle, by Fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa; they are packed by llamas in the Andes, by camel cart in Pakistan. And the machines ring up sales in shillings, drachmas, piasters, kroner, yen, francs and even Russian kopecks...
...replace chronic alcoholics." The witnesses also objected that TV advertising plays up the creamy frothiness of beer and ignores its alcoholic content. Dr. J. Raymond Schmidt, of the International Order of Good Templars, expressing fear of the snob appeal of TV, told a pathetic story of "a little tot who says to her mother, 'Why don't you drink such-and-such a beer like the fashionable ladies do?'" Questioning developed that Crusader Schmidt did not have too much firsthand knowledge of the effects of TV on tiny tots: he admitted he has neither...
...this point, a record blared over the loud-speakers, "We're poor little sheep who have lost our way." "Bah," said a little tot...
Spring never promises anything to anybody. As each waif toddles into his throne room--and about 1,000 do so every day--he whines, "Ohhh, here's an old friend of Santa's!" He asks the tot what he wants for Christmas and, after listening attentively to the list, sends him off with a pat on the head and a cheery exhortation to "Be Good!" I felt this was rather ungenerous, and usually prefer to dismiss a child with, "All right! Santa won't forget you at Christmas!" or some such ambiguous statement...
Throughout the remainder of the picture, she takes care of one tot after another, always turning out perfect little ladies and gentlemen of whom she can be justly proud. Eventually they grow up, and reappear in a particularly tear-jerking scene to hand over their own children to her care...