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Parents urged to protest
atomic drills in schools

WHEN Civil Defence Bulletin,
No. 10, headed “Schools,” appear-
€d in the daily press last week,

; Stating that there would be atomic
bomb drills in the schools this
term, I promptly registered my
Protest with Vancouver School
Board, the PTA and urged as
Many friends as I could, to do
likewise,

_ This week I received a reply
from W. J. Straith, provincial
Minister of education, which reads
in part.: “.. . indeed, our pro-
“gram is to remove fear from the
minds of our. children, and to
8ive them some confidence in
_ their ability to take care of them-
Selves in the event of enemy at-
tack. I can reassure you again
that our interest is only interest
in the safety of our own people.”
___No matter what the gentleman |
May desire or intend, similar type
°f drills in the schools in the U.S.
during the past year have result-
ed in panic and confusion, which
together with the daily diet of
‘War-talk and hate-campaign,; has
brought on an hysteria of the
_ Most disastrous type to that na-
tion’s school children. These are
facts, not opinions! I am reply-
ing accordingly.

FOR THOSE more hesitant
Teaders, who think we must be
Careful about such a “touchy”
Problem as balking “prepared-
ness”, let me assure you that our

erican friends for peace have

ken a strong and persistent -

stand against these drills for tite -

; Past year.
There is nothing different about —
_ the situation here. We are not
at war. No one is threatening
to bomb us, We do not intend
to have our children dragged into
he warmakers’ plans of gearing
heir everyday, lives to accept war

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,as an inevitability. And so, we

have no other recourse than to
protect this idea as vigorously
and quickly as possible.

Again, let us learn something >
from our friends who have just
put in a grim year fighting this
very issue. In many Cases, par-
ents have refused to permit their
children to take part in these
drills. This, of course, will be
the policy with regard to the two*
children attending school from
my family.

Y’m confident that our children
will not be isolated by taking
such a position. In speaking to
the many mothers and teachers
that I have in the past week, I
find everywhere the same indigna-
tion. It requires only a policy to
be put forward and the likes of.

ourselves to fight for it.

We have two weeks to deluge

the department of education with
protests of every kind, before the
school term opens. Let them hear
from us, parent and non-parent
alike, and I’m sure the matter
can be “postponed for further
consideration.” It is also a
“touchy” problem for them.
» Let us insist instead, that they
make every classroom a class-
room for peace, by teaching our
children to respect and honor
children of other countries, and
not to be concerned “only in the
In-
deed!

This issue is as close to home
as we can possibly get in our
fight to save peace. I suggest
to readers that they write or
wire immediately to Hon. W. J.
Straith, Minister of Education,
Victoria, B.C. and tell him no-
atomic. bombs anywhere, and no
atomic drills here for our child-
ren!—KAYLA CULHANE.

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What causes inflation?

If the federal government were to spend the $1.8 billion it now spends on arms per year, on
measures for the welfare of the people, inflation could be curbed, and prices reduced. A five-power —
peace conference could bring about such disarmament and would permit Canada to spend its wealth
on pensions, homes, hospitals, health insurance, schools, recreation and community centres and other —
measures, bringing peaceful work for all, and peaceful trade with the world. It is a lie that prosper-
ity can only be achieved in a war economy; prosperity can be immeasurably advanced in peace.

WHAT TO DO ABOUT HIGH PRICES

This Oregon housewife started
something with her compaign

WELL IT’S back to work again
with holidays over for another
year. How quickly two weeks
slip by when one is enjoying life
with the whole family! Those
prowls through the woods mak-
ing friends with a grouse, catch-
ing trout in a rusning, icy stream,
building sand castles 6n the
beach, feeling the salt jspray as
the. little boat heads into the
white caps, watching the young-
sters learning, building and ex-
ploring, all these things together
cam give one such a, relaxed,
happy feeling that it’s hard to
get back to routine again. Holi-
day time does give one a wonder-
ful opportunity though of getting
togethér as a family to do things
together, for the bringing up of
children and watching their de-
velopment can be one of the most

interesting and satisfying occu-

pations.

SPEAKING OF raising normal -
_ children, do you know what to

do when Junior wants his: meals

on the floor?—what to do when
your little angel learns his first

naughty word? — when to let
father get into the act? You'll
find the answers to these and

many other problems in the live-
ly, entertaining new book by

Margaret Halmy, Parents Must
Be Flexible, now on sale at the
People’s Co-op Bookstore ‘for mary
$2.50.

_ This book is a oasis hig: ‘prac-

tical pilose. dork tose whe and

that the purely theoretical ap-
proach doesn’t always work. It
is filled with valuable tricks of
the trade, with warnings about
the haZards of diapers and re-

_latives, There is a very sensible
discussion of discipline and house-

hold rules, and it tells parents

how to stay easy and relaxed

with their youngsters. :
Oné chapter on the rights of

parents has some very good ad-—

vice in it. The author points out

that many parents in their eager-

ness to do exactly what is pres-
cribed for ‘the child lose sight

‘is increasing it’s a good

of each other’s identity and per-
sonality. Everything is consider-
ed in terms of what is best for

the child rather than what is

best for the family. Such an ap-
proach is in fact bad for the
child since it inevitably creates
resentment that you are bound to
let loose ‘sooner or later.

SCHOOL DAYS are just around
the corner once again, and time
to take stock of the children’s

needs. They seem to have grown

another six inches during the
summer months and it looks as
though the budget is going to
take another beating. If you are
intending to have all their shoes

, repaired it will pay you to take

them to Johnson’s Shoe Repair
at 63 W. Cordova St., just around
the corner from Woodwards,
where you will find the work done
very reasonably. The high qual-
ity of materials and workmanship
will make you a steady geek ag hy

AT THE rate the cost of living
idea
to stock up the cupboards with
lots of home made jams, jellies,
preserves and_ pickles. Black-

"berries are plentiful this year if —

you can find the odd empty lot

where they abound. Pickled on-

ions in the store are mighty ex-

pensive at 25 cents the jar, but |

if you buy them now at 19 cents”
a’ pound and pickle them your-

self you will be saving money

right and left. Actually they’re
not so bad to put up, although

the skinning of them, can be an |

eye-watering job if you don’t hold
them under water while doing ‘it.
Ever ‘tried marrow jam? Some.
don’t care for it, but the kids
like it usually and after all they
are the ones who can tuck it
away so quickly. Anyway, if
you can any kind of fruit that
isn’t too expensive, put it up for
the winter. And by the way there

/are lots of blueberries on the.
slopes of Seymour Mountan, but
you’d better hurry as they will

be drying up shortly.—B.G.
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A ONE-WOMAN campaign

-against high prices launched by

Mrs. Ray Evanson of Tigard, a-
small Oregon community, has at-
tracted national attention.

Mrs. Evanson’s plan is simple
but effective. @ach month, with
the help of others there is select-
ed a staple food or an essential
article, which -will be boycotted
during that period.

Here’s how the campaign got
started. Mrs. Evanson wrote let-
ters outlining her plan to 90 news-
papers in every state in the U.S.
Only five of them’ published her
letter. But it was enough to get
the boycott ball rolling.

Mrs,. Evanson asked interested
consuMers to send in suggestions
of articles to be boycotted for a
30-day period, along with a self-
addressed postal card. From these

suggestions the article to be boy-

cotted is picked and notice sent
on the postal cards. ® :

The boycott campaign really
got into high gear when the cam-

_ paign was reported by Frank Ed-

wards, official AFL commentator,
on his July 24 broadcast. The
_ flood of mail was so great that

Mrs. Evanson appealed to James.
T. Marr, executive secretary ea

_the Oregon State Federation of
Labor. :

Marr called in reporters for the
labor press. Mrs. Evanson re-
ported that she and her husband
correspondence and
“that a friend contributes the
mimeographing. ‘She emphasized
that the campaign is limited to
one objective—getting consumers

to conduct their boycott in an

organized and concentrated fash-
ion.

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