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Every year, in the Soviet Union, seme 30,000,000 wage earners
80 on paid vacatons for two weeks to ‘two months, dependng
On the nature of their work. And here a father and son spend

their holiday fishing on the Volga River.

wouldn’t be?

Envious? Who

_ SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW women manage to
Ting up a family of 12 or 13 children, especially in these

days of high living costs, for

what the government gives

In ‘family allowances is thrice taken away—once by the
§0vernment in sales tax and twice by big business in

Profiteering and inflated prices.

T am now looking after a four-
year-old girl during the day when
her mother goes to work to help
her husband realize their dream
of “a place of our own some day.”

Th My ignorance I didn’t think

there would be much more work
to looking after three children
than to my own two as they ©
Would be at play school all morn-
ing and after lunch they have a
Sleep, leaving only two or three
hours of actual care. But I hadn’t
reckoned with all the psycho-
logical problems that introduction
°f the new little girl produced.
Katy, age five, gave the new-
Comer a quick once-over and was
horrified to find that a mere four-
year-old was as tal] as she, And
to top it all, she could bounce a
ball much better than she could.
Moreover, the day boarder was
totally unfamiliar with our house-
hold routine and thought I was a
tyrant to make her rest after
lunch. The first day she wept
Crocodile tears for ten minutes

before going to sleep but since

then she has taken it as a matter
of Course, and sleeps longer than
either of my two. She also had to
learn the hard way that when I

‘Said something I meant it, so

that the second day she had only
half her lunch because “if we
Can’t behave at the table we have
to leave.”

No doubt all the terrible jeal-
Cusies and strong feelings of POS-

Sessiveness will die down, but for

last week I haven't been able
© give one a crumb more cake
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than the other or let one do some
dusting without the other having
to help too.

Things wouldn’t be quite so bad
but. I also took over a one-year-
old boy for a week, Little John
was, quite put out about this as
up to now. he’s been the baby in
the family. Now someone else was
getting most of my attention, and

‘worse than that, using his high

chair, baby carriage and play pen.
I was besieged with requests for

“dink a watta” and “pants up” as

the case might be. Little bumps
and falls once ignored now be-
came situations guaranteei to
preduce tears.

You can cope with squabbles
and tears, but what pained me
most was having my washing ma-
chine break down in the middle
of a big wash. I finally had to re-
sort to using the U-Wash service
(10 pounds for 35 cents) which is.

cheaper than sending things to a

laundry.

At least I won't have to worry
about all the infants when we go
to the United Labor Picnic on
August 1. Supervised care is
again going to be provided during
the day, so I can relax for once
and have a good chin-wag with
all the other mothers whom I see
but once or twice a year, as they
too are up against similar diffi-
culties. Maybe we'll get our heads
together and try to extend this
very important business of super-

vised care for the children to take

in a few other events during the
year.—B.G.

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STOWAWAY BOYS SENT BACK TO SPAIN

~ Offers of city homes ignored

“INASMUCH AS YE did it not
unto one of the least of these my
brethren ye did it not unto me.”

These old familiar. words heard
so often in my childhood kept
ringing in my ears as we turned
‘back from watching the SS Gen-
eral Guison pull away from Bal-
lantyne Pier this week.

Standing at the ship's rail, the
tragic figures cf two little Span-
ish stowaways from Teneriffe
waved uncertainly at intervals, as
she drew away. They were going
back to Teneriffe—and to what?

We had gone aboard the big
Swiss freighter ,to see the boys
just one hour before she was to
sail and one of the crew had tak-
en us forward and unlocked the
little prison in the ship’s bow
where the boys were held to pre-
vent a last-minute dash for free-
dom while in port.

We asked them, “Do you work
in Teneriffe?”
“No, we

_ docks.”

“Have you no families?”

“No!” Mario explains. that he
has a sister somewhere in Cuba,
but he isn't able to write to her.
Jose knows of no relations any-
where,

“Have you no home?”

eNO. ee ~

“Then where do you live?”

“On the docks.”

“In a house?”

. “No! just on the docks.”
* * *

SEVERAL PEOPLE in Van-
couver were willing and anxious
to adopt the two orphans to save
them from going back to this
vagabond and hopeless life, to
give them a chance to learn and
live like civilized human beings
and at no cost to the government
whatsoever,. but. the Canadian
government could find no place

_for them in this great half-peopled

Jand. Instead, immigration offi-
cials contended that the two stow-
away boys could not be admitted
because they arrived on a Swiss
-vessel and technically were the
responsibility of the Swiss gov-
ernment, according to the Veter-
ans of the Mackenzie-Papineau
Battalion here whose members in-
terested themselves in the boys’
plight.

When immigration officials re-

stay around the

-

fused to allow the boys to remain
here, the veterans of the Mac-
Kenzie-Papineau Battalion pre-
sented each of the boys with a
new outfit of clothes and took

‘eandies and other gifts down to

the ship for them.
* * *

AS A RESULT of this ruling a
great many Vancouver citizens
must be asking themselves how
the government attempts to jus-
tify a policy that encourages fas-
cists to come to this country and
celcses the door to homeless chil-
dren who could grow in a new
land and become fine citizens,

CHILD CARE

Crimes such as this make a
mockery of schemes like the
“Save the Children Fund” and
other appeals to help the starving
People of the world which the
government so unctuously recom-
mends to the people as worthy
objects of their charity.

Ner can the people themselves:
evade a share of responsibility
for such crimes committed in
their name, however bitterly cer-
tain individuals may protest them,
so long as they tolerate the gov-
ernmental policies that ‘enable
them to be committed—DOLCE
SMITH.

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Those summer outings

THIS 4S THE SEASON for family outings, outings
which turn out highly successful, or end in that “I’ll never
take those kids again” exasperation. ae

A lot of irritation and annoyance would be overcomey

if parents would recognize a
- mind while planning such trips.

Young children have not yet
learned to take in their stride
the kind of outings and entertain-
ment adults can. Since they are
simply unable to sit quietly for
any length of time, they find the
long periods of “must sit still” on
trains or boats or in the automo-
bile, very trying and exhausting.
Crowds, noise, color and exeess-
ive movement, such as many peo-
ple milling on a beach, tend to be
too stimulating for most child-
ren, and may even be frightening
for the tiny cnes. Imagine the
reaction of a four-year-old to a
Pushing crowd boarding a boat
or train, when his idea of a “good
time” is ‘a ride’ to watch cows
grazing. 5 ;

Naturally as the child grows
older, his ability to take these
things grows too, but it is a slow
process and he cannot have adult
capacity -or understanding until
he is an adult.

The parent that keeps this in
mind will know that the child's

‘reaction will show up in his be-

havior, Overstimulated, he be-
comes boisterous and silly, he
may whine and nag, and doesn’t

UNITED LABOR PICNIC -

Nursery to be set up

Momma and poppa love their little toddler or. toddlers
as the case may be but some time——just once—they would
like to go out and be free to give themselves completely to
having a whale of a good time without having to carry,
change and watch the little darlings. ,

Daily Province
Unfair to babies

Is the Vancouver Daily Prov-
ince so hard pressed in its cir-

culation battle that it’s trying to

enlist the support of new babies
in the hope that they haven't.
learned it’s a scab paper?
Recently, in a local maternity
hospital, Mrs. Greta Nelson re-
ceived a card congratulating her
on the birth of her baby. The
card read:
“May the dear little baby who
has come your way, ,
And gladness unmeasured to
each passing day.” .
—The Vancouver Daily Prov-
ince.

This touching greeting was

. promptly returned to where it

came from with the following at-

‘tached:
“My baby

Province an unfair paper.”

li

years old.

considers the Daily

They'll have their chance to do
just that at the United Labor
Picnic in Confederation Park Au-
gust 1. Caroline McFarlane, pic-
nic convener, announces there’ll
be a nursery there where the
children can be left under compe-
tent care for a nominal fee.

There'll be baby-sitters for the
babies, and supervisors for the
toddlers and kiddies up to ten
There'll be sandlots
and toys, tables with cutouts and'
crayons and picture books and
drawing books -and games and
everything needed to fascinate the
youngsters. ware

Around the rest of the picnic
grounds there'll be plenty for the
growing generation’ to do—such
items as kiddies’ races, straight

‘ and novelty; games for kiddies,

and candy. :

This is designed to be a family
‘picnic, and the committee has
planned to let both the kids and
the folks have a good time they'll
long remember,

.

few facts and keep them in
really seem to know. what he
wants. Overtired, he becomes
cranky, falls down constantly,
throws things, strays away, and
so cn.

At the first sign of these re-
actions, parents should be on hand
to help with a book, quiet Play,
.or even a walk to some quiet spot
for a story. Soothing and relax-
ing a child is much easier on
ێveryone than shoving him off
to “play with the children”, and
so intensify the situation. It’s
easier on mother too. It is hard
to be annoyed with a child when
you. know his crankiness is caus-
ed by fatigue, rather than the de-
sire to plague.

Remember to tell the child
-everything you can about a com-
ing ». He will be a lot more
cc} le if he knows what to
expect. Just because the five-
year-old repeats “fishing trip”

with the same ecstasy his father
does, doesn’t mean he knows what _
it's about, and it would be ex- —
tremely disconcerting to find he
refuses to get into the boat be-
cause he had no idea a boat was
involved—VERA MORRIS.

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