Home “ Women’s Activities “ Family WOMEN IN POLITICS Anna Pauker world’s first. woman foreign minister By HARRY FAINARU Editor of Romanul America New Romania has given the world its first woman foreign minister—Anna Pauker, one of the most distinguish- ed personalities of modern times. S: She was born 53 years ago, the daughter of a rabbi in Bucharest, became a school teacher, and in 1918 — when she was 24—was sent to prison for the first time, for leading a workers’ demonstration. Her “baptism of fire” in the struggles for peace occurred dur- ing this time. She marks the date because it was. her birth- day—December 13, 1918. In that demonstration she first encount- ered the brutality of the Roman- ian police, the hated Sigurantza. She saw 100 workers shot down cold-bloodedly, some 200 others wounded, and many hundreds ar- rested. She herself barely es- caped death. : In 1922 she became a member of the central committee of the recently founded Romanian Com- munist Party, and when the party was declared illegal in 1924 she was arrested and sentenced to 20 years’ penal servitude. As a result of mass protests, however, she was freed, and promptly returned to the people’s struggles, munist Party underground, or- ganizing anti-fascist committees all over the country. For a long time the authorities sought her in vain, sentencing her in absentia. They did arrest her again in 1935. Whiat’s more, the security police tried to kill her in a faked jail break. She was wound- ed twice, and one of the bullets is still lodged in her leg. She was finally brought to trial, and condemned to 10 years’ im- prisonment and she remained in jail till 1941, when the Soviet government arranged her ex- : change. During her years in exile in the Soviet Union, Anna was deter- mined to win over the hundreds of thousands of Romanian sol- '_diers and officers in Russian prisoner-of-war camps to a demo- cratic army that would fight be- side the Red Army for libera- sn nL) SALLY BOWES Let Me Solve Your INCOME TAX PROBLEMS Room 20 — 9 East Hastings MAr. 9965 - vee | ; (SEGRE DT ee ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Vancouver working for the Com-| ; tion of Romania from the Nazi and quisling yoke. Two divisions were formed — the beginning.of the first demo- cratic army of Romania. With the liberation of her country, she plunged into hard work, organizing the great Fed- eration of Democratic Women of Romania, helping to build the Communist Party and to make Romania a new type of democ- racy, a country which fosters brotherhood among its’ various peoples and friendship with the other peace-loving nations of the world. i Spurns Hollywood Britain’s latest and most beau- tiful -film discovery, Christine . Norden, says she’s staying out of Hollywood. From her pose, it’s evident that Hollywood can teach her nothing about glamor, anyway. Vancouver Office 501 Holden Building 16 East Hastings Street MArine 5746 STANTON & MUNRO -BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES — Nanaimo Office Room 2, Palace Building Skinner Street 1780 ee 501 Granville FINE CUSTOM TAILORING For Ladies and Gentlemen CONSTANTINE Stes PAc. 1452 FOODS New process ends spoilage By DYSON CARTER Electrons, the smallest things in the world, are beginning to worry some of our biggest finan- ciers. They are being used to produce a new kind of lightning- flash. This flash lasts only a millionth of a second. But it brings about some amazing changes in foodstuffs. Scientists call the treatment “electronizing.” A bottle of milk, straight from the cow, can be electronized so that it will keep fresh and sweet for weeks. With- out being pasteurized. At room temperature, without a refrigera- tor! The story began in depression days. Then Dr. Arno’ Brasch worked at the University of Ber- lin. He developed what is called the capracitron. When the Nazis forced him to flee, Dr. Brasch packed up his essential equip- ment and went to Holland. Later he came to America. Not until 1945 did he get fi- nancial backing for his idea. He was helped by Davidson, a city commissioner under La Guardia, and by Donald Nelson, then head of the WPB. Large sums of money were spent on a labora- tory. Early this year the remark- able capacitron was demonstrat- ed. * * * Perishable foods go bad _ for two reasons. First, they contain bacteria that quickly start break- ing down the food. Thus milk goes sour. Second, they contain natural enzymes, chemicals that bring about gradual decomposi- tion even if the quick-acting bac- teria have been killed. Thus germ-free fruit. gets “over-ripe.”’ Bio-chemists had long sought for some way to control both the bacteria and the enzymes, with the aim of preserving foods in- definitely. \ Now it is possible to shoot the electronizing beam on fresh meat, for just a millionth of a second, and have that meat stay fresh and flavorsome for many weeks. Raw milk can be pasteur- ized and preserved in a flash. So can butter and eggs and many vegetables. Electronized —_ foods, placed in hot rooms where they would quickly spoil, go for weeks without any sign or taste of spoilage, Dr. Brasch and his backers are now working on mass-production methods. To electronize food on a mass scale, they say, will cost around one-tenth cent per pound. If the process works on a commercial scale, the huge milk industry will be radically changed. So will the giant meat-packing plants. Costly cold-storage facili- ties will become useless. There will be little need for home re- frigerators, either. A multi-million dollar industry would become ob- solete. For the first time in history, the world has a way to preserve valuable foods in the fresh, raw state, at very low cost. This is revolutionary, and could be of im- mense value to humanity. But if Dr. Brasch’s discovery threatens to destroy capital by the billions then it will be suppressed by our finance-capitalists. We will hear no more of it for many years. Preserving profits is much more important to the monopo- lists than preserving food! ALWAYS MEET AT Excellent Acoustics _ THE PENDER AUDITORIUM - Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS ‘Triple Mike P.A. System — Wired for Broadcasting 339 West Pender Street 4 Castle Jewelers Watchmaker, Jewellers Next to Castle Hotel 152 Granville MA, 8711 A. Smith, Mgr. _ FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948 In the Roosevelt tradition In British Columbia, where most people still cut their own Christmas trees, the price this Christmas ranged from one to two dollars, But in New York some dealers were selling 15-foot trees as high as $35 each. Elliott Roosevelt and his wife (above) opened a retail lot at Poughkeepsie, NOY, to sell trees, planted by Franklin D. Roosevelt as seedlings on his Hyde Park estate many years ago, at one dollar each. In one day they sold 500 trees. Elliott Rooseveit said he wanted to Christmas trees dealers.” “make Christians out of SOMETIMES, scanning the papers, you’ll come across a couple of news items which, when they are placed side by side, tell their own revealing story. I came across two such items this week, although in this case the daily paper item was more of a rubber stamp putting “confirmed” on an expose published by the Canadian Tribune recently. First, this is the story Helen Wasser wrote for the Canadian Tribune, charging that thousands of cases of eggs destined for Brit- ain were dumped in Toronto in order to maintain the prices “we have to pay in Canada. ~ She said: f “I have eaten some of the eggs. The eggs that were dumped by the thousands in the Boultbee Avenue dump and declared unfit for. human consumption by the executive director of the Federal Cold Storage and Warehousing Company Ltd., G. A. Schell, from whence they came. “Schell after first denying know- ledge of the affair, then said the eggs were ‘rejects, unfit for food,’ from 20,000 cases held in cold storage in his plant, and destined for shipment to Britain. The eggs were stamped with the word Canada. Many housewives claim they have bought eggs so marked, which indicates not all eggs mark- ed Canada end up as export pro- ducts. 4 “Arthur F. Curran, inspector of poultry products for Ontario, said that government inspectors had classified the ‘rejects’ as unfit for human or export consumption. Such rejected items usually go to the incinerator. The fact that the eggs were disposed of in a dump seems to be a point of much con- fusion. The finger is pointed at the driver of the truck who un- loaded the eggs ‘without author- ity’.” “So at least a dozen citizens of who I know, including myself, must be wrong. We don’t know a good egg when we taste one. The eggs, picked by neighboring resi- dents, and the ones gathered by myself, were not ‘individually se- lected from bad ones,’ as city hall officials theorized’ Any eggs within reach that were not crack- ed or broken from the dumping were picked up and taken home. There has not been one bad one reported consumed,” And this is the unwitting post- script added by an Ottawa dispatch to the Vancouver Sun this week: “Canadian housewives will get an idea of what theyll have to pay in future for bacon, beef, cheese and eggs, with the forth- coming announcement of the United Kingdom food contracts with Canada. “It is expected that what the British will have to pay will af- fect Canadian prices. “Here’s an easy way to figure out what the various increases in food costs does to the cost of living. “Cost of living index in Canada at November 1, was 143.6. “For every cent per pound in- crease in pork products, including bacon, add .18 to the cost of living index. All it is necessary to do is to multiply the .13 by the number of cents a pound that the pork products rise and add that to the last cost of living index. “When eggs rise a cent a dozen, add .06 to the index and if cheese goes up a cent a pound, add .03 to the index.” Some one, you get the impres- sion, is engaged in some particu- larly flagrant profiteering—and it’s not the poultry farmer. He’s got all he can do to make ends meet since the government ended feed grain subsidies.—B.G. EAST END TAXI UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 © Fully 24-Hour Insured Service 613 East Hastings, Vancouver PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 7 in dozens which were ©