Women’s news

and viewpoint Celebrations begin

By RUTH DOHERTY

This column, which normally
appears on page 10 every second
week, alternating with the Vancou-
ver Island column, appears on this
Page because the PT did not publish
last week. We received both columns
for pubjucation this week. These
columns will resume their regular
Schedule in the new year.

As the old year ends and anew
One comes to take its place we
Can look forward to additional
thousands of words being written
Concerning women and their place
in society—whether she should
Work outside the home or whether
She can best serve by taking care
of her husband and children. One
Point on which all agree is that
her role is service.

In the past week or two much
has been published to prove that
the woman who stays at home has
a ball, While her doting spouse
80es out each day into the cruel
World she can take her ease and
Spend her time in the beauty
Parlor, bowling alley or with her

Neighbors over coffee,

We are also told that the wife

and mother finds this not only

rewarding, but challenging and
Stimulating, in which case we are
not going to raise any objections
to her continuing in this way in
the future, although she’d have
trouble getting an appointment
if all the married hairdressers
decided to join her,

However, through conversa-
tions overheard on buses, chats
with clerks and waitresses or
young women at the employment

Office, we have come to the con-

Clusion thaf there is a sizeable
group who, from either choiceor

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necessity, do go out to work, Be-
cause society, which employs
them, has made little ormo pro-
vision for child care, worry con-
cerning her childrenis frequently
added to the physical burden of
job and housework,

Dr, Helen Heffernan, a noted
authority on education, is quoted
as saying in Vancouver recently,
“J would mortgage my house to
let my child go to nursery school
in preference to college, A child’s
pre-school years are the most
vital formulating years of his
life,” It would therefore appear

that all mothers, whether they

work or not, should be interested
in seeing more nursery schools
and kindergartens established,

Peeks ok

It is hoped that in 1965 plans
for national pensions and medi-
care will be implemented. If we
want a really comprehensive
medical care program for all
Canadians, we will have to putup
a fight for it,

In B.C, the Social Credit
League has called on Government
to institute a partial plan, and

other powerful interests would

like to see an insurance scheme
which would leave the insurance
companies and medical interests
in control, ;

What every mother needs for
herself and her family is an in-
tegrated plan to include hospitals,
ambulance service, nursing
homes, housing for the aged, with
special attention to health serv-
ices in the schools,

The question of how the Canada
Pension Act will affect the Cana-
dian woman, either in the home

or employed part or full time,.

should also have our considera-
tion, Will she be considered a
person in her own right or an
appendage of her husband?

So let the women who work and
the ones who stay home ignore
those who would keep us subdued
and conscience stricken whatever
we do, and get together to let it
be known what we want from
society for ‘ourselves and our
children,

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By now you are no doubt aware
that 1965 is a very special year in
the life of the Pacific Tribune; if
marks the 30th anniversary of the
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weeks ahead you will read about
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to celebrate this historic occasion, in-
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To get this festive year off on the
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Between now and the opening of
our Spring Financial Drive, this is the
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It’s the opening gun in our 30th
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Congo mercenary hares fascist fangs

By ART SHIELDS

MOSCOW—One of Tshombe’s
white mercenaries told a West
German writer why he came to
the Congo,

“I come from South Africa,
where the only good n----r for
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“come here to see that there are

more good n----- s,” This fascist

‘brute was quoted by Gerd Heide-

mann, correspondent, in West
Germany’s “Stern Magazine.”

The conversation took place in
an open American car in front of
the Stanley Hotel in Stanleyville,
Another South African mercenary
and four Cuban counter-revolu-
tionary fliers were also in the
car.

Heidemann saw the six loot a
house, Then on the outskirts of
the airfield he saw four Negroes
coming from the forest, wearing
white handkerchiefs on their
heads to show they did not belong
to the patriotic forces or
“rebels,”

The four Negroes were stopped,
however, by four Tshombe sol-
diers, and beaten until “their
faces turned into abloody mess,”
wrote Heidemann. Then a burst
from a machinegun killed them,

South African white mercenary to
interfere, he got the answer
quoted at the beginning of this
account,

“The Cuban mercenaries are
flying American planes, They are
training for an attack on Cuba,”
a German mechanic told Heide-
mann, “They told us themselves,”

These pilots get $2,000 a month
plus $80 an hour flying time,
This comes from Tshombe’s
“foreign aid” allowance,

These planes are serviced by
West German technicians, * Along
with British and American spe-
cialists they work for afirm with
the mysterious name of Wigmo,
whose head office is supposed to
be in Lichtenstein,” wrote Heide-
mann, “They draw monthly wages
of 2,000 marks, plus 400 marks
weekly for ‘dangerous work,’ ”

Dead bodies and bullet-riddled
cars clutter Stanleyville streets,
wrote Heidemann, “The entire

When Heidemann asked the - city has been plundered.”
January 8, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11