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Radio films
plan for NWT

OTTAWA—Modern facilities are
to be used in providing the people
of scattered communities in Can-
ada’s vast Northwest Territories
With an education. School children
4nd adults, both native and white,
are expected to benefit alike from
What H. L. Keenleyside, commis-
Sioner of the Northwest Territories
here, terms a significant advance
in providing the neglected north-

d with an educational system.

However, the proposed

_ Changes, in general, do not re-
Move the schools from church
Control and place them directly
Under the government, as pro-
Bressive educators and others
Concerned with the problem have
Consistently advocated. The
Schools, both day and residential,
will continue to be operated by
Church missions under supervis-
jon of the Northwest Territories

istration.

An exception will be Yellow-
knife, in western Mackenzie Dis-
trict, where a modern public
School building is now nearing
Completion. The new school, to-
Wards which the Northwest Ter-
Titories Council has made a grant
Of $150,000 through the Yellow-
nife School Board, will give in-
Struction in both public and high
School grades. It will also provide
Some vocational training for stu-
dents from the various settlements
in Mackenzie District.

The changes proposed by the
Northwest Territories Council in-
clude the use of films and radio
in providing education. Plans call
for establishing a film circuit em-
Tacing seven major settlements in
ckenzie District.

Films to be shown at schools in
these settlements will be linked
9 regular class room work, with

€ Northwest Territories Council
Paying half the cost of audio-vis-
Ual equipment required.

The Council is also purchasing
battery type radio sets for use in
€ schools. Recordings of national
School programs broadcast by the

C will be rebroadcast over sta-
tion CHAK at Aklavik for the
More northerly .schools, and
Schools in the southern part of
Mackenzie District will pick up
Toadcasts from stations in the
bordering provinces of British Col-

Umbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Beauties with brains

To protect the traditional Americar rights of freedom of
thought and expression, these Hollywood beauties have come out

boldly against
censor tactics.

the Un-American Activities Committee’s smear and
Top (left to right) are Lauren Bacall and Jane
Wyatt; (bottom) Evelyn Keyes and Paulette Goddard.

WOMEN AND THE ARTS

was unique in the manner the
Manitoba-born former school teach~
er used the characters of her
novel to convey her impressions.

Rose-Anna, woman of the people
in Gabrielle Roy’s novel, joins the
thousands of women wearily plod-
ding up and down the streets
looking for a house to live in. The
easing of rental regulations had

nabled her landlord 1
cat of the house in which she had

lived during the last years of the
war. ei &
s se women would come to-
aie closed ranks we might
perhaps understand what is ee
pening, we might even be frighten

ed,” she Says. . bed
“The textile workers:
strike in St. Henri in. the’ hope
of re-establishing the ‘balance be-
twéen their earnings and the ris-
ing cost of living,” Miss Roy re-
lated. “Rose-Anna hears that the
workers are getting « too much,
that they will soon’ ruin industry
and disturb the economy. It’s odd,
thinks ‘Rose-Anna, that the work-
ers are always getting the blame
_ what about the unseen big

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1947

to put her

Gabrielle Roy tells story
through novel characters

The indictment of our social system contained in the
address recently delivered in Montreal to the French section
of the Royal Society of Canada by Gabrielle Roy, author of
the best-selling novel The Tin Flute (see October 31 issue),

of the mills and fac-

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tories in St. Henri? ..

Rose-Anna’s thoughts come back
to her immediate troubles: “Milk

-at 16 cents a quart, meat at prices

almost beyond reach, c®thing for
which they. want the eyes in your
head, even the price of. bread go-
ing up. She would never really un-
derstand how our social order
could be balanced so precariously
on profits ... ‘My God, what is

| this world coming to,’ she thinks,

‘Will it ever change?’” :

Azarius, who fought in Italy, has
now become a taxi driver because
he feels that they don’t need car-
penters to put up today’s jerry-
built houses.

“Took here,’ Azarius said to
me, ‘now that good building’ mate-
rial is hard to get and good work-
ers are hard to get, the banks are
loaning money for construction;
before this, when carpenters stood
around on every street’ corner and
there was good material, the
banks wouldn’t loan.’”. Ay

“A society that shows contemipt
over .the. years. for its .main
wealth, its labor power and its
natural resources,” Miss Roy con-
tinued, “must sooner or later pay
a heavy price.”

Pitou, ‘who learned to fight -be-
fore he learned to earn a living,”

has come back from overseas and

found employment in a St. Henri
textile mill where he immediately
became drawn into the strike.

Tt had occurred to Pitou, who
was very active in the strike, that
the bosses had: gotten: more out of
the war than the soldiers. The
eorner-store woman taunts him.
She says that he is with a gang of
Communists who are getting mon-
ey from Moscow—or maybe send-
ing money to Moscow?

“‘As ‘soon as we try to: get
somewhere,’ Pitou interrupted,
‘we’re Communists.” All right, then,
I’m a Communist.’ ”

WHEN DOUGLAS ABBOTT, minister of finance, de-

cides to retire—and it’s a good thing for him that the govern-
ment doesn’t have to face an election immediately or he
might be compelled to—I suggest that he take up whittling

as a hobby. After all the practice
he’s had on our living standards
this year he should be quite adept
by now—a cent here, a cent there,
and when you count up the dollars
at the end of the month it all
adds up te another pay cut.

Now it’s a cent on sugar. One
day the government is giving
solemn assurances ‘that sugar will
not go up in price (to offset the
sudden buying panic when some
office boy in Abbott’s department
gave the show away),
next day sugar is off ration and
the price is up. I wish I could
forget my grocery bill as con-
veniently as the government does
its promises.

2 = 2

ANOTHER member of Prime
Minister Mackenzie King’s eabinet
who deserves a special place in
history, if only as an illustration,
to posterity of what the common
people had to overcome in their
struggle to reach even the goal
of a house to live in and enough
food to put on their tables, is Louis
St. Laurent, who is now minister
of external affairs,

Speaking to we McGill Univers-
ity Liberal Club at Montreal last
week, St. Laurent declared that
no government “of which I am a
member will ever pass legislation
for subsidized housing.” His
reason: Subsidized housing is un-

.| constitutional and a threat to
democracy.
Apparently, in St. Laurent's

opinion, the fact that thousands
of families are obliged to live in
makeshift quarters, basements,
garages and worse, constitutes no
threat to democracy. Or perhaps
such deplorable conditions are a
necessary part of democracy as he
sees it—necessary to the continued
privilege of the landlords who own
the slums. ‘ t

But then, there’s a big difference
between St. Laurent and _ the
people of St. Henri of whom
Gabrielle Roy writes in The Tin
Flute. St. Laurent has two homes,
a city home and a country home.
He’s never lived in a tenement
with cooking odors pervading the
bedroom in which the whole
family must sleep and the sour
smell of diapers filling the kitchen.
Oh yes, we must at all costs pre-
serve our way of life against the
subversive threat of subsidized
housing... We must guard against
any encroachment on the sacred
right of the individual to have
two homes or none at all.

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‘HERE’S a recipe for crumb
cake which has been recommended
to me by one of our readers:

2% cups flour

1% cups brown sugar

2 eggs

‘scant % cup sour milk

% tsp. soda

1 tsp. cinnamon

% tsp. nutmeg

4 tsp. salt

‘6 thisp. butter

‘Mix flour, sugar, spices and
butter and set %-cup mixture
aside. Add soda to sour milk
and. add to main portion of dry
mixture. Beat -and ‘add. eggs,
Turn batter into greased pan and
sprinkle surface with the %-cup: of
“crumbs.” Bake in slow oven
about 45 minutes.—B.G.

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HOLLYWOOD
Film star*aids

French children )

PARIS—Madeleine Carroll, who
has not been to Hollywood for
seven years is on her way
home to the United States to get
@ rest and make a picture for
Paramount after many strenu-
ous years in’ Europe.

“The real purpose of my visit
to America,” the blonde movie
star stated as she left Paris, “is
te obtain nation-wide distribu- -
tion of my picture on children—

. The Little Republic. That school,

which has made a real effort to
save children, many of whom
saw their parents butchered be
fore their eyes, is; about to close
down for lack of funds. The
French government can’t afford
to run it any more . . . some
body’s got to help.”

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