‘OUR CHILDREN
Security in
home vital

~ ALL CHILDREN have much
the same problems to face while
growing up. In addition, children
in the labor movement sometimes
have special problems that need
care and thought on the part of
their parents.

For example, the persecution
of parents for political beliefs,
or union activity, and even. the
possibility of jail terms, is not a
problem the average child has to
face, at the moment. Even in the
progressive movement there are
@ minority of such children, al-
though there are others who be-
came aware of the problem when
friends and relatives become in-
volved. There is always a possi-
bility, in the trade union field
certainly, that more children will
have to face these problems as
time goes on.

Because of such possibilities, the
progressive parent has to make
doubly certain that the child is
secure at home. A child whose
parents have proven themselves
trustworthy and understanding,
who has been accepted and loved
and helped, is more. fully equip-
ped to face any problem, re»
gardless of how difficult it may
be.

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I THINK it’s important that
whenever possible a child should
have some idea of what parents
are doing. Explanations should
always be made at the child’s
level.

It’s comparatively easy to ex-.

Plain trade unions, for example.
“Remember the five of you built
the snow fort. You couldn’t have
done it alone. Jimmy didn’t want
to help but when you explained
how much fun you would have,
he joined you. Bobby wanted to

break the fort, and if you had-

been alone he would have, but

he. didn’t try it with five of |

you.” ; :
Perhaps this is oversimplified,
but every day children live
through situations which .can be
used as comparisons to any
adult: activity.

There is no need to frighten
a child about the results of par-
ents’ activity. However if ques-
tions are answered honestly, and
the child. has some background
information about the. activity,
should difficulties arise, explan-
ations are easier to give, and
there is much less shock.

If they are secure at home, they
learn to get along outside, and
are often better adjusted than
children without these problems.

—VERA MORRIS.

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~

Miss

Candy plane for kids

The first of a series of planes carrying candy to European
children, sponsored by the United Nations club, takes off from
New York with the highball sign from Miss Balkis Temel (right),
Turkish beauty who was chosen Miss United Nations of 1949.

6,000-MILE JOURNEY

A\ woman sees USSR

IN JESSICA SMITH’S People Come First is the antidote to
the Gouzenkos, Kravchenkos and Kasenkinas. _ Written by a woman
who has watched the Soviet Union develop from its early beginnings,
this book provides ample refutation of the lies and slanders hurled

against the Soviet peoples by
those who wish to see the only
socialist society destroyed.

In 1945, right after the end of
the war, Jessica Smith, editor of
the magazine Soviet Russia To-
day, made a 6000 mile journey
through the Soviet Union. Tra-
velling by plane, train, car and
boat, she visited factories, schools,
hospitals, libraries and homes to
speak to the people who stopped
and destroyed the Nazi hordes.
With warmth and understanding,
Smith depicts the heroic
struggles of these people in their
determination to build a happy
life for themselves.

Miss Smith spoke to hundreds
of people and delved into many

‘phases of Soviet life—the prob-

lems of the architects, who see a
great opportunity to contribute

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to the people’s welfare in the re-
construction of whole cities; the
role of a Soviet newspaper; the
effect of the war on family rela-
tions, to mention a few.

Of particular interest is the ac-
count of some emotional difficul-
ties resulting from the war. Sol-
diers, away from wives and fam-
ilies for long periods, fell in love
with other women. The resulting
problems caused much concern
and became the subject of open
discussion. Newspaper articles,
meetings, and personal conversa-
tion probed the question, and Miss
Smith's account of it illustrates
how such problems are treated.

Each chapter sheds light on a
different subject, with Miss Smith
acting as a guide, and not using
the book as an ego-release, as do
so many so-called
Here are no

journalists.
“inside stories” or
rumors about who is really who
and ‘what happened to you-know-
what. Seekers after vicarious
thrills will have to confine them-
selves to the “Inside Out” type of
reporting. fs

People Come First is a valuable
weapon in the arsenal of those
who believe world peace depends
on friendly cooperation between
the USSR and the U.S.

—Lee Lawrence.

PACIFIC 9588.

NOW THAT THE HOLIDAYS are over, the Christmas
tree regretfully taken down and the lights put away for another year,
I can get around to writing a column again and wishing you all a

belated happy New Year.
course) winter weather; accen-
tuated by the sawdust shortage,
cannot take the warmth out of
that.

As soon as it was reported that

the traditionally sunny south,
like our one-time evergreen
‘coast, was experiencing heavy

frosts, higher prices for lettuce,
celery, oranges and so forth were
announced, It doesn’t take much
to provide an excuse for price
increases these days and its too
bad the weather can’t freeze
prices the way it does our milk
every morning, since the govern-
ment is so obviously determined
to do nothing about its perma-
nently frozen election promises.

Not only has the weather been
giving us some elementary les-
sons in economics, it’s provided
quite a political demonstration.
Up in Dunbar and the more se-
lect sections along the west side
of the sity the streets were swept
after each heavy snowfall as
efficiently as the city’s inadequate
and antiquated machinery cduld
do: the job. (Remember the
heavy snowfall of 1935 when
Mayor G. G. McGeer vowed that
the city would acquire sufficient
equipment to prevent the city
from being tied up again? Well,
the old machinery lasted longer
than he did.)

But out in Hastings East where
‘we live and, like the majority,
consistently vote against the
Non-Partisan administration, res-
idents were left to dig themselves
and their cars out of side streets
as best they could. The report
that we mow have a “people’s
mayor,” despite our best efforts,
didn’t seem to make a bit of
difference,

i * * *

APPARENTLY WE are going
to be allowed to use margarine
at last and, at the reported price
of 45 cents a pound, it certainly,
will be a help to the average
family like our own which has
long been up against the hard
fact that, at prevailing prices,
we cannot buy all the butter we
need,

But if the general use of mar-
garine means that we shall have
to pay an. even higher price for
our milk, then we housewives
will have to make ourselves heard
in no uncertain terms. Milk
consumption has been falling ever
since the price first started to
go up and the result is that both
consumers and farmers have suf-
fered. Still higher prices will
mean still. greater cuts in con-
sumption, and® that solves no
one’s problem.

* * *

ACCORDING TO a recent an-
nouncement, B.C. now has the
highest average school leaving
age in the country. Evidently
educationalists were alarmed be-
cause, for a few years, more
and more young people were
leaving school at 15-to take war
jobs. Now they are staying in
school longer.

My own feeling is that this

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trend reflects the still more
alarming situation in which a new
generation finds that opportuni-

_ties for employment are again

becoming scarce because of the
growing crisis in industry. No
one is going to argue that young
people should not get as complete
an education as they can get.
In fact, all young people who
show the aptitude should be as-
sured the right to the complete
education that only a minority
now receive. *

What should concern all par-
ents is the opportunities that
will be open to the young people
who will be leaving school in the
next few years. Are they to
compete with experienced and
skilled workers in the long lines
of unemployed? Or Bre we go-
ing to compel the: government to
make good on its wartime prom-
ises and provide, through hous-
ing and other needed public pro-
jects rather than wasteful war
preparations, jthe opportunities
they should have? It’s up to us.

Women are facing the same
problem. During the war I
could get a job almost anywhere.
But it’s a different story now.
Almost the only jobs offered are
housework, resturants and laun-
dry work and the like. Already
the old reactionary voices are
raising the old double-faced ery*
against married women working
—and a lot of married women are
working because that’s the only
way they can get by.

This is the big problem, the
practical problem of fighting for
a better, peaceful world we wo-
men have to tackle through our
auxiliaries, housewives’ organiza-
tions, PTA’s and community
groups this year. War prepara-
tions, even though they provide
some temporary work, increase
inflation, distort the economy,
heighten fear and tension and
breed insecurity. They provide
no hope for the future, *no per-
spective for youth, But the fight
for the spending of public money
on housing and health and pro-
jects to develop the country is
part of the fight for peace, for it
does help to provide jobs, to

“vaise living standards and above

all, to give hope for the future.

. Let’s see what sort of a public
house-cleaning job we can do in
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