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Candy bar boycott

Parents may well take the example from their youngsters in
the week-long butter strike starting May 10. Here these mem-

bers of the Vancouver Branch, National Federation of Labor Youth, parade in support

Of the 8-cent candy bar boycott. They are, from the left, Jim,

Onald Francioli, Edwin Martin and Gordon Bliss.

Mary and Glyn Thomas,

. Parent-Teacher Federation asks
for kindergartens, hot lunches

By DOROTHY LYNAS—

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tly women readers who are themselves active

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elusions reached by some 300 delegates in three
SSions, resolutions, luncheons and entertainment.

Last month the Parent-Teacher Federation held its Silver Anniversary convention at
mpresg Hotel, Victoria,and I am sure it will interest Pacific Tribune readers, particu-
in PTA work, to know some of the con-
days crowded with speeches, panel dis-

lutions the most important reso-
Eovern, directed to the provincial
More ment were those asking for
aaa assistance to public libraries
Hebeeaes financial aid for hard-
tin, d municipalities through re-
luxy of a larger portion of the
tune, t@xXes collected within the

Nicipalities,

a8 as
Standar,

fy

and to establish dental clinics.

for treatment and education

en to sex degenerates,

vision of the criminal code

department of education
ked to enforce minimum-

in the

ds of equipment fines in instalments so as

schools, to initiate hot lunch pro-
grams, to work toward a maxi-
mum of 30 pupils to a classroom,
especially in the primary grades,

Other timely resolutions called

to

accompany the jail sentences giv-
for re

to

permit young offenders to . pay

to

These greetings were held over
from our MAY DAY issue.

MAY DAY. GREETINGS FROM
GEORGE DOUGENES
and
JIM VALALAS

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NSS SS SS SS SSDP

MAY DAY GREETINGS

e i eee
Home Service Employees Union, Local 211 —
Mrs. J. Hallock, President, FA, 2247

OUR UNION GIVES US STRENGTH

avoid jail records and for free
legal aid for those unable to pay.

School Boards were urged to
provide kindergarten space in all
localities where such a plan is
feasible. Transportation assistance
was asked for rural areas where
pupils live over a mile from a
school but within three miles, and
it was proposed that sex educa-
tion be instituted in elementary
schools, senior and junior high
schools. :

The convention, however, failed
to deal with the important ques-
tion of rising prices, a matter
which is of utmost importance to
the health and well-being of all
children today. Healthy minds and
bodies are the. prerequisites to
successful study. Today’s inflated
prices are working great hard-
ship on children, especially in the
larger families. And the general
economic effect in the trend to-
ward another depression bodes ill

for the generation now at school:

if the future holds no more ‘for
them than it did for those who
left school during the thirties. It

| should be sufficient to cause every

thinking parent to do something
now to ensure that the future will
be brighter for them.

SS a SS SSS SSS

Let May Day 1947
Be D-Day For Bill 39

NLU

HASTINGS EAST LPP CLUB

OS SSO
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1947

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May Day
Greetings
from

ENGLISH BAY CLUB

J out

Around the home

Hints for

housewives

IN THE SPRING a woman’s fancy turns to new clothes
—and. to the kind, of face and figure that go with them. If
you're rich (neither ‘am I), you'll be signing up for one of

the swish success and person

ality courses that promise you

everything from a new. waistline to a gorgeous complexion.

And, true. enough, such courses
do work wonders. Trouble is,
they’re. way above the income of
the average housewife. However,
don’t despair! You can give your-
self an almost identical ‘remake
job’ in your own home, and with-
spending your hard-earned
money for professional advice.

First thing to do is to take a
good look at ‘ourself in a full-
length mirror. (Come on, now,
no cheating! You don’t pull your
tummy in like that all the time,
do you?) Take an inventory of
your good and bad points, and
set out to do something about
correcting what’s wrong and em-
phasizing what’s right.

You have a figure problem?
Haven’t we all. And the answer,
of course, is diet and exercise.
But you don’t need any high-
priced beauty salon treatments,
and there’s no. easy way to take
off pounds and inches. Such
things as turkish baths are use-
less -unless combined with exer-
cise and diets. -

You can exercise in your own
home. There are several radio
programs which present correc-
tive exercises, and you can find
them listed in your newspaper
radio log. And in your community,
no doubt, there is a Pro-Rec class
which would solve your exercise
problem in the simplest possible
way. (Incidentally, exercises simi-
lar to those featured by a certain
high-priced success course by mail
are given every week by Pro-
Rec costs one dollar. See what
I mean?)

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NO DIET FADS are for you.
The

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and the so-called 20-day reducer.
which is actually a

of course.”

the department of national health.

Remember, health and beauty al-

ways go hand in hand. .
* * *

A GOOD SKIN, a fine gom-
plexion, lovely hands, require spe-
But one rule to re-

cial. care.
member when buying cosmetics is

this: the higher priced brands are

no more useful than the dime

store variety. Despite fraudulent
skin

advertising, no vitaminized
cream is going to penetrate your
skin,

tier.

a plain jar, used liberally and

regularly, is your best bet. ‘The

same goes for ‘hand lotion.

infamous bread diet of a
few years ago sponsored by a cer-
tain well-known: bread company,

starvation
diet plan, do more harm than
good. You need.a_ well-balanced
diet. No housewife can afford to
lay off work any more than her
working-class husband can. Get a
diet list from-your doctor, from
an insurance company (its free
They want you to
live as long as possible) or from

no ultra-violet-rayed mask
will make you one whit the pret-
A good, cheap cold cream in

YOUR PERMANENT WAVE
should be your one extravagance.
.You and your family will have to
live with it six months or more,
iso don’t get it on the bargain-
basement plan. Better use plain
vaseline for hand lotion for .a
while to make up the difference
in price. And keep in mind the
fact that any permanent is only
as good as the care you give it.
The ‘hundred ;brush strokes a
! night? is as good a rule now as ‘it
was in grandma’s day.

For your shampoo,- don’t be
fooled by advertisements hawking
high-priced liquid soaps. The best
of them is no better than plan
ecastile soap. For best results,
shave the bar and soap the shav-
ings in warm -water until a jelly
forms. ° ,

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THE HOUSEWIVES’  bugbear,
of course, is dishpan hands. If
you’ve been keeping house any
length of time you are aware,
without me mentioning it, that
no hand lotion, used either be-
fore or after the weekly wash er
floor scrubbing, will make your
hands like those of the lady in
the advertisements.

If you want soft, white hands
there’s only one sure-fire method
—use rubber gloves. They may
seem awkward at first, but its
worth the effort to learn to wear
them. You'll soon get- used to
them for laundering, dishwashing,
floor-scrubbing, scouring. I know
this from experience. I once ex-
perimented,' and found: I could
even bath the baby in rubber
gloves.” (But that isn’t cricket,
lady. The poor little guy has

cold when it’s wet!)

To get best service from your
rubber gloves, rub vaseline
your hands and powder lightly be-
fore using them. This actually
gives your hands a beauty treat-
ment while you’re doing your
toughest tasks.

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FOR A REAL. skin freshener,
try this beauty mask. Combine
one teaspoon witch hazel, two
teaspons of water, two teaspons
toilet water, and mix to a paste

store for a few pennies.) Pat the
paste on your skin and let it
dry.. It comes off leaving
face glowing. .

Finally, remembér you're only
as beautiful. as you feel. Walk

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feelings—and rubber gets darned™

into”

with Fuller’s Earth. (Al ingredi-
ents are available at your drug

your

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erect, chin up, 2 Smile on your?’
face. You'll feel: better; look bet-y
ter. And your family will give out.
with the wolf whistles — wait and-