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CCW CHAPTERS TAKE POLL

Nine in ten women want
Family Allowance doubled

The recent poll on Family Al-
lances conducted by British Col-
UMbia chapters of the Congress
°f Canadian Women shows that
®1 overwhelming majority of
Mothers favor an increase in the
Present allowance. Results also
Mdicate that although many
aMilies originally set aside the
allowance for some special pur-
Pose, such as higher education,

®Y- now find that they must
Ue this money for every day

and particularly the increase in
the costs of food and children’s
clothing since inception of the
Family Allowance scheme in
1945, the allowance should be
increased substantially.

As one mother of five children
told an interviewer, ‘‘My hus-
band has had a couple of pay
increases in the last two years.
but what with hospital insur-
ance, increased income tax and
now old age pension deductions,

Living costs increase — but not Family Allowances.

*ssentials in an effort to keep

Ho, With the rise in the cost of

aut the total number of per-
<u interviewed, 93 percent
oe in favor of doubling the
resent amount. Over 90 per-
ily t were in favor of giving Fam-
Allowances for children up
© 1s years of age where they
not working.

pMlost of those interviewed ex-
®ssed the feeling that because
the increase in living costs

we’re worse off than before. It
seems that the family allowance
is just about enough to pay for
all the deductions the govern-
ment takes off the pay cheque. I
certainly think the allowances
should be doubled, and then
maybe we could get four quarts
of milk a day like we used to.”

At the conclusion of the Na-
tional Conference of Canadian
Women in October, a delegation
will present the findings of this
poll and recommendations to the
federal government in Ottawa.

THEY TIED UP TRAINS TOO

Women take over rail strike
after men return to work

2 OUSEWIVIES IN the little
t 8Zilian town of Divinopolis
‘oes Over a strike given up by
,*lr husbands and paralyzed
© Mineira railroad which oper-

ara
Sy in the state of Minas Ger-

gg te Strike began on August
When 300 railroad workers

a €d out in a demand for back
Y and for better service in the
het ee supply service. The
Strik Police chief persuaded the
&rs to return to their jobs

but on August 30, a Saturday
night, the women took over.

Using their shoes as weapons,
the .women routed heavily-armd
guards from the local railroad
station and workshops and oc-
cupied the premises. They threw

themselves across the tracks to’

stop the trains. :

After the women forced re-
sumption of the strike, their
husbands joined in and forced
the train crews to leave the
stranded trains.

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GOING TO YOUR SISTER
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FOR GAS BEFORE, WE
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the Sun on weekends) is Dick Tracy. Through this strip unsavory

’ murderers, torturers, perverts and stoodpigeons.

o Vancouver papers (in the News-Herald daily and
characters parade‘ endlessly —
Earlier this year it was noted in Toronto that al-

though parking meters had been used in that city for several years, it was only after the Dick Tracy
strip had depicted parking meter robberies (see above) that such thefts began to be reported,

MORE CHILDREN’S LIBRARIES URGED

Brief calls upon governments
to enforce ban on crime comics

A BRIEF which calls on the
federal government to enforce
legislation banning crime comics
was submitted this week to the
Special Senate Committee on
Salacious Literature by the pro-
vincial council of the Congress
of Canadian Women. It points
out that such legislation was
passed over two years ago, yet
the Canadian government is still
allowing the sale of such comics.

“We are particularly alarme¢
at the number of reports con-
cerning juvenile delinquency
which have been proven to have
been caused by such comics,”

REVIEW ;

Young World
series book

_A new and intriguing addi-
tion to the Young World Science
Series of books is The Secret of
Light, written in an easy-to-read
manner by Irving Adler, head
of a high school mathematics
department, Those who have
redd Giant at the Crossroads,
How Man Discovered His Body
and From Head to Foot, all in
the same series, will not want
to miss buying this latest addi-
tion now available at the Peo-
ple’s Cooperative Bookstore, 337
West Pender Street. The price
is $2.50.

The reader is taken on a fas-
cinating trip from ordinary mir-
rors and lenses to the centre of
the atom and before he knows
it, he has received a sound in-
troduction to physics and chem-
istry. ‘

Step by step, with many ex-
periments along the way, it tells
more and more about light—
how fast it travels, the tricks it
plays, how people put it to work,
where it comes from, what is
its relation to atomic energy,
and its place in modern ideas
about the universe. fe

The author discusses in clear
informal style how scientific
theory has arisen out of man’s
practical work and guided that
Work forward to new discover-
ies. Man, he says, is “the real
hero’ of this book, and he ex-
plains how our knowledge and
use of light are part of people’s
general struggle to master na-
ture,

This book is|‘highly recomend-
ed for the young high school
student and his parents.

—BETTY GRIFFIN

the brief states. ‘Because of
this situation we feel it is im-
perative that the legislation
panning crime comics be- en-
forced immediately and that any
comic book being distributed in
Canada first be approved by a
committee composed of those
best suited to judge what is ac-,
ceptable, such as representatives
of the Parent-Teacher Federa-
tion, the Canadian Teachers
Federation, the Canadian Lib-
wary Association and the depart-
ments of education of the vari-
ous provinces. (‘We also feel that
it is necessary to increase the

number of children’s libraries
and to encourage the develop-
ment of Canadian literature for
children based on our own color-
ful history and cultural experi-
ences.”’

A letter is to be sent to the
Quaker Oats Company protest-
ing its use of toy guns as pre-
miums for children,

The CCW is also sending a
letter to Provincial Minister of
Agriculture Kiernan protesting
his statement on the milk ques-
tion wherein he takes the posi-
tion that price is not the main
question but rather supply.

SCHOOL, IT’S ‘wonderful!
With both the youngsters off to
school this year I feel almost
lost in the morning with the

, empty house echoing around me.

This is young John’s first year,
and he thinks it is wonderful,
However, one day he came home
weeping copiously and clutching
a torn picture. Seems that an-
other boy had waylaid him on
the way home and a battle en-
sued. We asked him why he
didn’t fight back. “I couldn’t,”
he said indignantly, “he was on
top of me!” ‘The. patched up
picture now hangs proudly on
the kitchen wall.

* * *

The federal department of na-
tional health and welfare has
issued a number of very helpful
pamphlets through the schools
which deal with some of the
most vexing questions which
parents face in child rearing.
They include such subjects as

‘Opportunity Day’
tea on Sept. 20

THE REGULAR “Opportunity
Day”? and tea held each month
by the Congress of Canadian
Women will feature a special
sale of pure honey on Saturday
afternoon, September 20, at Pen-
der Auditorium here. Many
other items at bargain prices
will be on sale, as well as home
baking. - You are invited to drop
into the canteen and see the wide
variety of children’s clothing at
the Jowest prices in town —
skirts, sweaters, knitted goods,
shoes, dresses.

baby talk, fear, lying and steal-
ing, sex and preparing your
child for school. Each pamphlet
suggests further reading mater-
ial. If you are interested in
having these pamphlets write to
the Information Services Divi-
sion, Department of Health and
Welfare, Ottawa.

* * *

MANY ‘MOTHERS are again
finding it tough going getting
all the necessary school supplies
for their children. Particularly
when parents have high school
age children do they find that
expenses are yery heavy. One
mother suggested that the de-
partment of education or the
various school boards should
buy these supplies at wholesale
rates and thus effect quite a
saving for the students. Seems
like a most practical suggestion
to me—while we continue the
fight to have all school supplies
provided free.

Other questions concerning
the welfare of our school child-
ren are again the lack of suf-
ficient school rooms and lunch-
room facilities. The various
Parent-Teacher Associations will
‘be having their first meetings in
a week or two, and certainly
these problems should be dis-
cussed. There are still many
schools in the city which have
no lunch room facilities at all,
and the children must eat out-
side. These and many other
questions should be dealt with
as quickly as possible, and we
as parents must take the res-
ponsibility of raising them in
our meetings at school.—B.G.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 12, 1952 — PAGE 11