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PHO Pir S A Div 0 CALE

April i6, 1937.

Here and There

By_ VICTORIA POST

IIN A WOMAN’S WORLD

QUESTION that countless women the world over have

been asking—“Why have the women of Spain taken up
arms against the rebels?”—is answered by Andre Malraux,
famous French writer in “Women Today.”

Andre Malraux, who has served as
an aviator in the Spanish govern-
ment air force, is touring the United
States pleading the cause of democ-
racy in Spain.

“When we look back into the con-
ditions under which the Spanish
women lived, we can readily under
stand the force that drove them
into the battlefield. The peasants

were crushed with starvation, toil
and oppression. The lot of the
women was infinitely worse, for

they had not only had to till the
_ soil, but care for the home and chil-
dren, as these women depend on the
land for their bread.”

Since the agrarian reforms of the
People’s Front government were
put into effect, the slogan from one
end of Spain to another has be-
come: “The land is for the man
who works it.” Small wonder that
the peasants want to raise bread
for the government swhich has done
more for them in six months that
had been done for them in all the
history of Spain.

When ammunition was running
low in the front lines, the women
collected the caps from bullets in
baskets previously used for salads
and carried them to trucks behind
the lines. The caps were taken to
munition factories to be recharged

-and used again.

Andre Malraux finishes his arti-
cle by telling us how we can best
help these brave women.

He says: “We need clothing, of
eourse. But, more than that, we
are desperately in need of medica-
ments. There is hardly any anas-
thesia in loyalist Spain. Think of
the tortures soldiers, many of them
women, are put to when bullets
Shaye to be extracted without anes-
thesia. The Mascists are getting bul-
Jets from Italy and Germany, but
we do not come to you for ammu-
nition—we ask medical aid.”

There is So much we can do, even
in a limited way. Gack in Decem-
ber I remember reading an article
by Charlotte Haldane, whose hus-
band and son are in Spain, in which
she related how she had even gone
to her doctor to enlist his aid for
SpanisSpanish dni- Ni emfwye
Spanish democracy. “He had to pop
fhe thermometer into my mouth in
self-defense,”’ she said.

We can do-still more by collec-
tive action, by organizing groups to
send money to be used for badly
needed food and medical supplies.
Let’s show that Canadian women
are awake to the need for saying
democracy in Spain if we are to
preserve our Own democratic rights
here in Canada.

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OW many women, I wonder,

feel the need in-these days of
bewildering change to talk over
common problems with someone out-
side their own limited circle of rela-
_tives and friends. It is only by
Mixing With other people, by ex-
changinge ideas and viewpoints, that
We can keep our minds active and
fresh. By widening our circle of
activities we can widen our own
viewpoints, too.

There are many progressive wo-
men’s organizations now being set
up and there’s plenty of room for
new members. Plenty of room, for
that matter, for new organizations,
too, particularly in rural districts.
We should all be in at least one
women’s organization. Unless we
play our parts, how can we justly
complain when events take a course
not altogether to our liking?

These eroups are combatting
every day problems in a realistic

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On Parade

eye

As she watched him swinging
by.

Filling a blank in the workers’
rants ;

Full of pride and head held
high?

Did you note the heave of her
breast

As he raised his voice with the
rest,

Singing a strong soul-stirring
song,

Full of hope and with manly
zest?

Did you hear her stifled sigh
As the dull crowd hustled by
With shoulders bent, ir dumb
content?
Full of self—not asking why.
—Contributed.

ing each other to make conditions
just a little easier, to bring neces-
sary improvements in the daily
round.

Those of you who don’t belong to
any organization who would like to
interest yourselves in anything from
unemployed to literary or dramatic
groups should write to me at the
Advocate office and I'll do my best
to assist you. The time for that
old adage, “Be good, sweet maid,
and let who will be clever,” has
passed. History has proven that
women are every bit as capable as

Did you see the gleam in her

ERE’S a splendid opportunity
for all of you. A week ago the
Clarion issued an appeal to women.
to get together and found their wn
magazine. There is a crying need
in Canada for a magazine which will
cater to the new progressive spirit
among women and its up to us now
to see that this need is met. Write
to Mary Flannigan at the Clarion
office, giving her your ideas and
Suggestions.
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BOOK worth reading is “Liv-
ing China,’ edited by Edzgar
Snow, China correspondent of the
London Daily Herald. In its pages
the paradox that is China becomes
comprehensible. Most of the stories
have a social backeround and the
majority of the authors are of the
Left, many having suffered impris-
onment for their progressive writ-
ings. Lu MHsun, “the Chekhov of
China,’ and Mao Tun, described by
Snow as the most outstanding novel-
ist in China today, are new to
Canadian readers. Snow admits thar
his translations are very free, since
the stories were written in pai-hua,
the plain speech of the common
people which has become ‘“‘literarily
respectable” in the last twenty
years.
The publishers are Reynal and
Hiteheoek, and the price is $2.50.
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ERE’S a recipe for
Chelsea buns:
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
34 cup sugar
14 pint milk
3 oz. shortening
2 teaspoonfuls yeast
Mix flour and sugar and rub in
shortening. Warm the milk and dis-
solve the yeast in it, adding this
to flour and sugar. Knead thorough-
ly and leave to raise. When it has

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risen sufficiently, as for bread,
knead again and roll into buns,
place in pans and leave to raise

for about 30 minutes. Bake in fairly

men in facing the problems of the | hot oven for 20 minutes. Add cur-
day. rants to suit your own taste.
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For Boys and Girls
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Dear Boys and Girls:

This weelk we are giving you a
comer for yourselves ,a Corer
where you can discuss the things
that interest you most. We have
been thinking about such a corner
for a long time and now we hope
you will all write in to Sylvia
Ash telling her what kind of ar-
ticles and stories you would like
to have. Tell her about yourselves
and what you are doimg and Iet
her see that you are really mter-
ested in making this corner a
feature that all boys and girls
will turn to eagerly.—The Editors.

IT am going to tell you a few
things about the children in Spain
this week.

You must haye heard your par-
ents talking about Spain, where to-
day is being fought a war which
will have a lot to do with the kind
of world in which you will grow
up, It is important for you to know
why this war is being fought and
what it means to you, for it will
not be so very many years before
you, too, are grown up and will
have to face these problems for
yourselves. 2

Perhaps you haye seen pictures
in the papers of boys no older than
yourselves wearing blackshirt uni-
forms and marching with tiny rifles

manner. In them women are help-

on their shoulders. To them it is all

Ruling Clawss

By REDFIELT

“You may

60th birthday as usual.”

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state that. Mr. Blanch spent his

very exciting and romantic. But in
countries ruled by men called Fas-
cists these boys are being trained
to fight, not to defend their own
countries from invasion, but to
make war on countries whose peo-
ple are struggling for freedom.

This is just what has happened
in Spain. The people there, tired of
being poor, tired of being put in
prison or even shot because they
believed in telling others what they
thought, at last elected a sgovern-
ment which promised to give them
the things they wanted. But the
men who owned the factories and
the banks did not want this at all.
They wanted to continue robbing
the people and keeping them poor.
When the government refused to
allow them to do this they went
to the army and started a rebellion
against the government.

The people were not trained to
fight and they had very few guns.
But they knew that they must fight
if they wanted to end their poverty.
So they marched from the towns
and villages to join the army of
the people and beat the Fascists
time and time again. The Fascists
brought over from Morocco, which
is a Spanish colony in North Africa,
an army of Moors. They got then
to fight for them by promising
them all kinds of things they did
not intend to give them. And when
the people beat the Moors, the lWas-
cists in Italy and Germany who
really represent the big factory
owners and bankers sent over their
soldiers, too. And, even then, the,
Fascists could not capture Madrid.

You may have wondered why
some children seem to have every-
thing, while your parents can give
you very little money. Thousands of
children in Spain who often went
to bed hungry have wondered these
things and, while they are too
young to understand why Fascist
airplanes drop bombs on _ their
houses, they do know that the
salute of the people (raising your
right arm with the fist elenched)
means they will have the things the
children in Soviet Russia have to-
day, good food, a good home, nice
elothes and the right to a job when
they grow up.

Do you remember the verse by
Zewis Carroll—he wrote “Alice in
Wonderland’’— which goes:

“You are old, Father William, the
young man said,

And your hair

white,
And yet you persistently stand on
your head.

Do you think, at your age, it is

right?”’

You will find, when you are a
little older, that a good many peo-
ple seem to be trying to stand on
their heads these days. By that I
mean that they persist in looking
at things upside down. And when
people tell you that the Fascists
in Spain are trying to bring “law
and order’ back to the country, |

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This ‘Crime’ of Unity

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HAROLD J. LASKI,
in The Tribune, London. _ ~

INE victory of Socialism in western civilization depends

upon the unity
of the post-war world.

of the working classes.
Whether it be Italy or Germany,

That is the history

Austria or Spain, the evidence is clear that without such unity,
capitalism takes the offensive and, in the interest of profit,
is prepared to destroy even the semblance of democratic

institutions.

The lesson for our generation is a
simple one. We have to -choose be-
tween a fascism which grows daily
nearer, and working-class unity. To
the degree that the latter is impair-
ed, to that degree, also, the chances
of a fascist victory are strength-
ened.

I have been a supporter of the
Labor Party for twenty-five years.

Now, as I understand, I am to live

under the constant threat of expul-
sion from that party unless I refuse
to associate with those who share
my views which, as regards the
measures involved, are also views
explicit in major part, in the pro-
eramme of the Labor Party itself.
I may, I gather, preach the need
for unity within the Labor Party,
put I may not practice it outside.

United Front

Saved France.

HAT united front which has
T sayed France, and is saving
Spain; that united front which in all
the countries where democracy has
been overthrown has arisen spon-
taneously as the vital weapon of
working-class defence; that united
front which, on the other side, is
the basis of capitalist organization
against the working class; to par-
ticipate in this is, the national exec-
utive lays down, a! major heresy.

Ts it because the Communists are
Marxians? Is it heresy in the La-
bor Party to believe in the class
war? Is it heresy to believe that,
in a capitalist democracy like our
own, it may well be that, as in the
dictatorial countries, as sO nearly in
France but for the Popular Front,
the forces of privilege will fight
rather than give way?

Have British Socialists, to avoid
expulsion to say, “It ean’t happen
here,’ and to refuse working-class
unity until, as in Germany, it is tou
Jate? And if the acceptance of Marx-
ism is incompatible with member-
ship of the Labor Party, when was
that decision taken?

Firm Policies
Gain Support.

RE the Communists anathema
to the national executive be-
cause of a fear that a united front
may provoke the enemies of the
Working class? But to what may it
provoke them? Are they likely to
overthrow the constitution because
the United Front is formed? -But in
that eyent, the Communist diagnosis
of capitalist democracy in operation
would be proved.

Or does this mean that the United
Froni may frighten timid wayerers
away from the ranks of organized
Labor? But, again, in that event,
does the national executive believe
that an election won on the support
of timid waverers will permit us,
when in office, td 0 forward with
a bold programme of socialist trans-
formation ?

Are not the yotes we need, not
those of the timid waverers, but of

you should know that it is the
Fascists who broke the country’s
laws in the first place and started
the terrible war in which hundreds
of boys and. girls like yourselves
have been killed by Fascist bombs.
SYLVIA ASH.

men and women who are positively
convinced that only courageous SsoO-
cialist policy can now save the
world?

Nazi Maniacs
Hit New High

By HENRY GOLLOMB.

Tt seems that we're all wrong in
our ideas about bomb-dropping —air-
planes. They are not the terrible
engines of destruction which are so
disliked by the unappreciable inhah-
itants of Madrid and other cities of
Spain. On the contrary, explains
Maj. Erich Suchland of the German
aviation forces, they are beneficial
instruments in the improvement of
fhe! humian race, which needs im-
proving very badly from the Nazi
viewpoint. Here is his process of
reasoning as explained in a German
magazine with a long name:

The most effective destruction
caused by bombs occurs in erowded

STREETCAR INCIDENT

By HAROLD GRIFFIN.
NE night this week, somewhere between
dawn, while homeward bound on the streetcar, a voice

intruded on our thoughts.

“The English are the greatest hypocrites in the world,”

said the voice.

Now we know ourselyeés of a few s
Enelishmen whom we regard as
past masters in the art of saying
one thing while they mean another.
Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden,
for example, but we would not con-
demn the whole Inglish race be-_|
cause of them- -

Our curiosity piqued, we turned
around to find out to whom the re-
marks were addressed. Rather sur-
prisinely, we found the possessor of
the voice, a dark, long-nosed indivi-
dual of some thirty years, sitting
alone behind us.

We reflected a moment and then
resumed our reading.

But apparently the gentleman had
not finished. Perhaps he brooded
on a fancied injury. We suspect
he had been drinking. He got up
from his seat and the conductor
pulled the cord to stop the car.

“Well!” exclaimed the owner of
the insolent voice, now thoroughly
unpleasant. “I don’t want to get
off here. What the hell do you care
where I get off? You elected your
representative, didn’t you? Too
damned much freedom in this coun-
ye
This didn’t seem to make
to us and we pricked up our

Sense
ears

midnight and

for more. People were craning their

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necks.

The voice continued. still address-
ing the conductor who looked un-
comfortable. rm

“Too damn many Englishmen
and Chinks and Japs in this coun-
try, We want Canadians.”

Unfortunately, for we would have
liked to have discovered what this
was al] about, the streetear stopped
just then and the man got off, the
doors closin= his insolent voice off
in the darkness.

But, even then, we were not fin-
ished with him. As the streetcar
started up he put his fist through
the glass in one of the doors. The
streetcar stopped with a jerk.

“Well put you b.. in your
place some day. We'll...’ Again
the voice trailed off in the dark-
mess as the streetcar started up
again.

For a moment the incident creat-
ed quite a stir within the car. Then
the girl in the green coat across
the aisle from us turmed back to her
love story magazine, the sombre-
faced man in front of us resumed
his serutiny of nothing in particu-
lar and the conductor turned to us
as he swept up the broken glass.

“T don't know just where you'd
Place him," he said.

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Answers to Correspondents

William Roebertson—Thank you
for Sames also the invitation. 1
hope to take advantage of it in
the near future.

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To beginners—In Checkers, as in
other pursuits, the player who
loses With a smile will in the end
soon reach the expert class, for
each defeat is to him a new lesson
that contributes to his advancement.

The South Vancouver club holds
a ladder contest every Monday eve-
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welcome.

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