‘Sponsored by the»l.W.A. Ladies’ Auxiliary,
Local 107, at the home of Mrs. G. Cook

2615 East Forty-fifth
WEDNESDAY, SEPT.

From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Whist Tea

12th

Auxiliary Pecsident Asks

Assistance of District

Speaking before the Executive Board meeting of District No. 1,
Edna Brown, President of the Women’s Auxiliaries, B.C. District,
outlined a campaign for greater organizational activity now being |
conducted. She is now working as a part-time organizer and ap-|
pealed to the District for assistance.

Fourteen Auxiliaries are now
established in British Columbia
with the possibility of many more
if sufficient assistance can be
obtained, She outlined the work
the Auxiliaries are doing, point
ing out their value to the union.
It was agreed that District Of-
ficers be urged to do likewise.
I was also decided that when
the Auxiliaries get going on a
financial drive, that the District
und Locals will cooperate fully.

Local 99 Celebrates |
Second Anniversary

Ladies Auxiliary Local
eelebrated their second anniv

99 |

ver on the evening of»

August 10th. Whist |
were won by the follow-|
first, Mrs. Peg Benton,
Campbellton; second, Mrs. L.
Green, Courtenay; third, Mrs. J.|
Grant, Campbell River. |

| The luncheon proved to be a
great si nd the members
were highly praised for the work
they had done, President \
| MacMillan welcomed the guests
jand read a telegram and letter
of congratulatio

The next regular meeting of
Local 99 will be held on Tues-|
i day, September 11 at 8 p.m, and
the Auxiliary dance at Willow
Point with King’s Orchestra will
be held on September 15th. |

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Auxiliary News and Views

Dorothy Richardson, Associate Editor

Film Shown To

Vancouver Ladies

Vancouver Ladies Auxiliary,
Local 107, held their regular

monthly meeting on August 28th |

with 10 members present.

Teeting got under way with
a very interesting film from the
National Film Board entitled,
efore They Were Six.” The
n told of what war worker
mothers of Toronto had to do
with their children when -they
went to work. The children were
aetually tied with a rope around
their waist to a fence, and the
landlady would bring them in
for their lunch and then tie
them outside again until their
mothers came home at night af-
ter work. It also showed how
melancholy the children got from
being alone all the time and
how they fell over their feet
when trying to walk from not
having the proper training and
care in learning to walk prap-

erly. Then one girl had the idea |

of a Day Nursery, and the moth-
ers got together and put it in
action. The difference was shown
in the children. They were happy.
They had other children to play

with, games to play, a rest in|
the afternoon and their suppers |
came to}

before their mothers
take them home. The results
were the children were happy and
ell taken care of, and the moth-

liary, Mr. Ward of the National
Film Board was thanked for
picking such a fine film to show
the meeting.

Last minute preparations were
made for the Garden Party on
September 12th, also for the
ladies to take charge of the te:
and coffee for the Klond:

ight, September 21st and 22nd.
he question of organization
was discussed and it was decided

that in addition to the house-to-
house canvass being worked out
thet cach member who could

would ha fternoon tea and
ask as many wives and sisters as
possible in her neighborhood.
Sisters Edith A. Cook and Kay
Rogers were elected to represent
the Auxiliary at the rehabilita-
tion meeting called by the WEA
on Sunday afternoon.

Sister Dorothy Richardson won
the prize for the nicke) drill.

Sister E. M. Cook visited 19
IWA members at the General
Hospital and distributed the
Lumber Worker.

Sister Richardson was the win-
ner of a lovely set of Pyrex
bowls won in our regular raffle.

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Baby Bargain

In his book, “So You Can't Haye Health?,” Dyson Carter has
outlined an experiment carried out by four Toronto doctors which
| is of tremendous importance to all Canadians and of special interest
to women. The following excerpts from his chapter entitled “Baby
| Bargain—$25 Each, introduce this little book to you:

|
| “Official figures of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics show
that far more babies and mothers die in this country ‘every year,
during childbirth or soon after, than the average number of our
soldiers killed yearly in action during the terrible slaughtess @f
the First World War.

“A Toronto experiment proves that the majority of Canadian’
babies (about 51 per cent) who die in childbirth and soon after
| might be saved by $25 worth of food.

Mx. Carter in giving the story of this experiment states:

“This was no snap experiment. The research lasted three and
a half years. It was carried out on voluntary human “guinea pigs,”
several hundred women who were receiving regular pre-natal and
childbirth care at the Toronto General Hospital. . . and was basi-
cally very simple.

“The mothers were divided into two groups, which we shall
call Test Group and Control Group. All were from the same income
level, lived in similar surroundings, had the same average age
and ate similar food. The Control Group women were simply left
alone; that is, they received the regular clinical eare but did not
participate in the experiment. The women of the Test Group
were required to do just one thing; each day they ate the following
food rations in addition to their usual meals:

Pint and a half of milk, one egg, one orange, a helping
of canned tomatoes, a capsule of Vitamin D, a measure of
Wheat Germ for the Vitamin B Complex and other elements.

“Apart from the milk, we see that this extra food was a trivial
| quantity, what a hungry woman could take for a mid-afternoon
snack. The rations were supplied free of charge to the women, de-
ivered to them daily, and the doctors satisfied that with few ex-
ceptions all the expectant mothers in the Test Group did eat the
extra food. One important fact to note is that each woman was
participating in the test only during the last four months of her
pregnancy.

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“The results were astounding. . . . Five times more Control
| Group mothers (they got no extra food) were rated by the hospital
| obstetricians as “poor” cases prior to childbirth than, were Test
Group mothers. These ratings were accurate, for in delivery nine
times more Control Group women were in poor condition than were
| Test Group women. Six times more were in poor condition during
| convalescence. Five times more had complications within six weeks
|after their births. Three times more had poor teeth six months
after leaving hospital.

“The babies . . . born of the Test Group mothers (extra food)
suffered not a single miscarriage, or stillbirth, or death (up to the
age of six months). But among those born of the Control Group
mothers (no extra food) seven babies died in miscarriages, four
as stillbirths, three very soon after death: a total of 14 deaths.

‘The final score read 14 deaths to O. :

“The cost? Test Group mothers ate extra food that cost $1.50
per week, or about $25 per mother for the last four months of preg-
| nancy.”

H The foregoing is just one small example of what can be accom-
| plished for the health of the nation if the facts were known. There
| are few jobs facing union families that are of greater importance
| than that of bettering health standards and saving thousands of

lives. a

| __ Dr, Normn Olliffe, of New. York University, has called the
diet situation in America “a national disgrace in peacetime and a
national hazard in wartime.”

“Peacetime is now and in the forefront of our plans for the
future must be the question of health.

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