Bargain hunter finds secret:

spend $35,000, save $3,000

VERY

sometimes

then, and
much oftener,
we see by the papers that one

now and

or another of
in the c
ing a sale.

These

ny ; ic >}
of-the-millish at all.

the merchants
ymmunity is conduct-

sales are never run-
There is
never anything ordinary and
lower case about them.

They are always CAPITAL-
IZED. It is always a GIGAN-
TIC SALE, a MAMMOTH
SALE, ‘a BANKRUPT SALE,
a COLLOSAL SALE, a FIRE
SALE.

And savings at these SALES
are, of course, STUPENDOUS,
ENORMOUS, EARTH-SHAK-
ING, and NEVER-BEFORE-
AT-THIS-LOW-PRICE.

The merchants who offer
BARGAIN BASEMENT prices

on EVERY FLOOR of their
stores usually take FULL-
PAGE ADS io display their
BARGAINS. Goods offered

are always SLASHED, DEEP
CUT, WAY BELOW COST,

and AT LOWEST PRICE
EVER.
In our community special

se reserved for
who virtually
take over the newspapers to
display the products which
they are VIRTUALLY GIV-
ING AWAY AT THESE SAC-
RIFICE PRICES.

Like one night it’s the food

nights seem t

certain firms

chain stores, another it’s ap-
pliance dealers, then furniture
stores, and so on.
course, in our towh every night
we are barraged with any-
where from a couple of pages
to an entire section of the
paper by two particular stores
who are everlastingly offering
BIG BARGAINS on almost any
old thing you might be in the
market for, from can openers
to yachts.

Matter of fact it’s getting
harder and harder these days
to find any news at all, at all,
in the press when the BIG
SALES “are on. And that, in-
cidentally, is virtually all of
the time. But no news oftimes
is better than Dulles tottering
on the “brink” again so ads
at least add up in this one
sense.

As one reader of ads it’s
often puzzled us that the firms
who are. forever offering
goods at REDUCED, SLASH-
ED, BANKRUPT, eétc., rates
stay in business. How come,
we ask our alter ego, that these
companies are able to keep on
on operating?

Our alter ego is about as
dull as we are the matter and
never does have any concrete
answer ’though he’s hinted
once or twice that a jolly good

And,” of -

way to be able to mark goods
AWAY DOWN is to first of
alk mark them AWAY UP.

There must be something
of this nature involved be-
cause it does seem to us that
the firms which are offering
the BIGGEST BARGAINS AT
PRICES AWAY BELOW COST
are the ones who the week
after the sale announce they
have opened SEVEN NEW
LOCATIONS. And if any-
one cares to glim the NEW
LOCATIONS they’ll see that
all of this architecture dedi-

cated to BARGAIN PRICES
weren’t exactly built with
HAY.

We once worked out on only
one page of ads, all GREATLY
REDUCED, that we would
save somewhere in the neigh-
borhood of $3,238.97 if we
bought all of them.

Of course, it would have
cost us about $35,000 in order
to save the amount, but who’s
going to quibble when such
GIGANTIC SAVINGS | are
placed before us?

One thing bothers us about
the whole deal. How is it
possible for a person to keep
on SAVING so much at ROCK-
BOTTOM PRICES and yet be
as BROKE as we are.

BOB WARD
in UE News.

U.S. Dudnik

READER, Vancouver, B.C.:
The “launching” of. the ‘Van-
guard gave the world a #elly-
laugh. My comments in verse:

Science sights to reach the
heights

As only science can.

Not “science” chained to
those ordained

To rule the mind of man.

The symbol of might at its

launching site

For brinkmanship objective,

Was to shake a fist against
co-exist—

A Kilkenny Cat John ob-
jective.

Mealign and jeer, and inter-
fere,

Be out now, on your way.

They’d unscrewed an ear to
let it hear

What old John had to say.

Its insides balked as Dulles

talked

Containments, large and
small,

Sure that was when the

bright thing then
Refused to go at all.

And now in lieu of ballyhoo
Dig out the bathroom mop.
When the news came through

that its bottom blew
Bet old John blew his top.

Lest we forget

P.W., Vancouver, B.C.: With
depression peeking around the
corner these days,
forget the Hungry Thirties.
Here’s a few lines in verse on
the subject:

let’s not

The “hungry thirties”
And we were the tramps.
Unemployment, starvation
And twenty-cent camps.
Meetings unlawful,
On strikes was a ban
And we had our choice
Of the camp or the can
Whai: help
makers
Might you suppose
When Labor’s own leader-
ship

from our law-

Turned up its nose.

The youth of our country
On dole and on trek,

The Blackshirts of Arcand “
In padlocked Quebec,
Active in aiding

That form of insanity
Planning gangups

OPEN FORUM |

On backward. humanity.
Our merchants of death
As if making amends

ae

Sneak off ammunition

To enemy friends

And in lone opposition,
Remember the date

Tho it’s twem y-six years
Since the “trial” of eight
So let Labor awake

To concur in concern

As surely from this

-

There’s a lesson to learn.

Advice to labor

J.B., Vancouver, B.C.: Im”
sending in my sub, to make —
sure that V’ll know what
going on for the next 52 weeks
and I’d also like to make #
few remarks.

A crisis year is coming UP: |
and also an election year. 1? |
order to cut. down Tory
strength opposition candidate>
should discuss methods of
achieving unity... .

Before the trade unions
can play their full role #
society they must get rid ?
the Becks and Hoffas and 4}
other racketeers. And they”
must also throw out the Re® —
baiters. They should realiZ®
that anything the bosses adv?
cate is bad for them, and vic?
versa.

A very important point ab
this time is that the unemploy~
ed must not be. separate?
from the trade unions. The e™
ployed worker of today may
be out of a job tomorrow. ~—

Vancouver civic electiom
are coming up this week and
every worker should use he
vote to defeat the Non-Parl!
sans. There is a Sunday spot?)
plebiscite and workers shoul?
vote for it, whether they até,
baseball fans or not

A new reader

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J. HILL, Vancouver: AS be
newcomer to Canada (I ref
England only two months aps
I was pleased to see a pape
like the Pacific Tribune |
lished here. The three copl™
I have purchased from a new
vendor at Hastings and Me
have helped to give me an |
sight into the industrial sitv4 ;
tion here and the trade us?
situation in this country. ;

I was one of those who?)
tended the trade union mee
ing on unemployment 4
Georgia Auditorium ar
thought it was a rather sad 9
fair until some of the 14
men began speaking up i
the floor. Then it seemed }
home to me.

December 13, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAG?