HELSINKI PEACE CONGRESS

Women name Dorise Nielsen

CANADIAN WOMEN have re-
ceived a peace call from the
Women’s International Demo-
cratic Federation to send eight
representatives to Helsinki, Fin-
land, where the second Congress
of the Federation will be held
November 25,

The Women’s international’ De-
mocratic Federation was organ-
ized in Paris, France, in Novem-
ber, 1945, and was, attended by
delegates from 51 countries, re-
presenting 81 million women.

Fifty Toronto women, called to-
gether by the Women’s Commit-
tee for Peace Action, and repre-

To good to be true

senting a number of both national
and local wonien's organizations
vitally concerned in the preserva-

“tion of peace, met in, Toronto ear-

lier this month to endorse the
sending of Mrs. Dorise Nielsen,
former MP, to represent them at
the Helsinki Congress.

Mrs. Nialsen, who became
known across Canada for her
work as an MP and as a fighter
in the cause of peace, declared in
her maiden speech in the House
of Commons: “Women’s purpose
is to preserve life, not to de-
stroy it.” :

In accepting the nomination as

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their delegate to Helsinki, Mrs.
Nielsen declared: “We women
have to build a living barricade
for peace. Already our govern-
ment is spending $300 million for
war preparations, which is ten
times the amount they are spend-
ing for national health.”

She pointed out that 50 percent
of the nation’s school children are
suffering from some form of di-
defect

malnutrition, while only $13 mil-
lion would be needed to bring in
a health plan for all Canadian
school children.”

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MOST MISUNDERSTOOD OF ALL childhood years are the teen-age ones. Parents
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‘Women want life

THE MOST spectacular event

of the peace campaign which
has been gathering momentum
in the past few months through-
out Britain was a huge rally
held in London recently.
” Over 70 women MP’s, mayor-
€sses and councillors signed a
manifesto which was enthusias-
tically endorsed, declaring: ”
“We, the women of “Britain,
say we want life, not death ...
We will work for the fullest
cooperation between Eastern
and Western Europe and the
USA, between the people of
Britain and the colonial coun-
tries, and between the com-
mon people of all lands.

“We will work for interna-
tional agreement to : control
armaments, to prohibit produc-
tion of the atom bomb..’. .”

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ones in the life of a human being.
These are/the years when he must .
break from depending on his par-
ents and make his own way. He
must learn to make his own de-

cisions and carry them through.

Very frequently these decisions
are among the most important in
his life. He must learn to take
responsibility for doing as he
thinks best without shifting the
responsibility to adults, as he has
in the past. Biologically he is un-
able to stop himself, he must pro-
pel himself forward on the road
to becoming a mature human be-
ing,, yet he finds it difficult to
leave the comfortable, secure pro-

~ tection of dependence.

Not every person manages to
make the grade. Many adults
never become mature persons, but
remain dependent, not fully
grown, all their lives.

Parents who recognize this con-
flict in a young person and his
need to become an adult can help
a great deal. It means, of course,
a realization on the parent’s part
that the apron strings must be
cut, and the child be allowed to
go, to stand on his own feet. Too

Constantly exasperated

by his family,

often parents, reluctant to give
up their dominance of a young
person, tie him to their side in
very subtle ways.

Sometimes these parents are
hurt by the teen-agers atempts to
shake himself: free of parental
authority, sometimes they are out-
raged, but continually they strive
to maintain control simply be-

cause they haven't learnt that the_

time has come, or is rapidly ap-
proaching, for the child to go his
own way, blundering as -it may
seem.

No one will deny the difficulty
of many parents in this situation,
yet it is the culmination of their
care and effort on the child’s be-
half. They helped the child learn
to speak, to cross roads, to take

care of himself and his posses- ,

sions. They helped him under-
stand the seasons, the shopping,
the transportation systems. They

helped him understand the world
around him, so that when he was

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_ THIS COMING SUNDAY, October 24, is United Na-
tions Day, and to celebrate it Defense Minister Brooke
Claxton is going on the air with a speech, not on inter-
national friendship and peace—his sponsors, on Wall Street

wouldn’t like that—but ‘security.
Only the security he has in mind
isn't the kind cabinet ministers
used to talk about so glibly dur-
ing the war years.

I think it would be a fine thing
if each of us sat down this week
and wrote a letter to the Hon.
Brooke Claxton at Ottawa just
telling him a thing or two.

I_intend to tel him, for in-
stance, that the kind of security
’m interested in concerns school-
ing for the kids, and at the mo-
ment they face the prospect of

’ having to study in a poorly light-

ed basement because the money
that might build new schools -—
or hospitals or homes—is being
diverted to fancy war bases some-
where up in the Arctic.

I also intend to point out that
although I haven’t any invest-
ments in aircraft shares or arm-
ament stocks, I have an irreplace-
able investment in the lives of two
children for whom I have more
armbition than to see them sub-
jected to the horrors visited upon
the children of Europe.

It’s quite evident that our real
security. the security of our child-
ren, is the. sacrifice being .de-
manded of us for the false secur-

ity offered by our government.’

And it’s time we women told the
government what we think. > <
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WHILE I’M ON the subject, I
might also point out to the Hon.
Brooke Claxton that it isn’t only
in his definition of security that
he runs counter to the majority
of the people. :

It’s a sickening thing for those
of us who are trying to raise our
children to have an understanding
of their changing world and an
awareness of their social respon-
sibilities—to be good citizens in
the fullest sense of the ‘word—to

yvead what the government con-

siders the essentials of good citi-
zenship. “
First, the government bestows
citizenship on Igor Gouzenko, and
now it gives asylum to four fas-

.cist collaborators who are charg-

ed by their own government with
having helped to betray’ French
men, women and children to the
Nazis. :

What a lesson in good citizen-
ship for our children. When they
ask why the war was fought, to
tell them that their fathers fought
to destroy fascism, but that now
the government has taken over

all the slogans of fascism and is

handing out citizen’s certificates
to the fascists. I wonder how
Brooke Claxton defines. democ-
racy ?—B. G.

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AT THE BRITISH Trades
Union Congress in Margate this
year, Miss Rose Carr, a Com-
munist, was awarded the Gold
Badge of Congress for out-
standing trade union work.

Rose Carr entered the tobac-
co industry on leaving school
at the age of 14. :

‘She was elected to the To-
bacco Workers’ Union national
executive in 1942.

“Membership of the Commun-
ist Party,’ wrote Miss Carr
after, receiving the award, “has
assisted me in my trade union .
work, and it is great pity toe
find people engaged in a smear
campaign against Communist
trade unionists.” :

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